Daily Archive: Sunday, June 13, 2010

– party groups to nominate presidential, PM candidates Following a meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) yesterday, the leadership of the AFC remained unchanged while it announced that it would stick by a promise to rotate its top two candidates for next year’s general election.

– donors advised against releasing $$ By Andre Haynes The government has advised donors against releasing funds for local government election programmes, while work on crucial legislative reforms is still to be completed.

The Guyana Police Force is facing further embarrassment, after a policeman was nabbed shortly after he and two others committed an armed robbery at Unity, Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) on Friday night.

The US Government is willing to make resident security advisors available to Caribbean countries but will Guyana be interested?

Given the substantial amount of remittances coming into the region annually, the US government is considering implementing a system of leverage where some of fees charged can go directly towards specific aspects of development in the various territories.

-hands U.S. draw with England RUSTENBURG, (Reuters) – A shocking schoolboy howler from England goalkeeper Robert Green gifted the United States a goal as the two sides tipped to qualify from Group C battled to a 1-1 stalemate at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium yesterday.

There are 26 acting positions in public service agencies, according to Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford.

– says Kit Nascimento By Floyd Christie Rugby was played at the National Stadium for the first time yesterday as the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) began its  trials for the selection of Guyana’s National Sevens Rugby Team which will participate in the Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Rugby Sevens Games.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) is under real regulatory control of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).

Algeria vs. Slovenia 7:30am Serbia vs. Ghana 10:00am Germany vs. Australia 2:30pm

– efforts to improve capacity ongoing Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said the sluices at Kofi and Cunha and the spill weir at Land of Canaan are all working properly although they are not functioning at their maximum capacity and efforts are already being made to improve their performance.

Experienced golfer Robert Hanoman emerged winner of the Banks Light Beer Medal Play golf tournament played yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Club.

The DDL Topco Juices seven round chess tournament concluded yesterday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club.

By Floyd Christie After riding intensely for 35 laps under the scorching mid-day sun, Alonzo Greaves captured the winning trophy in the feature event of the 10th annual P&P Insurance Brothers, Consultancy and Travel Agency cycling programme held yesterday around the inner circuit of the National Park.

When I was young I showed an aptitude for games. After a lot of hard practice I played tennis best, but I was also for my age a fair centre-half in football, I was a good swimmer, I could hold my own among the athletes especially in middle-distance running, and I played reasonably good games of table tennis and badminton.

Incumbent President of the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers Sandra Kurtzious was re-elected unanimously when the body held its Annual General Meeting recently.

Guyanese women cricketers Indomatie Goordial-John and Candacy Atkins were named in the United States team to oppose Canada in the ICC Americas Women’s  World Cup Qualifier tournament billed for next month in Toronto, Canada, the USA Cricket Association announced over the weekend.

Finally, someone has tampered with the wall of police and political silence; someone who was on the inside, should know, and high enough. 

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs has distributed 574 solar panels to 16 Amerindian communities in regions ones, two and nine.

All-rounder Marc Singh slammed a century and captured three wickets in piloting Neal and Massy cricketers to a 94-run victory over Tiger Sports Complex in their feature Twenty20 tapeball cricket match played Wednesday under lights at the National Park tarmac.

Junior player Krystal Sukra highlighted Friday’s opening day’s play of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) sponsored lawn tennis tournament at the GBTI Sports Club’s courts, Bel Air Park.

Business Guyana 2010, the official business guide for potential investors, was launched by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Friday last nearly a year of groundwork.

Last week’s column noted that the unprecedented and spectacular growth of the global carbon market in the space of a few years makes it one of the most dazzling symbols of the awesome power of market expansion contained in globalization.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee will host a dominoes competition today from 13:00 hrs (1:00 PM) at Julian’s Guiness Bar Hide Out, Mahaicony.

By Gaulbert Sutherland Iwokrama received US$100,000 last year under its forest deal with Canopy Capital (CC) with the sum received used to support measurement and valuation of Iwokrama’s ecosystem services.

Introduction There is a certain ritual undertaken annually that has many purposes and effects – to placate the international gods and domestic audience with evidence of accountability and transparency in the country’s accounting for the billions spent annually by the government in our name; to meet in form if not in substance the financial reporting obligations under the constitution, the Audit Act and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act; to excite the press, and finally titillate the public.

The Enmore Triple Stars Sports Club is taking competitive softball cricket to the fields once again as they host yet another Grand softball competition today at the Enmore, Hope West Primary School ground.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan granted shoot-to-kill powers to its security forces and appealed for Russia’s help yesterday to stop ethnic fighting that has killed at least 77 and left parts of two major cities in flames.

By Dr Kiran Koora MDS (Paedodontist) Dental health for children should not be ignored… it should be planned.

This is the first in a series of interviews with domestic violence survivors in recognition of a one-month focus campaign targeting domestic abuse which Red Thread and its networks recently launched; the groups are calling for an end to the brutal maiming and killing of women in the country.

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – The West Indies team will be thankful that sports fans in the region are more than likely distracted by the football World Cup.

BURAS, La./LONDON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama told British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday that he will insist BP Plc pays clean-up costs and meets economic claims from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

“We want to ensure that there are more homeowners than house lot owners,” Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali said at ministry’s ‘One Stop Shop’ initiative yesterday.

Some years ago the Government Analyst drew to the attention of bakers that they were describing loaves of bread as whole wheat bread, when in fact there was no whole wheat in the country. 

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Diego Maradona’s  Argentina dispelled doubts about their World Cup-winning  potential as they put a poor qualifying campaign behind  them to beat Nigeria 1-0 with a brilliant performance from  Lionel Messi yesterday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgians vote in a parliamentary election today for a government that could move towards breaking up the country and that will need to curb the third-highest debt ratio in Europe.

Police are looking for two armed men who committed a daring daylight robbery at a Lombard Street lumberyard yesterday during which $700,000 that was to be used to pay wages, was snatched.

This article is an extensively edited version of work presented at the University of Guyana and at the Octavio Paz Room in the Mexican Embassy by Visiting Lecturer Ellif Lara of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico).

SALVADOR, Brazil (Reuters) – Jose Serra formally became the presidential candidate of Brazil’s main opposition party yesterday, saying he would run a more ethical government at home and abroad than President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

PORT ELIZABETH, (Reuters) – South Korea chalked up  the first win of this year’s World Cup finals with a fluent 2-0  victory over a Greece side that paid a heavy price for defensive  frailties in their Group B opener yesterday.

Dear Editor, Whenever there are local events that I consider to have serious implications for our daily lives as citizens, I tend nowadays to hold my peace as an individual and allow those organizations representing what we call civic society to make appropriate comment.

Continued Last week I suggested the use of an enema to help evacuate impacted faeces.

A woman who reportedly had cocaine stashed in a towel on her way to Mahdia was detained by police yesterday.

In a week when the sporting world – indeed, the world, period – had ears and eyes only for the football World Cup, when South African cricketers would rather have been back home to be part of the historic event than a simultaneous Test match where the vast emptiness at the Queen’s Park Oval reflected Trinidadians’ preference, one West Indian player at least managed to keep cricket in the public consciousness.

Police detained a man and a woman at Linden yesterday after a search of the vehicle they were travelling in unearthed a quantity of compressed marijuana.

Dear Editor, I am deeply saddened by the letter regarding Mr Slowe by the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs published in your issue of June 10 (‘The public may not be aware of all Paul Slowe’s deeds’). 

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned the opposition yesterday, the first anniversary of a disputed presidential election, that they would crack down on any attempts to create a “security crisis.“

Just over a year ago I wrote about the enemy within: the criminal Dons and their like who, across the Caribbean, are trying to create states within states.

The driver of a car and a passenger had to be rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital yesterday after the vehicle slammed into a bus shed at Lichfield, West Berbice around 6 pm yesterday.

Dear Editor, Today marks 30 years since Walter Rodney was assassinated.

— despite Russell’s heroics LEICESTER, England,  CMC – Young pacer Andre Russell’s five-wicket haul failed to overshadow another dour batting display as West Indies A were left staring defeat on the penultimate day of the opening four-day “Test” against India A yesterday.

By Nigel Westmaas “Respice, adspice, prospice” is a Latin phrase that roughly means “examine the past, examine the present, examine the future.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Germans protested yesterday against Germany’s biggest austerity drive since World War Two, adding to pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s increasingly unpopular coalition.

(Trinidad Express) Six days ago, the Integrity Commission forwarded a confidential report to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, recommending a criminal probe on former Prime Minister Patrick Manning and former government Minister Hedwige Bereaux.

The People’s Progressive Party joins with Guyanese and people around the world in commemorating the 30th death anniversary of Walter Rodney, today.

LANGLEY, Ark (Reuters) – Search crews recovered 18 bodies and were hunting for others yesterday along a 10-mile stretch of river after a flash flood swept through a popular Arkansas campground on Friday, rescue officials said.

The inevitable has happened: the fourth round of sanctions to be imposed on Iran has been agreed by the Security Council.

Dear Editor, In reference to the Cadres poll and the senseless attack by Dr Randy Persaud on SN, I would like first of all to congratulate Mr Raphael Trotman and the AFC on their upward mobility which the poll shows, and I wish them continued success.

There may not be too many readers who could name a lot of plants belonging to the plant family called the Bromeliaceae, and yet it is one of the most important groups of plants in the Central and South American tropics.  

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Ron Artest is adamant he does  not need a breakout game to prove his worth to the Los Angeles  Lakers as long as he helps provide them with a championship.