Daily Archive: Monday, July 12, 2010

West Demerara businessman Naeem Aziz yesterday opened a fruit juice plant which will see around 50 people being employed by October.

The PNCR says that the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) remains an unconstitutional body and should not be made to adjudicate on any matter related to the media and charges of racial hostility.

The Ministry of Housing and Water will be offering relief to more than 16 families displaced by the recent fire in Mahdia, Region 8, by establishing a new housing scheme with some 136 house lots, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Fire gutted the Barrack Street house of Rainforest Tours proprietor Frank Singh yesterday afternoon.

While a lot of construction is going on in the recently commissioned commercial area at Lethem, some residents are expressing concerns over the drainage system in the area.

More than six weeks after he was drenched with acid, Pretipaul Jaigobin, Assistant Treasurer of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and the Demerara Cricket Board, is to be released from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) shortly.

-could impact on fish festival Extensive flooding and ethnic relations issues in the Rockstone community could put a damper on this year’s annual fish festival, according to residents  who are  calling for the intervention of President Bharrat Jagdeo and the Ethnic Relations Com-mission.

A woman was placed on $100,000 bail on Friday when she appeared in Court One of the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with fraudulently converting money which was entrusted to her by her common-law partner.

Investigators have hit a brick wall in the murder of the seven-year-old boy who was found in a trench as residents of the area are not providing any useful information, according a senior police officer.

With another postponement of local government elections, WPA Co-leader Dr Rupert Roopnaraine says governance at the community level is virtually non-existent.

While police have identified three suspects in the Brighton murder of 85-year-old Sookree Arjune they are yet to make an arrest.

A former policeman was placed on $30,000 bail when he appeared in Court One of the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday charged with simple larceny.

A cyclist is in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was hit by a minibus at the Nootenzuil Public Road, East Coast Demerara last evening.

The Ministry of Agriculture has designated two excavators and a pontoon to carry out excavation works in the Kara Kara Creek, Region 10, and this is expected to lead to greater cultivation and bring relief from flooding to farmers of the area.

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin says his party has “some time” to prepare for an election, since neither national nor local government elections can be held unless the voters’ register is updated.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Spain stunned the  Netherlands to win their first World Cup yesterday in  sensational fashion with a goal in the last minutes of extra  time.

MORZINE-AVORIAZ, France, (Reuters) – Lance  Armstrong’s hopes of winning an unprecedented eighth Tour de  France were ruined yesterday when the first Alpine stage proved  too much for him to handle.

By Tamica Garnett President of the Athletics Association of Guyana, Colin Boyce, says should the weather prove favorable the association will stage a developmental meet later this month.

The tennis courts of the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel will today be tramped by the feet of many eager and potential tennis stars with the launch of the sixth annual P & P Insurance Lawn Tennis Summer Camp from 9am.

Dear Editor, The recent remarks by Ganesh Singh in his letters titled `Where does the PPP find these people?’

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Suspected Somali Islamists  carried out two bomb attacks in the Ugandan capital that killed  at least 64 people as they watched the World Cup final at a  restaurant and a sports club, authorities said today.

Top seed Victoria Arjoon and Mary Fung-a-Fat kept Guyana in the hunt for individual titles on day two of the Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in the Cayman Islands by reaching the finals of their respective divisions.

Dear Editor, Recent heavy rainfall on the East Bank of Demerara and specifically the Diamond/Grove Township (DGT) area has exposed the inadequacy of its drainage system which has resulted in extensive flooding of the residential and business districts.

By Marlon Munroe It is starting to appear as a foregone conclusion that when a Berbice team reaches the final of a tournament it will win.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy  will try to quell a political donations scandal today after  losing a safe parliamentary seat in a sign of public anger over  allegations of cash handouts to conservative politicians.

Dear Editor, The following quote came from AFC Parliamentarian Ms. Sheila Holder, in a letter she wrote in SN 07.08.2010 in response to an article by Mr.

Dear Editor, I hasten to refer to the letter in Stabroek News of July 09, 2010, under hand of Mr.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – A senior Palestinian figure  said yesterday that rising tension with Israel over settlement  building in the Jerusalem area was a “time bomb” that was eroding trust between the two sides.

Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969.

By Floyd Christie Albert Philander delivered a top class performance to emerge from deep within the pack to restrict defending Champion Warren ‘Forty’ McKay to second place and cash in on the winning trophy in the annual Ballot Box Martyrs 55-mile cycle road race yesterday.

Cash crop farmers from Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice, Region Five, are expected to see a boost in land preparation following the handing over of a new two-inch irrigation pump Friday morning by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud.

-Green pleased with showing of male veterans Fresh from a successful staging of its first veterans table tennis tournament the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is planning a second tournament with the ladies in mind.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s navy  captured a makeshift submarine loaded with five tonnes of  cocaine bound for the United States, the Guatemalan military  said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The President went as far as Jamaica to promote his Marriott project and at the same time degrade Guyana’s hotels.

In the classic Broadway musical, “The King And I”, later made into a very successful movie with Yul Brynner as the Asian king, there is a scene where he is struggling to explain his confusion on some key issues, and he sums up his frustration by exclaiming “Is a puzzlement!”

A grievous blow has been dealt to the mining community of Mahdia by the July 1st fire that swept through its commercial centre, razing many small businesses, causing millions in losses and leaving several families homeless.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England have called up Ravi  Bopara as a replacement for injured batsman Ian Bell for today’s final one-day international against Bangladesh, the  English Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban revolutionary leader  Fidel Castro made his first known public appearance since  falling ill four years ago in a visit this week to a Havana  scientific facility, a blog and a Cuban government website  reported on Saturday.

SN asked citizens of Lethem to comment on issues that are affecting them in their community.

Dear Editor, I refer to the feature by Dr Christopher Carrico (`History This week: Western Cultural Imperialism in neo-Colonial Societies’; SN 8th July 2010), and would appreciate the opportunity to rebut.

Elementary lessons in playing steel pan will be introduced into the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport annual youth camps this year and will also be used as a means of spotting talented pan players to maintain youth interest in the art form.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian forces killed 12  leftist rebels yesterday in an attack on a unit assigned to  protect the nation’s top guerrilla leader, punctuating a bloody  weekend that left another 14 people dead around the country.