Daily Archive: Monday, July 19, 2010

-advertised scheme at Sara Johanna Clients have been turning up in vain at the former office of a local housing developer in the city to uplift monies which were paid towards a housing project intended for the East Bank of Demerara but which never materialized.

A 55-year-old man was electrocuted last week Wednesday and while the occupants of the Betervewagting (BV) address where his body was discovered said that he fell down in their yard and died, a post-mortem examination performed on his body last Friday revealed that he was electrocuted.

The brother of former boxing champion, Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis was found dead outside his Albouystown home yesterday morning.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Former coup leader and  military strongman Desi Bouterse was elected president of  Suriname by the South American country’s parliament today,  lawmakers said.

An early morning fire yesterday left a Number 67 village, Corentyne family of four homeless.

-drainage bid fails Efforts by Public Works Ministry officials to fix a broken part of the Linden/ Kwakwani trail in the vicinity of Ituni in the Upper Deme-rara area yesterday failed to prevent water from further eroding and flooding the roadway.

Support poured in yesterday for 11-year-old Dawnetta Mc Lean, whose resilience saw her being awarded a place at Queen’s College amidst major odds, with promises of financial and other forms of assistance and a pledge of a brand new lap top computer has been made.

Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran says he supports the presidential term limit, explaining that it is an important factor in democratic systems.

Privatising the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Co. will either have to be at a give-away price or accompanied by a 25% to 50% increase in tariff to provide a commercial return on the purchase price, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds says.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has said the government has put the establishment of the Public Procurement Commission on hold as it seeks political consensus on how it is set up.

By Floyd Christie The thunderous revs of Andrew King’s engine overshadowed thunders emanating from rain clouds over the South Dakota Circuit yesterday and was his only companion as he took the chequered flag unchallenged in the three Group Four races at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club Race of Champions.

The Agriculture Ministry on Saturday commissioned a cold storage facility at Parika on the East Bank of Esse-quibo, aimed at boosting and fulfilling the demands for non-traditional crops in the export market.

-Vienna workshop hears By Iana Seales In Vienna, Austria Tuberculosis is the forgotten disease says Peg Willingham, Senior Director for External Affairs at Aeras Global and she also points out that funding is not enough at the global level to effectively tackle the illness in many countries.

— But still expects medals from three-member team By Floyd Christie Vice-president of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Brian Allen feels that Guyana’s three-member cycling team to the 21st Central American and Caribbean Games now underway in Puerto Rico, is at a disadvantage.

By Tamica Garnett Mohamed Rahim and Sons business enterprises of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, has decided to extend its sponsorship of promising athlete Malcolm Walcott following his good showing at the Hampton Games held earlier this month.

…following training in entrepreneurial skills Two hundred youths are expected to join the workforce following their completion of the residential Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Train-ing (YEST) programme at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre which is managed by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

—says Coach Grannum By Floyd Christie Former American Basketball Association (ABA) player Samuel Grannum, who is conducting a coaching clinic at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall is of the view that  basketball scholarships are there and are available to local players.

A new resource centre has been opened at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway and the facility has  a library and  a computer centre, which houses five complete computer systems and additional office space.

Premnauth Narine, the patient at the centre of a confrontation between Georgetown Public Hospital staff and residents of Craig remained in the Male ward of the medical institution up to press time despite being given up to noon yesterday to leave.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Spaniard Dani Pedrosa denied  compatriot Jorge Lorenzo a fourth win in a row at the German  MotoGP yesterday while world champion Valentino Rossi narrowly  missed a podium finish on his return from a broken leg.

Thirty-two-year-old Leon Harris of Cemetery Road, Lodge, was placed on $250,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly obtaining over $700,000 from a man by pretending that he was in the position to get a bank loan for him.

GALLE, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – Opener Tharanga  Paranavitana hit a maiden test hundred and Kumar Sangakkara  recorded his 22nd as Sri Lanka dominated India’s bowlers on the  opening day of the first test at the Galle Stadium yesterday.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Engineers monitoring BP Plc’s  damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico detected seepage on the  ocean floor that could mean problems with the cap that has  stopped oil from gushing into the water, the U.S.

Dear Editor, In Region Two paddy farmers have nobody to represent them and see to it that they get justice for their hard work and labour.

DENNERY, St Lucia, CMC – Nicholas Alexis and Keon Joseph used the casual atmosphere to get valuable batting practice, after rain forced a draw in what promised to be a thrilling climax between arch-rivals Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh, responding to Business Page columnist Christopher Ram’s letter of July 11 in the Sunday Stabroek,  says that Ram is not an objective commentator and his commentaries are driven by a narrow political and personal agenda.

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales has renewed his commitment to support the work of the Iwokrama International Centre (IIC) in sustainable rainforest management by continuing to be its Patron for a further five years.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Kaveem Hodge and Sunil Ambris shared an unbroken stand of 46 for the fourth-wicket to complete a seven-wicket victory for Windward Islands over Guyana in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.

Dear Editor, Sub-standard work is very much evident in contracts being executed in Region #2 with yet another instance where the use of sand to build a road shoulder has seen it crumbling even with the modest rainfall with the worst yet to come during the torrential season.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton pushed new economic partnerships yesterday to buttress a  shaky alliance with Pakistan that U.S.

ST ANDREWS, Scotland, (Reuters) – South Africa’s  Louis Oosthuizen turned the British Open into a procession yesterday, winning the famed Claret Jug after crushing the world’s best by seven strokes at the home of golf.

Dear Editor, I wish to ask the Hon. Minister of Home Affairs a few simple questions —-maybe he may want to respond.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – The United Nations and the  world’s largest backer of programmes against HIV/AIDS said yesterday they feared wealthy donor nations may cut funding to  fight the disease because of global recession.

A student from the University College, London is presently conducting a study on the importance of mangroves here.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) takes the opportunity to respond to the article titled `Auditor General zeroes in on GECOM’ which was published in the Kaieteur News of Wednesday, July 7, 2010.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – At least 40 people were  killed when two trains collided in eastern India last night, a government official said.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Standings after the third round of the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge ended yesterday.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Treating HIV patients with   cocktails of AIDS drugs helps to stop them spreading the  infection further and more than halved the number of new HIV  diagnoses in a study in Canada, scientists said yesterday.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Paul Palmer and Jermaine Blackwood shared 51 for the fifth wicket to limp reigning champions Jamaica to a five-wicket victory over Leeward Islands in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.

Thirty-five recently-appointed school managers drawn from primary and secondary schools mostly in Georgetown were on Monday apprised of their roles and expectations at a four-day workshop.

Dear Editor, Something is definitely wrong with the framers of our laws governing tax concessions being granted to Guyanese workers.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Drug hitmen stormed a  birthday party and killed 17 people in the northern Mexican  city of Torreon yesterday in one of the deadliest attacks in  Mexico’s drug war that came days after a lethal car bomb.

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, CMC – Alia Atkinson set a CAC Games record in the women’s 200 metres breastroke on the first full day of competition yesterday.

By Cary Fraser Cary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A suicide bomber attacked government-backed Sunni militia yesterday as they lined up to be  paid on Baghdad’s southwestern outskirts, killing at least 39  and wounding 41, Iraqi security sources said.

(Barbados Nation) After investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in training Barbadians for the medical transcription field, Government may have to return to the drawing board and review its much touted programme, earmarked to earn over Bds$20 million in foreign exchange annually.

Congo’s Minister of the Environment was scheduled to arrive in Guyana yesterday to meet government officials on the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

Dear Editor, The ruling UNC-led Peoples Partnership (PP) government has taken an early lead over the opposition PNM in popular support for Trinidad’s July 26 local government elections according to findings obtained from an opinion survey conducted over the last couple of weeks by the North American Caribbean Teachers Association.

I may be off about a year or so – I’m not good with dates – but it was around 1969.

Dear Editor, Sometime during the latter period of 2009, shops, shacks and other businesses were forcibly or willingly removed from the Wismar bank of the Demerara River.

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago opened the women’s volleyball competition with a straight sets victory over archrivals Barbados at the CAC Games yesterday.

The Guyana government has implemented a policy decision to waive visa requirements for Haitian businesspersons travelling to Guyana and who are in possession of valid United States of America, Canadian or Schengen (visitor) visas, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) A police constable who attempted to foil a robbery at a fruit stall in Arima was shot and killed by the robber on Saturday but hours later, cops killed the robber in an alleged shoot-out.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s ambitious drive to  build a high-speed passenger railway linking its two biggest  cities is a gamble to relieve the country’s road-dependent  infrastructure — and a costly one that may fail.

The unnerving ease with which the government recently announced that the once-grand old New Amsterdam Hospital will be torn down should cause sleepless nights for those who have had a life-long affiliation with the Bourda Cricket Ground and have nurtured undying memories of tense test match finishes and absorbing draws there.

(Jamaica Observer) The significance of Lincoln ‘Sugar’ Minott’s contribution as a critical innovator in the annals of modern Jamaican music will be commemorated at farewell showcase tentatively planned for July 29.

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Edwin Carrington, has expressed deep regret at the death of Professor Dennis Pantin who he described as “a true Caribbean citizen.”

By Tiffny Rhodius with photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man and woman in the street what they thought of a proposal by government to merge the Georgetown Cricket Club and the Georgetown Football Club to create a sports facility.

AX 3-DOMAINES, France, (Reuters) – The battle for  Tour de France victory took a twisted turn in Ax 3-Domaines yesterday when yellow jersey holder Andy Schleck and defending  champion Alberto Contador played mind games in the final climb.

Dear Editor, What’s my name? “Your name is Toby. I want to hear you say it.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – So what if “Inception” is  incomprehensible? The costly sci-fi thriller opened at No.