Daily Archive: Monday, July 26, 2010

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says that it will not form alliances or partnerships with either the governing PPP/C or the main opposition PNCR for the 2011 general elections, its starkest rejection yet of any arrangement with the two.

A security guard succumbed to several stab wounds hours after being viciously attacked during a robbery at his South Sophia workplace on Saturday night.

-driver in custody One person is dead and two others injured after the driver of a car apparently lost control of the vehicle and ploughed into a group of pedestrians on the La Union Public Road, West Coast Demerera yesterday morning.

The PNCR is preening over its decision to approach Suriname’s then opposition, the National Democratic Party (NDP), over that country’s expulsion of the CGX rig in 2000 from a drill site Paramaribo claimed was in its territorial waters.

The mother of the West Berbice pedal cyclist who was fatally struck down around 9:40 pm on Saturday at the nearby No.

The Joint Services yesterday conducted a Contingency Plan Activation exercise in Georgetown and New Amsterdam, which was aimed at testing the unit’s ability to respond to crisis situations within the prison system.

The suspect in the brutal murder of a Port Mourant, Berbice woman on Friday  was yesterday taken into police custody.

-says indications are drugs trade remains growth industry The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is concerned about the increasing involvement of Guyana Police Force (GPF) officers in the harassment of political activists.

Members of the legal fraternity are coming together to advocate for improvements at the Land Registry and a more professional way of conducting business at the agency.

A cattle farmer of Seafield, West Coast Berbice is seeking justice after persons chopped four of his cows around 10 am on Saturday.

Two persons had to be treated at the Fort Wellington Hospital on Saturday after they were attacked around 10:45 pm in front of a wedding house at Tempe Village, West Coast Berbice.

Some 500 teachers recently completed training in the use of the computer as a teaching and learning tool in order to increase the access of students to Information Communication Technology (ICT).

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) signed an agreement last Tuesday at the Sandals Resorts International Corporate Headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, for a partnership in which El Dorado will be the exclusive pouring rum at all Sandals Resorts.

Forty-three apprentices from various sugar estates  who received certificates on Friday after completing four years of study at the GuySuCo Port Mourant Training Centre were told that there will be major upgrades to the current curriculum  to lift industry standards.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday concluded a two-day workshop aimed at reviewing Guyana’s immigration policy with a view to accommodating “the evolving demands of globalization”, attracting investors and preserving national safety.

By Floyd Christie The host nation’s rugby Sevens team fittingly claimed the gold medal after defeating Jamaica in the final of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games rugby Sevens tournament yesterday at the National Stadium, Providence.

-Guyana 15th at CAC  Games The Guyana team was in 15th position with a silver and two bronze medals after yesterday’s action of the XXI Central American and Caribbean games currently underway in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Stabroek Market beat Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GHPC) by one-wicket Wednesday evening at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground Bourda in a  feature 25-overs-a-side softball match. 

The Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) rifle team continued their winning streak by winning the prestigious Overseas Challenge Cup a four-man team shoot.

The West Demerara Dominoes Association (WDDA) will stage the Goed-Intent Policing Group dominoes competition today from 6:30pm at the ‘A’ Plus Domino Club, Murphy St, Goed Intent.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezue-lan President Hugo  Chavez threatened yesterday to cut oil supplies to the United  States in case of a military attack from Colombia as a dispute escalated over charges his country harbours Colombian rebels.

After a few golf swings Bishnarine Sanjay Persaud is convinced that he may not compete in the sport, but the Managing Director of Sanjay’s Jewellery, an ardent golf fan has made a commitment to sponsor future tournaments following last Saturday’s Medal Play Classic at the Lusignan Course.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic U.S.  Represen-tative Charles Rangel deserves to expelled from  Congress if the ethics charges against him are true, former  Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said  yesterday.

Dear Editor, Synergy continues to keep this US$15.4 million of Guyanese taxpayers’ money.

DUBAI/PARIS, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s wing in North  Africa said it had killed a French hostage in response to a raid  last week by French troops against a base in the Sahara desert,  according to a recording aired yesterday by Al Jazeera.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Lennox Cush became the first bowler in the history of official Twenty20 cricket to take two hat-tricks to set-up a four-wicket victory for Guyana over Combined Campuses & College in the Caribbean T20 Championship yesterday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the article `AFC studying alliance blueprint’ (SN July 25).

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Windward Islands batted disappointing to concede first innings points but their bowlers hit back to stun Leeward Islands late yesterday and put them on course for the 2010 TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge title.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A group of drug cartel  inmates who were allowed by guards to leave prison to commit  murders are believed responsible for the massacre of 17 people  earlier this month, the Mexican government said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The President of Guyana has gone to the courts for redress.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – A stubborn 67-run seventh wicket partnership put Barbados within sight of first innings points against Jamaica on a rain-hit second day of their final round TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge match yesterday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian native Indians yesterday took 100 workers hostage at the construction site of a  hydroelectric plant in the southern Amazon region, local media  reported.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Pakistan has been  double-crossing the United States by secretly supporting the  Taliban while taking massive U.S.

DENNERY, St Lucia, CMC – A clinical second day effort from Trinidad and Tobago put them in a tremendous position to take full points over Guyana in their final round TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge encounter here yesterday.

Dear Editor, On January 15, 2008 and February 7, 2008 my premises, occupied by me and my wife was bombarded by Molotov cocktails.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian  Pinera yesterday denied a pardon to people jailed for  dictatorship-era crimes, a move likely to ease tensions with  the opposition and rights groups over a controversial call for  clemency.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column As almost every Guyanese knows by now, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall, recently asked if the government would prefer to deal with a health crisis rather than assist the City Council, is reported to have responded: “Well, if there is a health crisis in the city I’ll be glad because it will remove the city council.

Caricom’s participation at the Shanghai Expo 2010 held in China two weeks ago was a wonderful opportunity to showcase what member states had to offer and provide a way of strengthening ties between Caricom and China, President Bharrat Jagdeo said.

(Jamaica Observer) The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), in a ground-breaking achievement, has agreed on what should be the cap on the amount of money individuals or groups can contribute to the operations of political parties.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Kieron Pollard struck a dynamic half-century to revive Trinidad & Tobago and catapult them to a five-wicket victory over shell-shocked Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship on Saturday.

Dear Editor, I would be very grateful if you publish this letter in reply to one published in the Guyana Chronicle  of  July 20th,  2010 entitled `A false perception of Region Two rice farmers’ written by Saleem Hamid.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – More NATO troops will die in  Afghanistan as violence mounts over the summer, but  Washington’s goal of turning the tide against the insurgency by  year’s end is within reach, the top U.S.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) and Caricom are sending a joint Electoral Observation Mission to Haiti in preparation for the November 28 legislative and presidential elections.

After well over a year living in Guyana again, I am often asked, “What’s the difference between here and outside?”

SolGuyana Inc recently donated cheques to the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) to support its nutrition programme and the Ruimveldt Children Aid Centre’s ‘Meal-A-Day Project’.

Dear Editor, I read in the press a few days ago that the President was off on a trip to Shanghai representing Caricom at some meaningless conference.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will look to their  third ‘M’ to bring victory over India in the second test as they bid to replace the visitors atop the ICC test rankings.

(Trinidad Express) The search for the missing heads of a dismembered boy and woman, ended on Saturday in an abandoned canefield near the Corinth’s Teachers College, Ste Madeleine.

(Jamaica Observer) Thirty-five-year-old Richard Oneil of Eric Avenue, Kingston 20, died after he was stabbed during a dispute with a female exotic dancer on Ripon Road, Kingston 5, on Saturday.

Amid the daily diet of crime, unprecedented violence against women and children, the divisive and bitter politics that suffuses every part of life and the increasingly oppressive hands of the government and the opaqueness of its business, it is easy to forget that positive things are also happening.

Dear Editor, Prof. Bishnodat Persaud, formerly Director and Head of Economic Affairs Division of the British Commonwealth Secretariat in a published letter in SN (Jan.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael  Correa left the door open yesterday to dissolving the Andean  nation’s legislature and calling for new general elections,  about a year after the last poll.

Marketing and Distribution has announced the winners in its ‘Teddies Spin the Wheel’ promotion.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Spaniard Alberto Contador claimed  his third Tour de France title day as seven-times champion  Lance Armstrong made his final exit from the race.

Persons in West Berbice commented on how they dispose of their garbage: Photos and interviews by Shabna Ullah Devika Kurhair, housewife `I dispose of my garbage in a barrel and I would burn it whenever it is full.