Daily Archive: Sunday, August 22, 2010

By Orin Davidson Guyana’s Lennox Cush set Italy ablaze yesterday with a lethal batting display in leading the United States  of America to victory over the home team in the final of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cricket League Division Four championship in Bologna.

Guyana’s national youth sprinter Chavez Ageday clocked 10.90 seconds in the ‘B’ final of the boys’ 100m event to earn himself a fourth place yesterday at the World Youth Olympic Games, currently ongoing in Singapore.

The second round of the Guyana Football Federation’s Super League competition will commence today with three matches.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will tonight hold a wake at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in Queenstown for the late veteran cricket administrator Alfred Mohammed.

By Tamica Garnett The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) yesterday said it will sponsor a 42-member contingent inclusive of athletes and officials to the upcoming XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India from October 3-14.

By Tamica Garnett President of the Guyana Olympic Association  K. Juman Yassin yesterday severely criticized the government over its lack of financial support for sports teams leaving these shores to attend international competitions.

CANTERBURY, England, CMC – Shiv Chanderpaul’s Lancashire pulled off a resounding victory over Kent yesterday to keep alive their hopes of winning the English County Championship Division One title.

A pedestrian and a car passenger were killed at Kairuni on the Linden Highway yesterday afternoon when a driver lost control of his vehicle which ended up in the bush.

SINGAPORE,  CMC – Fifteen-year-old Jamaican Odane Skeen crowned himself world junior sprint king yesterday when he dismissed his field to win the 100 metres at the inaugural Youth Olympics.

By Kwesi Isles President Bharrat Jagdeo’s visit to Buxton last week has rekindled deep-seated resentment in some Buxtonians while others have welcomed it as an event long overdue.

A 20-year-old died early this morning after the car he was in lost control and collided with another.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Off-spinner Johan Botha has  replaced Graeme Smith as South Africa’s Twenty20 captain,  Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced yesterday.

Some of the customers worst hit by the Clico (Guyana) financial fallout are forming a delegation to actively put pressure on the government to fulfil its promise to reimburse all affected customers.

If you think about it carefully it seems impossible to reconcile two things which most people would very much like to believe – one, that they enjoy free will and in some ultimate sense are masters of their fates, and, two, that the God of all creation is omnipotent and has a master plan for us all which is beneficial.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – West Indies will face Kenya and Sri Lanka in Colombo next February, in official warm-up matches for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

In March, the President is reported to have said at Babu John that “It’s not drug money; every time people see you build a new house, the AFC and the PNC say ‘drug money.’”

After the public declarations of culpability being assigned, talk of “heads rolling” and the millions in tax dollars evaded in the Fidelity Polar Beer scandal, little if anything has materialized and the preliminary inquiries (PI) of those officials currently before the court could take three years to complete.

Ricky Ponting has revealed details of a “bruising” argument between Australia’s past and present players over safety concerns in the lead up to this year’s IPL.

GATINEAU, Canada, – St Lucia are on the verge of finishing the men’s junior NORCECA Championship winless, after another straight sets whipping by Martinique in their penultimate match on Friday.

Introduction As yet, other than saying that Atlantic Hotels Inc is a public-private sector partnership, the government and its handmaiden NICIL have been silent on where the money to build a hotel in Kingston to be operated under the Marriot label will come from.

-no response from US on mastermind Nine months after a miner was killed on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway in a bizarre incident that triggered a wave of violent attacks in Georgetown, there has been no development in the investigation.

Objective achieved It would be reasonable for readers to conclude that, despite withering criticisms directed at it, stress-testing of banks in the United States and the European Union (EU) has achieved its principal objective, which is restoring a large measure of public confidence in their respective banking systems.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – World number two Roger  Federer comfortably beat Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-4 6-3 yesterday to set up a meeting with American Mardy Fish in the  final of the Cincinnati Masters.

A former Superintendent of Police was up to press time a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was stabbed by bandits during a robbery attempt at his home.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was shot dead, another critically injured and three men wounded when masked men opened fire on guests at a birthday party on Thursday night.

Joint patrols between the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force along the East Coast Demerara and East Bank Demerara began on Friday, following a rash of armed robberies, including one that left a Mahaica man dead.

By Dr Rishu Agarwal, MD (Pathology) Introduction Dengue is the most common mosquito-borne viral disease of humans that in recent years has become a major international public health concern.

BUSHEHR, Iran (Reuters) – Iran began loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant  yesterday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and its rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Nevis turned in a dominant performance, hammering Antigua and Barbuda by 122 runs to open the St Kitts Under-13 tournament on a high yesterday.

“Gully side! Gully side! Ganja!”  announced the arrival of the ‘Gully God’ Mavado at Friday’s Jamzone Regional Concert which was marred by rainy weather and a slushy National Stadium.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s provisional electoral council ruled on Friday that hip-hop star Wyclef Jean did not meet a residency requirement to run as a presidential candidate in the nation’s Nov.

(BBC) Pakistan captain Salman Butt hailed his side’s character after they survived a final session wobble yesterday at The Oval to give them hope of rescuing the series.

Now what is an ‘old dog’? I don’t want to get philosophical and equate the question with the one usually directed to humans (How old is old?)

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Arjun Atwal  is on the verge of becoming the first player from India to win  on the PGA Tour after racing three shots clear of the field in  the Greensboro Classic third round yesterday.

The advice to consumers from the Pharmacy Council continues: 14. What is a POM?

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested 10 heavily armed men and rescued 35 people who had been held hostage for almost two hours at a five-star hotel in one of Rio de Janeiro’s richest neighborhoods.

Bravo  Arts, a six-member team of body-painting artists headed by Steve Douglas,  will mount a body-art exhibition using designs-on-skin  motifs to depict twelve themes on twelve models specially chosen for the one-day event which is scheduled for Friday at Castellani House.

A Berbice lawyer stared death in the face after a bandit he was pursuing because he robbed his client pointed a gun at him.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff extended her lead over rival Jose Serra after taking advantage of free broadcast advertising, a poll showed yesterday.

The FIDE elections seem to be galloping towards a spectacular finish as we observe the two candidates for President, the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Anatoly Karpov campaigning through the Caribbean and the world, to make an impact upon voter countries.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Open champion Juan Martin  Del Potro will be unable to defend his title this month, having  failed to recover from a wrist injury which has kept him out  since January.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC –  Former world 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell has called an end to his 2010 season, joining his more celebrated Jamaican compatriot Usain Bolt on the sidelines.

Dear Editor, Everyone knows that if I were to remain silent on the fact and symbol of the ‘dinner,’ the stones would cry out!

The month of August is usually given over in the Caribbean to the commemoration of emancipation. 

A struggling 44-year-old amputee, who has suffered two unfortunate events in less than a year, is appealing to the public to assist her in living a more comfortable life.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish authorities issued an arrest warrant for the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks yesterday on suspicion of rape, but then swiftly withdrew it.

LONDON (Reuters) – The Russian drought has intensified a debate about food security in a warming world and helped frame a multi-billion-dollar takeover bid for fertiliser company Potash Corp as a bet on rising food prices.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s cricket team has  offered to tour Pakistan to raise funds for the victims of the  country’s massive floods, despite the suspension of foreign  visits following a militant attack last year.

CAIRO (Reuters) – A Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million was stolen from a Cairo museum yesterday and after reporting it had been recovered, the state news agency quoted a minister as saying it was still missing.

Dear Editor, Broadband customers of GT&T outside the emagine broadband service areas are still awaiting the announcement of slashed DSL rates.

Dear Editor, On Friday, August 20, I made enquiries as to which office was accepting help for the flood victims in Pakistan and I was informed that the local Red Cross Office might be doing so.

Cozier on Sunday There was a time when, for good reason, English county cricket attracted close attention throughout the Caribbean.

LONDON (Reuters) – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, often described as Russia’s most famous prisoner, believes he will remain in jail as long as Vladimir Putin is holding Russia’s reins, his mother said in an interview.

When I was a child gardeners all over the world spent a great deal of time in the garden on their hands and knees pulling out or digging out weeds.

The Guyana Police Force said on Friday that very shortly traffic restrictions will be put in place on the East Bank Demerara Public Road.

It appears that the Parliament Office is seeking to lay down a car park in the eastern portion of the Parliament Building compound.