Daily Archive: Monday, August 30, 2010

Police this afternoon released a photo of wanted man Tyrone Kacey Rowe known as `Cobra’.

-Agriculture Minister By this year end, insurance coverage will be available through the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) for “excessive rainfall” and Guyana will be among the countries utilizing this service.

-sees bleak future for family The wife of strangled logger, Rafeek Khan, foresees a bleak future as her husband was the sole breadwinner of the family and she said there were instances where he would behave secretively including on the day he disappeared.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Moving trucks throttling. Heavily armed police personnel standing guard.

-Region Seven Chairman Chairman of Region Seven, Holbert Knights has expressed concern that police at Bartica are “severely handicapped” when responding to crimes in the interior of the gold-mining region.

Armed motorcycle bandits often pounce on unsuspecting customers who leave city banks with large amounts of money but many continue this unsafe practice which in the past has led to serious injury and even death.

Two carpenters fractured their legs mid-morning yesterday after a section of a shed on which they were working collapsed at De Hoop, Mahaica.

-dismissed special constable suspected of working with gang Wanted man Tyrone `Cobra’ Rowe recently eluded a police dragnet but the search continues since there is information that he is still in that area, Police Commissioner Henry Greene, said last week.

The PNCR is asking for an official explanation as to why the Acting Chief Education Officer, for the last five years, Genevieve Whyte-Nedd, could not be confirmed in her position, even if only for the purposes of computing her retirement benefits.

The National Development Strategy (NDS) could be used by the next government as the basis for a social contract aimed at fostering greater cooperation on national interests, according to Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran.

-investigation still under wraps By Tiffny Rhodius “I ain’t feeling all that good today,” were the words of 19-year-old Orlon Munroe on Tuesday from his bed in the Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

-Caricom General no longer involved By Nicosia Smith In the absence of a duly constituted Board of Directors, the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN) was given the responsibility of collecting the outstanding loans issued under the Linden Economic Advancement Fund (LEAF) that ended in June 2009.

– says company reneging on commitment The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has engaged the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

(Cricinfo) Investigators will focus on the currency notes handed over by the News Of The World (NOTW) to Mazhar Majeed as they look for evidence of spot fixing in the Lord’s Test involving Pakistani cricketers.

-diarrhoea leading cause of death in children under five The Ministry of Health is intensifying its fight against childhood diseases by adding a number of vaccines to its Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) as it aims to increase life expectancy to 75 by 2015.

-Schools Welfare Department There has been an encouraging improvement in students’ behaviour at  Tutorial High School following the intervention by guidance and counselling officers earlier this year, according to a report from the Schools Welfare Department of the Ministry of Education.

—Guyana’s Twenty20 cricket teamturns in fine all round display to defeat Trinidad by 49 runs in the second and final encounter By Marlon Munroe It was an all-round display that inspired hope that the Guyana team is ready for the Airtel Champions League T20 tournament in South Africa next month.

The PNCR is calling on the government to “adopt a policy of zero tolerance” to the “endemic” domestic and sexual violence against women in Guyana.

—National coach Bobby Cadogan says local basketball players need to work on their fundamentals By Floyd Christie Coach of the President’s XII basketball team Robert ‘Bobby’ Cadogan said yesterday he was dissatisfied with the performance of the team which crashed to a 0-3 defeat against the Washington-based DC Jammers team recently.

Young Achievers volleyball team finished on top of the points table as the preliminary rounds of the True Champions Volleyball Tournament (TCVT) concluded Saturday at the GuySuCo Training Centre, Port Mourant, Berbice.

The government of Guyana says it has donated US$30,000, equivalent to  $6.1 million, to Pakistan to facilitate the provision of relief to the millions of people affected by severe flooding in that country.

Dear Editor, Burying past mistakes with deception and distortion in today’s social environment smacks of political opportunism and a proclivity to historical revisionism of our contemporary political history as is seen in Henry Jeffrey’s missive in the Stabroek News (August 28), captioned ‘The traditional PPP historiography is fundamentally flawed.’

Three men, one armed with a gun, attacked and robbed a businessman and his female friend at a Kitty bar on Saturday night.

Selma James, who celebrated her 80th birthday two weeks ago, has  been campaigning against sexism, racism and capitalism for more than six decades. 

The weather was perfect, the scores were excellent with five players ending on net scores of 68 but in the end, William Walker clinched the winner’s prize at   King’s Jewellery World Medal Play golf tournament last Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara.

Guyana’s Gwendolyn O’Neil will fight Crystal Davis in the United States of America next month the boxing website Boxrec has reported.

Evaluation reports have indicated that the impact of paddy bug infestation on the current rice crop will be minimal, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

Dear Editor, Firstly, I am in agreement with the step that government has taken to withdraw advertising from the Kaieteur News by advertising on a website.

Sugar production for the second crop has suffered a string of setbacks and as of last week the recorded output was just over 16,000 tonnes after three weeks.

Dear Editor, This country sickens me to the core. The level of waste, corruption,mismanagement and inefficiency that surrounds this nation is staggering.

—Corruption allegations overshadow game LONDON,  (Reuters) – England completed a crushing  innings and 225 run victory over Pakistan in the fourth and  final test at Lord’s yesterday on a morning overshadowed by  corruption allegations.

ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Biofuel demand is driving a new  “land grab” in Africa, with at least 5 million hectares (19,300  sq miles) acquired by foreign firms to grow crops in 11  countries, a study by an environmental group said yesterday.

North West ferry MV Kimbia arrived at its destination at Kumaka in the Region One area safely yesterday afternoon, to several happy families awaiting their loved ones.

Dear Editor, Since micro-management has been the order of the day in Guyana, it is no wonder the Minister of Education is comfortable in the role of announcer of exam results and which student is first and which school second.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Earl bulked up to  hurricane strength on a track toward islands in the eastern  Caribbean yesterday, while Hurricane Danielle weakened to a  Category 1 storm, the U.S.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former cricket  captain Imran Khan called for exemplary punishment to be given  to any player found guilty of spot fixing during the tour of  England.

Dear Editor, I was passing in Hadfield Street the other day and could not help noticing how a part of it had been ‘nice up,’ so to speak, in memory of the late Dr Walter Rodney.

JALAL WALA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – When the waters  came, Allah Yar and his family ran for their lives.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Akil Greenidge hit the top score of 83, and his captain Lee Gaskin was unbeaten on 82 to put Barbados on the road to claiming the St.

The Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) has received a record 1,500 applications for the new academic year starting September and it unveiled a number of measures being put into place to attract more male teachers to the education system.

A literary evening is billed for  Saturday at Cara Lodge Hotel in Georgetown between 7.30 pm and 9.00 pm, and it will feature some of Guyana’s finest and most exciting authors.

QUITO, (Reuters) – A bus winding its way through  Ecuador’s highlands toward the capital of Quito went off the  road before dawn yesterday, killing 38 passengers in the worst  accident of this kind in the country in years.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A weakened German team, missing  their talismanic NBA forward Dirk Nowitzki, produced the shock  of the world championship yesterday with an 82-81 win over  Serbia after two overtime periods.

Dear Editor, Do you believe GT&T? Last Thursday morning, I paid $10,000 for my DSL Internet Bill at the New Amsterdam commercial office.

Sometimes you meet a person, and you mesh instantly.  It was like that with a man named Ormand Panton I met in Grand Cayman many years ago.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Leaked tapes of Belgium’s Cardinal  Godfried Danneels urging a victim not to reveal he was sexually  abused by a bishop are some of the most damaging documents to  emerge in the scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church.

Dear Editor, An opinion survey conducted in July by the North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) has shown President Bharrat Jagdeo with high approval rating with people expressing strong disapproval for most of the members of his government. 

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, (Reuters) – McLaren’s  Lewis Hamilton won a chaotic and thrilling Belgian Grand Prix to  seize back the Formula One championship lead from Red Bull’s  Mark Webber yesterday.

Nine persons last week received hampers from Harris Paints while Sherelyn Stanton of North Ruimveldt was confirmed as the grand winner of the `Ultimate Bedroom Makeover’ in the Harris Paint raffle at the recently concluded Building Expo at the Guyana National Stadium.

MONTERREY, Mexico, (Reuters) – Suspected drug hitmen  killed the mayor of a small town in northern Mexico yesterday  in a region where two car bombs exploded last week and the  bodies of 72 murdered migrant workers were found.

Dear Editor, This letter is an abridged version of a piece I wrote some time ago on reforming higher education.

Interviews by Candace Phillips and photos by Alva Solomon Annie Seenarine – housewife `I’m now doing the last set of shopping for the fine items like stationery and shoes. 

Jamaica watchers would be well aware that Prime Minister Golding and his government face collapse over the ongoing scandal surrounding the US lobbying firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (MPP), in particular, the questions of who hired it and what exactly for.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Fernando Torres scored his first  goal in 10 games when he volleyed the winner as Liverpool  kick-started their Premier League campaign with a 1-0 win over  West Bromwich Albion at Anfield yesterday.