Daily Archive: Saturday, September 18, 2010

Saying that domestic violence doesn’t start with a punch or a stab, US domestic violence prevention specialist, Dr.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s verbal abuses of individuals at public forums degrade his office, the main opposition PNCR said yesterday, while adding that he appears “intoxicated” with the power of the presidency.

–officials say labour laws breached While denying charges that he kept his maid against her will, the businessman yesterday admitted that the asked her young woman to rub his leg and later paid her as the service was not part of her job description.

A major milestone for agriculture in the Rupununi was reached as harvesting of 82 acres of paddy expected to yield between 65 to 70 tonnes of rice commenced at Moco-Moco, Region Nine on Thursday.

Barama worker Jason Fraser’s death has been ruled an industrial accident and the company has received permission to resume its Buckhall operation after several occupational safety recommendations were made.

Police have detained the young mother of an eight-month-old child whose decomposing remains were discovered in a pit latrine in the Parika Façade, East Bank Essequibo area on Thursday evening.

-two injured Deokie Pooran, called Diane, was killed on the spot while a mother and her four-year-old son were injured yesterday morning, when an out-of-control truck slammed into them on the Lusignan Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will square off in the opening match of the Tropical Mist Pee Wee Cricket tournament organized by the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) which bowls off today at Thirst Park ground.

– GT&T outfits team with blazers and ties The national rugby Sevens team departed Guyana this morning for the nineteenth Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi, India from October 3-14.

All the fanfare, enthusiasm and outpouring of support for the Guyana national cricket team is amounting to nothing in South Africa.

DURBAN, South Africa, CMC – Openers Michael Klinger and Daniel Harris smashed half-centuries as the South Australia Redbacks crushed Royal Challengers Bangalore by nine wickets to romp into the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20 yesterday.

With only one game remaining in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Division Three and Open leagues, the Courts Pacesetters and Colours Panthers once again etched their names among the winners Thursday night at the Burnham Court.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Umar Gul took six wickets in a  devastating display of quick bowling as Pakistan kept the  one-day cricket series alive with a 23-run victory over England  at the Oval yesterday.

Stabroek Market, winners of the recent Inter-Market Futsal football tournament staged at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall were presented with the top prizes during a simple ceremony at Banks DIH Conference Room at Thirst Park yesterday.

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) is sticking to its guns and has refused to provide Commissioner of Police Henry Greene with a reason for the disciplinary action against boxer Ray Sandiford.

DURBAN, South Africa, CMC – Despite the disappointment of Guyana’s loss to Mumbai Indians in the Champions League Twenty20 on Thursday, leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo had one reason to smile to smile amidst the gloom at Kingsmead.

Recognising that there has been a loss of various forms of Amerindian culture in their community, the Suruma Makushi Culture Band aspires to use its cultural performances as a means of reigniting interest and involvement in this dying way of life.

Dear Editor, In your September 17 headline story, ‘$3.6B set aside to fully repay Clico policyholders,’ President Bharrat Jagdeo committed himself and, by extension, his government to initiate a probe of Clico (Guyana) and Globe Trust and asserted that “if there are culpable people, we should take action against them.”

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The High Performance Centre has been included in next month’s regional limited overs championship in Jamaica, a move the West Indies Cricket Board says is designed to strengthen their youth developmental thrust.

Jamaican Beef Patties Hi Everyone, The first time I ate a Jamaican Beef Patty was not in Jamaica it was in Guyana.

I am told that I was born around eight o’clock at the public hospital on a night when two young nurses were on duty along with a doctor a few days from retirement; the child of a man who wasn’t sure whether he wanted a daughter or a son, but was willing to stake money on the baby being a girl.

Dear Editor, Your interview with Dr Norton, (‘Indigenous people could hold the “swing vote” in next election -Norton’ SN, September 12) raised a number of important issues, some of which demand further elucidation.

An unbeaten 54 from number three batsman Eon Hooper led the Berbice A Team to a comfortable eight wicket victory over the Berbice 2011 Preparatory Under-19 team at the Area H ground last weekend.

Dear Editor, By fluke, I watched the WRHM Channel 7 broadcast of the news and was very, very disappointed by President Jagdeo’s actions in preventing Mr Christopher Ram who is a legitimate Clico policyholder from voicing his question/s.

Plans by the Mabaruma Heritage Committee to make this year’s Amerindian Heritage Sports programme the best ever received a timely boost from good corporate citizen Giftland Office Max on Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations yesterday asked member states for $2 billion to help Pakistan recover from the massive floods that have displaced millions of people, making it the largest natural disaster appeal in UN history.

Twenty-five-year-old Michael Kellman is now getting a foot into the doorway, but he is bursting with confidence and is very serious when he says one day he would not only own his own company to market his products but would also have a school to teach young people “the world of arts.”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s blinder against Guyana in the Champions League Twenty20 on Thursday has prompted Trinidad and Tobago’s team management to consider promoting him in the order for next month’s regional one-day championship in Jamaica.

LONDON (Reuters) – Pope Benedict made one of his strongest apologies to victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests yesterday in London, while thousands of marchers staged the biggest protest of any of his trips abroad.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan braced for a day of violence today as voters headed to the polls for a parliamentary election that is a crucial test of government credibility and the strength of its security forces.

Dear Editor, In your editorial of September 15, very appropriately captioned, ‘Dark crime clouds,’ you painted a very ominous picture of the escalating crime rate in Guyana, and asked, “With the quantitative and qualitative changes in the crime scenario in our country, one would have assumed that appropriate changes would have been implemented in our crime-fighting outfits – especially the police force.

Dear Editor, We certainly have interesting tales of air travel and the airline industry in Guyana and in these parts of the world.

The National Cultural Centre (NCC) will come alive next Saturday when the First Assembly of God (FAOG) hosts GospelFest ‘10 under the theme: The Experience.

Anil Kumar Seetaram, called “Black Shirt,” was sentenced to a total of five years in prison when he appeared at the No.

LONDON (Reuters) – Pope Benedict is usually greeted by adulating crowds when he travels in Italy and other Catholic countries but he was treated to a mixed reception in London.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is preparing to free four more political prisoners and send them to Spain, bringing to 36 the total released so far in a deal between the government and the Roman Catholic Church, the church said yesterday.

Dear Editor, PNCR parliamentarian Mervyn William’s nauseatingly critical letter which appeared in SN of September 15 under the caption ‘Rice Factories Bill will not solve rice farmers’ problems’ is an attempt at pandering to the rice farmers whose livelihoods were ploughed up by the very party he represents.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors left here yesterday for Antigua for a Tri-Nations tournament involving the hosts and St Lucia, kicking off a busy itinerary of international friendlies.

Born in Ekwere, Port Harcourt, Rivers state on June 9, 1985, Tonto Dike is one of a family of seven.

Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said a comprehensive review of the sea defences is being conducted in preparation of spring tides forecast for November.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist and his wife were charged with trying to sell nuclear weapons secrets to a person they believed was a Venezuelan government official, the Justice Department said yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Discarded West Indies batsman Lendl Simmons smashed a stroke-filled half-century in the first national trial match as he warmed up nicely for next month’s regional one-day championship in Jamaica.

COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) – The first of three rescue drills yesterday reached 33 Chilean miners trapped for six weeks half a mile (0.80 kilometre) underground, but it will still take weeks to widen the shaft enough to extract the men.

Dear Editor, After reading so many blogs, I am curious to know what readers think about these  three  questions.

KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi shut down yesterday after a senior politician belonging to the city’s dominant Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was stabbed to death in London.

RK’s Eco-Starmotos, a new line of low cost, environmentally-friendly vehicles, was launched on Wednesday and lauded for combined efforts of Chinese production and ingenuity and Guyanese entrepreneurship.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Sony is starting to show the face of The Social Network, the saga of the founding of Facebook and one of the most buzzed-about films of the season.

Dear Editor, I refer to Ms Gillian Burton’s letter, ‘The issue is not the ethnicity of a presidential candidate but their competence and integrity’ (SN, September 12) and am conscious that her statement “that is why I was somewhat disappointed that one of my brother trade unionists should offer the opinion that an  Indian presidential candidate is not the answer to Guyana’s problems,” is directed to my writing.

DURBAN, South Africa,  CMC – Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo would have relished Mumbai Indians 31-run victory over Guyana in the Champions League Twenty20 Championship on Thursday.

(Barbados Nation) – A young businessman held in connection with the discovery of more than $11 million in drugs in a container at the Bridgetown Port was ordered kept in jail after he appeared in the District “A” Traffic Court.

St Maarten vote Voters in Dutch St Maarten are voting today to elect 15 members to parliament in the new country status.

South Africa’s Big Brother reality show became notorious this week when it broadcast a quarrel inside the house that ended with one of the male contestants punching a female.

A large quantity of expired food items was seized from groceries in Region 5, after inspections by the Regional Public Health Department (RPHD).

LONDON, (Reuters) – British police have sent to  prosecutors their initial findings in an investigation into  allegations of spot-fixing by Pakistaniricketers during a test  match against England last month, the police said yesterday.

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Katy Perry led Billboard’s Hot 100 singles for a second week on Thursday with “Teenage Dream,” while tunes by Bruno Mars and Rihanna are mounting challenges to take the lead next week.

KABUL (Reuters) – A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit Afghanistan’s remote northeast late yesterday, meteorologists and witnesses said, rattling homes in the Afghan capital and large areas of neighbouring Pakistan.