Daily Archive: Monday, October 4, 2010

Two men were shot dead on Campbell Avenue about 8.15 pm tonight, the latest in a series of mysterious shootings.

-mother, stepfather being questioned -text messages on morphine seen as clue -went missing since Sept 24Police last night said that the headless corpse found crammed into a suitcase at Madewini is that of 16-year-old Neesa Lalita Gopaul of Leonora and three persons are in custody in a tragedy laced with reports of morphine and abuse.

-harrowing experience for crew A boat transporting Banks DIH products to the Essequibo Coast sprung leaks and had to be grounded at the Stewartville, West Coast Demerara shore late Saturday night.

-pulled trigger thrice Kerwin Greene, the Linden man shot by a policeman on Saturday remains hospitalized with internal bleeding and his shooter is expected to be charged.

-Motilall tells PR executive President of Synergy Holdings Fip Motilall says his company is “most qualified” to build the Amaila access road because it has over seven years of road building experience along with intimate knowledge of the terrain at the project site.

-20% above last year’s total With the third quarter of this year gone there have been 103 murders which is 20% (all figures rounded) more than the total number of killings recorded by police in 2009.

The initiative to construct a bridge across the Corentyne River may begin next year, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced on Thursday.

The mothers of the 26-year-old woman who lost her life after delivering through caesarean-section at the New Amsterdam Hospital and a pregnant teenager who died two days before want the persons responsible for their deaths to be disciplined.

-three held Three persons were arrested after police found a gun and ammunition in a house at Pike Street, Kitty yesterday.

Guyana and Brazil have been doing business but not enough, Ambassador Luiz Gilberto Seixas de Andre said on Thursday, pointing out that trade could be better and more balanced.

The operations of the Community Development Council (CDC) in Saxacalli, Essequibo River is to undergo a close examination in another few weeks, according to Parliamentary Representative Bibi Shadick.

Caricom is concerned about the recent decision of the British Government to postpone indefinitely general elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands; thereby perpetuating its influence over the island nation.

Acid victim Joann Lynch on Wednesday spent some three hours recounting to a rank from the Guyana Police Force her horrific experience on that June 2006 day when her face was disfigured with acid by the former lover of her then boyfriend.

After spending twenty years overseas with a successful ten-year-old engineering and manufacturing company, Bob Ghamandi relocated his business to Guyana and at his first ever GuyExpo he says he hopes to make his business “a household name”.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Over US$15 million has been budgeted on a number of tours, tournaments, and development projects by the West Indies Cricket Board over their next financial year, which ends next October.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India reclaimed some of its  lost pride with a vibrant opening ceremony to the 19th  Commonwealth Games yesterday after weeks of negative publicity  about problems with the preparations.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board have failed to reach a definitive position on whether a player opting out of the central retainer contract scheme should be captain of the West Indies team.

By Marlon Munroe Half centuries from Travis Dowlin, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Rajendra Chandrika and a four-wicket haul from Kellon Carmichael ensured  Berbice went down by 71 runs to Demerara in the second round of the El Dorado 50-over Inter-County tournament at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground yesterday.

The Young Achievers volleyball team delivered a dominating performance to win the final of the True Champions Volleyball Tournament which ended on Saturday night, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Eric Sankar out-pedalled his competitors in the feature event of the fourth annual Max Pereira and Marlis Archer memorial cycle race yesterday around the outer circuit of the National Park.

The Melanie Patriots snatched third place in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association Pepsi Street Playoff Series from the clutches of the Courts Pacesetters on Saturday night at the Burnham basketball court.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of Lionel Peters in your edition of October 2 `Janet Jagan announced she would be the presidential candidate in 1997’, challenging my broad characterization of the events surrounding the selection of Mrs.

Dear Editor, I refer to the story captioned “Dismissed without explanation” in your edition of 28 September 2010.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Tour de France champion Alberto  Contador’s positive drugs test has heaped more shame on Spain as  a country celebrating a sporting golden age is being forced to  face up to a doping problem that is tarnishing its image.

Dear Editor, Last week, my Grade 1 niece asked for some help to do her homework.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – Mitchell Johnson hastened  an abrupt India collapse yesterday with his sixth test  five-wicket haul to give Australia a 23-run first innings lead  in the first test.

Visitors getting into a car in Guyana for the first time are often left shocked, perhaps even stunned, by our driving habits.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Ruling party candidate Dilma  Rousseff placed a strong first in Brazil’s presidential  election yesterday, but she will face a runoff after some  voters were turned off at the last minute by a corruption  scandal and her views on social issues.

Dear Editor, I refer to a SN article captioned ‘Granger: PNCR can win’ of October 2, 2010. 

NEW YORK CITY, CMC – Three Caribbean Football Union women’s national teams can now chart their course for a place in the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany.

Dear Editor, I was not at all surprised at your recent piece on the ongoing fiasco at the Skeldon sugar factory project and the government’s way to deal with it. 

CARACAS, Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  vowed to “radicalize” his socialist revolution even further  after legislative elections that gave the opposition one of its  strongest showings during his more than 11 years in power.

This week features Christian Campbell, a young writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage, an Oxford Rhodes Scholar and member of the teaching Faculty of the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea’s Didier Drogba proved  Arsenal’s nemesis again as he inspired the champions to a 2-0  win over their London rivals and Blackpool pulled off a stunning  2-1 victory at Liverpool in the Premier League yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan bowlers Mohammad Amir  and Mohammad Asif have joined captain Salman Butt in appealing  their suspensions from the game over allegations of spot fixing,  the Geo television channel reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, GuyExpo is supposed to be many things, including promoting Guyana, and it is interesting to read what people’s perceptions are about what is promoted and exported.

PALERMO, Sicily, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict said yesterday the Mafia represented “a path of death” that Sicily’s  young should shun but he dismayed activists who said he was too  timid and should have given the crime group a moral hammering.

Senior Citizens’ Month which is being observed in October will undoubtedly give rise to platitudes from many sectors on how the golden years of the elderly will be bettered.

NEWPORT, Wales, (Reuters) – Lee Westwood and Luke  Donald set the tone as Europe charged 9-1/2 points to 6-1/2  ahead of the United States with an inspirational display in the  third session of the weather-hit Ryder Cup yesterday.

Dear Editor, A letter writer replying to Mr Roshan Khan’s previous correspondence on the noise at Starlite Drive-in (‘Why does Atlantic Gardens need a sound system which is the loudest in the world?’

As GuyExpo prepares to wrap up we asked the exhibitors how they have benefited from participating in the six-day trade fair or in the case of newcomers how they expect to benefit.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German President Christian Wulff  said yesterday that Islam had a place in Germany, during a  speech celebrating two decades of reunification.