Daily Archive: Thursday, October 28, 2010

A potent tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean may cause thunder, lightning and periods of heavy rainfall in Guyana during the next 36 to 48 hours, Chief Hydromet Officer Bhaleka Seulall says.

A US woman, Shatise Atina Valentine was today remanded to prison accused of having seven kilogrammes of cocaine in her possession at the Cheddi jagan International Airport, Timheri.

Traffic backed up at Annandale on the East Coast during rush hour today.

Three to a bike…this family photo was taken on the East Coast Embankment today

A post-mortem examination performed today on the body of Radian Wilson, the two-year-old boy who was left locked in a vehicle for several hours, showed that he died of a sunstroke.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced a US$9.5M loan for Guyana’s sewerage system.

Bygeval Multilateral was today declared the winner of the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA) Hydroponics Competition for secondary schools.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Guyana) through its Governance Enhancement Project (GEP) yesterday awarded grants in the amount of US$58,600 to three Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), to implement domestic violence issue-based activities in Regions 4, 6 and 8. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Paul Lewis, the internationally renowned Jamaica-born American televangelist, has been slapped with fresh charges of perverting the course of justice in the ongoing carnal abuse case against him.

The Buxton health centre has been renovated to the tune of $1.5M and a new doctor stationed there.

(Barbados Nation) More than 10 000 people are expected to pack Kensington Oval for next week’s  state funeral of departed Prime Minister David Thompson.

The Caricom Secretariat will open a Book of Condolence for Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson on Monday, November 1st at the Caricom Secretariat, Turkeyen.

Amid increasing blackouts and unstable power supply, President Bharrat Jagdeo last evening disclosed that a further US$20M will have to be spent on a new power plant despite assurances last year that the new Kingston plant would take care of needs prior to the Amaila Falls project.

With bloodstains still on the walls, Cedric Blackman’s widow could not bear to spend the first night after his death in their house.

Police Commander Terrence Brown was rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex yesterday nursing head injuries after the police car he was driving went into a creek along Sir David Rose Avenue at Linden.

–  GOA president underscores Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) President K Juman-Yassin believes that while there was improvement by local cyclists at the recently-concluded XIX Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, there needs to be greater collaboration between stakeholders to prepare them for international meets.

On the initiative of former champion girl Alika Morgan and her coach Leslie Black, general construction company Chung’s Global Enterprise on Tuesday donated a lien trophy to be awarded to the champion girl of the schools annual National Track and Field, Swimming and Cycling Championships.

Seven persons from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Human Services to register their concerns over what they said was the failure of the ministry to deal with the welfare of the nation’s children.

—WICB President Hunte St John’s Antigua – Predicting ‘clear favourites’ in regional cricket is becoming increasingly perilous said President of the West Indies Cricket Board, Dr.

President Bharrat Jagdeo will be meeting on Monday with the employees who were recently retrenched by Barama Company Limited.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Lendl Simmons and the West Indies Players’ Association have both failed to meet with officials of the West Indies Cricket Board over outstanding issues.

MOSCOW, Russia,  CMC – FIFA Vice President Jack Warner met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Office on Tuesday in the Kremlin.

In the wake of the Charlestown chopping rampage which left two dead and two injured citizens have raised concerns about homeless persons especially those who appear to suffer from psychiatric disorders and roam the city carrying sharp implements.

Tiffany Carto and Letitia Myles yesterday produced the first photo-finish of the South Georgetown Inter-Schools Champion of Champions track and field championships at the Eve Leary ground.

The WPA says the disappearance of three young Guyanese boxers at the JFK airport in the USA “underscores the depth of the crisis affecting the lives of disadvantaged young Guyanese in the country of their birth.”

The Guyana booth at the World Expo in China continues to attract considerable interest with its display of the country’s unique heritage.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Some may quibble about its adequacy, but Shane Shillingford felt the WICB Regional One-day competition offered him valuable match practice ahead of the West Indies’ tour of Sri Lanka next month.

The case against Carolan Lynch over the murder of her husband Farouk Razac was called again yesterday but she was not present in court and the police said that she has not yet been located.

Another intriguing day of golf is anticipated when the annual Grand Coastal Hotel Medal Play tournament is played off on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club.

Amerindian Affair s Minister Pauline Sukhai and a battery of Amerindian leaders have condemned a Guyana Times article in which other Amerindian representatives had voiced concerns about the land demarcation exercise.

Sean ‘The Sniper’ Cox will make his second successive appearance on the ninth Friday Night Fights Pro-Am card tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

Two years before the end of what would have been his fourth five-year term as Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) Edwin Carrington, the 72 year-old Trinidad and Tobago-born career diplomat, announced that he will step down from what is widely regarded as the foremost and arguably most demanding regional public service assignment, at the end of 2010.

The first meeting of the National Task Force for the prevention of Sexual Violence was held yesterday in the boardroom of the Ministry of Labour.

Neesa Gopaul is not the first Guyanese child to have suffered and died because the much vaunted system designed to protect the weak and vulnerable failed to function properly.

The Best Goal Keeper award for the fourth edition of the Namilco Football Festival  organized by  Fruta Conquerors Football Club will be sponsored by the Bayridge Taxi Service on Sheriff Street.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Suspected drug hitmen shot  dead 15 people at a car wash in western Mexico yesterday,  the third massacre in just a few days, putting new pressure on  President Felipe Calderon to stop the growing violence.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian lawmakers yesterday  defeated a bill that would have raised the bar on human rights  and environmental standards followed by Canadian mining  companies working overseas.

(Cricinfo) Another day, another batting collapse from Pakistan. They were shot out for 120 and it was too little to defend even for their talented bowling attack.

Guyana Review talks with Robert Badal Robert Badal is Chairman and CEO of Guyana Stockfeeds Inc of Farm, East Bank Demerara, a company with interests in the rice and edible oils sectors.

-lack of markets, what to plant raised again Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud and other officials met around three dozen farmers at the Golden Grove Primary School yesterday where progress on drainage and irrigation works worth $457M was reported upon.

Dear Editor, On October 26, I was at the Passport Office applying for a new passport.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) is hoping to convince India to adopt the Umpire Decision Review System as part of the world governing body’s push to make the practice a mandatory feature of all test series.

Time flies, and Ken Corsbie, arguably the most talented and versatile Guyanese creative artists of his generation turned eighty recently.

-NCN employee wins $100,000 An employee of the National Communications Network (NCN) won $100,000 and became the first winner in the Courts Vault promotion when it was launched amidst much hype at its Main Street Branch yesterday.

Twenty-five-year-old Radrendra Balkarran of Portuguese Quarters, Port Mourant, was sentenced to a total of six and a half years in jail after he confessed to two counts of damage to property and  break and enter and larceny along with  simple larceny.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s  address to the Sixty-Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York,  September  24, 2010 Mr.

Sponsorship is picking up for the much anticipated Caribbean Fury fight card which takes place early next month.

Dear Editor, When in 1975-76, I endured sleepless nights huddled by a Cathy radio along with my father as Australia drubbed the West Indies match after match, there was still a feeling deep within me and millions of West Indians that it was only a matter of time before West Indies started to win.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Futuristic schemes for slowing  climate change such as dimming sunlight are fraught with risks  but will get a serious hearing from the U.N.

Dear Editor, I was appalled, even shocked, when I learnt that after twenty years as a semi-autonomous organization the Guyana National Bureau of Statistics (BOS) does not have a pension plan for its employees.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Samantha Stosur’s win over world number one Caroline Wozniacki was not the only surprise for an unsuspecting crowd at the WTA Championships, where music, dance and even a frightened feline vied with the tennis for attention.

In the world of local theatre Mahadeo Shivraj is perhaps one of the least known of the outstanding pool of local creative talent.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s foreign affairs minister  and another top official in his department stepped aside under  pressure yesterday to give investigators room to look into a  scandal over the purchase of embassy buildings.

The launch of the Guyana Association of Retired Persons which is aimed at having experienced professionals to guide and counsel youths will be the main highlight of the Godwin Mc Pherson Foundation’s one-year anniversary celebrations this weekend.

A fracas over passengers landed two minibus conductors in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday,  one charged with assaulting the other.

Dear Editor, Cleon Chung of Chung’s Global Enterprises recently signed a $24.7M contract with the Ministry of Housing and Water for the rehabilitation of a half-mile stretch of road in Block R Sophia.

A Comment by Norman Girvan The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI, based in Waterloo, Ontario Canada) has jointly published with the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI, based on the UWI Mona Campus) a paper on the impact of the Caribbean EPA.

Dear Editor, There is no need for persons to conceal their identity, or assume one, in making comments about me.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – World soccer’s governing body FIFA should postpone the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups after allegations of vote-selling, a former FIFA Executive Committee member said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Despite steps to expand private  farming, Cuba is contracting food supplies for 2011 much as it  has for decades, showing the limits of reforms and dimming  prospects for big increases in output, farmers said this week.

The  just-concluded Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) in St George’s, Grenada has endorsed the Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy and Action Plan, the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen said in a press release.

The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) will bounce off two more competitions on their events calendar for 2010 when they stage a Division Two and Division Three knockout tournament under lights from Saturday at the Burnham basketball court.

* Recent growth in Web piracy fuels counterfeit trade *  Reuters reporter buys fake bag on website to trace  problem * Journalists in China uncover secret leather workshops * Buyers across world found at illegal market in Guangzhou * Frustration over piracy fuels US trade tensions with  China WASHINGTON/GUANGZHOU, China, (Reuters) – Anybody  could tell right away that the Louis Vuitton shoulder bag was  fake because it was delivered in a recycled box that once  shipped batteries.

Part twoGERARD BEST continues his interview with Bevil Wooding, Programme Director for the Caribbean ICT Roadshow.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A last-minute deal among G20  nations to give emerging economies more voting power at the IMF  was made possible when the United States abandoned efforts to  link the shift to trade balance targets, sources said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Thank you for the picture in your newspaper of men working on the bridge in Annandale.

Coach of the Junior National Basketball team, Mark Agard is currently preparing the basketball squad that will represent Guyana at the basketball events of the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) and he says the team is definitely ready for the November 19-21 event.

A man accused of stealing another’s bicycle was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – At 78, author V.S. Naipaul’s  traveling days are over.

The Ovaltine Programme was one of the best-loved children’s radio programmes in Guyana The origin of radio broadcasting in Guyana is located somewhere in the 1920’s and the first evidence of radio is credited to several local ‘buffs.’

Minister within the Ministry of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran yesterday refuted claims in an October 26  Kaieteur News article that the CC Nicholson Hospital has been hit by a doctor shortage.

-Miami slips to defeat against Celtics in LeBron’s debut BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics spoiled the  opening act of LeBron James’s latest quest for a NBA title by defeating the Miami Heat 88-80 on Tuesday in a highly anticipated match-up of Eastern Conference powerhouses.

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan,  (Reuters) – Part of a building  collapsed on a wedding party in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan  province yesterday, killing about 60 people, the Afghan Red  Crescent said.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and a leading contender to succeed her in next year’s election, died from a heart attack yesterday.

Dear Editor, It seems as if the more we research the phenomenon of domestic violence and debate about it, and train people to respond to domestic violence, the more incidents are occurring unabated. 

Land Settlement State-sponsored land settlement schemes have been central to the post-immigration demographic transition of coastland. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will  push hard for U.S.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers were  indebted to bench players Shannon Brown and Steve Blake as they  launched their NBA championship defense with a nail-biting  112-110 win over the Houston Rockets on Tuesday.

Darren Sammy’s surprise appointment as West Indies captain appears to mark another ‘fresh start’ for Caribbean cricketSurprising though the decision may seem to appoint Darren Sammy captain of the West Indies cricket team, the selectors may well have felt that they had little choice.

The Inter-American Insti-tute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) said the official closing and prize giving ceremony of the Secondary Schools Hydroponics Competition will be held today.

Dear Editor, It is obvious that your writer/reporter, Mr Mervyn Williams, [Ed note: Mr Mervyn Williams is neither a writer nor a reporter for this newspaper] and most notably yourself are completely oblivious to the Grow More Food campaign, its objectives and achievements despite our informing you of same. 

(Trinidad Express) – Sabrina Lalla-Mitchell’s tormentor turned up at her workplace and stabbed her to death on Tuesday afternoon —a killing witnessed by her two children.

There is a sickness that is pervading our local health services.

One of the largest teams ever fielded by Guyana at the Commonwealth Games concluded their assignment in India with a single medal, a bronze plus the considerable embarrassment of the defection of its entire three-member boxing team.

ear Editor, The reggae fraternity has lost another potent and distinctive voice in the death of Gregory Isaacs.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The unusually high death rate in Haiti’s cholera epidemic is slowing as people become aware of the disease and health experts provide treatment, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – A tsunami and a  volcanic eruption in Indonesia have killed more than 300 people  with over 400 missing and tens of thousands displaced,  authorities said yesterday.

By Shammane Joseph This article is the first in a two-part series that will focus on the development and eventual failure of the Vanceram Limited Tableware Factory, the largest economic project ever commenced by the Women’s Revolutionary Socialist Movement (WRSM), at Caledonia  in Guyana.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – It will take little time to get  accustomed to all of the talent on the Miami Heat, LeBron James  said after his side were beaten 88-80 by the Boston Celtics in  their highly anticipated season-opener on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds recently visited the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming, Essequibo, Region Two, and toured the facility where he reviewed  its general development, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Tuesday.