Daily Archive: Friday, October 29, 2010

The severe weather system headed in this direction has now been declared as Tropical Storm Tomas and it could reach hurricane strength on Sunday.

Three employees of the Demerara Oxygen Company Limited (DOCOL) were injured this afternoon following an explosion at the company’s East Bank Demerara location, its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shameer Hoosein has confirmed.

WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) – Security officials in  Britain and Dubai intercepted parcel bombs being sent from  Yemen to the United States in a “credible terrorist threat,”  President Barack Obama said today.

A major accident  this afternoon at No.19 Village, Corentyne claimed the lives of 12 including a two-month-old, the police said.

NAGOYA, Japan, (Reuters) – Delegates from nearly 200  nations agreed today to a sweeping plan to stem the loss of  species by setting new 2020 targets to ensure greater protection  of nature and enshrine the benefits it gives mankind.

The body of a woman was found in a pit latrine at her Patentia, West Bank Demerara residence yesterday afternoon and police said her death may have been as a result of a fall but are awaiting the result of a post-mortem examination.

(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has successfully overcome her physical challenges to graduate from the University of the West Indies (UWI) with a Bachelors of Science Degree.

R. Allen Stanford’s attorney Robert S. Bennett was removed from his criminal-defence trial team yesterday by a federal judge after the indicted financier was declared unable to pay him or any private lawyer, according to Bloomberg.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs on Wednesday made an appeal to members of the public to assist in weeding out rogue elements within the Police Service.

– grandparents had sent children back over $$$ The team mandated by Minister       of Human Services, Priya Manickchand to investigate the handling of Neesa Gopaul’s case has recommended that two officers be fired and another demoted for their failure in adequately assisting the child who was brutally murdered after more than a year of abuse.

A post-mortem examination performed on the remains of two-year-old Radain Wilson of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice who was locked in a car on Monday showed that he died of a sunstroke.

Guyana stands a fifty percent chance of being hit by a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean within the next 48 hours, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said last evening on its website.

A US citizen who was allegedly nabbed with a quantity of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– European-funded work 31% completed As construction giant, BK International proceeds with multi-billion dollar sea defence work it has asked the authorities to review some projects where the designs are for mass concrete seawalls, arguing that the rip-rap design would be better.

Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) CEO Bharrat Dindyal says that the US$20 million proposed to be spent to solve the country’s power woes will be used to expand the local generation system by 15.6 MW.

t A US$9.5 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for Guyana will be utilized in financing the reconstruction of the Georgetown sewerage system, improving the  efficiency of the Guyana Water Inc.

– takes Hector Muñoz Trophy Bygeval Multilateral School was yesterday announced as the winner in the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Secondary School Hydroponics Competition.

A 30-year-old man who said that he was “just joking” when he attempted to steal a handgun from a security guard attached to the Bank of Guyana was yesterday sentenced to a three-year prison term  when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Banks DIH Ltd recently presented a cheque valued $600,000 to the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central to assist with the operational costs of its mobile dental health care bus which serves school children.

With the Hindu festival of lights, Deepavali due to be celebrated on Friday, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee and senior police officials met with Alexander Village residents yesterday to discuss a security plan aimed at countering any disruptions.

Fourteen female workers from the No. 2 weeding gang of the Albion Sugar Estate had to be treated at the Port Mourant Hospital on Wednesday after they were apparently affected by a drug that was sprayed two days before.

Over the course of 11 years, the Cdn$7.5M Guyana Basic Education Teacher Training Project (GBET) has facilitated the training of 1,256 education supervisors and teachers in the Distance Education Management Programme.

Office of the President Press and Publicity Officer, Kwame McCoy yesterday ordered a Stabroek News reporter off the premises of the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) where the National Toshaos Council Meeting is being held, saying it was a “private event.”

The first joint venture between Neal and Massy (Guyana) Ltd and Bounty Farm Ltd saw the commissioning of a new Money Gram outlet at the supermarket’s Water Street branch yesterday.

At first glance Trinidadian Leeann Boodram’s soft features and long limbs give you the impression that she may be a model and she has been told this on more than one occasion, or even a school teacher.

The two football teams from Buxton, Bakewell Buxton Stars and Buxton United, were eliminated  from the fourth annual Namilco Football Festival by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and Sunburst Camptown respectively on Wednesday night at the Tucville Playfield.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K Juman Yassin on Wednesday affirmed that the GOA has not received any funding from the Government of Guyana for the Commonwealth Games and the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games this year.

Students of the Green Acres Play, Nursery, and Primary School yesterday got in on some of the athletics action when the school held the track events of its annual Athletics Championships at the Carifesta Sports Complex Ground.

Guyana’s most prestigious football event, the annual Kashif and Shanghai Knockout Football Tournament,  officially entered its 21st year with the launching at Duke Lodge which was aired live yesterday.

For the third weekend in a row, softball cricketer Hakim Majeed stroked a century, but this still could not lead the Success Masters Softball Cricket team to a win last Sunday when they played in a series of the General Marine Female and Male Over-40 Softball Competition.

– private sector should not be “gripped by fear” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Pegasus Hotel Robert Badal believes the continued growth and expansion of the private sector in Guyana can only be assured in circumstances where businessmen are prepared to identify constraints and intervene with government to have those removed.

– Agriculture Ministry A significant increase in local rice production during the month of September coupled with various worldwide disasters that have affected global rice and wheat production, have created the prospects for improved prices for Guyana, according to the local Ministry of Agriculture.

As best as this newspaper can recall, no businessman, at least in recent memory, has chosen to talk back to government on any issue in quite the manner that Robert Badal has recently.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers began  the post-LeBron James era with a stunning 95-87 victory over  the heavily favoured Boston Celtics on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, I wish to comment on a letter captioned ‘Why the delay in awarding the contract for the Conservancy Adaptation Project?’

NAGOYA, Japan,  (Reuters) – The World Bank yesterday launched a programme to help nations put a value on  nature just like GDP in a bid to stop the destruction of  forests, wetlands and reefs that underpin businesses and  economies.

Dear Editor, Mr Rajendra Rampersaud’s letter in Stabroek News, of October 27, 2010, ‘Ram’s analysis in relation to the exchange rate was flawed’ refers.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Caroline Wozniacki rolled up her  sleeves and battled back from a set down to defeat Francesca  Schiavone of Italy 3-6 6-1 6-1 at the WTA Championships yesterday, sewing up the year-end world number one ranking.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board director Joel Garner will continue as manager of the West Indies team on their tour to Sri Lanka next month.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s top spy, in the first  public speech by a serving UK espionage chief, said yesterday  terrorists might hit the West again “at huge human cost” but  nuclear proliferation by states was a more far-reaching danger.

Feeling It What does the structure of the Guyana economy tell us about the ability of Guyanese to serve customers and keep a smile? 

Dear Editor, Whenever I think about the One Laptop Per Family initiative, I wonder if there is not a better way to ensure the masses become literate in the use of computers.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday approved an allowance of $50,000 for the Toshoas to cover additional expenses they might have incurred during their five-day stay in Georgetown to attend the National Tashaos Council (NTC) meeting.

The ‘Ride for Life’ five-stage bicycle road race which is set to pedal off next Thursday is expected to be the “biggest ever”, according to Director of Sports Neil Kumar.

Allan and Marysia Downes are celebrating the first anniversary of the launch of Kitchen Kraft an enterprise which they both insist is concerned as much with offering Guyanese the highest standards in kitchen, dining and house ware items as it is with bringing them a measure of success as entrepreneurs.

USAID, through its Governance Enhancement Project (GEP) this week awarded grants valued US$58,600 to three civil society organisations to implement activities aimed at decreasing the incidence of domestic violence in regions four, six and eight.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Central Bank on Wednesday declared that at no time in the last 21 months did it state that all Colonial Life Insurance Company (Clico) policy contracts were to be honoured, in any of the statements made between the announcement of Clico’s collapse on January 2009 to today.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle of  October 23 reported that Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett presented the Universal Periodic Review reports and assorted documents to the National Assembly.

A man who admitted to signing someone else’s name on a declaration form for a new passport was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $20,000 together with a three-month prison sentence when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew Strauss  laughed off Australian pre-Ashes taunts yesterday and assured  the hosts that his men would hit the ground running for the  series starting in Brisbane next month.

Twenty-two-year-old Haopei Yang migrated to Guyana at the age six to join his father, the proprietor of a Sheriff Street restaurant.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A new kind of test that  finds evidence of colon cancer in the stool can also detect  pre-cancerous growths, and could potentially be an alternative  to colonoscopies, researchers reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, I would like to share a national nightmare with the Guyanese public, home and abroad.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union yesterday  supported calls by Germany and France for limited changes to the  bloc’s main treaty to help shore up Europe’s defences against  any new financial crises.

It has not been a good week for regional leaders; indeed, it has been rather a sad week for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I must say that I am indeed disappointed in the general misinterpretation of my letter to the press regarding the ‘miracles’ of the Hindu statues.

-Bishop “Brev” – and a cane-cutter’s thoughts The primary objective herein today is to express my conditional support for the latest governmental initiative to confront, lessen or eliminate gender-based abuse, domestic violence.

The Ministry of Education donated a number of hygiene kits for pregnant mothers and children affected by HIV/AIDS to the health ministry through its School, Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Unit.

– beef, pork, mutton, fish output up slightly The latest Commodity Market Update released by the Ministry of Agriculture points to a significant decline in poultry and table eggs production between January and September, compared with the corresponding period last year while beef, mutton and pork recorded increased production over the same periods mentioned.

-schools invited The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) stated in a release yesterday that its Digicel-sponsored national Mini Cadet, Cadet and Junior Teams Table Tennis Tournament is scheduled to be contested from November 5-7 at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.