Daily Archive: Sunday, October 31, 2010

(CBC) After being held to one goal in its last game, Canada poured on the offence today, hammering Guyana 8-0 at the CONCACAF Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament in Cancun, Mexico.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Former guerrilla leader Dilma  Rousseff won Brazil’s presidential election  today after  promising to stick to policies that have lifted millions from  poverty and made Brazil one of the world’s hottest economies.

The Alliance For Change’s conference this afternoon confirmed Khemraj Ramjattan as its presidential candidate and in something of a surprise fowarded Sheila Holder as its prime ministerial candidate for next year’s elections.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan players Salman Butt and  Mohammad Amir had their provisional suspensions over allegations  of spot-fixing upheld by the International Cricket Council (ICC)  today.

A motorcyclist died early this morning after apparently losing control while riding along the East Bank Demerara highway at Houston and slamming into a pole.

(Go Jamaica) Hurricane Tomas is moving over open water on a path that could take it near Jamaica later in the week.

(Barbados Nation) The worst storm in living memory. That’s how St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves yesterday described the passage of Hurricane Tomas.

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas strengthened  today after ripping off roofs and knocking down trees and  power lines in the eastern Caribbean on a westward track that  will put earthquake-hit Haiti at risk next week.

By Shabna Ullah and Adrian SmithThe last of the 12 victims to be identified in the grisly No.

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Nothing stirs within the thatched houses that occasionally crack the forested monotony along the upper Pomeroon River.

Four fishermen are in police custody following the stabbing to death of a 21-year-old pump attendant at Moruka, North West District, on Friday night.

Four persons including a pregnant woman were hit by a drunk driver shortly after 10pm last evening as they walked home from church on Mandela Avenue.

Up to yesterday afternoon, Demerara Oxygen Company Ltd (DOCOL) employees Heera Persaud of Leonora and Rabindranauth Ramdhani also of Leonora were patients of the High Dependency Unit at St Joseph Mercy Hospital after suffering burns in an explosion at their workplace on Friday.

With reports of negligence in hospital wards, callous treatment of patients and a string of recent maternal deaths in the country the image of the nursing profession has been bruised.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in an official statement on the death of seven-year-old Quincy Softleigh Jnr said it has launched an internal investigation into his death and “an official report will be issued and the press will be briefed accordingly.”

President of the Guyana Rice Producers’  Association, Leekha Rambrich, 49, of Bengal, Corentyne is a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital nursing gunshot injuries to his right arm, shoulder and chest.

Tropical Storm Tomas yesterday turned into Hurricane Tomas wreaking havoc in Barbados, St Lucia and St Vincent. 

If the walls at Pegasus Savannah suite could talk they would sum up the opening of Guyana Fashion Weekend 2010 as “lots of smoke, but no fire.”

The PNCR is still finalising the process to identify its presidential candidate for next year’s election, party General Secretary Oscar Clarke said yesterday.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars will wing out today for Trinidad and Tobago on a mission to advance to the Digicel Caribbean Cup football finals in what is expected to be an intriguing Group F playoff in the twin island republic.

Ahead of a crucial vote today, AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan says he has the integrity and experience to lead the party into next year’s election, which he is confident would see the ruling PPP lose its parliamentary majority at the very least.

It was the shortest fight since the concept of the Friday Night Fights (FNF) Pro-Am card was birthed in February this year.

A worker places fairy lights in a tree outside the Bank of Guyana yesterday in anticipation of Diwali which will be celebrated on Friday.

A police vehicle collided with a minibus at a junction on Vlissengen Road yesterday and within minutes both parties started throwing blame.

Like he did last year Guyana’s Cleveland Forde yesterday won the second leg of the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) South American Athletics Confederation 10 km Road Race Classic in Paramaribo, Suriname.

Police are investigating a shooting incident which left a businessman injured and his alleged robber dead in a Blankenburg Housing Scheme.

Introduction In his press briefing on Friday, October 22, 2010, President Jagdeo said that he does not see the Value Added Tax as a burden and therefore there is no need to revise it with a view to lowering the rate.

Thrill seekers will converge on the Rising Sun, Arima Park West Coast Berbice for the staging of the Rising Sun Rodeo Committee (RSRC) annual Rodeo beginning at 11:00 hours today.

Marlon “Fishy” Williams yesterday won the 35 laps schoolboys’ invitational cycle race of the Powerade and Sprite Cycling programme held at the National Park.

If I was younger, and the fierce fire burned in me, surely I would be among the protestors against the new order of things. 

In a recent press release, the WPA called for the resignation of two government ministers following three maternity related deaths. 

Alex Graham was yesterday elected president of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) when the association held its Annual General and Biennial Meetings at the Olympic House, High Street.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion Dayron Robles has recovered from the injuries that cut short his season and is back in training for next year, the Cuban said yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff maintained her lead over opposition challenger Jose Serra ahead of a presidential runoff vote today, a third opinion poll showed yesterday.

The death of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner will most likely make it difficult for current President Cristina Fernández – his widow – to govern, and may speed up Argentina’s reluctant insertion into the global economy.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a specific comment made by Mr Sherwood Lowe, in a letter titled ‘The PNCR presidential candidate contenders must speak to the electorate in prose not poetry,’ which was published in the Stabroek News of Friday, October 22, 2010.

Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket First Division two-day tournament got off to an interesting start at the Eve Leary ground yesterday with a low scoring affair.

This week I shall consider the impacts of the global financial and economic crisis on remittance flows to Guyana and the wider Caricom region.

(Cricinfo) Andrew Strauss has warned that England “can’t afford any passengers” as they aim for a successful defence of the Ashes and their first series win on Australian soil for more than 20 years.

Next week the tax that the UK levies on travel to the Caribbean and other destinations will increase significantly, illustrating why there is a pressing need to resolve the contentious and political issue of global aviation emissions and the environment.

AFTER their recent rejection of annual retainer contracts, Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo would have carefully studied the schedule for the coming year issued by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) last week.

There are three basic things which determine how our plants grow: sufficient water, sufficient carbon dioxide and sufficient heat.

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni forces yesterday arrested a woman believed to be involved in sending explosive packages bound for the United States that triggered a global security alert, Yemeni security officials said.

Host of the Namilco Football Festival, Fruta Conquerors Friday night defeated Seawall United on penalty kicks to advance to the quarterfinal round  of the tournament.

BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas battered east Caribbean islands with winds, rain and surf yesterday, ripping off roofs and downing trees and power lines on a westward track that will put earthquake-hit Haiti at risk next week.

Last Tuesday, the Government of South Africa made a giant stride for the popularization and development of chess in the country when it launched the Moves For Life chess programme at a gala dinner.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) in collaboration with Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) will open a Youth Football Coaching Course at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue, tomorrow at 09:00 hours.

The Power Darts Club of 141 Second Street, Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (School Street Entrance) will stage a darts tournament today at their new venue.

Continued from last week The single event responsible for the world really taking notice of Amerindian art as a major subject and its rise to its present power was the exhibition of six men identifying themselves as ‘Lokono Artists’ at the Venezuelan Cultural Centre in 1998. 

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a neighbourhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14, authorities said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Last Sunday, October 24, some boys of Saraswati Vidya Niketan (more popularly known as the Swami school), Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, were sent by the school into the community to get some dried coconuts to be used for decoration purposes in preparation for the school’s annual graduation which was to begin at 4 pm, the same day.

Continued from last week Antibiotics In the practice of human medicine, the misuse, abuse and incorrect use of drugs and all forms of medication must be high on doctors’ lists of frustrating activities carried out by their patients.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Kim Clijsters took time to settle after a “scary” car crash on the way to her WTA Championships semi-final against Sam Stosur yesterday, but there was no stopping the Belgian once she clicked into top gear.

HANOI (Reuters) – The premiers of China and Japan met at an Asian regional summit in a bid to defuse a territorial dispute yesterday, while the United States urged Asia’s two big economies to cool the standoff and proposed three-way talks.

At a stall in Bourda Market, a well-dressed man with head bowed stands at a grinding stone, passing a knife’s blade over it. 

Dear Editor, Permit me to comment briefly on an issue raised by Mr Rajendra Rampersaud in his letter of October 27 to SN (‘Ram’s analysis in relation to the exchange rate was flawed’).

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Pakistan players Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt must wait to learn if their suspensions over spot-fixing allegations will be lifted after an International Cricket Council (ICC) hearing was extended yesterday.

ROME (Reuters) – Opposition lawmakers demanded that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resign after a paper on Saturday published what it said were details of him asking police to free a 17-year-old Moroccan girl detained for theft.

Dear Editor, I am penning this letter during what has appeared to be another blackout crisis in Berbice, and I daresay Guyana.

The Sexual Offences Act 2010 Continued from last week 25. (1) A person (“the accused’’) who is a care worker, commits the offence of a care worker engaging in, causing  or inciting sexual activity with a person (“ the complainant”) if – (a) the accused- (i) engages in sexual activity with the complainant; (ii) causes or incites the complainant  to engage in sexual activity with a third party; or (iii) causes or incites the complainant to perform sexual acts including but not limited to causing the complainant to masturbate; (b) the complainant has a mental disorder and the accused knows or could reasonably be expected to know that the complainant has a mental disorder; and (c) the accused is involved in the complainant’s care in a way that falls within section 27.

“Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of expression, that is to say, freedom to hold opinions without interference, freedom to receive ideas and information without interference, freedom to communicate ideas and information without interference and freedom from interference with his correspondence.”

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea and Arsenal eked out gritty victories and Manchester United beat Tottenham Hotspur as usual with the help of a controversial goal in the Premier League yesterday.