Daily Archive: Friday, November 5, 2010

Two children and an adult have been confirmed drowned after a boat capsized in Linden this afternoon.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas soaked crowded  Haitian earthquake survivors’ camps with overnight rain as the  re-strengthened storm headed north today between Cuba and Haiti  amid fears of flooding and landslides.

(Trinidad Guardian) Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told a group of ANSA McAL executives that there were huge business opportunities in his country.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – All 68 people on board an Aero  Caribbean plane were killed when it crashed in mountainous  central Cuba yesterday after issuing an emergency call, a  government website said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former Caribbean under-15 champion Nigel Bryan captured the junior title in the recent Cecil James Open Table Tennis Tournament, at Maloney Sports Arena.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Soca Warriors sealed a spot in the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals scheduled for Martinique later this month, after a 2-0 win over Guyana in their second round Group F match at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella last night.

-another knifed An 18-year-old man was last night stabbed to death on the Georgetown Seawall after leaving his home to go see the Diwali motorcade.

Marcia Fiedtkou, a 26-year-old first-time mother was the second patient to lose her new-born baby in about two weeks following delivery at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC).

Over four years after the Amerindian Act 2006 was passed by Parliament, a Bill to bring it into force was yesterday laid in the National Assembly by government after it said the previous instrument utilized could not be located.

Thousands of Guyanese of all walks of life turned up outside the Campbellville Mandir and along the seawall as is customary to witness the well-illuminated vehicles which formed part of the annual Diwali motorcade last night.

A man arrested for an alleged simple larceny continues to evade police up to press time after he escaped custody by crawling into the ceiling of the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Blame was laid against employees attached to a construction firm currently working on a section of the sea-defence aback of Craig village on the East Bank of Demerara yesterday afternoon after water swamped several yards in the area.

Police have detained a Lodge resident who stabbed and killed another man during a heated argument over a pile of missing clothing on Wednesday night.

An Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) policy-based loan of US$5 million – the final of three tranches – will help in enhancing transparency and combating money-laundering.

Over $1.992 billion was drawn from the Contingencies Fund during 2009 without meeting the requisite eligibility criteria, according to the most recent Auditor General’s report, which alighted upon the continued abuse of this fund by the government.

Commander of ‘B’ Division Steve Merai says the county has the worst drunk driving record nationally.

Guyana ranked 100 out of 183 economies surveyed in this year’s Doing Business report, done under the auspices of the World Bank, and was congratulated for three reforms The country moved up by one position from its ranking of 101 last year and was lauded by the World Bank’s International

Guyana has moved up slightly in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) ranking at 104 this year out of 169 countries which were evaluated.

Failure by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to reply to a letter from the prosecutor seeking advice on the way forward in the New Building Society (NBS) $69M fraud case saw the magistrate yesterday give one final adjournment before he makes a ruling.

The Enmore/Hope float at last night’s Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s motorcade.

The Station Street, Kitty community float in the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s annual motorcade last evening.

The Bhuvaneshwar Mandir float yesterday in the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s annual Deepavali Motorcade.

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is demanding that the Ministry of Education withdraw the letters of sanction it sent to Queen’s College (QC) teachers even as new information coming to light reveals that the QC Board was aware of the plight of murdered teenager Neesa Gopaul and had written several letters to the ministry about it.

Members of the Shakers Family putting the final touches to their model of Lord Ganesh at the motorcade starting point.

This is the Enmore/Hope West Sanatan Dharma Mandir float. Finishing touches were being added to it.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday called for the strengthening of the Police Traffic Department and implementation of an ongoing programme of traffic education for all Guyanese.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs on Monday presented a tractor, trailer and plough/chipper and other machines to Region Nine representatives to help boost agricultural production.

Cuban cyclist Antonio Quintero is the overall leader of the annual ‘Ride For Life’ cycle road race after the first two stages of the event  ended on  Carifesta Avenue yesterday afternoon.

The ‘king’ of the super bikes Kevin Graham expects stiff competition and intends to put on a good show for the final leg of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship Series at the South Dakota Circuit on Sunday.

A man accused of committing two gunpoint robberies on the same day  was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before Magistrate Fazil Azeez at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 43-year-old trader who is charged with two counts of passport forgery was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Fazil Azeez at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

-landscaping, other works still to be done The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport says the $455 million 50m Olympic-sized swimming pool will not be commissioned in time for the swim meet of the Schools’ National Track and Field, Swimming and Cycling Championships set for November 9-17.

Several districts which participate in the National Schools Championships, yesterday affirmed their support of the move by Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) President Colin Bynoe to withhold the union’s involvement in the games until the Ministry of Education rectifies its probe which found four Queen’s College teachers negligent in the handling of the Neesa Gopaul case.

New car park? This car ended up in a yard at Industry main road, East Coast Demerara yesterday after its driver lost control.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Lee Westwood began life as world  number one with a sparkling 66 in the WGC-HSBC Champions first  round yesterday and told Tiger Woods he could blame his own  brilliance for losing the top ranking.

Karel Mars was adjudged the overall winner of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) National Powerlifting Championships held last Sunday at the Critchlow Labour College.

Junior tennis player Krystal Sukra became the latest player to move up in the women’s singles category after she produced a two-set 6–1, 6–4 win against Thi Fernandes on Wednesday night in her first singles match of the current Pegasus Open at the tennis courts of the Pegasus Hotel.

HAMILTON, New Zealand, CMC – A New Zealand provincial side has turned down the chance to sign West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard.

The chief executive officers of both the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Digicel have confirmed that they are in receipt of copies of the draft telecommunications legislation, which when finalized, will be sent to the National Assembly for assent, paving the way for the liberalisation of the sector.

Dear Editor, I have a big problem with how the bodies of the dead are handled by the authorities when they arrive at scenes of mass murder and deaths, and have to transport the remains to the morgue.

With the Caribbean Fury2  a mere 24 hours away at the Princess Hotel, promoter Carwyn Holland reiterated his call to the government to fully support boxing which he said can boost Guyana’s sport tourism package.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Hendy Springer has hailed the West Indies Cricket Board’s decision to stage another A-Team tour.

– but sector stability threatened by land appropriation crisis, Shields says Even as Guyana’s gold production seems set to exceed 300,000 ounces for the second consecutive year, controversies between Amer-indian communities and miners over mining rights in several of the country’s well-known gold-bearing areas have triggered a crisis that threatens to viability of the industry, Executive Secretary of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) Edward Shields has said.

Dear Editor, Mr Charles Sohan does it again in his letter titled ‘There is no transparency on Hope Canal project’ in the Kaieteur News dated Wednesday November 3, 2010.

The decline of the state-run bauxite sector in Linden set in train what a former LINMINE employee aptly described as “a continuous calamity of woes” for the community to which there seems to be no end.

Hikers scored a 3 – 2 victory over GCC in the men’s first division finals clash but the GCC ladies dashed their hopes for a clean sweep in the women’s final of the GT&T Indoor Hockey Tournament held on Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, The first one day international match played between Australia and Sri Lanka last Wednesday will be remembered for a very long time.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A plane carrying 68 people  crashed in a mountainous region of central Cuba after issuing  an emergency call, state-run media said yesterday, and there  were no initial reports of survivors.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Virender Sehwag and  Rahul Dravid tormented New Zealand’s bowlers with contrasting  centuries to give India a flying start in the first test yesterday.

Dear Editor, I know wireless communication is a fast means of making contact with people who are some distance apart.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Strengthening Tropical  Storm Tomas drenched Haiti yesterday, threatening fragile,  crowded earthquake survivors’ camps in the poor Caribbean  country that is also reeling from a deadly cholera epidemic.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – A landslide caused by heavy  rain killed 20 people in Costa Rica yesterday as President  Laura Chinchilla considered declaring a national emergency to  help the coffee-growing nation deal with widespread flooding.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Chris Paul led the New Orleans  Hornets to a 107-99 victory over the winless Houston Rockets on  Wednesday as the team improved to 4-0 and matched their best  start to an NBA season.

Dear Editor, Over the weekend at functions held in the New York Tri-State and attended by first and second generation Guyanese, a sprinkling of visitors, still-at-home Guyanese and fellow travellers, I boasted proudly how in late November, Guyana will not only be hosting the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting, but will assume its chairmanship.

Chief Executive Officer of Guyana Stockfeeds Inc (GSI) Robert Badal recently outlined what he described as the company’s outstanding post-privatization accomplishments, at a reception held at the Pegasus Hotel to mark its fiftieth anniversary.

CARACAS (Reuters) – The Venezuelan Supreme Court judge most openly critical of President Hugo Chavez’s government says it wields “total” control of the judiciary through intimidation and manipulation of appointments.

Guyana’s production and export of forestry products both recorded significant increases during the January to August period this year compared with the corresponding period last year, according to figures published in the September 2010 Commodity Market Update prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Dear Editor,I wish to voice my support for Mr Robert Persaud’s candidacy as president of the republic should he aspire to that position.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Iran is on an “explosive”  course in the Middle East with its pursuit of nuclear  enrichment and needs to clear up questions surrounding its  program, Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) – Acting Prime Minister Jack Warner believes Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was not being insensitive or breeding insularity when she said Trinidad and Tobago must benefit from assistance given to other Caribbean islands.

Dear Editor, I think that the Ministry of Health must put strong pressure on the nurses working in the delivery room.

PARIS, (Reuters Life!) – A French nun who held the  Guinness Book of Records title for world’s oldest person has  died on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy at the age of  114, the French government said on Thursday.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Gunmen have killed six US citizens in separate attacks since Saturday in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, the US consulate said yesterday, as Mexico struggles to halt surging murders.

– beyond President’s short-term intervention Some of the 90-odd Lindeners now jobless following the closure of the Barama plywood factory concur that a long-term solution to the problem of unemployment in Linden and in the wider Region Ten will have to be found if the present mood of doom and gloom is to be lifted.

Dear Editor, The Diwali celebration is expected to be at its peak in NY this weekend among the large Guyanese community spread out across Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. 

-So is it really, really race? My “Donor Dollars for the campaign” item is purely fictional.

The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) Division Two and Three Knockout tournament which was scheduled to commence last Saturday, but was rescheduled to Wednesday last, has been postponed again due to “some unforeseen hiccups”.

Relief work continues in St Vincent Officials in St Vincent say normal life is returning following the damage caused by then Hurricane Tomas earlier this week.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 380’s trading results showed consideration of $4,001,387 from 127,995 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 379 which showed consideration of $2,867,873 from 66,146 shares traded in 11 transactions. 

Following the death and destruction wrought by the passage of tropical storm Tomas across Barbados, St Vincent and St Lucia, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has aroused a storm of a different sort with a comment that has been interpreted by the local media, opposition parliamentarians and the general public to mean that there will be no help for countries seeking assistance without benefits to Trinidad and Tobago.

SLEMAN, Indonesia, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Mount  Merapi volcano erupted with renewed ferocity yesterday, killing  another 39 people and blanketing the surrounding area with ash.