Daily Archive: Sunday, November 21, 2010

A US missionary who spent 14 years serving several churches in Guyana has passed away.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A Delta Airlines flight landed  safely at New York’s JFK Airport tonight after the pilot  complained of an engine problem, authorities said.

A 47-year-old City Constabulary member was forced to seek medical treatment this evening after she was assaulted by an off-duty police officer who was moonlighting as a bus driver.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is offering to sell her Phillipine home to San Fernando East MP Patrick Manning for TT$30 million.

Jamaica Observer) In an amazingly interesting way, the local music fraternity said farewell to two departed legendary contributors to Jamaican music over two consecutive days this weekend.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy today said that the recent spike in maternal deaths would make it the highest figure in the past six to seven years.

Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson made a strong appeal last night to the Jamaican business sector to help make available drugs and equipment to Haiti in response to the current cholera crisis in that country.

The HIV prevalence among children in orphanages is higher than the national figure, a study presented this morning at the Princess Hotel  has found.

A fire this morning destroyed a two-storey home which also housed an electronics store at De Willem, West Coast Demerara leaving two families homeless and millions in losses.

On Friday, the police conducted a drug eradication operation at Warida, Upper Demerara River.

President Bharrat Jagdeo attended the PPP’s 60th Anniversary Dinner last night at Princess Hotel.

A team comprising Guyanese and Surinamese will meet within two weeks to agree on technical issues that would be pivotal to the soliciting of bids for the bridge across the Corentyne River.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – West Indies head coach Ottis  Gibson said the entire team were behind spin bowler Shane  Shillingford after he was reported by International Cricket  Council (ICC) officials for a suspected illegal bowling action  yesterday.

President of Alpha United Football Club Odinga Lumumba believes that while the Kashif and Shanghai tournament is a positive for the development of football in the country the organisers are exploiting the players’ talents and not properly compensating them.

Suriname continued to be dominant in the ongoing second leg of the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) sweeping the top positions in the male teams  and female individual cycling time trials yesterday

Defending champion Avinash Persaud recorded the best overall gross while his younger sibling Avinda Kishore shot the best net on a rain-affected opening day of the R1 Vodka sponsored Guyana Open Golf championships at Lusignan Golf Course.

Introduction Business Page of October 31 had referred to statements both by President Jagdeo and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh that the Value-Added Tax and the Excise Tax introduced in 2007 would have been revenue neutral.

COLOMBO– On all available evidence, it was bound to be an embarrassing mismatch.

Guyana’s junior national basketball team’s long and arduous training leading up to the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) paid dividends when they defeated French Guiana 69-62 Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

It seems not a day, and certainly not a week,

One family confronts the most painful of decisions.  A national family circles in protective embrace. 

The Disciplinary Committee of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) met on Friday and instituted lifetime bans on Clevlon Rock, Dexter Jordon and Devon Boatswain.

Estimating the proceeds of tax evasion, regulatory avoidance and organized crime in Guyana Introduction The underground economy (or whatever else it may be termed) along with its phantom segment as I have defined it in last week’s column, is extremely difficult if not impossible to measure accurately. 

COLOMBO – It is ironic, if not surprising, that Shane Shillingford should be reported for a suspected illegal bowling action in the home island of Muttiah Muralitheran, the most successful and famous of all bent-elbow bowlers the game has known.

With opposition parties wary about potential delays, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is working towards completing preparations to facilitate the holding of polls by August 12 next year, a little more than a month before the constitutional deadline.

Seventeen-year-old Randy Daniels was yesterday identified as the bandit who was shot and killed during Tuesday’s murder/attempted robbery at businessman Dennis Ramah’s Chateau Margot home on the East Coast Demerara.

Cuba’s economy is in a bad way. There is a widespread sense of social discontent and a deep concern among many groups in society including some of those who are committed to Cuba’s communist system.

Pernell Schultz and Aubrey Clarke scored two goals each to propel Cultural Centre Tarmac Futsal Team to a comfortable victory over Meadowbrook in the Guinness Greatest of de Street competition Friday night on the Cultural Centre Tarmac.

Keishar’s Gift Shoppe became the latest business entity to support the BK International Western Tigers’ inaugural Super Eight knockout tournament.

Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is a smart, highly-educated politician, and a skilful negotiator, but I wonder whether she did the right thing in agreeing to head the United Nations’ new agency for women’s rights, scheduled to start operating Jan 1.

Heavy winds around 9 am yesterday resulted in five houses and a cash crop farm being destroyed at Bath Housing Scheme, West Coast Berbice; a couple also suffered minor injury.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee (STSC) has scheduled its ‘Domino Showdown’ competition for today at the Big Jeles Guinness Bar, Mahaicony from 13:00 hours.

LISBON (Reuters) – NATO and Russia agreed yesterday to cooperate on missile defence and other security issues, and hailed a new start in relations strained since Russia’s military intervention in Georgia in 2008.

An East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman said yesterday that if he had been granted his firearm licence he would have been better able to defend his wife, who was attacked just before midnight on Friday in a chilling attempted robbery that still has the couple terrified.

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Centuries by AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis put South Africa back on track after Pakistan’s pace bowlers had ripped through their opening batsmen on the first day of the second test yesterday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Using condoms may sometimes be justified to stop the spread of AIDS, Pope Benedict says in a new book, in surprise comments that relax one of the Vatican’s most controversial positions.

A mixture of ethnic groups call Patentia their home, and residents say their community is harmonious, and they participate in each other’s religious observances.

Trevor Rhone’s plays are popular in Guyana, as one would expect them to be given their dramatic power and the fact that they are the work of a major dramatist who has produced some

The US$18 million contract recently inked between the power company and Wartsila for the provision of a further 15.68 megawatts in generation capacity was not publicly tendered, but is the extension of a proposal Warstila made last year when it provided the 20.7 megawatt plant, Bharrat Dindyal says.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton should be Britain’s next king and queen, not the heir to the throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, two polls showed yesterday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Chris Gayle’s monumental second Test triple-hundred has landed him a top-10 place in the World Test batting rankings, surprisingly, for the first time.

In his youth, 81-year-old Sydney Smith was a mechanic and in his words “served my country.”

The Travellers Tree, rejoicing in the name of Ravenala madagascariensis was once upon a time classed as a member of the family Scitamineae, then in the family Musaceae and the latest shift in this long-running comic opera of botanical indecision places it firmly (for the moment)  in the family Strelitziaceae. 

LISBON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama used the international stage yesterday to press his Republican opponents in Congress to ratify a new nuclear arms deal with Russia.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Rain continued to hamper West Indies-A and Pakistan-A in the opening four-day “Test” yesterday.

Dear Editor,I refer to an article in the Stabroek News of November 18 titled ‘NICIL handled Pradoville 2 land transfer -officials mum on tendering, allocations.’

Continued from last week Stings The ‘stings’ of insects introduce a toxic substance (a poison) into the bitten (stung) animal.

Chairman of the Guyana Medical Council, Dr Sheik Amir said maternal deaths have plagued the health system for years, but that the recent spate is cause for concern along with the conduct of some doctors and public perception of the council.

Dear Editor, With reference to the ‘Historical Snippet’ feature on St George’s Cathedral in your November 7 issue, please be advised that half-timbering is not a kind of decoration.

As the rains pour, eighty-three year old Ramdeo Janki shelters under her umbrella and waits for her next customer to come.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, weakened by a corruption scandal involving his sacked telecoms minister, told the Supreme Court yesterday he had done nothing wrong and had followed correct procedures.

Family members are still to pronounce on the fate of PNCR executive member Winston Murray even as he remains in an unconscious state hooked up to a respirator in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Gus Logie will become the new Jamaica coach on December 1.

Dear Editor,I read the PNC’s outline of its approved route to its presidential candidate’s nomination.

Overcoming human poverty Policy making on gender and poverty has often been based on the assumption that women are poorer than men.

Lucky escape: This jeep crashed into a power post on Thomas Lands on Friday morning, but luckily no one was injured.

GREYMOUTH, New Zealand (Reuters) – Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine faced more agonising delays today when authorities said they would drill a new shaft to test air quality because toxic gases made it too dangerous for rescue teams go in.

Fire suspected to be electrical in origin reportedly destroyed a room at Cheong Lee Chinese Restaurant at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice around 3 am yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is seeking to remove five non-executive directors of the eight-member Central Bank board in a move that has raised issues of the independence of the Central Bank, possibilities of conflict of interest and even the legality of the President appointing the new directors before the completion of the terms of existing directors.

COLOMBO (Reuters) – The absence of strike bowler Lasith Malinga has prompted Sri Lanka selectors to once again experiment with their bowling line-up for the second test against West Indies.

Some of those who cluster round the table in the Cabinet room today are the same people who entered it for the first time in 1992.

(Jamaica Observer) Veteran Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs, was given an emotional send off at a thanksgiving service for his life at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston yesterday.

VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has been experiencing years of problems with equipment used in its uranium enrichment programme and the Stuxnet computer virus may be one of the factors, a former top UN nuclear inspections official said.

Dear Editor, I would like to compliment Mr Panchu for expressing his views on what has become more than a nuisance (cattle grazing) to the residents of Continental, Republic and Nandy Park (‘Urban cattle-rearing should no longer be tolerated’ SN, November 19).

An unconscious Junior Sumner, 9, was up to press time undergoing treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being struck down by a car.

Following five rounds of the Neal and Massy/Seven Seas National Chess Championship, it is former national chess champion Kriskal Persaud

Valedictorian of the University of Guyana’s 44th Convocation Michael George. George graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry with a distinction and earned the President’s Medal.

NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori’s decision to bat first misfired yesterday when the Indian bowlers ripped through the top order to wrest control in the deciding third test match.