Daily Archive: Sunday, December 19, 2010

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar  scored his 50th test century today but it looked unlikely to  save India from losing the first test against South Africa.

(Barbados Nation)  “I’m not racing in Guyana anymore.” That’s the charge from local two-wheel drive lap-record holder Stuart Williams after the recently contested international race meet   at the South Dakota Circuit, Guyana.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Rohan Lall, 42, of Mahaicony, ECD, who was found pinned under his tractor in a canal along a dam at Perseverance, Mahaicony, at about 1745h yesterday.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 11.45.

PPP executive Moses Nagamootoo has condemned the de-recognition threat issued by GuySuCo against the main sugar union GAWU and has urged that it be withdrawn.

Police this morning arrested a number of persons in front of the Buddy’s Night Club and restaurant following the setting off of fireworks at the birthday party held there for city businessman, Paul Daby.

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – India’s Rahul  Dravid became only the third batsman to score 12,000 test runs  but his team were struggling for survival at lunch on the fourth  day of the first test against South Africa today.

Government recently acquir-ed US$10 million from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to build two new technical institutes and to retool all existing institutes, Minister of Education Shaik Baksh recently said.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will not be derecognized by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) while this government is in office, President Bharrat Jagdeo said.

The lifeless body of a 28-year-old man was yesterday morning retrieved from the Essequibo River, approximately 14 hours after he fell overboard following a boat collision on Friday evening.

A Guyanese paedophile was last week sentenced in Canada to six months in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a nine-year-old boy in July of 2008.

Four more teams will have their Kashif and Shanghai title hopes shattered tonight when the 21st annual knockout tournament continues with two double headers at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Blairmont Community Centre (BCC) Grounds.

Two years after government passed legislation to clear the way for paper committals, plea bargains and gathering evidence by audio visual link, the laws are hardly being used and some attorneys believe that implementing structures are needed.

After starting close to two hours late the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Champion of Champions tournament got underway with Eon ‘No Nonsense’ Bancroft stopping Rock Watson in the first round at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last night.

There have been mixed reactions over the August Monday landing of a light Cessna 206 amphibian aircraft on the Number 63 Beach in Berbice.

Guyana’s Jessica Stephenson captured a gold medal while Olympian Niall Roberts copped silver when the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) Invitational Swim Meet continued on Friday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that the administration’s support for Amerindian communities as part of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is a service but he hopes it will result in support during the next election.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship will be without the region’s three biggest stars but a high-ranking West Indies Cricket Board official believes their absence provides the opportunity for new exciting players to emerge.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados’ netball coach Alwyn Babb has quit the post ahead of next July’s World Netball Championships in Singapore, citing conflict with newly-elected president Juanita Cordle.

Guyana is close to finalizing funding for paving the Linden-Lethem road and has intensified its push for a deep water harbour in Berbice, a government source disclosed recently, while saying that the country’s aim to become the gateway for Brazilian trade will not be challenged by recent developments in Suriname.

Six months ago, Harry (not his real name) fell unconscious for the umpteenth time and was bundled into a car and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted.

MUMBAI, India, CMC –  Pre-tournament favourites India have named only two uncapped One-Day International players in a 30-man preliminary squad rolled out yesterday in preparation for next year’s Cricket World Cup.

One of the largest Chinese owned

The Guyana Government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently signed three contracts for the commencement of works to transform the country’s infrastructure, sanitation in the city, and the enhancement of the public financial management system.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The sizzling hot Miami Heat  and their Big Three of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh  scorched the New York Knicks 113-91 for their 11th win in a row  Friday at Madison Square Garden.

A goldsmith and his employees yesterday were left traumatised after three armed robbers posing as customers robbed them of a quantity of cash and jewellery.

Two persons were victims of separate armed robberies in the city on Friday after their jewellery attracted attention of the criminal kind.

Elene McNeal of Lot 4 Friendship

PERTH (Reuters) – Mike Hussey produced a sparkling century before Australia’s pace bowlers destroyed England’s top order to push the hosts to the brink of a series-levelling victory on day three of third Ashes Test in Perth yesterday.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Defeat of a bill that would have created a pathway to citizenship for some young illegal immigrants dashes US President Barack Obama’s hopes of passing broad immigration reform in the new Congress, but his popularity among Hispanics is undiminished, analysts said.

NEW YORK (Reuters Legal) – Legal hurdles could make it tough for US prosecutors to go after pro-WikiLeaks hackers who waged cyber attacks last week on Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and other companies.

Navigating the holes

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – India will be batting to save the first Test today after a torrent of runs from Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers on day three put South Africa in a match winning position at Centurion.

The Committee of Concerned Barticians (CCB) is moving to formally register as an organisation to represent miners—a move that could have implications for unity in the industry.

“It’s like living two different lives somewhat,” retired teacher Lloyd Griffith says on having to come to terms with his blindness.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – The government of Ivory Coast’s incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo yesterday told the United Nations and French peacekeeping missions to leave, escalating a dispute over last month’s elections.

Clyde Butts and his fellow selectors have received an early Christmas present.

Women accessing the services at the Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) clinic — which seeks to prevent cervical cancer — at the Mahaicony Hospital will now do so in a more comfortable atmosphere.

Middle and Carmichael Streets mayhem

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Newly re-appointed Trinidad and Tobago cricket manager Omar Khan has vowed to return some measure of success to the national side, following a string of recent failures.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela slammed US plans to appoint an ambassador rejected by Caracas, saying yesterday that Washington’s statements on the matter were consistent with its policy of aggression against the South American country.

Guyana’s $1.2 billion School Feeding Programme set up to alleviate hunger of poor schoolchildren in the hinterland and on the coastland has been making a positive impact on their attendance and performance, Education Minister Shaik Baksh said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s sporting weekend was decimated by heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures with today’s Premier League showdown between Chelsea and Manchester United among the hundreds of fixtures to be called off.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba expects its economy to grow 3.1 per cent in 2011 and be in good enough shape that it can unfreeze hundreds of foreign business accounts that have been blocked in Cuban banks due to a liquidity crisis, President Raul Castro said yesterday.

Overrun Garbage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Congress yesterday voted to repeal the ban against gays serving openly in the US military and sent the measure to President Barack Obama for his signature.

Dear Editor, By the time this letter is published, GT&T’s telephone licence, which was granted on December 19, 1990 for a period of twenty years, will have expired. 

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Guyana’s Goodwill Games gold medalist, Britany van Lange, and team mate Ronaldo Rodrigues won their respective heats of the women’s 50m freestyle and men’s 50m breaststroke events yesterday at the FINA (World Swimming Federation) World Championships (25m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

CHARLOTTE, NC (Reuters) – Bank of America Corp said yesterday it will not process payments intended for WikiLeaks, which has angered US authorities with the mass release of US diplomatic cables.

The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) company has opened four Christmas villages at the corner of Brickdam and High streets, the G3 Building at Grove/Diamond Housing Scheme, the Amelia’s Ward bus park, Linden and at the Corriverton Shell Gas Station.

Armed bandits struck a businesswoman on Friday night terrorising her family and ransacking her house before escaping with a quantity of cash, jewellery and cell phones.

Four national women cricketers who have been selected to tour India with the West Indies women’s team early next year recently received a large monetary donation from the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA).

Dear Editor, Your article ‘IDB unveils $$ for eight Marriott hotels’ (SN, Dec 16) illustrates clearly how hotels are financed in the real world, through private sector investments by banks and other financial institutions, not taxpayers’ moneys.

Christmas masqueraders

The `A’ and `B’ chess teams from St. Stanislaus College are in the lead after three completed rounds of the national Schools Chess Champion-shsips which commenced yesterday at the Carifesta Avenue Sports Complex on Carifesta Avenue.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Sudan yesterday dismissed allegations President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had deposited up to $9 billion overseas, saying it was impossible because of sanctions.

Buxton Primary School pupils

Mr Ramotar, the General Secretary of the PPP, is becoming rather well travelled.

Global Warming

Dear Editor, On October 7, 2010 I got a call from a friend and animal lover telling me of a Pitbull called Tiger, locked in a kennel at what had once been Neesa Gopaul’s home.

Police say they are investigating the death of a farmer whose body was found in the backdam at Chester, West Coast Berbice (WCB) on Friday afternoon.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Australia removed England’s last   five wickets early today to win the third Ashes test in   Perth by 267 runs and level the five-test series at 1-1.

Kwakwani is home to more than four thousand people, and like many other communities across Guyana, it has its fair share of successes and challenges.

The road from Oslo, Norway to Cancun, Mexico has been proving to be a rather rocky one for Guyana’s President Jagdeo.

On Tuesday, Septem-ber 7, 2004, my favourite cinema, the Metropole, in Georgetown was destroyed by fire.

On a hot sunny day nothing beats the heat like a bottle of cold refreshing sugarcane juice supplied by Abby Hall and Roy DeFlorimonte.

I was distressed in conversation with a friend whom I admire for his level head, his learning, his insight, and his wit to hear him speak of his sense of being cramped for intellectual space, of his boredom with what seem to him the narrow opportunities in the country, of his disgust at the eternal back-biting which crowds out any hope of civil discourse.

As we come to the end of the first decade of the 21st century, I shall, in the course of the next few columns reflect on the international economic situation, in the circumstances of two of its most pressing and intractable problems (crises).

For the last few weeks the virtual organisation Wikileaks has been selectively making available classified US State Department reporting.

Valuable or important books going out of print is a recurring issue everywhere.

Continued from last week ARTICLE 3 1. In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law,

Today marks the second and final day of the National Schools Chess Championship, where schools from some of the regions are given the opportunity to oppose each other in the wonderful game called chess.

You have to be very careful about applying too much nitrogenous fertilizer to onions, otherwise the bulbs will become too soft and susceptible to diseases like neck rot and downy mildew, especially if there is a wet period when they are growing and when good drainage become critical. 

Today, on the threshold of Christmas, we’ll deal with food intake, and next week we will continue with ‘What not to do to pets during the festive seasons.’