Articles published on Tuesday, March 22, 2011
DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – Syrian forces killed at least six people today in an attack on the Omari mosque in the southern city of Deraa, site of six days of unprecedented protests challenging Baath Party rule, residents said.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Higher-than-standard radiation has been detected by Japan’s health ministry in 11 types of vegetables from Fukushima prefecture where engineers are struggling to contain a tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant, the Kyodo News agency reported.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – The Japanese government expects total damage from a devastating earthquake that hit northeast Japan this month to reach 15 trillion to 25 trillion yen ($185-308 billion), the Nikkei newspaper reported today.
GAZA, (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes and shelling killed nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today, medical officials said, in the deadliest day of conflict in the enclave in months.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top order batsmen will need to find an effective counter to Australia’s fast bowlers in Thursday’s World Cup quarter-final if they are to sustain a billion dreams.
AHMEDABAD, (Reuters) – Australia are treating Thursday’s World Cup quarter-final against India as a “mini-grand final”, coach Tim Nielsen said on Tuesday.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Angry Sri Lankan fans criticised local organisers after tickets costing just $2.72 for a World Cup semi-final that could feature Kumar Sangakkara’s men sold out in just 90 minutes today.
DHAKA, ( Reuters) – Around 60 policemen on World Cup security duty in Dhaka fell sick today after eating contaminated food, an official said.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – More will be at stake for Pakistan than just a World Cup semi-final spot when they take on West Indies in the first quarter-final on Wednesday in Dhaka.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said yesterday he quit all his official positions when he fell ill in 2006, including head of the ruling Communist Party.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s forces attacked two west Libyan towns, killing dozens while rebels were pinned down in the east and NATO tried to resolve a heated row over who should lead the Western air campaign.
Spring tide has washed away the bypass that was constructed at a bridge that is being repaired at Friendship, East Bank Demerara resulting in the public road being flooded and reducing traffic to a snail’s space.
Youths cleaning a weed infested trench alongside Eccles Industrial site road this morning stumbled upon the decomposing body of a Bagostown resident.
In a pre-dawn attack, gunmen yesterday stormed into the Trans Guyana Airways operations at Ogle Airport, where they killed a security guard before escaping with guns, ammunition and several bulletproof vests.
by Tony Cozier at the ICC World Cup In DHAKA IN SPITE of their habitual meltdowns against England and India, the West Indies have somehow made it through to the World Cup quarter-finals.
A two-year boy died in an early morning fire today in the Vryheid’s Lust Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara.
Unheralded Anthony Drayton and the experienced Wendell Meusa were the winners of the junior and senior categories respectively as the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Topco Juices One-Day Rapid Chess Tournament sponsored by Topco Juices concluded yesterday at the Keishars Sports Club.
Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Khurshid Sattaur yesterday said that only a detailed investigation could identify at what point the several hundred million dollars of cocaine, which Jamaican authorities found among timber on board a ship from Guyana was placed in the container.
As regional authorities move to address disciplinary problems at the Linden Foundation Secondary School, they learned last week that teachers had been forced to defend themselves during violent confrontations with students.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – More will be at stake for Pakistan than just a World Cup semi-final spot when they take on West Indies in the first quarter-final tomorrow in Dhaka.
Employees of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) say they are being coerced to join a new union, which intends to challenge the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) to be the recognized bargaining unit at the company.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Another decisive spell from Carlos Brathwaite propelled Combined Campuses & Colleges to an eight-run victory over Guyana in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.
Dear Editor, It is no doubt a coincidence that the discovery in Jamaica of 122 kg of cocaine inside a container of logs was reported just one day before the article in Kaieteur News ‘Guyana reviews system to ensure that logging meets international standards’ (March 18).
Dear Editor, Mr Anil Nandlall was one of the principal speakers when the National Assembly debated the end of provisions in the age-old law Title to Land (Prescription and Limitation) Act which allowed a person who has, without permission, occupied state land for more than thirty years to approach the court to grant title to that land.
A fire, believed to have been started by two children who were playing with matches, damaged a Wisroc Housing Scheme house at Linden on Sunday.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe will host a test match against Pakistan in August, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Points table in the WICB Regional first-class championship after the sixth round of matches ended yesterday.
Dear Editor,Now that Phagwah is come and gone, wistful dreamers might have fantasised about the meaning of Phagwah in real life and how the big telecoms giants got involved.
Twelve-year-old Malica Hercules has borne more on her tiny shoulders than many persons do in their entire lifetime, but has kept smiling and maintains the will to live.
Youths lack a voice in national affairs with representation on issues affecting them negligible but a group of young persons is aiming to change this and is lobbying for the establishment of a permanent National Youth Parliament.
In an effort to pinpoint Guyana’s top basketball club and jump off competitive club basketball for the year, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has scheduled the commencement of its highly-anticipated GABF National Club Championships for April 2.
Dear Editor, On the anniversary of my father’s birth, March 22, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about two individuals who are still alive and who helped significantly in President Chedddi’s foray into national politics and great success in the 1953 elections when my Dad was the first elected leader of Guyana.
Mohammed Shaffie called ‘Shabba’, the Riverview, Ruimveldt man who was stabbed in the neck on Sunday night remains hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital while his attacker appears to have fled the area.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – After 42 matches, including a tie, the wheat has been separated from the chaff and the organisers are already hailing what they claim is “potentially the greatest World Cup ever”.
Dear Editor, Anil Nandlall gets it wrong in his letter titled ‘Land amendment bill was promulgated to address a serious problem’ (SN, March 16).
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s minority Conservative government has made a series of last-minute budget concessions in a bid to win enough opposition support to avert an early election, a government source revealed yesterday.
By Treiston Joseph The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will meet to discuss the way forward for the selection of the Carita Games team since the re-run of the Carifta Trials scheduled for Sunday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary was called off due to heavy rainfall.
Malaria infections are down this year based on surveillance records for the last two months, but challenges persist in interior locations.
Dear Editor, I bring to the attention of the public a website, liveinguyana.blogspot.com,
Dear Editor, It has been more than two weeks since President Jagdeo made his ethnically charged and provocative remarks at the Babu John cremation site on the Corentyne Coast, and to date the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has not issued a statement.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Blues musician Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, who this year became the oldest person ever to win a Grammy Award, died at his Austin home yesterday at age 97.
By Bernd Debusmann There is fresh thinking, of a peculiar sort, in the perennial debate over gun violence in the United States, world leader in civilian ownership of firearms.
Franklyn and Errol Diamond United Sports Club in Trinidad is very happy with the fact that their regular overseas player Devendra Bishoo has made it onto the West Indies Cricket team.
Medical professionals who have not yet registered or renewed their licences with the Medical Council of Guyana could lose their jobs, according to Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The United Nations urged Haitians yesterday to calmly wait for the first results due next week of Sunday’s presidential run-off, saying the earthquake-battered nation’s democratic future was at stake.
Police arrested a taxi driver on Sunday and later found an unlicensed firearm at his home after searching his premises at Charlestown.
There appeared to be a hint of contriteness in some of the comments made to this newspaper by Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Khurshid Sattaur, and reported in our Friday edition, in the matter of the recent Vega Azurit cocaine bust in Jamaica.
Dear Editor, My wish is that ‘Amerindian Dreams for Development’ be recognized, for the Indigenous people too have concepts and goals.
Former national player Marlon Washington captured two categories but it was Steffan Barrow who carted off the prestigious men’s singles title when the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in conjunction with the Linden Table Tennis Association (LTTA)held its multi category tournament Sunday at the Linden Constabulary building.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela, long accused by the United States of being lax in the fight against drugs, deported six “highly dangerous” suspects yesterday and said the move showed its commitment to combatting organized crime.
Military-style funeral for scout
SANAA (Reuters) – Top generals, ambassadors and some tribes threw their support behind Yemen’s anti-government protesters yesterday in a major blow to President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s efforts to ride out demands for his immediate exit.
Politikles
Dominique Moisi is the author of The Geopolitics of Emotion.By Dominique Moisi PARIS – In 2003, France, under President Jacques Chirac, took the lead in opposing America’s planned invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The international community gave its blessing yesterday to Haiti’s presidential run-off and urged Haitians to calmly wait for the first results due next week to ensure a credible, transparent outcome.
SANAA, (Reuters) – Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh suffered fresh defections today when a diplomat and a former minister backed pro-democracy protestors demanding an end to his 32 year-rule.
TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav was sentenced today to seven years in jail for rape, Israeli media said.
(Jamaica Observer) The mother of two toddlers who died in a house fire in Longstan Avenue, Kingston, has been taken into police custody.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – An India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final is the most appetising prospect to emerge from a month of preliminary matches which otherwise served primarily to confirm the identity of a predictable final eight.
