Daily Archive: Sunday, April 17, 2011

The West Indies Cricket Board today hailed the accomplishments of former captain Gerry Alexander who died in Jamaica yesterday.

Both Bharrat Jagdeo and Robert Corbin have signalled their intention to occupy front seats in their parties’ respective bandwagons though one is inclined to wonder just how much good their attentions will do the parties’ presidential candidates.

RALEIGH, N.C., (Reuters) – Three days of severe  storms and tornadoes in the southern United States have killed  at least 39 people, with hundreds of homes damaged or  destroyed, officials said today.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Syrians chanted  slogans calling for greater freedom at independence day rallies  today, witnesses said, a day after President Bashar al-Assad  promised to lift emergency law.

The Caribbean Media Corporation yesterday reported that he brother of former Belize prime minister George Price was found murdered in his home.

(Barbados Nation) There will be a turnaround in the West Indies’ cricket fortunes within the next five years.

Officers from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) in a major drug bust on Friday evening seized over 50 pounds of cocaine in Corriverton, Berbice and arrested two persons.

Transnational cooperation is badly needed to fight the narco-trade with police successes in the crime fight being “up and down”, PPP Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar said though he ruled out any enquiry into the post-2002 jailbreak crime wave.

Gun-wielding robbers terrorised an elderly couple on Friday evening before escaping with $4 million and it is suspected that their driver orchestrated the robbery.

The Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara man who was shot and beaten by bandits after they invaded his home last week, yesterday succumbed to his injuries without regaining consciousness.

There was no Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) officer present at the John Fernandes Wharf when the container in which some 122.65 kilos of cocaine was discovered in Jamaica was being loaded, sources say.

Yesterday in the early morning hours, police in Berbice captured wanted man Eddie Williams aka Kevin Williams who had escaped from custody in February and is a murder suspect.

A total of $4.2 billion, including $3 billion from Caricom’s Petroleum Fund, was used to pay the first batch of Clico (Guyana) customers who were refunded, a source within the Finance Ministry has said.

With about 60 per cent of the project time having already elapsed, the Amaila Falls access road project at the end of March was only about 22 per cent complete prompting the government to advise contractor Fip Motilall to subcontract some of the work as well as to increase his labour force on the site.

A security guard was early yesterday morning attacked by gunmen who later broke into a Campbellville poultry outlet and stole $10,000.

Every weekday hundreds and hundreds of persons stream out, heading for the city, returning in waves at night.

The Pepsi Hornets rugby team continued its unbeaten run in the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Men’s 15’s tournament when they crushed the Guyana Defence Force rugby team 66-10 in the second round of the tournament yesterday at the National Park rugby field.

Beneficiaries of hundreds of millions in Sports and Arts Development Fund uncertain.

Enzo Matthews was a step above the rest of the cycling field yesterday when he carted off the top prize in the feature event of the Universal Auto and General Supplies (UA&GS) 11-race cycle programme at the National Park circuit.

It’s the middle of the day. A quite sophisticated Georgetown lady is parked in her car on Church Street, waiting for a friend, with the doors locked and windows up.

I will very soon be 78. A young man once wrote – or rather sent an email – to me asking about the magazine Kyk-Over-Al which I used to edit once upon a time.

Short of proclaiming it in flashing neon lights at the top of Main Street, the intention was clear.

They played to a 0-0 draw in their opening encounter of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club championship on Friday at the Guyana National Stadium, but one thing is certain Alpha United will be looking for that elsusive win when the two sides meet again today.

Last week I had briefly assessed the downside risks of significant interruptions to capital and remittance flows into Guyana’s economy. 

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – An untried but confident Pakistan arrived here Friday afternoon for the first leg of their Caribbean tour promising an exciting brand of cricket in the Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against hosts West Indies.

Almost unnoticed, a development has occurred in Africa’s negotiations for their Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with Europe that could result in increased levels of foreign investment in the Caribbean and Overseas Territories.

In a sport dominated by men in Guyana, Dawn Mc Cammon-Barker has set out to prove that she can powerlift just the same, setting a standard that has never been achieved by any other woman in Guyana in the sport.

PANAMA CITY — Latin America’s most strategically-located country is booming, and its current prosperity is expected to accelerate in coming years thanks to a windfall of profits from the Panama Canal’s expansion.

The Brainstreet Group joined the growing list of sponsors of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) with the launching of an Under-15 One-Day tournament that commences on Tuesday with five matches at various grounds in the city.

The first day of the semi-finals of the Noble House Seafoods ended yesterday with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in varying positions of strength.

The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) has donated G$100,000  to Naomi Singh, the only female among four cyclists who will represent Guyana at the International  Easter Fest cycling championship next weekend in Trinidad.

The Stag Beer & El Dorado Rum Male and Female Softball tournament continues today throughout the country.

AMMAN (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday emergency law in place for almost 50 years in Syria would be lifted by next week but ignored popular demands to curb the security apparatus and dismantle its authoritarian system.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat came back from a  14 point deficit and survived a late rally to beat the  Philadelphia 76ers 97-89 in their opening Eastern Conference  playoff game yesterday.

Treatment of wounds Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing various aspects of wound management.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Paul Valthaty  continued his dream run in the Indian Premier League as he shone  with both bat and ball as Kings XI Punjab thumped Deccan  Chargers by eight wickets yesterday.

The traditional French kitchen is provincial by demand. Design history in general bears out the fact that the monarchs and nobility were the design pacesetters and that in most any century, the commoners followed suit by interpreting those designs through the means and supplies at hand.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – IMF member nations, acknowledging resistance from emerging markets to limits on capital controls, said rich nations’ policies that spur large capital outflows that could harm other economies also need oversight.

Dear Editor, Two years ago, President Jagdeo conceptualized what will undoubtedly become one of the most transformational social and economic development programmes ever undertaken in Guyana, the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF).

By Keith Miller Local government reform must be implemented.  Such reforms are to ensure that the local government system is driven by a community initiative and orientation.

CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court yesterday ordered the dissolution of former President Hosni Mubarak’s political party, meeting a demand of the pro-democracy movement whose protests ended his 30-year authoritarian rule.

Dear Editor, I wish to clarify a detail in the letter, ‘Franklin not in a position to make allegations against Ramsaroop’ by Dr Cheddi Jagan (Jr) (SN, April 16). 

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will meet with all captains and coaches from the clubs scheduled to participate in the upcoming.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba readied for a Communist Party congress about its future with a tribute to the past on Saturday, staging a military parade for the 50th anniversaries of the US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion and the declaration of Cuban socialism.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Jamaican wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh has been called up to the West Indies one-day squad to face Pakistan after Devon Thomas was forced out with illness.

Making them to soar: Ronald Lewis and his family making

Dear Editor, In your recent report (SN, April 15) President Jagdeo noted an upsurge in investments.

In England there’s an old saying: ‘When the March winds do blow, we shall have snow.’

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan looked set for a close race against ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari yesterday as results trickled in from a vote broadly deemed to have been the most credible for decades.

AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan rebels made a renewed effort to push towards the oil port of Brega yesterday while Muammar Gaddafi’s forces pounded besieged Misrata to the west with rockets and mortars, a rebel spokesman said.

Tomorrow at Daybreak Tomorrow at daybreak, when the fields are pale I will leave.

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) first Level One course wrapped up yesterday with the distribution of certificates to the successful particiants at the National Gymnasium.

A traffic hazard: These sandbags spilled across a section of Saffon Street pose a danger to motorists plying the route. 

MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) – Bereft Mexican families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country’s northern border in search of victims of the worst mass killings in Mexico’s drug war.

If the story of the government’s relations with the city council were to be made into a movie, no one would watch it because the plot would be so convoluted, so repetitious and so wearisome that it would be impossible to sustain the viewer’s interest beyond the first five minutes.

Dear Editor, The announcement in your Saturday news article by PPP presidential candidate, Mr Donald Ramotar, that he is open to President Bharrat Jagdeo playing a role in a new government (assuming Mr Ramotar becomes President), comes as little or no surprise to me.

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