Daily Archive: Sunday, July 10, 2011

President Jagdeo certainly sang a loud and lusty swan song at the recent CARICOM Heads meeting in St.

Ramsey Ali became the new president of the Guyana Cricket Board today at the GCC pavilion amidst controversy and an unprecedented media shutout.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – India wrapped up their series against the West Indies 1-0 today when the third and final test ended in a draw in Dominica after a fine rearguard action  from Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Miss Guyana Universe 2011, Kara Lord (centre) is flanked by the four runners-up.

(Jamaica Observer) The family of 34-year-old inmate Garfield Campbell is still perplexed about how he came to be electrocuted in his cell at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre last Wednesday evening.

(Trinidad Express) A Guyanese woman was burnt to death on Friday night after she was trapped in her house.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has called for cooler heads to prevail on the REDjet issue, which has set the Government of Barbados on a collision course with its Caribbean Community (CARICOM) neighbours Trinidad and Jamaica.

In the face of questions being asked about the AFC’s prospects at the upcoming polls, presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan is confident of attracting support from members of the electorate who are disenchanted with the status quo, in addition to new voters.

Kara Lord was crowned Miss Guyana Universe early this morning after she came out swinging with a strong answer to the final question.

Sparks from the central fire – I was lucky to be near enough to feel the blaze these men ignited in the world ●     Derek Walcott, or rather his poetry, entered my life when he was twenty and I was seventeen.

Synergy Holdings will no longer be responsible for constructing the remaining timber bridges which were originally part of the Amaila Falls access road project and the sum budgeted will be deducted from the US$15.4 million contract, government engineer Walter Willis says.

In recent weeks I have heard vehemently from several persons, here and abroad, about the need for Guyana, in the midst of all the bad news, to be shouting about the positive stories that are around.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Kirk Edwards joined an elite band of batsmen to score a century on Test debut but West Indies let their advantage and slip late on the penultimate day of the third and final Test against India yesterday.

Has the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of nations (the ACP) a future beyond 2020, the date that the Cotonou Convention expires?

Tagnarine Chanderpaul, the son of West Indies player Shivnarine Chanderpaul, top scored with 37 but could not find support from team member, as Jamaica took first innings points over Guyana at Honeymoon Park, in the opening day of the 4th round clash.

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Australian Mark Webber roared back to form and denied world champion team mate Sebastian Vettel a third successive British Grand Prix pole position at a damp Silverstone yesterday.

In last week’s column I had indicated that GuySuCo’s Report for 2009 stated that there was no payment of dividends for that year, as in many previous years.

Patricia Williams has never walked, but she has never let her lack of mobility hold her back.

MADRID — The widely expected victory of the centre-right People’s Party in Spain’s next presidential elections is drawing growing attention to statements by party officials that they plan to change this country’s foreign policy, and become much more critical of Cuba, Venezuela and other authoritarian regimes.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes yesterday denied a request by Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) executive member Claude Raphael, to stop today’s Annual General Meeting and elections.

Fire last evening destroyed a two storey building at Lot 18 D’Urban Street that housed a residence and a fish shop, leaving losses totalling millions in its wake.

The company that wins the bid to supply the computers for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme is expected to deliver the first batch of instruments sixty days from the date of the contract signing, which suggests that the proposed October roll out for the project may be unrealistic.

The Plaisance woman who was severely burnt in a fire earlier last week remains in a critical condition and relatives are not optimistic about her recovery.

The Youth Basketball Guyana’s (YBG) Elite Team crushed the National Schools Basketball Festival’s (NSBF) First Team when the all-star game concluded at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday.

Introduction Earlier this week I received a copy of a wonderful book called Poor Economics written by professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the renowned research university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Champa Seonaraine is still hoping, nine months after her 28-year-old daughter mysteriously disappeared, that she will one day just walk into their Timehri, East Bank Demerara home.

The collapse of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) stolen transformer case which resulted in a dismissal came as a shock for the power company especially since it had the appearance of an “open and shut case,” Chief Executive Officer Bharrat Dindyal says.

Located about 12 miles from the Berbice Bridge and 14 miles from New Amsterdam, the village of Belvedere on the Corentyne boasts about 25,000 residents.

Seven people are homeless after a mid-afternoon fire yesterday destroyed their house at Block 22 Wismar, Linden.

Aliann Pompey clocked her fastest 400 metres time for the season yesterday at the United States of America (USA) Club Nationals at the Icahn Stadium in New York City.

A second entrance into Diamond Housing Scheme on the East Bank is to be built and government has already secured the land that will be used to construct the two-lane road, the Government Information Agency said in a press release.

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) played out to a draw against Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ‘B-Team’ in the only game that bowled off yesterday in either of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), Brainstreet under-15 or Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup 1st Division competitions.

Introduction The Guyana Consumers Association welcomes the introduction of this Bill like many other Guyanese. 

Malini Baseer of 131 Fourth Street, Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, who was on Thursday last severely stabbed, remains a patient of the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Georgetown Technical Institute (GTI) claimed a convincing 2-0 victory over Charlestown Secondary in the Region 4 finals of the inaugural Digicel’s Schools Football Championship, at Carifesta Sports Complex yesterday.

Whales can be 50ft in length, weigh 20 tons, and have a appetite to match.

Continued Vocal cord paralysis (VCP) Last week I said that vocal cords are situated in the larynx (voice box).

JUBA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new nation declared independence yesterday, a hard-won separation from the north that still leaves simmering issues of disputed borders and oil payments unresolved.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) has started conducting a series of training sessions for the selection of field managers for the upcoming polls.

Berbice High School (BHS) won the inaugural Shurland Hetmyer and Shaun Nurse Inter Secondary School Independence Anniversary Football tournament for schools in the New Amsterdam area that was played on Friday at the All Saints Scot Church ground.

(Trinidad Guardian) The government is taking legal action against G-pan inventor Professor Brian Copeland and three associates for profiting from sale of the G-Pan whose intellectual rights are owned by the government, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Friday.

Kumar Sangakara, that most erudite of modern cricketers, chose as his topic for the annual MCC Cowdrey lecture at Lord’s last week “the spirit of Sri Lanka’s Cricket”.

The preliminary round of the National Library’s Annual Champion Readers Competition commenced Wednesday at the library’s conference hall.

Popular plays revel in topicality and reap rewards from their engagements with something resembling the carpe diem philosophy relished by Metaphysical poets in the camp of the ‘Cavaliers’ of the seventeenth century. 

LONDON (Reuters) – In a moment of celebration tinged with sorrow and no little anger, the staff of Britain’s best-selling News of the World tabloid cheered as they left their offices yesterday for the last time.

The Bishops’ High School Old Students Association members exotically dressed in

Dear Editor,I have noticed an increase in the frequency with which Carl Parker and his acolytes are trying to discredit the efforts of the regional and central government.

Belgian director Frank van Passel’s 2002 production of the romance drama Villa des Roses is the Classic Tuesdays film that will be presented on Tuesday at 6 pm at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to offer sincere apologies to the Stabroek News for an inadvertent incorrectness which was published in a letter titled ‘Cartoonist must have a deep sense of responsibility.’ 

The Minister of Home Affairs appears long ago to have surrendered the lead on fighting piracy to the Minister of Agriculture.

AIGURANDE, France, (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins, who crashed out of the Tour de France on Friday, will undergo surgery on a broken left collarbone and is expected back on his bike within 10 days, Team Sky said yesterday.

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SUPER-BESSE, France, (Reuters) Portugal’s Rui Alberto Costa held the peloton at bay to win the first medium mountain stage of the Tour de France in the Super-Besse ski resort yesterday.

Road work in evidence: A freshly

GUATEMALA CITY  (Reuters) – Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, one of the stars of Latin American folk music, was shot dead in Guatemala City early yesterday when gunmen riddled his car with bullets, authorities said.