Daily Archive: Sunday, August 21, 2011

AL-MAYA/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Rebel fighters streamed  into Tripoli as Muammar Gaddafi’s forces collapsed and crowds  took to the streets to celebrate, tearing down posters of the  Libyan leader.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Rafael Khan, 33 years of Queenstown, Essequibo, whose body was found at about 1600h yesterday at Mowasie Backdam, Mahdia, Potaro, with suspected stab wounds to the chest.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Prosecutors will ask a judge  to dismiss all charges in the sexual assault case against  former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing  on Tuesday, the New York Post reported today, citing  unnamed sources.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s government is  ready for immediate negotiations with rebels seeking to oust  him, and has asked NATO to convince the rebel forces to halt an  attack on Tripoli, a spokesman said on state television today.

(Trinidad Express) Cultural icon and Trinity Cross recipient Pat Bishop has died.

(Barbados Nation) Health authorities are monitoring the importation of used vehicles that may have been contaminated by radiation after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan that seriously damaged a nuclear plant there.

The Knights Basketball Club held its second edition of its celebrity charity game at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last night.

As England have not so much leap-frogged as kangaroo-hopped their way to the No.1 position in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings, the inevitable question arises.

Lindener Mark Lewis won the School Boys and Invitational feature 35-lap race at yesterday’s 8th Annual Seven Seas/Geddes Grant Limited  sponsored 10-race cycling programme at the inner circuit of the National Park.

Over $20M is up for the taking today at the fifth annual Guyana Cup horse race meet at the Port Mourant Turf Club and according to word coming out of Jumbo Jet Auto Sales, organizers of the meet, nothing has been left to chance for the 11:00 hours start .

Last week’s column carried a schedule listing the key specifications for the new Skeldon factory.

The pilot of a Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) aircraft and four passengers escaped with minor injuries after a Britten Norman Islander aircraft skidded off the Port Kaituma runway in Region One late yesterday morning.

Two very important pieces of legislation to which the Jagdeo administration had committed itself are now before Special Select Committees of the National Assembly working feverishly overtime to ensure that this legislation is passed before the Ninth Parliament comes to an end.

The Police Sports Club (PSC) will stage an 18 team knockout dominoes competition this Sunday outside its Robb Street quarters.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent engagement with Good Earth Development concerning the construction of a railway from Brazil to Guyana was just an introductory encounter where a concept was communicated to the Head of State, says company CEO Mark Chatarpal.

Guyana and Norway are expected to ink an agreement shortly to enable a second tranche of money to be disbursed to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) outside of the agreed mechanism under their forests partnership.

A dominoes team, led by Edmund Sammy and including former Guyana Chronicle Sports Reporter, Frederick Halley, ran out winners on Wednesday when the final of the Manniram Shew, three-team tournament was held.

For the residents of Victory Valley life is not too far below the average compared to persons living in other communities on the west bank of the Demerara River at Linden.

Despite the avalanche of bad news for President Barack Obama, he remains the most likely winner of the 2012 elections.

RABAT (Reuters) – Libyan rebels control most of the Tajourah district in the east of the capital and have surrounded an airbase there, an opposition activist in Tripoli told a Reuters reporter outside of Libya.

With ‘Gaza Emperor’ Vybz Kartel a no-show, it was ‘Gully God’ Mavado who sated the thousands who flocked to the National Stadium for the Jamzone regional night mega-concert on Friday.

Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) and Police Sports Club recorded victories in the latest round of matches in the Queensway-sponsored 2011 Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Open 50 overs knockout competition yesterday, at the Demerara Cricket Club Ground and Police Sports Club Ground Ever Leary respectively.

It is part of the fulminations of life that nothing happens in isolation.

 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 20,000 people gathered yesterday to support an anti-corruption social activist who has galvanized much of India against the government with his hunger strike, amid signs from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of compromise to end the impasse.

Twelve years ago, when Joe Pierre was just 13 years old, his mother died, leaving him with no alternative but to leave school and assist his father with providing for himself and siblings.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Waqar Younis will quit  as Pakistan coach for medical reasons after next month’s tour of  Zimbabwe, he said yesterday.

Three months have passed and investigators are no closer to determining who killed Industry, East Coast Deme-rara businessman Mark Kandhai and why.

There are a number of exciting possibilities for the expansion and growth of Guyana’s economy arising from conventional trade opportunities as well as non-traditional new technology-based services, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh told a seminar at the Grand Coastal Inn Tuesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England overcame the loss of the  afternoon session to rain yesterday to put India on the rack  again and set themselves up for a series whitewash on the third  day of the fourth and final test at the Oval.

Police have not been able to make any arrest in last Friday’s gruesome murder of pharmacist Harold Rachpaul but have concluded that robbery was the motive.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrived in Russia yesterday for his first visit in nearly a decade as the isolated state sought economic aid after heavy flooding exacerbated its chronic food shortages.

Theodor Fontane is the German writer best known as the author of novels which are considered “the most completely achieved of any writer between Goethe and Thomas Mann.” 

The government remains tight-lipped regarding the latest developments with the Marriott Hotel even as it pushes ahead to fulfil its promise to get the project under way before year end.

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Pele Football Club, winners of the recent inaugural GT&T FastBall knock-out football competition along with other top performers received their cash prizes for their performances throughout the tournament.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian forces fired heavy machineguns at a residential district in the central city of Homs yesterday after protests against President Bashar al-Assad, who faces growing world isolation for his repression of five months of popular unrest.

Fans of Indian actress and model Shilpa Shetty turned up in their numbers at the Providence Stadium last evening but were disappointed after her much-anticipated `headlining’ performance failed to happen.

For more than an hour last Wednesday, Professor Clem Seecharan discussed and read excerpts from his latest publication Mother India‘s Shadow over El Dorado: Indo Guyanese politics & Identity 1890s-1930s outlining to the small gathering at Moray House some significant changes that occurred in the East Indian community during this period.

There are quite a few fern species which are probably best described as tree ferns, for the simple reason that they have a ‘trunk.’ 

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Authorities in Mexico found the decapitated bodies of four men and a woman in Acapulco yesterday, the latest in a string of slayings in the popular Pacific resort this week.

Miss Guyana Universe Kara Lord boards a plane at

A plan to re-start growing crops such as onions in mountainous Region Eight is yet to take off.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Brett Lee and  spinner Xavier Doherty took four wickets apiece as Australia  crushed Sri Lanka by five wickets to win the fourth one-day  international and take an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match  series at the R Premadasa Stadium yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Thursday August 11, the PPP/C held an Impress Youth Conference, under the theme ‘Making our Mark.‘

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The prosecutors in the case of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will meet tomorrow with the hotel maid accusing him of sexual assault, in a sign the case may be headed for dismissal, one of her lawyers said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s coach and captain  are to be brought into an expanded national selection panel on  the recommendation of a report into the humiliating Ashes defeat, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Friday.

The Guyana Power and Light Ltd on Friday held its cultural extravaganza, under the theme ‘International Year of People of African Descent‘ at the Umana Yana.

The pulse is really an expression of the heartbeat. The way you take the pulse in humans (feeling the wrist or the pulsation of the big vessels running along the neck area) is not the same with dogs.

Dear Editor, Guyana needs to strengthen its diplomatic efforts with Suriname in order to capitalize on numerous opportunities that exist between the two nations.

HARARE (Reuters) – The death of a top Zimbabwean army general in a bizarre fire has changed the dynamics in internal ZANU-PF battles over President Robert Mugabe’s succession, but analysts say the issue remains unsettled and could lead to some bruising battles ahead.

The three ‘witnesses‘ held in connection with last Wednesday’s double murder at White Water Backdam, Konawaruk, remain in the custody of Linden Police who are continuing their search for answers to solve this brutal crime.

Last week we attempted a broad overview of the African presence in Guyanese culture; the nature of it, the way it manifests itself and its considerable influence on the national culture and social structure. 

Miss Guyana Universe Kara Lord says goodbye to her

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – Britain’s Andy Murray will face world number one Novak  Djokovic in the final of the Cincinnati Open today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kuti Ra of Greater Portmore, St Catherine, passed six subjects in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams at the age of 12.

Dear Editor, My recent bank statement indicates that GBTI has been deducting $100.00 as a “Ledger Fees” charge, each time an in-branch transaction is done.

Summary offences, which have been described as less serious breaches of the law, are to be contrasted with felonies and misdemeanours. 

A recently built shed which had been erected in the

The National insurance Scheme fulfilled their promise of paying pension benefits to former sugar worker Ronald Collins who was declared dead in the company’s computer system.

Georgetown Cricket Club and Gandhi Youth Organization “B” recorded victories while Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), who dominated their encounter, had an incomplete match due rain, on the final day of the inaugural De Sinco Trading, GCA Under-13 cricket competition yesterday.

When former Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe spoke out in June last year saying, “sometimes I am ashamed, because when I joined the force you had incidents, yes, but not this blatant corruption of some of the ranks… I believe it has gone out of control,“ he got, of course, a blast of hot air from the Ministry of Home Affairs in response. 

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel was expecting a diplomatic tsunami to strike in September, but the problems have come sooner than expected, leaving it ever more isolated in the Middle East.

(Trinidad Express) Seven people were gunned down in four separate incidents in Arima, La Horquetta, Beetham Gardens and Pt Lisas between Thursday night and Friday.