Daily Archive: Sunday, September 11, 2011

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Cliff Robertson, who  won an Oscar playing a mentally disabled janitor in “Charly”  and worked in movies ranging from “PT 109” to “Spider-Man 3,”  died in New York on Saturday, the day after his 88th birthday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Australia’s Sam Stosur upset  American Serena Williams 6-2 6-3 today to win an  ill-tempered U.S.

Police say that investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Chris Primus, 20 years, who was found hanging in his cell at the Bartica Police Station at about 0730h today.

The police say they are investigating an incident where at about 2300h on September 06, 2011, a man allegedly threw gasoline on fishermen Veran Motilall, 45 years of Bloomfield, Corentyne, and Leonard Fernandes, 15 years of Rosehall, Corentyne, and around the fishing boat that they were in at the Albion Koker, Corentyne, and lit it afire.

President Bharrat Jagdeo told US officials in 2007 that he intentionally kept bureaucracy in place to protect “the little guy” and blamed the entrepreneurial class for chasing away potential foreign investors by telling untrue tales of the difficulties of doing business in Guyana.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Children yearned for lost  parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard  stone bearing the names of nearly 3,000 dead as America  commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sept.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England completed a series  victory over world champions India today after the fourth  one-day international at Lord’s ended in a Duckworth/Lewis tie  when rain forced the players off the field with seven  balls remaining.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago now rivals Jamaica as the most violent country in the Caribbean, with the number of annual murders rising sharply from 98 to 550 over the last decade, with some areas in the Port of Spain police division being listed among the most dangerous in the world.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Caroline Wozniacki was left  awe-struck by the lethal serves and power game of Serena  Williams, as the American blew away the world number one Dane   in straight sets to reach the final of the U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A hundred and seventy-seven years after slavery was abolished in the British West Indies, Jamaica’s national training agency – HEART Trust – still has to deal with colour-prejudiced employers who are requesting that trainees be brown or light-skinned as a prerequisite for employment in their firms.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Had NDP leader Desi Bouterse caused political unrest under the previous government, it would be doubtful whether the Surinamese intelligence and security service CIVD would be willing to help restore order and calm according to the US Embassy.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber driving a truck  of firewood attacked a NATO base in central Afghanistan, killing  four civilians and injuring 77 foreign troops a day ahead of the  tenth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks, NATO and Afghan  officials said today.

By Emmerson Campbell “Nothing in sport happens without sponsorship.” So said president of Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), Kit Nascimento, at the launching of the Neal and Massy Group of Companies National Schools Rugby tournament yesterday at the National Park Rugby Ground.

A review of the Amaila Falls access road conducted by external consultants in June highlighted the poorly outlined specifications in the original project document and recommended immediate changes to the design including widening the road and reducing its steepness (grades).

Guyana Beverage Company (GBC) renewed its sponsorship of the Fruta Conquerors Football Club for the 10th year with offerings of $1.5M in cash and gear Friday at the company’s head office at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Radesh Rameshwar, Chief Executive Officer of Kares Engineering Company sponsors of the inaugural 10/10 softball tournament which ended recently has promised to double the prize money for next year’s tournament.

If anyone mentions ‘Shining Town’ in Linden, they would be referring to Silvertown, which is one of Linden’s first communities.

Centuries from Michael Hussey and Shaun Marsh saw Australia to an impressive score of 411 for seven and a lead of 237 at stumps on a rain-affected day three to the second Test.

Alliance for Change (AFC) insiders have tipped co-founder of the party, Raphael Trotman to be its prime ministerial candidate for upcoming elections.

In a 2009 cable to Washington, then US Ambassador  John Melvin Jones strongly questioned President Bharrat Jagdeo’s view that enough was being done by Guyana to fight drugs and he was particularly scathing about the role of Dr Roger Luncheon in what he described as the disembowelling of the UK security reform programme.

Boxers Mervin Ageday and Benjamin Henry are out of the Commonwealth Youth Games currently underway in the Isle of Man after losing their first round matches on Thursday.

The body of a young fisherman was yesterday morning discovered near a sluice at the Paradise Village Seawall, Essequibo Coast sea shore with suspected marks of violence.

Reuters) – World heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC title on Saturday with a technical knockout of Polish challenger Tomasz Adamek in the 10th round in Wroclaw.

A 52-year-old woman was last night hit down and killed by a car on Regent Street in the vicinity of Kanhai’s Electrical Store as she was attempting to cross the road.

With less than a month to go before hosting Trinidad and Tobago in their return 2014 World Cup qualifier, Bermuda are knocking themselves for requesting to switch venues for it’s second Group B match and its head coach Devarr Boyles has criticized the playing surface at Providence Stadium.

A Happy Acres rice farmer on Friday night succumbed to injuries, after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a utility pole and some concrete piles at Planters Hall, Mahaicony.

Crazy columnist This columnist has not gone mad, at least not yet.

By Iva Wharton Athletes Tiffany Smith and Ashanti Scott are currently soldiers in the Guyana Defence Force, the nation’s number one military institution.

As the world observes the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, which claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people, Guyanese both home and abroad will be mourning their loved ones.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic saved two match points to roar back from the brink of defeat and beat Roger Federer in a five-set thriller at the U.S.

By Marcelle Thomas Residents along the East Bank Demerara from Diamond to Prospect are complaining about the stench emanating from the canal parallel to the roadway, which they say is unbearable and causes them much discomfort.

I was lucky enough once to read an article about two remarkable books: The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford, and The Early Poetic Manuscripts and Note-Books of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Facsimile, published by Garland in New York.

The Government of Guyana in early 2006 believed that the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) was planning to disrupt the country with the aid of the “Buxton resistance group” according to former US Ambassador Roland Bullen.

(Reuters) – Andy Roddick fought his way to the quarter-finals of the U.S.

I’ve talked before about nonsensical ideas we repeat as mantra – “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me” and “Time heals all wounds” are two of them. 

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Teenager Deunte Darrell has been hit with a year’s ban for a string of offences during an abandoned Premier Division match between his club Willow Cuts and Devonshire at the weekend, as administrators here vowed to clamp down on indiscipline.

Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh recently handed over a collection of the latest law books and reports to the library at the High Court in New Amsterdam.

A decade has passed since the world came face to face with Islamic terrorism.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) is still mulling the possibility of hosting a presidential debate ahead of the general elections this year and has been meeting other interested parties on the matter.

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has named 11 boxers to represent Guyana at the Ronald Wilson Memorial championship in Barbados from November 30 to December 15.

After a decade of record Latin American exports to China, which helped the region grow significantly despite the recent global recession, there are signs that the honeymoon may be coming to an end.

RIETI, Italy, CMC – Jamaican Kaliese Spencer continued to make up for her World Championship disappointment by winning her second race in three days at the Rieti IAAF World Challenge here yesterday.

Introduction In an effort to encourage ACP countries to embrace the Sugar Protocol (SP) in the mid-1970s, European officials were at pains to stress that, when fixing the annual price for sugar, account would be taken to ensure a “reasonable rate of return for a reasonably efficient sugar enterprise, over the long run.” 

The Joint United Nations Team on AIDS in Guyana has congratulated the Special Select Committee of Parliament on the Criminal Responsibility of HIV Infected Individuals for choosing not to make the transmission of HIV a criminal act.

More than a month after an assistant pastor was brutally stabbed in an apparent robbery gone wrong, police are no closer to solving the crime even after arresting and questioning a number of persons.

Guyanese Dr Cary Fraser was installed as President of the University of Belize, Belmopan, on August 24 last.

(Reuters) – Briton Andy Murray beat big-serving John Isner 7-5 6-4 3-6 7-6 on Friday, holding off the tiebreaker specialist 7-2 in the fourth-set decider to reach the U.S.

NEAR BANI WALID, Libya – Libya’s new authorities launched a military assault on one of the last remaining bastions of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, and the provisional government’s head arrived for the first time in the capital to take charge.

Having one’s child die in one’s arms is every parent’s worst nightmare.

The Giant Gladiator Frog (Hypsiboas boans) belongs to the family of tree frogs (Hylidae).

LONDON, England, CMC – Rookie West Indies batsman Darren Bravo has admitted to being surprised over his short-listing for the International Cricket Council Emerging Player-of-the-Year award, but is now backing his chances of walking away with the honour.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson says the West Indies Cricket Board will spare no effort in developing a new generation of fast bowlers.

STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) – Survivors of a ferry that capsized off Zanzibar overnight killing at least 192 passengers said the vessel was overcrowded and appeared to be in trouble even before it started its ill-fated voyage.

Very recently, an eighteen-year-old boy had the temerity to exercise his right to freedom of expression and ‘flipped the bird‘ or ‘gave the finger‘ to the presidential motorcade which was passing.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army rulers vowed yesterday to try those behind the violence that pushed Israel to evacuate its ambassador from Cairo, as they struggled to contain public fury against the Jewish state while fending off US criticism.

Year after year we are engaged in operations that we did the year before, and by doing, so we learn.

Making sure he gets him: A traffic policeman dragging a

Almost five months after he went missing, ex-soldier Jeffrey Jones’ sister and other relatives are still desperately searching for him.

Police last Friday arrested a man following investigations into the theft of a quantity of raw gold from a business place at Mahdia, Region Eight.

The winning books in The Guyana Prize for Literature 2010 which were announced at the awards ceremony on September 1, make a statement about where Guyanese and Caribbean literature are today. 

Dear Editor, I have been bombarded from some expected, and other not so expected quarters, with commentaries and observations on my letter to SN of August 30, 2011 regarding the reported impotency of GuySuCo’s current personnel to manage and operate the Skeldon ‘complexity’ – as perceived by the Minister of Agriculture.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said Cabinet has approved contracts in the agriculture, education, security, health and infrastructure sectors.

(Trinidad Express) A 31-year-old San Juan man, who is paralysed from the waist down, was chopped to death at his home on Thursday after he reportedly arranged to have a fellow resident beaten and robbed as he attempted to purchase drugs from him.

Local referees vying for a place on the 2012 FIFA  international list and those desirous of competing nationally yesterday took  part in the third FIFA mandated Fitness Test for 2011 at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

The Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCCI) said 27 units of blood were collected when it hosted its annual blood drive at the 41st Corriverton Town Day.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T has been given high marks for the management of its resources by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

President’s appreciation planning: From left to right are Sheik Zakir, a member of the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG); Bishop Juan Edghill; Housing Minister Irfaan Ali; trade unionist Carvil Duncan and promoters Kerwin Bollers and Rawle Ferguson of Hits and Jams at

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama said yesterday the United States was stronger 10 years after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks and Americans would “carry on” despite continued threats against their safety.

Since for obvious reasons much of what was divulged in the US Embassy cables by WikiLeaks concerned individuals in government, the administration was reluctant to comment initially, although Dr Luncheon was eventually moved to dismiss the contents as “predominantly opinions,“ while PPP presidential candidate Donald Ramotar deemed them not “earth shattering” and described himself as “slightly amused” by them.

Continued from last week Right-sided (congestive) heart failure Last week, we discussed the left-sided congestive heart failure, which was the result primarily of the inability of the left ventricle (lower chamber) to function properly.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday he would do whatever it takes to rescue his country from bankruptcy and stay in the euro zone, as doubts in Europe grew over its membership in the bloc.

Dear Editor, The PPP leadership and indeed others are in a serious quandary over the WikiLeaks cables.

Sunday Cartoon

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sam Stosur survived a late fightback from unseeded German Angelique Kerber to win their U.S.

9/11 outreach: As part of an outreach programme to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11, staff members of the