Daily Archive: Sunday, September 18, 2011

As charges of unethical conduct continue to swirl around Queens, New York Representative, Gregory Meeks, the New York Post has published details of an email where Meeks was trying to get a cricket invitation for controversial Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad to the VIP Box of disgraced Antigua-based banker Allen Stanford.

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee wrote the US Department of Justice on November 19, 2009 following up a request for assistance in tracing a certain `Mr T’ who it was believed was behind the torching of the Ministry of Health building on July 17, 2009, according to a cable dispatched to Washington.

(Barbados Nation) Vendors are now depending on imported vegetables because of a shortage of local produce.

Police have captured the suspect in the July murder of Pomeroon resident, Alexis Smith.

SANAA (Reuters) – At least 15 protesters were killed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, when gunfire broke out at one of the biggest demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in recent months, a Reuters witness said, .

 LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Floyd Mayweather Jr took the  WBC welterweight title from Victor Ortiz with a controversial  fourth-round knockout yesterday that prompted an angry  response from the crowd and raised questions about his conduct  in the ring.

(Barbados Nation) Public outcry has forced the National Insurance Department to put the brakes, for now, on the plan to force all pensioners to maintain bank accounts in order to access their money.

(Barbados Nation) Foreign nurses will again be recruited to work in Barbados when the new $160 million private hospital opens here in another two years.

(Barbados Nation) A multi-million-dollar solution to the CLICO (Barbados) International Life debacle has been carved out, but full details are expected later this week when the final report of the company’s judicial managers goes before the court.

(Trinidad Express) There is a shortage of marijuana in the country and because of the high demand for the illicit herb, drug dealers and traffickers have resorted to attempts to import even larger quantities of the drug into the country to make up for the scarcity.

(Trinidad Express) Even as Law enforcement authorities claim huge State of Emergency (SoE) gains in weapons finds across the country, a research paper on gangs in Trinidad and Tobago has raised concerns about a State stash of some 5,000-surplus, obsolete police-confiscated firearms and more than ten tons of small arms ammunition currently in police lock-up.

By Donald Duff and Marlon Munroe The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) says it is seeking legal advice in relation to a proposal from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) to resolve their ongoing dispute.

By Emmerson Campbell The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) National Intermediate Championships boxed off Friday night at the National Gymnasium.

They have become an inspiring part of Guyana’s poetic heritage.  I found them instantly unforgettable.

Shifting the goalpost In most cases of deliberate political and intellectual deception or expediency, persons and organisations would, as the saying goes, seek to shift the goalpost during the debate, in order to defeat the opposing point of view. 

Demerara completed a polished 58-run victory over  Essequibo in their replayed opening fixture of the 2011 El Dorado Senior Inter-County limited overs competition, at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), Ground, Bourda, yesterday.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) duo that captured five parliamentary seats in 2006 were reunited yesterday with the election of party leader, Raphael Trotman as the prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming general elections, though now the positions are reversed.

Conclusion Introduction Today I conclude the review of the mid-year report for 2011, a statutorily required report under the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003.

HAMILLTON, Bermuda, CMC – St David’s Cricket Club president Aaron Lugo says players caught smoking marijuana in the club’s changing room during a match last month have been “identified and dealt with”.

Living in a generally benign climate, Caribbean people have a close relationship with the creatures of nature, but there’s a particular relationship with dogs (another subject for another day) and, to some degree, goats.

Now that most Latin American and Caribbean countries have announced that they will join Islamic nations in voting for the creation of a Palestine state along the 1967 borders at the United Nations General Assembly later this month, the proposed motion is almost certain to pass by a comfortable majority of at least 120 votes.

Asks Donald Duff Given all that transpired in the administration of cricket in Guyana over the past year one might have been tempted to view the intervention of the His Excellency, President Bharrat Jagdeo, as a blessing in disguise.

Dear Editor, Needless to say, I was disappointed that the National Assembly did not pass the motion I presented on the wilful transmission of HIV/AIDS to unsuspecting individuals.

The consensus among international donor community observers in 2009 was that democracy  and the rule of law here were at their lowest ebb since the 2006 polls, according to then US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, Karen Williams.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago captain Daren Ganga says his players have a few aces up their sleeves, and are confident they can plough through the qualifiers and excel in the main draw of the Champions League Twenty20.

Beyond the fact that some eight kilogrammes of cocaine were found concealed in the fuel tank of Raphael Piggott’s car, police were never able to develop any leads into the November 8, 2008 execution of the clothing vendor.

Two separate developments in the last week, both involving China, demonstrate the fundamental ways in which international relationships are changing.

Dear Editor, The so-called ‘President’s Apprecia-tion Day,’ held on Friday September 16 must surely be the most brazen of a series of acts of abuse of power and political corruption in the region.

Continued from last week Last week, I had promised to commence a new theme today, since we had exhausted the topic of maladies associated with the heart and circulatory system.

Local animal rights activists are calling for a re-examination of the procedures regarding the export of wildlife even as traders maintain that guidelines are already stringent.

It was a rare occasion for West Indies cricket to be jubilant.

BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces charged back into the besieged desert town of Bani Walid yesterday, a day after diehard loyalists of fallen strongman Muammar Gaddafi beat them into a humiliating retreat.

Ramdeyol Ramdhar was a heavy-duty mechanic and later a successful marine engineer, but he is also diabetic and now limits himself to tending his garden and his poultry.

By Alim Hosein As part of the Guyana Prize for Literature 2010 awards activities at the beginning of this month, items from a series of prints done by one of the judges, Stewart Brown, were exhibited at Castellani House. 

Dear Editor, The President’s Appreciation Day is now over, but I suppose the discussions will continue, if not increase about whether or not such an event is appropriate.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Bangladesh Cricket Board director, Enayet Hossain Siraj has questioned the axing of Shakib Al Hasan as captain, as authorities begin their shop around for a new skipper ahead of the West Indies tour.

Dear Editor, The only true revelation that emerged from the WikiLeaks cables is that the US practises an outdated and antiquated foreign policy towards Guyana.

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – All-rounder Dwayne Smith says the two Twenty20s against England later this month has handed his flagging career a much needed lifeline.

E-mails, including request for payment, by Guyanese interior designer Supriya Singh were among the evidence that was presented to Dominica’s Integrity Commission to trigger a probe into Prime Minis-ter Roosevelt Skerrit’s alleged ownership of a multi-million dollar real estate development.

RENO, Nev. (Reuters) – The death toll in the crash of a vintage World War Two fighter plane near the grandstand at a Nevada air race has risen to nine, authorities said yesterday.

Dear Editor, After reading your newspaper’s lead story yesterday, ‘Jagdeo ‘appreciation’ draws cheers and jeers,’ and then the state-owned Guyana Chronicle’s, ‘President urges national pride, healing of wounds of the past,’ I have to say thanks for a balanced report.

The Fruta Conquerors organised Milo Under-23 football competition has reached the knockout stage with the quarterfinal matches beginning this evening at the Tucville Playfield from 18:00 hours.

“If we will eradicate poverty, we must have a proper education system.”

Sculptor and craftsman André Ridley displays one of

with photos by Anjuli Persaud Situated about 8 miles from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri is the small East Bank Demerera village of Sarah Johanna, the community was originally an estate purchased by the late Donnie Roberts who divided the land among his three sons, Samuel Jaisingh, Paul Jaisingh and James JaiSingh.

Altitude, lack of water, poor soil and swampy conditions are all things with which the gardener is familiar, and which influence the size of the plants we have in our garden.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Kara Kennedy Allen, the only daughter of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, has died at age 51, a Kennedy family friend said yesterday.

A section of the crowd in the National Stadium which

Islamabad (Reuters) – The United States accused Pakistan yesterday of having links to a militant group Washington blames for an attack on the US embassy and other targets in Kabul and said the government in Islamabad must cut those ties.

Dear Editor, Devindra Bishoo richly deserved the ICC’s coveted ‘Emerging Player of the Year’ prize and it is rewarding that he was given it.

Organisers of the Excellence in Carib-bean Agricultural Journalism Awards 2011 have announced the winners of the first edition of the regional awards and the Best News Story (Print) awardee is Stabroek News reporter Gaulbert Sutherland.

The Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is distributed north of the Amazon River, in Ecuador, Colombia, south Venezuela, north-east Brazil, north-eastern Peru and the Guianas.

Dear Editor, The party is over and all of the guests have been bused or trucked back home and we pray that they got there safely.

Three persons who were arrested in connection with derogatory graffiti about President Bharrat Jagdeo which were spray-painted across roads along the East Coast, East Bank and in the city, were yesterday released on station bail.

In the late 1970s, then Prime Minister Forbes Burnham wanted to celebrate the anniversary of his years in Parliament.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) is still to release the US$100 stipend to female players for their participation in the West Indies Regional tournament, played last month in Barbados.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez yesterday dismissed as “worthless” an international court ruling that cleared a key opposition candidate to run against him in 2012.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A pro-business Hindu leader who some think could be India’s next prime minister began a “harmony” fast yesterday to soften his image as a hardliner blamed for religious riots that claimed hundreds of mostly Muslim victims nine years ago.

Something amused Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford