Daily Archive: Sunday, October 16, 2011

Las Vegas (Reuters) – British IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon died  from injuries sustained in an horrific crash at the Las Vegas  Motor Speedway today, race organisers said.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar this evening formally declared Prime Minister Sam Hinds as his running mate for the upcoming general elections.

(Jamaica Observer) The Morant Bay Police are this morning trying to piece together clues that can aid their investigations into two incidents, which they believe are connected, in which a man and his two children were killed and their mother injured in their community of Phillipsfield, Yallahs, St Thomas.

As preparations for general elections intensify, the Guyana Elections Commission today announced that it has begun printing the official list of electors.

(WICB) Gros Islet, St Lucia – “It’s a great honour,” is how Clive Hubert Lloyd describes his feeling about the West Indies Cricket Board decision to name the Regional Super50 winner’s trophy after him.

(WICB) Gros Islet, St Lucia – Host Guyana has been paired with Gandhi Youth Organization for the Super Club Assistance Programme during the Regional Super50 Tournament in Guyana.

(Trinidad Guardian) Media magnate Ken Gordon is tipped to be the new chairman of the Integrity Commission.

Guyanese doctor Lyndon Lord who was shot in Jamaica on Friday is in a stable condition and according to reports from the island he had been receiving threats.

By Joycelyn Bacchus, Joy Marcus, Halima Khan, Susan Collymore & Andaiye There’s a crisis in Guyana that almost everyone is ignoring – the crisis of mothers and other carers forced to work endless hours, often on no fixed schedules, and of the children they must leave to fend for themselves while they destroy their health labouring for a starvation wage.

(Barbados Nation) With the United States reporting that a record number of people will be deported, police here are still concerned about the lack of timely information on criminal deportees.

(Barbados Nation) Almost six months after REDjet began operations, one of its competitors is suggesting that the Barbadian-based carrier may eventually have to abandon its low-fare model if it wants to continue adding smaller Caribbean islands to its destinations.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s sports  minister Fikile Mbalula said today he had received  threatening phone calls telling him not to investigate bonus  payments made to Cricket South Africa (CSA) chief executive  Gerald Majola.

The police today said that they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2110h.

The Police today said that at about 1630h yesterday Ganesh Jodhan, 40 years of Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, was transporting paddy in a motor tractor/trailer when he lost control of the vehicle along the Hoff Van Aurich Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

A 39-year-old mother of four was last Friday found with her throat slit at her Number 48 Village, Corentyne home and police have since detained her reputed husband.

With a contented look on her face Enterprise, East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident Lakhraji (only name given) recalls “the long way the community come through“ since she moved to the area more than three decades ago.

A Party for National Unity (APNU) member Rupert Roopnaraine last night pledged the political grouping’s support for the private media in Guyana, in view of the attacks by President Bharrat Jagdeo, though he also accused this newspaper of being biased.

Twelve-year-old *Susie (not her real name) picks up her one-month-old baby daughter from the bed as she cries and cradles her.

John Blanchard, who is on remand for the hacking to death of his children, was yesterday morning rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after suffering injuries while in the Camp Street Prison.

The United States is still considering setting up a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office here, according to Julissa Reynoso, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America and the Caribbean in the US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

A Guyanese doctor living in Jamaica was on Friday night shot in the head outside his home at Mandeville, Manchester following an alleged attempted armed robbery.

Teachers at a secondary school in Linden staged a sit-in on Friday to press the region to fast-track repairs to the school, saying that the conditions are dangerous.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar is today likely to name Sam Hinds as his running mate for the upcoming elections, party sources have indicated.

It’s up to former PPP/C minister Moses Nagamootoo to decide whether he will accept an offer that has been on the table since 2006 to join the Alliance For Change (AFC), the AFC’s leader Raphael Trotman said.

Even as telecommunication giant GT&T prepares to launch its Blackberry service in November, the company is intensifying its competition aggression with its existing services by way of giving back to customers two fully furnished houses in a gated community on the outskirts of Georgetown.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Attractive half-centuries from Marlon Samuels and Lendl Simmons inspired West Indies to a crushing eight-wicket defeat of Bangladesh in the second One-Day International here yesterday, earning the Caribbean side only their second one-day series win in three years.

The major parties contesting the upcoming polls are being asked to shed light on the process that will be used to identify their prospective representatives in the National Assembly.

LONDON –  Manchester City went top of the Premier League table yesterday as it beat Aston Villa, 4-1, while Manchester United needed a late equalizer to force a 1-1 draw at Liverpool.

Just as too much can be made of the West Indies’ successive ODI wins on Thursday and yesterday in Dhaka, it is impossible to downgrade them, as they inevitably and widely will be, as “only” over Bangladesh.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is an international body set up in 1984 to settle sport-related disputes.

Introduction At long last, the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) has decided to file annual returns and financial statements with the Registrar of Companies.

A group of 46 high-profile Mexican politicians and academics from across the ideological spectrum shook this country earlier this week with a daring proposal to end Mexico’s political gridlock: forcing whomever is elected president in 2012 to form a coalition government.

By Emmerson Campbell Godfrey Pollydore sped  off with the feature 35-lap Schoolboys and Novices race in record time yesterday when national cycling coach Hassan Mohammed and the Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Company staged a  11-race cycling meet at the National Park circuit, Thomas Lands.

Seven persons, six of whom are children, were on Friday night rushed to a city hospital following another attack by bees at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

A meeting between loggers, farmers and Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, in Linden today has drawn the ire of Region Ten Chairman, Mortimer Mingo, who called it a way of “manufacturing” support for the PPP rally to be held close to the meeting site, a contention that was rejected by Persaud.

A poultry vendor of Rosignol market in West Berbice was in the process of setting up a stall at the new Bath market tarmac on Tuesday when regional officials went with the police to dismantle it.

The Mayor and City Council has announced that it will be continuing its amnesty offer to all property owners, discounting interest at 50% on demand.

About four years ago I travelled from Cayman for the funeral of my friend Bobby Clarke who had died in Castries after a tough two-year battle with cancer.

By Iva Wharton A three-day exhibition of basketball paraphernalia was held recently at the National Library and organiser of the event, Julian Haynes, said its purpose was to preserve the history of the sport in Guyana.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Exciting stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has pointed to his new found maturity as the reason behind his form, since returning to international cricket following a two-year ban.

Some 77 of the over 100 newly-skilled youth and single parents who graduated on Friday from the National Training Project for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) and Single Parents at the Essequibo Technical Institute (ETI), have already found employment.

Diversification in and out of Sugar This week I finish my examination of the sugar industry that I had started 20 weeks ago (May, 29, 2011). 

John Lewis Styles will relocate to its new store at 186 Waterloo Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown on November 1 where there will be larger aisles and more space to browse as well as secure parking in the compound.

Some time early next year the association agreement reached in May between Central America and Europe will come into force.

(Reuters) While Indian cricket has been plagued with unfit players in recent times, this 38-year-old still remains captain’s best bet to hold the fort.

A top Antigua and Barbuda maritime official said yesterday that the MV Vega Azurit – a cargo vessel that was intercepted in Jamaica with $112 million in cocaine, is not registered in Antigua and has no links to that island.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa (CSA) dismissed their president, Mtutuzeli Nyoka, yesterday after a vote of no-confidence at a board meeting. 

In observance of World Food Day, which is being observed today under the theme ‘Food Prices: From Crisis to Stability’, the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held a National Schools Home Economics Competition at St Joseph High School on Friday.

The Toronto Star says that a Guyana-born Oshawa justice of the peace has been accused of sexual harassment by several female court staff who work with him.

Renovation works continue at the Norman Singh Race Track with the double-decker grand stand getting a facelift for next Sunday’s Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club/Shariff Racing Stable horse race meet at the club’s facility at No.

Global Hand washing day is celebrated on October 15 since its inception in 2008 when the year was designated as International Year of Sanitation by the UN General Assembly.

ROME (Reuters) – Anti-greed protesters rallied globally yesterday, denouncing bankers and politicians over the international economic crisis, with violence rocking Rome where cars were torched and bank windows smashed.

Revellers wait atop a float replica of the two houses GT&T will give away this year in its Christmas Wishes:

Suhai Feng was still in the lead after  the sixth and seventh rounds of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF)  Closed National Junior Chess Championships which ended at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) building on High Street, yesterday.

Four species of caiman exist in Guyana: the Black Caiman, Spectacled Caiman and two species of dwarf caiman.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Sunday made public the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners it will free in exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit as part of a deal it reached with Hamas.

I am often asked to give an opinion on the health of a fern called Polypodium aureum popularly known as the Breadfruit fern ( because the shape of the leaves is similar to those of the Breadfruit tree). 

On October 11th professor Duke Pollard was sworn in as a temporary Justice of the Belize Court of Appeal by the Governor General, Sir Colville Young, at Belize House, Belmopan, according to The Guardian of Belize.a

Progressive partnerships and a solid half century from Windward Islands’ Johnson Charles helped the team to comfortably defeat the Leeward Islands in a practice match at the Demerara Cricket Club yesterday, mere days before the commencement of the Regional Super50 tournament on October 19.

(Trinidad Express) Lynne Anne Williams, executive director of the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs), has been fired.

The sterile surroundings of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) glowed with colour recently when staff and visitors turned up in bold African prints as part of its observances for International Year of the People of African Descent.

Dear Editor, I thought that I had earned some rest from public commentary on the affairs, plight and condition of the Deeds Registry. 

Dear Editor, On the 30th May 2011 I aired a commentary which told the nation that the European Union development funds #9 and #10 which are being disbursed by the EU to the Government of Guyana were in fact compensation for the loss of the preferential prices for our sugar.

YEONGAM, South Korea, CMC – At the stage of the season when it mattered least, McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton finally managed to grab pole ahead of today’s Korean Grand Prix.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Torrential rain in Central America this week that forced thousands to abandon their homes and trapped many more has killed at least 45 people, with Guatemala the worst hit, authorities said yesterday.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Health Ministry has issued a warning against the use of the Chinese health products ‘Bi Yan Pian’, ‘Specific Hou Ton Qing’ and ‘Pe Min Kan Wan’.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is currently conducting a series of workshops targeting school dropouts, young mothers and other youth to teach them to pinpoint and prevent intimate partner violence and other forms of violence and abuse.

Destruction of the  immature stages Last week, we concluded the article by saying that even after the adult heartworms in the right heart chambers (and elsewhere) have been killed by the series of arsenic injections, the problem is not over. The

Costumes for Mashramani 2012 on display at the

Dear Editor, During the summer holidays we saw the dismantlement of the St Barnabas Church located at the corner of Regent and Bourda streets.

SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – Andy Murray pummeled Japan’s Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-0 to reach the final of the Shanghai Masters yesterday and will complete a stunning Asian hat-trick if he beats David Ferrer today.

Sunday Cartoon

The debate about what constitutes happiness has been going on for thousands of years.

Gecom’s Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) performed an important service before, during and after the 2006 elections, and has been resuscitated again for the purpose of the 2011 elections.

There is a close interrelationship between historical/ anthropological documents about Amerindian culture and traditions and Guyanese Amerindian literature.

(Barbados Nation) Loss-making regional airline LIAT has plans to boost business with attractive travel packages for seniors, sports people, students and shoppers.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti is “open for business” after its parliament approved a new government’s ambitious plan to relaunch the economy after last year’s catastrophic earthquake, Haitian leaders said yesterday.