Daily Archive: Sunday, October 30, 2011

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica and several other Commonwealth nations that maintain anti-gay legislation could be affected by reduced financial support from Britain.

Attorney Gaumattie Singh who fell out with the Alliance For Change yesterday mounted the political platform in support of the ruling PPP/C.

The Guyana Elections Commission today said that the printing of the voters list for the November 28 elections is complete.

The PPP today held a media briefing during which it said that several billboards were pulled down last night and it urged the police to act on CCTV footage.

Having hauled the Kaieteur News columnist before the courts for calling him King Kong, Mr.

One man is dead and another seriously injured after an industrial accident at RUSAL’s Aroaima bauxite operations in Region 10(Upper Berbice/Upper Demerara).

Indian author Rahul Bhattacharya has won a prize awarded by The Hindu newspaper for Best Fiction of 2011.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has written to the Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller, inviting her to walk with him as part of a move to end garrison politics in Jamaica.

A five-year-old girl died this morning after an Ite palm tree fell on her family’s home at North East La Penitence.

NOIDA, India,  (Reuters) – Red Bull’s double world  champion Sebastian Vettel ran away with the inaugural Indian  Formula One Grand Prix today for his 11th victory in 17  races this season.

(Jamaica Observer) One of the world’s leading contractors, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), has signed an agreement with the government of the Bahamas to build a new port in North Abaco.

PERTH, Australia,  (Reuters) – Commonwealth leaders today defended their moves to toughen support for human rights,  rejecting criticism the group was becoming irrelevant and had  failed at their three-day summit to hold member Sri Lanka  accountable for alleged abuses.

(Barbados Nation) A decision will be made shortly on whether criminal charges will be laid against officials of CLICO International Life (CIL) after the company continued to write new insurance policies despite being debarred by the Supervisor of Insurance back in 2009.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Fidel Edwards picked up five  wickets in a devastating opening spell of seven overs to leave  Bangladesh reeling at 86 for five in reply to West Indies’ 355  at tea on day two of the second test today.

(Trinidad Express) The seventh police officer wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of three people from Moruga is now in police custody after he turned himself in to the Homicide Bureau of Investigations office at Coffee Street, San Fernando, late on Friday.

PPP presidential candidate, Donald Ramotar last evening lambasted opposition leaders saying they had no “moral right” to hold public office and sought to link some with criminals.

Sixty-five miles south from the capital city lies one of the larger housing schemes in Guyana: Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

America’s insatiable appetite for oil is leading to her own ruin and endangering the whole world.

APNU’s presidential candidate David Granger says that a government led by him will not be “afraid of investigating anything”— including allegations of rigged elections during the 28-year rule of the PNC.

When I formed the Tradewinds band in Toronto in the late 1960s, we played frequently at a small bar downtown on Yonge Street (the main drag) called the Bermuda Tavern. 

The pension that President Bharrat Jagdeo will earn upon demitting office has become a hot topic on the election campaign trail for the opposition parties and the incumbent PPP/C is not happy at what it says are the lies and misrepresentations on the matter.

Jamaica survived a spirited fight-back from Trinidad and Tobago to secure the 2011 Regional 50 title now heralded the Clive Lloyd Trophy, with a five-wicket victory, at the Providence Stadium, last evening.

Statistical deception Last week I examined one of two recent instances of what I described as official misuse and abuse of Guyana’s economic statistics.

As humiliating as they were – and they don’t come more humiliating than all-out 61 in an ODI and desperately hanging on for a draw in a three-day Test against Bangladesh – recent events in Chittagoing were not exactly surprising.

Two drivers lost their lives in separate road accidents on Friday night and Saturday midday, while a third accident served to supply cases of beer and bags of flour to residents of Friendship.

Azim Bassarath was returned unopposed yesterday as president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board for s second consecutive two-year term of office at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting staged at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva.

By Ronald G. Burch-Smith The High Court as a venue for the trial of serious criminal matters is both woefully underutilized and at the same time over burdened.

An unusual October snowstorm in New York yesterday has resulted in Caribbean Airlines having to divert one of its flights from JFK International Airport to Buffalo.

The Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera) is one of the most extraordinary plants.

Dear Editor, I wish to respectfully issue a word of advice to my hero, Mr Clive Lloyd, to be very cautious of any association with those persons holding themselves out as Executive Members of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – Kieran Powell, Kirk Edwards and Kraigg Brathwaite, all playing in their third Test, collected half-centuries to give West Indies a solid, if not spectacular start to the second Test against Bangladesh yesterday.

Thirty referees successfully attended the five-day FIFA Referees Assistance Programme (RAP) held in conjunction with the Guyana Football Federation and the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) at the International Conference Centre at Liliendaal.

TRIPOLI/BEIJING (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court said yesterday that Libya’s Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was in contact via intermediaries about surrendering for trial, but it also had information mercenaries were trying to spirit him to a friendly African nation.

The telephone number belonging to murdered HIV counsellor Seeraj Persaud is still active 19 months after his death and his family is wondering what is barring the police from finding the killer.

Dear Editor, The recent news that Mr McWilfred  has joined the PPP/C  and is on their list for our November national election has surprised most of the gold miners.

The month of October happened to be important for a few cultural traditions celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, and this seemed to have inspired a popular magazine to produce a culturally rich issue. 

Dear Editor, All these years as a Guyanese citizen and witness to several national elections, I am still aggrieved by the rancour that characterizes election campaigns in this country.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was diagnosed with throat cancer yesterday, casting doubt on his political future in Latin America’s largest economy.

Editor’s note: As part of the newspaper’s contribution in the run-up to the November 28 general election, the presidential candidates of the political groupings represented in Parliament have been invited by Guyana Publications Inc to submit weekly columns which will be carried in the Sunday Stabroek.

It was the resurfacing of an old injury after swimming his first event that accounted for Guyana’s Niall Roberts missing two of his scheduled events at the Pan American Games currently ongoing in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The previous series of articles dealt with the heart and circulatory system. 

LONDON (Reuters) – Western powers risk causing an “earthquake” that would burn the Middle East if they intervene in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Off-spinner Saeed Ajmal took his fourth five-wicket haul in tests as Pakistan completed a facile nine-wicket win within four days in the second test against Sri Lanka yesterday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Dear Editor, Early this year I had written a letter to you complaining that GPL is sending light bills to customers sometimes one week after the due date for payment has gone.

The future now looks less dim for 12-year-old *Susie (not her real name) and her one-month-old baby daughter as they are now in a stable home in the care of other relatives.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has conceded to the requests of scrap metal dealers for 132 containers with scrap metals to be released from the wharf station for export but the suspension of the trade remains, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Friday.

Dear Editor, Some years ago I heard a story about a poor boy who was a student at Queen’s College – I pray my memory serves me well.

KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber yesterday killed 13 troops and civilian employees of the NATO-led force in Kabul, including Americans and a Canadian, in the deadliest single ground attack against the coalition in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.

KOLKATA, (Reuters) – Steve Finn led England’s pace attack to set up a six-wicket victory against India in the lone Twenty20 international at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian)After 40 years in politics, Patrick Manning, the man who served this country as Prime Minister four times, on Friday announced that he will bowing out of politics for good at the end of this parliamentary term. At

The Miss India Guyana Pageant and the Bollywood Divas Mega Concert have been postponed owing to issues being experienced by the musicians and other band members of the Sunidhi Chauhan group in getting their UK visas.

When I interviewed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently, I was curious to hear what he would say about US congressional criticism that the United Nations has become hijacked by totalitarian regimes.

Recovering from a vicious attack by her partner of five years, 18-year-old Filisha Nauth says she has learnt from her mistakes and is ready to pick up the pieces of her life; she wants to continue her education and get a job so as to provide basic necessities for herself and her 20-month-old baby.

Caribbean Containers Inc, a public company in the paper recycling business has reported turnover for the first half of 2011 increasing by 9.3% over the same period last year.

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian prosecutors are to investigate whether former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, jailed for abuse of power, was involved in the murder of a member of parliament, news agency Unian quoted a senior prosecutor yesterday as saying.

Nothing like a day spent fishing.. Joy was evident on

Current Chairman of the International Cricket Council’s Cricket Committee, Clive Lloyd, has come to the assistance of a young student from President’s College.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former prime minister Patrick Manning admitted on Friday that he made mistakes during his 40 years in politics as he apologised to all the people he hurt or disenfranchised during his tenure, saying he was not perfect. At

The Mangrove Reserve Women Agriculture Producers (MRWAP) will hold the first ever Farmers Market Under the Trees today, as part of Agriculture Month, at the mangrove visitor centre at Cove and John East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, I am proud of my dad, Moses Nagamootoo for his continuous dedication to serve the people of Guyana.

An 18 team Twenty20 dominoes competition will take place today at Dynasty Club.

BOSTON (Reuters) – A rare October snowstorm bore down on the heavily populated US Northeast yesterday, knocking out electricity, delaying flights and threatening some areas with up to a foot (30 cm) of snow.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Up to late Friday evening, the Mandeville police were working relentlessly to solve the murder of eight-year-old Sadie McLean during an early-morning incident in Manchester.

Dear Editor, Karl Marx in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte alluded to the words from Aesop’s Fable the Swaggerer, “Hic Rhodus, hic salta” which means “Here is the rose, here dance.”

On November 29 the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will present his autumn statement to the UK Parliament. 

Narrow escape: A Herstelling family narrowly escaped being devastated by a fire after a three-year-old who was playing with

Sunday Cartoon

There has never been an election quite like it. Party alignments, re-alignments, coalitions, annexions and defections are happening so quickly, voters hardly have time to catch their collective breath.