Daily Archive: Sunday, November 6, 2011

Moses has upped and left the PPP! After fifty years of service to the party he has rejoined forces with his brother, Khemraj Ramjattan in the AFC.

PPP/C marchers at the party’s rally in Lethem today.

Moses Nagamootoo (right) greeting members of the public at an AFC public meeting today in Albion.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A human resources graduate from  Venezuela, whose ambition is to work with children, was crowned  Miss World 2011 at a glittering beauty pageant in London today.

(WICB) Delhi, India – West Indies batting hero Shivnarine Chanderpaul says that batting on the Feroz Shah Kotla pitch is like batting in his homeland Guyana.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene this afternoon issued a statement distancing himself from any suggestion that he had something to do with the bugging of the office of his predecessor Winston Felix.

At about 0130h. today Kenneth Bhagwandin, 49 years of Stanleytown, WBD, was shot and injured to his right hip by a licensed firearm holder while at a snackette at Goed Fortuin, WBD, according to the police.

(Jamaica Gleaner) By his own admission, Christopher Tate was twice imprisoned and twice deported from the United States, after languishing behind prison walls in that country under a suicide watch.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite renewed pressure from Britain for Jamaica to repeal its anti-buggery law, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says it will be up to Jamaicans to signal such a desire.

(Trinidad Express) Police have launched a search for a man who at gunpoint yesterday kidnapped a 21-year-old mother in the presence of two children—Iyoka, five, and Sapphire Williams, three—at their First Trace, Maingot Road, Tunapuna, home.

(Trinidad Express) Although they landed in the country five months ago, the two Augusta Westland (AW) 139 helicopters, one half of a TT$2 billion order that will include two other AW 139 choppers scheduled to be in Trinidad and Tobago next year, are still grounded.

The government was unaware that the Guyana Police Force had planned to go after convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan and his cohorts back in 2006 and was only told of the operation after it started, according to former commissioner of police Winston Felix who said he did not “want to fight the devil’s case in hell.

Situated on the West Bank Demerara, the village of Good Intent which is sandwiched between Sisters Village to the south and La Retraite to the north is about seven-and-a-half miles from Vreed-en-Hoop.

In sharp contrast to the atmosphere that greeted the PPP/C on Thursday night, the residents of Buxton last evening warmly embraced opposition coalition APNU whose leaders promised that a David Granger led administration will ensure that the village experiences the healing, reconciliation and justice that it yearns for.

Two years after Guyana and Norway signed a groundbreaking US$250 million agreement to protect Guyana’s forests, funds for “low carbon” projects that do not damage the rainforest are yet to flow here.

Canada-based Guyanese Bob Persaud believes that if Guyana is to be free of corruption and see justice for heinous crimes—including the murders of his wife, Phulmattie and brothers-in-law former Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh and Rajpat Sawh—people need to vote for change.

The third annual Banks DIH sponsored Guinness in the Streets football tournament, got underway last evening with Charlestown, Rasville and Island All-Star securing round one triumphs at the Albouystown Basketball Court.

Introduction The reader should not wonder why in the caption of this column ‘democracy’ does not precede ‘financing.’

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s Inter-block knockout football tournament dubbed ‘Seven-Fifteen’ kicks off tomorrow at Victoria, Ann’s Grove and Buxton on the East Coast Demerara.

The Georgetown Football Association/Banks DIH Super League resumes today with a triple header, at the GFC ground.

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.

At Friday’s opening of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS) National Aquatics Centre, swimmers shared with Stabroek Sport their joy at seeing a great need filled.

The 22nd winner of the Kashif & Shanghai tournament on January 1, 2012 will strike gold, literally.

I have two indelible pictures in my mind – inscribed there not through seeing the exploits myself but through listening at the time with a fearful pride and thereafter hearing eye-witnesses tell their vivid stories of how it happened.

A miner sustained a head wound during a drunken quarrel at Buckhall Land-ing, Barama yesterday and later died.

I hate to travel.  When Tradewinds became popular in 1968, we were doing a lot of travelling. 

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) dominated the super sixteen rounds of the 2011 Inter Organization Table Tennis Tournament yesterday in the Queen’s College Auditorium.

Police yesterday said they have received no reports of persons being beaten during last Thursday’s PPP/C rally in Buxton and issued a call to the victims to come forward.

Weak and volatile Several analysts have directly blamed the absence of a coherent economic strategy to guide Guyana’s development since the PPP/C administration came to power in 1992, for the volatile and inadequate economic growth which has prevailed since.

BASEL (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic was surprisingly beaten by unseeded Kei Nishikori of Japan in the semi-finals of the Basel Open yesterday, suffering a new injury setback in the process.

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 65 people were killed in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu, an aid agency said yesterday, after Islamist insurgents bombed churches, mosques and police stations and fought hours of gun battles with police.

If political biographies of recent US presidents and top foreign policy officials are any indication of what goes on in their mind — and I think they are — the new book by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks for itself: it’s about 98 per cent about the Middle East, Russia and Asia, and 2 per cent about Latin America.

NEW DELHI, India, Nov 5, CMC/IANS – Darren Sammy promised that West Indies would display a fearless brand of cricket against a superior Indian side in the first of three Tests, beginning today.

MONROVIA (Reuters) – Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf urged voters yesterday to ignore a poll boycott called for by her rival, saying the move was illegal and intended to intimidate Liberians.

The new-look Stelling View Market was officially opened yesterday with a grand ceremony in the market’s vicinity.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Andre Russell continued his impressive rise with an electrifying hundred that was the driving force behind a West Indies-A revival in their first “Test” against Bangladesh-A yesterday.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana and the Guyana United Sadr Islamic Anjuman have both underscored the virtue of self-denial in separate messages on the observance of Eid-ul-Adha.

For the last two weeks a large group of mainly young people have been, quite literally, camping out in the precinct of London’s St Paul’s Cathedral.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greeks would prefer a national unity government ruling for several months during the debt crisis to the prospect of an early general election, polls published yesterday found.

Dear Editor, The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) is extremely dismayed at the recent decision by the Appointments Committee to send to Council for further consideration the contracts of several lecturers, which had been already approved by the Vice Chancellor.

Guyana’s National Dance Company (NDC) performed its Season 32 on October 22 – 23, 2011 on the theme Hello Darkness. 

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) is urging Muslims to celebrate Eid ul Adha by praying for peace and unity in Guyana and the wider world and for protection from natural disasters and other calamities.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Advisers to Brazil’s Labour Minister Carlos Lupi demanded kickbacks from non-government organizations with government contracts, newsmagazine Veja reported yesterday, citing unnamed lawmakers and officials.

(Reuters) – Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, who earned boxing immortality after three epic fights with Muhammad Ali, is in hospice care with liver cancer, his manager said yesterday.

Head injuries Last week we commenced with a new chapter in the ailments that could afflict your companion animals. 

AMMAN (Reuters) – Tank fire killed at least 13 civilians and wounded dozens in the besieged Syrian city of Homs yesterday, activists and residents said, casting doubt on whether an Arab League plan can end months of bloodshed touched off by a popular uprising.

Dear Editor, Some contend it is $3,000,000 per month or $36,000,000 per year, while others argue that it will be $1,000,000 per month, or $12,000,000 per year.

All’s well that ends well, even if conditionally in the case of the West Indies series in Bangladesh.

Dear Editor, At the last India Day parade in New York, representatives of the Guyana government and the PPP were there.

SHARJAH (Reuters) – Sri Lanka hit back with three Pakistan wickets in yesterday’s final session, including century-maker Younus Khan, to boost their chances of drawing the series by the close on the third day of the third and final test in neutral Sharjah.

Robert Corbin’s absence from A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) leadership team and from the coalition’s lists of candidates is in keeping with the PNCR leader’s publicly stated position of not seeking public office, APNU presidential candidate David Granger has said.

(Reuters) – Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who pondered everything from shoelaces to the existence of God on CBS’s “60 Minutes” news show for more than 30 years, died on Friday night at the age of 92, CBS said.

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday destroyed, by burning, a quantity of cocaine and cannabis

The Methodist Church, Guyana, guided by its theme and mission “Growing up in Christ, Reaching out and Transforming the Nation”, hosted a public forum aimed at setting a new political culture at which the recent 8% pay hike for public servants took centre stage.

POPAYAN, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombians rejoiced at the killing of top FARC rebel leader Alfonso Cano and hoped the biggest blow yet against Latin America’s longest insurgency could herald an end to nearly five decades of war.

The mask is off.  After standing aloof from the head of state’s obsessions with the genus corvus for the last few weeks, and uttering appeasing noises about a willingness to work with the opposition should he be elected, PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar finally broke cover in Bartica last Saturday and revealed his true face. 

Tested and proven true

Oh my goodness Cheddi!

Sprucing up:  A vendor cleans the front of his stall

Dear Editor, I would first of all like to quote from Michael Maxwell’s letter to KN headed ‘8% public servant pay increase is not what it seems,’ in which he states “… Jagdeo will retire like an Emperor with his ridiculous pension, gardener, cook, secretary, security guards, use of state motor vehicles, free travel the world over and more…” Mr Jagdeo’s need for employment may be redundant after such a magnanimous financial endowment.

Ornamental gourds can be very exciting plants to grow nowadays, and can result in the most amazing shapes and sizes.

By Iva Wharton At 67 years old, boxing coach Al Thomas says he still has a lot to pass on to the boys under his charge.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s  unbeaten 24th test century hauled West Indies out of a rut,  powering them to 256 for five wickets on the opening day of the  first test against India today.

(Reuters) – Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier,  who earned boxing immortality after three epic fights with  Muhammad Ali, is in hospice care with liver cancer, his manager  said on Saturday.