Daily Archive: Sunday, January 8, 2012

This year’s Annual Police New Year’s Eve Ball was graced with a surprise visitor in the person of Police Commissioner (on leave) Henry Greene.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez dismissed a U.S. warning to avoid close ties with Iran yesterday, denouncing what he said was Washington’s attempt to  dominate the world as he prepared to welcome the Iranian  president to the Latin American nation.

Nine persons were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital this afternoon after the horse cart they were travelling on collided with a minibus at the corner of Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue.

Police say that at about 2025h. last night, three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, entered the Big G Store at UG Access Road, Cummings Lodge and held up sales attendant Sharon Gomes and took away $175,000 and two cell phones and escaped.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – R&B superstar Beyonce has given  birth to a baby girl in New York, media outlets reported today.

A 45-year-old Guyanese sex-offender is among 1400 dangerous foreign criminals being sought by the authorities in Toronto, Canada.

(Trinidad Express) State-owned Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) is increasing its North American and regional routes to Trinidad for Carnival 2012.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar should consider taking a cue from Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo and also return her Senior Counsel instrument to President George Maxwell Richards, People’s National Movement chairman Franklin Khan has said.

(Trinidad Express) The police investigation into allegations that 17 men were part of an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Cabinet Ministers has been completed with no evidence to suggest the allegations were true.

(Jamaica Observer) Ten months after she was subjected to a dehumanising cavity search, verbal abuse, confinement, and deportation from the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados, Jamaican Shanique Myrie is still traumatised by her ordeal.

The state-owned Guyana Oil Company Limited (GUYOIL) is investigating the discharging of alleged tainted fuel from its dealers on the Essequibo Coast and has taken a series of steps.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Flip-flopping on her previous position on big government while she was in Opposition, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has named a 28-member executive that will cost taxpayers close to J$200 million per annum, at current rates, in salaries and allowances.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In three years Suritex, Staatsolie’s fuel distribution network, must hold the market leader position in Suriname.

(Barbados Nation) The Four Seasons Resort project seems to have hit another snag.

The proposal for the speaker of the National Assembly to rotate between A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) has been deemed ambiguous and unrealistic by representatives of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).           

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon departed Guyana  yesterday morning.

The defunct Rupununi River Bridge at Katoonarib will benefit from a $26 million upgrade – a sum that represents 162% of the cost to build it—almost four years after a section of the structure caved-in under the weight of an excavator.

By Frances Abraham with photos by Lakhram Bhagirat Located on the East Coast of Demerara is the village of Beterverwagting (BV) (a Dutch name meaning ‘Better Expectation”), better known to residents as ‘Barron.’

Although the PPP/C would have seen its votes dip significantly at the November 28 polls, PNCR-member-turned-PPP/C-supporter Joe Hamilton says it is erroneous to claim that the public endorsement of Donald Ramotar’s candidacy by figures previously associated with the opposition did not result in votes for the incumbent party.

The Commonwealth Observer Group has recommended that Guyana amends its electoral laws to provide for fixed ordinal lists so that voters know upfront which candidates are most likely to take up seats in the National Assembly.

Police are probing allegations that a policeman’s car knocked down a child and the police, at the station to which he is attached, refused to take a complaint.

Residents of Grove, East Bank Demerara yesterday prevented two hearses attached to the Lyken’s Funeral Home from leaving after two unclaimed bodies were taken to the cemetery there to be buried.

Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira has described the death of an East Coast Demerara woman following a botched abortion, as unfortunate, pointing out that a lot had been done since the passing of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in 1995.

Introduction At the end of 2010 I was expecting global economic recovery, albeit at a reduced rate, to take place during 2011.

It’s hard to believe that this would happen today in a largely democratic region, but the beginning of 2012 finds much of Latin America suffering the worst wave of press censorship since the rightist military dictatorships of the 1970s.

Despite the occasion it was a sombre Alpha United team that turned up Friday evening at the Banks DIH Limited Sports Club at Thirst Park to receive the awards the team won in the inaugural Banks Beer Cup knockout football competition which ended on January 1.

The National Twenty20 cricket team under skipper Christopher Barnwell left Guyana yesterday for Antigua where they will participate in the West Indies Cricket Board Regional Twenty20 series.

By Ian Buruma HO CHI MINH CITY – Can an entire people go mad?

With the opposition parties indicating that they will be seeking to scrutinize the Amaila Falls hydropower project in the National Assembly, the project developer Sithe Global says it is eager to engage not only members of Parliament but other interested parties over the US$835 million project.

It was a double treat for Berbicians on Friday evening when one of their very own, Gail Ann ‘Priya’ Singh was announced winner of the Bollywood segment of the GT&T Jingle & Song competition.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Amir Khan’s promoter said on Saturday the WBA had informed him it will order a rematch with American Lamont Peterson following the British boxer’s controversial defeat on a split decision in their world title fight in Washington last month.

I’ve had the good fortune lately to do one of the things I enjoy the most – browse in good bookstores and buy a stock of books to read and add to my library.

At the end of another particularly bad week, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) issued a statement reiterating that it will “continue with its programme for the restructuring of West Indies cricket and will pursue through all available channels the arrangements that are necessary for the progress of cricket in the territories and the region.”

One of the striking things about the Guyanese culture is our disposition to improvise, to use our ingenuity, to use our wiles, to try and overcome. 

By Iva Wharton The Georgetown Football Association (GFA), Banks DIH sponsored President’s Beer tournament resumes in another two weeks and according to Kwabina Griffith, GFA’s Vice President with responsibility for Technical and Tactical Development they will be doing so with one team less, Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

Introduction Nothing concentrates the mind like a deadline. With the date for the convening of the 10th Parliament fast approaching – it must be held within four months of the end of the previous session which ended in the last week of September, 2011 – it is expected that our politicians will soon resolve the uncertainties over who will be the Speaker as well as the simmering questions about the Statements of Poll.

The Guyanese suspect wanted in connection with the killing of another US-based Guyanese man in Richmond Hill, New York last month is believed to have fled back here or to Miami.

Most years Caribbean governments and their counterparts from beyond the region hold policy level encounters at which they discuss matters of common interest.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Another national association is being chastised by its Government for the way it has been handling the administration of the game in their country.

Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday handed over $1.5 million worth in agro-processing equipment to women’s groups of beekeepers so that they can enhance their production to meet larger orders, when he attended the first beekeeping workshop for 2012.

The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) threatened to take the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to court over Guyana’s exclusion from the upcoming Caribbean T20.

By Emmerson Campbell If the saying that opportunity comes at least once in everyone’s lifetime is true, the opportunity of boxer Mark Austin’s life has now presented itself.

(Trinidad Express) Maintaining their stance that they did no wrong, Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo on Friday returned the instruments which granted them the title of Senior Counsel to President George Maxwell Richards.

Kordes Perfecta is a fragrant pink blossom with vigorous, shrubby growth.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Skipper Kirk Edwards managed his best knock of 42 not out following a telling three-wicket haul by fast bowler Tino Best as Barbados lifted the four-team UWI Cave Hill Campus Twenty20 Festival by five wickets with seven balls to spare over reigning Caribbean T20 champions Trinidad & Tobago at the 3Ws Oval on Friday night.

The rains and concomitant flooding would have

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Friday defended her decision to lead a Trinidad and Tobago delegation to India, saying that country was one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – VVS Laxman should be the first veteran head to roll in a batting revamp if India are to secure their future in test cricket, several former players have said in the wake of a second crushing defeat in Australia.

Guyana is among Caribbean beneficiaries of President Hugo Chávez’s PetroCaribe facility, and will no doubt be keeping an eye on Venezuela’s elections this year since the outcome could directly affect them.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez never had cancer despite being diagnosed with the disease last month and having her thyroid gland removed on January 4, her spokesman said yesterday.

Hurry up and fix my school! This little miss was the only pupil of the Uitvlugt Primary School who turned up dressed in her school clothes, in the hope that the problems would have been fixed on

Peacock Bass (Cichla ocellaris), Butterfly Peacock Bass, Waterwolf, or Lukanani is actually a cichlid, not a member of the bass family.

Hadi’s World Incorported of Regent & Camp Streets, formerly the City Mall, will sponsor the next nationwide softball cricket competition organized and managed by the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA).

(Trinidad Express) Lawrence Duprey is the opposite of his uncle Cyril Duprey.

A view of the defunct Rupununi River Bridge at

Acting President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Franklin Wilson has expressed shock at the passing of former Golden Jaguars and Alpha United footballer Shawn `Fatso’ Bishop who passed away after a period of brief illness Friday.

Tick paralysis The saliva of some species of tick contains poisons, which affect the motor nerves of the dog.

Dear Editor, What does it mean to be a citizen of Guyana?

Dear Editor, Late last year, it was announced that former Registrar of the Supreme Court, Ms Sita Ramlal, had been appointed as Solicitor General in the Attorney-General’s Chambers in the Ministry of Legal Affairs. 

Sunday Cartoon

The section of the Rupununi River bridge at

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Friday warned newly installed ministers of government to perform or be fired.

To use a popular oxymoron Guyana’s cricket is in a fine mess.

ABUJA (Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan pleaded with Nigerians yesterday to support the removal of fuel subsidies and pledged to cut government salaries, in an effort to prevent a nationwide strike planned for tomorrow.

If the political landscape has changed since last year, in practical terms the things that impinge on the daily lives of citizens remain very much as they were.

The Trinidad Carnival is often called “the greatest show on earth” even though the Rio Carnival in Brazil might have claim to that title.