Articles published on Monday, January 30, 2012
The European Union today announced that it transferred a further $3.4B to the Government of Guyana in support to the sugar sector and a further $6.8B is to be supplied this year once the relevant financing agreement is signed.
Yesterday’s rainfall: The Hydrometeorological Service as at 8.00 hours on January 30th, 2012, received reports from a number of its rainfall stationsa cross the country.
The Guyana Police Force says that telephone service at the Brickdam Police Station, including the emergency 911 line, has been disrupted after a tree fell on Brickdam.
It was only a matter of time before somebody came up with the idea of a pet project for the new First Lady Mrs.
(Trinidad Guardian) British journalist Andrew Jennings claimed in an article, published in the British press, yesterday that FIFA president Sepp Blatter favoured former vice president of the football body, Jack Warner, with television rights.
(Trinidad Guardian) Disabled Claxton Bay mother of two Patricia Pegus can’t understand why anyone would want to kill her son, Aldon, a 35-year-old dog trainer/breeder, who was ambushed at his Rose Hill Street, Claxton Bay, home yesterday morning.
Deputy Mayor Robert Williams died this morning in hospital where he was admitted almost a month ago for heart related complications.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The commercial sex industry is also benefiting from high gold prices.
(Trinidad Express) Indian High Commissioner Malay Mishra said yesterday that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar failed to truly connect with the people of her ancestral village of Bihar during her recent State visit to India.
(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan promised “harsh decisions” after an ambulance service ignored the cry for help from a young mother and her ailing baby.
(Barbados Nation) Today is D-DAY for Prime Ministers Freundel Stuart, Dr Ralph Gonsalves and Baldwin Spencer, meeting at Hilton Barbados to chart the way forward for financially-troubled LIAT (1974) Limited.
Several villages in Regions Five and Six remained under floodwater yesterday following heavy and persistent rain, with some West Berbice residents fearing that they would suffer losses to their cash crops.
Construction of the long-stalled US$51M Marriott Hotel in Kingston is scheduled to start next month but government is still seeking one or more participants who will collectively own 67% of the project’s equity amounting to US$8M.
The East Coast of Demerara was bracing for more rain today after heavy, persistent downpours yesterday left low-lying areas under inches of water.
The process recently used to allocate radio licences is “unworkable” the Guyana Media Proprietors Association (GMPA) has said while expressing concern about the absence of transparency.
The body of a man is being kept at the Lykens Funeral Parlour after it was collected from the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on Saturday evening.
Residents in some sections of the New Diamond and Grove Housing Schemes, East Bank Demerara are blaming poor maintenance of the drainage network for flooding in their areas yesterday.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – An official Guyana team – sanctioned by the Guyana Cricket Board – will play in the Regional Four-Day tournament starting on Friday, but they will spend plenty of time on the road.
A mother of five of No 10 Village, West Coast Berbice was left homeless and her belongings scattered in the rain after the father of her three smaller children dismantled the house they were living in.
A Guyana national cricket team minus its two most experienced players in Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan was expected to depart Guyana at 5.30am for Dominica where they will play the first two rounds of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four day competition which bowls off Friday.
More than two years after the US$2 million insurance fraud allegedly committed on the Sacred Heart Church was adjourned indefinitely, it was reopened on December 15 last year with the testimony of Gregory Yeadon, an insurance loss adjuster based in Barbados.
The suspect in the murder of Oscar De Roche is expected to make a second appearance at the Bartica Magistrates’ Court on February 17.
By Emmerson Campbell Theodore Henry, player/coach of the national rugby Sevens team which is preparing to participate in the Las Vegas Invitational Sevens tournament in the United States of America early next month, says the team is working on correcting one of its weakness which was its offence.
The Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) continues to push for a club house and indoor rRange but plans to have the facility in the city have been met with stiff resistance from authorities.
Dear Editor, I write in tribute to Lawrence D Carrington, the outgoing Vice-Chancel-lor of the University of Guyana, someone I came to know in my sabbatical year (2009-2010) and my eight-month visit in 2011.
Three out of five men who were on Friday charged at the Springlands Court with attempted murder and two counts of discharging a loaded firearm have been remanded to prison.
The Government Analyst/Food & Drug Department said on Friday that it has launched an investigation in order to take appropriate action against unlicensed and unauthorized distributors of drinking water.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England should not change their team despite being “embarrassed” by Pakistan in the first two tests, according to former captain Michael Vaughan.
Dear Editor, The report in the Kaieteur News of January 22, about Minister Pauline Sukhai being at the centre of a bitter land-grabbing row in Santa Rosa, Region 1, is a disrespect to the Minister of Amerindian Affairs.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic waged war against Rafa Nadal for almost six hours in the longest grand slam final ever played to claim a third Australian Open title and leave the tortured Spaniard empty-handed yet again.
Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon is bang-on with his position that the PPP has and has always had an authoritarian culture.
The flooded access to the
The formal closure by the prosecution in the case for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Anthony Watson and Basil Morgan are accused of attempting to murder Police Constable Rajindra Singh and Police Detective Damintra Indarpaul has now been adjourned to February 3.
A community forest Moni-toring, Reporting and Verifi-cation (C-MRV) project involving 16 villages of the North Rupununi, was launch-ed on Saturday in Annai, Region Nine.
The second Annual Scotia Bank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy will get cracking today with a three-day coaching course to be conducted by United States-based coach Stanley Harmon at the Ministry of Education Sports Club on Carifesta Avenue.
Dear Editor, I must commend Stabroek News‘ reporter Treiston Joseph on his story captioned ‘Synthetic track stuck at phase one after 13 months‘ (January 27).
A flooded cash
Dear Editor, It can really pain your stomach when you hear former residents of Kwakwani complain about the state of the community.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – President Raul Castro defended Cuba’s one-party political system as a bulwark against U.S.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The very thought of Sachin Tendulkar and his contemporaries being shown the exit door would have been dismissed a year ago, but the majority of the Indian cricket fans are now convinced that the ‘golden generation’ should make way for new blood.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Lawrence Carrington, on Friday emphasized the importance of Social Sciences in grappling with local and global problems, as Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited’s held its University of Guyana awards ceremony.
Dear Editor, I refer to Gerry Goveia’s challenge to me (SN, Jan 25) that if I prove that Duke Lodge was not properly acquired by him, then, he is prepared to divest himself of the property and return it to the state, among other things.
Over 260 benefited from a joint eye care mission hosted by optometry students from both UG and UWI’s St Augustine Campus, in regions two and ten.
West Berbice flooding
Rain yesterday forced the postponement of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) first event of the year, its annual Cross Country race.
HIALEAH, Fla., (Reuters) – Republican Newt Gingrich struggled to halt surging rival Mitt Romney’s momentum on Sunday, accusing him of launching false attacks as polls showed Romney widening his lead two days before Florida’s presidential primary.
Tennicia DeFreitas triumphs: Stiff competition on Saturday night saw Linden’s crowd favourite being dethroned by
DAWEI, Myanmar, (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called yesterday for changes to the military-drafted constitution, on her first political trip since ending a boycott of the country’s political system last year and announcing plans to run for parliament.
Head of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) set up by the Guyana Government Clive Lloyd last evening said that he was respectful of the West Indies Cricket Board’s latest decision with respect to Guyana’s participation in the annual Regional four-day tournament adding that the IMC was not opposed to the team leaving under the umbrella of the GCB.
Dear Editor, As US President Barack Obama heads toward re-election, I want to discuss the Obama health reform law, which was a significant accomplishment in his first term.
By Janette Bulkan In the article ‘The rule of law? – not in the forest sector of Guyana’ published by Stabroek News’ In the Diaspora on Monday 16 January 2012, I outlined the simple ways by which some traders export timber logs illegally.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Troops seized eastern suburbs of Damascus from rebels late yesterday, opposition activists said, after two days of fighting only a few kilometres from the centre of power of President Bashar al-Assad.
The flooded yard yesterday of a
Dear Editor, I do not know who Margaret Clemons is, but she needs to give credit to the French artist JR for her “brainchild” Witness Project, as reported in today’s SN (‘Witness Project’s eyes and faces go up around city’).
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has attributed his team’s current success to his players’ determination to restore pride in their country after the 2010 corruption scandal.
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NEW YORK CITY, CMC – Asafa Powell edged out fellow Jamaica Nesta Carter to win the 50 metres dash on a night when Veronica Campbell-Brown and Trinidadian Renny Quow also shone at the USA Track and Field US Open at Madison Square Garden here Saturday.
Dear Editor, How lawful is it for the government to enter into contracts without parliamentary/budgeted approval or public tender, with not even a parliament in place?
(Reuters) – Three members of an Afghan Canadian family were found guilty of the “honour killing” of three siblings and a fourth relative yesterday after a high-profile trial that has fascinated Canadians.
Good governance thrives in an environment where there are robust checks and balances; where no branch of government exercises unrestrained and improper sway as for example the executive influencing decisions of the judiciary or creating conditions where judicial officers feel intimidated or beholden to the executive in the discharge of their functions.
By Arif Bulkan, Alissa Trotz & Nigel Westmaas As the editorial in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek noted, just two months ago there appeared to be speculation that Freddie Kissoon, lecturer at the University of Guyana for 26 years and one of the most popular and controversial newspaper columnists in the country, was being targeted for the termination of his teaching contract.
The 7th council of the Regional Democratic Council of Region 10 was installed last week and a new Chairman and Vice Chairman were elected to serve.
Brickdam collision: Two minibuses collided on Brickdam yesterday afternoon leaving about seven persons with
