Daily Archive: Sunday, April 8, 2012

(Reuters) – American Bubba Watson became only the third left-hander to win the Masters with a gripping playoff victory over South African Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National today.

KADUNA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – A car bomb killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna on Easter Sunday, after security officers stopped the vehicle carrying it from approaching a church, witnesses and police said.

(Reuters) – Shivnarine Chanderpaul completed his 25th test century today to put West Indies in a strong position against Australia at Kensington Oval in Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) Neal & Massy Holdings LIMITED’S ongoing disastrous handling of its exit strategy from loss-making Almond Resorts Inc.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Mike Wallace, the grand inquisitor of CBS’s “60 Minutes” news show who once declared there was “no such thing as an indiscreet question,” has died at the age of 93, the network said today.

OKLAHOMA CITY, (Reuters) – Police acting on a tip arrested two white men today for the shootings of five black victims, three of whom died, in a spree that rattled the predominantly black neighbourhood in Tulsa.

Thirteen-year-old Dexter Marshall of Two Friends, Anns Grove was this morning reportedly electrocuted while riding on a Merry Go Round at a Fair in the village which he left to go to without his mother’s knowledge.

At least 27 people were killed in a major road accident in Haiti when a truck carrying people overturned on a highway south of Haiti’s capital, hospital officials said, according to the French news agency AFP.

(Jamaica Gleaner)  Legal challenges being brought by convicted criminals in the United Kingdom (UK) have resulted in a reduction in the number of Jamaicans being deported from that country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was scheduled to return to Cuba today for a third round of radiotherapy to treat a recurrence of his cancer.

(Barbados Nation) Jamaican hotel magnate Gordon “Butch” Stewart is making a second play for another 30-acre property in Barbados.

Continuing doubts by the IDB over GPL’s ability to effectively and efficiently distribute power from the proposed Amaila Falls Hydro Project is likely holding back the bank‘s financial commitment, sources say.

In the mid-1990s, the riverain North-West community of Morawhanna was buzzing with activity on any given day but as the water levels rose in the Barima River, the community today resembles a ghost town.

The Board of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is considering buying the building in Paramaribo, Suriname that now houses the Guyana Embassy as an investment opportunity.

A simple heartfelt letter from a mother to her son who was ill hundreds of miles away seems to have sparked renewed interest in colonial life here in the 18th century. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Vice-captain Kirk Edwards and teenaged opener Kraigg Brathwaite stroked contrasting half-centuries to give West Indies a strong start but rain forced an anti-climatic end to the opening day of the first Test against Australia here yesterday.

Guyana scored its first medal at the Carifta Games on the first day of the 41st edition of the event when Andrea Foster claimed bronze for the Golden Arrowhead at the National Sports Centre in Bermuda yesterday.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Friday last launched a massive countywide coaching programme that would be sponsored by the Guyana Oil Company and Castrol.

Region Nine officials are being accused of manipulating the voters’ list for village elections in Parishara after the names of two persons nominated for positions on the village council were omitted.

The West Indies have produced a number of writers of world stature.

Perseverance, good business practices and a good product is what the proprietors credit for the Lyken Newburg Funeral Home still being in business nine decades after it opened.

Motorists heading up the East Coast of Demerara were yesterday afternoon forced to drive through water for long stretches of the Rupert Craig Highway between Sheriff Street

The installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras around the city is winding down and upon completion will pave the way for the primary monitoring site to be linked to key departments of the Guyana Police Force.

While one stallholder in the Stabroek Market Bazaar lost her goods as a consequence of a fire in the early hours of Good Friday, others returned yesterday to find their stalls flooded following a high tide.

In last week’s Sunday column, I had indicated my plan is to link last year’s analysis of the 2011 National Budget with my evaluation of this year’s.

(Cricinfo) Narsingh Deonarine’s recall to the West Indies Test team to face Australia is a temporary solution to the absence of Marlon Samuels and has arrived despite continued reservations about his fitness, the coach Ottis Gibson has candidly admitted.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore welcomed a triumphant start to their 2012 Indian Premier League campaign thanks to a comfortable 20-run victory over the Delhi Daredevils at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell In a sense Winston Stoby can be considered as having the Midas touch.

(Reuters) – The San Antonio Spurs blew past the New Orleans Hornets 128-103 to claim the Western Conference lead with their 10th consecutive victory on Friday.

It’s true.  I cannot stand people who look you straight in the face and deliver B-S.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – England won the second test against Sri Lanka in some style when man of the match Kevin Pietersen smashed Tillakaratne Dilshan for six over mid wicket to complete an eight-wicket victory on the fifth and final day yesterday.

Introduction Even before the debate on the 2012 Budget begins, it is overtaken by an event not outside the control of the government, but well within it, an event that has been in the pipeline for years.

On the 30th anniversary of Argentina’s ill-fated invasion of the Falklands/Malvinas islands, one thing seems clear: Argentina’s government is pursuing the worst possible course to recover the British-controlled South Atlantic islands.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian troops pounded opposition areas, activists said, killing 74 civilians in an offensive that has sent thousands of refugees surging into Turkey before next week’s UN-backed ceasefire aimed at staunching a year of bloodshed.

AUGUSTA, Georgia,  (Reuters) – Phil Mickelson stormed up the Masters leaderboard yesterday to restore a sense of normality on an extraordinary day at Augusta National as Rory McIlroy relived his worst nightmare and Tiger Woods faded out of contention.

LONDON, England,  CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies left-hander Brendan Nash opened his English County Championship campaign in style with a stylish half-century for Kent on Thursday.

HAMILTON, Bermuda,  CMC – Regional powerhouses Jamaica wasted precious little time in stamping their mark on the 41st CARIFTA Games, winning four of the five finals in the morning session on the opening day here yesterday.

Dear Editor, The hypocrisy of the PPP/C regime has again been exposed.

LILONGWE (Reuters) – Prominent women’s rights campaigner Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi’s president on Saturday, becoming southern Africa’s first female head of state and raising hopes for a fresh start in the small, poor nation after the death of her mercurial predecessor.

The Margay (Leoparduswiedii), like its cousin the Oncilla, is a rare and elusive small spotted cat that lives in the remote parts of the rainforest.

A customer

A flowering plant’s goal is to set seed. If you repeatedly deadhead – trim off the spent flowers – the plant goes into overdrive, putting out more and more flowers in an effort to reproduce.

(Reuters) – A gunman shot five people, killing three of them, in a black neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a shooting spree that left residents on edge and sparked an intensive manhunt yesterday.

Face paintings

JAIPUR, India,  CMC – Trinidadian all-rounder Kovin Cooper starred with the ball to help fire Rajasthan Royals to a convincing 31-run victory over Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League here Friday.

Dear Editor, I am writing coincidentally on a day when Kaieteur News’ front page banner says ‘Indian coffee company ships out 50 containers of logs in 2 months – contrary to agreement with Forestry Commission’ (April 5). 

Dear Editor, Ms Laura George’s letter to SN titled ‘There is government interference in some Amerindian Village Council elections‘ (April 6) is spot on about the present Toshaos‘ election process which has been raising eyebrows among villagers in many communities for its blatant politicking by the PPP/C.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – An avalanche engulfed a Pakistani army battalion headquarters near the Indian border yesterday, burying 124 soldiers and 11 civilians, with no sign of survivors 17 hours later, the military said.

The Theatre Company and GEMS Theatre Productions have a few reasons to feel some sense of achievement in the staging of The GT&T Link Show 28 directed by Ron Robinson and managed by Gem Madhoo-Nascimento.

This is the fourteenth in our series on new parliamentarians As a new member of the National Assembly Eula Marcello sees Parliament as a learning experience but one which she nevertheless plans to use as a platform to advocate the further development of the hinterland human resources.

Continued from last week Nutritional effects on the bones Over the millennia of domestication of the dog and the cat, their diets have undergone immense changes.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict, leading the world’s Catholics into Easter, said yesterday technological progress, in the absence of awareness of God and moral values, posed a threat to the world.

“Without fear or favour”

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says her administration will be pursuing more stringent measures in dealing with the sexual abuse of children, including harsher penalties for parents and guardians.

Local honey producers

Where else on the democratic face of this planet could we have had a sequence of events like the one which has been unfolding here over the last few weeks?

(Barbados Nation) A former coast guard member was one of two men remanded to Dodds Prisons in St Philip yesterday on four drug charges.

(Trinidad Express) A Chinese national has been kidnapped. Reports are that around 10 a.m.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan has said people will be fired from one of two Government ministries or the St Ann’s Hospital if his investigation into the Cheryl Miller affair proves there was a breach of protocol in either how she was admitted to the hospital or how she was released from the facility.