Daily Archive: Sunday, May 27, 2012

(Jamaica Observer) An unimpressive Jamaica Reggae Boyz unit went down 1-0 to Panama inside the National Stadium in the first of their two-game friendly series Sunday evening.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two men who tried to rob a group of residents in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay in St James this morning were killed by a licensed firearm holder.

A 38-year old mother of ten is on life support at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH)  after she was stabbed and hammered mercilessly by her partner at their Freeman Street, East La Penitence home early this morning.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – England were on the verge of clinching the three-match series against West Indies after the tourists’ top order failed again on the third day of the second test at Trent Bridge today.

The body of a man, who police suspect was beaten after he stole two pieces of scrap metal from a Norton Street dealer, was discovered at the back of the Princes Street incinerator this morning.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – England lost captain Andrew Strauss for 141 but edged 58 clear of West Indies on first innings at tea on Sunday on the third day of the second test thanks to a valuable stand of 53 from all-rounders Tim Bresnan (39 not out) and Chris Broad (25) The pair came together at 363-7 and comfortably steered England past West Indies’ total of 370 only for Broad to top-edge a catch off the bowling of Shane Shillingford.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner says he won’t be destroyed by FIFA boss Sepp Blatter.

(Jamaica Observer) Shutting down porn sites has become a regular task for the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) since blackmailers have taken to publishing nude, sexually explicit photographs of multiple Jamaican women on the Internet.

(Barbados Nation) There are reports of daily unrest among prisoners and a critical shortage of food at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds.

(Trinidad Express) Between 6.30 p.m. on Friday and 3 a.m. yesterday two men from north Trinidad were gunned down in what the police described as separate gang-related incidents.

(Trinidad Express) Both CL Financial and subsidiary CLICO have issued pre-action protocol letters to Barbados-registered Proman Holdings Ltd as the companies seek to recover 51 per cent of CLICO Energy Ltd (CEL).

(Trinidad Express) In the face of a TT$339 million loss, State carrier Caribbean Airlines is now paying TT$20,000 a month to local company Triple D Rentals to lease a Toyota Prado vehicle for chairman Rabindra Moonan.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – West Indies struck back against England with four important wickets before lunch on the third day of the second test at Trent Bridge today, leaving the home side on 340-6 at the interval and still trailing on first innings by 30.

A 42-year-old porkknocker was yesterday shot dead by police shortly after he chopped two policemen, who were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance at his Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo home.

Story and photos by David Pappanah Located on the Corentyne coast, 25 minutes away from New Amsterdam and bordered by Rose Hall Town and Hampshire, is the friendly, peaceful village of Williamsburg.

NICIL Head Winston Brassington says a controversial share purchase by his brother saved Hand-in-Hand Trust from the fate of the collapsed Clico, however observers say the key question that HiH Trust and Brassington have to answer is how come his brother was the only investor who came to the rescue of the entity and whether this was a result of his receipt of privileged information.

Firemen up to press time last evening were battling to contain a fire at G Bacchus Enterprises, formally MFK Trading on Hadfield Street.

A 17-year-old  mother, who gave birth to twins at the Georgetown Public Hospital died on Wednesday at the institution owing to high blood pressure according to her relatives.

(Cricinfo) If Andrew Strauss’s hundred in the first Test against West Indies on his beloved home ground at Lord’s provided personal regeneration, another hundred in the second Test at Trent Bridge was an exercise in pampering.

By Emmerson Campbell The national 15s rugby team held its final simulation game yesterday at the Providence National Stadium ahead of its all-important game against Trinidad and Tobago in the Southern Zone of the NACRA Regional Qualifiers for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) – “Luke, Luke” cried the fans after Luke Donald took a two-shot lead in the PGA Championship third round with a masterful display under a scorching sun and swirling winds yesterday.

A woman was discovered murdered in her D’Urban Street home yesterday morning and it is believed that she was stabbed to death during an argument with her reputed husband.

A man was attacked and robbed on Robb Street yesterday afternoon and had to be taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment.

Travis Fraser and Damien Ross will match gloves in the headline bout of the amateur segment of the 23rd edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am which boxes off at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on June 1.

Police on the East Coast are searching for two men who escaped with $1 million belonging to a Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice businessman just after 1.30 pm on Thursday.

PASSO DELLO STELVIO, Italy (Reuters) – Belgian Thomas De Gendt climbed to a solo stage win and fourth place overall behind leader Joaquim Rodriguez thanks to a spectacular 57-kilometre mountain breakaway yesterday.

More than two years after policeman Chaavekanand Kishore died his relatives remain convinced that his death was no suicide and are calling on investigators to do more to answer  many lingering questions.

The National Sports Commission sponsored junior badminton tournament continued on Friday at the Queen’s College Court with Narayan Ramdhani and Greer Jackson walking away with the boys and girls singles titles.

Almost four years ago 53-year-old Marion Low-Williams left her Plaisance East Coast home promising her children that she was travelling to Suriname or Cayenne to work so as to improve their lives.

Chris Gayle has scored 2591 runs in this format in the last 17 months, at an average of 57 and a strike rate of 170.

Psychologist Dr Faith Harding has expressed grave concern over the number of suicides and attempted suicides among young people, and she has attributed the problem partly to them living life too quickly and becoming bored by the time they are in their late teens.

This member of the Guyana Rastafarian Council gives a sculpting lesson to a curious onlooker at the National Stadium during the inaugural Food, Arts and Music Festival (FAM Fest) yesterday.

 Introduction Amidst the din and controversy of ‘to cut or not to cut’, Guyana Power and Light Inc, the country’s number one, state-owned electricity supplier was voted the sum of five billion dollars in the 2012 Budget.

The Project Concept Note (PCN) for the rehabilitation of the Cunha Canal is currently being reviewed by the Steering Committee of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF).

Even a careful, if non-scientific, trawl through West Indies cricket history could not unearth two simultaneous performances as crucial to the players involved, quite apart from the immediate position of the team, as those by Marlon Samuels and Darren Sammy with their individual hundreds and their record 204-run partnership over the first two days of the second Test.

A Lethem taxi driver is angry over moves by a prominent businessman in the border community to take over several acres of sand-bearing land, which he has occupied for close to a decade.

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

Eight street football teams including Guyana’s representative for  the inaugural Guinness Caribbean Street Football Challenge, Back Circle, will vie for $200,000 and a trophy when the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Exhibition Competition kicks off tonight at the new Albouystown Basketball Court.

“What’s your favourite Tradewinds song, and which one you feel has had the strongest reaction?”

It’s not unusual in Latin American politics for presidents to clash with their predecessors who once helped elect them, but the current feud between former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and President Juan Manuel Santos goes beyond anything I’ve seen in a long time.

The residents and business owners at Stelling Road Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, are calling on the authorities to have the sea defences upgraded or repaired so as to prevent flooding whenever the tide is high.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland beat a dogged Bosnia side 1-0 yesterday in their last home game before the European Championship, Shane Long heading a late winner and promising youngster James McClean pushing his claims for a place in the starting line-up.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Thousands of devout Muslims prayed outside Turkey’s historic Hagia Sophia museum yesterday to protest a 1934 law that bars religious services at the former church and mosque.

MADRID (Reuters) – Tito Vilanova’s step up from assistant to Barcelona coach for next season is a sign of continuity rather than the end of an era, the outgoing Pep Guardiola said after Friday’s 3-0 King’s Cup final triumph.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a UN peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria’s uprising.

The Budget 2012 reveals that despite the statistical benefit which is derived from using the rebased 2006 GDP series as the denominator (because this has led to an approximately two-thirds increase in its size) the debt stock to GDP ratio for Guyana has increased from its low of 60 per cent in both 2007 and 2008 to 70 per cent in 2011. 

Members of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) displaying their drumming abilities at Guyana’s inaugural Food, Arts and Music Festival (FAM Fest) at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Dear Editor, Given what has played out in local politics after the British politicos left Guyana in May 1966, I can’t really think of anything significant which we can celebrate, thus rendering any thought of a 46th anniversary celebration one more of symbolism than of substance.

CAIRO (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood may seek to modify, but will not destroy, Egypt’s 33-year-old peace treaty with Israel, former US President Jimmy Carter said yesterday.

One of the oddities of the region is that it is often easier to read in the media about what is happening in North America or Europe than it is to discover what is happening in neighbouring nations that speak another language.

An onlooker interacts with a member of Amazon Authentics at the Food Art and Music Festival (FAM Fest) the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Continued from last week Kidney failure (uremic poisoning) Kidney failure, also called renal failure, may be sudden and acute or chronic and progressive.

MONACO (Reuters) – Michael Schumacher’s chances of racing on in Formula One next year looked a lot more likely yesterday after a pole-worthy performance by the 43-year-old Mercedes driver in Monaco Grand Prix qualifying.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters)- Paolo Gabriele was always a reserved, almost shy man, as his position requi red.

Dear Editor, Forty-six years of independence celebrated. Who is really free in this Magnificent Province? 

Nibbi is a hemi-epiphytic plant.  This means that they attach themselves to trees but are rooted in the ground by aerial roots.

(BBC) – The Indian Premier League’s (IPL) ongoing fifth season has turned out to be the most closely fought one so far.

This member of the Guyana Rastafarian Council was seen offering rides to children in his Eco-Start Motor carriage at the inaugural Food, Arts and Music Festival (FAM Fest) at the National Stadium yesterday.

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s Tuareg rebel National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine Islamist militants have agreed to merge and create an independent Islamic state in the north of the country, a rebel spokesman said yesterday.

Amerindian art in Guyana has generated forms in painting and sculpture which are the most unique in the anglophone Caribbean. 

There has been no epiphany in Freedom House. No new thinking.

Former central executive member of the PNCR Dr Faith Harding has been moving ahead with her Quick Impact Programme (QIP) and one of her major programmes is already under way with the planting of many acres of sorrel at Long Creek which is expected to be exported when reaped.

Dear Editor, A few days ago I read two interesting items: One was a response to a letter by Lincoln Lewis written by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, ‘Boilers, steam turbines, alternators are still in the steam power station in Linden (SN, May 11), and the other was, ‘Life and death at Linden by AA Fenty (SN, February 7, 1997), in which he described a picture of gloom, despair and lost sense of hope.

These two taxis collided at the corners of Lance Gibbs and New Garden Streets yesterday afternoon and one of the vehicles hit a man walking on the road resulting in him having to be rushed to

Sunday Cartoon

Angry Els hits out over Wentworth greens VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) – Course designer Ernie Els let rip at the European Tour and Wentworth’s greenkeeping staff yesterday after brushing aside strong winds to move to the fringes of contention at the PGA Championship.