Daily Archive: Sunday, June 10, 2012

An historic 75-feet high tower was dismantled in New Amsterdam today because the crumbling edifice was leaning and posed a safety threat to passers-by.

Passengers on board Delta Airlines incoming flight 383 from John F.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – West Indies pace bowler Tino Best smashed 95 today to record the highest score by a number 11 batsmen in the history of test cricket on the fourth day of the third and final test against England at Edgbaston.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin tried to play down his angry gesture towards former captain Viv Richards after scoring a century in the third test against England today.

MONTREAL, (Reuters) – McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton stormed to a Canadian Grand Prix victory today to become a magnificent seventh winner in seven Formula One races this season and seize the championship lead.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – – The French Open men’s final between six-times champion Rafa Nadal and world number one Novak Djokovic was suspended for the day after rain stopped play on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has ordered all Cabinet ministers to cancel overseas trips for the upcoming week.

Canadian mining company Sandspring Resources Inc has been granted an environmental permit for the development, construction and operation of a large-scale gold mine at its property at Toroparu, Region Seven.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s health ministry has declared that the controversial product known as lean finely textured beef, or pink slime, will not be allowed into the country as it is not safe for consumption.

Jamaica Gleaner) Having managed to convince a judge to send Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to prison for the maximum 23 years, United States (US) law-enforcement agencies are now turning their attention to the assets of the man they once labelled as one of the world’s biggest drug traffickers.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – Wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin gathered his second Test century while Tino Best astonishingly hit the highest score ever by a number 11 to narrowly miss out on three figures, as West Indies were bowled out for 426 at lunch on the penultimate day of the final Test here Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Olympic champion Usain Bolt was involved in a minor accident in Half Way Tree, St.

(Barbados Nation) Seize one of REDjet’s planes! This is the call coming from angry ticket-holders who met at the Bay Street Esplanade yesterday to discuss how to recover money from the airline which has now filed for bankruptcy.

(Barbados Nation) A day after REDjet announced it was filing for bankruptcy, details emerged of a last-ditch appeal made to Government in May to save the Barbadian-based, low-cost carrier from going under.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The number of influenza cases with airway infections keeps increasing, with the Medical Mission (MZ) registering more than 800 cases in the hinterland alone in four weeks’ time, says Irma Jaglall, region doctor mid-Suriname with MZ who also works for the department of Patient Surveillance, Registration and Research.

(Trinidad Express) Inequality in the bail system is allowing gang leaders to stand bail for poor people who then have to commit crimes to pay back their bail money, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has said.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – West Indies, sent in to bat by England, were bowled out for 426 at lunch on the fourth day of the third and final Test at Edgbaston here today.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – The crowd fell into silence for seconds, some wept unabashedly as they stared quietly at a giant screen in a Manila public park after Manny Pacquiao lost his WBO welterweight crown on a controversial split decision yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Pertinent files containing information about the operations of the failed Hindu Credit Union (HCU), kept at the offices of the Commissioner for Co-operative Development, have gone missing.

(Reuters) LAS VEGAS, – Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines was stunned by American Timothy Bradley last night, surrendering his WBO welterweight title on a controversial split decision at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the discovery of two bodies bearing gunshot wounds in the Hindustan, New Grant, community yesterday morning and Friday night and have taken a relative of one of the victims into custody for questioning.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has recorded, what many believe is a staggering number of maternal and infant deaths for the year so far, but Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsarran said the figures are not alarming as they are on par with last year’s and consideration should be given to the fact that it is the country’s only public referral facility, which receives the high-risk and critical cases.

Photos by Anjuli Persaud and Frances Abraham Liverpool on the Corentyne coast is situated about 18 miles from New Amsterdam, and consists of 450 homes with about 1,000 persons, the largest proportion of whom are African-Guyanese.

Maritime authorities searched in vain yesterday to locate missing cook Gerald Fraser, who was on board the cargo vessel Miss Elissa, which capsized in the Demerara River on Friday afternoon.

Police have arrested the suspected gunman who opened fire on Charlestown resident, Oriley Small at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) tarmac on Friday evening, injuring two other persons in the process.

A 12-year-old boy and his grandmother were held at gunpoint yesterday when their family business was robbed by four armed men.

Guyana’s Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions are among senior legal officials who have rejected a suggestion by Senior Counsel, Ralph Ramkarran that jury trials should be abolished.

Sharon Howell, the mother of 10 who was stabbed and hammered mercilessly by her partner, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital and is said to be resting at her Freeman Street, East La Penitence home.

Six months into the 10th Parliament, the first major piece of legislation—the Telecommunications Bill—will be tabled in the National Assembly by the Alliance For Change (AFC) and this will be done within two weeks.

By Emmerson Campbell After defeating Back Circle (Team Guyana) three goals to one in the first semi-final, D’Urban Street edged Albouystown in the final to claim the $200,000 first prize in the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Competition at National Cultural Centre tarmac.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – In-form batsman Marlon Samuels stroked his third half-century in as many innings while the struggling Denesh Ramdin hit his first in three years to break a prolonged slump, as West Indies rode their luck on the third day of the final Test here Saturday.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC – Out-of-favour teenaged Test opener Kraigg Brathwaite produced a wonderful single-minded effort to prop us West Indies A on the opening day of the second unofficial “Test” against India A here  yesterday.

The liabilities of Guyana Stores Ltd (GSL) at the time of its sale by the state and whether its assets had been stripped were among issues that arose as NICIL’s head Winston Brassington was cross-examined on Friday in a case where NICIL is seeking to recover an outstanding sum of US$2M which formed part of the purchase price.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A three-man mediation team from the International Cricket Council will take part in negotiations between the West Indies Cricket Board and players’ union, WIPA, in an effort to settle the protracted dispute over a revised Collective Bargaining Agreement.

University of Guyana (UG) staff members are still working under the same conditions at the Turkeyen campus that they protested earlier this year, leading to calls for new action.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh have rested former captain Shakib Al Hasan for the forthcoming Zimbabwe tour following a request from the player, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said yesterday.

A number of engineers with  China National Technical Industrial Corporation (CNTIC) – builders of the troubled Skeldon sugar factory – are expected to leave Guyana next month but questions remain over the quality of the company’s work and penalties it should have faced over what was to be a turn-key project.

Almost everyone reading this will have grown up with a map of the world that places Europe at its centre, with the Americas to its west and Russia to its east.

KANDY, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – A superb all-round display by Thisara Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan’s 13th one-day century helped Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 76 runs at the Pallakele Stadium on Saturday to level the five-match series 1-1.

The designation of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) to manage the Good Hope crematorium will not affect cremations by non-Hindus at the facility.

LVIV,  (Reuters) – Mario Gomez thumped in a superb 72nd-minute header to give Germany a 1-0 victory over Portugal after they had been frustrated for long periods of a cagey Euro 2012 Group B match  yesterday.

Mings Products and Services (MPS) recently presented a $360,000 ZOLL Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) to the St Joseph Mercy Hospital and this was coordinated by Dr Rohan Jabour, paediatrician, who works at the hospital, a press release stated.

Important next steps At this stage I alert readers to two tasks which remain to be tackled before I wrap up this discussion of the medium term macroeconomic outlook.

GDANSK, Poland, (Reuters) – Denmark provided the first upset of Euro 2012 when they beat Netherlands 1-0 in Kharkiv yesterday in the opening game of Group B to leave the Dutch in a perilous position.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic is the world number one, holds three major titles and is on a 27-match grand slam winning streak.

All politicians lie, or sometimes play games with the truth, but the Presidents of Bolivia and Ecuador were so off the mark when they asked the Organization of American States to effectively kill its Human Rights Commission that one can only wonder whether they were being ignorant or blatant liars.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova was crowned the new queen of Roland Garros after she kept her poise to outwit and outpower diminutive Italian Sara Errani 6-3 6-2 to complete her collection of grand slam trophies  yesterday.

When I was young I played a little cricket. Indeed, one of my most precious memories, a memory now more that sixty years old, is of playing for my school third eleven on a rough pitch up at Mount St Benedict in Trinidad and taking five wickets in one eight-ball over with some slow cunning off-breaks which did not turn – they were an early incarnation of the doosra.

The new mediaeval way

MONTREAL, Canada,  CMC – McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was  yesterday eyeing his first win of the Formula One season after snatching a share of the front row for today’s Canadian Grand Prix.

African marigold (Tagetes erecta) is the tallest marigold of the group, which includes Scotch, French and triploid.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Union Rags, patiently ridden by John Velazquez, won the $1 million Belmont Stakes  yesterday with a late burst up the rails.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) was quite concerned over a Stabroek News front page story captioned ‘Enmore sugar workers lash out at GAWU – ignore call for strike’ on Thursday last, May 31.

The Olympic Games are 47 days away and although track star Aliann Pompey  will definitely compete, she is cautiously optimistic of  peaking in  time for world’s biggest sports event next month.

(Reuters) – The seeds of prosperity for some rural Africans may lie in a crop that has sustained them with calories for centuries but has generated virtually no wealth for their poor countries.

By Nigel Westmaas This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

When it comes to reflection on the quality of life in one’s own time, there is always the looking back to a past ‘golden age’ when things were better. 

NEW YORK,   CMC – Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sent a strong reminder of her credentials as she clocked a season-best to win the 100 metres at the Adidas Grand Prix, the sixth event of the lucrative Diamond League series here  yesterday.

A man cycling through flooded D’Urban Street on Friday

Dear Editor, Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is reported in your newspaper as having “urged a review” of the CJIA contract awarded to a Chinese firm that is found linked by filiation to a holding involved in corrupting government officials in other countries.

(Trinidad Express) Government’s intervention in the collapsed CL Financial conglomerate (CLF) will not end anytime soon.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  CMC – In-form batsman Marlon Samuels said  yesterday he owed his recent success against World number one England to a new patient attitude, especially in the challenging bowler-friendly English conditions.

Do as I say?

Some weeks ago I mentioned in a column that when I bought a nightclub in Toronto as a home base for Tradewinds, that although I had put up my house to secure the purchase, that didn’t quite cover it, and I had to turn to  my sister and her husband to put a second mortgage on their house to seal the deal.

Sunday’s Cartoon

Continued from last week Disorders of the bladder In the lower urinary tract, there are four basic problems, often interrelated. 

Dear Editor, On Saturday, June 2, Kaieteur News published a picture on its front page which showed a man beating a woman.

In the rainforest

(Jamaica Gleaner) Convicted gangster, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke’s lawyer, Stephen Rosen says his client will not appeal the 23 year sentence he was handed in a United States Federal court on Friday.

Last Thursday, Reuters issued a report headlined ‘Guyana oil exploration stirs up Venezuela border dispute.’