Daily Archive: Sunday, July 1, 2012

(Jamaica Gleaner) Yohan Blake is the national sprint double champion after beating club mate Usain Bolt in the 200m at the JAAA/SVL Jamaica National Senior Championships at the National Stadium tonight.

(Reuters) – West Indies claimed a 2-0 Twenty20 series win over an injury-hit New Zealand side after a comprehensive 61-run win today in Lauderhill, Florida.

A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Member of Parliament Joseph Harmon has written to China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) expressing dismay that the combined Opposition was not consulted on a recent visit by that company to discuss the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project in the wake of corruption concerns regarding its parent company.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England eased to a second successive victory in their five-match one-day series against Australia at the Oval today to record their eighth consecutive ODI win.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Imperious Spain took their place among the game’s greats in vintage style by thrashing Italy 4-0 to become the first team to win successive European Championship titles today.

(WICB) Fort Lauderdale, Florida — The Selection Committee of the West Indies Cricket Board today announced the 13-man squad for the first and second Digicel One-Day Internationals against New Zealand.

(Jamaica Observer) The police yesterday charged 46-year-old Ivan Taylor of Lindos Hill, Withorn, in Westmoreland, for the abduction and murder of 39-year-old Michelle Coudray-Greaves of Circular Road, St Madeline, Trinidad.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 34-year-old medical doctor is to answer to four charges of committing sexual offences against two teenage girls.

(Jamaica Gleaner) St Lucia’s police commissioner Vernon Francois has urged his troops not to be swayed by public outrage directed at them following the arrest of one of their colleagues.

SANTA ELENA, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez defied his health problems to join a massive rally while opposition rival Henrique Capriles took to the remotest corners of Venezuela at today’s formal launch of the presidential race.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Masked assailants launched simultaneous gun and grenade raids on two churches in a Kenyan town today, killing at least 17 people in the worst attack in the country since Kenya sent troops into Somalia to crush al Shabaab militants.

A  fire of unknown origin last night destroyed a storage bond at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara and though the fire service responded promptly, time was lost trying to find the location.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gun and drug smugglers beware! Surveillance equipment meant to guard the nation’s borders that have been not functioning for the last three years is now being repaired and upgraded.

(Jamaica Observer) Broadcaster Simon Mark Anthony Crosskill has a penchant for laughing a lot and making people laugh as well.

(Reuters) – New Zealand captain Ross Taylor has been ruled out of today’s Twenty20 match against West Indies and is expected to miss the early part of the following five-match one-day series due to a shoulder injury, the county’s cricket board (NZC) said.

(Barbados Nation) Those passengers owed money by REDjet for tickets purchased prior to its abrupt suspension of flights need not worry.

(Barbados Nation) As policyholders of CLICO International Life (CIL) anxiously await word on their fate, regional officials have warned there are “no easy” solutions to the now three-year-old debacle.

(Trinidad Express) A TT$1 million prize for the best basketball team and towering former NBA player Dr Shaquille O’Neal were presented by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday as she unveiled a plan to tackle crime with sport among the nation’s young people.

Longstanding PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran resigned from the ruling party yesterday in a stunning move just weeks after calling on the government to tackle pervasive corruption and after other party executives expressed “disquiet” at a fiery meeting on Friday.

Story and photos by Lakhram Bhagirat Salem is a quiet village located on the eastern bank of the Essequibo River, approximately twenty-two miles from Vreed-en-Hoop.

Police are currently investigating a robbery and carjacking that occurred around midnight yesterday in the vicinity of the University of Guyana Road, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara (ECD), resulting in the driver of the car being badly injured.

The attempts by two teenage girls to leave their homes and travel into the interior were foiled by quick action by members of the Guyana Women’s Miners Organisation (GWMO), the Guyana Police Force and a welfare officer in Bartica.

By Emmerson Campbell Friday night’s action at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall produced both thunder and lightning.

Almost four years after 376 kilogrammes of cocaine stashed in boxes of pepper sauce were found in Canada, authorities here are yet to lay charges and CANU head James Singh blames the Canadians for this, saying that a request for information was ignored.

As allegations of corruption continue to surface president of the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) Gino Persaud says that this scourge must be confronted head on and those implicated must not be given an option to resign.

Farley, Fortune excite CASH crowd in dunk exhibition The Guyana National team mirrored the performance of its fellow National Community Basketball League (NCBL) All-Star team in blowing out the Brooklyn Bulldogs 85-50 when the NCBL International All-Star weekend continued Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida,  CMC – Aggressive opener Chris Gayle stroked his second half-century in three innings since his return to West Indies colours as the Caribbean side broke a nine-match winless slump with a 56-run victory over New Zealand in the opening Twenty20 International of the historic two-match series here  ysterday.

While hypertension and eclampsia remain the two leading causes of maternal deaths in Guyana, the Chief Medical Officer feels more has to be done to improve the attitude of the country’s nurses as way too many complaints are received from mothers.

Doctors have found that the daughter of Indira Singh, the woman whose decomposed body was found last month in a house they shared at Vergenoegen, on the East Bank Essequibo, is an adult and not a 14-year-old as had been previously believed.

Thirty-seven years ago Devon Sam was delivered at what was then known as the Nabaclis Hospital, but today he bemoans the condition of the “upgraded hospital” whose closure last weekend saw him taking on the job of a midwife for a few minutes and delivering a baby.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it is willing to welcome Ralph Ramkarrran into its fold, mere hours after he resigned from the PPP.

A Berbice couple walked into the Domestic Violence Counselling Centre a week ago last Thursday looking rather pensive; they were glad for the opportunity to talk about their problems.

The West Indies’ two Twenty20 Internationals against New Zealand over this weekend hold far more significance than simply the latest in the global escalation of the shortest, most popular and lucrative form of the game.

After a highly contested series of conferences that saw the best school emerging from different zones in Guyana,  Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) will tip off its annual National School’s Basketball Festival (NSBF) today from 16:00hrs at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

Long before the government announced an intention to ban the importation of styrofoam boxes in an attempt to address the chronic problem of garbage, a group of woman so fed-up of the clogged drains and trenches and litter around the city and its environs decided to do something about it and set up what they call Bag Bay Inc.

In the June 18, 2012 edition of the Stabroek News under the heading `Police raid Bartica bar, find underage teens drunk’  it was stated that Mr Wayne Heber was the owner of the hotel which housed the bar that was raided. 

All of the much talked about Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras have been installed and a special team is analyzing and storing the footage obtained on a regular basis.

Ring, Ring! … From today your telephone’s chime may be promoting a different ring to your usual conversation.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – World champion Yohan Blake stunned World record-holder Usain Bolt in the 100 metres final at the Jamaica Olympic Trials here Friday night, clocking the fastest time in the world this year and setting the stage for an enthralling battle at the London Olympics.

By Emmerson Campbell After finishing a disappointing ninth in the Road Race Championships last week, seasoned cyclist Robin Persaud took his talents to the inner circuit of the National Park yesterday to capture the featured 35-lap event of the Malta Supreme-sponsored 11-race programme.

One of the survivors of last Monday’s fatal accident at Novar, Mahaicony, died on Friday night while receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Part 1                                      Foreword Owing to newspaper space constraints, last week’s column was not carried in full.

One of the greatest fears of a professional athlete is becoming injured.

A one-day rapid chess tournament will take place today in Bartica as the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) moves to decentralize the sport.

GENEVA (Reuters) – World powers agreed yesterday that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there but they remained at odds over what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process.

Tyshon Bentick of the Guyana Defence Force was the winner of the Open category of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, 5K event and fitness jog.

Part 2 Introduction The events of the past week have been significant and distracting.

CAIRO (Reuters) – In a day full of memorable images, none yesterday was more powerful than that of Egypt’s first Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, flanked by generals at a military parade where he was formally handed authority to govern the nation.

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Al Qaeda-linked Mali Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs and pick-axes destroyed centuries-old mausoleums of saints in the UNESCO-listed city of Timbuktu yesterday in front of shocked locals, witnesses said.

A dilapidated house which sits on a property belonging to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is now home to a couple, said to be vagrants, and their two-month-old baby and neighbours are concerned about their presence there.

I find it hard to understand why most people never, literally never, read poetry.

I know I’m not breaking any new ground here in my assertion that while there are surely many men who are standout human beings, men, as social beings, are generally jackasses.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Last Saturday, Bryan Morris and his wife Loraine celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary.

The second annual 5-mile cycle road race in observance of CARICOM Day gets underway this morning from 9am on the West Bank of Demerara.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Mohammad Hafeez overcame his lean start to the tour of Sri Lanka by carving out a career best 172 not out as Pakistan reached an impressive 334 for one wicket at close of play on the first day of the second test yesterday.

The Guyana Defence Force football team could clinch the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Banks Premier League competition today with either a win or a draw.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) football team defeated a team from the Guyana Pharmaceutical Cooperation (GPC) 3-0 to reach the quarter finals of the PowerAde Inter Ministries/Corporation seven-a-side football tournament at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground, recently.

Today we begin a new series on gardening with hints for those who would like to develop a garden, or even just enjoy some potted plants around the house or on a patio.

North Georgetown Primary School defeated Mae’s 3-1 to win the Business School 11 years and under team tournament following play on Friday at the National Gymnasium.

Saimiri sciureus, the Common Squirrel Monkey is native to northern South America and can be found in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Amazonian Brazil and Colombia.

Dear Editor, “Justice is not a cloistered virtue: She must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny of respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men.” 

Outgoing World Bank President Robert B Zoellick, who is being mentioned as a possible candidate for US Secretary of the Treasury or State if Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins in the November elections, is trying to resurrect an ambitious idea: a hemispheric free trade area.

Dear Editor, In his letter to the members of the University of Guyana Council, dated June 25, 2012, in which he retracted his acceptance of Council’s unanimous re-election to serve as Chancellor of the University of Guyana for another three years, Prof Compton Bourne himself confirms the several claims made by the unions about his shortcomings and his inability to function as an effective Chancellor.

Over many years the Embassy of the United States of America in Georgetown has been involved in a range of artistic presentations in Guyana. 

(Trinidad Express) A 69-year-old Gasparillo man choked on his boxer shorts which were stuffed in his mouth by robbers during a home invasion early Friday morning.

Dear Editor,   First I would like to wish Mr La Rocque, the new Secretary General of Caricom, the very best in his new venture.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s bid for a series-levelling victory was further dampened when rain allowed only one session of play on the third day of the second test against Sri Lanka yesterday.

Recent developments in Europe and North America, involving Barclays Bank and others in the manipulation of Libor rates, are truly shocking.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 3.9 million homes and businesses were without power  yesterday amid a record heat wave in the eastern United States after deadly thunderstorms downed power lines from Indiana to New Jersey.

There is an organ in dogs which, when enlarged, can impact on the animal’s ability to urinate. 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Yitzhak Shamir, the hawkish Israeli leader who two decades ago first balked at US calls to trade occupied land for Middle East peace, died on Saturday after a long illness.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States (US) Coast Guard says it has seized more than 3,800lb of cocaine, worth an estimated US$48 million, during a number of sting operations in the Caribbean Sea.

Dear Editor, I am offering a correction to a reference made in the article ‘Martin Carter and his poems’ published in Arts on Sunday in the Sunday Stabroek, June 24, 2012. 

“I have nothing to hide. The party of which I am the General Secretary, the PPP, does not benefit from any ill gotten gains,” President Donald Ramotar was quoted as saying at the Private Sector Commission AGM on Thursday.