Daily Archive: Monday, December 3, 2012

Golden Jaguars captain Chris Nurse has once again engaged the media to advocate for new blood in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and for negotiations to start for contracts for players for the new year.

(Trinidad Express) Hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh today refused all medical aid, even his own private ambulance, as he embarked on day 19 of his hunger strike action against the Debe to Mon Desir segment of the highway to Point Fortin.

(WICB) DHAKA, Bangladesh – The West Indies training session scheduled for Tuesday, December 4 at the National Cricket Academy Ground in Mirpur has been cancelled.

The police are investigating a shooting which occurred at about 2025h yesterday.

The police say they are probing the shooting of Eon Ambrose, of 91 Sideline Dam, La Penitence which occurred at about 0045h today by a man armed with a handgun.

Congratulations to Jennifer Cumberbatch who graduated with a Master of Education Degree from the University of Guyana.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit secretly travelled to India in order to care for infant twins born to the surrogate mother of a gay palace employee unable to get a travel visa, the palace said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine are expecting a baby, destined to be the country’s future monarch, the prince’s office said today.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL)  is deploying four new feeders on the West Coast of Demerara which will improve electricity supply but there will be a number of outages to facilitate work.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – South Africa captain Graeme Smith thinks home advantage will give England the edge in the first of two Ashes series against Australia next year.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh pace bowler Abul Hasan has been ruled out of the remaining three one-day internationals of a five-match series against West Indies due to a side strain, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said today.

(Jamaica Observer) The island’s sugar cane industry has undergone resurgence in the past year, with a big increase in the number of registered farmers and record prices being paid for sugar.

(Jamaica Observer) A Bill addressing defamation that could affect the practice of journalism in Jamaica may come before Parliament before April next year, Minister of Information Sandrea Falconer disclosed yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Minister of International Business and International Transport George Hutson says there’s no truth in an Internet report that Government and the group called United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) have reached an agreement to end the “reflagging” of Iranian vessels in Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados may not receive much assistance from United Nations agencies, but the world body is asking the island to pay more to help finance UN peacekeeping operations in different parts of the world.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday that statements by the Prime Minister that she was being betrayed by her own Cabinet were an admission by her that the business of the people of Trinidad and Tobago was not in good hands and the country was in peril.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday denied that she was referring to former Congress of the People leader Winston Dookeran on Saturday, when she spoke of issues of trust and divisions within the People’s Partnership coalition government.

(Trinidad Express) In an unprecedented move, four independent senators are calling on the People’s Partnership Government to take the “necessary first step” to bring to an end the current impasse between the administration and environmentalist hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh.

Thick fog swept over Georgetown early this morning reducing visibility, something not seen very often by city residents.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – South Africa asserted their position as the best team in the world with an emphatic 309-run victory over Australia in the third test to clinch the hard-fought series 1-0 and ruin Ricky Ponting’s farewell today.

As investigations continue into Friday’s stunning multi-million gold heist in Curaçao, authorities on the island are maintaining that the shipment was legal since it was cleared electronically on Thursday prior to the ship entering port the following day.

A 76-year-old pensioner, Mohamed Shaeed Hamid of 20 Maida Farm, Corentyne was shot dead around 2:40 yesterday morning when person/s invaded his yard.

Ronald Livingstone, a former National Communications Network (NCN) cameraman, died on Satur-day night following a road accident at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

A Belle West woman lost her life in a hit-and-run on Saturday afternoon after being struck by a bus at Crane Turn, Crane, West Bank Demerara, as she was making her way home.

A mother of three was spared what could have been a serious attack after neighbours intervened as her abusive husband went after her with a grass- knife on Tuesday evening in the Abary Creek.

By Iva Wharton The 2012 Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Tournament concluded last night with first-time participants Toronto Academy walking away with the ladies title, while Hikers won the Veterans and Men’s categories.

Chinese entrepreneurs are not here to take away business from Guyanese or break laws, according to the Chinese Association of Guyana which says that it has been encouraging its members to ensure compliance with good business ethics.

Urgent reforms are needed if the PPP is to retain enough support to ensure a majority at the polls, former PPP stalwart, Ralph Ramkarran has said.

By Emmerson Campbell Seventy-four kilogramme, Masters Two World dead lift record holder Winston ‘Little Master ‘Stoby was predicted to break his own record but it was Vijai Rahim, Anis Ade Thomas and Karel Mars who broke theirs.

PERTH, (Reuters) – South Africa’s AB de Villiers removed the question mark over whether he could bat while also keeping wicket with a storming 169 yesterday to help his country to the brink of a series triumph over Australia.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Protests by Islamists allied to President Mohamed Mursi forced Egypt’s highest court to adjourn its work indefinitely yesterday, intensifying a conflict between some of the country’s top judges and the head of state.

The new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana will be selected after the interview panel which was involved in the process meets and assesses presentations, public lectures and interviews that each of the four candidates have completed.

Dear Editor, Tears came to my eyes after reading the letter, ‘Money from Kwakwani bauxite machines sold as scrap should be used on projects for the community’s benefit,’ by the very exemplary Kwakwani resident Jocelyn Morian.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Sunday signed a pact with the country’s leading political parties to increase competition in the telecommunications sector and overhaul the education system.

“Don’t beat your wife, she is not your clothes, she is not a drum,” “Men and women must love and respect each other” and “Love and cherish your wives” were among the chants of a procession led by the Circle of Sisters through the Soesdyke community last Sunday, in observance of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Erratic West Indies were left tottering on the brink of an embarrassing series loss after another abysmal performance saw them slump to a belittling 160-run defeat to Bangladesh in the second One-Day International.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Hashim Amla scored 196 and AB de Villiers 169 in a batting exhibition that drove South Africa to a commanding lead of 631 runs before they were dismissed for 569 on the third day of the third test against Australia yesterday.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The pace of activity in China’s vast manufacturing sector quickened for the first time in 13 months in November, a survey of private factory managers found, adding to evidence that the economy is reviving after seven quarters of slowing growth.

The Office of the President says that at around 11 am yesterday, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr.

Dear Editor, For those unaware, let me inform them that Berbice is picking up the signals of its first FM broadcasts.

World AIDS Day walk: Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (second from right), United States  Ambassador to Guyana Brent Hardt (second from left), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, Joe Hamilton (left) and Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Dr.

Dear Editor, Mr Nazar Mohamed is quite right about the state of affairs of the city of Georgetown (‘The M&CC and the local government ministry should clean the city; businesspeople and others should join the call for local government elections‘ SN, December 1).

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s stuttering economic reform programme faces a key parliamentary test this week on whether to let foreign supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart Stores set up shop, in a vote that could pave the way for further measures to revive the economy.

An injured Devanand Williams, his pregnant wife Savitree and their two children have no place to go after they were asked to leave the Parika Backdam residence they had been occupying.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies off spinner Shane Shillingford grabbed 10 wickets and opening batsman Tyron Theophille slammed a century as hosts Dominica defeated Grenada by an innings and 10 runs in the opening round of the Windward Islands Championship here Saturday.

Dear Editor, I read recently of the Swami’s views on the chutney culture and fully agree with what he said.

THOUSAND OAKS, California, (Reuters) – Graeme McDowell continued his love affair with California by winning for the first time in two years when he held off playing partner Keegan Bradley to clinch the World Challenge by three shots yesterday.

Dangerous manoeuvre: These bikers had a prolonged conversation on Saturday in the middle of Cemetery Road.

The Ministry of Health’s Division of Health Sciences Education inducted 90 clinicians and technicians into the medical fraternity at a ceremony hosted on Thursday.

M&CC in clean-up: City equipment on Saturday clearing this trench along Church Street.

Dear Editor, Cricket enthusiast, the Minister of Sport Dr Anthony has made his government’s position pellucidly clear in the Stabroek News of December 1.

By Tony Cozier One by one, the batting legends of a generation are yielding to the inevitability of fading reflexes, tired muscles and, above all, misgivings over the rare talents that placed them on a plane above their contemporaries.

No decision yet on castle-style building: Businessman Yog Mahadeo says a decision is still to be made on what this building with turrets will be put to.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – CONCACAF, boosted by Mexico’s triumph at the London Olympics, is making ambitious plans to grow and develop soccer in the region as it starts afresh after last year’s corruption scandal.

Caricom and Cariforum Secretary-General, Ambassa-dor Irwin LaRocque has voiced concerns that the new European Development Policy may see a decrease in development assistance from the European Union (EU).

By Gabrielle Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian Diaspora Column Editor’s Note: Today marks Day 19 since Trinidadian Wayne Kublalsingh, a 53 year old environmental activist and member of the Highway Re-route Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, went on hunger strike to demand an independent technical review of a portion of a planned highway that will connect San Fernando and Point Fortin in the southwestern part of the island.

Dear Editor, The SN edition of Nov 22, 2012 published the names of the four gentlemen short-listed for the prestigious position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The global economy is on edge – and that’s without the U.S.

Would this still qualify as a street? The present state of Bentinck Street between Water and Queen streets.

Introduction Last week, we gave a brief historical background of the National Insurance Scheme as a system of social security: (a) through which enough income is secured to take the place of earnings when they are interrupted by sickness or accident; and (b) to provide for retirement through age or sudden death of a breadwinner.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pushed Republicans yesterday to offer specific ideas to cut the deficit, and predicted that they would agree to raise tax rates on the rich to obtain a year-end deal and avoid possible economic doom.

This week we sought the views of Lindeners on the approaching Christmas holidays and their resolutions for 2013.

Dear Editor, Natural raw talent was displayed by athletes from all ten administrative regions of Guyana at the just concluded 52nd National Schools Championships, 2012.

Politikles

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy yesterday opted for optimism though his side dangled perilously close to an embarrassing series loss at the hands of minnows Bangladesh.

Why Guyana – with all of its problems and urgent needs – would have required a National Intelligence Centre (NIC) is quite a mystery which neither the government nor the NIC has explained to the public.