Daily Archive: Sunday, January 27, 2013

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – At least eight people were injured, mostly by gunfire, during a dispute between rival factions competing for control of the Dominican Republic’s leading opposition party, officials said today.

CANBERRA, Australia,  CMC – West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson said today the Caribbean side needed to make the most of Tuesday’s warm-up clash with the Prime Minister’s XI, as they prepare to face Australia in a five-match one-day series starting later in the week.

Islamic scholar Moulana Siddique Ahmad Nasir delivering a presentation today at the Guyana International Conference Centre during a Youman Nabi programme.

President Donald Ramotar (left) meets President of Chile Sebastián Piñera Echenique at the First Summit of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union in Chile on Saturday.

URIBANA, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – A prison riot in southwestern Venezuela killed 61 people, a hospital official said today, although the government has refused to give an official death toll in the bloody standoff that highlighted chaos in the country’s jails.

(Trinidad Express) Raymond Ramnarine, leader of the band Dil-e-Nadan, has claimed the title of 2013 Lotto Plus Chutney Soca Monarch.

(WICB) Canberra, Australia – West Indies will get a feel of the conditions in Australia when they play their opening tour match against the Australia Prime Minister’s XI on Tuesday at the picturesque Munaka Oval.

(Reuters) – Any sign that Syria’s grip on its chemical weapons is slipping as it battles an armed uprising could trigger Israeli military strikes, Israel’s vice premier said today.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic became the first man to win three successive Australian Open titles in the professional era when he beat third seed Andy Murray 6-7 7-6 6-3 6-2 in a battle of attrition today.

(Barbados Nation) Thirteen Directors  of the insolvent CLICO and British American Insurance Company (BAICO), including former CLICO executive chairman Leroy Parris and president of CLICO Holdings Barbados Limited, Terrence Thornhill, are facing B$128 million in negligence lawsuits.

(Trinidad Express) A top financier of the People’s Partnership administration has been awarded a TT$232.5 million contract by the National Insurance Property Development Company Ltd (Nipdec).

BAMAKO/SEVARE, Mali,  (Reuters) – French and Malian troops advancing against Islamist rebels in northern Mali have reached Timbuktu, the fabled Saharan trading town occupied last year by al Qaeda-allied fighters, a Malian military source said today.

(Reuters) – A fire in a nightclub killed at least 245 people in southern Brazil today when a band’s pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze and fleeing patrons were unable to find the emergency exits in the ensuing panic, officials said.

Bosai Minerals Group and Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI)–a subsidiary of Russian bauxite company Rusal–have both projected increased output for this year but are guarded about what this will mean in financial terms.

The quiet village of Fellowship, Mahaicony is surrounded by a lot of huge trees and you have to look carefully to find some of the houses that are hidden among them.

Mechanic Ricky Bobb was yesterday confirmed as the tenth fatality of the Mazaruni River boat collision, while police announced that search and recovery efforts were still ongoing for others.

The student taught the teacher a boxing lesson and Dilan Allicock and Anson Green earned their first knockout victories in their respective careers on Friday night’s truncated card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A 42-year-old miner was buried in a mining pit at Puruni Backdam, Region Seven; the second such incident in three days.

Last year’s bronze medalist at the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships Raynauth Jeffrey, yesterday sped off with the feature 35-lap Invitational race when national cycling Coach Hassan Mohammed and Ricks and Sari Agro Industries Limited staged an 11-race cycling meet at the National Park circuit, Thomas Lands.

Insufficient evidence might have led the police to release a man whom they had identified as a suspect in the murder of two Kato-based policemen and although from all indications the case is now at a standstill, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said that investigations are continuing.

Time, in Yupukari as elsewhere, waits on no Manuel. Manuel the birdman was late and Mike the Rupunadian (which is to say he is both Rupununian and Canadian) was eager to show off the wonders of the Rupununi to some guests.

Strikes from the diminutive duo of Carl Griffith in the 20th minute and Jeremy Garrett in the 41st powered North Ruimveldt Secondary to a hard fought 2-1 victory over a obstinate St.

Four months have passed since the murder of businesswoman Jennifer Persaud and her two young children in their Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara home and the police are no closer to solving this horrific crime.

The National Association of Agricultural Commercial   and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) is threatening industrial action at the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) if demands for higher salaries are not met.

The Public Procurement Commission was recommended by the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) in 2000 as a constitutional commission.

When Carol Harris retired recently from her job as a community health worker in the Berbice River, her children had a surprise ‘welcome home’ celebration for the mother who spent more of her time in service to the local communities than at home.

By Tony Cozier ON the face of it, West Indies’ recent records in Australia place into numbing context what they might expect on their return for five ODIs and a one-off Twenty 20, the first of which is at the WACA ground in Perth on Friday.

I have always been perplexed why companies in Guyana consistently ignore one of the most important considerations among their shareholders.

APNU Member of Parliament Deborah Backer has said that the coalition’s support for the postponement of the Committee of Privileges meeting to address the powers of the House in relation to preventing embattled Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee from speaking was in keeping with an earlier decision by Speaker Raphael Trotman.

The Black Curassow (Crax alector), or Powis, as they are locally called in Guyana, are found in humid forested areas in the Guianas, northern Amazon, southern Venezuela and parts of Colombia, and are part of the family of game birds known as Cracidae.

In appreciation of the birth anniversary of Commissioner of Police Leroy Brummell, the Guyana Police Force will be staging a grand 10/10 male and female Inter-Division softball cricket competitions next month.

David Grimmond is a shadow of what he was just ten years ago but at the very ripe old age of one hundred and four he still moves around, sits up straight, has his eyesight and can respond to questions – that is, if you shout as his hearing has deteriorated over the years.

The Ministry of Public Works has issued a high tide alert and says that Monday’s and Tuesday’s tides will be the highest.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Victoria Azarenka kept her eye firmly on the prize despite a host of distractions to rally from a set down and retain her title with victory over Li Na in a dramatic Australian Open final yesterday.

Everest Cricket Club’s Ryan Ramdass and Tagenarine Chanderpaul batted almost the entire day against the Gandhi Youth Organisation as the pair combined for a massive 241 opening stand at Everest as action abounded on the first day’s play of the Georgetown Cricket association (GCA) Hadi’s World Incorporated first division two-day competition.

Anyone who knows anything about my work in music will know of my commitment to Caribbean dialect.

Today is celebrated as the Chinese New Year which ushers in ‘the year of the snake,’ a year in which Guyana commemorates the 160th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese in Guyana. 

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC – Finger surgery has ruled all-rounder Moises Henriques out of the opening One-Day International against West Indies which starts next Friday.

Continued from last week Undescended testicles Testicles usually descend before birth in most dogs. 

KHULNA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies fast bowler Fidel Edwards proved very expensive as his Rangpur Riders went down by nine runs to Khulna Royal Bengals in the Bangladesh Premier League here Friday.

African violets whose botanical name is Saintpaulia came originally from the hills of Tanzania in East Africa.

Many people go to the ends of the earth to find beauty.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Barbadian teenager Shaquana Quintyne says she is unfazed by the hype surrounding the ICC Women’s World Cup which bowls off here next week.

(Reuters) – David Warner’s unbeaten 90 went in vain as Sri Lanka beat Australia by five wickets in the first Twenty20 International yesterday to go 1-0 up in the two-match series.

When President Barack Obama made a brief reference to gun violence in his second-term inauguration speech, he should have mentioned a new map of gun violence — it shows that Washington, DC’s murder rate is almost twice as high as that of violence-ridden Mexico.

Mix Up returned to its winning ways when it won the just concluded Mark `Jumbie” Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes competition in the finals contested at the Transport Sports Club Building.

Over the last year, a number of studies have looked at the adverse effect crime is having on Caribbean development. 

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic will bid to extend his Australian Open reign to a third straight year tomorrow in the final against Andy Murray, who will aim to end Britain’s 79-year wait for a men’s champion at Melbourne Park.

In this and the next couple of columns to follow, I shall broadly address Guyana’s public debt situation since the eruption of the Third World Debt Crisis (TWDC) in 1982, the year in which Guyana also announced its first default on its public debt obligations.

Dear Editor, We the residents, vehicle owners and businessmen of Wakenaam wish to draw the public’s attention to a problem with the Transport & Harbours Department (T&HD) which is now becoming intolerable.

CANBERRA, Australia, CMC – Exciting West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell is champing at the bit to face Australia, and says he is backing himself to execute against the former World champions.

National men’s singles champion Sudesh Fitzgerald and former national ladies singles champion Jaswantie Hiralall won the male and female singles title when the Trophy Stall sponsored competition was contested last Friday at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

PORT SAID, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed yesterday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, violence that compounds a political crisis facing Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Memphis Grizzlies handed Brooklyn one of their heaviest defeats of the season on Friday, romping to a 101-77 victory over the Nets.

Dear Editor,   I wish to respond to your newspaper’s publication on January 24 on the topic ‘Hospital refuses to give sample for second autopsy.’

Dear Editor, As the Lance Armstrong revelations continue, I keep thinking – this guy must be Guyanese. 

KONNA, Mali/PARIS (Reuters) – French and Malian forces fighting Islamist rebels took control yesterday of the rebel bastion of Gao, the biggest military success so far in an offensive against al Qaeda-allied insurgents occupying the country’s north.

(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has overcome a respiratory infection, but is still being treated for breathing problems after cancer surgery last month, a government minister said yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Friday, January 18, 2013 I returned from being one of many who paid oral and spiritual tributes to a cherished man, a large pervasive spirit, an acknowledged professional father, a generous community donor – mostly of himself, and then of his skills.

Grammy award winning gospel singer Cece Winans (centre) at a press conference  at NCN Studios yesterday shortly after her arrival in Guyana for a concert at the National Stadium last night.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed yesterday to have infiltrated the website of the US Justice Department’s Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data.

The general population has no idea what is going on with all these parliamentary motions with no outcome, followed by recourse to the courts and judges’ decisions whose implications the political parties then dispute among themselves.