Daily Archive: Sunday, April 6, 2014

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka lifted their maiden World Twenty20 title following their six-wicket victory against former champions India at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today.

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating a report by a 47-year-old woman alleging that she was made to perform sex acts on fired government minister Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh when she went to him for assistance to fast track a Housing Development Corporation (HDC) application.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today said it is deeply concerned over the reported incident in which a Guyanese national was refused emergency medical attention at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and later succumbed while being taken to another medical institution.

A businessman was kidnapped yesterday at Foulis, Enmore, a police press release has said.

At least two private city hospitals have turned to India to fulfil their need for registered nurses and skilled medical personnel saying that the move was necessitated by the drain in the sector caused by migration to other parts of the world.

Story and photos by Kenesha Fraser The little village of Somerset and Berks sandwiched between New Road and Evergreen is “peaceful and quiet” according to residents.

A police officer yesterday rescued a newborn baby from being drowned by her mother.

Doctors at the Georgetown Hospital were up to press time attending to a man who was stabbed during an apparent robbery on Camp Street near North Road.

In hot conditions at the National Park yesterday, Robin Persaud scorched a star-studded field of rival wheelsmen to emerge winner of the feature 35-lap event of the 10th annual Universal Auto Sales and General Supplies 11-race cycle programme.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Guyana extended Leeward Islands’ misery but then lost two wickets to concede some of their advantage, on the second day of their sixth round contest here yesterday.

The Arapaima population in the north Rupununi has dropped by 31%, according to preliminary results of a survey and there is concern that sport fishing has led to the decline of the endangered species.

Colin Bailey, the longtime partner of murdered businesswoman Sirmattie Ramnaress is urging investigators to look beyond him in the search for her killers, while saying that available forensic evidence and telephone records could help solve the case.

Guyana has been ranked 82nd out of 132 countries in a social index report, far below Trinidad and Jamaica, the two other Caricom countries monitored.

The submission of soil tests was not a requirement for high and medium rise buildings that were under construction prior to January 2014, according to City Council Public Relations Officer Royston King.

Defending champions Demerara took a giant step to retaining their Guyana Cricket Board Igloo Ice Cream U15 Inter County title when they captured first innings points against arch rivals Berbice at the end of the first day’s play of the final round of the competition.

The headlines have been dominating Regional sports pages …..”West Indies knocked out by rain in T20 semi-finals”.

Lodge Secondary dethroned defending champions St. George’s High, edging them 1-0 in the finale of the Milo/Petra Organization u-20 tourney yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Introduction   When evaluating Guysuco’s profitability and/or losses as a performance indicator the conclusion reached was that the corporation has been “mired in a sea of losses and indebtedness since the 2000s.”

Democracies came to be based on a balanced view of human nature; people are by nature selfish but self-government is possible because we are wise enough to restrain and control that selfishness.

A directive that they open bank accounts in order to receive their salary has upset teachers and other public servants in the Deep South Rupununi, some of whom would have to travel over 200 km and pay about a third of their salary in transportation costs just to get their money from the bank in Lethem.

(Trinidad Guardian) Staff at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) are once again under scrutiny after 35-year-old Guyanese national Jeetindra Sookram died of a suspected heart attack an hour after he was denied treatment there because he was not a T&T citizen.

Guyana’s prolific left back Walter Moore continues to make his name internationally, while his native team remains stifled with inactivity.

Twelve students from Grenada’s TA Marryshow Community College will undertake five-week attachments at various private and public sector institutions in Guyana in partial fulfilment of their Associate Degrees from the College.

Critics outside the PPP have accused me of being silent while in the PPP, and of only recently having found my voice.

Barely moved Despite a major decline in the amount by which gross national disposable income (GNDI) increased last year as revealed in the 2014 budget statistics, the government expects the economy to grow by 5.6 per cent this year. 

Owners of small businesses in Guyana frown on record-keeping mostly because many don’t pay taxes even though they understand the importance of having their records up to date, according to University of Guyana part-time lecturer and business trainer Denise Bentinck “In Guyana people involved in small business have a practice of not wanting to keep records and instead they commit information to their heads,” Bentinck told Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.

(Continued from last week) Actually, the scientific literature on the nutritional requirements of the elderly dog seems not to be copious. 

A mixture of new faces and veterans were named in the national rugby squad by the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) for the North America & Caribbean (NACRA)  Men’s’ Rugby Champion-ships 2014.

Residents of Port Kaituma are calling for a complete halt to the pumping of fuel or an alternative system to be put in place at the Turn Basin where a devastating fire destroyed boats and buildings on Friday.

The Striped Forest Whiptail lizard (Kentropyx calcarata) is common in the rain forests of Guyana.

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) will open its 2014 competition season with the annual Junior and Novices Powerlifting competition today at the National Gymnasium.

  Three persons including a teenage boy have been detained in connection with last Tuesday’s murder of Brazilian national Joao De Souza.

My very first visit to Trinidad in 1967, to try and launch Tradewinds in the Caribbean, was a whirlwind affair – a lot of hustle and hurry.

While it is easy to run out of ideas as to what to cook, sometimes all it takes is a different approach and presentation to our regular dishes.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Kieron Pollard stroked his fourth first class century to inspire Trinidad and Tobago in their Regional Four-Day match against Jamaica here Friday.

Defending female champions Tutorial Secondary defeated Lodge Secondary 3-1 when the Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF), Pepsi/Scotia Bank football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

On March 29 Cuba’s National Assembly passed a new foreign investment law.

If you think that Latin America is doomed to remain behind in science, technology and innovation — as one could conclude from the latest international rankings of patents of new inventions — you should meet Luis Von Ahn.

KUALA LUMPUR/PERTH, Australia (Reuters) – A Chinese patrol ship hunting for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner detected a pulse signal in the south Indian Ocean yesterday, the state news agency Xinhua reported, in a possible indicator of the underwater beacon from a plane’s “black box.”

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Winning the World Twenty20 title will be a perfect farewell gift for the departing Sri Lankan greats Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, stand-in skipper Lasith Malinga said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The Brazilian Armed Forces occupied a massive compound of slums north of Rio de Janeiro early yesterday without firing a shot, securing a focal point of violent crime two months ahead of the soccer World Cup.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Compatriots Mervin Matthew and Liam Sebastien led a spirited Windward Islands fight-back, after a career-best spell from Ryan Austin bowled Combined Campuses & Colleges into a favourable position in the Regional Four-Day Championship yesterday.

 Dear Editor, It is now very clear that the PPP has this unceasing interest – more like a sick obsession – in smothering dissenting voices to manage thinking. 

Dear Editor, As I traverse the congested streets of Georgetown and the lethal roadways of Guyana one pleasure I have is to observe the wonderful names inscribed so resourcefully on our minibuses.

BARREIRAS, Brazil (Reuters) – No signs identify a barren field in northeastern Brazil that was meant to be the centre of one of China’s most ambitious agricultural forays into South America.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson has already trained his sights on next year’s 50-over World Cup, in the wake of his side’s failed campaign at the World Twenty20 Championship.

KABUL/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) –   Afghanistan’s presidential election closed yesterday amid relief that attacks by Taliban fighters were fewer than feared for a vote that will bring the first-ever democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by conflict for decades.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Windward Islands defied half-centuries from Kyle Corbin and Chadwick Walton, as well as rainy weather to take an early advantage over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the Regional Four-Day Tournament here Friday.

Domino lovers will be involved in an intense day of competition today when Mark `Jumbie’ Wiltshire stages the “Clash of the Titans” competition at R&R Sports Bar.

Dear Editor, Most of us are enraged when we hear of the rape and abuse of children.

BANGUI (Reuters) – French and African soldiers serving in Central African Republic are “overwhelmed” by the “state of anarchy” in the country, U.N.

The Guyana National Domino Federation (GNDF) will stage a grand tournament dubbed “Dominoes in the Country Part 2” on April 13 at Solomon’s Residence Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T has appealed a ruling by the Venezuelan authorities that eight Muslim men who had gone to Venezuela to seek Saudi Arabian visas and were detained should be held without recourse to bail, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran has said.

Dear Editor, Two weeks ago, driving west on Hadfield Street (in front of Smith Memorial Primary School), I saw some schoolchildren playing with a dog.

(Barbados Nation) Yester-day morning, a group of around 20 Venezuelans living in Barbados took the opportunity to hold a peaceful protest against the Venezuelan government for human rights violations and more.

There is something quite bizarre about Guyana’s foreign policy – if such it can be called.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh,  (Reuters) – Under a charismatic Mahendra Singh Dhoni, world champions India could seal an unprecedented limited-overs treble with victory against neighbours Sri Lanka in today’s World Twenty20 final.

Having entered the most entries in almost every class it was no surprise that Mrs Mary McDonald won many of the prizes and was awarded the Overall Winner in 2014 Flower Show held at the Umana Yana last Sunday, walking away with the Miracle Gro prize and trophy. 

(OneIndia) Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut who is on cloud nine with her latest hit Queen says that she wants to be in a relationship but is finding it hard owing to her hectic schedule.

 Dear Editor, I was invited to a workshop on Democracy on Friday, April 4, and was asked to mobilise a few interested residents who were willing to participate.

Dethroned world chess champion Viswanathan Anand last Sunday earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world championship title by winning the rigorous Candidates chess tournament.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are appealing for information as they intensify their probe into last night’s shooting in West Kingston.

PERTH, (Reuters) – International search planes and ships are heading to an area where a Chinese ship twice heard what could be signals from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370’s black box locators, Australian search authorities Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the head of the Australian agency coordinating the operation, told a media conference in Perth that two reported acoustic detections from the Haixun 01 were a good lead but there remained no certainty that they had come from the missing plane.

The scene of the devastating Port Kaituma on Friday. (Ministry of Works photo)

In the wake of Friday’s devastating fire, Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn yesterday reiterated the need for persons to clear the Port Kaituma waterfront area.