Daily Archive: Sunday, October 26, 2014

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist President Dilma Rousseff narrowly won re-election today after convincing voters that her party’s strong record of reducing poverty over the last 12 years was more important than a recent economic slump.

(Trinidad Express) The United Kingdom-based Medical Protection Society (MPS) Ltd has weighed in on the cocaine surgery that was conducted last December at the St Augustine Private Hospital.

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – The last U.S. Marines unit and final British combat troops in Afghanistan officially ended their operations today as they packed up to leave the country and transferred a massive military base to the Afghan military.

It is not for the President and the Leader of the Opposition to set a date for the sitting of the National Assembly and for Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira to suggest that reconvening of the House is dependent on the outcome of their engagement, is “disingenuous,” General Secretary of APNU Joe Harmon says.

Many of its residents have sought employment in the gold fields, so Farm Village on the East Bank Essequibo has seen such improvements as modern homes and a higher standard of living.

There have been at least two dozen known cases of underage pregnancies within the past year in Region Nine and residents fear the numbers are far higher and are urging an intervention by government to address the situation.

Missing miner Troy Greenidge was a witness in the Shaquille Grant murder Preliminary Inquiry (PI).

The Disciplinary Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana (ICAG) is probing an allegation of misconduct against Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur, who yesterday accused the members of the accountancy body of colluding with the complainant, Kaieteur News publisher Glen Lall, to discredit him.

From Emmerson Campbell in Suriname   Team Guyana’s cycling team aboard their flotilla fizik saddles stormed to victory in the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) men’s team time trial yesterday while the local females snared silver.

The rebuilding of the door of the Peter’s Hall koker is still to be completed and residents who had been flooded remain frustrated as they continue to press for compensation for their losses.

Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on Friday announced that with Guyana averting further sanctions over its failure to update its anti-money laundering legislation, it had also avoided the administration having need to call for new general elections.

BASEL, (Reuters) – Seventeen-year-old Borna Coric’s Swiss Indoors run ended when he lost to David Goffin in the semi-finals yesterday while Roger Federer beat Ivo Karlovic to reach the tournament final for the 11th time.

CHESTER, Pennsylvania, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago missed out on their first chance at automatic qualification for next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup when they went down to Costa Rica on penalties in their semi-final of the CONCACAF Women’s Championship here Friday night.

The main opposition on Friday warned that the government’s announced response to the threat of the Ebola virus are unsatisfactory and called for a national plan of action.

Police early yesterday morning arrested a man allegedly with an illegal gun in his possession, moments after they turned up to investigate a report of gunshots being discharged at Waterloo Street, Georgetown.

A Mon Repos businessman committed suicide on Thursday after having an argument with his wife.

The Guyana Human Rights Association is endorsing a set of guidelines introduced yesterday by a Chinese mineral company as it champions full disclosure of payments made by governments, the free flow of technical information, among other conditions which speaks directly to standards expected of foreign companies operating in Guyana.

AS West Indies cricket teeters on the edge of extinction, with the president of the board, his directors and the players all seemingly unaware of how close they have brought it to the precipice, yet another independent committee has been given the challenging job of trying to save it from itself.

Dindiyal Persaud, who was struck down and killed on the Prospect, East Bank Demerara public road by a Green Ice taxi, died of multiple injuries, a family member said yesterday.

There will be disputations about this one, but I will stand my ground: overall, in a region of powerhouses, with many different island cultures competing, the Jamaican version today is probably the most dynamic of them all.

With pilot error and poor cockpit coordination being found as major contributors to the Caribbean Air-lines Limited (CAL) flight that overshot the runway at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri (CJIA) in 2011, the airline has been advised to conduct training for its flight crews to ensure they operate according to protocol.

Fashionable There was a time when countries like Guyana were interested in what an economist like W.

So the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is in damage control mode once again, this time attempting to mend fences with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) one of the behemoths of International cricket.

The family of Evita Singh, the 34-year-old mother who died along with her unborn baby at the George-town Public Hospital (GPH) after doctors induc-ed labour, are demanding that the doctors and nurses resign.

SANTIAGO, Chile: This country, which has long been Latin America’s economic star, has seen its economic growth fall from 5 percent average in recent years to a projected 1.9 percent this year.

BAGHDAD/ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi government forces and Shi’ite militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State yesterday and Kurdish fighters made gains in the north after heavy coalition air strikes against the Sunni militants.

From Emmerson Campbell in Suriname   Guyana’s table tennis players excelled while the badminton, chess and volleyball players suffered mixed fortunes when Inter Guiana Games (IGG) action continued here in Paramaribo, Suriname yesterday.

Umami Incorporated, an agro-processing facility from the East Coast Demerara, on Friday donated a number of items to the victims of devastating Diwali night fire in Lusignan in which at least 10 persons lost their homes.

Some of the best poetry has been written by people on the verge of death.

Introduction Last week I introduced a Table showing that, over the eight years 2006 to 2013, the average net annual increase in the public sector minimum wage (adjusted for annual inflation) was shockingly low, about one percent.

Former 1979 Guyanese ‘Mother of the Year Inez Gwendoline Chung is celebrating her 100th birthday today with family and friends in Canada.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda are celebrating their highest ever FIFA World ranking after they jumped this week to 70th in the world.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Three journalists were roughed up yesterday evening in Hong Kong after being confronted by pro-government protesters holding a rally to oppose a four-week long “Occupy” movement of the financial hub’s streets by pro-democracy demonstrators.

About ten days ago some 600 invited participants from the United Kingdom’s Caribbean Diaspora gathered at a venue near the British Parliament.

Savitri Harricharan who was shot on Wednesday shortly after she withdrew money from an ATM machine, has had the bullet, which was lodged in her abdomen, removed.

Almost four years have passed since Babita Sarjou vanished without a trace and although chances of finding her probably stand at zero, her mother says she needs answers so as to get closure.

MORATUWA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Opener Assad Fudadin struck his fourth first class hundred but West Indies A’s batting woes continued on the opening day of the third and final four-day “Test” here yesterday.

Last week in Tastes Like Home, I mentioned the making of Sweet Potato Bread.

A policeman was early morning shot and wounded shortly after he intervened in a dispute involving a group of men at a nightclub in Lethem.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal health regulators granted emergency authorisation yesterday for two new tests made by BioFire Defense that detect Ebola in humans, highlighting new steps by the government to prevent a severe outbreak in the United States.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Illinois joined New York and New Jersey in imposing mandatory quarantines for people arriving with a risk of having contracted Ebola in West Africa, but the first person isolated under the new rules, a nurse returning from Sierra Leone, strongly criticized her treatment.

Veitchia merrillii commonly called Christmas Palm or Manila Palm originated in the Philippines and the South Pacific and has adapted well in Guyana, the Caribbean and Florida.

By Delvon Mc Ewan   Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) hammered minnows Sophia Cricket Club by 10 wickets yesterday to win their first match in New Building Society/ Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) second division two-day competition.

By Mukesh Eswaran  VANCOUVER – Until recently, there has been very little analysis of women’s role in the economy.

The staff of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) is going to be more than doubled as part of an organisational restructuring planned to boost its effectiveness, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr.

Twenty boxers fought pound-for-pound on the opening night of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) National Open Competi-tion at the East Ruimveldt California Square with Leon Moore two sons, Leon jnr.,

Last year’s runners-up West Ruimveldt Primary booked their berth in the quarterfinal round, downing Ketley Primary 2-0 when the round of 16 stage of the Petra Organization/Courts Pee football tourney commenced yesterday at the Thirst Park venue.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff is heading into today’s presidential runoff vote with a slight lead in most polls over opposition candidate Aecio Neves, setting the stage for Brazil’s tightest election in decades.

Guyana Trans United staged a protest on Friday in front of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to voice their concerns about what they believe to be discriminatory services meted out to them by the Guyana Police Force and the stagnation of a case where some of their members were shot at.

Continued When pet owners come to the conclusion that it is best for their pets to be put to sleep permanently, very often they want to know how their beloved pets are going to be euthanised and what should they do with the dead body after the procedure.

By Sin-ming Shaw  HONG KONG – The massive public demonstrations by students and young members of the middle-class that have roiled Hong Kong in recent weeks are ostensibly demands for democracy.

A view of part of Baishanlin’s concession across the Essequibo River from Apoteri (Photo by Gaulbert Sutherland)

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lambasted Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday and ordered a revision of bilateral ties over his call for an opponent of Maduro to be released from jail.

Two titans will clash today to decide who will win the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division title when league leaders Fruta Conquerors battle second placed side Pele at the Tucville Community Centre ground from 20:00hrs.

By John Lloyd  (Reuters) This month, Pope Francis had to come clean.

China is to help Guyana with the mapping of its mineral resources, it was announced yesterday by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Dear Editor, As the revelations surrounding this business of remigrants’ duty-free concessions increase and gain traction, I notice silence from the all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-powerful Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

Wesley So, 21, Filipino chess grandmaster currently playing for the US, won the Millionaire Chess Tourn-ament in Las Vegas recently and walked away with a tantalizing first prize of US$100,000.

Huh?! This composite photograph taken on Friday shows two police vehicles with the same licence plate number.

Francis Fukuyama’s latest tome on politics and history has recently been released, according to the Economist which reviewed it.

Sunday  Cartoons

Dominion Dance Company dancers strike a pose outside Footsteps Mall, Stabroek Square yesterday after performing at a flash mob event to raise awareness towards promoting a healthy environment, arts in the streets and about their organisation.

We shouted out ‘We’ve got her! Here she is! It’s her all right’.

It was early on a Saturday morning that a 25-year-old woman ran screaming into a mining concession chased by a man who was beating her with a belt.

The Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association’s (GFSCA) fourth annual three-day International Softball tournament is all set for next weekend at various venues in Georgetown.

The Clerk to the National Assembly has sought, in a letter to the press, to answer my article last Sunday in which I contended that the Speaker must convene the National Assembly now.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadians returned to the reopened grounds of their parliament building yesterday, three days after a homegrown radical rushed in armed with a rifle after killing a soldier in the second domestic attack in a week on the country’s military.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – They lived on a remote dot of land in the middle of the Pacific, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of South America and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) from the closest island, erecting huge stone figures that still stare enigmatically from the hillsides.

Dear Editor, The announcement on Friday that a Guyanese woman had been tested for the suspected ebola virus following closely on Thursday’s discovery in the USA that a Doctors without Borders (MSF) doctor had been confirmed with the virus surely caused a heightened level of alarm in this country.