Daily Archive: Sunday, July 20, 2008

Articles published on Sunday, July 20, 2008

Body of stillborn girl at morgue

– hospital says parents can uplift it for burial The body of Shellon Nedd’s stillborn baby is still at the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary and the parents are free to uplift it during working hours, the hospital said in a press statement yesterday.

Business Page

Another try at preventing money-laundering By Christopher Ram Introduction The current select committee review of Bill No 18 of 2007 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2007 took me back to the Hansard report of the debate on The Money Laundering (Prevention) Bill 1998 which was piloted by then Attorney General Charles Ramson when he famously announced how proud he was to be associated with a government that had “zero tolerance for corruption.”

John McCain

The race for the White House

All about Obama By Wayne Brown As the reader may have noticed, this year’s presidential election is almost entirely about Barack Obama — so much so  that poor John McCain only ever seems able to get attention when he’s talking about the junior senator from Illinois — a fact that’s, ironically, resented by both sides.

Ian On Sunday

Reflections at the Seven Ponds By Ian McDonald Long ago when David Rose died under forty tons of iron scaffolding in London and came home for his state burial it was the time of Diwali and it was night when they bore him into town from Timehri.

Iceland’s first Ambassador to Guyana, His Excellency Hjalmar Hannesson, plays a game of chess with Shiv Nandalall, Treasurer of the Guyana Chess Federation. Watching the game is chess enthusiast Annelisa Persaud of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School. Iceland hosted the famous Fischer-Spassky chess match of 1972, and is one of the world’s foremost chess-playing nations. Ambassador Hannesson presented his credentials to President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday accrediting him as his country’s Ambassador to Guyana.

Chess

The match of all time With Errol Tiwari The following story is inspired by an interview I had with Iceland’s Ambassa-dor to Guyana, His Excellency Hjalmar Hannesson.

Dave Martins

Arts On Sunday

A vintage act in an appropriate setting By Al Creighton As Guyana steadily steps up the pace towards Carifesta X, the nation presented one of its vintage acts in a very appropriate and significant setting.

The View From Europe

The region is on the verge of disintegration By David Jessop Is the Caribbean, as one of the region’s elder statesmen recently noted to me, about to enter the darkest period in its history since the collapse of the West Indies Federation?

Consumer Concerns

Be a responsible pet owner By Eileen Cox The Guyana Society for the Preven-tion of Cruel-ty to Animals has kindly provided an article on ‘How to be a responsible Pet Owner.’ 

Health

Computer Vision Syndrome – from the eye doctor’s window By Dr Neeraj Jain MD (ophthal), DNB, MNAMS (Consultant Ophthalmologist) Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) is described as a group of eye and vision-related problems that result from prolonged computer use.

The 2006 list was bloated

Dear Editor, I wish on behalf of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) to congratulate the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr Steve Surujbally, on the albeit belated recognition that the Official List of Electors used in the 2006 elections was bloated in excess of some 100,000 names.

 The awardees of the GLTA 2008 Tennis Summer Camp pose with their medallions, trophies and certificates at the conclusion of their programme at the Le Meridien Pegasus Tennis Court with Managing Director of P&P Insurance Brokers, Bish Panday, standing at far right and Instructor Shelly Daly (extreme left). (Clairmontev Marcus photo)

GLTA Tennis Summer Camp wraps up

By Kizan Brumell The Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) yesterday successfully concluded its two-week Tennis Summer Camp which was sponsored by P&P Insurance Brokers at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel Tennis Courts with the group matches and presentation of awards to the participants.

QAII subsidiaries waiver deals inked prior to MOU

The government granted duty-free concessions and tax waivers for hundreds of items including a printing press, five vehicles, three containers of building materials and equipment representing millions of US dollars to five subsidiaries of Queens Atlantic Investments Inc (QAII) before it had even signed investment agreements with the company.

National Legacy Run on today

The National Legacy Run, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport/National Sports Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and PAHO/WHO will take place this morning.

Local govt reform

Task Force sees completion of work by third quarter this year The Joint Task Force on local government reform hopes its work would be completed by the third quarter of this year and ready for presentation to the National Assembly.

Arjune Narine Singh

Middleton Street killing

Family appeals for witnesses to come forward Police silence on the Middleton Street shooting incident that left Arjune Narine Singh dead just over two months ago has forced his family to launch a public appeal for anyone with information to come forward and assist with the investigation.

Jamaica’s captain Andre Creary plays a drive off the bowling of Herman Latcha (not in picture) during his innings of 118 as from left Eugene La Fleur, wicketkeeper Anthony Bramble and Trevon Griffith looks on.

Creary (118) and Perry (80) put Jamaica in control

By Calvin Roberts @ Yorkshire Cricket Ground, Barbados Compliments of: Smalta, Cummings Electrical, Lifetime Realty, P&P Insurance, Cellular Plus and Hanes (Guyana) Limited A belligerent century from captain Andre Creary (118) coupled with superb assistance from wicket keeper Maverick Perry (80) enabled Jamaica to hold the trump against Guyana at the end of the first day of their fourth round match of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/TCL-sponsored 2008 regional under-19 tournament at the Yorkshire Cricket ground yesterday.