Daily Archive: Thursday, January 15, 2009

Articles published on Thursday, January 15, 2009

Errol Hanoman

Sugar shake-up

*Errol Hanoman new chief executive *Booker Tate management contract ends *New board to present blueprint for success Former Finance Director Errol Hanoman has been named as new Chief Executive of GuySuCo in a shake-up that will see the longstanding Booker-Tate management contract end and an interim board has been given a month to present a `blueprint for success’ to lift the country’s key foreign exchange earner out of a production slump.

Flood co-ordination weak, Oxfam says

-CDC under-resourced The severe flooding of coastal communities in Regions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and others situated alongside rivers has been met with “weak” coordination on the ground by the relevant stakeholders, an assessment conducted by Oxfam International has revealed.

CANU meets Mounties

Closer cooperation to follow Anti-narcotics officials yesterday met with members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and have been able to glean some information which will help in the further dismantling of a ring that smuggled 376 kilos of cocaine in pepper sauce cartons.

Illegal Guianas gold miners use lots of mercury – WWF

Welcomes France-Brazil pact A major problem in gold mining in the Guianas is that migrant miners frequently use and release mercury for the amalgamation of gold particles endangering the health of persons, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says as it welcomed the signing of a pact between Brazil and France recently.

Correction

Contrary to our report in the Sunday Stabroek of January 11, 2008, it was PNC Councillor Ranwell Jordan not Oscar Clarke who seconded Llewellyn John’s motion for a resolution to facilitate the holding of mayoral elections.

CCC to set national cricketers… Tough exams

By Calvin Roberts in Barbados Compliments of Igloo Ice Cream, GT&T, Noble House Seafoods, Papis Supermarket and Oasis Water After their disastrous showing in the first round of the West Indies Cricket Board-sponsored regional four-day competition where they lost to the Windward Islands by an innings and 167 runs inside three days, the national cricketers face a tough examination from the Combined Campuses and Colleges team in their second round game which starts tomorrow here.

Moraikobai says fallen trees blocking creek

Residents of Moraikobai in the Mahaicony Mission are happy that floodwaters which have been on their land for about two weeks have receded but they said that the flow of water in the creek is still blocked by two trees which fell in a mudslide last year.

Chronicle of a death foretold

Last week, in an episode that could have come straight out of a magical realist novel,  Lasantha Wickramatunge, a successful lawyer-turned-newspaper-editor, composed a moving retropsective of the years he had struggled to maintain an independent newspaper in the midst of Sri Lanka’s long civil war.