Daily Archive: Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Articles published on Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Khemraj Ramjattan

CLICO (Guy) policyholders protected

-President restates Even in the aftermath of Monday’s announcement by Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham that there currently appears to be no record of CLICO (Guyana)’s investment in CLICO (Bahamas), President Bharrat Jagdeo says that all customers of the local firm are protected.

These piles of sandy clay mixed with stones were thrown from the well yesterday.

Grove well digging ends in water eruption

‘This thing go off like a damn volcano’ Workers who were digging a “shallow well” for household use in the Grove New Housing Scheme were taken by surprise as hundreds of gallons of water suddenly began spurting from the earth to a height of approximately 25 feet.

Russell Cornelius

Noble House rejects allegations by seaman who lost legs

-talks continuing on package Noble House Seafoods Limited (NHS) yesterday said that talks are continuing on a settlement with a seaman who had both his legs amputated in an accident at sea but the fishing company strongly rejected several allegations he made including that it had a poor occupational safety record.

Berbice humbled by Essequibo

Led by a fine all-round performance from Vijay Surujpaul, Essequibo sent Berbice crashing to an upset defeat as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol-sponsored under-15 Inter-county tournament continued at the Anna Regina ground yesterday.

Clico (Trinidad) orders no new business

(Trinidad Guardian) No new business. About 700 insurance agents employed by the Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Ltd (Clico) have been told not to sell any new policies until a new business model has been determined and rates have been revised.

Philip Fernandes

Hockey players for US tournament

Several local hockey players are fine tuning preparations to compete in an International Indoor tournament next weekend in the United States, president of the Guyana Hockey Board, Philip Fernandes confirmed yesterday.

Trenace Lowe

Trenace Lowe dominates Mash TT tournament

Trenace Lowe staged a fantastic run in this year’s National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani table tennis tournament, demolishing her opponents in the junior categories and turning in equally impressive performances against her more senior counterparts.

MHS and Multi early winners

By Rawle Toney The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport on Monday bounced off the Linden leg of this year’s Mashramani Inter-Schools basketball competition at the Mackenzie hard-court.

Dwayne “Brown Sugar” Roberts above is enjoying a superb run in the LABA club championships

Pioneer Construction/LABA Senior Club Championship

-Jets and Royals continue to dominate By Rawle Toney Amelia’s Ward Jets and Victory Valley Royals continued their dominance of the Pioneer Construction-sponsored Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) senior club championships last weekend at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard-court.

Comparing chalk to cheese

Dear Editor, Mayor Hamilton Green in a letter in your edition of Monday, March 2 (‘Lionel Luckhoo never represented the PNC at an Independence conference’), said that comparing Boysie Ramkarran with Burnham was like comparing chalk to cheese.

The Bricklayers and Ministry of Health float

Berbicians disappointed in Mash parade

-cite small number of floats, little creativity Berbicians turned out in their numbers for the Mashramani float parade on Sunday but many were disappointed at what they termed a lack of creativity in the floats and low participation from the private and public sector.

European integration in the economic storm

It has not been long since the European Union leadership, in spite of the difficulties of getting ratification on a formal constitution and a revised treaty formalizing its status of political union, felt able to congratulate itself on the strides made since its foundation.

Reuters World News Highlights

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday denied  offering Russia a deal in which Washington would slow deployment  of a missile defense shield in Europe in exchange for Moscow’s  help in a nuclear stand-off with Iran.