Daily Archive: Friday, June 19, 2009

Articles published on Friday, June 19, 2009

H1N1 en route to Guyana – Ramsammy

…but health ministry on top of thingsMinister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy is advising anyone with flu-like symptoms to visit their doctor or local health centre and says the ministry will continue to give regular updates as he feels it is only a matter of time before the H1N1 flu reaches Guyana.

‘Boom Boom’ and out goes South Africa

-Shahid ‘Boom Boom’ Afridi boots S/Africa out of final with bat and ball NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – All-rounder Shahid `Boom Boom’  Afridi uncorked one of his top performances and ignited Pakistan to a seven-run victory over previously unbeaten South Africa in the ICC World Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

Question mark over ‘Fiery Fidel’

LONDON, England, CMC – Fiery pacer Fidel Edwards, struck down with a back injury on Monday, remains a huge doubt for the West Indies as they get ready to face undefeated Sri Lanka in the second ICC World Twenty20 semi-final today.

Not good news

Last week’s terse assessment of the state of the global economy and the prognosis for recovery from the current crisis by World Bank President Robert Zoellick would not have been encouraging for poor countries.

Carl Halley

Woman gets two years for stabbing soldier

-complainant asked court to be merciful A woman who had stabbed her partner in his chest pleaded guilty yesterday to the charge of unlawful and malicious wounding and was sentenced to two years imprisonment by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Lost in the Wilderness

Unpleasant Truth In the global scheme of things, Guyana is not the first choice of most as a place of relaxation or pleasure, even though some aspects of social life, including the pockets of ebullient night life, would make some Guyanese argue differently. 

Egypt stun world champions Italy

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Egypt scored their  greatest ever victory with a thoroughly deserved 1-0 win yesterday over world champions Italy who had never previously  lost to an African team.

The meeting with Professor  Markovitz

Linden, Georgetown businesses get lessons on how to win and keep markets

A report received by the Stabroek Business from, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on the outcomes of two recently concluded marketing  seminars conducted in Linden and Georgetown by Pace University Marketing Professor Harvey Markovitz has pointed to the timiliness of the intervention given the challenge of shrinking international markets being faced by Guyana’s  business community.

Courts Guyana Inc. Country Manager Lester Alvis (left) hands over their sponsor’s cheque to promoter Stanford Solomon (right) while Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes poses in the centre (Orlando Charles photo).

Courts Guyana Inc. plugs $300,000 into ‘The Final Execution’ card

– sponsors national super middleweight title fight Guyana’s leading furniture and appliance store Courts has come on board the June 27 S and S Promotions boxing card entitled ‘The Final Execution’ by sponsoring the national super middleweight  title fight between Lennox ‘Too Sharp’ Allen and Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Pay up employee NIS contributions!

Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Chandradat Chintamani has issued a call to members of the business community who have been seriously delinquent in remitting employee contributions to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to discharge their obligation to the NIS and to contributors, many of whom may have no other source from which to finance the costs of their medical needs.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick

World Bank predicts more tough times ahead for poor

Grants, interest-free loan requests reach record US$13 billion In the face of a lack of adequate public sector financing to respond to the  current global economic crisis the World Bank has identified encouraging private sector business activity as  critical to  the global recovery effort.

Michelle Campbell at work

Small Business Profile

Michelle Campbell and the business of Beauty Care Michelle’s Fantasy Hair Care is one of the more recent additions to a growing local beauty care industry that continues to open up opportunities for skilled and enterprising Guyanese seeking to make their way in the world of business.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 308’s trading results showed consideration of $938,141 from 71,840 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 307 which showed consideration of $323,641 from 30,180 shares traded in 8  transactions. 

‘It’s cricket, Captain, but not as we know it…’

Regardless of which team wins the ICC World Twenty20 this weekend, the tournament has undoubtedly been a great success, with its exciting brand of cricket, huge global television audiences and grounds packed with fans of all nationalities, ages and genders, clearly having fun – except, of course, when their team is on the losing end.

Celebrity pastor charged

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The Jamaican-born international pastor, who allegedly gave two teenage girls money in exchange for sexual favours, was remanded when he appeared in the Savanna-la-mar Resident Magistrate’s Court late Wednesday afternoon.