– five new faces on AFC executive committee
Raphael Trotman has been re-elected unopposed as leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), which has pledged to work for the creation of a united front for the next general elections.
– Corbin, Murray, Norton, Armstrong and Van West Charles named
Incumbent Robert Corbin, MPs Winston Murray and Aubrey Norton, party executive Dr Aubrey Armstrong and former health minister Dr Richard Van West Charles are among nominees for leader of the PNCR, as it sets out to chart a course forward.
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Introduction
We continue today with part two of the LCDS which President Jagdeo launched on June 8 and which is out for consultation up to the end of September, the timeline driven mainly by the need that it should be ready for the Copenhagen Conference in December of this year.
Declaring open the $140 million National Ophthalmology Centre at Port Mourant, Corentyne yesterday Presi-dent Bharrat Jagdeo said that government’s first priority is to provide better health services to residents.
Fire set to a garbage heap damaged a Caterpillar engine and two fuel tanks at the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Sophia station yesterday after remnants ended up in a drain holding waste oil from company’s operations.
– police say they were self-inflicted
Heston Bostwick, who turned himself into the police for questioning on Friday, with regard to a previously undisclosed investigation, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday with stab wounds to the chest.
By Godfrey Chin
Nostalgia 456
As a nostalgia buff languishing in reminisces of our wonderful yesteryears – before Independence – the current demise of our cinemas is a total shock and a tragic disappointment.
The police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred at about 5 pm yesterday in which Dexter Whyte 29, of Hadfield Street Lodge was shot and injured by an armed police rank who was on duty at the time.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Tyson Gay gave Usain Bolt a reminder of his pedigree when the world champion defied a groin injury to win the 200 metres at the London Grand Prix on Saturday in 20.00 seconds.
-says Allan Donald
(Cricinfo) Allan Donald, the former South African fast bowler, has said bowlers must be allowed to “prepare” the ball – ball-tampering, in other words – to redress the balance between bat and ball and protect the “dying breed” from increasingly lifeless pitches.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The recent impasse between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players Association has left legendary off-spinner Lance Gibbs terribly disappointed.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Sir Shridath Ramphal will hold his first meeting with the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players’ Association today in Barbados.
Over the last six to eight months, the Guyana Tele-phone and Telegraph company (GT&T) has lost appropriately US$2 million in revenue through international calls that have bypassed the company’s network, Chief Financial Officer Yog Mahadeo says.
– struggling aunt takes them in
Kerry Edwards, 13 and her 16-year-old cousin, Samantha Charles whose necks were slashed during an attack at Ithaca, West Bank Berbice on May 8 this year in which Kerry’s mother, Gertrude Edwards, 31, was killed are both on the road to recovery.
BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso gave Renault their first pole position since 2006 yesterday after a Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying session overshadowed by Ferrari’s Felipe Massa suffering a heavy crash.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has shortlisted the following players with a view towards selection on the Guyana U-13 and U-10 teams to the fourth Caribbean Junior Table Tennis Championships of cadets and Under players which will be held from August 16-21 in Barbados.
President Bharrat Jagdeo hosted a meeting on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) with ranks and officers of the Guyana Defence Force at Camp Ayanganna on Thursday.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has shortlisted the following players with a view towards selection on the Guyana U-13 and U-10 teams to the fourth Caribbean Junior Table Tennis Championships of cadets and Under players which will be held from August 16-21 in Barbados.
(BBC) Opener Phillip Hughes finally showed some form with the bat as Australia opened up a 221-run lead on day two of their tour match against Northants yesterday.
With Guyanese seemingly lacking consciousness of copyright, a group of young artists is hoping to raise awareness of the importance of this and has begun its campaign by putting advertisements in the newspapers.
HERE was a distinct sense of de ja vu to the front page picture in Tuesday’s DAILY NATION, as there has been throughout the newest, unseemly quarrel between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).
A person or persons unknown stole a boat with a 40-horsepower Yamaha outboard engine valued $650,000 belonging to the Regional Democratic Council, Region Five on Friday night at Wash Clothes, Mahaicony Creek and only the boat was recovered yesterday morning.
MONT VENTOUX, France, (Reuters) – Alberto Contador was within reach of his second Tour de France victory yesterday after the much-anticipated Mont Ventoux stage failed to significantly modify the final standings.
Guyana and the wider world
I have been arguing for weeks now that the present global economic crisis coming on top of the food and fuel crisis of 2007-2008, requires a global effort to resolve it.
Roseau, Dominica: West Indies captain, Floyd Reifer, says that his side will learn from the mistakes they made in the Digicel Test Series and bounce back in the Digicel One Day International Series against Bangladesh.
Consumer Concerns
PUC Order No 1/2009 has just been received and is as follows:-
“The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co has filed an application on May 14tn 2008, seeking to introduce a new service called NEXUS that, it claims, will allow subscribers/consumers who so desire to have a prepaid service and to manage credits from a single prepaid account in such a way that these credits can be utilized for wire line and mobile calls.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Still weakened by the absence of the leading players, West Indies will seek to avenge their Test series loss when they meet Bangladesh in the first of three One-Day Internationals here today.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Australia’s cricket tour of New Zealand next year has been cut short in order for players to play at least some part in the lucrative Indian Twenty20 league, according to a local media report yesterday.
Chess
The Guyana Chess Federation in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport will convene a one-day chess clinic for beginners on Saturday, August 8 at Anna Regina.
BRUSSELS/ARE, Sweden (Reuters) – Rich countries should immediately mobilise billions of dollars in development aid to the poorest nations to win their trust in the run-up to global climate talks in Copenhagen, a draft EU report says.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand cricketers may opt to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) rather than for their country if the Twenty20 competition continues to clash with international commitments, captain Daniel Vettori said.
In our time
“Dr Du Bois took the lead in making the United States and the world recognize that racial prejudice was not a mere matter of Negroes being persecuted but was a cancer which poisoned the whole civilization of the United States.”
USLAS MANOS, Honduras (Reuters) – Defying US criticism, ousted President Manuel Zelaya returned for a second day to Honduras’ land border to try to put pressure on the coup leaders who threw him out of the country last month.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia captain Ricky Ponting expressed surprise yesterday at the heckling he received from the Lord’s crowd during the second Ashes Test.
Dear Editor,
The media reports of the gruesome and barbarous treatment meted out to Mr Troy Small who, it seems, had come under suspicion of burning down the Ministry of Health, have prompted me to make the following observation.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s opposition urged senior clerics yesterday to help secure the release of people arrested following June’s disputed presidential election, after a protester died in prison.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara has regained the number one ranking among test batsmen after scoring 130 not out on Friday to help draw the final Test against Pakistan in Colombo.
Pet Corner -Nasal solar dermatitis
This fancy name is also called ‘Collie nose’ since it occurs with some frequency in the Collie, the Scottish Sheepdog (‘Lassie’ of television and movie fame is a Collie).
Action packed quarterfinal card on tonight
All semi-finalist will be decided tonight when the remaining eight teams collide in the quarter-final round of Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCY&SC)/Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Guinness Futsal Competition while the Media team will be facing off against the Ministry’s team what is expected to be a intriguing battle.
Dear Editor,
Newspapers and television have carried images of Troy Small trembling uncontrollably as he was helped out of the Alberttown police station on Wednesday July 22, 2009.
LONDON (Reuters) – The Libyan government has formally asked Scotland for the compassionate release of the former Libyan agent jailed for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the Scottish government said yesterday.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago, replying to Guyana’s 228, were 68 for two at the close on the opening day of their final round, TCL Group West Indies Three-Day Cup Under-19 match at Eleston Road yesterday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown came under attack from within his own Labour Party yesterday, as some blamed him for its latest humiliating electoral defeat.
Al Creighton’s Arts On SundayIn a recently published book on the early Caribbean integrationist, legislator, journalist and novelist, ARF Webber, the author Selwyn Cudjoe, in beginning a chapter entitled ‘Colonies in Search of A Nation,’ quotes from Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983):
“Nations inspire love, and often profoundly self-sacrificing love.
Events in the Co-operative Republic are taking a sinister turn. If it wasn’t bad enough that the Ministry of Health was destroyed by arsonists, we now have the mysterious death of David Leander, called ‘Biscuit’ in a public hospital, and the torture of Mr Troy Small by a group of persons unknown, one of whom he alleges, was in GDF uniform.
Dear Editor,
Today, critics see loans and general financial aid as an end in themselves, but instead, they should be seen as means to build on resource capacity.