Daily Archive: Sunday, August 2, 2009

Years of domestic abuse ended in a suicide on Friday when an Alberttown man who had promised to change his ways turned himself over to police and ingested poison while at the station.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Despairing West Indies will look to the game’s shortest and most entertaining form on Sunday to gain some redemption from an otherwise depressing tour when they face Bangladesh in the lone Twenty20 International of the tour.

A man-of-the-match performance from the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) captain, Leon Johnson, helped spur his team to an inaugural tournament victory in the Steven Jacobs-Delvon Mewan/Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) organized Carib Beer Super 6s Competition at the MSC Ground, yesterday.

Guyana and the wider world In last week’s column (July 26) I had urged the importance of the symbolism for developing countries, which the United Nations Conference on the Global Financial and Economic Crisis held in New York, last June represented.

The East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) will hold its eighth annual Cricket Academy from tomorrow at the Lusignan Community Centre, East Coast Demerara.

Nostalgia Part 2 Gone with the Wind…By Godfrey Chin In 1939 David O Selznick produced Gone with the Wind, winner of 9 Academy Awards and one of the best movies ever made, and the biggest box Office Draw until Spielberg Jaws in 1975.

ROME (Reuters) – Michael Phelps produced a stunning comeback to break the world record and retain his 100 meters butterfly world title Saturday.

The bauxite kilns at Linden have not been fired up for over a month now since there is no smoke wafting from their chimneys, Lindeners say.

Consumer  Concerns Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls; Who steals my purse steals trash: ’tis something, nothing; ’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Guyana beat the Windward Islands by 158 runs in their second round, TCL Group West Indies One-Day Trophy Under-19 match at Elletson Road yesterday.

Health By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) What is diabetes?

– govt should seek answers, observers say Would the co-founder of a reputable UK communications firm lie under oath in a US federal court that the Government of Guyana purchased spy equipment from its Florida office, which later ended up in the hands of a drug trafficker and if so, why would he intentionally damage the administration’s creditability?

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Barbados stumbled in their TCL Group West Indies One-Day Trophy Under-19 quest when they produced a mediocre batting performance to lose by seven wickets to Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.

The Ministry of Education is continuing to work on legislation which would increase the age of retirement for trained teachers as it sees this as having an adverse effect on the education system.

Arts On Sunday The troubled Trinidadian poet Eric Roache was seriously tormented by the gathering dark clouds of Black Power in 1970 and the new emerging poets in the Caribbean “wallowing in the murky waters of race and slavery” (Roache killed himself in 1974). 

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – World champion Lewis Hamilton  is delighted his Hungarian Grand Prix win has lifted the gloom  around McLaren and hopes it has turned around a frustrating season for the team.

A Gardener’s diary I had a plant in my garden called Blue Wings, which had the Latin name Torenia fournieri.

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka cruised to  a 2-0 series lead with a comfortable six-wicket victory against  Pakistan in the second one-day international yesterday.

The new bombshell allegations about government’s involvement with confessed drug trafficker Roger Khan warrant nothing less than a full inquiry by an independent international tribunal, according to AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan.

Obituary Olga Irene Bone, former Executive Director of the Guyana Book Foundation,  Co-ordinator of Education Renewal and Assistant Registrar of the University of Guyana, died on July 27, aged 88.

– residents say Aruka River encroaching, urge authorities to act Several businesspersons at Kumaka in the Mabaruma Sub-Region are concerned about erosion of the land on which they operate their businesses.

Guyana beat The Windwards by 158 runs Guyana beat the Windward Islands by 158 runs in their second round, TCL Group West Indies One-Day Trophy Under-19 match at Elletson Road on Saturday.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport on Thursday handed over cheques of various amounts to 31 cultural groups for Emancipation Day activities.

`Peace between board and players is vital to dragging the West Indies out of the deep hole dug by long years of inept leadership’ Cozier on Sunday Sir Shridath Ramphal spoke optimistically during the week of having the latest in the never-ending rows between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) settled by the end of this month.

In our time Jokes about Jamaican ostentation abound — jokes mostly told by Jamaicans themselves.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Reigning champions Jamaica will tackle Barbados in their opening game when the 2009 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Senior Women’s Challenge Tournament starts mid-August in Guyana.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) has extended greetings to the entire nation, especially citizens of African descent on the occasion of the 171st Emancipation Anniversary.

Ian On Sunday Love of sport is woven into the fabric of my life.

CARACAS (Reuters) – More than a dozen of 34 radio  stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the  air yesterday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his socialist revolution to the media.

A bumper crowd is expected to throng the Port Mourant Turf Club in Corentyne Berbice today when that entity stages its annual one-day Emancipation horse-race meet.

Courts Guyana Inc on Wednesday handed over a $270,000 cheque to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG) in support of its yearly Reading is Fun Programme which is scheduled to start on August 4.

Bookshelf By  Ronald Austin George Padmore: Pan-Africanist Revolutionary edited by Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis.

The View From Europe In a matter of days, a task force of five Caricom leaders will meet in Jamaica to discuss a regional approach to the global economic and financial crisis.

Stressing that the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) would not cause the cessation of mining activities, President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday, said that there would be changes in the industry, indicating for the first time, an intention to stop the use of mercury in the sector.

The Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) will stage a race walk event today to usher in the activities of its fifth Race Walk Month aimed at expanding and promoting the sport locally.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police used  teargas and water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters yesterday, arresting almost 600 people in the biggest  demonstration in the country’s capital in almost two years.

Liberating smiles: Mom Petaline Payne and her pair of angels, D’Joy (left) and D’ Petal (right) were beautifully attired and part of the African Cultural Development Association  Emancipation Day celebrations at the National Park yesterday.

After permanently losing the use of his left hand following a shooting incident in September 2002, a 58-year-old retired prison officer is calling on the authorities to pay the compensation recommended by the Attorney General’s Chambers some time after the incident.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – About 100 leading Iranian  reformists went on trial yesterday, accused of trying to  topple the clerical establishment by orchestrating mass protests  after the disputed presidential election, Iranian media  reported.

Pet Corner Nasal ‘warts’ Really, this condition of the nose tip has little to do with warts. 

Dear Editor, I am totally fed up with the incompetence of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL).

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Their bowlers set it up, and then their batsmen carried Jamaica their second straight victory in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 One-day Trophy, when they dispatched Leeward Islands by six wickets yesterday.

The importance of the joint role of parents and teachers in raising teenagers was emphasized recently when the Bishops High School held an orientation for new students, which a record number of parents attended.

When ordinary citizens first became familiar with Mr Roger Khan’s name during the killing years of 2002 onwards, they would not have believed that a partial denouement to the events of that period would have played out not here, but in a US federal courtroom.

(Barbados Nation) Govern-ment is concerned that landlords are kicking Barbadian tenants from rental homes and converting them into rooms.

Ever optimistic this male dog waits outside the GSPCA kennels for a would-be owner to take him home.

Chess The Guyana Chess Federation will host a one-day workshop for students and teachers at the Cottonfield Secondary school on the Essequibo coast next Saturday .

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A man who was shot during a  protest in Honduras this week in support of ousted President  Manuel Zelaya died of his injuries yesterday, as efforts to  resolve the crisis over last month’s coup remained stalemated.

‘C’ Division dominoes team was crowned champions of the Ministry of Home Affairs organized domino competition on Friday at the ‘C’ Division Community Policing Headquarters, Chateau Margot after emerging victorious on sixes.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to a Kaieteur News article captioned ‘Guysuco without legal counsel as company secretary resigns’ which appeared on page 3 of its Friday, July 31, 2009 edition.