Daily Archive: Friday, August 14, 2009

Numerous regional commentators, including former cricketers, past and current cricket administrators, journalists, political analysts and academics – as well as (shame of shames) foreign sportswriters, some well-meaning, others not – have opined on the well-documented events of the past few years and, more specifically, the past few months, that have brought the once proud and mighty institution of West Indies cricket to the sorry pass at which it now finds itself.

-appeals to civil society for support Continuing to press for an inquiry into alleged links between government and drug trafficker Roger Khan, the joint opposition parties yesterday made an appeal for the support of civil society, saying that the Guyanese people have a moral responsibility to condemn wrongdoing and demand accountability.

Three vehicles were seized from the bankrupt CLICO (Guyana) yesterday as a marshal enforced a High Court ruling which almost saw the arrest of the company’s Assistant Manager Geeta Singh-Knight as she attempted to prevent the seizure.

Seeking to allay concerns about transparency in its internal polling, the PNCR has announced that it will provide for independent observ-ers, the secrecy of the ballot and the public counting of votes at next week’s Biennial Delegates’ Congress.

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce is set to host the first ever Mahdia Expo at the weekend.

A 31-year-old man yesterday pleaded guilty to the charge of simple larceny when it was read to him by Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Petty thieves have been wreaking havoc in Kaneville over the last few months but in spite of increased vigilance among residents, one managed to break into a house in First Field yesterday and after terrorizing a woman and her daughter made off with cash and jewellery.

Two children are among four persons who have been left homeless following a fire that swept through a two-bedroom wooden house at Lot 22 Section ‘C’, Number Seventy-nine Village, Skeldon.The

The search continued yesterday for ten-year-old Ricky Ramnarine- who has been missing following a boat accident on the Essequibo River on Monday night in which his father and another man died, but nothing was recovered.

-Minister meets farmers El Nino-like conditions are affecting many areas across the country and the Ministry of Agriculture has been reaching out to affected farmers, a statement from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

A 36-year-old man who said tearfully that he was being wrongfully accused of  a theft involving cash and items in excess of $9M was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

John Dyson was sacked yesterday from the most hopeless job in international cricket.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has added a new product to its line of services, the ‘Republic VISA One Card’ which according to the bank, will allow customers access to their accounts from anywhere in the world where VISA is accepted, including on-line merchants.

Amelia’s Ward United relegated Netrockers have won the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Stag B-League by virtue of a superior goal difference and have also retained their first division status following a hard fought 1-1 draw with a 10-man Hi Stars in the final game of the league at the Bayrock Ground on Wednesday.

While addressing students graduating from the Cuban Scholarship programme yesterday, President Bharrat Jagdeo issued a challenge to the graduates to participate actively in Guyana’s development.

Zimeena Rasheed of the Anna Regina Library gained 94% in the 12-14 age group resulting in that library emerging the overall winner in the recently-concluded Champion Readers Competition launched by the National Library on April 4.

CHASKA, Minnesota, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods fired a  five-under-par 67 to set the early pace at the U.S.

Richard Sanchara, the 28-year-old Montrose, East Coast Demerara vendor, who disappeared sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning while at sea, was picked up by another boat at about 1:30 pm on Tuesday.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Women’s boxing will make its  first appearance on the Olympic programme at the London 2012  Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said yesterday.

The taxi driver accused of causing 78-year-old Eileen August to suffer a broken leg and hip in a collision was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – WBC heavyweight champion  Vitali Klitschko can not see his upcoming title bout with  undefeated challenger Cristobal Arreola lasting the distance.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) 2009 Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Cellink Plus Premier League resumes tonight with the first double header of the second round at the Tucville Playfield.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former test captain Javed  Miandad has been appointed as batting consultant to prepare  Pakistan for next month’s Champions Trophy in South Africa, the  Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan off spinner Saeed  Ajmal has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for a breach  of the International Cricket Council (ICC) code of conduct  rules in Wednesday’s Twenty20 international win over hosts Sri  Lanka.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former England batsman Marcus  Trescothick woke up in a cold sweat this week at the thought of  a possible recall for the final Ashes test against Australia at  the Oval, he said yesterday.

CINCINNATI, (Reuters) – Unseeded Kim Clijsters  reached the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Open with a 6-4 4-6  6-2 win over French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova yesterday while Serena and Venus Williams were eliminated.

-to be run by St Augustine Business School lecturers Some of the city’s more popular eating houses are guilty of food safety and other health-related violations and the limited capacity of the Georgetown City Council’s Food Hygiene Department to effectively enforce the standards set under the law may mean that consuming food prepared by some of those facilities may pose health risks for patrons.

Transgressions common among some big eating houses– Food Hygiene Department Some of the city’s more popular eating houses are guilty of food safety and other health-related violations and the limited capacity of the Georgetown City Council’s Food Hygiene Department to effectively enforce the standards set under the law may mean that consuming food prepared by some of those facilities may pose health risks for patrons.

Recently, this newspaper witnessed, first hand, shocking evidence of a flagrant violation of food safety standards at a snackette run by a prominent city department store.

Dear Editor, It is never a good thing to ‘tell tales out of school’; however, for certain reasons there can be exceptions to the rule lest a falsehood having been peddled time and again, and never debunked by those in authority, can be believed and eventually become a historical fact.

Manager of the Medicine Chest Jackie McDonald-Fraser has assisted the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) by providing full coverage for national table tennis player Chelsea Edghill.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Stabroek News reprinted an article (and photograph) first carried in the Trinidad Express under the headline ‘Region must save Haiti –   Andaiye’ (I believe the Express used the same headline).

By Marlon Munroe Members of the female national cricket team yesterday exuded confidence before the team’s warm-up session at the GNIC cricket ground that they have the winning formula to lift the WICB Senior Women’s Challenge 50-over trophy when the tournament bowls off tomorrow in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I read the letter penned by Mr Mortimer Mingo, Regional Chairman of RDC10 and concurred with the sentiments expressed therein (‘Roadway signs in Linden removed without knowledge of local government’ SN, 5.8.09).

Equipping persons running small entrepreneurial ventures to transform their operations into orthodox businesses is one of the key pursuits of a privately-run local training institution which says that it is seeking to make “quality education” in a range of skills and disciplines more accessible to Guyanese.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The tiny Caribbean state of  Antigua and Barbuda, still reeling from the fraud scandal  surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, yesterday found  a new foreign benefactor in Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – If Usain Bolt plans to break his  100 metres world record at this weekend’s world championships,  he is going to have company, confident American rival Tyson Gay  said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News on Monday, July 20, 2009 devoted three pages to create an impression that there was corruption involved in executing the contract for the Stanleytown Pump Station.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government is covertly  testing technology in China and Iran that lets residents break  through screens set up by their governments to limit access to  news on the Internet.

By Jonathan Said Carbbean Community (CARICOM) countries continue their economic integration journey through the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME).

ANKARA, (Reuters) – The global economic crisis could  have a “disastrous” impact on health and school projects in the  developing world unless rich nations spend a tiny fraction of  stimulus measures to help the poor, a World Bank official said.

BERLIN, Reuters) – Usain Bolt’s love affair with the  yam will literally step up a level tomorrow when the Jamaican  starts his world championship campaign in newly-designed glitzy  orange spikes named after the humble root vegetable.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – Afghan  President Hamid Karzai’s main rival drew a huge crowd to a rally  yesterday but violence still loomed as a threat, with a former  leader escaping an assassination attempt a week before the vote.

Dear Editor, A recent letter (‘the government continues to commit to Amerindian development’ SN, August 8), written by my parliamentary colleague Norman Whittaker, MP, has caught my attention and is in need of a response.

TEHRAN – Iran’s defeated presidential candidate Mehdi  Karoubi said on his website yetserday that some of those  arrested after the June presidential election were tortured to  death, but other inmates defended their treatment.

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to a letter under the caption ‘The LDCS website is not complying with the process document for communications about LCDS’ by Janette Bulkan, in your issue of August 7.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cornell Glen’s early first half strike was enough to earn Trinidad & Tobago’s Soca Warriors a 1-0 victory over El Salvador on Wednesday night, and keep alive the country’s slim hopes of reaching the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Small Business Profile For John Caesar, the production of barley, corn and plantain flours back in the 1970’s, started as a means of satisfying his family’s breakfast needs.

CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia’s parliament  rejected a plan for the world’s most ambitious emissions trade  regime as expected yesterday, bringing the nation closer to a  snap election and prolonging financial uncertainty for major  emitters.

Frankly Speaking…           By A.A. Fenty Some disrespect and humour in Parliament Funny how many (mass) organizations declare that “Congress is the highest forum” for their particular body.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Less than a year ago, Peruvian  elites smugly began calling their country a “Latin tiger” and  predicted that it had entered a magical phase of constant  economic growth that would outshine the rest of Latin America.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – An avalanche of laws being  written to regulate business and promote “Marxist trade” in  Venezuela marks a new push by President Hugo Chavez to build a  socialist economy in the shopping-mad oil-exporting nation.

Dear Editor, On August 10, 2009, my faithful mobile phone ceased to respond to everyday expectations.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport presented a quantity of sport equipment to the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) yesterday as part of its drive to get young people involved in sport.

(Trinidad Express) The 38 transferred police officers who were once stationed at the St Joseph Police Station will have to undergo a series of DNA and fingerprint tests to ascertain whether they were involved in planting a cache of arms, ammunition and drugs in the station’s ceiling.

(This is the eighth in a 10-part series intended to look at some of the issues surrounding Guyana’s bid for funds from the World Bank-administered Forest Carbon Partnership Fund (FCPF) and from Norway, and for the President’s Low Carbon Development Strategy.)

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Sports Minister Olivia Grange has appointed retired Court of Appeals judge Ransford Langrin to head the Jamaica Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal, as the latest chapter in the athletics drugs scandal unfolded here.

Dear Editor, It is with great anticipation that I look forward for the day when poetry will take its rightful place in our communications.

NEW YORK, (Reuters)- The junk-stock rally lives on. The biggest winners since the U.S.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The mystery surrounding a missing  merchant ship deepened yesterday with the vessel’s operator  suggesting piracy and maritime experts suspecting foul play or  even a secret cargo.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, (Reuters) – Millions of sockeye  salmon have disappeared mysteriously from a river on Canada’s  Pacific Coast that was once known as the world’s most fertile  spawning ground for sockeye.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 316’s trading results showed consideration of $260,034 from 23,086 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 315 which showed consideration of $949,070 from 32,600 shares traded in 8  transactions. 

TRANMERE, England, CMC – Grenadian striker Kithson Bain is poised to sign a contract with English League One side Tranmere Rovers.

Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law, is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists, and Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Dear Editor, In its fight against terrorists the United States decided to use outside forces, private mercenaries, some might say, for what the former Vice President confirmed was a necessary walk on “the dark side.”

(Trinidad Express) Cabinet has approved financial help to the tune of TT$5 billion to help cash-poor insurance giant CLICO recover.