Daily Archive: Thursday, August 20, 2009

The main opposition PNCR yesterday said an investigation has found no evidence supporting claims of the “systematic falsification” of the party’s membership register ahead of its Biennial Delegates Congress.

Bharrat Jagdeo’s elevation to the presidency ten years ago was widely welcomed.

Richard Van West Charles wants to lead the PNC into the  2011 general elections the fact that we differ does not mean that we are enemies.We

Twenty-one-year-old Mahendranauth Singh, of   Lot 202 Industry Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of causing the death of two children in an accident at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo  last Sunday.

Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan was probably the most complete criminal in this country’s history.

The two main challengers to incumbent PNCR leader Robert Corbin are expected to announce an alliance today.

Lennox O’Dean, the RK‘s security guard who was discovered bleeding from a fatal neck wound at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic on Tuesday evening, was reportedly stabbed by a man who escaped in a waiting car.

Guyanese children need to be saved from the dangers of losing the opportunity to complete their education and being driven into inappropriate employment.

Two branches of the Guyana Police Force – the Criminal Investigation Department and the Tactical Service Unit – seem to be working at cross purposes.

Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday ordered that the driver of the motor van who was allegedly involved in the accident that resulted in the deaths of a husband and wife be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Issues and challenges in the new academic year In this issue the Guyana Review publishes a collection of articles that address themes and issues in the development of the education system.

The leading nominee for Chairman of the PNCR, Basil Williams yesterday announced that he would be willing to “step aside” for an Indo-Guyanese candidate, preserving the party’s tradition as a multi-ethnic institution.

World-rated Nicolette Fernandes will be attempting to win her second Caribbean title when she faces Karen Meakins in the finals of the Caribbean Squash Championships in the Cayman Islands.

Guyanese Travis Dowlin and Royston Crandon both have said that they are overjoyed at their recent selection to the West Indies team for next month’s ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa.

The two men accused of robbing a Linden businessman at gunpoint were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.

Issues and challenges in the new academic yearIn this issue the Guyana Review publishes a collection of articles that address themes and issues in the development of the education system.

Issues and challenges in the new academic year   (Cont’d) By Dr Leyland Mason As happens every year in September and October, Education Month and International Teachers’ Day will be observed in 2009.

Government pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh has opined that the gunshot wound that a Greek national sustained at his home on Tuesday, was self- inflicted, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.

Guyana won four gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the eighth International Shotokan Karate Federation/Caribbean Karate College Championships in St.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt was back on the track  but the biggest roar of the world championships so far was  reserved for local hero Robert Harting when he won the men’s  discus with a monster throw on his final attempt yesterday.

Magistrate Ann McLennan granted two drivers involved in a recent accident on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway $60,000 bail each when they on Tuesday appeared in court.

The new school year is just around the corner and I guess a mixture of excitement, nervousness and confidence is in the air.

Issues and challenges in the new academic year   (Cont’d) There is significant proportion of untrained nursery and primary teachers.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The hijackers of a cargo ship  that disappeared off the coast of France threatened to blow it  up if their ransom demands were not met, Russian news agencies  said yesterday.

Nine days after he went missing, following an Essequibo River boat accident in which his father and another man died, there is still no sign of ten-year-old Ricky Ramnarine despite extensive searches by his relatives.

By Marlon Munroe Match officials called off play at 3 pm yesterday after an inspection of the pitch and outfield because of post-lunch showers at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground in the WICB Senior Women’s Challenge 50-over tournament.

Issues and challenges in the new academic year   (Cont’d) Education has evolved to such a stage that no longer is the chalk and talk by the teacher absolute. 

Several days after Transport Minister Robeson Benn had indicated that a statement on the status of the North West Ferry, MV Kimbia would have been disseminated; it is yet to reach this newspaper.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Thilan Samaraweera  scored a magnificent 159 to leave Sri Lanka in the driving seat  in the first test against New Zealand yesterday.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – Nigeria’s anti-graft police have  given defaulting debtors of five banks rescued in a $2.6  billion bailout, including some of the nation’s most powerful  tycoons, a week to organise repayment or face arrest and asset  seizures.

Police in Berbice are investigating an incident in which a car, which was stolen from a resident at Courtland, Corentyne on Monday night, was later found abandoned at the village of Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – A series of blasts in Baghdad  killed 95 people and wounded 536 in Iraq’s bloodiest day this  year, prompting a rare admission of culpability from Iraqi  security forces struggling to cope without U.S.

Dear Editor, It is not unusual for convicted prisoners to hurl threatening and abusive remarks at a magistrate upon being sentenced.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – An Australia cricket player has  been approached by a bookmaker during the Ashes tour of England,  the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.

Issues and challenges in the new academic year   (Cont’d) In the days leading to the publication of this issue The Guyana Review spoke with a number of teachers and with an education administrator about the problem of discipline in schools.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Don Hewitt, creator of CBS  News’ groundbreaking “60 Minutes” programme and one of the most  influential behind-the-scenes figures in U.S.

Issues and challenges in the new academic year   (Cont’d) Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in keeping with Articles 28 and 29, UNICEF-Guyana advocates for and facilitates education as a right, and uses education to support results in health, nutrition and protection for the realization of other rights.

Dear Editor, The Times of India is reporting that a ninety-six-year-old great grandfather, Randall Butisingh, a Guyanese living in Florida, has become the world’s oldest blogger.

Police are working on some information garnered as investigations continue into the murder of 28-year-old, Tashmudaye Lall, who was fatally shot by bandits at     his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo guesthouse on July 15, District Commander, Paulette Morrison says.

Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) President Bharrat Jagdeo is calling for an early conclusion to the dispute between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).

Dear Editor, In a letter in your August 1 Emancipation Day edition, Ms Dawn Holder listed a number of noted Guyanese, but failed to mention two persons who had a direct impact during the late colonial and post-independence period (‘We should commit to understanding our ancestry and heritage’).

The legality of Attorney General Charles Ramson’s written instruction to the Deputy Supreme Court Registrar Rashid Mohamed directing the return of three vehicles seized from CLICO (Guyana) is in dispute.

For the thirteen pre-secondary children who participated in the inaugural programme of Manners Matter, a one-week summer orientation exercise run by the Visions of Excellence Resource Development Centre, the time could hardly have been better spent.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An unrelentingly dramatic Ashes  series with enough plot twists to satisfy the most demanding  sports devotee reaches an appropriate climax at the Oval today.  

BERNE/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) –  Switzerland has  agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American  clients of UBS AG to U.S.

Dear Editor, I have spent a year on the sidelines observing life in Guyana at arm’s length and up close.

History will be created in Berbice on Saturday when the Berbice Cricket Board hosts the first ever U-13 cricket tournament in the county.

A group of placard-carrying youths yesterday protested in front of the chambers of Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman, attorney-at-law Khemraj Ramjattan, who dubbed them the “phantom demonstrators” because they concealed their faces.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s ambassador to the United  Nations has accused Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of weak,  ineffective and at times counterproductive leadership during  recent crises, the daily Aftenposten reported yesterday.

Rhoda Reddock 10th W. G. Demas Memorial Lecture Tuesday 26, May 2009 Part 1 Professor Reddock  is a distinguished Caribbean academic and the holder of the Seventh Caricom Triennial Award I would like to begin by thanking my former campus Principal, Prof.

Four bandits invaded a Herstelling home early yesterday morning and carted off a number of household items valued some $700,000 after which they were apprehended by the police and placed in custody.

By Michael Whayl I couldn’t bring myself to do it. The thought of compounding the wrong that I had already done seemed, somehow, repulsive, as if I was surrendering to the commonplace culture of offering blandishments in exchance for illicit favours.

The Berbice Cricket Board Senior Selection Committee under the chairmanship of Pastor Mark Lyte has started preparation for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board Inter-County One-day and Four-Day tournaments.

Heavy rain in Linden yesterday caused water levels to rise rapidly.

Dear Editor, I am extremely disappointed that Robert Corbin announced on Tuesday, August 18, that he would be contesting for the position of leader at this weekend’s congress of the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR).

LONDON, (Reuters) – The British tax office arrested  seven people in London on Wednesday in a suspected 38 million  pounds ($62.6 million) value-added tax fraud in the European  market in carbon allowances, it said.

(Trinidad Express) A mother who found a gunman outside her home intent on robbing and killing, saved herself and her teenage daughters on Monday.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Five Jamaican track and field  athletes expected to run in the 4×100 and 4×400 metres relays at  the world championships have been pulled off the team, the IAAF  said yesterday.

However much we love our cricket, Caribbean people are not waiting anxiously for the game to heal itself.

Indigenous village leaders attending a national caucus which was held in Georgetown late last month brought with them lists of issues which affect the residents of their areas and which they would like addressed.

A fire completely destroyed the home of a Linden man last night.

Dear Editor, I am replying to Annan Boodram’s second letter (‘Who is making the acrobatic leap?’

This antique set of wheels was motoring along Regent Street yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) One million dollars – and counting! That’s the estimate which chairman and chief executive officer Edwin Thirlwell put on the damage done by a fire raging on Tuesday night at the headquarters of BICO, the big ice-cream maker.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford is a logical  target for the ire of his former investors, but now the man  named to track assets from the alleged fraud led by the Texas  financier faces heightened criticism and calls for his  removal.

History This Week         No. 30/2009By Cecilia McAlmont Introduction August is the month during which the descendants of enslaved Africans of the English speaking Caribbean celebrate the end of the dehumanizing system of chattel slavery that had smothered their fore parents for more than two centuries.