Articles published on Saturday, August 22, 2009
English A result up significantly By Femi Harris, Alva Solomon, Tiffny Rhodius and Adrian Smith With 14 grade ones each, Kia Persaud and Padminee Roshundatt of Queen’s College (QC) emerged the top students of the 10,243 candidates who wrote this year’s Caribbean Secondary Examinations Council (CSEC) exams.
-police accused of stealing recovered cash By Zoisa Fraser and Gaulbert Sutherland A 24-year-old gold dealer who was taken off a Bartica-bound boat on Thursday and robbed of $17M by three coast guards before being dumped was still missing last night and feared murdered in a scandal that yesterday also ensnared the police.
Ahead of a crucial contest for leadership today, incumbent PNCR leader Robert Corbin yesterday said the greatest challenge facing the party is providing effective national leadership and he defended the “militancy” of the party under his leadership.
A 27-year-old labourer of Hand-en-Veldt, Mahaica was stabbed to death yesterday by inmates of the Georgetown Prison, one day after he was placed on remand for a larceny charge when he appeared at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court.
– court told Naresh Indall, who is accused of wilfully hitting down a woman on Croal Street with his car, was on Wednesday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Magistrate Priya Beharry on Wednesday granted a woman and a man bail in the sum of $100,000 each when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court for allegedly stealing a quantity of cash from the Power Marketing Company.
BERLIN, Reuters) – Allyson Felix completed a hat-trick of women’s 200 metres world titles yesterday but fellow American Jeremy Wariner’s bid to match her in the men’s 400 failed when he lost again to compatriot LaShawn Merritt.
A father, distressed by the death of his seven-month-old daughter on Wednesday night, stormed into the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) verbally abusing staff yesterday afternoon, the hospital said.
The Under-10 boys team to the fourth Caribbean cadet table tennis tournament played unbeaten to capture the gold medal at the tournament which ended yesterday in Barbados.
A 35-year-old man, arrested six days after being on the run for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl, was charged with the offence at the Fort Wellington Court on Thursday and Magistrate Krishndat Persaud refused him bail.
Dear Editor, Both Stabroek News of August 16 and Kaieteur News of July 29, carried bilious reports on the internal elections that were held in the Soesdyke-Huis t’Coverden Neighbourhood Democratic Council on July 27, 2009.
While registering concern about poll preparations, Team Alexander yesterday issued a call to action to PNCR members to support Winston Murray’s candidacy for party leader.
Guyana’s men’s squash team went under to Jamaica 2-3 but the women’s team whipped Bermuda 4-0 when the Caribbean squash championships continued on Thursday in the Cayman Islands.
Dear Editor, If there is any time that the citizens of Guyana deserve peace, quiet, tranquillity and immunization from the horrors of noise it is at night.
…but AG concerned at coercive CCJ order Attorney General Charles Ramson said yesterday that Guyana will reinstate the Common External Tariff (CET) on cement as ordered on Thursday by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), but he likened the court’s coercive order to “an act of sovereignty” saying that it borders on the kind of action that only nation states take against other nation states.
“I think my best chances of winning my first championship series is in Barbados,” says Guyana’s champion driver Andrew King as he prepares for the second round of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship which gets revving next weekend in Barbados.
By Marlon Munroe The top teams contesting today’s semi-finals of the WICB Senior Women’s Challenge 50-over tournament have showed no signs of letting up until the tournament concludes tomorrow.
The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) said the month of Ramadan has been set aside as a time to reflect on challenges and to find the solution through prayers, charity and fasting.
Dear Editor, Is it racism, gender discrimination, disrespect or good old ‘eyepass’ (as we would say in Guyana), that the world governing body of athletics can even entertain the thought of testing the South African female 800m world champion Caster Semenya to verify her gender?
Serious about making her mark in modelling “I am a mother and a model,” Guyana’s top female model, Yolanda Kerr says with a bit of conviction as if someone had previously challenged her on the statement.
Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter written by Mr Winston Moore under the caption ‘A magistrate has the power to apply common law rules of evidence and therefore has the power to determine the admissibility of a confession statement’ published in the Stabroek News on August 19.
Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday sentenced two Venezuelan nationals who had illegally entered Guyana to six months imprisonment and imposed a $30,000 fine on each of them for the offence when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Former national striker Roger Alphonso will be in action tonight at the Georgetown Football Club ground when the popular Masters Football Classic known as the Rastas versus Baldhead football series continues.
Culture Box A couple of us girls were having a lunch-time discussion recently and the talk got around to all the things you are advised not to do in case something bad befalls you.
Renwick Gonsalves of 873 La Penitence was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $100,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing another man’s motorcycle.
KABUL, (Reuters) – President Hamid Karzai’s campaign and chief rival Abdullah Abdullah both said yesterday they had won Afghanistan’s election, with U.S.
Dear Editor, Most SN letter writers and bloggers seem to believe that simply removing the PPP is the end all.
The Scotts School ground comes alive today with the first round of the Berbice Football Association (BFA) Business School-Berbice Football Championship kicking off with four matches, following the official launching yesterday.
Dear Editor, In response to the article captioned ‘More dumped syringes found,’ published in the Kaieteur News, dated Thursday, August 20, 2009, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) wishes to reiterate that it is in no way associated with the dumping of any hazardous materials.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – An AIDS advocacy group filed complaints against 16 adult-film studios in California yesterday, accusing them of violating state workplace safety rules by failing to require porn actors to wear condoms.
Tastes Like Home I’m in love with Basil – the herb not the man.
At his first press conference since he began his second stint as Attorney General earlier this year, Legal Affairs Minister Charles Ramson yesterday detailed some of the pressures of holding the office saying that he inherited a depleted staff and loads of unfinished work.
The stage is set for what is expected to be an entertaining encounter when Dynas Bravado clashes with Hillfoot Strikers in the Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) 15/15 tapeball final today at the GS&WCA ground, Carifesta Avenue.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s family yesterday delayed his burial by five days as a judge ruled that a touring show of his memorabilia could go on and police raided another pharmacy in their ongoing probe of his sudden death.
Dear Editor, Mr Mustapha Alphonso has said it correctly: Robert Corbin should not be contesting the leadership of the PNCR at the congress.
The Guyana Power and Light Inc will be switching its power supply from 50Hz to 60Hz to customers in Werk-en-Rust, Queenstown, Alberttown and Bourda and this upgrade and frequency conversion, the company said in a news release, will significantly improve the quality of supply.
Guyana excel without maximum of 40 swimmersAlthough not carrying a maximum of forty swimmers the Guyanese team were still able to cop medals at this year’s Goodwill Swimming Championships in Barbados where they placed fourth among Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Grenada.
At last something different. It promises to be high in energy with a “carnival atmosphere” as one of Brazil’s biggest stars takes the stage at the National Park tonight.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Security has improved dramatically in Haiti, where just a few years ago large areas were controlled by heavily armed gangs that killed, kidnapped and raped with impunity, U.N.
The Mayor and City Council says it has already started to implement some of the strategies recommended by the Commission of Inquiry report particularly those aimed at ensuring greater financial accountability.
GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan scored a century as Sri Lanka set New Zealand an improbable 413-run target on the fourth day of the first test yesterday.
Dear Editor, I refer to my recent letter in Kaieteur News on the presentation of unverified information; this letter seems to have startled Freddie Kissoon and the editors at Kaieteur News, pushing them to grasp for a defensive reaction.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Around 75 African migrants died in the Mediterranean after their stranded boat ran out of food and water, the United Nations said yesterday, quoting the only five survivors of what it called a “shocking tragedy”.
President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday met with staff at the National Library in honour of its centennial anniversary.
Marlan Cole reclaimed his post as president of Fruta Conquerors Football Club unopposed when the club held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) this past Sunday at the club house in Tucville.
Coming this weekend August 21 to 23, DIRECTV customers will be treated to “a little rock flavour” from Serj Tankian live in concert on channel 999.
Dear Editor, Management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) would like to highlight a mistake made by your newspaper regarding the doctor who performed the post-mortem examination on Greek National, Mr Vlachakis Zacharias who sustained a gun-shot wound to the head on Tuesday last.
The recent imposition of direct rule by the UK in the Turks and Caicos Islands is a regrettable, forced step backwards, CARICOM has said.
By P J Patterson It is erroneous to pretend or attempt to portray the notion that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has accepted and is proceeding in accordance with the Report submitted by Sir Alister McIntyre, Dr.
A ten-member delegation from the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA), United Republic of Tanzania will be conducting high-level study tours in Guyana in the water and energy sectors.
(Reuters) – The studio behind the Michael Jackson film “This Is It” on Thurs-day advanced its release by two days to October 28, anticipating huge demand for the movie of his final performance rehearsals just days before his death.
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.
MOSCOW – Chechen rebels claimed responsibility yesterday for a Siberian dam disaster as part of an economic war against Russia, but the Kremlin dismissed the claim and financial markets ignored it.
Dear Editor, These past several days I have been overcome with a sense of desolation, and have been grappling with an inadequacy to find words to explain my delinquency in not being present to share with those bereaved at the passing of my life-long friend John Ramessar.
Beauties from 85 countries will be on stage tomorrow night in The Bahamas as they compete for the coveted Miss Universe pageant.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Spanish doctors completed the first ever tongue and jaw transplant on Tuesday in an operation on a 43-year-old man, surgeon Pedro Cavadas said yesterday.
Sonia Noel is a bit nervous as Guyana Fashion Weekend turns three today, but the pressure is off as she believes “we are getting better.”
The MV Northcote will provide ferry service across the Berbice River at the end of a dry-docking exercise it is undergoing at the Mazaruni docks.
Dear Editor, Guyana is a strange country for in the midst of plenty, relative to many other countries, we have increasing poverty and rising unemployment; poor living standards; and we are heading in the wrong direction on many social, economic and political indicators.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Stuart Broad transformed the fifth and final Ashes test between England and Australia at the Oval with a devastating spell of quick bowling in the afternoon session on yesterday’s second day.
PNCR Leader Robert Corbin (centre) accompanied by boisterous supporters yesterday as he arrived inside the auditorium at Congress Place at the start of the party’s 16th Biennial Congress.
Usain Bolt’s sprint double at the World Championships in Berlin has established him, unquestionably, as the greatest sprinter of all time.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sugar officials now acknowledge it will take US$39 million to produce the 79,000 tonnes of sugar forward sold to Eridania Suisse SA from the next crop, and not US$21 million as initially announced.
– Richard N. Haass, formerly Director of Policy Planning in the US State Department, is President of The Council on Foreign Relations.
