Daily Archive: Sunday, August 30, 2009

Articles published on Sunday, August 30, 2009

President says horrified by the murder of Ramdass

—is not interested in a third term President Bharrat Jagdeo says he is stunned by the murder of gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass allegedly by three soldiers, and says that he can’t guarantee “it will never happen again” because the security services import the same problems found in the society when they recruit ranks.

Andrew King powering his way at Bushy Park

Caribbean Motor Racing Championships – Round two

Day of drama for team Guyana at time trials–   King to start last on grid despite qualifying second By Rawle Toney in BarbadosIt was a day filled with high end drama for Andrew King and Gavin Gayadin at yesterday’s time trial for the second round of this year’s Caribbean Motor Racing championships at Bushy Park circuit in Barbados.

DCC, GNIC gain upper hand over Everest and Maltenoes

By Marlon Munroe Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) are in the driver’s seat over Maltenoes Sports Club (MSC) and Everest Cricket Club (ECC) respectively after semi final action got underway yesterday in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Cellink first division cricket tournament.

Vivekanand Rudradeo

Boy, 12, battles for life

An early morning hit-and-run accident yesterday left a 12-year-old boy fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where his father is nursing minor injuries.

Dr Richard Van West Charles

PNCR congress

Electoral process ‘fraudulent’ -Van West Charles A week after the conclusion of the PNCR’s 16th Biennial Congress, Dr Richard Van West Charles is charging that the electoral process was “fraudulent,” from membership registration to voting.

Suspects held in Corriverton robbery

Victims of the robbery that occurred at Kingston, Corriverton early Friday morning were summoned to identify jewellery and other items belonging to them after three suspects were held several hours later during a roadblock at Weldaad, West Berbice.

Hopetown, De Edward clash in NBS final

It’s down to the final two. The 2008 New Building Society Challenge second-division limited overs cricket competition, commenced with over 100 teams from practically all of the geographical zones of Berbice.

Making stimulus packages work

Guyana and the wider world Expansionary impact Expansionary impact We saw last week that despite the high level of recognition readers have for stimulus packages as an economic policy tool, what it takes to make government spending a true stimulus is not widely recognised.

Roger Khan saga

Joint opposition working with stakeholders for international inquiry The joint opposition parties are continuing to organise stakeholders’ engagements to galvanise support for the call for an international inquiry into alleged links between government and drug trafficker Roger Khan.

John Warrington

Our bromeliads are popular in Britain

A Gardener’s Diary I am presently in England again having been coopted into the heavy gang to move my son’s belongings from the London University hall of residence near the Strand to a place not many miles away in Clerkenwell,  in readiness for the start of his masters degree at University College London in October.

(From left) Ted, Jack and Bobby Kennedy

The penitence of the prince

In Our Time Some time around midnight on July 18, 1969 (easy to remember the date, since it was my 25th birthday), on Chappaquiddick Island off Martha’s Vineyard, a ’67 Oldsmobile drove off the rail-less Dike Bridge, flipped and sank upside down in an inlet.

Bridge

The bridge intended to link Sophia with Cummings Lodge. There is no sign of work currently underway, and the gap between the bridge and the road remains (see inset).

Nazir Khan

Taxi driver killing

Police still seeking  ‘passengers’ West Coast Demerara police are yet to find the two men who were the last known passengers picked up by 70-year-old taxi driver, Nazir Khan, whose bloody body was found in his car at Stewartville, early Friday morning.

Last-minute shopping

Last-minute shopping: Vendors such as these in Regent Street were fully stocked with back-to-school items yesterday in the expectation that many parents would be making purchases at the last minute.

Eileen Cox

Stand up for good

Consumer Concerns Dr Ian McDonald’s article in last Sunday Stabroek, August 23, should serve as a wake-up call for those who, like me, tend to avoid reading the horrific details of the crimes now emerging in our society.

Chess

With one tournament still to go, Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is already the winner of the 2008-2009 Fide Grand Prix.

Cops caught stealing $96,000

(Trinidad Express) Four police officers from an elite crime-fighting unit in the Southern Division were taken in for questioning Thursday, over their alleged involvement in the theft from a casino of almost $100,000.

Memory Lane

If you have any photographs dating from before 1966, which you would like to see published in this column, please contact Ms Allison Bowlin on 225-7473 or 227-4080 to make arrangements for you to bring them in.