Daily Archive: Monday, September 28, 2009

The nude body of a 49-year-old woman was discovered at her house at 132 Tain, Port Mourant, Corentyne around 11 am yesterday in a pool of blood with a gaping wound under the chin.

An agreement is expected to be finalized next month for a Brazilian company to rehabilitate the long defunct Moco-Moco hydroelectricity plant, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds told Lethem residents on Saturday.

A man is dead and another is in police custody following an altercation over a spot at Bourda Market yesterday.

Shirley Fernandes, a member of the Soesdyke/ Coverden Cultural, Youth and Sport organization, in collaboration with the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) is giving high-school dropouts in the area a second chance at furthering their education.

– lied to protect son who abused four-month-old A Guyanese husband and wife on Friday last pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for their role in a 2008 shaken-baby case involving their adult son, who authorities say may have fled to Guyana to avoid prosecution, and were fined by New York Judge, Richard Giardino.

– facilitated cocaine shipments from Guyana and Trinidad One of the two masterminds in the 2007 drug conspiracy involving workers at the JFK Airport in New York who facilitated the shipment of cocaine from Georgetown and Port of Spain has been found guilty and is awaiting sentencing while one of his co-accused has been set free by a jury in a New York court.

– 60 hertz does not make meters spin faster, says Dindyal The continued use of the 50 hertz meter system is resulting in revenue loss for the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL), Chief Exec-utive Officer Bharrat Dindyal says.

A CANU (Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit) rank is hospitalized with spinal injuries after the car that he was travelling in flipped over on the Timehri public road, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

Shondell Alfred won a world title, Leon `Hurry Up’ Moore won three.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – New Zealand revived their semi-final hopes yesterday when captain Daniel Vettori delivered a sturdy all-round performance that helped set up a 38-run upset victory over Sri Lanka in their ICC Champions Trophy Group B match.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton stormed to a  floodlit victory in the Singapore Grand Prix yesterday while  Jenson Button extended his championship lead to 15 points with three races left.

CENTURION, South Africa, CMC – South Africa’s captain Graeme Smith cracked a robust hundred but the home side plunged out of the ICC Champions Trophy after a painful loss to England yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – West Indies captain Floyd Reifer is urging his players to focus on improving their game as they head into their last Champions Trophy group phase match on Wednesday against India.

MONTREAL, Canada, CMC – Undefeated Haiti-born Canadian Adonis Stevenson overpowered Jermaine Mackey and stopped the Bahamian on a fifth-round technical knockout for the World Boxing Council (WBC) International super-middleweight title on Friday night.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Vitali Klitschko retained  his WBC heavyweight title with a 10th round TKO over previously  undefeated challenger Cristobal Arreola on Saturday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago continued their build up to next month’s lucrative Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India with another convincing win against Guyana Daredevils on Saturday evening.

Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital recently opened a dental clinic as it continues to expand its medical services.

Two of Guyana’s premier male long distance athletes Kelvin Johnson and Lionel D’Andrade outdid St.

Work has quietly re-started on the Casique Palace, Suites and Banqueting Hall at Providence on the East Bank Demerara.

The Sri Lanka team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its 38-run defeat to New Zealand in yesterday’s ICC Champions Trophy 2009 match at the Wanderers, the ICC has reported.

As the conclusion of the round robin stage draws near the level of the competition between the teams in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Chubby Under-13 competition has improved as they clubs battle to secure a spot in the knockout stage which commences next week.

The Ministry of Labour is intensifying its work to reduce and eliminate child labour in society and anyone found employing a child for wages, especially during school hours, will be prosecuted, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Striking a pose: Dancers from Katiwau (Sand Creek) Culture Dance Troupe in Region Nine strike a pose at the Amerindian Heritage Celebrations in Lethem over the weekend.

Omire Wharton, the 19-year-old cyclist who was hit by a van while riding along the New Hope Public Road on September 13, remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Maniram Prashad stands in front of his ministry’s GuyExpo booth which is under construction at the National Exhibition Site, Sophia.

Colin Ming emerged winner of the Torginol Paints sponsored Stableford Golf Tournament played Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club on the East Coast of Demerara.

ZURICH (Reuters) – Director Roman Polanski, whose  turbulent life has on occasion come close to resembling the  violent, perverse world of his movies, was arrested in Zurich  on a 1978 US warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – New Zealand all-rounder Jesse Ryder suffered a double blow yesterday when he was ruled out of the rest of the Champions Trophy with injury and fined  for breaking a chair with his bat.

(BBC) India face holders Australia in the Champions Trophy at Centurion today needing a victory to retain realistic hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) has expressed concern over recent statements by incoming Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dr.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The de facto government of  Honduras denied entry yesterday to an Organization of American  States delegation as tensions mounted with Brazil, which has  given refuge to ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Ger-man voters gave Chancellor  Angela Merkel a second term on Sunday and a mandate to partner  with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) in a government that  will rein in the role of the state in Europe’s largest economy.

By Pamela Cox Pamela Cox is the World Bank’s regional vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian leaders warned  Israel on Sunday not to stoke tension in Jerusalem in the hope  of thwarting peace talks, after clashes at a sacred site in  which Palestinians and Israeli police were injured.

Photos and interviews by Cathy Richards Shelley Boston –  ‘I have been living in this community for over 25 years now and back in the day when you had the white people running things, things were good; now things have deteriorated a lot.

Dear Editor, I am writing for two reasons. Firstly, I would really like you to clarify your policy regarding the publication of letters.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – William Safire, the former  speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize writing  columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died  yesterday, the newspaper said.

In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) By Honor Ford-Smith and Alissa Trotz Honor Ford-Smith teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada.

Dear Editor, There was an ominous sign over the last weeks in New York.

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela’s  President Hugo Chavez proposed  yesterday that South American  and African nations unite to create a cross-continental mining  corporation to keep control of their resources.

During an interview in August with Stabroek News, the Chairman of the Private Sector Commis-sion, Mr Gerry Gouveia called for tighter restrictions on the wildlife trade given what was described as its “rampant rape” for commercial purposes.

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News article captioned ‘Fear today worse than in Burnhamite days – MP Moses Nagamootoo’ has a real, and profound meaning with regard to what is happening in Guyana today.

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) – Anti-imperialist  rhetoric and ambitious ideas flowed on Sunday at a summit  dominated by South America’s leftist leaders and some of  Africa’s best-known former anti-colonial fighters.

For any practitioner of the arts, the question of censorship, of what is acceptable for public display and what is not, has always been on the table, and societies down through the ages have been grappling with this issue. 

PM tells UN General Assembly (Trinidad Express) The rising crime that is currently affecting Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean region has been caused by the loss of preferential markets for the export of bananas and sugar, Prime Minister Patrick Manning said on Saturday.