Articles published on Monday, October 19, 2009
Household Plus, other businesses razed -water a big problem For the second time in ten days, a fire swept through a section of Regent Street destroying three buildings which housed four businesses, leaving dozens jobless and consuming millions in stock.
By Marlon Munroe A fluent unbeaten 99 from Narsingh Deonarine and miserly bowling from Devendra Bishoo of Albion conspired to cause the quick demise of the Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) in the final of the Neal and Massy 40-over first division tournament.
Part of the Anjee’s Fashions float in Friday’s Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha motorcade.
BK International Western Tigers outplayed Alpha United in the final of the sixth Mackeson English/ Kashif and Shanghai Futsal Competition to be crowned new champions at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday night.
The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s Naujawaan entry in the annual Deepavali motorcade on Friday.
-following end of case Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene says now that drug trafficker Roger Khan has been sentenced in the United States, local police hope to get the evidence garnered from his case from the authorities in that country.
The National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU) is no longer receiving applications for radio licences following the Court of Appeal’s announcement last Wednesday that the government has an unlawful monopoly on the airwaves and that the NFMU is not doing its job with respect to considering radio licences.
-Dick wins female road race By Rawle Toney in Suriname Suriname’s Jair Tjon En Fa outsprinted a bunch of four cyclists to capture the 60K road race event as the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) cycling events ended yesterday in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Smoke rising from the burning buildings in this view from lower Regent Street.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Batting all-rounder Ryan Hinds, who was Barbados captain two years ago, has been reinstated as the country’s skipper for the WICB President’s Cup starting later this month in Guyana.
The government is moving to provide electricity to Port Kaituma and Mahdia and has invited suppliers to bid, provide and install items needed for the electrification process for the two hinterland communities.
Men moving stock to safety yesterday. In the background is the Bounty Supermarket.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Captain Chris Gayle belted an aggressive 94 on Friday but his side lost by two wickets to David Bernard’s XI in Jamaica’s second practice match for the 2009 WICB President’s Cup tournament starting later this month in Guyana.
Despite an assurance by BOSAI Minerals Group Guyana Inc. (BMGG) in August that at least one kiln would be in operation continuously, this is not the case for several weeks now as the kilns remain smokeless again.
A truck with stock that was rescued from the bottom flat of Wireless Connections.
HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Teenager Adrian Barath cracked a marvellous half-century on debut as sensational Trinidad and Tobago thumped the Eagles by 24 runs and stormed into the Champions League Twenty20 semis as the top League A team.
The AFC is pleased that the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) has agreed to provide “unlimited and inexpensive” bandwidth to local and foreign consumers from next year.
TEHRAN, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders, including two of its top officers, and 29 other people yesterday in one of the boldest attacks against Iran’s most powerful military institution.
Firemen directing their hoses at the Chino’s Variety Store as it started to burn.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Jenson Button and his Brawn GP team were crowned Formula One champions with a race to spare in an action-packed Brazilian Grand Prix won by Red Bull’s Australian Mark Webber yesterday.
-high-tech animal health system to be developed The Ministry of Agriculture is expanding pasture lands in regions two, three, four, five and six to address the problem of roaming cattle damaging crops while it outlined other steps it intends to take to boost the quality of local dairy products.
Fire-fighters dousing the upper flat of Wireless Connections. (Mark McGowan photo)
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is calling on the government to invest in the creation of decent jobs and in the training and retaining of workers to halt the decline in the local standard of living.
Roraima Bikers Club will stage the 12th Annual Troy Humphrey’s Memorial Cycling Extravaganza on Saturday at the National Park circuit.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday urged world leaders to intervene personally to break deadlocked talks to agree a global climate change deal in December.
Dear Editor, This Government has been steadily striving to arrange and, as far as it could, achieve sustainable operations within the bauxite and sugar sectors, traditional mainstays of our economy and society.
Firemen direct their hoses to the nearby Chino’s Variety Store building as Household Plus burns.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistani forces exchanged heavy fire yesterday with Taliban defending their heartland, a day after launching an offensive aimed at bringing the writ of the state to lawless lands on the Afghan border.
HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Opener David Warner blazed a rapid 40 and propelled New South Wales (NSW) to a fluent six-wicket whipping of Somerset with more than eight overs to spare in their Champions League Twenty20 Super 8 match yesterday.
-amid heavy police presence As promised by Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee and Commissioner of Police Henry Greene police were out in their numbers on Saturday night and managed to successfully secure Deepavali celebrations in Alexander Village despite some “minor hiccups”.
Dear Editor, We, the executive and members of the Alexander Village Vishnu Mandir, and villagers, would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to those responsible for peace prevailing in our Village this Diwali.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Nekoli Parris tuned up for the WICB President’s Cup with a solid hundred Saturday for UWI against YMPC in the Barbados Division One championship at 3Ws Oval.
Flames leap from the Chino’s building over the Wireless Connections building in the foreground.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Drug traffickers shot down a police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, killing two officers, and 10 suspected gang members were killed in the city’s worst recent outbreak of violence, police said.
Dear Editor, I want to thank Minister Clement Rohee for his extra effort in helping to deliver a violence-free Diwali celebration for Alexander Village.
Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali outlined development plans for providing potable water to St Cuthbert’s Mission during a recent outreach exercise in the area.
Dear Editor, With the recent election of the new members of the Press Association, my expectation is that they must challenge themselves in being the voices of the nation from as many ends or corners of the country and in doing so they have to build stamina with the adventure that awaits them.
Residents of Charlotte Street came out of their homes as the fire on Regent Street threatened.
(BBC) The Antigua and Barbuda government has agreed to cut its wage bill by 20% over the next two years, under a proposed agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – It was fitting that Nikolay Davydenko should get his biggest win of the year yesterday at a Shanghai Masters tournament dominated by injury retirements and a debate over the length of the season.
In The DiasporaMelanie Newton is a Barbadian and Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says a number of initiatives are being implemented to revitalise the coconut industry and as such he urged farmers to expand cultivation to create employment.
(BBC) A panel of the US House of Representatives wants to establish a commission on illicit drugs because of concerns that American policy isn’t working.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, CMC – Veteran Pamela Lavine smashed a rapid 44 for West Indies but the Caribbean side slumped to a rare loss to South Africa in the second match of their four-match Women’s One Day International (ODI) series yesterday.
Dear Editor, A small story appeared in the Diwali day edition of Guyana Times.
A section of the crowd that converged to observe the fire
Photos and interviews by Tiffny RhodiusThis is the month of the elderly and the Ministry of Labour hosted a Health Day last Thursday and provided medical services to senior citizens from various homes for the elderly and others and SN asked the senior citizens about their lives now and the problems that they may be encountering.
Two men were held up by gun- toting bandits at separate locations in the city on Friday night and relieved of the cash and jewellery, they had in their possession.
Dear Editor, On reading your October 17 lead article, `Justice done in Roger Khan case – Judge Irizarry,’ the judge struck a powerful cord that should reverberate through the corridors of political power in Guyana when she reportedly said that ‘while no sentence imposed on confessed drug trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan would make right whatever atrocities he had committed, the fact that he would serve time in a US prison meant that justice has been served’.
The Alexander Village Vishnu Mandir was well illuminated on Diwali night.
Gavin Todd continued his remarkable form this season when he carted off the Sanjay Jewellery Medal Play Golf tournament played on Diwali holiday on Saturday at Lusignan Golf Club.
So It Go I’m going to take one more crack at this, and then I’m going to leave it alone.
Aside from all of the other ramifications, the sentencing of Mr Roger Khan in a New York court for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States shines the spotlight brightly on the government’s stark failure to interdict and tear down the drug trade.
DENVER, (Reuters) – The flight of a home-made helium balloon that touched off a frantic rescue attempt for the young boy thought to be aboard was a publicity-seeking hoax, a Colorado sheriff said yesterday.
