Daily Archive: Monday, November 9, 2009

The teen who was tortured while in custody at the Leonora police station has told his mother that three ranks beat him while a fourth interrogated him.

A 16-year-old student of the New Amsterdam Multilateral School was fatally beaten yesterday during an outing at the Number 63 Beach with his friends in what appeared to be a case of mistaken identity.

A search team yesterday failed to find 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan, who leapt into the Kaieteur Falls gorge on Saturday.

A Guyana-born police officer in New York was last week sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for fatally gunning down his ex-fiancée back in 2007 in an incident described as the deadly end of the couple’s two-year tumultuous relationship.

-if wage increase not granted Workers at the Bauxite Com-pany of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) operations at Aroaima have threatened to go on strike if the company fails to agree to a 10% wage increase, which the company says it cannot afford.

Lethem lobbying for awareness campaign Following the recent opening of the Takutu Bridge, a sensitisation campaign is being urged to target Guyanese travelling to Brazil, according to Rupununi Chamber of Com-merce representative Daniel Gajie.

Residents of Mahaica are concerned about the quality of work which was carried out on Lima Dam, a major road in the community which is connected to several access roads.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on the Caricom Secre-tariat to pay close attention to what is happening as it relates to the ability of Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) to supply cement to countries in the region, especially in the light of ongoing concerns about the Common External Tariff (CET) imposed on cement.

Fifty-nine-year-old Mavis Henry better known as ‘Mayo’ was a woman literally in love with her job which saw her working more with the dead than the living.

-water availability seen as serious problem A building identified for a fire service at Onverwagt, West Berbice was finally equipped with a tender about four months ago and already it has answered calls to contain grass fires in several areas.

Eighteen residents of the South Central Rupununi in Region Nine recently completed a one-month skills training programme in the areas of needlework, fabric painting and capacity building.

The Rotary Club of Stabroek, Georgetown advanced its literacy project  in Region Five two Saturdays ago to help youths with learning difficulties, the club said in a news release on Friday.

The US Embassy donated a quantity of dental texts to the Cheddi Jagan Dental Centre on Monday.

Two aluminum speed boats valued $600,000 were recently presented to the Amerindian villages of Baitoon and Katu’ur in Region Nine by the Amerindian Affairs Ministry to improve the transportation needs of the communities, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The foundation is being laid for a $77.7M secondary school at Sand Creek in South Central, Rupununi, Region Nine and the facility is expected to benefit over 700 students when completed.

Two brothers were stabbed during a dispute while they were playing football at Paradise, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

The husband of Heerawattie Tekram, the woman found hacked to death on Friday is to appear in court today, charged with her murder.

A 30-year-old man is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after being involved in an accident on Saturday night.

It was day filled with non-stop, pulsating racing at the South Dakota Circuit when the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) played host to the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) yesterday.

Junior cycling champion Geron Williams won the third annual Ride for Life five-stage race in record time and pocketed $200,000 when the last stage ended yesterday on Homestretch Avenue.

Dear Editor, Harvested cane at Skeldon is unloaded mechanically, with the entire punt lifted, and its contents discharged onto conveyors.

Some 32 teams will compete in this year’s Mayor’s Cup seven-a-side football competition which gets cracking tonight at the Banks DIH Limited Thirst Park ground with several matches.

Dear Editor, Essentially, this letter is to inform hundreds of his old students, former GNS and Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport colleagues and others of the passing of Ovid O.

Teenage golfer Joaan Deo continued her fairytale season when she won last Saturday’s MACORP sponsored Medal Play Golf Tournament at the Lusignan Course.

Dear Editor, During the month of September 2009 which was also the Holy Month of Ramadaan I visited the New Building Society’s (NBS) branch in Rosignol (Region 5) in order to withdraw funds (to pay my zakaat; which is 2.5% of my financial assets) from several accounts I have there – these accounts are in the names of both my sons and myself.

President Bharrat Jagdeo (left) and Prime Minister Sam Hinds (right) were among government officials at yesterday’s annual Remembrance Day observances at the Cenotaph where the fallen from the two world wars were remembered.

BENONI, South Africa,  (Reuters) – South Africa were  forced to toil hard ahead of their limited overs series against  England yesterday before overcoming Zimbabwe by 45 runs in a  one-day international.

Dear Editor, The picture in the October 31 edition of Kaieteur News showing the 14-year-old boy tortured by the police was most outrageous, left nothing to the imagination, enraged the nation and supports fully the saying, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’

CANCUN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Ida roared into  the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, where important oil fields are  located, after killing 91 people and leaving at least another  60 missing in floods and mudslides in El Salvador.

GUWAHATI, India,  (Reuters) – Left-arm seamer Doug  Bollinger grabbed five for 35 to set up Australia’s six-wicket  victory over India in the sixth one-dayer yesterday for an  unassailable 4-2 lead in the seven-match series.

Dear Editor, Lawmakers and law enforcers have become a law unto themselves. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of  Represen-tatives approved a sweeping healthcare reform bill on Saturday, backing the biggest health policy changes in four  decades and handing President Barack Obama a crucial victory.

Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best about to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph yesterday as part of the annual Remembrance Day observances.

Dear Editor, There seems to be some confusion over the use of the words “sport” and “sports”, but I feel that if we follow the rules of English grammar we can solve the problem easily.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – The Boston  Celtics bounced back from their first loss of the season to  record an 86-76 victory over the winless New Jersey Nets on  Saturday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Global trade has staged a  remarkable recovery from the depths of last year’s panic, even  though U.S.

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) The President has rightly condemned the most recent incident of torture and he has given the police two weeks to conduct an investigation, but he cannot afford to be selective on this matter in the face of other torture allegations.

So it Go Two weeks ago in this column, in response to some complaints that popular music performers were leading people astray, I made the point that “majority popular music trends” – those were the words I used – were almost always a reflection of popular culture and that the popular performers were, in fact, not leading but simply reflecting their societies.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to the attention of the general public and especially those in government and the joint services about certain conditions for the issuance and cancellation of visas for Canada, USA and the UK.

ARCADIA, California, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Zenyatta scored the  biggest victory of her illustrious career Saturday by coming  from last to first to win the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber  killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an  attack near Pakistan’s volatile city of Peshawar yesterday,  officials said.

Dear Editor, Today, the 9th of November, marks the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. 

What the people say… Photos and interviews by Femi Harris and Tiffny Rhodius This week we asked the man and the woman in the street what they do to relieve stress when it comes knocking.

Come Sunday the Rising Sun Turf Club of West Coast Berbice in collaboration with the Lions Cub of Durban Park and the Central Demerara Lions Club will stage a grand one-day horse race meet and $2.5 million in cash and prizes will be there for the taking.

Wednesday’s blitz by criminals against police stations, the Supreme Court of Judicature and a High School which left one man dead must be condemned in the strongest possible terms and the perpetrators brought to justice.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has regained control  of territory seized by Yemeni rebels in an incursion last week,  a senior official was quoted as saying, as the kingdom becomes  more entangled in conflict to its south.