Daily Archive: Thursday, December 3, 2009

– as new Linden facility opens Government is placing special emphasis on the staffing of new and existing medical facilities through an ambitious programme which seeks to improve health care through partnership, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday when he opened the new Linden Hospital Com-plex (LHC).

By Oluatoyin Alleyne in New York Should Judge John Gleeson take the advice of the New York Probation Department on board, Robert Simels, the former of lawyer of drug convict Roger Khan, could draw 30 years to life when his sentence is handed down in a Brooklyn Federal Court tomorrow.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a police constable be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court for allegedly indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a police station.

By Mark McGowan The ongoing dispute between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and management of the RUSAL Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) yesterday intensified, when the company terminated the Collective Labour Agreement and disclosed its intention to move to have the union “derecognized”.

History was created in the Guyana Defence Force on Tuesday when 20884 Woman Private (W/PTE) Melika Scotland graduated as the first ever female paratrooper and proudly received her paratrooper’s wings.

-Pele due to arrive December 12 By Rawle Toney The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation has finalized the details surrounding the visit of  Edson Arantes do Nascimento and Stabroek News understands that the legendary Brazilian footballer will arrive in Guyana on a Lear jet December 12.

Diamond Mineral Water Hockey Festival set to bully off Defending men’s champions Hikers will start as pre tournament favourites when the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival opens this evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Police yesterday contacted the hunter who said that he had seen a bag with what appeared to be human remains thought to be that of Ricky Jainarine over a month ago at a Wakenaam beach.

By Marlon Munroe First-Class cricket requires cricketers to have optimum fitness especially when one takes into consideration that the players are required to travel to various Caribbean territories for matches with four days separating each game when the upcoming regional season commences in January.

– David Narine still waiting despite plea for early date By Oluatoyin Alleyne in New York For the third time in less than two months former race car driver and businessman Peter Morgan has had his sentencing on a narco-trafficking offence postponed in a Brooklyn Federal Court.

Almost two months after having their business destroyed in the first of the two Regent Street fires, the proprietor of DM Beauty World Mokesh Daby yesterday received a $30 million fire insurance payout from Hand-in-Hand Fire Insurance.

– calls on gov’t, businesses to help basketball By Rawle Toney “The game is dead right now up here, nothing is happening for us because nobody wants to support the game at this end,” Kirk Fraser tells Stabroek Sport as he speaks openly about the dying state of basketball in the ancient county of Berbice.

Eighteen-year-old Terrence Madramootoo smashed a record-breaking double century for Rose Hall Town Bakewell (RHTB) to lead his team to a massive 365-run win in the 2009 New Building Society (NBS) second division tournament at the Area “H” ground on Sunday.

Direct impacts on individuals in indigenous villages surrounding the proposed Romanex gold-mining project at Marudi, Region Nine would be limited but there are potential indirect impacts that create social risks.

– Crawford’s 126 and 5-31 seal victory for Scorpion Former Berbice middle order batsman Eon Abel slammed a century to help defending champions D’Edward to a seven-wicket win over Number 2 in the 2009 New Building Society (NBS) second division 40-over cricket competition in Berbice. 

An accident on the Schoonord Public Road opposite the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) last evening briefly held up traffic after the driver of a Toyota AT192 motor car lost control of the vehicle and collided with a Nissan motor car.

LONDON, England, CMC – Guyana’s squash ace Nicolette Fernandes is back among the world’s top 100 ranked women players and is now 88th on the Women’s International Squash Players Association (WISPA) ratings list.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – A battered West Indies team will seek to stem the rising tide of verbal twaddle that has been trailed out by skeptics who believe that they are a “joke”, when they face Australia in the second Test, starting on Friday (Thursday evening – East Caribbean Time) at Adelaide Oval.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Twenty-two developing nations  agreed yesterday to cut tariffs on manufactured products in a  bid to boost South-South trade in the absence of progress in the  WTO’s Doha round of global talks.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and his entourage narrowly avoided what could have been a major accident yesterday when their lead vehicle suffered a puncture, lost control and flipped several times before coming to a halt in some bush along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s government has given  the go-ahead for the country’s players to take part in the  lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) next year, a cricket board  spokesman told Reuters yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Depart-ment  asked a court yesterday for permission to seek the names of  American clients of Texas financier Allen Stanford who may be  hiding assets abroad to evade taxes.

Guyana has been building a coalition with other tropical forest countries as a crucial climate summit approaches next week in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) takes this opportunity to respond to the letter penned by Mr Michael Carrington, Alliance for Change (AFC) Region 4 Councillor, captioned ‘Restore tax allowance for dependants’ which was published in the October 28, 2009 edition of Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, From reading all the articles in the media about GuySuCo, one gets the impression that things are not right, and rather than getting better, if anything they will only get worse.

Three female students of a secondary school were detained at the Fort Wellington Police Station after they were found in an abandoned house at Hopetown, West Berbice on Tuesday with three men from the village.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Part-time medium pacer Shawn Findlay advertised his all-round skills Tuesday and used a five-wicket haul to propel Dave Bernard’s XI to a huge win in Jamaica’s second practice match ahead of next month’s West Indies first-class season.

NEW DELHI/LONDON, (Reuters) – China and other big  developing nations rejected core targets for a climate deal  such as halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 just  five days before talks start in Copenhagen, diplomats said  yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s July  2011 date for the start of a U.S.

A 19-year-old of Highbury, East Bank Berbice lost his life after he was struck by a live utility wire at Betsy Ground, East Canje around 5 pm on Saturday.

Dear Editor, More than two months ago the following suggestion (see copy of letter attached) was submitted for consideration of the Public Utilities Commission.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan struck his second century of the series and Angelo Mathews hit his second test 50 to power Sri Lanka to 366 for eight at the close on the opening day of the final test against India yesterday.

Dear Editor, “But if we can all agree on the need for a new social contract and a shared vision of development, based on consensus, inclusiveness and buy-in, perhaps we will be more optimistic about the future and be able to face whatever changes lie in wait with greater confidence.” 

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Marlon Samuels is eyeing a return to West Indies colours once he finishes a two-year ban for links to an Indian bookie.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York state lawmakers voted  on Wednes-day against legalizing gay marriage, dashing gay  rights activists’ hopes it would become the sixth U.S.

One man is in police custody following an armed robbery which occurred on Tuesday night at 14 Miles Arakaka, Port Kaituma, North West District during which a shop was attacked by a man armed with a gun, who shot a male customer  in the process.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Joel Garner clean-bowled critics of West Indies cricket with a verbal salvo equivalent to his specialty toe-crushing yorker for which he became famous as part of the feared West Indies fast bowling arsenal of the 1970s and 1980s.

Dear Editor, On behalf of the people of Bartica and as the PRO Bartica Chamber of Commerce I am appealing to the Minister of Transport and the Transport and Harbours Department for another steamer day on Tuesday, returning Wednesday.

ROME, (Reuters) – A Roman Catholic Cardinal told  homosexuals and transsexuals yesterday they would never get  into heaven, prompting a rebuke from the Vatican itself.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accused Venezuela yesterday of imposing an illegal trade blockade similar to the US embargo on Cuba after his Andean neighbour said Colombia was engaged in “psychological war.”

Police recovered a quantity of marijuana from a house in the Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo area yesterday during an operation in which four female juveniles were  found imbibing   alcohol in the company of a male adult.

History this week – No. 39/2009 By Clyde W. Thierens In the political development of Guyana, Winifred Gaskin stands out as an extraordinary example of an early Guyanese politician who displayed exemplary characteristics of patriotism, commitment to cause, pioneering zeal and strength of character.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Meredith Baxter, a  star of the 1980’s sitcom “Family Ties”, said yesterday she  was a lesbian as media reports and published photos of her and  a woman embracing began to surface in public.

Dear Editor, In Guyana, free speech has assumed near sacred proportions. 

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – Michael Slater urged the current West Indies side to stop trying to live-up to the ghosts of West Indies past and forge a new legacy for themselves.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communication is reconstructing 15 metres of concrete slope at the Cornelia Ida sluice as part of its rehabilitation and sea defence programme.

One in every ten persons in the world, according to statistics, has a disability.

GENEVA (Reuters) – A deal is close for an end to “banana wars”, the world’s longest-running trade dispute, the European Union’s farm trade chief said yesterday, but some producers made it clear they were not happy at the prospect.