Daily Archive: Friday, December 18, 2009

-calls on US, China to step up President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday defined four issues which he said the climate summit in Copenhagen must resolve – including a $100B per annum fund for developing countries up to 2020 and he piled pressure on the US and China to cut through the gridlock.

A Guyanese woman, who claims her gynaecologist – to whom she sent a lewd text message – touched her inappropriately but pleasurably, has sued him for 50,000 pounds in a British Court.

US authorities in Texas have indicted a 52-year-old Guyanese woman on charges of conspiracy and alien smuggling in connection with the attempt to illegally move four Indian nationals into the United States.

Residents of Hardina Street took cover last evening when bandits unleashed a barrage of gunfire, moments after robbing a man of jewellery outside Hooters Bar.

Opposition Leader Robert Corbin says Guyanese should be told what caused the death of Minister Desrey Fox.

-Murray raises accountability questions The National Assembly yesterday endorsed Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) after opposition members raised concerns about consultations, transparency and accountability.

The overseas-based Guyanese team was way too much for the locals to handle as they sank them five goals to nil when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Women’s International Goodwill tournament kicked off yesterday.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) expects to have an adequate power  supply  for Christmas but as a result of several problems which are being addressed at power stations, sections of the country may experience brief outages.

GuySuCo will be paying sugar workers their three percent retroactive pay hike before the Christmas holiday.

(Digicel) Perth, Australia: There is only one way to report it – Chris Gayle slaughtered Australia.

-Ram & McRae survey finds The private sector’s confidence in the economy has increased over the past year citing consumer spending power, the price for fuel, electricity supply and finding new markets among factors which may have the most impact on their business in 2010.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The head of the U.S.  professional golf tour yesterday applauded Tiger Woods’  decision to take a break from the game over a sex scandal, but  he played down fears the sport would suffer from the absence.

Up to press time last night police were still trying to ascertain if robbery was the motive behind the slaying of a watchman at an unfinished house at Sixth Street, Diamond, East Coast Demerara and no suspect has  been identified.

Despite its disappointment at the recent ruling of the arbitration tribunal, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) is calling on GuySuCo to pay its workers the award and other incentives immediately.

Dicing with danger… An overloaded truck without rails on the East Bank public road yesterday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the December 16 Stabroek News article captioned ‘Republic’s profits rose 17% despite $246M fraud.’

Retail traders hoping to make up for tough year The commercial capital erupted into a frenzy of activity last week-end as urban dwellers provided the first real indication that they were genuinely stricken with the Christmas spirit.

Dear Editor, In your December 16 edition, Mr Orin Major, in a letter to the editor, recommended putting more traffic ranks on the roads to prevent accidents (‘There should be more traffic ranks on the streets’). 

Private sector investment in Guyana continues to be confronted by “significant hurdles” arising out of difficulties associated with the administration of justice according to a recently released review of the work of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Guyana.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – West Indies spinner Sulieman Benn and the Australians Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson have been charged with bringing the game into disrepute after a heated exchange on day two of the third Test at the WACA yesterday.

The authorship of the recently released University of Guyana’s September 2009 – August 2012 Strategic Plan is underpinned by an uncharacteristic and refreshing frankness that breaks with a long-entrenched and thoroughly counterproductive practice of burying our heads in the sand about the cataclysmic and continuing decline of UG.

Two more Linden teams exited the 20th Anniversary Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament on day two when they lost to Seawall United and Fruta Conquerors at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground on Wednesday night.

Dear Editor, Our Caricom sister state, Dominica, goes to the polls today to choose a government for another five years.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – U.S. backing for a $100  billion climate fund to help poor nations revived hopes for a  deal to combat global warming yesterday as world leaders met  on the eve of a U.N.

Port of Spain, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies youth off-spinner Sunil Narine and National middle-order batsman Sherwin Ganga were the leading performers as a specially arranged Trinidad and Tobago four-day trial match yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Agriculture would like to correct inaccuracies in a letter published in your  December 14 edition of Stabroek News where Dr Kenrick Hunte stated that Guyana’s agriculture sector is in a downward spiral in an attempt to discredit the work done by the government in resuscitating the sector.

By Marlon Munroe Another enthralling double-header awaits Kashif and Shanghai patrons tonight at the Enmore Community Centre ground.

An enthusiastic bunch of Surinamese women will go head to head with an overseas-based Guyanese team today at the Enmore Community Centre ground from 16:00 hrs and according to their coach Vorsihyk Johan, they are here to do nothing less than win the three-way tournament.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pressure mounted yesterday  for Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari to resign after a  court struck down an amnesty protecting him and other  politicians from possible prosecution for corruption.

By Rajendra RampersaudThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest December issue of the Survey Magazine pointed out that it is examining the policy option on a possible tax on the financial sector.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A Brazilian man and two women have been arrested on suspicion of putting 42 metal sewing needles into the body of a 2-year-old boy in what may have been an occult or religious act, police said yesterday.

Dear Editor, In the space of I week, I have lost two dear friends due to the chaotic and virtually unregulated public transportation system in Guyana.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It’s too soon for Americans to plan a Cuban vacation of beach, mambo and mojitos, but the US travel industry is gearing up for a return to its largest Caribbean destination before Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez yesterday accused the Netherlands of planning “aggression”  against Venezuela by allowing U.S.

The protracted industrial dispute which has affected both the Kwakwani and Aroaima operations of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Captain Andrew  Strauss defied a lively South African attack to steer England to  88 for one on the second day of the first test yesterday.

Dear Editor, A nation mourned the passing of its best educator, Dr Desrey Fox.

Dear Editor, I write to congratulate the GuySuCo board for their latest innovation – just-in-time payroll.

CUERNAVACA, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican security  forces have shot dead top drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva in the biggest strike yet for President Felipe Calderon’s drug war but  one which could trigger fresh bloodshed.

DENVER, (Reuters) – The NBA’s leading scorer Carmelo  Anthony came up with his fifth successive 30-point effort to  help the Denver Nuggets to a 111-101 victory over the Houston  Rockets on Wednesday.

The University of Guyana’s 2009-2012 Strategic Plan has cited limited resources for research and the low level of output as one of twenty-six “weaknesses” that continue to impact on its effectiveness, publicly acknowledging in the process a critical deficiency identified during its discourses with the private sector earlier this year.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Jennifer Jones, the  American leading lady who won an Oscar for playing Saint  Bernadette in the 1943 movie “The Song of Bernadette”, died at  her home in Malibu yesterday at age 90.

Frankly Speaking          by A.A. Fenty …and a Union Leader’s lament Despite the well-intentioned entreaties from well-intentioned patriots not to emphasise the negatives of Guyana in the print and electronic media, one has to be realistic.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Alleged swindler Allen Stanford  will spend more than a year in custody after a U.S.

Dear Editor, There is something happening right now in the labour movement that is sinister and lawless.

Tiny Dominica goes to the polls today, amid controversy over party campaign financing and allegations of dual citizenship against candidates of the two main parties, including Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, who has admitted to being a French citizen.

BERNE, (Reuters) – Frenchman Richard Gasquet has been  cleared over a positive cocaine test after sport’s highest court  accepted that he was probably contaminated inadvertently by  kissing a woman in a nightclub.

Caricom observers prepare The members of a Caribbean Community (Caricom) Electoral Observer Mission in Dominica to monitor Friday’s general election say they have already met with several key players ahead of the national poll.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 334’s trading results showed consideration of $4,078,135 from 303,397 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 333 which showed consideration of $423,563 from 35,075 shares traded in 8 transactions.