Daily Archive: Monday, February 1, 2010

Amid a row between the government and miners over a six-month notice period, the associations representing prospectors and foresters have agreed there is no real land use conflict between them.

A three-year-old boy was admitted a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital on Saturday after he was brutally beaten by a relative and later reportedly abandoned at the home of an aunt at Blairmont, West Bank Berbice.

Police detained a MMC security guard following the fatal shooting of an unidentified man early yesterday morning on Eping Avenue.

By Cathy Richards She was seven months pregnant. No less. But Antigua-based Guyanese, Tomeka Thomas did not let this hinder her stage performance as she set the Mackenzie Sports Club alight to secure her spot in the finals of the 2010 Soca Monarch competition in Linden on Saturday.

-four arrestedBandits pounced on a Mahaica businessman on Saturday night, beating and robbing him of $3M.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s Musa Disease Management Unit has commenced an intensified spraying exercise  to deal with a disease affecting banana and plantain farms located at Zeelugt West and Tuschen Backdam in Region Three.

AFC leader Raphael Trotman is urging the withdrawal of the proposal for a six-month notice before mining can commence, while saying he is concerned that the government is on a trajectory to stifle both the existing forestry and mining sectors, which could put over 50,000 out of work.

– service contracts must be enforced Emphasising his concern about lapses in patient care at medical institutions countrywide, President Bharrat Jagdeo says the government expects to see major improvement as it continues to invest more in healthcare.

The Ministry of Agriculture recently signed a MoU with the University of Guyana (UG) and McGill University that will allow 24 engineers to read for a Post Graduate Certificate in Water Resource Management.

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC – Off-spinner Ryan Austin claimed a career-best seven for 42 and debutant Kjorn Ottley hit an accomplished 66 as Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC) scored a come-from-behind five-wicket victory over Guyana late on the third day of their WICB first-class match at Three Ws Oval  yesterday.

Grenada Minister of Youth Empowerment, Culture and Sport Patrick Simmons, in his capacity as  Chairman of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), has called on his colleague ministers to take stock and “do business differently, to get things done the right way and at the right time.”

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Serena Williams jetted out of  Australia yesterday with a suitcase full of trophies and her  heart set on stockpiling even more silverware.

Dear Editor, There is a saying that when two elephants fight the grass suffers. 

LUANDA, (Reuters) – Substitute Mohamed Nagui scored  five minutes from time to hand Egypt an unprecedented third  successive African Nations Cup title after a 1-0 victory over  Ghana yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Freddie Kissoon’s letter captioned `Bisram Got it Wrong’ (SN Jan 27). 

FOURSQUARE, Barbados, CMC – The experienced Wilden Cornwall and Omari Banks linked up for eight wickets yesterday and placed the Leeward Islands in position for a victory against Trinidad and Tobago in a fourth-round WICB Regional first-class match that is poised for a tight finish today.

Dear Editor, On January 26, a letter by GHK Lall in SN painted a bleak picture of President Obama’s future based on the polls and commentaries in the USA.

Dear Editor, There is a group of people in and out of Guyana who happen to be largely pro-government apologists that continue to propound the empty supply and demand argument to justify the flourishing of the drug trade in Guyana.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – The Swiss master did it again. Roger Federer now has a 16th grand slam title, a fourth in  Australia and a stranglehold over his rivals that shows no sign  of ending.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, CMC – West Indies youth coach Andre Coley has praised his side’s “fighting spirit” after a resolute performance Friday that won them the third place play-off victory over Sri Lanka in the ICC Under-19 World Cup.

Dear Editor, There are quite a few workers here on the highway who are employed on chicken farms and in cow pastures.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – The African Union (AU)  agreed yesterday to consider a Senegalese proposal to resettle  Haiti’s earthquake homeless and possibly create a state for them  in Africa.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – World Cup holders Australia completed an unblemished series against Pakistan Sunday, advertising fine form ahead of their limited overs series West Indies in the coming weeks.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Suspected drug  hitmen burst into a party and killed 13 high school students,  in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, the latest massacre in one of the  world’s deadliest cities, the Mexican army said.

Dear Editor, A serious injustice was done to my 17 year old son who the Suddie Police are targeting.

The Guyana Squash Association’s (GSA) Bounty Farm Handicap tournament is set to kick off the new season tomorrow night at the Georgetown Club’s courts.

Dear Editor, Mr Faizal Jafarally, on a live call-in show with Minister Robert Persaud and Chairman of Region Six, Mr Mustapha referred to me as “Ms Leon Suseran and Mrs Leon Suseran,” in relation to my letter about the Corentyne cabinet outreach.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Foreign doctors treating  the injured from Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake fear more  could die as emergency medical relief winds down, but food  distribution was smoother yesterday using a coupon system.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The U.S. military will  resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically  injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours,  the White House said yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Barbados, trailing by 20 runs on first innings, reached 250 for four in their second innings at the close on the third day of their fourth round match in the WICB regional first-class championship against Windward Islands yesterday at Kensington Oval.

The coastal area experienced a high spring-tide level last evening and Regions 2, 3, and 6 experienced minimal overtopping, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Dear Editor, Mohamed Akeel’s letter (‘It is the bauxite union which walked away from an agreement,’ SN, January 28) forcefully brought home how someone assumes that one is a law unto oneself.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s middle-order batsman Darren Bravo, eyeing a return to the West Indies team following his hand injury, struck a solid 68 for Queen’s Park against defending champions PowerGen Sports in the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) Premier League yesterday.

Dear Editor, I spent six weeks in Nairobi, Kenya, where I experienced the flouting of codes.

(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)Linden Lewis is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. 

(Jamaica Observer) The St Andrew North police were on Saturday piecing together evidence that could lead to the motive behind a murder and suicide which took place at Waterworks in St Andrew earlier that day and sent shockwaves throughout the financial sector where the couple worked.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Taliban  denied a report yesterday that their leader Hakimullah Mehsud  had been killed in a U.S.

I referred last week to people, in and out of the country, grilling me about what life in Guyana is like, and although these encounters almost always deal with the well-known negatives, they also almost inevitably turn to aspects of the Guyanese culture that remain valuable to us.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Tens of millions more people  in Africa and elsewhere will be driven into poverty this year  even though the world is recovering from the global financial  crisis, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said yesterday.

Special investigation by Camini Marajh (Trinidad Express) Gita Sakal, the ex-corporate secretary of fallen insurance and energy giant CL Financial, is back.

Dear Editor, I am pleased that President Jagdeo and his team visited Iran to strengthen the relationship with the Islamic state and not allow himself to be dictated to by those Western leaders who want to impose sanctions against Iran just because the country is preparing itself for defence against an Israeli attack, which is being instigated by the said Western powers.

Courts Pacesetters defeated Beepat Scorpions 70-58 while Eagles defeated Colours Panthers in overtime Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Open and third division league competitions respectively.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Avatar” ventured further  into rarefied territory at the worldwide box office during the  weekend, surpassing the $2 billion mark days after it broke the  record held by “Titanic.”

(Jamaica Observer) Police from the West Kingston Police Division on Saturday fatally shot three men who had allegedly engaged them in a shoot-out in Federal Gardens, a tough inner-city community in St Andrew.

ORLANDO, Florida, (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic  bounced the Atlanta Hawks from first place in the Southeast  Division on Saturday with a bruising 104-86 victory.

What the people say… Interviews and photosby Cathy Richards Last week several people were refused entry to the Linden Hospital Complex when they turned up with vests or other sleeveless attire.

Dear Editor, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the family of Mr Davendra Bholanauth, Proprietor of Ezee Runnings Taxi Service, who was shot in the chest by a young man, who along with two others took away his laptop and gold chain, before escaping.

Dear Editor, Pardon the phrase ‘sleeping with the enemy,’ which is at times preferred to reaching a peaceful climax.

(Trinidad Express) Three men are now dead following a robbery at a grill shop in South Trinidad.

Last Monday’s edition of this newspaper reported residents of Mon Repos as doubting the claimed success of a mangrove replanting project which had been hyped by the sea defence division of the Ministry of Public Works and Communications.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Bob Marley has been dead  for 28 years, but his legacy lives on at the Grammys.