Daily Archive: Sunday, March 7, 2010

-emphasises need for democratic process Long-serving PPP member Moses Nagamootoo says he is willing to serve as the party’s presidential candidate at next year’s general elections, if he is selected by party members through a democratic process.

A young man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after he was stabbed during a heated argument with another man.

-at National Sports Awards ceremony It was the crowning moment for Guyana’s top sports personalities for 2009 when they received their accolades at an impressive ceremony attended by Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo and other dignitaries at the National Culture Centre on Friday evening.

Again this year the Link Show was a huge popular success.

By Marlon Munroe The West Indies cricket team scored its first victory in an international game since June last year to level the five-match ODI series against Zimbabwe at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday.

The pump has no hose. It lies unutilised in a corner of the Tiger Pond village office.

Michael Holding won’t commentate, or even watch, Twenty20 cricket. His aversion to the shortest and now most popular version of the game is that strong.

The Public Service Minister unveiled a rocket named, ‘Corruption Discovery’ during the recent 2010 budget exercises. 

Speaker of the National Assembly and presidential hopeful, Ralph Ramkarran says former presidential advisor Navin Chandarpal should have been offered, at the least, an opportunity to resign from office and the hierarchy of the PPP was disappointed with the manner in which President Bharrat Jagdeo handled the issue.

Introduction Last week Business Page began a discussion on the just concluded two-year US$6.7 million Guyana Threshold Country Plan/ Implementation Project (GTCP/IP) funded by the US Government Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

‘What are you doing?’ With the ubiquity of social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, that question has been an invitation for observations that range from the innocuous (‘Writing a story’) to those that until recently only existed within the realm of speculation (‘Girl shot in Tehran’).

Winners of the just concluded Banks DIH Inaugural “One Tip Two Tip” Softball Cricket competition were presented with their prizes at a presentation ceremony at Banks DIH Sports Club, Thirst Park on Friday.

The first round of the Guyana Tapeball Cricket League’s annual Clash of Titans will take place today at several venues.

With an estimated 4 billion acres of forests worldwide covering 30 per cent of the earth’s land area, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has reported overall progress in recent years in the utilization of sustainable forest management practices.

Queen’s College is steeped in traditions that have been nourished for 165 years.

Top football club BK International Western Tigers will hold its biennial General Meeting on March 21 at 2pm at the BK Sports Club building on Mandela Avenue.

By Dr Neeraj Jain, MD, DNB, MNAMS  (Ophthalmology) Glaucoma constitutes a diverse group of disorders associated with elevated intraocular pressure that culminate in a characteristic pattern of optic nerve atrophy, loss of visual field eventually leading to blindness.

Rehabilitation works on the Brickdam lock-ups will be completed soon and according to Home Affairs Minster Clement Rohee, he is impressed with what he has seen.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s  Middle East envoy began a round of meetings yesterday aimed at  relaunching negotiations, while the Palestinian leader said he  feared the 20-year-old peace process with Israel was close to  collapse.  

Manager of the male and female Inter-Guiana Games football teams Edward Cort is requesting the male and female players who have not yet presented their documents do so today.

Last week we published the first part of an article on physical activity and health, and this week we reproduce the second part.

-Overseer sent on one-month leave The Overseer of the Eccles/ Ramsburg Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has been sent on one month’s no-pay leave, following the proposed sale of a playground in Nandy Park, after it was unanimously agreed upon by the council.

KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgency in the most violent  part of Afghanistan is being led by a former Guantanamo Bay  detainee, set free by the Afghan government in a botched attempt  at reconciliation with tribes, a NATO official said yesterday.

A fire station will be built this year at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, to help relieve the pressure on the Campbellville station, which often responds to fires as far away as Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says.

By Kizan Brumell The West Indies team pulled a significant victory out of the bag against Zimbabwe yesterday at the Providence National Stadium to level the 2010 Digicel Series 1 – 1.

This game is taken from the German Bundesliga, which is the strongest team championship in the world.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security  Service chief yesterday confirmed the death of a prominent  Islamist rebel who he accused of plotting a bomb attack on a  Moscow-to-St Petersburg train that killed 26 people last year.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Doubles specialists Michael  Llodra and Julien Benneteau combined to fire France into the  quarter-finals of the Davis Cup yesterday with a battling  four-set win over Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber and  Christopher Kas in Toulon.

Artists have been known throughout history for their complaints and criticisms. 

Dear Editor, The Parliament of Guyana enacted the Administration of Justice Act, 1978 (AJA) amidst great controversy.

French director Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Petit Soldat  (The Little Soldier)  is the Classic Tuesdays film which will be shown on Tuesday at 6pm at the  National Gallery, Castellani  House, Vlissengen Road.

CANU supervisor was caught on camera Airport cameras caught a Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) supervisor instructing that a suitcase bypass routine security checks at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, hours before it was found with 50 pounds of cocaine inside.

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Icelandic voters vented their  fury yesterday at the bankers and politicians who ruined their  economy, overwhelmingly rejecting a $5 billion deal to repay  debts to Britain and the Netherlands, early results showed.

CHARLOTTE, (Reuters) – The Charlotte Bobcats posted  a convincing 98-83 win over the Western Conference-leading Los  Angeles Lakers to gain ground on a playoff spot on Friday.

Dear Editor, With reference to a letter in Stabroek News dated February 22, 2010 under the caption ‘NIS cannot find contributions,’ please be guided by the following response:- 1.

Well, dear readers, last week we concluded the huge topic associated with the ailments of the oral cavity.

The manager of the Guyana Gold Board Bartica office was fired two weeks ago after not adhering to procedures in determining the purity of gold when purchasing the mineral.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida, CMC – Three successive bogeys on the back nine ruined Stephen Ames’ charge in the third round of the Honda Classic on Saturday, leaving him with much to do on the final day of the US$5.6 million tournament today.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia and Venezuela are making  progress in negotiations to end a diplomatic dispute that has  battered trade and unnerved the Andean region, said the Dominican  Republic’s president, who is brokering talks.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is at it again.

KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Nigerian footballer Endurance  Idahor died after collapsing during a game in Khartoum yesterday, football association officials said.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) –  A US resolution that  branded as genocide the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks  during World War One will seriously damage US-Turkish  relations, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I thank Mr Mahendra Roopnarine, the PRO of GuySuCo for responding in SN  (‘A sugar turnaround plan has been drafted and is being implemented,’ March 4) to my original letter captioned ‘GuySuCo turnaround requires skilled strategists…’ SN, March 1).

No one should be in any doubt about the critical importance of Venezuela’s PetroCaribe programme.

LONDON, England,  CMC – Jamaican international Jason Euell scored his first goal in nearly five months yesterday to fire Blackpool to a 1-0 win over Ipswich and drag the north-west England side to within reach of a playoff spot.

Bas, Ramnath block UNC motion on UDeCOTT chairman (Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s effort to have Government respond to the allegations against UDeCOTT Chairman Calder Hart ’as a definite matter of urgent public importance’ in the House of Represen-tatives, on Friday came up against the rock of Basdeo Panday’s obstructionism.

Believe it or not the rain forests of the Amazon basin can be very dry places. 

Dear Editor, While walking on the seawall with a friend, I noticed a very sick dog lying next to the Kitty pump station; he was full of mange and scratching his bloody skin.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the Sept.

It was Ms Shaffeek and Ms Collymore in a letter to this newspaper published on Friday who asked the question where the water was going to come from to fill the water cannon included among the purchases announced in the last budget.