Daily Archive: Monday, March 15, 2010

-cites huge mortgage market The New Building Society (NBS) registered a profit for 2009 of $567M or 97% above the 2008 figure of $287M.

The bound body of a 57-year-old woman was early yesterday morning pulled from the charred ruins of her Sophia home.

Setting a world record as the youngest person to row solo across an ocean, American endurance athlete, Katie Spotz, 22, arrived in Port Georgetown yesterday, 70 days and 2817 miles from where she started in Dakar, Senegal.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent,  CMC – Their bowlers, led by Darren Sammy and Ravi Rampaul, set them up again, and their batsmen carried West Indies to a four-wicket over Zimbabwe after a stumble in the fifth and final One-day International yesterday.

By Tiffny Rhodius Sunday limes at the Golden Beach in Bartica bring with them piles of garbage, especially glass bottles in the water.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Cuban outdoor world record-holder  Dayron Robles won a speedy 60 metres hurdles final to share the  world indoor championships spotlight with a faltering Yelena  Isinbayeva and Frenchman Teddy Tamgho yesterday.

Rice production in Region Six got a boost on Friday with the commissioning of a new paddy drying facility at Number 43 Village (Bengal).

Fifteen months after the decomposing remains of Creavone Thorne were fished out of a Thomas Lands trench, her relatives remain convinced that a suspect was released prematurely by the police without proper analysis of the  evidence they had found implicating him.

The selectors of the Demerara Cricket Board have named 27 players to participate in trial matches Thursday and Friday at the Police Sports Club ground Eve Leary from 10am each day.

Club Captain Jerome Khan bounced back from a lean period to triumph in the Torginol Paints Medal Play Golf Tourney sponsored by Continental Group of Companies Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club.

Guyana’s Competition Com-mission is currently taking steps  to establish  a  secretariat for the commission which will be located at the National Exhibition Centre, Sophia, and the process of staff recruitment has commenced, a release from the Private Sector Commission (PSC) said.

Parlall Ramassar is in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed several times about the body by a man who had a feud with his cousin.

Guyanese batsman Steven Jacobs struck a masterful 161 on the opening day of the fifth round of matches in the Premiership Division in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday.

Dear Editor, I thank you for the article on our skills training programme in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek.

Dear Editor, My husband Captain Zak and I have worked all over the world, and for the last four years we have been living and working in New Amsterdam.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications is advising persons who have claims in relation to the purchase of tickets to and from Canada against Roraima Airways/Sunrise International Travels Inc to submit same to it.

ARLINGTON, Texas, (Reuters) – Filipino Manny  Pacquiao produced a dominating display to outclass Ghanaian  Joshua Clottey and retain his WBO welterweight title with a  unanimous points victory on Saturday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo  Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on  Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a  website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his  ministers.

Dear Editor, For the past weeks Barticians have been facing daily blackouts again.

A fisherman was attacked by pirates off the Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne foreshore last Thursday and robbed of his engine, cell phone and groceries.

MANAMA, (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix and led a Ferrari one-two in a dream debut with the Italian glamour team yesterday.

Dear Editor My Guyanese friend in Antigua has been given an opportunity to study in Canada next year but she cannot apply for her visa unless she has machine readable passports for herself and her family.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Gunmen in the  drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two  Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S.

Police recovered a stolen generator while searching a motor car at Reliance, Berbice, last Friday and the driver along with the two passengers have been arrested.

DALLAS,  (Reuters) – The struggling New York Knicks denied Dallas a season’s best 14th consecutive victory with a lopsided 128-94 win over the Mavs on Saturday.

The Vector Control Unit of  the Georgetown City Council  will be targeting certain areas in the city in an anti-mosquito campaign  which is set to commence today.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in SN of March 6 captioned ‘There is no need for conflict over control in the Region 4 RDC’ by Kwame McCoy.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki  pulled ahead yesterday in early results of an election Iraqis  hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but a divided vote  suggested long and fraught talks to form a government are ahead.

Mumbai Indians 212 for 6 (Rayudu 55, Tiwary 53, Mascarenhas 2-34) beat Rajasthan Royals 208 for 7 (Yusuf 100, Dogra 41, Malinga 2-22) by four runs Yusuf Pathan scored the second-fastest Twenty20 hundred ever, a brutal 37-ball assault, which threatened to give the Rajasthan Royals an unlikely victory Saturday against the Mumbai Indians.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the weekly In the Diaspora Column There has been a spate of letters to the press in recent weeks on the question of sexuality in Guyana, following the report that a group of lawyers will be bringing a constitutional challenge to a law that criminalized cross-dressing and under which seven persons were arrested and charged last year.

Dear Editor, One of most significant issues facing youths in this era is the deteriorating education system which does not respond to their needs.

(Jamaica Observer) A Barbados minister of government has moved to shut out toxic Jamaican dancehall music from his country.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – England put  themselves on course for victory in the first test against Bangladesh yesterday after building a huge 434-run lead on the third day despite losing five wickets in quick succession.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An international team of  scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one  plant family to another, offering broader protection from  potentially costly and destructive pests.

Deccan Chargers 190 for 4 (Symonds 50, Gibbs 45) beat Chennai Super Kings 159 for 9 (Dhoni 42, Morkel 42*, Vaas 3-21) by 31 runs Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Herschelle Gibbs and Chaminda Vaas made significant contributions as Deccan Charges defeated the Chennai Super Kings by 31 runs in the fifth match of the Indian Premier League yesterday.

You may think I’m making this up, but it’s true: there is something held in Spain every year called the Tomatina Festival, where a small town, Bunol, is taken over by thousands of people throwing ripe tomatoes at each other.

Dear Editor, Politicians cannot afford to hibernate under their vain illusion that the US Drugs Report is  deceptive and misleading.Guyana

Interviews and photos by Tiffny Rhodius and Sara Bharrat This week we asked the man and the woman in the street if the community they are from is facing a water shortage and what they are doing to save water given the current El Nino weather and the GWI water cutbacks.

Saturday’s edition of the Stabroek News carried a detailed report on one of the ambitious development programmes of the government: training single parents and helping them to start up microbusinesses so that they can fend for themselves.

——Kolkata Knight Riders 136 for 3 (Tiwary 50, Hodge 50) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 135 for 7 (Kallis 65*, Mathews 4-19) by seven wickets Jacques Kallis carried his bat through the innings for an unbeaten 65 but the Royal Challengers Bangalore were unable to defend their paltry score of 135-7 and received a seven wicket thrashing from the Kolkata Knight Riders.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – More than 100,000 protesters  converged in Bangkok yesterday and gave Thailand’s  military-backed government an ultimatum to call elections within  24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the capital.

Dear Editor, Guyanese in Richmond Hill are pleased that there is a setback to the plan to introduce casino gambling in their neighbourhood.