Daily Archive: Sunday, March 28, 2010

– cops hunting him A 32-year-old woman of Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice was hacked to death and her mother badly chopped when her husband attacked them with a cutlass around 1.30 am yesterday.

The furore, which had erupted in opposition camps close to two years ago when the Court of Appeal Amendment Bill was introduced, has intensified as a result of its recent passage in Parliament, but disquiet about the legislation also runs in the legal fraternity.

– escape with over $250,000 A shop owner is nursing a chop wound to his head after he was attacked by gun-wielding bandits who posed as customers; the police subsequently arrested two men who are to be placed on an identification parade.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is not in support of conducting a probe into the financial dealings of Clico (Guyana) since he believes that such an investigation would only disclose what has already been established through an audit of the company.

Twelve-year-old Clinton Warde Jr, a bubbly first form student of President’s College (PC), dreams of becoming a doctor but his parents are worried about whether he would be able to fulfil his dreams.

– at sparsely attended police/community meeting Speeding minibuses trying to avoid traffic lights, vehicles owned by a security firm blocking traffic and noise nuisance from barking dogs were among some of the issues raised by residents of Queenstown who attended a `Face the Community’ meeting yesterday.

Digression In this week’s column I shall temporarily digress from my originally intended topic, which was to continue the discussion centred on the fuzziness in the LCDS and other related official documents about the size of the total forest area that is being pledged under the strategy, as well as that found in the publication of recent data on Guyana’s deforestation.

Deputy General Manager Communications of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Limited Terry Holder Friday night urged the national Under-15 cricket team to do this country proud.

By Marlon Munroe As Elton ‘The Real Coolie Bully’ had earlier predicted, he produced another clinical display of boxing in the feature event in the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) and the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA second Pro/Am card on Friday evening.

Part 3 Introduction In the two preceding parts of this series on the state-owned sugar entity, my focus was on the 2008 financial statements which are contained in the annual report tabled in the National Assembly in late 2009.

We need new and more imaginative swearwords. We need to lift the level of vituperation – especially in light of the great financial meltdown with its cohorts of absurd villains.

Reigning Group-4 champion Andrew King was again  supreme at the South Dakota Circuit yesterday in the Guyana Race of Champions time trials.

MOHALI, India, CMC – West Indies captain Chris Gayle failed but his Kolkata Knight Riders broke their three-match losing slump in the Indian Premier League by beating Kings XI Punjab by 39 runs yesterday.

Who will be The Man?  This has been the question of interest making the rounds. 

Cozier on Sunday The third season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is in full swing, with all its familiar style, razzamatazz, hyperbole and braggadocio as the game’s finest and wealthiest players perform daily for frenzied spectators in packed stadiums and in front of television sets in every corner of the planet.

Monday March 22 was recognized internationally as World Water Day. Stabroek News carried messages from Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has begun the sale of liquor, trade and miscellaneous licences at the Licences Revenue Office at Smyth and Princes Streets, Georgetown, and at identified GRA regional offices throughout the country.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England fast bowler Stuart  Broad needs a quiet word in his ear reminding him to respect  umpires, former Test paceman Angus Fraser said on Friday.

Public-spirited citizens yesterday afternoon assisted a robbery victim on Mandela Avenue, resulting in one of the culprits being caught and handed over to the police.

During Carifesta X in Guyana in 2008, one of the usual   features, the Carifesta Symposia, assumed greater prominence than in most of the previous regional festivals. 

By Dr Prashant Pruthi, MD  (Paediatrics) Every year, on an average, 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu; many persons are hospitalized from flu complications; and people may die from flu.

OKLAHOMA CITY, (Reuters) – The Oklahoma City  Thunder nullified Kobe Bryant to snap the Los Angeles Lakers’  seven game winning streak with a 91-75 victory Friday.

Last week, I mentioned that stomach ailments, for example a gastritis episode, could cause vomiting.

The bids to build the access roads and other infrastructure to facilitate the development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project have been evaluated and an announcement on the award is expected to be made shortly.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – China is slowly and  reluctantly falling in line with Russia and four Western powers  by backing the idea of new U.N.

Suriname defeated Guyana 2-1 in football at the Inter-Guiana Games currently in progress in French Guiana.

Nearly everyone knows the eucalyptus, the clove, the Australian bottle brush, the myrtle and the guava.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Sasenarine Singh’s letter “The budget failed to flesh out the real issues in bauxite and abandoned the workers to their own fates” (SN March 25, 2010).

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Landmarks such as Sydney’s  Opera House, Beijing’s Forbidden City and Taiwan’s Taipei 101  office tower temporarily went dark yesterday as nations  dimmed the lights for Earth Hour 2010 to call for action on  climate change.

The final two members of the Women and Gender Equality Commission and the Rights of the Child Commission were sworn in by President Bharrat Jagdeo at his office on Friday.

In about a week’s time, the Bank of Guyana’s chess team will oppose their counterparts from the Caribbean in a regional chess competition at the 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games.

SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – Arab states should  prepare for the possibility that the Palestinian-Israeli peace  process may be a total failure and come up with alternatives,  Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said yesterday.

Cyclists from Linden won all the races in the Under-15 category of the National Sports Commission sponsored programme organized by national cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed and held in the National Park yesterday.

Dear Editor, Messrs Orin Ford, Reford Byass and Elymuwell Barkoye, signatories to the letter `Questions for Leslie Gonsalves’ published by SN, March 26, 2010 are a lost cause, if after five months into the bauxite struggle, all the media coverage, letters and communication flowing from the Union into the industry, they now write publicly to feign ignorance of the laws broken by the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI).

Prices of vegetables at the city markets have risen once again.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in SN dated March 11 by C.

Anyone who read our reports on the Georgetown Zoo should have been disturbed by their content.

The third annual Dr. Cheddi Jagan Memorial 50-mile cycle road race will ride off this morning on the Essequibo Coast.

BAGHDAD – Iraq election winner Iyad Allawi said yesterday  he was open to alliances with any faction and wanted quickly to  form a government that would build strong relationships with its  regional neighbours.

On or around May 6, the United Kingdom will have a general election.

The Flamingo flower: Juliet Nurse of Citi Garden Hut proudly displayed her Anthurium Lily also referred to as the ‘Flamingo Flower’ or ‘Boy Flower’ to a small gathering of women who were engrossed in the lily during the annual Horticultural Show at the Umana Yana yesterday.