Daily Archive: Friday, April 2, 2010

-10% wage hike for workers The Georgetown Municipal-ity yesterday unveiled a budget for 2010 of $3.5 billion – 50% above last year’s – and the council says its success depends on several factors including recommendations stipulated by the Burrowes Report.

-exorcism pastor officiates ‘Nobody felt for her, nobody cared for her’ Sangeeta Persaud was buried in a corner of the La Grange cemetery.

Stravo Evans appeared yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with murdering Pascal Johnson.

-Guyanese man also ensnared Three Jamaicans and a Guyanese yesterday appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton charged with trafficking in narcotics. 

The National Park will be closed to the public today to facilitate the hosting of the Caribbean Central Bank Games 2010.

Top Under-13 girls’ player Chelsea Edghill copped a gold medal and Jamaal Duff a silver as the curtain came down on the fifth Caribbean Pre-cadet (under-10 and under-13) table tennis championships in Utuado, Puerto Rico yesterday.

A Brazilian who sustained injuries after he lost control of an ATV [All Terrain Vehicle] was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bartica Hospital on Wednesday.

One international career was once more surprisingly revived, a couple of others are ready to reboot after injury and a few more were terminally ended or put on hold as the West Indies yesterday named their squad of 15 for the imminent International Cricket Council (ICC) Twenty20 World championship in the Caribbean.

Attorney General Charles Ramson says reforms in the justice sector are moving slowly, but predicts the project could finish later this year, months ahead of the revised time limit.

A barber of West La Penitence was refused bail yesterday when he appeared in Court One charged with unlawfully assaulting his ex-girlfriend.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana remained on a collision in the West Indies Under-15 championship, when they completed comprehensive victories overs Barbados and Leeward Islands respectively in the round of matches yesterday.

A transition to mercury-free ways of recovering gold here is not likely to be achieved soon and miners and government will have to “buy time”, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn says.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – West Indies captain Chris Gayle failed but his Kolkata Knight Riders still did enough to beat Deccan Chargers by 24 runs to post their fourth win and second in three outings in the Indian Premier League yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – David Haye has total respect for  challenger John Ruiz ahead of tomorrow’s WBA world heavyweight  clash which explains the absence of feisty exchanges and clever  back-chat but the Briton says he will knock him out.

A man was yesterday shot in the back by an armed security guard after he was allegedly caught stealing slippers from the Discount Store Bond on High Street.

Legendary Guyanese musician and composer Dave Martins yesterday launched ‘At Home,’ his first new album in over six years.

Amelia’s  Ward Jets and Victory Valley Royals recorded wins in the final preliminary round  games of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association Under 21 tournament on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt.

The mother and relatives of a 25-year-old Linden woman are seeking help in locating her after she vanished more than two weeks ago during a planned trip to Mackenzie.

Immediately following the awards ceremony that took place at the National Gymnasium last Saturday, the Guyana Netball Association kicked off its 16-years -and-Under Inter-Club Tournament.

Ranks from the Fort Wellington Police Station arrested two bandits and recovered a firearm shortly after responding to a robbery at a grocery shop at Bath, New Housing Scheme, West Berbice around 4:20 pm yesterday.

Dear Editor, During the month of December, the Bank of Guyana put into circulation series A99/A100/A101/A102/A103 and part of series A104, $1000 banknotes.

The Guyana Netball Association (GNA) bounced off its 2010 season with a march past of the affiliated teams and its Annual Awards Ceremony last Saturday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), feeding off the recent successes of the GT&T 10/10 softball competition, will be hosting a 10/10 hardball competition and a T20 final at the Queenstown ground on Sunday.

Dear Editor, On one of the television news items of Tuesday March 30 we heard the Minister of Education say to the media that he has not received any reports from schools indicating that the children are not prepared and ready for the Grade 6 examinations.

A Quik Serv, Camp Street  patron discovered an unidentified man lying unconscious in the men’s room last night.

Deon Sampson won the second Desmond Dorsett fitness walk from No.

Dear Editor, For two consecutive days (March 30 and 31), PNC and Opposition Leader, Mr Robert Corbin, has been featured among the lead stories of your newspapers, first announcing that he would not be his party’s presidential contender in the 2011 elections, and then generating a buzz among politicians who view this announcement as an opening or opportunity either for a better or different PNC or a coming together of opposition political parties to form a formidable alliance to unseat the PPP.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to express the union’s disappointment and surprise at the rude and unprofessional behaviour meted out to CCWU and Labour Department officials by the Pegasus Hotel’s new owner, Mr Robert Badal.

A Brazilian in the Rupununi and a Venezuelan at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri were charged separately with trafficking in narcotics when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday.

By Marlon Munroe East Bank Cricket Assoc-iation (EBCA) President Rohan Sarjoo is again crying foul against the selection procedures of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB).

The Pamela Bourne UG Environmental Enhancement Project – Donate A Tree is inviting the public to purchase trees that will be used to beautify the Turkeyen Campus.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Prime Minister Bruce Golding has bowed to public pressure for the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition issue to go to court.

Dear Editor, Disappointing is the one word that keeps coming back as I read Mr Seopaul Singh’s ‘GK Lall has raised the bar so high that even poets and philosophers have no answers’ (SN March 31).

The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) along with the University of Guyana Student Society (UGSS) held a night of tribute for the late Kevin Lawrence at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Wednesday.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda Prime  Minister Baldwin Spencer has been hit by a legal challenge that  could loosen or bring a sudden end to his hold on power in the  Caribbean country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The visas of five of Jamaica’s top entertainers have been revoked.

Essequibo’s inaugural William France Fitness walk, which was held last Sunday, was dubbed a success by the amputee walker.

Dear Editor, Much has been said and written about Mr Corbin’s leadership, and as a self-described political junkie, both in my native Guyana and for the past thirty years in my adopted home in North America, I am often amazed at the navel-gazing of PNCR members and supporters. 

LONDON, (Reuters) – Science writer Simon Singh, who  is being sued for libel over an article he wrote about  chiropractors, won yesterday what campaigners said was an  important legal right to use fair comment as a defence.

Several city streets will be closed to vehicular traffic on Easter Monday between 09:00 hours and 20:00 hours to facilitate kite flying activities.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British scientists studying the  genetics of ageing said yesterday that experiments on  laboratory worms showed that a specific gene is strongly linked  to lifespan, immunity and disease resistance.

(Jamaica Observer) – Air Jamaica could be forced to shut down prematurely, leaving a major gap in air seats to the island, if the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) turns down an urgent request the national airline is making.

Dear Editor, During 1998 the Epidemiology Research Unit of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies conducted a study on the perceptions and experiences of violence among secondary school students in Kingston, Jamaica, and its environs. 

Ministers of Government have been attempting to clear their travel advances with the necessary officials  ever since the matter was highlighted in the media,  Auditor General (ag) Deodat Sharma says.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands,  CMC – Over 500 athletes from 25 nations are set for the annual rite of passage in Caribbean track & field, when the CARIFTA Games open tomorrow here.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados began their junior Three Nations Caribbean Men’s Hockey tournament with a resounding 6-1 triumph over Guyana at the National Hockey Centre in Tacarigua Wednesday.

Dear Editor, With great sorrow, I read of the passing of Boyo Ramsaroop while on a trip in Mumbai. 

BISSAU, (Reuters) – Soldiers briefly held  Guinea-Bissau’s prime minister yesterday and ousted the army  chief of staff in the latest bout of military infighting to hit  a country that is a major drugs trafficking hub to Europe.

By Tiffny Rhodius The Easter weekend is upon us and soon the sky will be ablaze with all shapes and colours of kites.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding has ordered the Attorney General to write to US law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips advising the company that it’s not authorised to represent the Jamaican Government.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING – The United States yesterday welcomed  China’s decision to join talks on imposing new sanctions on Iran  and said President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington this month  could set the stage for tougher action on Tehran.

This Good Friday, traditionally one of the quietest days in the year in Guyana, is perhaps a good time for reflection and thought.

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to Ms Janet Bulkan’s letter under the caption ‘The basic data on which the LCDS ideas are founded are still to be placed in the public domain’ carried in the Stabroek News in its issue of 19.3.2010.

Mackenzie High School (MHS) crushed Kwakwani  68-32 in the Victory Valley Royals Inter-School basketball tournament which began yesterday at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 349’s trading results showed consideration of $1,202,127 from 66,789 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 348 which showed consideration of $1,938,424 from 174,070 shares traded in 14 transactions. 

Canadian charter airline Skyservice says it is halting all flights after being placed into receivership by an Ontario court.

-several charged Most of the persons held during joint services raids in several parts of the city last week have been released while the others were charged with various offences and passed through the courts.

‘Wealth without work’? And my usual Easter musings Sometimes I am given to quoting the more intellectual and analytical views and points made by other more learned local writers who qualify themselves for much more profundity than that of which I am capable. 

A fireman on Wednesday putting out a blaze in the compound of CRL at Houston on the East Bank.