Daily Archive: Sunday, April 4, 2010

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana installed themselves as the favourites to capture the West Indies Under-15 Championship when they beat Barbados in the penultimate fourth round yesterday.

The Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) horse race meet is on today at the club’s track at Corentyne.

(Chennai Super Kings 246 for 5 (Vijay 127, Morkel 62) beat Rajasthan Royals 223 for 5 (Ojha 94*, Watson 60, Bollinger 2-15) by 23 runs) This was more Cricinfo Slogout – or whatever your preference for keyboard-fuelled cricket is – at its best as Chennai Super Kings, led by M Vijay, pulverized the Rajasthan Royals bowling and set up a 23-run win.

I wish I could convey in particular to young people – whose mental appetites seem whetted so easily these days by the superficial, the transitory and the trashy – I wish I could convey to them the quiet depths, the delights, the leaping excitement of great poetry.

Whenever the President’s men gather, there is lots of cursing, long intervals of laughter, and more cursing. 

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) will be holding its Easter Special Cycling event today around the outer circuit of the National Park.

The members of the Guyana U-15 and U-18 national table  tennis teams which departed on Good Friday for Puerto Rico for the 15th annual Caribbean junior championships just minutes before leaving the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

-in exchange of gunfire Members of a mobile police patrol after an exchange of gunfire on Thursday night fatally shot a Corriverton man who was before the courts on armed robbery charges and for whom three arrest warrants had been issued.

Part 4 Introduction In part 3 last week dealing with GuySuCo’s 2008 annual report, I opined that Ms Geeta Singh-Knight’s role in the collapse of Clico the insurance giant, and the loss to Guyana of close to G$7 billion made her unfit to be a director of the state-owned entity.

As the government moves ahead with the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Power Project (AFHEP), questions have been raised about the recent decision to award the contract for preparatory infrastructural work on the site identified for the plant to US-based firm Synergy Holdings Inc.

Recap In last week’s column I made a digression to deal with a few issues raised by Ambassador Brattskar, head of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative and the lead negotiator for the Norwegian government as they were reported in the Stabroek News, (March 21, 2010).

Ernest Hilaire has been a busy man these past few months.

By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) In my last article we discussed about hernia especially about groin hernias.

Police used the ‘Fineman’ gang as a convenient excuse to avoid a real investigation into the murder of former minister Satyadeow Sawh, his siblings and a security guard, according to PNCR Shadow Home Affairs Minister Deborah Backer.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Barbadian Akela Jones and Jamaican Chad Wright smashed records, while Grenadian sensation Kirani James cruised into the 400 metres final, in a riveting morning session on the opening day of the 39th CARIFTA Games here yesterday.

‘Our money, our rights’ was the theme chosen by Consumers International for World Con-sumer Rights Day 2010.

An unknown taxi driver struck and killed a young Diamond mother on Friday night a short distance from her home and then managed to flee the area after a brief chase.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – The NBA-leading Cleveland  Cavaliers downed the Atlanta Hawks 93-88 on Friday to reach the  60-wins mark for the second successive season.

The Bank of Guyana is currently hosting the 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games comprising nine sporting disciplines.

-mandatory registration urged Justice of the Peace (JP) Herman Bholaisingh has admitted that recent criticisms directed at JPs are legitimate, and he is calling for compulsory registration as a first step towards regulation.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s David Haye retained  his World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight title in style  yesterday with a ninth round stoppage of American John Ruiz  in Manchester.

ALBUSAIFI, Iraq (Reuters) – Gunmen wearing military  uniforms stormed a Sunni Muslim village near Baghdad and killed  24 people, some of them former insurgents who turned against al  Qaeda, Iraqi authorities said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I write with regard to a news story in Thursday’s edition of your newspaper headlined ‘Michael David Kirton wanted by police in relation to forgery.’

Dear Editor, Please refer to a letter which appeared in your Stabroek News issue of March 27: ‘City not getting money’s worth from private security service.’

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A controversial goal from Didier  Drogba helped Chelsea to a 2-1 victory at Manchester United  yesterday as the Londoners leap-frogged the champions at the top  of the Premier League.

The Link Show  is “without doubt, Guy-ana’s leading satirical review,” to quote Ron Robinson’s Programme Notes for Link Show 26. 

– lawyers approach plea bargaining warily By Iana Seales Plea bargaining legislation was touted as a critical tool which the authorities needed to garner greater success in prosecutions in this country, but since its passage almost a year ago the state is yet to conclude a single deal and there are just two cases in the pipeline, as lawyers have been wary about employing it.

KABUL (Reuters) – The upper house of Afghanistan’s  parliament backed a decree by President Hamid Karzai yesterday  that limits foreigners’ role in elections, giving him a victory  in a dispute that has led to a quarrel with the White House.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing Mr Bakr’s letter in the March 26, SN edition (‘There is no scientific basis to Kissoon’s concept of “polysexual”’.

A Riverview seaman was last evening discovered floating near a Demerara River wharf with a suspicious wound in the head and the police believe that he was fatally injured during a botched   robbery on a ship several days earlier.

BISHKEK (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon called on Kyrgyzstan to protect human rights yesterday  after protesters shouted “help us” as he drove to the Central  Asian state’s parliament.

Guyanese artist Stanley Greaves’s recent painting called ‘Easter Kite’ provokes a number of questions, says Leila Persaud.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – The Toronto Raptors  rallied for a 128-123 overtime victory over the slumping  Philadelphia 76ers yesterday to maintain their advantage for  the final Eastern Conference playoff spot.

The special committee set up to examine an appeal by University of Guyana (UG) lecturer Evan Radhay Persaud, who is accused of victimising students, is yet to complete its work and there are concerns about its objectivity.

Continued Surely I should have found something less taxing and more frivolous to share with you on this good Easter Sunday morning.

Dear Editor, In an article captioned ‘Commercial banks grouping introduces guiding code of practice’ in the March 31 edition of the Guyana Chronicle, Guyana’s Finance Minister is quoted as saying, “This is an example of a sector working in unison to promote better practices.

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal inaugurated its giant ‘African Renaissance’ monument yesterday, brushing aside  complaints that the $28 million personal project of President  Abdoulaye Wade was a waste of money and un-Islamic.

SEPANG, Malaysia, CMC – Lewis Hamilton will start a disappointing 20th on the grid for today’s Malaysian Grand Prix after heavy thunderstorms forced McLaren to make costly misjudgements in qualifying on Saturday.

Two men who reportedly committed an armed robbery on a business place at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice last Thursday were arrested with an unlicensed weapon and the stolen booty following a police chase.

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to an article written by Tiffny Rhodius in Stabroek News on Monday,  March 15, captioned ‘Bartica’s Golden beach becoming a garbage bin.’

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan will play three tests  and five one-day internationals against South Africa in the United Arab Emirates later this year.

LONDON (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church in  Ireland has lost all credibility over its response to a child  sex abuse scandal, the Anglican Communion’s spiritual leader  told Britain’s state broadcaster.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African white  far-right leader Eugene Terre’blanche, who fought to prevent the  end of apartheid in the early 1990s, was beaten and hacked to  death at his farm yesterday, his party said.

Everyone will have come across the term ‘old crock’; it is generally applied in a disparaging way to a variety of conditions.

Dear Editor, Having just read Dr Cheddi (Joey) Jagan (Jr)’s letter of March 30 in Stabroek News (‘The Parika to Bartica route is badly monitored and facilities are primitive’), I wish to endorse the complaints and observations therein.

Mumbai Indians 178 for 5 (Rayudu 55*, Tiwary 44, Ojha 3-26) beat Deccan Chargers 115 (Zaheer 2-10, Harbhajan 2-16, Pollard 2-26, McLaren 2-28) by 63 runs (Cricinfo) Ambati Rayudu and Saurabh Tiwary once again outshone a glittering batting line-up to give Mumbai Indians a big total, which their bowlers defended smartly and comprehensively.

If an award existed for the most unmitigated drivel uttered by a member of Cabinet this year, then Education Minister Shaik Baksh would have won it hands down last week.