Daily Archive: Sunday, April 25, 2010

The life of a 36-year-old woman was violently snuffed out yesterday when her husband of seven years repeatedly stabbed her with a Rambo knife, bringing an end to their turbulent relationship.

-first progress report The first Annual Progress Report on REDD+ enablers under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement was recently released and the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment has since invited tenders for the verification of these enabling activities.

Political activist Desmond Trotman has sued the government over its failure to pay monies obtained from the Guyana Lottery Company into the Consolidated Fund saying the current practice including disbursements without parliamentary approval is illegal.

Police were grilling employees attached to Lambert’s Trading yesterday following a botched robbery at the Charlotte Street business place.

The airport passes of three senior employees of Roraima Airways were recently withdrawn following a damning report by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack arising out of the pink suitcase bust in January at the JFK International Airport.

Workers have been busy clearing out buildings, removing dried vines from cages and sprucing up the aquarium at the Georgetown zoo.

The face of illiteracy in this country has for some time now been represented by in-school youths who pass through the education system but leave it unable to interpret two sentences.

Chasing cattle thieves in the sprawling Rupununi savannahs, at times Chad Phillips slept in the open with little to eat and little protection, but determined that the rustlers would not be allowed to operate freely.

A miner was shot and injured during a quarrel with an employee over money at Erickroc Backdam, Potaro, North West District (NWD) on Friday.

New Amsterdam caught a bit of the cricket fever when the International Cricket Council ‘Bring It’ bus tour entertained a crowd at the New Amsterdam market yesterday.

A man and his wife suffered burns about their bodies after their son set their Enmore North, East Coast Demerara home ablaze late Friday night during an argument.

Ravens Sport Club (RSC) beat Police Sports Club (PSC) by 20 runs in the final of the inaugural North Professional Cricket Committee (NPCC) Phillip Mining Enterprise’s T20 cricket championship held recently at the Sparta ground in Essequibo.

Introduction Make no bones about it: the basic trajectory of the LCDS is to generate carbon credits/offsets, derived from the avoided deforestation of Guyana’s forests, for commercial sale on global carbon trading markets.

Introduction The annual general meeting (AGM) of the New Building Society (NBS) returned to Georgetown after a two-year sojourn in Berbice.

CAYON, St Kitts, CMC – Teenaged Jamaican batsman Stafanie Taylor hammered her third successive half-century but was upstaged by off-spinner Anisa Mohammed whose incisive four-wicket haul fired the West Indies women to an impressive 28-run victory over Sri Lanka in the final Twenty20 International of their three-match series yesterday.

ST ANDREW’S, Grenada, CMC-West Indies A ensured Zimbabwe’s build-up to the World Twenty20 Champion-ship remained rocky with a four-wicket win over the African side in a T20 game here yesterday.

– clinics for schoolchildren on the agenda By Tamica Garnett Though the Guyana Under-16 Netball team returned without the ultimate victory from the recently concluded Caribbean Netball Association (CAN) Under-16 Jean Pierre Championship, they did not return empty-handed.

The rains finally came.  Within a few short hours the once proud Garden City became Duck City. 

Warren Mc Kay rode to an impressive win in the feature event of the Inspire the Child, Inspire Change Foundation/Roraima Bikers’ Club cycling meet at the National Park yesterday.

Having long passed the Biblical span of three score years and ten, I realize clearly that this overtime gifted by the Gods must be very carefully husbanded.

PHILADELPHIA, United States, CMC – In front a capacity crowd at Franklin Field Stadium, World and Olympic triple gold medalist Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica’s Gold team to an impressive, record-breaking victory at the 116th Penn Relays on Saturday.

Gone are the days when Subryanville was managed by a committee and not by the Georgetown Mayor & City Council. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – World Bank member  countries reached a preliminary agreement on a 3.13 per cent  shift in voting power to give emerging and developing nations  greater influence in the global institution.

Although renowned artist, Phillip Moore of Manchester, Corentyne is now 88 years old, he still produces works of art and has not lost his talent.

BARCELONA,(Reuters)-Fernando Verdasco found strength to haul his way back from a set and a break down to reach the final of the Barcelona Open with a 6-7 7-5 6-1 win over fellow Spaniard David Ferrer on Saturday.

In recent weeks my friend and colleague, Sir Ronald Sanders, has written more than once about what he and others regard as the failure so far of Caribbean politicians to defend strenuously the economic interests of industries like rum, sugar and bananas in the face of European offers of trade liberalisation to Andean and Central American nations.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Finance leaders scrambled  to secure aid for debt-stricken Greece as Canada cautioned yesterday that some European countries feared the 45 billion  euros under consideration was not enough.

LONDON, (Reuters) This year’s Race of Champions will be held in the German city of Duesseldorf after being staged in Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium in 2009, organisers said on Friday.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Former Nazi Paul Schaefer,  who founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the  1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children,  died of heart failure in a prison hospital on Saturday,  officials said.

Continued Last week, we dealt with causes and the symptoms associated with bloat.

Dear Editor, I attempted to go on line to book a flight for a student from Guyana studying in Cuba.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 yesterday to surge two points clear of sole title rivals Chelsea in the Premier League.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s  top executive boasted in late 2007 about the money the  investment bank was making from betting against risky  mortgages, according to a collection of e-mails released by a  Senate panel yesterday.

By Dr Kirankoora, MDS (Paedodontics) Since I will be discussing preventive orthodontics in this article, I will first explain what the term orthodontics means.

Dear Editor, Yesterday the alleyway between Crown and Lance Gibbs Streets was weeded and some of the bush left at the head of the alley.

-Spurs and Jazz win MIAMI, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics put the Miami Heat on the brink of elimination from the playoffs, with a clutch 100-98 victory on Friday to take a 3-0 lead in their Eastern Conference first round series.

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea yesterday raised  the front half of a warship that exploded and sank a month ago  near a contested sea border with North Korea, finding clues  that support growing suspicions Pyongyang attacked the vessel.

Dear Editor, I stopped writing letters in the press because there is a nauseating level of ignorant insensitivity that emanates from the pages of all the print media houses in Guyana as it relates to issues involving or connected with Guyanese of African descent.

By Stanley Greaves My first impression was of a cautious person, perhaps because of it being a first meeting. 

Representatives from Giftland OfficeMax, Fitness Express, and Windjammer International Cuisine & Comfort Inn on Friday afternoon handed over their contributions to members of the HRC Organising Committee, just days before the Second Hugh Ross Classic (HRC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships are held.

There are a host of sub-plots to the ICC World Twenty20 Championship that starts at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence on Friday, cricket’s second global event in these parts since the World Cup three years ago.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Foreign Office  apologised yesterday for a memorandum by a civil servant  suggesting Pope Benedict should open a hospital abortion ward  when he visits Britain this year.

It is an overall positive statement about the state of dance in Guyana when the achievements of the growing numbers of dance companies are put on show. 

Norris Witter looks forlornly at his car after a tree fell on it, crushing the trunk, while he was in the Guyana Public Service Credit Union building on Hadfield Street yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, ‘Stalin’s greatest crime was the murder of words’ – Eric Hoffer On February 22, one day before the fortieth anniversary of the Republic, I attended a public symposium on the role of culture in Mashramani.

Dear Editor, Clarence Frederick Ellis, CCH, 80, is deeply mourned. He was a distinguished West Indian economist and public servant whose service was confined not only to Guyana but also to the Caribbean, particularly as Alternate Executive Director for the Commonwealth Caribbean on the Boards of Directors of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, and as an Economic Adviser/Consultant attached to the then newly established  Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), St Kitts/ Nevis, where he contributed to the strengthening of the Bank’s research department.

Minister Robeson Benn is rampaging along the reserves with the zeal born of a mission in life.

This C Field Sophia resident collects water from a main which crosses a litter-strewn drain.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday marked the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by  Turkish forces, calling it one of the worst atrocities of the  20th century, but avoiding any mention of “genocide.”

Obama man sent back (Trinidad Guardian) UNC Political Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the deportation of Bernie Campbell — the former campaign strategist of Barack Obama — is an international disgrace that will affect diplomatic relations between T&T and the US.

Royal Challengers Bangalore 86 for 1 (Dravid 35*) beat Deccan Chargers 82 (Kumble 4-16) by nine wickets (Cricinfo) In a yawn-inducing crawl, Deccan Chargers meandered to 82, the lowest total of the season, and Royal Challengers Bangalore knocked it off without much fuss to book their spot in the next Champions League.

The annual Kei-Shar’s chess tournament begins today at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club at Hadfield and Camp Streets.