Articles published on Sunday, June 6, 2010
A 42-year-old man who is nursing pellet wounds to the head at the Georgetown Public Hospital claims he was going to pick sugarcane when he was shot, while the police said he was found with a box of stolen tiles on a businessman’s premises.
A 54-year-old man drowned yesterday while swimming with friends in the West Demerara conservancy.
A 17-year-old employee of Nirva Supermarket located on Sheriff Street was hit by a speeding car last night around 10.30pm as she was crossing the road.
– grillwork could be fire trap For years, home-owners have been battling to find the best solution to protect themselves and their property from criminals, whether at night or during the day.
The notorious era of convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan and his ‘Phantom Squad’ did “terrible damage” to the image of the Guyana Police Force as many former and serving policemen were part of the gang, according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Slowe who said, though, that he had no intimate knowledge of the activities of the gang members.
The People’s Progressive Party has accused Stabroek News of publishing the results of what it calls a “bogus poll,” which it says is a move to “confuse and mislead” the people of this country.
By Tamica Garnett A preview of the final was unveiled Friday night when Hikers and GCC clashed in a first-division match of the Mr.
CARDIFF, Wales, CMC – Leg-spinner Odean Brown’s five-wicket haul restricted Glamorgan to a modest total but the loss of two quick wickets in the late exchanges left West Indies A in strife on the opening day of their three-day first class match yesterday.
The National Assembly passed the Credit Reporting Bill 2009 on Thursday, allowing for the establishment of a Credit Bureau that would provide a better opportunity for citizens to gain access to credit lenders.
By Floyd Christie Pint-sized six-year-old Nevaeh Clarkston seemed hardly intimidated by her older opponents yesterday as she served up an impressive performance to win two categories as the National Sports Commission (NSC) Indep-endence Table Tennis Tour-nament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Scale and scope The global carbon market is the most recent and perhaps the most glamorous ‘poster-child’ of globalization ever.
Officials of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) and the technical team which granted Synergy Holdings the award for the construction of access roads for the Amaila Falls hydropower plant are tight-lipped concerning the granting of the controversial contract.
The three policemen accused of beating an automotive salesman last week Friday night, claimed that he had in fact assaulted them, when they appeared for a confrontation with the injured man on Friday.
A new Mayor’s Cup champion will be crowned tonight when the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and Santos Football Clubs go head-to-head in the final at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground from 8.30pm.
Introduction In Oslo, Norway two Fridays ago, speaking to a reporter from Stabroek News, President Jagdeo added to the growing confusion about the Amaila Falls Hydro-Electricity Project in what was intended to be a clarification.
The Ministry of Education is to introduce a Grade Four literacy certificate from next year in a move to push the school system to perform at a higher level, while putting pressure on the teachers, parents and school managers, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
The national blind cricket team departed Guyana yesterday for the West Indies Blind Cricket Council Regional Tournament which bowls off today in Barbados.
In August 2009 NAMILCO the National Milling Company issued a press release introducing Health Line of Products.
– Fudadin to stay on BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies A will have to do without the services of the big-hitting Kieron Pollard for their tour of England.
Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy said yesterday that one individual, who has been disciplined, was responsible for the lapse in procedure which resulted in a batch of H1N1 vaccines that was shipped here being replaced.
Continued Treatment Right at the outset, allow me to state clearly that this is one instance when you really don’t want the pet owner to try, on his/her own, to relieve the constipated animal.
It is frustrating, not to say humiliating, to think how much one is missing by not knowing any language except one’s own.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – All eyes will be on out-of-favour West Indies batsman Lendl Simmons when Trinidad and Tobago clash with South Africa in a two-day tour match starting here today.
There were 3,200 referrals to the Emergency Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital and 603 referrals to the Maternity Department from regional hospitals last year, Minster of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy said.
The time has come for a change; one that is graceful and quick.
The government is aiming for the Consumer Protection and Hire Purchase Legislation Bill to be submitted to Parliament “by mid-year”, according to Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Drosselmeyer unleashed a devastating late sprint to win yesterday’s 142nd running of the $1 million Belmont Stakes, the third final and final leg of US racing’s famed Triple Crown.
(Jamaica Observer) The gruesome discovery by the security forces of shallow graves — one with the body of a person who was buried standing — and a suspected torture chamber was on Frirday shared with journalists covering the ongoing search of Tivoli Gardens more than a week after gunmen engaged the authorities in three days of clashes that resulted in the deaths of 73 persons, among them a soldier.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Francesca Schiavone turned Roland Garros into a little corner of her beloved Milan yesterday when the feisty Italian grasped the biggest moment of her career with both hands to win the French Open.
Students of Guyana School of Agriculture on the Essequibo Coast in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture conducted an experimental planting of mangrove trees yesterday on the beach at La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast.
Carnival TuesdayIt was not the decrepit fence, falling gate I faced, that shouted that was the place.
George Horace Roy Jackman, SC, CCH, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, died on May 20, aged 81.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s navy boarded a ship carrying aid to Gaza without incident yesterday, five days after killing nine people on a Turkish aid ship to enforce what Washington calls an unsustainable blockade.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Forget revenge or number one rankings, all Rafael Nadal will care about today against Sweden’s Robin Soderling will be reclaiming his French Open title.
Police have no leads into the kidnapping of an Essequibo boat builder who was grabbed by armed men from his mother-in-law’s home last Thursday, but investigations continue.
Dear Editor, Stabroek News is the ultimate expression of urban-cosmopolitan and bourgeois politics.
VENICE, La/PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla (Reuters) – The latest effort to siphon oil and gas gushing from a ruptured deep-sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is working well so far, US officials said yesterday, as President Barack Obama defended his handling of the environmental crisis.
Part 3By Dr Vineeth Naja, MS (Gen Surgery) MCh (Urology) (Consulting Urologist and Andrologist) This is the concluding part of the article and deals with ureteric and bladder stones and preventive aspects of kidney stones.
President Bharrat Jagdeo has pledged to assist with accommodation and to provide a yearly subvention for transportation in order to help the Disabled People’s Network (DPN) meet their mandate.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Professorial in demeanour and as laidback as a Californian surfer in his approach, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson has always instilled a great sense of calmness and confidence in his teams.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) currently monitors 20 categories of products under its standards compliance programme for compliance with national standards.
On May 27 President Obama sent a new US national security strategy to Congress.
Cozier on SundayWest Indies cricket continues to self destruct. Given the damage inflicted in the past couple of weeks, on and off the field, it seems to be getting ever more proficient at it.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff rose in an opinion poll for October’s presidential race, tying top opposition contender Jose Serra, figures showed yesterday.
Potable water? Vigilance resident filling water from a pipe submerged in a canal yesterday.
Dear Editor, When the two young police recruits, Paul Slowe and Winston Felix, at their swearing in ceremony pledged to “discharge the duties of their office without favour or affection, malice or ill-will,” theirs was not a ritualistic repetition of the words in that oath.
Children cooling down in a canal at Enmore, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
Dear Editor, I welcome the introduction of another polling body (Barbados-based Caribbean Development Research Services Inc or CADRES) to Guyana’s politics, because I had truly become fed up, to the point of distrustful, of anything Mr Vishnu Bisram’s NACTA surveys and polls revealed about Guyana.
The award-winning film The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) is the Classic Tuesdays film to be presented at 6 pm on Tuesday at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road.
It is the palm tree which gives the tropical landscape its distinctive look and along with beautiful sea and sand beaches features in the brochures enticing people to holiday in the West Indies.
MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – A dramatic batting collapse turned the second and final Test England’s way at Old Trafford after Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal crashed his second exhilarating century in as many matches yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama named retired general James Clapper as his new director of national intelligence yesterday, selecting a defence veteran to coordinate action between numerous US intelligence agencies.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Wednesday June 2, 2010, under the caption ‘Friends brutalised, dumped in lockups.’
Two inmates of the New Amsterdam Prison who were attacked by another prisoner received injuries on Friday and the police were summoned to quell the situation.
As part of the observance of World Environment Day yesterday persons were urged to take actions which would have an enduring positive impact.
If there were a crime of cultural malfeasance on the statute books, then Minister Leslie Ramsammy would surely have been charged with it by now, along, perhaps, with Dr Bheri Ramsarran as an accessory.
TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) – Tucson police officer Martin Escobar has worked to build relationships of trust in the working class Mexican-American neighbourhood he patrols.
The DDL Topco Juices annual mid-year chess tournament is underway and the second round will be played this morning from 10am at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club.
The semi-finals of the Berbice Football Association (BFA) Coca Cola knockout tournament kicks off today at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground with the four remaining teams battling for spots in the final.
Members of the Lions Club of D’Urban Park sprucing up the St Sidwell’s Triangle yesterday for World Environmental Day (Photo by Jules Gibson)
