Daily Archive: Sunday, June 20, 2010

– was brother of wanted man ‘Cobra’ Jamal Beete, the brother of wanted man ‘Cobra’, was found dead yesterday afternoon in an unoccupied George Street house, with a gunshot wound to his head.

Conclusion Health Ministry: fire and non-cooperation In closing last week’s column, I referred to a mystery fire on July 17, 2009 that destroyed the main office buildings of the Ministry of Health housing its Central Accounting Unit and the storage area for financial and other records.

A widely shared view among operatives on the global climate exchanges as well as most governments of rich countries is that, from a global perspective, forest carbon capture by poor rainforest countries constitutes ‘low-hanging fruit’ available for cheap harvesting through market-based efforts to combat global warming and climate change.

– Dutch go through JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Cameroon’s Indomitable  Lions saw their World Cup dream shattered yesterday,  compounding Africans’ disappointment with their teams so far at  the continent’s first staging of the tournament.

– crewmember missing A sailor is now missing while four others sustained burns after a trawler owned by Pritipaul Singh Investment reportedly exploded yesterday morning off the coast of Guyana.

In a vibrant democracy elections should be a cause for celebration, an ever welcome occasion regularly marking the successful outcome of what in any country’s history has always been a long struggle to overcome authoritarian, and often brutal, rule.

Two persons died after they sustained multiple injuries when two cars collided on the No 2 Road, Canje around 7.30 pm yesterday.

Guyana’s Keisha Jeffrey reached the quarter finals of the VIII Pan American Junior Squash Championships currently underway in El Salvador.

With the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) preparing to launch a new continuous registration exercise, a new voters’ register is unlikely to be ready before next February, moving into the preparation cycle for next year’s general elections.

By Marlon Munroe Apart from the early hiccups in the night’s programme, the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) intermediate boxing tournament went well with seven entertaining bouts after three walkovers.

That is the question, and the response could get one showered in vituperation or faeces or acid. 

Guyana is not interested in having resident security advisors from overseas, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said and is not likely to be interested in this support in the near future.

The theme of despair running through West Indies cricket for a decade and more has never been more blatant than in the current series against South Africa.

By Dr Jagriti Jain, MS (Ophthalmology) Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in African-Americans.

Football fever is sweeping across the nation with the  International Football Federation (FIFA) World Cup 2010 in South Africa and Starr Computers at 59 Brickdam got in on the action awarding the winners of their World Cup Promotion yesterday at their  business location.

The announcement has been made and the news has been very well received that prominent West Indian and Guyanese writer Theodore Wilson Harris has been included in the prestigious Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2010 and will be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. 

Tomorrow will be two years since the burnt remains of eight miners were discovered at the Lindo Creek mining site and relatives are no closer to knowing how their loved ones died and may never be able to bury them, an act which many of them said would have given them some closure.

– BK stalls, cites inclement weather The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has drafted a plan for the restoration of Barakara Falls, which has been damaged by quarrying activities in the area, but there is no indication as to whether the initial works outlined would be completed by the timeline.

Happy Father’s Day 2010. This is for every father, everywhere. Hoping that while I share this Nostalgia it brings back some poignant memories of your Dad. 

LONDON (Reuters) – A doctor cleared of murdering three patients said he had hastened the deaths of two people without their permission, a British newspaper reported yesterday, raising the possibility that the investigation will be reopened.

Ray Millington, in a time of 55 minutes, ran out winner of the Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice 15-mile BMX cycle road race which took place last Sunday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – A senior Iranian cleric has decreed dogs are “unclean” and should not be kept as pets — a move aimed at discouraging Western-style dog ownership in the Islamic state, a newspaper reported yesterday.

In an effort to encourage maximum participation, the Young Gun Sports Club of Enmore will be staging a softball cricket competition today at the Enmore Hope West School ground.

– Corbin The PNCR-1G is anticipating the resumption of the parliamentary select committee on local government reform, after its leader Robert Corbin recently concluded dialogue with President Bharrat Jagdeo over some concerns about the reform process.

On March 18, 2010 the Special Select Committee of the National Assembly submitted a report on the impact of global food price increases: The following table shows an outline of each of the recommendations proposed by the food committee that financial aid has been sought for.

The third semi-finalist of the Aracari Beach Volleyball Classic was decided yesterday when the Young Achievers `C` Volleyball team cruised into the semi finals after walking over their Group three competitors at the Aracari Resort.

Over the last few weeks we have been discussing the major causes of constipation and the corresponding treatment regimes.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China said yesterday it would gradually make the yuan more flexible, in a gesture that may deflect foreign criticism at next week’s G20 summit but will not quickly yield a big move by its currency.

– but says land lease dispute far from over The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) did not move against the Guyana Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (GCCD) on Friday as threatened, but members of the group feel  the ongoing land lease dispute is far from over.

The Bougainvillea ‘Mary Palmer’ is attractive, sometimes stunningly so, but when variegated can be wayward and unpredic-table. Nevertheless

Dominoes fan’s can expect a full day of dominoes today with the Ex-GDF association’s Father’s Day competition at the association’s club, Princes St.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said more land may be made available for sugar cane cultivation since his administration is now “seriously” looking at producing ethanol from molasses, in keeping with the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) which promotes the use of biofuels.

The annual Dutch Chess Champ-ionship is underway with Jan Smeets and Friso Nijboer sharing the lead after three rounds.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – An exiled Rwandan general was shot and wounded in South Africa yesterday in what his wife called a Rwandan-backed assassination attempt, a charge the Kigali government dismissed as “preposterous.“

KNYSNA, South Africa,  (Reuters) – Striker Nicolas  Anelka departed the World Cup in disgrace yesterday after  insulting France coach Raymond Domenech and refusing to  apologise.

The date by which non-tertiary educational institutions must be registered with the National Accreditation Council (NAC) is now July 31, Minister of Education Shaik Baksh said, adding that those which did not comply would be closed down.

Good news for those of us who love soccer and want the game to keep growing: US television ratings for the World Cup have been very good so far, and many sports analysts are predicting that the United States will soon become a major soccer power.

Dear Editor, It is both an instructive and exciting development – Newsday’s Business Day of May 27, 2010 reported advertisement of a government ministry in Trinidad and Tobago proposing to hire consultants to conduct a “thorough process of re-engineering of the organisation’s key processes.”

Basseterre, St Kitts – South Africa enhanced their position of dominance in the Second Digicel Test after another day of overcast conditions at Warner Park yesterday.

The PPP/C is a strong and mature coalition capable of defeating the opposition in any form, the party said in a press statement issued yesterday.

* White House’s Emanuel says it is Hayward’s latest gaffe * US officials have kept heat on BP’s CEO over oil spill WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) – The White House renewed its sharp criticism of BP Plc CEO Tony Hayward after he attended a yacht race off the English coast on Saturday as his company struggles to plug its huge Gulf of Mexico oil leak.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to two very unfortunate, malicious and libellous references to me in my capacity as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) and to Mr Gocool Boodoo, Chief Election Officer respectively as was published in a letter titled ‘Change for Guyana via the electoral process lies somewhere in the distant future’ in the Kaieteur News of Thursday, June 10, 2010 in the name of Mr Tacuma Ogunseye. 

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Relatives of Colombian miners trapped in a coal mine began to lose hope of finding them alive yesterday, three days after a blast buried 50 workers and killed at least 19 others.

In the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to haemorrhage from a deep sea well nearly a mile beneath the ocean and about forty miles off the US coast. 

Last Sunday we reported that the government had advised donors against releasing funds for local government election programmes until further notice.

CROYDON, England, CMC – Captain Devon Smith and Andre Fletcher stroked fine centuries as West Indies A flourished on a rain-hit third day of their second four-day “Test” against India A yesterday.

The St John Association of Guyana hosts a week of activities starting today with a church service at St George’s Cathedral at 8 am and this is to  be  followed by a parade of military and paramilitary groups.

(Trinidad Observer) Two months after the May 24 general election, T&T will return to the polls for local government elections on July 26, according to a declaration by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at Friday’s start of the parliamentary term.