Daily Archive: Wednesday, June 30, 2010

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday implored donors not to “obsess” with capacity building before releasing funds as this would hinder development efforts.

-will not testify against co-accused In a surprise twist Guyanese Abdel Nur, one of the persons implicated in a plot to blow up fuel pipes at John F Kennedy Airport, yesterday morning pleaded guilty to one count of providing support to terrorists before US District Judge Dora Irizarry in a Brooklyn, New York court.

The government’s inability to adequately police the high seas will see the administration turning to technology to help protect fisherfolk, President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told an event to mark Fisherman’s Day.

As the city’s garbage crisis lingers, heaps of refuse are being seen along the roadways and the Mayor and City Council is appealing to citizens to effect disposal at the landfill site or to bury their trash if there is available space.

The Ministry of Education is considering offering scholarships and special incentives for trained Mathematics and Science teachers as a means of promoting the two subject areas in schools.

Bridgetown, Barbados – It was not a casual trot, but South Africa eventually closed the Third Digicel Test with a seven wicket victory against West Indies and earned themselves a day and two full sessions  rest as they ended their four month Caribbean trip with a 2-0 Digicel Series triumph.

By Marlon Munroe The executives of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) at a recent emergency meeting decided to withdraw the Lady Jaguars team from the July 22-31 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, mainly because of financial constraints.

NORTHAMPTON, England, CMC – A magnificent century from batsman Kirk Edwards was not enough, as West Indies slipped to a five-wicket defeat to England Lions in their second match of the Tri-Nations Limited Overs series yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats yesterday   stripped out a controversial tax from their landmark financial  reform bill in a scramble to win the votes needed to pass it  through Congress.

By Floyd Christie The out-of-towners highlighted day two of the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) when they went head-to-head on Monday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in a match-up that saw Kwakwani Secondary outshining New Silver City 29-27.

—asks Donald Duff A friend of mine once told me that he did not anticipate Guyana qualifying for the World Cup finals in his lifetime.

Dear Editor, I refer to the editorial which appeared in the June 22, 2010 edition of the Stabroek News.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have charged  18 people in an international money-laundering conspiracy that  they said moved millions of dollars of Colombian drug profits  through the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Hungary and  other countries.

Dear Editor, I would like to add further analytical notes to the letter of Frank Fyffe in SN of June 29 titled, ‘The Rodney commemoration should be an occasion for accommodating dissenting voices.’

By Floyd Christie The 19-man rugby squad named after recent trials at the National Stadium will be reduced to the final 12-man team to represent Guyana at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Rugby Games after a period of encampment at the Splashmins Resort.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Moscow yesterday  angrily rejected allegations by Washington that it had cracked  an undercover Russian spy ring but U.S.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter and a news item in your publications of June 25, 2010 and June 27, 2010 respectively pertaining to the search of Dr.

The second practice match between the national under-19 team and a Rest Team XI  at Eve Leary ground was washed out by early morning rains after the first day.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Manmohan  Singh said yesterday India would try to convince the United  States to extradite the former chairman of Union Carbide,  wanted in connection with the world’s deadliest industrial  accident.

Dear Editor, I wish to state my profound disappointment with the response of the government in relation to the report on Trafficking in Persons.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Spain and Paraguay  squeezed into the World Cup quarter-finals yesterday while FIFA  boss Sepp Blatter apologised for two colossal refereeing  blunders that have created the tournament’s biggest controversy.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron  will announce soon he is setting up an inquiry into allegations  British security services were complicit in torture of terrorism  suspects overseas, the BBC reported yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A congressional panel is  poised to take the first step toward ending a decades-old U.S. 

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams was left all  alone trying to crush an unlikely uprising on Wimbledon’s  hallowed lawns yesterday as sister Venus and Kim Clijsters  suffered shock defeats in the women’s quarter-finals.

Dear Editor, Just after the start of the World Cup, a commentator said that Ghana’s team was the youngest in the competition and some of them played in the Ghana football league. 

(Trinidad Express) Dwayne Douglas Gibbs, the Canadian national likely to be approved by Parliament tomorrow to become the country’s next Commissioner of Police, has promised, once he’s given the nod, that he’s going to put his best foot forward and get the job done.

The major economic powers of the world have completed their discussions on global issues their their G8 and G20 meetings in Canada over the past week.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters Life!) – Broadcast veteran  Larry King announced yesterday that he would be ending his  nightly “Larry King Live” show on CNN this coming autumn after  25 years on television.