Articles published on Wednesday, July 7, 2010
-as industry faces boiler damage, other challenges Struggling production, ongoing problems at the Skeldon factory and a turnaround plan which is yet to turn things around are plaguing the sugar industry as Chief Executive Officer, Errol Hanoman exits months ahead of his contract expiration and Finance Director Paul Bhim takes the reins.
His grandmother failed to wake at her usual time and he blamed it on the rain but several hours later when he decided to check he discovered her battered body in bed with a bloody piece of wood lying on the floor in her ransacked Brighton, Corentyne house.
A 59-year-old man was yesterday afternoon chopped to death by his drinking buddy following an argument at their Foulis, East Coast Demerara home.
-says wanted in murder, robbery probes More than two months after persons were brutalized, shot and arrested during police operations to capture Tyrone `Cobra’ Rowe, police yesterday issued a bulletin for him saying that he was wanted for questioning in a murder and a series of robberies.
The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) has made a commitment to purchase a fire tender, with the assistance of regional and community officials, for Mahdia following last Thursday’s devastating blaze.
-evidence of plot against US, UK missions here excluded The jury in the trial over an alleged plot to blow up New York’s John F.
In just over seven months three bodies have been found along the Georgetown seawall – victims of savage knife attacks.
The US Embassy is introducing new fees for consular services aside from visitor visas from Tuesday.
Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday ordered the police to return two hard drives and a digital camera to businessman Peter Ramsaroop which were seized during a police search almost two months ago.
Former Land Court Judge Gerald Broomes passed away Monday night at the Medical Arts Hospital following a brief illness.
The extensively decomposed body which was discovered on the Industrial Area Dyke at Mackenzie yesterday was identified as that of 82-year-old Nicholas Alexander, a former Guymine worker and member of the Linden Bauxite Pensioners’ Association.
The man who was fatally shot by a city constabulary rank on Friday night at Bourda market has been identified as 38-year-old Terry Kingston.
The police yesterday said that a recent decision has been taken by the force’s administration that allows them to take reports of all types via the telephone.
About 13,500 selected students from Grades 2, 3 and 4 who gained less than 50 percent over the last three school terms will be engaged in a one-month literacy and numeracy programme from next Monday.
A miner accused of stealing raw gold was beaten to death at 14 Miles Issano yesterday morning and a team of police ranks have since been dispatched to the area to investigate.
A Melanie Damishana man whose electrified fence caused the death of a 15-year-old remained in custody yesterday and is expected to be charged shortly.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Netherlands reached their first World Cup final since 1978 when the current crop finally stepped out of the shadows of Total Football to beat battling Uruguay 3-2 in a superb semi-final yesterday.
Guyana’s Nicolette Fernandes justified number 57 world ranking when she won both the men’s and the women’s Open singles titles at the Farfan & Mendes National Squash Championships which ended Saturday evening at the Georgetown Courts.
-Guyana to host second round Qualification among Caribbean territories for the CONCACAF Gold Cup will open August 18 in Antigua and Puerto Rico and finish with the Digicel Caribbean Championship final in Martinique on November 28, the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) announced yesterday.
By Floyd Christie Kwakwani Secondary swept three titles in the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) finals Monday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to take the title of 2010 NSBF Champion of Champions.
The national under-19 cricket team was treated to a farewell dinner Monday evening at the Water Chris Hotel prior to their departure for St.
NEW YORK – The confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) yesterday announced that it has decided to withdraw its support from the men’s and women’s soccer competitions in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico due to a lack of suitable facilities.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford has identified the support from his teammates as one of the memorable features of his entry into international cricket.
Dear Editor, From May 2 till now we have been in a battle to save Baracara Falls.
ARENBERG, France, (Reuters) – Norway’s Thor Hushovd set the record straight by winning the 213-km third stage of the Tour de France yesterday as defending champion Alberto Contador and seven-times winner Lance Armstrong lost ground.
Dear Editor, I was shocked to read the headline of a recent Kaieteur News article (July 5) in which the head of our Ministry of Health discusses the topic of “sexual conversion.”
The Community Action Component (CAC) of the IDB-funded security project is hosting a number of skills training and personal enhancement programmes for at-risk youth in low-income communities.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan, cricket’s leading international wicket taker, will retire from tests after this month’s first test against India, his manager said yesterday.
Dear Editor, Christopher Ram’s letter dated July 4 in Stabroek News (‘The EIU report derived its questions from comparative date published by the Bank of Guyana’) is a poor attempt to rebut my arguments in the letters’ column of Stabroek News (June 28) entitled ‘Empirical data do not support the growth contention by EIU.’
President Bharrat Jagdeo has said that the region now faces a situation of a creeping debt problem that has become a major issue and without solving this there could be no medium-term developmental strategy.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan completed a second Twenty20 victory over World Cup finalists Australia in as many days at Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday.
Dear Editor, I was privileged to attend the Guyana Netball Association U-23 tournament on Saturday and Sunday last.
Dear Editor, The Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Mr Robert Persaud, has recently spoken on the issue of sport fishing (`Sport fishing to be reeled In’, Stabroek News, July 1, 2010).
By Tamica Garnett Chairperson of the Junior Development Committee of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA), Grace McCalman, has lamented the poor turnout at the recent mini-tennis Inter Schools tournament.
Officials of the Ministry of Labour are currently investigating the conditions under which teenager Sarwan Mahadeo was working when he was electrocuted while operating a plucking machine last Wednesday.
LAUSANNE, (Reuters) – Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt said yesterday he may end his record-breaking career after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Dear Editor, I refer to your article ‘Search for PPP candidate still in initial phase,’ dated July 4.
The failure by the relevant authorities to aggressively implement the national building code may have exacerbated flooding in communities such as Grove/Diamond, the Chairman of the National Building Code Committee Melvyn Sankies believes.
Dear Editor, Emile Mervin’s letter of December 28, 2007 in, SN captioned, ‘Presidential candidate should not be chosen behind closed doors…’ tried to start a debate on an important national issue.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin vowed Monday night that history would vindicate him for controversial declarations last week surrounding the extradition saga of reputed drug baron Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, as well as claims by a government minister that Lewin was lying.
More than two weeks after a trawler explosion left him with burns over ninety percent of his body, 19-year-old Orlon Munroe is said to be “coming around slowly” as he recuperates in the Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya was cleared yesterday to compete as a woman nearly a year after controversial gender tests put her career on hold.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite less-than-unanimous confidence among Jamaicans that its Government has the will and ability to collar crime on the island, CARICOM leaders on Monday gave a ringing endorsement to Prime Minister Bruce Golding to lead the regional fight against lawlessness during his tenure at the helm of the grouping.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday sued Arizona over the state’s strict new immigration law in a move that drew fire from Republicans who said the border needed more security.
The body of a man was discovered yesterday at Garden of Eden after he drowned on Sunday while trying to retrieve a bucket which floated away.
Dear Editor, It is quite worrisome that many of our Grade Six children in school who received their National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results only last week are depressed, discouraged, disappointed, angry and hopeless.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – LeBron James has made at least one decision, just not the one the basketball world had been waiting for.
General Stanley McChrystal’s negative remarks about the American/Afghanistan policy as conducted by President Obama, and the President’s dismissal of his commander of the armed forces in Afghanistan have together suggested that there has been a certain amount of disorder in the making and execution of American policy on the Afghanistan intervention.
(Trinidad Express) New Canadian Police Commis-sioner Dwayne Douglas Gibbs said on Monday that he has a lot of ideas and thoughts on how to deal with crime in Trinidad and Tobago, but they will have to wait until he talks with the authorities to determine how to forge ahead with them.
PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy denied allegations yesterday that his party received illegal campaign donations in cash from France’s richest woman via Labour Minister Eric Woerth as part of a vast system of patronage.
ADARE, Ireland, (Reuters) – A tetchy Tiger Woods was in no mood to field questions about his troubled private life while competing at the JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am yesterday.
Water surrounded this house at Lusignan yesterday as heavy rain continued to pose problems.
A man who obtained money by pretending to be in a position to help his friend acquire a new passport was sentenced to two years imprisonment yesterday by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson after he pleaded guilty to the offence.
Part 3 By Tarron Khemraj Introduction The first two columns on this topic defined the nature of the post-1992 Guyanese oligarchy.
Dear Editor, In 2011, a very large section of the young population in Guyana will fall in the 19 to 22 age group.
