Daily Archive: Sunday, July 18, 2010

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Guyanese right arm leg-spinner Amir Khan grabbed a hat-trick in a spectacular eight-wicket haul and then frustrated the Windward Islands with resilient batting to give his team a small glimmer of hope in their third round TCL West Indies Under-19 Challenge match here yesterday.

Convinced that he is fully qualified to be the PPP’s presidential candidate at next year’s general elections, Speaker of the House Ralph Ramkarran says eliminating extreme poverty would top his agenda if he were eventually elected into office.

A long line of trucks, vans and buses remained trapped at Ituni yesterday, and while Works Ministry officials said they hoped to have the water drained and the road open by today, residents fear it could take as long as a month.

Shaqueel Amin became the latest swimmer to qualify for the Goodwill Games as the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) trials continued yesterday at the Castellani Pool, Homestretch Avenue.

By Dr. Sham Samaroo Guyana’s coach, Ravindranauth Seeram, is confident of success at the upcoming regional twenty20 cricket tournament set for Barbados and Trinidad.

– after row over gold, money A team of police officers has been dispatched to Echerak in the Potaro area, Region Eight to investigate reports that a Linden businessman was brutally chopped to death following a dispute over missing raw gold and money.

The Guyana Taekwondo Association (GTA) has named a strong four-man contingent to represent Guyana at the XXI Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC), in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

By Kwesi Isles The parliamentary opposition parties say they support any effort to extend passport distribution and related services to other parts of the country in order to end the hassle and extra costs burdening members of the public.

– Hendy Springer recommends that the WICB persist with the A team tours since it serves a “serious purpose” Cozier on Sunday It lasted just a week short of three months, touched four countries spread across the planet and included international matches against five different opponents.

Tomorrow, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) will meet residents of Mahdia to discuss the use and distribution of the relief fund, which was established by the association following the recent fire which devastated the community.

Guyana and Kuwait are to sign five bilateral agreements when the prime minister of that country, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al Ahmed Al-Jaber Al Sabah, visits this week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has revealed.

The National Twenty20 side pulled off a 22-run victory over a Guyana Cricket Board Select XI at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday in a warm up game for the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Caribbean Twenty20 championships in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.

Geddes Grant Limited on Friday presented shirts and vitamins to the National Under-17 footballers who depart Guyana today for Dominica to compete in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup Group stage qualifying series.

In Retrospect Eight months ago, on November 29, 2009 and the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP15) I began in this column what I projected then would be an extended series of analyses and commentary on the LCDS; the Agreement between the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway; the accompanying Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Joint Concept Note; and, related matters pertaining to the problems created by global warming and climate change.

“I don’t want give the police any statement” It has been over 50 days since Pritipaul Jaigobin has been confined to the Burns Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital following a brutal acid attack by an unknown individual and while the physical agony pain has been excruciating, the emotional pain of being away from his family this long has tested the father of two even more.

-after reported staff attack The patient at the centre of a confrontation between the Georgetown Public Hospital staff and residents of Craig was returned to the institution but has been given until noon today to leave.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will stage a one-week youth camp for under-15 and under-19 cricketers from its affiliated clubs at the Everest Cricket Club (ECC) Ground from tomorrow.

Introduction When this series began several weeks ago – this is its fifth and final column, – its focus was a review of the report on the Public Accounts of Guyana, the ministries, departments and regions for 2008.

The insights of others continually add to our understanding of what is going on and how the world works. 

-Agri Minister tells champion worker ceremony There is an urgent need to increase productivity in the sugar industry and both management and employees must play their part, according to Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud.

All the ingredient are in place for what is expected to be an action packed day for horse racing fans at the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club, Silver Park, No.

Dear Editor, Mr. Leon Rockliffe in his letter to SN of July 15 castigated three law firms for being content to “enjoy their remuneration while the very substratum of their businesses suffers rapid deterioration.”

The Young Achievers started with a bang to climb to the top spot in the Castrol Strikers/Guyana Volleyball Federation Championships which commenced yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

There is no need to evacuate residents of the flooded Upper Demerara communities, according to Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Director General Colonel (retd.)

Amidst the flurry of activities focused on 2011, a few unpleasant truths grow clearer by the day. 

ST ANDREWS, Scotland, July 17 (Reuters) – Louis Oosthuizen  withstood everything thrown at him by the Scottish weather, a  hungry chasing pack and a testing Old Course layout to move to  the brink of a first major win at the British Open yesterday.

The National Assembly on Thursday approved the appointment of Carvil Duncan and Cecil Seepersaud to the Public Service Commission, after the ninth report of the Committee on Appointments dealing with the matter was adopted.

Dear Editor, The Constitution of this country clearly sets out and protects The Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of Individual.

The Caricom Development Fund (CDF) has approved US$8.3 million for Belize and St Lucia in the first disbursement of its Country Assistance Programme (CAP).

DENNERY, St Lucia, CMC – Clint St Hill narrowly missed out on a century as Barbados grabbed first innings points over Trinidad and Tobago in their third round TCL West Indies Under-19 Challenge match here yesterday.

Dear Editor, In the SN of July 16th it was reported that a framework agreement for the proposed Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) was signed formalizing the cooperation between Guyana Power and Light Inc.

– despite illness and adversity Eleven-year-old Dawnetta McLean endured more hardship than her little shoulders should be allowed to bear leading up to the National Grade Six Assessment, including two bouts of illness, hours of travelling and many late nights, but she was determined to do well and in the end her dream came true when she was awarded a place at Queen’s College (QC).

The Sexual Offences Act 2009, which came into effect on May 24 this year, creates many new offences.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) said it recently concluded five “successful” interactive sessions and film festival with about 205 youths in regions four and ten.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s army has killed more than 300 fighters from Darfur’s rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in recent clashes and 75 of its own soldiers also died, state media reported yesterday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Seasoned batsman John Campbell stroked 92 but Jamaica suffered a wretched batting collapse to let Leeward Islands back into their third round TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge match  yesterday.

Dear Editor,I am delighted that the Government has ‘stepped-up’ (see SN letter captioned, `Step away from Marriott and step-up to Mahdia’, July 13, 2010) to provide relief to the residents and community at Mahdia (SN article, `Gov’t offers free house lots to Mahdia fire victims, 7-17-2010).

Inexhaustibly, it becomes more evident that some poems are applicable to real social and political situations.

The eight contestants vying for the crown tonight at this year’s Miss Guyana Universe Pageant were on Friday evening sashed at a simple ceremony held at the Princess Hotel and Casino by their respective sponsors who each believe that their girl would win.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela and the Netherlands will review aerial operations by both countries after Caracas protested what it said were illegal flights by Dutch military planes into its airspace, a joint statement by the countries said yesterday.

Dr Ramesh Vadapalli, MS (Orthopaedics), Fellow in Arthroplasty Movement is life and life is movement.

Dear Editor, Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh told the National Assembly on July 15, 2010 that a framework deal for financing of the Amaila Falls hydropower project was signed in Shanghai, China.

LONDON, England, CMC – Kieron Pollard produced a typical robust all-round performance to fire English county Somerset to a solid six-wicket win over Gloucestershire and keep them on top of their group in the Friends Provident Twenty20 tournament on Friday.

Firstly, there are many who argue that the liver is really a gland, since it secretes bile.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Actor Wesley Snipes is headed for jail after losing his appeal of a three-year prison sentence for failing to file income tax returns for 1999 through 2001.

The Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Economic Services is likely to recommend that the National Assembly extends the deadline for the submission of the mid-year financial report by the Finance Ministry.

Dear Editor,While I usually refrain from becoming involved in political discussions in Guyana, I cannot help but be taken aback by the recent statements pertaining to a health crisis in Georgetown that were attributed to Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall.

(BBC) Manny Pacquiao will start negotiations with Antonio Margarito or Miguel Cotto after a deadline to agree a clash with American Floyd Mayweather Jr expired.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Salman Butt will captain  Pakistan for the remaining test matches on their tour of England  following the resignation of Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan Cricket  Board (PCB) said yesterday.

The PNCR will host a range of activities throughout August in observance of the 25th death anniversary of the party’s Founder Leader Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned from president into campaign cheerleader on Friday, firing up the first big election rally in support of his chosen presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff.

Dear Editor, Many times I have voiced complaints regarding the playing of loud music in one’s community and the papers tend to find this matter frivolous and so failed to print the letters.

Britain has a new foreign policy. Its coalition government has begun to enunciate a more pragmatic approach that recognises the ways in which the world has changed, political and economic relationships overlap and new centres of power are emerging.

(BBC) Alexandre Vinokourov won stage 13 of the Tour de France after a late breakaway on the approach to Revel yesterday.

Shoppers at the Rosignol market benefited from information about their rights at workplaces when the Ministry of Labour took its booth there for a labour fair yesterday.

The Rotary Club of Demerara made a donation of a swing set valued at $185,000 to the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre on Carmichael Street on Friday as part of its community outreach programme which will help in the upgrading of the play area for centre’s children.

Dear Editor, `Treat the youths right’ by Jimmy Cliff, should be played on our local air waves regularly, adults should sing this appropriate song every day; record-bars particularly the mobile ones, should play it frequently; the birds would chirp it at dawn so that parents, foster parents and all those adults who abuse our youths, would be compassionately moved deep within their hearts and remember they were once youths.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia has called a special meeting of the Organization of American States to complain formally that Venezuela allows leftist rebels to use its territory as a safe haven, the government said yesterday.

During the past fifty years there has been a quiet revolution in the commercial production of pot plants.

“Chess is a versatile model for decision-making.” – Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) took a step closer towards the inevitable recognition of the ancient game in Guyana recently by staging, successfully, the FIDE-rated tournament which sought to include our players on the world stage.

aA novel way to transport building materials: Stabroek News photographer Jules Gibson captured these men carrying boards using two bicycles along the Railway Embankment Road in the vicinity of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara on Friday.

GALLE, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan  needs just eight wickets in his final test appearance to become  the first player to reach the 800-mark but Indian skipper  Mahendra Singh Dhoni has no intention of making it easy for  him.

So finally we have the confession from the horse’s mouth. The citizenry has known the truth all along, of course; but to secure an unforced admission from the government was something which no one could have anticipated.

The Linden Salvation Council (LSC) plans to assist as many underprivileged persons as it could in Region Ten and counts its alliances with government and two other charities as a boon to fulfilling this mandate.

CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called an election yesterday for August 21, with the tightly-fought poll to be decided over policies on economic management, climate and border protection.

Dear Editor, Are the residents of the Essequibo Coast not counted or respected by this administration.