Articles published on Thursday, July 29, 2010
-notwithstanding AFC decision The Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP) comprising the PNCR, GAP, WPA and the NFA, yesterday announced that they would continue consultations towards forming a broad partnership to contest the next general elections.
By Kwesi Isles A Guyanese couple living in Suriname has been missing since Monday after leaving to go fishing, according to reports from their relatives.
The man found dead on the Amelia’s Ward, Linden Highway on Tuesday has been identified as Jim Ryan Williams of Bendoff, Parika, East Bank Essequibo.
By Tamica Garnett Two groups, Temptation Promotions and GT Promotions, are set to make football history by staging the first ever football match between a Guyana Football Federation (GFF) sanctioned ‘Guyana All Star XI’ and the second oldest football team in the world, the Cray Wonderers.
-981 ranks to share $9M Businessman and member of the `A’ Division Policing Group, Oudit Seenarain was yesterday recognized for his bravery in fighting off armed bandits during an attempted robbery in Section K Campbellville last month.
-at meeting for upcoming President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic By Marlon Munroe Tempers flared at an Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) meeting with coaches yesterday which resulted in one coach allegedly being physically assaulted.
Boxers Dexter Jordan and Ray Sandiford were forced to settle for bronze medals after losing their semi-final bouts at the XXI Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico yesterday.
Divisional Commander: We cannot take the law into our own hands!
While the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) is preparing to hold its annual Senior National Championships, the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Group of Insurance Companies has come out in support of the venture.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 28-year-old taxi driver who was involved in the accident on Sunday that resulted in the death of a 69-year-old Crane, West Coast Demerara woman be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Court.
China will continue to provide military assistance to the GDF under a Five-Year Guyana Defence Force and People’s Liberation Army training cycle following a recent visit to that country by an official military delegation.
Defending champion Robin Persaud will be looking to retain his crown when the Regan Rodrigues 50-mile cycle road race takes place on Sunday.
-complainant doesn’t want to pursue matter By Ayanna Blair A dental technician who allegedly threatened to kill his wife before assaulting her and his son with a cutlass was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
– Coach Sham Johnny Although the club captured its fair share of trophies, coach of the Running Braves Athletics Club, Sham Johnny, says the most significant achievement is the remarkable performance by many of his athletes at the recently-concluded Hampton Games in Trinidad and Tobago.
A BBC crew and a team of adventurers will be here next year to retrace the footsteps of Sir Walter Ralegh.
The sixth edition of the GBBC/GABA Friday Night Fights is building momentum.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The sorry campaigns of the Leeward Islands and Canada came to equally dismal ends here yesterday, when their final game of the Caribbean Twenty20 Trophy was rained out at the Queen’s Park Oval.
One of the five men fingered in April as being involved in the robbery at the Phone Depot store on Middle Street, when over $10M in cash and items were stolen, was yesterday separately charged with that robbery as well as four other robberies.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s San Juan Jabloteh conceded a late goal to lose their opening encounter of the CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round against Santos of Mexico on Tuesday night.
Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud last Thursday tabled in Parliament the Rice Factories (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to have some rice millers provide security deposits for the paddy that they purchase from farmers.
Several men might run for the presidency in the general elections due in 2011 The race for the presidency is bringing out the serious and the devious in political parties and civil society alike.
A 25-year-old Kwakwani resident was remanded to prison after he appeared in Court One of the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with carnal knowledge.
(BBC) Captain Andrew Strauss insists England will not be distracted by the upcoming Ashes when they begin their Test series against Pakistan today.
The United States Department of State disseminates three annual reports which the Government of Guyana never fails to repudiate The Government of the United States, through its Department of State in Washing-ton, DC now under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has become the Govern-ment of Guyana’s recurrent nightmare.
(BBC) Essex have signed West Indies international Dwayne Bravo for their T20 squad ahead of the finals.
A man who is accused of maliciously wounding his cousin was refused bail yesterday by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her charged with the offence.
Can CARICOM deliver a paradigm shift in food and nutrition security?
An amnesiac generation reawakens the pioneering spirit of its dead ancestors By David A Granger No month more than August evinces the patterns of challenge and response in the annals of the African-Guyanese experience.
Dear Editor, The City Council could not honour its financial obligation to the garbage contractors because its anticipated revenues, for that period did not materialize.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar once again came to his country’s rescue and raised hopes of salvaging the second test yesterday after Sri Lankan spinners wreaked havoc by claiming four wickets to hinder India’s fightback.
-Rupununi residents bracing for hardship The Linden to Lethem road is passable, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn says even as Rupununi residents are bracing for hardships as trucks transporting supplies and fuel are unable to traverse sections of the vital artery.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – With LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh focused on building their own NBA Dream Team in Miami, USA Basketball unveiled a Plan B line-up yesterday for next month’s world championships.
Forty-nine-year-old Ronald Craig of Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara, was on Tuesday placed on $30,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a quantity of elastic bandages, among other items, from the storage room of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Suriname’s new president Désiré Bouterse seeks to alter his image from one of military strongman to that of civilian statesman Former Master Sergeant Désiré Delano Bouterse ruled Suriname with an iron hand as its military strongman after staging a coup d’etat almost exactly 30 years ago in 1980.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Researchers have developed an implantable sensor that measures blood sugar continuously and transmits the information without wires — a milestone, they said, in diabetes treatment.
Dear Editor, Some weeks ago, the Honourable Minister of Agriculture lamented the depletion of our hinterland fish stock, attributing it to sport fishing.
PHOENIX, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday blocked key parts of Arizona’s tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control of the issue.
African-Guyanese, despite two centuries of enslavement, were able to create a distinctive creole culture By David A.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Former Australia captain Steve Waugh tipped Graeme Swann, Ajantha Mendis and Harbhajan Singh to fill the void left by the retirement of spin bowling’s golden generation.
Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that Sherwin De John called ‘Zipper’ be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly robbing a man at gunpoint in Stabroek Market of a cell phone valued $120,000.
Dear Editor, In order to sustain the pace of national development in this 21st Century, it is necessary that the Government and people of any nation become aware of the unemployment rate, so that systems can be put in place to keep it at an acceptable level, which may be between 4% and 5%.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad yesterday, killing all 152 people on board, officials said, in the worst aviation accident in Pakistan.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is advising the public to follow proper procedures when applying for a driver’s licence.
Responding to key challenges in the education system Following our interview with Education Minister, Hon Shaik Baksh in the April issue, The Guyana Review continues its examination of issues in the development of the national education system.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – In the searing Georgia sun, American Justin Gatlin works alone on resurrecting a sprinting career cast into limbo by a four-year doping ban.
Dear Editor Some eighteen years ago was my first and, as it proved, only experience of initiating a formal interview process in a bar.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron trumpeted a $1.1 billion defence deal with India yesterday, an early result of a big diplomatic push to court Indian business and tap new sources of economic growth.
Dear Editor: Without rehashing every detail of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent intemperate outburst at Pegasus owner, Mr.
From Emancipation to Independence… and beyond The village of Plaisance, situated between Better Hope and Goedverwagting on the East Coast Demerara was purchased by 65 newly freed African slaves in the immediate post emancipation period for the princely sum of $39,000.00.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt and top sprint rivals Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell will meet for the first time this year in a 100 metres showdown at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting next week.
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of Forbes Burnham, the first Prime Minister and Executive President of Guyana Forbes Burnham belonged to a talented generation of Guianese born in the decade of the 1920s.
NASSAU, (Reuters) – China has agreed to let two state-owned agencies finance a stalled $2.6 billion Bahamian resort project that the developer said would provide the biggest job stimulus The Bahamas has ever seen.
Dear Editor, For some time now, the quality of brown sugar on the market is, to put it politely, questionable – both in colour and taste.
The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) is refuting claims published in the Tuesday edition of the Kaieteur News that a couple’s twin boys died as a result of negligence.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Greenpeace yesterday issued fresh accusations that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness giant Sinar Mas have bulldozed rainforest and destroyed endangered orangutan habitats in Kalimantan.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Seven-time world champion Manny Pacquiao made a vow to improve life in his poor southern hometown and to help the Philippines win a first Olympic gold medal in his maiden speech as a lawmaker in Congress.
What do the numbers 70, 600 and 1,000 have in common?
Introduction In three days, Guyanese of African descent hopefully joined by other Guyanese, will celebrate the 176th anniversary of the beginning, in 1834, of the implementation of the Emancipation Act passed a year earlier.
The National Emancipation Trust (NET) is hosting its Annual Freedom Night Vigil Libation Ceremony at Public Buildings, Brickdam.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A senior member of the Obama administration revealed on Tuesday that a “series” of extradition requests have been made by the United States government for Jamaicans to be sent abroad for trial, but US officials are tight-lipped as to whether local elected officials are on the list.
Dear Editor, I compliment you on the editorial entitled “The lighter side of crime” published in the Stabroek News dated July 27, 2010.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguayan police shot dead a leader of an armed leftist group blamed for murders and kidnappings during a gun battle in a border region yesterday, the Interior Ministry said.
By Orin Davidson Darren Collison, the son of Guyanese track stars June Griffith and Dennis Collison, is plotting his own path to the top of the world of sports…through basketball The Flatbush Bar exuded an unusual buzz one recent Sunday night.
DETROIT, (Reuters) – Professional golfer Tiger Woods has been off his game since his extramarital affairs were exposed last year, but he’s still the world’s highest earning athlete, according to 2010 rankings released yesterday.
