Daily Archive: Monday, August 16, 2010

Amid emotional scenes yesterday afternoon, the three– man crew of the Captain Sunil who were reported missing two weeks ago, reunited with their families at the GDF Coast Guard base at Ruim-veldt.

-villager who set up connection in custody after anger flares Mark Anthony Girdhari Persaud, 8, left his Annandale, East Coast Demerara home to catch fish with his little brother in a canal a short distance from his house yesterday only to be electrocuted.

Several months after her reputed husband lashed her to the head a Cummings Lodge woman continued to live with him and early yesterday morning the man stabbed her from behind before setting their house ablaze.

Principal Education Officer Marcel Hutson is calling on parents in Sophia to ensure that their children attend school as registration has started at the newly built $15.8M nursery school at ‘C’ Field.

Telecommunications service provider, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company, says it has been hit again by suspected vandalism, this time at Versailles, West Bank Demerara (WBD) which saw 500 customers’ service being disrupted.

-circumstances unclear Just after 8 last night a man was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) from Berbice for further emergency treatment after he suffered a gunshot wound to the chest under circumstances which remain unclear.

By Vishnu Bisram A memorial monument, designed to bring the descendants of Indian indentured servants, including Guyanese, in touch with their past,  is set to be constructed at the Port of Kolkata (Calcutta), India. 

-quality of road works in region questioned By Carl Parker in Lethem A mile-long section of roadway remains to be fixed along the Hunt Oil stretch of the Linden/Lethem trail with traffic expected to resume this week after major flood-fuelled disruptions.

Despite the millions spent by the government to ensure that the Supenaam Stelling re-places the Adventure Stelling, the facility remains closed, but businesses in Supenaam remain optimistic that its opening will spur revenue and jobs.

-says some private operators charging as much as $20,000 for a unit Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says the health sector has a growing demand for blood despite the success of the voluntary blood donation programme, and he was also critical of some hospitals in the private sector which are reportedly profiting from the donations.

A skills/vocational training programme has been launch-ed to empower youths of Annandale and Lusignan, as part of the Community Action Component (CAC) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funded Citizens’ Security Programme (CSP).

International Youth Year activities which were launched on Thursday evening at Duke Lodge will take place in three-month phases and will allow for public lectures, health sessions, and climate change panel discussions.

By Marlon MunroeUp to press time Guyana were the unofficial champions of the 11th International Shotokhan Karate Federation (ISKF) Pan American champions which wrapped up yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall (CASH).

Trials for selection of national table tennis players will now become a feature under the tenure of the present Henry Greene’s administration.

A West Indies team is ready for an international engagement. Suddenly, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) notices something in the players’ contracts not to its liking.

Celebrating India’s 62nd anniversary at the Indian Cultural Centre, New Haven yesterday.

The national men’s hockey team ended in fifth position at the Pan American championships in Venezuela after pulling off an upset victory over Uruguay on Saturday in another cliff hanger at the 2010 Indoor Pan American Championships in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent,  CMC – Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and St.

This lamp post collapsed yesterday at around 15:40 hours at St Ignatius, after a strong gust of wind, cutting power to Lethem.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Andy Murray humbled Roger  Federer 7-5 7-5 to defend his Toronto Masters title yesterday, confirming the Briton as one of the favourites for the U.S. 

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon urged foreign donors yesterday to speed up aid to  Pakistan as the government warned of new waves of floods that  have already disrupted lives of a tenth of its 170 million  people.  

No, this is not garbage being transported along the East Coast Embankment Road on Saturday, but water (Photo by Jules Gibson)

Dear Editor, Without money, machinery and management not much can be done.

Dear Editor, During the past weekend, Channel 21 began broadcasting in Berbice.

Guyana ended the Goodwill games swimming competition yesterday in Suriname in the cellar position but not before national swimmer Britany van Lange added another gold medal to her tally.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s military thinking is  outmoded and should learn from others, especially the United  States, when it comes to modernising its vast armed forces, a  leading armed forces newspaper said yesterday.  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A settlement has been reached in the dispute between the Guyana Cricket Board and the national team ahead of the lucrative Champions League Twenty20 to be staged in South Africa next month.

KABUL – Total foreign military deaths in Afghanistan have  passed 2,000 since the war began in late 2001, unofficial  tallies showed yesterday, in the approach to U.S.

Dear Editor, Thanks for publishing my letter ‘We should be honest about Burnham’s contributions’ in your edition of August 13.

Two Guyanese footballers Ricky Shakes and Jason Lloyd have been called up by English League 2 Team Stockport County for an official trial starting today.

I lived for more than 25 years in the Cayman Islands where tourism is almost 50% of the economy.

Dear Editor, I always have deep reservations when politicians make promises.

KOHLER, Wisconsin, (Reuters) – Germany’s Martin  Kaymer maintained ice-cool composure to win his maiden major  title in a gripping two-way playoff with American Bubba Watson  for the 92nd U.S.

Dear Editor, After reading yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek piece on Lennox Cush in your Sports Pages I feel obligated to make a comment.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, (Reu-ters) – Sri Lanka flooded  a new port yesterday, built with Chinese assistance as part of  a $6 billion drive to rebuild the island nation’s  infrastructure after a quarter century of war.  

What the people say about…Interviews and photos by Candace Phillips Myron Tucker – student ‘I saw a few new construction models which can be applied to the building industry.

Dear Editor, If the members of the PSC who are supporting the Marriott project believe that Marriott is a gold mine opportunity, they should invest their own money in the project and not support a partnership with the government using poor taxpayers’ money.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh has been ruled out  of India’s one-day international against Sri Lanka today  after coming down with dengue fever, India media reported yesterday.

Iman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) program in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Afghanistan said yesterday it had  discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in  the north of the war-ravaged country, where U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Nearly ten years after being discharged by former High Court judge and now Justice Minister, Herbert Volney, on charges relating to TT$13 million worth of cocaine and a gun and ammunition, Rick Anthony Gomes was on Saturday found guilty of the same charges.

Anyone au fait with the defensive measures that this government employs when it is exposed to scandal would not be surprised that Cabinet Secretary Dr Luncheon could only manage to say at his Thursday press briefing that the culpable in the Supenaam Stelling bungle had not yet been identified but that in the interim taxpayers would be the ones left out of pocket for the repairs.