Daily Archive: Monday, August 23, 2010

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) were last evening preparing a 22-year-old mother of two for emergency surgery after she was brutally stabbed about the body allegedly by her common-law husband.

-GWI to enter bottling business A new $70M well station at De Hoop, Mahaica that is expected to  benefit over 2000 residents from the area, along with surrounding communities, was commissioned on Friday by Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali.

-Seeraj General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (GRPA) Dharamkumar Seeraj says that the Seed Paddy Facility at Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder is being utilized and is refuting claims by farmers that it is a “white elephant”.

Hours after a wounded miner fatally shot another with an unlicensed firearm he was discovered a short distance from the Kurupung scene and police are confident that they have enough to charge him with the capital offence.

A 30-year-old motorist was last evening in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he collided with an electrical pole along the East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road early yesterday following a blowout.

What is the real motive behind Leriea Bristol’s well-planned execution-style killing?

Relatives of Hafiz Sankar, who was found dead on Pigeon Island on Saturday, find it strange that his body was discovered in a yard with a high fence and padlocked gate.

Former Superintendent of Police (SP) Rambarran is in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

-crooner seduces, enchants Sunday morning Jamzone crowd For too long we have imported performers that come over as pedestrian on stage and/or too lyrically weak to offer the kind of surreal entertainment this country hungers for, until Ne-Yo that is, and if anything the R&B crooner is incredibly gifted.

The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) last Wednesday took its case to London where – at a national symposium, it gained support for its fight for the rights of the bauxite workers it represents at a RUSAL-run company.

-PPP donated land Bartica residents on Friday officially welcomed the region’s first fire station which was constructed at a cost of $17M, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The passenger, who was killed along with pedestrian Christopher Benjamin on Saturday afternoon, in the Kairuni, Linden Highway accident has been identified.

The Sophia Literacy Project concluded a year of service at the Den Amstel Community Centre and the PNCR Congress Place auditorium at Sophia.

-project coordinator Mangrove replanting exercises are moving ahead with positive results while the committee established to oversee the restoration of the tropical plant along the Coastland foresees the completion of its mandate in advance of a planned three-year timetable.

-Prime Minister The Forestry Products Development and Marketing Council Inc. (FPDMC) last Thursday presented a ‘prototype’ wooden comb and box, using a lesser known species of wood, as a symbolic gesture to Prime Minister Samuel Hinds.

A man accused of using an ice pick to rob another man of a bicycle was on Friday remanded to prison.

A man accused of a knife-point robbery in Linden was on Friday remanded to prison.

MADRID, (Reuters) – The United States survived a  spirited comeback from world champions Spain to win 86-85 in  thrilling a warm-up game yesterday, sending out a warning to  their rivals ahead of the world championships.

Despite being unable to confirm when the second round of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup qualifying series will be played, two Canada-based players are in Guyana for tryouts with the National Under-17 squad.

After four harrowing rounds Ashwant Satamand emerged the winner of yesterday’s Junior Scrabble Competition organized by the Guyana Scrabble Association and held at the Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas Lands.

Guyana’s Taffin Khan ended in joint fourth position of the Challenger section of the just-concludedinaugural UMADA Caribbean Cup chess tournament which was played in Trinidad and Tobago.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Kenyan David Rudisha broke the  men’s 800 metres world record that had stood for 13 years yesterday, clocking a time of one minute 41.09 seconds at the ISTAF  athletics meeting in the German capital.

NAPIER, New Zealand, CMC – Jamaica ended their tour Down Under with a whimper, when World No.2 New Zealand crushed them 62-40 in the second and final Test on Saturday.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – Roger Federer ended a  seven-month title drought with a 6-7 7-6 6-4 win over American  Mardy Fish in the Cincinnati Masters final yesterday to send a  timely reminder of his class just a week before the U.S

By Tamica Garnett Hardware Company Toolsie Persaud Limited is continuing with its investment in athlete Kenneth Semple.

Members of the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) Saturday lauded its outgoing president Lester Alvis for his contribution to the sport during his stint in Guyana as head of Courts Guyana Inc.

The Hikers Hockey Club will today begin its annual Junior Summer Camp from 9am s at the St.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Thirty-three Chilean miners  trapped deep underground sent a message to the surface tied to  a drill yesterday, saying they were all alive in their first  contact since a cave-in 17 days ago, but experts said it would  take months to dig them out.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Iran unveiled a prototype  long-range unmanned bomber yesterday, the latest in a stream of  announcements of new Iranian-made military hardware as tension  mounts over its nuclear programme.

Dear Editor,The Guyana Police Force is responding to a letter published in the Stabroek News on Wednesday, August 18, under the caption ‘Police stalling in sexual molestation case.’

Teenaged  golfer Avinda Kishore carted off the third annual Courts Guyana Inc.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan have dedicated a  proportion of their match fees to victims of the floods which  have devastated their country following an upset win over  England in the third test at the Oval on Saturday.

Dear Editor, I never expect the Chronicle to say anything favourable about me—after all it is the de facto property of a party which I oppose.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China has to pursue political  reform to safeguard its economic health, Premier Wen Jiabao  said during a visit to the booming town of Shenzhen, the  official Xinhua news agency reported.

DAMBULLA,  (Reuters) – All-rounder Thisara Perera’s  maiden five-wicket haul helped hosts Sri Lanka to an  eight-wicket victory over India yesterday and a place in the  final of the one-day tri-series.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An extract of the kudzu vine  being developed to treat alcoholism may also help treat cocaine  addiction, researchers at Gilead Siences Inc reported yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Email correspondence involving Solicitor General Douglas Leys, local attorney Harold Brady, and officials of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips confirms that the United States law firm was working on behalf of the Golding-led Government of Jamaica, even if it had been engaged by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

Dear Editor, Some are treading on dangerous ground and if this course is pursued it would disqualify them from criticizing this government whenever it breaks the laws and transgresses people’s rights.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – The founder of WikiLeaks,   accused of molestation in Sweden, said Australian intelligence  had warned him of plans to discredit the whistle-blower website  as it prepares to release more secret U.S.

Dear Editor, Today, the fiscal crisis is taking its toll on many universities, particularly as governmental funding becomes scarce.

Aaron Kamugisha is a Caribbean citizen and a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Musician Wyclef Jean  plans to appeal his rejection as a candidate in Haiti’s  November presidential election, his spokeswoman said yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has accused regional players union WIPA of rejecting an offer from the International Cricket Council to help broker a deal in the bitter, long-running impasse.

(Go-Jamaica) The Ewarton police are now investigating the circumstances of the shooting death of Special Constable Mickhail Hogarth on Saturday.

I was born at Hague and spent the very early part of my life there, but in my teenage years the Martins family lived at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop.

Headquarters athletics team in a time of 35 minutes 42.33 seconds emerged winners of the Guyana Police Force’s 10 kilometre mixed relay race held yesterday.

Undoubtedly, the policies, practices and conduct of the Jagdeo administration will come under increasingly critical scrutiny and analysis as the end of its term nears, as its influence wanes and as the fear of its retributive capacity fades.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Four decapitated and  mutilated corpses were strung from a bridge in a popular  getaway outside the Mexican capital yesterday, the latest  atrocity as the country battles an escalating drug war.

Dear Editor, I read with consternation a letter written by Rev Gideon Cecil titled `The wrong political ideology embraced by our first two leaders destroyed Guyana economically and socially’ (August 19, 2010).

Photos and interviews by Shabna Ullah and Gaulbert Sutherland Lewis Punch, cash crop farmer ‘I think farming is developing a little bit more now and we are getting proper drainage and so.