Daily Archive: Friday, September 10, 2010

A combination of abnormally high spring tides and inadequate river defences left residents in several communities in Regions 3, 4 and 6 battling fast rising flood waters up to late last night.

Bees attacked and killed a farmer yesterday in an area aback of Liverpool Village on the Corentyne as he was returning home from tending to his rice field.

Two persons are currently in police custody in connection with the murder of Kaikan Street resident Dexter Gaspar.

An eighteen-year-old girl was yesterday forcefully taken from her Brickdam workplace to a city hotel by the reputed wife of a man she is reportedly involved with, but quick action by co-workers and the police resulted in her rescue just over an hour later.

Traffic statistics released by police on Wednesday show that there have been 72 accidents this year which resulted in 75 deaths.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says he will swear in the new Teaching Service Commis-sion (TSC) shortly since Opposition Leader Robert Corbin had recently submitted his nominee.

A father of six in Essequibo who had two grammes of cannabis in his possession was yesterday fined $3,000 together with six months community service when he appeared before new acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is urging members of it labour force to “seek clarification on issues of concern before resorting to strike action”.

Yesterday when Mayor and City Council (M&CC) officials attempted to demolish squatters’ shacks along the outfall channel on Front Road, West Ruimveldt it sparked outrage among the residents who took to the streets in objection.

A field day and exchange visit which saw rice farmers from Regions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 interacting and sharing best practices, was held on Wednesday at Johanna Cecilia, Essequibo Coast.

The Guyana Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-I-Islam extends Eid Mubarak greetings to Muslims at the close of Ramadhan.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) extends Eid Mubarak greetings to Muslims as they end the month of Ramadan and urges them to achieve a higher level of spirituality.

Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali is urging allottees to start building at the recently developed Block MH Scheme at Anna Catherina so that the ministry can start infrastructure works.

A man accused of stealing one gold magic mat (used for trapping gold) and a quantity of raw gold from his employer was on Wednesday placed on $150,000 bail when he appeared before new acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh is calling on parents, teachers and other stakeholders to support the ministry’s efforts towards achieving national literacy.

`I don’t want to comment on the issue because I only took over the presidency about a year ago, so I can’t say anything’ President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Colin Boyce says he was not immediately aware that Marian Burnett was ill following her participation at the Central American and the Caribbean (CAC) Games, where she represented Guyana in the 800m and the 1500m.

Dear Editor, As an ex-hinterland student who benefited immensely from being able to further my studies at a secondary institution in Georgetown, via a hinterland scholarship, I would like to offer congratulations to the government for providing a state-of-the-art dormitory for the hinterland scholarship students.

Dear Editor, Crime-fighting in any country needs vehicles, boats, air transportation, communications equipment, dedicated men and women, and financial resources, among other things.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz  has been summoned for questioning by Scotland Yard on Sept.

-players now more determined to conquer handicaps – Daly-Ramdyhan Fresh off a circuit of three regional tournaments in August, the nine national junior tennis players who participated in tournaments in St Lucia, Barbados and Curacao have already begun to show improvement in their game, coach Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan said.

Dear Editor, Please accept WPA’s sincere thanks for publishing our press release as part of the report captioned ‘Victim in Lall accident fears being harmed – WPA slam police handling of matter’ in today’s (Thursday, September 9) issue of Stabroek News.

-as miners cash in on high prices Investors in Guyana’s gold industry would do well to take a step back from the prevailing mining frenzy to take a look at informed international assessments of the behaviour of gold prices in the period ahead.

-standards consultant Higher standards of packaging and labeling can significantly increase the volume of Guyana’s agro-processed and fresh foods to developed countries, according to Food Processing Engineer and Quality Management Specialist Ronald Noble.

It was certainly a night of blowouts on Wednesday at the Burnham Basketball Court when Courts Pacesetters and Ravens Basketball Clubs displayed their top rank billing in Georgetown by utterly mauling their opponents by margins of 30 points and more.

Dear Editor, For the MMA/ADA to do the NDC works in Region Five they need money.

Dear Editor, At this final stage of decision-making in the selection of a presidential candidate the members of the Central Committee of the PPP should remind themselves that the qualities of a good political leader include integrity, credibility, conviction, competency, responsibility, accountability, and trustworthiness.

TORONTO, Canada, CMC – Jason Holder enhanced his reputation with a miserly spell of fast-medium bowling, but the West Indies High Performance Centre were set-back on their tour of Canada, when the hosts beat them by three wickets yesterday.

John Neville Singh, who has been an accountant and solicitor in England for a number of years and a former magistrate in Belize, was last Monday admitted to the local bar by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang.

 LUCAS STOCK INDEX In week five of August 2010, the Lucas Stock Index declined by 2.87 percent to end the month at 111.86. 

A Linden boxing coach has turned his love of the sport into opportunities for several boxers from his community to gain international recognition through participation in overseas contests.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran will soon release Sarah Shourd, one of three detained American citizens accused of espionage, an Iranian official at the United Nations told Reuters yesterday.

Dear Editor, Twenty computers were given to the village of Buxton by President Jagdeo this week at a follow-up visit to the community.

Book rush: Persons who turned up yesterday to benefit from free books being given away at Food for the Poor’s bond in Lombard Street were met with a locked gate and a sign on the guard’s hut that read “Notice: No Distribution of Books”.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A masterclass performance by  forward Kevin Durant steered the United States into the world championship semi-finals with an 89-79 victory over Russia yesterday.  

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Celebrity developer Donald Trump tried to end a heated US debate over plans for a Muslim center near New York’s World Trade Center site yesterday by offering to buy the building earmarked for the project.

Dear Editor,  Twenty-five years after the death of Forbes Burnham I am very much surprised that Guyanese are still unable to put his contributions to Guyana into an honest historical context – ‘honest’ being the operational word. 

EMPRETEC (Guyana) has again been making its presence felt in providing training for Guyanese women involved in small entrepreneurial enterprises, this time, through its Venture Out programme.

GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – A Christian pastor said yesterday he was cancelling a plan to burn the Koran, which had drawn international condemnation and a warning from President Barack Obama that it could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings.

Dear Editor, I purchased a Toyota Raum last year. It is a PMM series with a tint, not very dark, on the back-door windows and the back windscreen.

Former South Africa cricket captain Clive Rice has called on investigators to re-examine the deaths of former Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer and former South Africa captain Hansie Cronje in the wake of the latest Pakistan betting scandal in England.

-2010 first crop exports earn US$68.5M Guyana’s rice industry may be set to surpass sugar as the country’s principal money earner from agriculture, according to a recent review of the sector’s performance done by the Ministry of Agriculture.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Forty-five Colombian police, soldiers and guerrilla fighters have been killed over the past week as leftist rebels launch attacks meant to show they are still a threat after an eight-year US-backed security push.

Guyanese entrepreneurs have been invited to take advantage of a major opportunity to broaden their base of international business contacts at the XIV International Meeting of Entrepreneurs, scheduled for Rio de Janeiro in November.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Four Chilean opposition lawmakers yesterday joined a hunger strike by indigenous Mapuche inmates protesting “terror” charges, increasing pressure on the government to talk to the prisoners.

KRALENDIJK (Reuters) – Shipping will remain halted at least until the weekend at a 12-million-barrel oil storage terminal on the tiny and pristine Caribbean island of Bonaire as a fire raged in a naphtha tank, a senior official said.

Popular boxing promoter and broadcaster Carwyn Holland yesterday received some financial support for his international boxing broadcast stint in the USA from close friends and businesses.

Dear Editor, It is only a few weeks ago that President Jagdeo entered Buxton with his promises of redevelopment for the village.

The Dynamos Tennis Club, based at the Le Meridien, Pegasus Hotel, will host the Popeye’s Novices/Intermediate Lawn Tennis Tournament this weekend.

– Retaliation? Responsibility? Readers, citizens will be aware of numerous charges and allegations of favouritism and outright, studied, discrimination by this government, its agencies and its officials with decision- making authority.

Unquestionably, GuyExpo usually generates a considerable measure of public interest. Most of the major local private sector enterprises display their goods and services, there is some measure of participation by regional and international exhibitors and buyers in the event, it is usually opened with much fanfare by the President and crowds, large crowds of people make the journey to Sophia every day – mostly in the evenings – to witness and be part of the spectacle.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 372’s trading results showed consideration of $721,399 from 20,900 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 371 which showed consideration of $26,784,580 from 1,739,858 shares traded in 14 transactions. 

 Divergent Caricom views Two former St Lucia Prime Ministers have been giving their views on the choice of a new secretary general of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).

The Airtel Champions League Twenty20 begins today in South Africa and all Guyanese will want our T20 team, the underdogs of the tournament, to do us proud.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The US Food and Drug Administration sent warnings to five makers of electronic cigarettes for marketing them illegally as stop-smoking aids and said yesterday it intends to regulate the products as drugs.

Dear Editor, I am in writing in response to Mr Hamilton Green’s defence of Forbes Burnham’s policy of banning the consumption of wheat (and other essential foreign imports) so as to promote the use of local products (‘Had the project to produce rice flour not been suffocated, we would have been proudly eating bread, pastries from local grain,’ SN, August 23). 

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Mikhail Youzhny of Russia wore down marathon man Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland in five  sets yesterday and advanced to the U.S.