Articles published on Sunday, September 26, 2010
A Route 41 minibus yesterday turned turtle several times on Norton Street before landing in a drain, resulting in injuries to at least fifteen persons including the driver, who up to last evening was in a critical condition.
Channel 6 owner and Justice for All Party leader Chandra Narine Sharma suffered a heart attack yesterday afternoon and is a patient of a private city hospital, his wife Savitree Singh confirmed last evening.
The parliamentary opposition parties have intensified their call for an independent probe into the collapse of Clico (Guyana), saying that there are still many unanswered questions about what precipitated the collapse of the company.
Mayor Hamilton Green has a plan to raise some $400M to restore the historic City Hall to its pre-Independence glory and it might involve the public picking up the bill but not everyone is thrilled with the idea.
-Oscar Clarke Model legislation put forward by the Organisation of American States (OAS) on political party registration and campaign financing has received an ‘A’ for effort from regional politicians but there will be no rush to reform existing systems anytime soon.
– says Dover An upbeat Golden Jaguars, Guyana’s national football team, will look to score a victory against Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors when they square off this evening in the President’s Cup friendly international match at the National Stadium at Providence.
The Golden Jaguars team is on a mission which is not entirely impossible.
Unsurprisingly, the attention on the retainer contracts offered by West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for the coming year has focused on the few high-profile players not granted one and the two, possibly soon to be three, who have chosen to go their own way.
Walter Grant-Stuart yesterday roared to victory in the 35-lap Schoolboys and novices’ event of the Laparkan annual 11-race cycling programme held yesterday at the National Park.
Last Sunday’s column ended with a brief description of how a typical balance of payments statement for an economy like Guyana’s might be constructed.
After a year away from the fistic sport Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman returned to the ring and produced a lacklustre performance in his loss against Kwesi ‘Lightning Hitman’ Jones on Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Beverage giants Banks DIH continued its support for the President’s Cup football showdown between Guyana’s Golden Jaguars and Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors by presenting energy drinks to the national footballers.
Ewart Neil Malcolm Isaacs, AA, CPM, former Deputy Commissioner of the Guyana Police Force and a military veteran of the Second World War, died on September 13, aged 87.
Part 2 IntroductionAs I write this column from Trinidad, I notice that the news in the print media and the discussion and talk shows are about the financial implications to the country arising from the collapse of Clico.
Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) will now meet Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in the final of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Digicel Twenty20 competition after beating Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) by seven wickets at the Camp Ayanganna ground yesterday.
In Guyana education once deteriorated to the point where parents had little confidence that the formal system would or could produce results.
Will it be the General Secretary or the Speaker of the House?
The legends of local cricket must at least love the effort of the first day of the ‘Heroes Cup’ first division two-day competition yesterday at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Eve Leary grounds.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt will not apologise or pay any compensation for alleging that England players were engaged in match-fixing, an official source close to the chief said.
Continued from last week 16. (1) In lieu of giving notice of termination under section 15 (1) the employer shall pay the employee a sum equal to the remuneration and benefits due to the employee up to the expiry of any required period of notice.
KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia, CMC – Jamaica’s women beat Nigeria while Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago battled to a draw in men’s action, on the fourth day of action at the 39th World Chess Olympiad here Friday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Latin American leaders at the United Nations this week called for more coherent global policies to fight drug trafficking and increased aid to help crack down on the trade.
(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago branch of the German’s Restaurant, owned by two young Guyanese businessmen, closed its doors in St James, Port of Spain, last weekend after seven months in operation.
Police revoked the firearm licence of city businessman Shabbir Baksh and seized his gun after finding pornographic videos in the store he manages a few years ago, but he secured an order from the Full Court on Friday that called on the Assistant Commander of ‘D’ Division to show cause why the decision should not be quashed.
Succulents (which include most cacti) are always a challenge to the grower.
Part 2 By Dr Vineet Naja, MS (GSurgery); MCh(Urology) (Consulting Urologist and Andrologist) What is prostate enlargement, or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)?
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Commonwealth Games Federation chief said yesterday there was a lot of work to be done amid security concerns before India’s showcase event opens on Oct.
Dear Editor, With respect to the students’ loan applications at the University of Guyana (UG), I think it is unfair that some of the programmes were never advertised as being “cash only.”
An investor in the Umana Developments housing project says that he is being given the “royal run around,” to get back his money.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – American, Israeli and Palestinian officials were engaged in “intensive” efforts yesterday to find a compromise on a settlement moratorium whose impending expiration could doom nascent peace talks, officials said.
– when Synergy builds Amaila Falls access road Synergy Holdings Inc will be giving priority to hiring qualified local labour from “the project’s area of influence” when constructing the Amaila Falls access road, according to the recently completed Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP).
CENTURION, South Africa, CMC – Warriors of South Africa will meet Chennai Super Kings in today’s final of the Champions League Twenty20 after they marched to a convincing 30-run win over the highly-fancied South Australia Redbacks yesterday.
Personnel at the Guyana Oil Company’s (Guyoil) Bulk Terminal located in Providence, East Bank Demerara are being interviewed by police after a fraud was uncovered at that location, the Chairman of Guyoil Dr Keshav Mangal confirmed yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama hammered Republicans yesterday over their newly unveiled campaign agenda, calling the opposition party’s economic ideas “an echo of a disastrous decade we can’t afford to relive.”
Creole Gang Baling and throwing Among green canes from rusty punts, their sweated faces Show how many days and nights have passed between cane roots and black streams, sunburnt trashes and parched earth, Wearied days and restless reality.
Dear Editor, I am using this medium today to ask the Ministry of Education, especially the Assistant Chief Education Officer for Secondary Schools Ms Melcita Bovell and the Minister of Education when teachers who gave of their time, effort and labour during the past August summer vacation for six weeks in a national Maths and English remedial programme will be paid?
MADRID, (Reuters) – Jose Mourinho lamented Real Madrid’s failure to put the ball in the net as his side were held to a humbling 0-0 draw at Levante in La Liga yesterday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An auction of fine art from the Lehman Brothers collection took in $12.3 million yesterday, beating expectations but barely denting the billions owed from the financial group’s 2008 bankruptcy, the biggest in US history.
Dear Editor, According to the Guyana Chronicle, Saturday, September 25, President Jagdeo, speaking at the United Nations on Friday, said the United Nations needs to establish global accountability indicators to assess whether the implementation of policies is in accordance with the international responsibilities.
Continued What should the diet of an old dog be? Firstly, we must understand that older dogs – being less active – would need less energy-giving foods (less calories).
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sports Minister Anil Roberts has warned Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors’ head coach Russell Latapy to start producing results or face the axe.
Dear Editor, I am beginning to feel a bit for NIS Publicity and Public Relations Officer Dianne Lewis-Baxter who is having the devil’s job after being bombarded with relentless queries and complaints, and coming under constant pressure from disgruntled, frustrated and irate contributors as she tries to satisfy them and struggles to put to right a deformed, malfunctioning and derailed system.
The Department of Social Studies in The School of Education and Humanities at the University of Guyana now offers among its programmes, an Associate Degree in Tourism, a release from the university said yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A storm with high winds killed five people, including two children, as it tore through thousands of tents housing people left homeless by Haiti’s massive Jan.
This is the fourth and final article in a series of interviews with women who have been supported by the Ministry of Human Services.
On October 3, over 100m of Brazil’s 194m people will vote for a successor to that nation’s hugely popular and successful President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Dear Editor, How do we fight domestic violence successfully? How do we cut down on the incidence of suicide?
Sham Khan of Tutorial High (left) playing Adam Ramnarayn during the DDL Topco Juices Chess Tournament.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Former cabinet minister Ed Miliband pipped his brother to win the leadership of Britain’s opposition Labour Party yesterday thanks to union backing and could take the party down a more left-wing path.
LONDON (Reuters) – Unidentified attackers detonate a “dirty” bomb in the Strait of Hormuz, in minutes disrupting global trade and shipping and devastating financial markets.
Ministry of Public Works employees creating a pavement at Vlissengen Road and Thomas Lands yesterday.
The thing about Guyanese politics at the moment is that everything is in suspension.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso improved his chances of claiming a third Formula One world title by storming to pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix yesterday.
