Daily Archive: Monday, October 11, 2010

Even as Cabinet has given the green light for $64m in revetment works to be undertaken in the vicinity of the Craig, East Bank Demerea foreshore, experts predict that river flooding there may be far from being solved.

A 22-year-old pregnant Guya-nese woman was found burnt to death in her car in Queens, New York on Saturday.

-Guyana finishes second Jamaica’s Reggae Boys junior squad continued their terrific run to win Group C of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) under-20 World Cup qualifiers and advance to the CONCACAF qualifiers when they defeated host, Guyana at the Guyana National Stadium last night.

—- Force game three in Open division Saturday night’s games in the finals of the Pepsi Street Playoff Series undoubtedly belonged to the Ravens Basketball club as they won the Division Three finals and later forced a game three in the series’ Open division.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – Feeble batting condemned West Indies to their first defeat in the ICC Women’s World Challenge yesterday, when South Africa completed a six-wicket victory.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Brazil hammered Cuba 3-0 to secure  their third straight world men’s volleyball championship yesterday after a highly successful tournament in Italy.

The Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) lifted the Haier Cup 40-over second division title yesterday after they defeated the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) by 66 runs at the DCC ground.

-‘immeasurable’ support helped Guyana’s Commonwealth Games (CWG) female 400m bronze medallist, Aliann Pompey says that it was the large throng of supporters that impelled her towards her praiseworthy performance last Friday in what was likely her swansong at the Games.

`My life is an open book. I don’t do crime, I don’t do drugs.

With a time of two hours and 10 minutes Wazim Hasmoo rode away with the first place in the 50-mile Mr and Mrs Ramsarran Singh Memorial Cycle Road Race that was held last week Sunday in Berbice.

Lawyers for some of the six men released on Saturday after turning themselves in to police, who had issued wanted bulletins for them, yesterday said that their clients are giving the lawmen an opportunity to conduct their investigations before saying anything publicly.

As Hugh McPherson made his way from a Mahdia night club for his lodging in the area he was fatally stabbed in the back by an attacker, the latest in a series of deadly incidents in the area.

Guyana’s Rugby Sevens team will have a packed day of competition today against some of the sport’s superpowers in the XIX Commonwealth Games at the Delhi University in India.

Director of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA) Ann Greene, whose officers were aware that Neesa Gopaul was being abused before she was murdered, said that the buck stops with her and she is awaiting the completion of the investigation.

KIMBERLEY, South Africa, (Reuters) – JP Duminy  smashed a South African record score of 96 not out to lead the  home side to an eight-run victory over Zimbabwe in a Twenty20  International yesterday.

Dear Editor, When I first started working in Georgetown in the ’70s, the road from Punt Trench Dam to Broad Street was a two-way road.

(Trinidad Express) In what appears to be a rap on the knuckles of the Works Minister, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced on Saturday night that the TT$47 million contract awarded by the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AATT) to Harry Persad and Sons for the upgrade of lighting at Piarco would be reviewed for the purpose of having it struck out.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – India’s Sachin Tendulkar  passed another major milestone but a dogged century from  Australian Marcus North put the touring side in control of the  second test yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan on Saturday ordered that United National Congress (UNC) financiers Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson be extradited to the United States, Florida to face bid rigging and corruption charges related to the $1.6 billion Piarco Airport Development Project.

Dear Editor, Evelyn Rayman, a distinguished Guyanese who was active in public life in Guyana in the 1960s has died and was cremated in Toronto, Canada on Thursday 7th October after a well attended funeral service.

-bandits, cops trade fire After being shot by bandits during a robbery at their Cornelia Ida home on Thursday night Bridgemohan Kemlall was yesterday in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Government has installed Closed Circuit TV systems at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) and the new system  which was installed two weeks ago will be linked to the police by today.

Dear Editor, Guyana has become an unusually and morbidly violent place. 

SUZUKA, Japan, (Reuters) – Sebastian Vettel roared  to a Japanese Grand Prix victory yesterday that he hoped would  be ominous for his rivals and auspicious for his Formula One  championship hopes.

Recently I spent two days in Florida, two days in New Jersey and five days in Maine, mostly just travelling about, noticing Uncle Sam’s ways, reflecting on back home ways, eating some good food, checking out the fall colours in the leaves – in other words, essentially down time.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo  Chavez nationalized a large U.S.

(Reuters) – A list of the leading runscorers in test  match cricket after India’s Sachin Tendulkar became the first  player to pass 14,000 runs on the second day of the second test  against Australia yesterday:Player                                          Country                      Span                      Runs 1.

BELGRADE,  (Reuters) – A gay rights parade in Belgrade  erupted in violence yesterday as thousands of police deployed to  protect marchers clashed with anti-gay protesters, who rioted  and attacked the headquarters of the ruling parties.

Dear Editor, My challenge to Mr Dev was a not denial of what I had really said.

The national schools athletics championship is scheduled for November 9 -12.

A 39-year-old mother of two died when the car she was travelling in collided with a heap of sand on the No.

Dear Editor, This is senior citizens’ month so may I take this opportunity to wish my fellow senior citizens a happy and blessed occasion.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The franchise contracts of  the Indian Premier League’s Punjab and Jaipur teams have been  terminated, India’s cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Workers raced to build an  emergency dam in western Hungary yesterday as cracks in a  reservoir widened, threatening to unleash a second torrent of  toxic sludge on the village of Kolontar and nearby rivers.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column We are facing an epidemic of violence against women and children.

Workers attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s Skeldon factory have qualified for an extra day’s pay after the factory achieved its weekly production target for the second consecutive week.

ST ANDREWS, Scotland,  (Reuters) – Lee Westwood missed  the chance to replace Tiger Woods as world number one as  Germany’s Martin Kaymer came through to win the Dunhill Links  Championship yesterday.

Various issues affecting the non-traditional agricultural sector were raised on Friday when officials of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) met with the Guyana Non-Traditional Exporters Association and relevant stakeholders.

Dear Editor, We of the Clerical & Commercial Workers’ Union commend the Govern-ment of Guyana and congratulate Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy for his leadership in the health sector and urge him to continue Guyana’s efforts in support of universal access.

PYONGYANG, (Reuters) – North Korea’s  leader-in-waiting, the youngest son of ailing ruler Kim Jong-il,  took centre stage during a big military parade yesterday, making  his first national appearance in the secretive state.

President Jagdeo’s dire warning to Corentyne residents last week that if the ambitious Skeldon factory failed that sugar was dead must have come as something of a shock to the residents of the area.