Daily Archive: Friday, October 15, 2010

The police this evening announced that they had apologized to Michelle Baldeo, the owner of a building at Farm, East Bank Demerara that they had searched and ransacked on Monday while she was not at home.

Police ranks searching for bandits who committed a daring multi-million dollar robbery on a gold buyer at Port Kaituma, North West came under gunfire this afternoon resulting in detective constable Emrit Winter being wounded.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia agreed yesterday to help  build Venezuela’s first nuclear power plant, sell it tanks and  buy $1.6 billion of oil assets, reinforcing ties with President  Hugo Chavez who shares Russian opposition to US global dominance Chavez presided over the deals at a Kremlin ceremony with  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who said the two countries  shared a “strategic partnership” and a vision of a world free of  overwhelming U.S.

After originally winning the bronze, Guyana’s track and field star Aliann Pompey has been awarded the silver medal in the women’s 400 meters at the recently completed Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi, India. 

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Amid the relief and  euphoria over the rescue of Chile’s trapped miners, the grim  details of the men’s darkest days underground are coming to  light.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company today said that the outage to its Emagine Broadband system this morning was due to a problem with one of its servers.

The Government of Suriname on Tuesday invested CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington, with the Republic’s highest national award – the Grand Officer in the Order of the Yellow Star.

PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray has officially declared his interest in the presidential candidacy.

Barama Company Limited has confirmed the lay-off of  274 workers following a boiler explosion at the company’s plywood factory at Land of Canaan on the east Bank of Demerara.

–plant to close for major repairs Some 280 workers at the Land of Canaan operation of Barama Company Limited are likely to be made redundant today as the company shuts down its operation after negligence on the part of four workers resulted in the boiler being permanently damaged.

FALMOUTH, Jamaica, CMC – Darren Bravo struck the first hundred of this year’s WICB Regional One-day competition to trump a resolute innings from Floyd Reifer, and lead reigning champions Trinidad & Tobago to an eight-wicket victory yesterday.

A cannabis leaf tattoo and the name ‘Shevon’ inked on his forearm, yesterday led to the positive identification of Devon Simpson, whose decomposing body with a suspected bullet wound to the back of the head was found in a South Sophia trench on Tuesday morning.

The National Assembly unanimously passed legislation last night which allows non-capital punishment for various categories of convicted murderers, but the death penalty remains on the books.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Imran  Khan has called for an overhaul of the country’s cricket set-up  after the ICC warned the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to improve  its governance and enforce anti-corruption measures.

-OAS security expert A number of Caribbean countries which are favoured tourist destinations are now the centre of a growing sex tourism industry, an Organisation of American States security expert said yesterday, and he also  warned about concerns that the Free Movement of Skilled Nationals in Caricom could result in increased human trafficking.

The National Park circuit comes alive once again this weekend with the staging of the 8th Annual Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company Limited 11-Race Cycle Programme tomorrow.

The fourth edition of the annual Fruta Conquerors organized Namilco Knockout Football Festival was officially launched in the boardroom of the National Milling Company and kicks off on Saturday, October 23 at the Tucville Playfield.

The first tranche of the US$6.7 million grant signed between Japan and Guyana in 2007 for the rehabilitation of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) could possibly be released early next year, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said yesterday.

Guyana ended the XIX Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India,  with one medal and on another disappointing  note after cyclist Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams finished 33rd in the Men’s Individual Time Trials yesterday on the Noida Expressway.

The Office of the President (OP) has directed the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) to submit its advertisements and notices for publication through the new government procurement website.

Heats for the 100m and 200m races were a major part of day one at the East Georgetown District Champion of Champions inter-school meet yesterday at the GCC ground, Bourda, but the announcement of the boys under-20 200m as a finals sent the day’s excitement to a dazzling peak.

The World Bank approved yesterday a US$4.2 million credit to advance the quality of teacher education in Guyana.

At June this year, value-added and excise tax collections amounted to G$23.2B, an increase of 9.1% over the corresponding period last year, the government’s mid-year report says.

(Reuters) – Final medal table at the 19th Commonwealth Games, which closed in Delhi Yesterday.

FALMOUTH, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s recent fickle weather upstaged a half-century from national captain Chris Gayle and steady spin bowling from Nikita Miller and Odean Brown to hand Windward Islands a five-wicket, upset victory when this year’s WICB Regional One-day competition opened yesterday.

In a second attempt, hours after she was released from police custody, a woman reportedly managed to set her Victoria Road, Plaisance house ablaze last night before fleeing to the backlands area.

Antiguan police have charged a second man for the August 21 murder of Guyanese butcher Rondel George.

With commanding wins in the 100m and 200m events of the girls under-16 category, nationals athlete Kimberley McIntyre was the highlight of the day at the Wales Community Centre on Wednesday at one of the Inter-schools Championships of the West Demerara district.

The eighth edition of the annual All-Star Weekend was launched yesterday by the events promotion group Wildfire Entertainment (WE) at the home of WE’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jonathan Beepat in Bel Air Springs.

Dear Editor, Recently I had the opportunity to review an English university master’s thesis on ‘Study Support’ which, according to a 1989 publication of the UK Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), ‘Extending Opportunity: National Framework for Study Support,’ is “learning activity outside normal lessons which young people take part in voluntarily.”

Concerned parents have threatened to “close down” the Ann’s Grove Secondary School next week if immediate action is not taken by the relevant authorities to address the state of the school which they say is unfit for their children.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton granted $55,000 bail to a father of two accused of uttering a forged passport to an immigration officer, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters Life!) – Hosts Whoopi Goldberg  and Joy Behar walked off the set of TV’s “The View” yesterday  after a shouting match with conservative commentator Bill  O’Reilly about the planned mosque near the site of the Sept.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Unruffled composure over two  decades, in the face of the world’s most hostile attacks and the  frenzied demands of a celebrity-fixated society, confirms the  true greatness of Sachin Tendulkar.

Dear Editor, Mr Hamilton Green says that China’s Liu Xiaobo did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize (SN, October 13).

Government passed two bills last night with opposition support which remove whipping from the law books and brings an end to corporal punishment at training schools across the country.

Dear Editor, All effective managers know that in the process of commissioning a new plant or activity to replace an old but working plant or activity, the rule is never decommission the old plant/activity until the new one is operational and staffed with workers who know what they are doing.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – After enduring two stinging  test defeats in India, Ricky Ponting will return home with questions about Australia’s form and his  captaincy ringing in his ears a month before the Ashes start.

BINT JBEIL, Lebanon, (Reuters) – Iranian President  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking yesterday close to Israel’s  northern border, praised what he called Lebanon’s resistance to  the Jewish state and declared that “Zionists are mortal”.

COPIAPO, Chile,  (Reuters) – The first of Chile’s 33  rescued miners headed home yesterday to recover from their  two-month ordeal, as offers and gifts that go along with their  new celebrity status rolled in, including an invitation to  Graceland.

Dear Editor, The first shock is that a 16-year-old school girl was brutally murdered.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Exhausted world number one Rafa  Nadal suffered a surprise 6-1 3-6 6-3 defeat by Austria’s  Juergen Melzer in the third round of the Shanghai Masters yesterday, while Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray marched on.

The Ministry of Housing and Water plans to start building a concrete bridge at Canal Number One and the Parfait Harmonie Housing Scheme to replace one that has become dilapidated.

Dear Editor, After watching several hours of the rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, I have seen demonstrated and really felt what true unity means, especially in a life and death situation.

NEW DELHI, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Delhi put on a second flawless  spectacle of song and dance yesterday to close the  Commonwealth Games on a high after at one stage threatening to  become a national embarrassment to India.

Twenty-six youths graduated on Wednesday from an Information Technology (IT) programme hosted at the Port Mourant Community Centre under the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) initiative.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Paula weakened  further yesterday after blasting through the Cuban capital  with driving rains and high winds that toppled trees, flooded  streets and left large swaths of the city without power.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s floods caused an  estimated $9.7 billion in damage to the country’s  infrastructure, farms and homes, the Asian Development Bank  (ADB) and World Bank said yesterday.

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce hosted a series of tourism and hospitality training on Sunday at Rockstone, Region Ten ahead of the fifth Annual Rockstone Fish Festival.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – Stacy-Ann King’s handy all-round performance helped West Indies Women to a six-wicket victory over South Africa Women in the Twenty20 competition in the ICC Women’s World Challenge yesterday.

DAKAR (Reuters) – More than 160 Haitian students arrived in West Africa on Wednesday, taking up Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade’s offer of free education in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated their nation earlier this year.

Dear Editor, Once again CNN took centre stage as it brought to us the dramatic rescue of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in the bowels of the earth some 2000ft under for over 69 days.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia’s security services have  changed a lot since late Soviet days.

Dear Editor, I had an office at Rose Hall, Corentyne, and had to close it after a short period.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez hailed its alliance with Russia and said his country had a right to develop nuclear energy as he started a visit to Moscow yesterday.

By Marlon Munroe World-ranked Guyanese boxer Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore has won 78 percent of his fights by the TKO route and now he wants to enrich his legacy by also being a promoter.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton remanded to prison a man accused of snatching a gold chain from another, when he on Thursday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charges.

Dear Editor, China has every right to be annoyed over the Nobel Peace Prize given to the dissident Liu Xiaobo; that award was made purposely to embarrass China, I am certain the committee responsible for giving the prize was pressured by the US and other Western powers.

SINGAPORE/OSLO, (Reuters) – The U.N. panel of climate  scientists agreed yesterday to change its practices in  response to errors in a 2007 report, and its chairman, Rajendra  Pachauri of India, dismissed suggestions he should step down.

It was the ultimate reality show seen by an estimated global television audience of one billion.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton granted a man accused of armed robbery $150,000 bail when he yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charges.

Amputation recommendation for thieves St Lucians continue to expressed their anger at the shooting death of an eight year-old this week.

-85,000 Hindus, Christians for Mash 2011 Just last Friday I had opined that the typical working-class Guyanese citizen cares little about (macro) economic issues or the more sophisticated even if necessary, questions of fiscal management – or our foreign policy.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Shakib Al Hasan produced a  brilliant all-round performance in the fourth one-day  international against New Zealand yesterday to help Bangladesh  to a maiden series victory over top-flight opposition.