Daily Archive: Sunday, October 17, 2010

Several dozen persons were this evening undergoing treatment for suspected food poisoning at hospitals in Berbice and Georgetown after eating food served at a retreat coordinated by the ‘B’ Division Community Policing Group in the Ancient County.

A prominent Belizean lawyer, who was trained in Guyana, and his wife were murdered early this morning in Belize as they were about to enter their home.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation this afternoon said it was “extremely alarmed” at a threat made in the name of an official of the sugar union, GAWU for workers to go on an industry-wide strike from tomorrow.

Police on the Essequibo Coast are investigating the murder of a 40-year-old woman who was found in a pool of blood.

A 21-year-old woman was this morning treated at the Diamond Health Centre for a graze from a bullet during a robbery at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara.

Police today said that two UK-based brothers were last evening robbed of jewellery and cellular phones at Creen Street, North Cummingsburg.

The third suspect in last Friday’s robbery at Port Kaituma during which millions were stolen, a pregnant woman brutalized and a policeman shot, was this morning apprehended while sitting on a swing in the compound of a hotel.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Golding’s agreement to a commission of enquiry into the Christopher “Dudus” Coke/Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair signals an imminent change of leadership, political commentators say.

(Barbados Nation) The die appears cast on Mia Mottley’s leadership of the Barbados Labour Party [BLP].

The three high-profile bids for the PNCR’s presidential candidacy are being seen as an opportunity to resuscitate the party, which has been grappling with internal divisions and a loss of support.

The police practice of issuing wanted bulletins for persons they want for questioning, but against whom no allegation has been made, has been described by lawyers as illegal, a form of “character assassination” and an abuse of the process that should be stopped.

-some businesses thriving, many lots empty The Coldingen Industrial Estate on the East Coast Demerara is limping along more than a dozen years after being opened and having never truly achieved its intended objective as a bustling business hub.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – West Indies produced two clinical back-to-back performances to capture the ICC Women’s Twenty20 Challenge title here yesterday.

A Route 47 minibus accident left several persons with minor injuries, including a seven-month-old baby boy, after a car on a test drive collided with it at Smyth and Princes streets yesterday.

– honoured for advancing gender issues Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand last week explored the possibility of creating advanced training programmes for social services workers in Guyana while on a visit to Lesley University and the Margaret Clemons Foundation, during which she was honoured for her work on gender issues.

Ron Motilall is the new junior chess champion of Guyana. Motilall yesterday dethroned defending champion Cecil Cox (junior) in a three-game, tie-break set of matches where he had the advantage of playing with the white pieces twice.

Months have turned into years and the government is yet to reveal the audited accounts for the expenditure associated with the 2005 Flood, the 2007 World Cup and the Carifesta X festivities held here, despite repeatedly promising to do so.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia coach Tim Nielsen  has backed Ricky Ponting amid calls for the Tasmanian to  relinquish the test captaincy ahead of the Ashes starting next  month.

Introduction The deadline for submission of tenders for the purchase of the government’s 20 per cent stake in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) company is fast approaching.

(BBC) Two Fifa officials have offered to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup, according to a Sunday Times report.

Where was the real El Dorado? El Dorado has been associated with our Guyana for so long, that we tend to think that the myth originated here.

HAMBURG, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Vitali Klitschko  retained his WBC world heavyweight title by beating American  Shannon Briggs on points yesterday.

One of the stranger aspects of the Caribbean is the disjunction between the many reports and studies produced by academic or multilateral institutions and the thinking of those intimately involved in the industries concerned.

A lot has been written in recent days about the well-deserved Nobel prize for Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.

National champion Sudesh Fitzgerald last Sunday defeated Anil Latchman 2-0 in the final of the Open Singles darts tournament held at Granny’s Hangout Bar at Better Hope.

Persons found selling alcohol to minors and those who are caught allowing them to be on licensed premises where alcohol is sold will now face stiffer fines, after the passage of the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing (Amendment) Bill 2010 by the National Assembly on Thursday.

Malteenoes were 106-4 in reply to Everest Cricket Club’s first innings score of 161 all out at the close of the first day’s play of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s two-day first division Heroes Cup competition at the Guyana Defence Force ground Camp Ayanganna.

By what values should we strive to live in order to achieve a community in which differences are accommodated, a community where there is diversity of discourse but a recognition of the common good regardless of politics, religion, race and personal beliefs?

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Powerhouses Jamaica were staring at a possible early exit from the WICB Regional One-Day Championship after rain forced a no-result in their second Group A game against Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

The senior mechanic who is among the four persons being investigated for negligence in the damage of the boiler system at Barama Company Ltd’s Land of Canaan factory, still fears he will lose his severance, while the company says its too early to say.

“Wife of murdered Mercy Wings guard struggles to make ends meet” (SN, October 10). 

Top junior tennis players Shawna Gentle and Gavin Lewis secured easy wins when  the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) Nigel’s Supermarket Junior Classic Tennis Tournament began yesterday at the tennis courts of the Pegasus Hotel and the National Park.

Eric Sankar has been putting out top performances at recent cycle race meets and he recorded another victory yesterday in the feature event of the 8th Annual Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company Limited 11-Race Cycle Programme around the inner circuit of the National Park.

Introduction The recent rebasing of Guyana’s National Accounts series from 1988 prices to 2006 prices has created three major areas of difficulty for a comprehensive evaluation of Guyana’s macroeconomic performance during the 1990s and 2000s.

-makes donations to GTU, GTTA Giftland OfficeMax is fast becoming a household name when it comes to supporting local sports.

PARIS (Reuters) – A million or more people marched in cities across France yesterday in the latest protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s flagship pension reform, and refinery strikes squeezed fuel at airports.

TRELAWNY, Jamaica, CMC – Darren Sammy produced an incisive spell and Johnson Charles stroked a pivotal half-century as Windward Islands cruised into the semi-finals of the WICB Regional One-Day Championship with a three-wicket win over Combined Campuses and Colleges yesterday.

When there is a lot of dry weather around one’s thoughts should go to conserving moisture in the ground, and here the application of rather heavy mulches is the order of the day for really precious plants.

A Canadian firm ‘Jensen Strauss Boxing Limitee’ has came on board with Holland Entertainment Promotions to sponsor the fight between Canadian Richard Reittie and Guyana’s Mark Murray at the upcoming Caribbean Fury 2 boxing card set for November 6 at the Princess Hotel.

COPIAPO, Chile  (Reuters) – Chile’s 33 freed miners kept largely silent yesterday about the 69 days they spent trapped deep inside a copper and gold mine, as speculation grew they planned to save their stories for a book.

POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed,“ Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterrday, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarising her conservative camp.

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to the editorial in SN on Thursday, October 14, 2010.

Continued from last week (2) For the purpose of subsection (1) – (a) the accused looks after persons under eighteen years of age if the accused is regularly involved in caring for, training, supervising or being in sole charge of such persons; (b) the accused looks after the complainant on an individual basis if- (i) the accused is regularly involved in caring for, training or supervising the complainant; and (ii) in the course of the involvement, the accused regularly has unsupervised contract with the complainant (whether face to face or by any other means) 20.

Following his dominance in the 200m finals on Thursday, Carl Lewis came back on Friday to take the boys under-20 100m final on Day Two of the track events of the East Georgetown District Champion of Ch ampions meet at GCC ground, Bourda.

The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) will host its fifth annual Federation International Nation Association (FINA) officials clinic from October 21-25 at Olympic House, High Street.

Dear Editor, It is heartening to see that even with all the PNCR’s internal problems and despite its distorted political and public image, a few of the party’s leaders are making valiant attempts at contesting the post of presidential candidate. 

By Akima McPherson Stemming from Nochlin’s article, themed exhibitions showing work of previously neg-lected groups within the art community became staple: Black American artists, His-panic American artists, Native American artists, etc, and numerous books were written dedicated to the re-inclusion of women in the Western art narrative. 

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Protesters took to the streets in several Chinese cities to vent their anger against Japan yesterday, and thousands marched in Tokyo in the second anti-China rally this month following a row over disputed islands.

It is quite amazing how we humans like to ‘cure’ ourselves and our loved ones.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – World number three Roger  Federer beat Novak Djokovic 7-5 6-4 yesterday to set up a mouthwatering Shanghai Masters final against a resurgent Andy Murray today.

Dear Editor, In a Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) statement released to the media and reported by SN on October 12 on the Hope Canal project, the association has compellingly argued that the Government of Guyana (GoG) should not pursue construction of the Hope Canal until flood mitigation strategies have been developed.

QUITO (Reuters) – Two of four men trapped in an Ecuadorean mine cave-in were found dead yesterday in the latest accident to hit the industry in Latin America.

The Topco Juices National Qualification Chess Tourna-ment for entry into the National Championship begins today at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club in Hadfield Street.

LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambian police yesterday questioned two Chinese managers over the shooting and wounding of 11 miners protesting over pay and conditions, an official said.

Dear  Editor, I have observed for some time now and moreso recently the somewhat frequent showing of movies and video musicals with foul words on NCN Linden, at hours when I think they ought not to be presented for all sundry to consume.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tagging Jamaicans as “ingenious advanced thinkers,” Chilean Ambassador Alfredo García said Jamaica’s gesture to host the 33 miners who were trapped, their spouses, and rescue workers for a vacation here is fantastic.

Officials of the Lusignan Golf Club have extended an invitation to golfers from neighbouring Suriname and French Guiana to compete in next month’s Guyana Open Championships.

MINSK  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez agreed yesterday to supply the former Soviet republic of Belarus with 30 million tonnes of oil over three years from 2011 in a deal worth as much as $19.4 billion.

It is not often that the Guyana Police Force is commended for doing the right thing, but late on Friday it did just that by apologizing to a victim of unlawful acts on the part of its officers.

Lucky escape: A woman escaped serious injury after she was hit and dragged by a car on Albert Street between Third and Fourth streets, just before eight o’clock last night.

SAN DIEGO (Reuters Life!) – Back in July, Bruce Willis made his first visit to Comic-Con, in part, to promote his new movie RED, which is based on the graphic novels about a reassembled task force on the trail of modern-day killers.

Dear Editor, I refer to your article:  ‘Accused snatcher says has dogs to feed and shouldn’t be remanded’ dated October14, 2010. 

(Trinidad Express) British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague have given Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar a commitment to revisit the issue of the level of Air Passenger Duty (APD) imposed on tourists travelling to the Caribbean by the former Gordon Brown administration.

Former national opening batsman Krishna Arjune made a welcome return to form slamming a century as the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) reached 319 – 6 declared on the first day of their two-day Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) First Division Heroes Cup competition at the Eve Leary ground yesterday.