Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 20, 2010

West Indies cricket coach Ottis Gibson says that leaving out Ramnaresh Sarwan from the team for the upcoming series with Sri Lanka was a tough decision.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation this afternoon said that it  continues to be affected by strike action by harvesters attached to the estates of Rose Hall and LBI.

The Guyana Revenue Authority is urging members of the public, particularly non-residents who are interested in exporting goods as part of their luggage that a VAT-refund must be supported by documentary evidence.

A male passenger who was on board  a Delta Airlines flight bound for  New York on Tuesday passed away shortly after the aircraft was diverted to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Ministry of Public Works recently awarded three contracts for the installation of street lights along the Corentyne Highway, Region Six and the contractor is mobilizing for the work.

Amid concerns about moves on its independent functioning, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has taken the decision to write the Office of the President (OP) to determine whether a recent directive on advertising will affect the civic and voter education plans for next year’s general election.

A woman in protest at her daughter being  remanded to prison on an armed robbery charge yesterday sat in the middle of the road in front of the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, obstructing the smooth flow of traffic.

Moments after inflicting a beating on his reputed wife, the 45-year-old caretaker of the Sundarban Cattle Ranch at Georgia Pasture, Cane Grove, Mahaica drowned after the tractor he was driving toppled into a trench.

Leroy Cornelius, the 20-year-old man found dead from a gunshot wound at Moblissa, had been heard drinking and planning with friends to `finish’ 57-year-old Zeerapen John who was able to fire the fatal shot at Cornelius during the eventual attack.

-fans  express disappointment at omission of Sarwan From patrons of bars to members of boards, all yesterday said they felt disappointed by the omission of Guyana’s middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan from the West Indies team to tour  Sri Lanka next month.

Over the years the innocent have had to pay for the guilty because of a few selfish sportspersons who have seen it fit to abscond when they are provided with visas to travel to or through the United States of America.

-cooks released Five of the persons affected by food poisoning after having lunch at the ‘B’ Division Community Policing Group retreat on Sunday returned to the Fort Wellington Hospital (FWH) yesterday; three were admitted for further treatment.

The Government of Canada through CIDA is supporting the efforts of the Canadian Red Cross to assist Caribbean countries and local communities to better prepare for natural disasters.

A 32-year-old policeman will appear in court later this week over allegations that he raped a girl under the age of sixteen on October 5.

A 10-year-old girl of a Berbice village is now in hospital after she was raped on Monday afternoon while returning home from school and police are hunting for her attacker.

-link between wage hike, production target seen as flashpoint Most of the striking sugar workers who downed tools on Monday over wages and salaries resumed work yesterday even as the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) presses for continued negotiations with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

-accused re-arrested Justice William Ramlal yesterday quashed the indictment against a man who was accused of murdering a woman outside a city nightclub in December 2005.

Efforts are underway to establish a local chapter of the anti-corruption advocacy organisation Transparency International (TI) as a way to get the government to be more accountable to the people.

More than two months after a 14-year-old girl died while being treated at the Skeldon Hospital, her father is still desperately trying to seek justice as he does not want her death to go in vain.

-as part of gov’t move to boost production The Ministry of Agriculture is engaged in a $25M initiative to rehabilitate the main access road to St Cuthbert’s Mission from the Linden highway as it takes steps to boost production in the area.

Every day at 11 am, 75-year-old Elain Jones leaves her Lot 23 Bagotville home and cycles across the Demerara Harbour Bridge to Ruimveldt where she buys 100lbs of ice before proceeding to Alexander Street where she sells drinks to earn an income for herself.

-urges customers with arrears to clear their debts The Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) says only customers who have cleared outstanding arrears will be able to benefit from service from its new distribution main at Melanie Damishana.

Government officially handed over the final tranche of the distribution of food supplies to North Pakaraimas communities to the village toshaos after providing supplies valued $18M to communities affected by La Nina.

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chile’s 33 miners had  given up hope of being found alive and were prepared to die  slowly of hunger but stopped short of taking their own lives in  the days before they were found alive, one of the miners told  Reuters.

Hundreds of backpacks with school supplies for Haiti’s children were dropped off at the OAS headquarters over the weekend, in response to Assistant Secretary-General Albert Ramdin’s ‘Backpacks for Haiti’s Children’ donor drive.

-want abattoir in area Livestock farmers in West Berbice have complained bitterly about losing their stocks to rustlers and have called for the establishment of an abattoir so animals can be properly examined before slaughtering.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – China has tried to  suppress a U.N.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Leeward Islands sneaked into the semi-finals of the WICB One-Day Championship yesterday, after beating Guyana by 13 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis Method, in a rain-affected affair at Sabina Park.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A Saudi prince was found guilty  yesterday of murdering his servant in their room at a luxury  London hotel in a ferocious beating that prosecutors said had a  sexual element.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington is advocating that Caribbean governments resolve to strengthen the capacity of their central statistical offices and the statistics departments of other ministries and agencies.

A mother of five accused of converting a sum of money entrusted to her own use was on Friday placed on bail in the sum of $75,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The number of Internet users will  surpass two billion this year, approaching a third of the world  population, but developing countries need to step up access to  the vital tool for economic growth, a United Nations agency said  yesterday.

– Commonwealth Games cyclists feel preparation was insufficient Two of the three local cyclists who represented Guyana at the recent Commonwealth Games in India  emphasized yesterday that more needs to be done in terms of preparing national cyclists for international events.

– Junior Jewelry and 2Js hop on board The official dates for the first round of match in the fourth annual Fruta Conquerors organized Namilco Football Festival has been  released and the tournament commences on Saturday at the Tucville Playfield with a double header.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Scholars and anyone with an  Internet connection will be able to take a new look into the  Biblical past through an online archive of high-resolution  images of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls.

Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies team manager Omar Khan has lashed out at regional selectors over their axing of wicketkeeper .

PARIS, (Reuters) – Striking public sector workers  disrupted travel across France yesterday and sporadic violence  flared at protest marches as opponents of President Nicolas  Sarkozy’s pension reform made a last-ditch attempt to stop it.

A man who admitted  stealing a quantity of windows from the Guyana Police Force mess was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A contractor who is accused of using an ice-pick to rob another man of articles to the value of $241,000 was yesterday placed on  $200,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

ILO, Peru, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo  Morales said a deal signed with neighbouring Peru yesterday  over access to the Pacific Ocean could pave the way for his  poor, landlocked nation to build a port on the Peruvian coast.

Another double header is carded for the Lusignan Golf Club as players continue their rivalry in the Sanjay’s Jewellery and Citizens Bank Players Championship this weekend.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez’s plans for a Russian-built nuclear power plant are  unsettling his foes, but look more like geopolitical  grandstanding than anything concrete at this stage.

CASTELLON, Spain, (Reuters) – Sergio Garcia,  refreshed and bursting with energy after a self-imposed absence  of more than two months, is targeting golf’s world number one  ranking.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki yesterday suspended Higher Education Minister William Ruto after  high court judges ruled Ruto should stand trial over corruption  allegations, the president’s press service (PPS) said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. trade officials said yesterday they were checking on a New York Times report China had  blocked shipments to the United States and Europe of crucial  manufacturing minerals known as rare earths.

Richard Ishmael’s Keon Morris and Andrew Chung Joseph helped their school to a comfortable nine-wicket win over Queen’s College in the Ministry of Education/Guyana Cricket Board/National Sports Commission/Guyana Teachers’ Union 40-over tournament at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department  said yesterday that it was designating a former Colombian  official as a specially designated narcotics trafficker and  forbidding U.S.

(Cricinfo) Ricky Ponting has questioned whether England have the batting strength necessary to retain the Ashes by winning in Australia, a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since Mike Gatting’s team did so in 1986-87.

Dear Editor, This is a response to Clement Rohee (‘It is hypocritical of the WPA and PNC to harp on the threadworn issue of phantom groups…’ SN, October 9).

Dear Editor, From our perspective as Guyanese nationals in the United States, it seems that the PPP is intent on resurrecting the past rather than focusing on the present.

TRELAWNY, Jamaica,  CMC – Rain wreaked havoc on Barbados’ final game in the WICB One-Day Championship, forcing their contest with the High Performance Centre to finish in a no-result yesterday.

Dear Editor, As the next general elections loom, many politicians and others are scrambling to reach the height of power in this country: the presidency.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile defender Roberto Cereceda has been suspended after testing positive for cocaine and an appeal been put in motion, his club Colo Colo said yesterday.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Wayne Rooney has told Manchester United he wants to quit the club, leaving manager Alex Ferguson “shocked and bemused” and paving the way for a bidding war to start for the England striker.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force has within its ranks, at all levels, some of the finest persons, who display the highest professionalism, decency and moral rectitude – men and women we can be proud of. 

NEW YORK,  (Reuters Life!) – Clint Eastwood wrestles  with mortality in his latest directorial effort, “Hereafter,”  but the Hollywood legend is hardly sentimental about the  possibility of an afterlife at the age of 80.

(Trinidad Guardian) Regis-tration of births, which took as much as one year in the past, will now be done within seven working days with the introduction of the electronic birth registration system.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – British singer Elton John  described today’s songwriters as “pretty awful”, pop music as  uninspiring and reality television talent shows like “American  Idol” as boring in an interview published on Tuesday.

By  Joschka Fischer YALTA – Given its rapid and successful development, there can be no doubt that the People’s Republic of China will become one of the dominant global powers of the twenty-first century.

Dear Editor, Here we have it on our hands once more: the (apparently preventable) death of my UG classmate, Esther Dwarka-Bowlin, an educator, an academic, a head teacher, a student, who, in just over two years would have graduated with her Bachelor’s Degree in Education, and who would have been added to the hundreds of skilled and qualified teachers in this great land of ours.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Embattled Australian captain Ricky Ponting is the right man to regain the Ashes from England, according to former leg-spinner Shane Warne.

(Trinidad Guardian) A female student from Matelot died after she was reportedly stabbed by another female student on Monday, according to information released by the Ministry of Education.

* New emerging powers reshaping strategic landscape * Currency, commodity rivalries pose new dangers * Cyber warfare, espionage new fields of battle * Smaller frontier economies could be the winnersBy Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON, (Reuters) – From currency battles to  computerised corporate espionage, fractious international  conferences to a new scramble for Africa, “great power politics”  is back on the map.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – West Indies Test legend Brian Lara, South African golfer Ernie Els and Bermuda’s Premier Ewart Brown took time out to enjoy an impromptu game of cricket on Port Royal’s signature 16th hole during Monday’s PGA Grand Slam of Golf pro-am tournament.

(Trinidad Guardian) A row over copper wire ended in death on Monday, when a teenager shot a Fyzabad mason once in the chest, puncturing his heart.

Some observers of the United States’engagement in Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, may have been inclined to see then candidate Obama’s election campaign giving withdrawal from Iraq priority, as akin to the advice alleged to have been given to an American President during the Vietnam war: that he should simply declare victory and withdraw his troops and the American presence from the country.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Michelle Williams will  play Marilyn Monroe in a new movie based around the iconic  actress’s 1956 film shoot in London opposite Sir Laurence  Olivier, producers said on Friday.

Dear Editor, We the undersigned are residents of upper Bourda bounded by Regent Street (south), New Garden Street (east), Robb Street (north) and Oronoque Street (west).