Daily Archive: Thursday, October 21, 2010

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Leeward Islands tore up the formbooks as they upset the Windward Islands by four runs yesterday, to snatch a place in the final of the WICB One-Day Championship.

The Working People’s Alliance this evening called on “all patriotic Guyanese, opposition political parties and civil society organizations and individuals to join forces to ensure that GECOM carries out its mandate to the people without interference from the government.”

Guyana captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has pinpointed inconsistency among reasons for the national team crashing out of another West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) 50-over tournament in the preliminary rounds and he also lamented the dropping of experienced players “The result was very disappointing this year especially after we finished as runner-up last year.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says 10 of its 23 sewerage stations are currently out of operation due to the pumps being clogged, however; they will be operational by month end.

Over 350 persons are being treated daily at the main medical centre of the USS Iwo Jima – Continuing Promise 2010 mission set up at Rose Hall, Corentyne while 15 surgeries have been completed.

The reputed husband of Nandranie Narine whose bloodied body was found in her unsecured Columbia, Essequibo Coast home was on Wednesday charged with her murder.

Walter Stapleton, the 81-year-old who died in San Juan, Puerto Rico after falling ill on a Delta Airways flight on Tuesday had been on his way to New York for a check-up, relatives say.

(DOW JONES NEWSWIRES)  Toyota Motor Corp. (TM, 7203.TO) announced three separate recalls of a combined 1.5 million vehicles, including 740,000 in the U.S.,

-baby delivered at Skeldon Hospital A 21-year-old mother of No. 60 Village, Corentyne died early yesterday morning at the New Amsterdam Hospital (NAH) after delivering her second child; a healthy baby girl at the Skeldon Hospital.

-team should and could have done better; some players were not focused- Nascimento President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), Kit Nascimento feels that the national Sevens team could have performed better at the just concluded Commonwealth Games in India.

– Guyanese trio in senior WI teamWith all the negative factors that have been enveloping Caribbean and local cricket, one of the recent counters to this scourge has been the senior West Indies Women’s team.

-Chef de Mission of Guyana’s Commonwealth Games team Garfield Wiltshire says that Guyana’s athletes have potential, but need the required training to be able to compete with world class athletes Chef-de-Mission of Guyana’s contingent to the recent Commonwealth Games and Treasurer of the Guyana Olympic Association, Garfield Wiltshire says  that the results obtained by Guyana’s athletes at the Games can be improved in the future with the proper training.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Darren Sammy’s Windward Islands will look to continue their unbeaten run when they face Leeward Islands in the first semi-final of the WICB One-Day Championship here today.

The president and executive members of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday sent condolences to the family of the late Mahindranauth Dhaniram of Chesney, Albion, especially his two sons Sudesh and Sunil and his younger sibling Dhieranidranauth Somwaru, a first class umpire.

Cabinet has ordered that officials connected to the Skeldon Hospital where Esther Dwarka-Bowlin died last weekend after giving birth to her third child, appear before a special Cabinet sub-committee, in an effort to seek answers about the incident.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire has dispelled any notion of a St Lucian nationalist agenda with the choice of Darren Sammy for West Indies captain.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Newly appointed West Indies captain Darren Sammy has gotten a nod of approval from former West Indies Cricket Board selector Raphick Jumadeen.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Legendary batsman Brian Lara says new West Indies skipper Darren Sammy will face a tough examination when he takes over from Chris Gayle on their three-Test tour of Sri Lanka next month.

A Guyanese man is now facing charges after he allegedly attempted to bribe an official during a test at a Department of Drivers Services office in Georgia, the online version the US News 12 said.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board has stopped Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir using any of the board’s facilities or training at the national cricket academy while they remain banned.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Two members of FIFA’s executive  committee linked to claims of vote-selling for the 2018 and 2022  World Cup decision were provisionally suspended yesterday as  President Sepp Blatter lamented a “sad day for football”.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon says that his advertisement directive to the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) has been misconstrued by “wicked people” but has promised to respond promptly to any formally documented concerns sent to him by the body.

Latoya Corley, the woman who was caught last September at the JFK Airport with cocaine and later said she’d been raped when she tried to pull out of travelling to the US with the drugs, has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in prison by New York Senior Judge Leo Glasser.

LONDON, (Reuters) – From the moment he curled in a sensational winner for Everton against Arsenal five days before his 17th birthday in 2002, Wayne Rooney’s life changed forever.

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.

VISAKHAPATNAM, India, (Reuters) – Virat Kohli hit 118 and Suresh Raina hammered an unbeaten 71 to inspire India to a brilliant five-wicket win over Australia in the second one-day international yesterday.

The Lethem resident who drowned on Tuesday after his tractor toppled into a trench at Georgia Pasture, Cane Grove, Mahaica had threatened to kill himself earlier this year following a domestic squabble, relatives say.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Owing to their impressive form in recent weeks, Guyana have jumped 22 places in the FIFA World Rankings to become the second highest ranked team in the Caribbean Football Union.

A national conference on cyber security got underway yesterday at the Regency Suites.

Beverage Company,ANSA McAL Trading under their Stag brand of beers injected life into basketball in Berbice by sponsoring the Stag Beer Basketball Club Championship, which commenced Monday last at the Vryman’s Erven basketball court in New Amsterdam.

An interim injunction was granted yesterday ordering Kaieteur News to desist from publishing certain statements which attorney Basil Williams is contending are libellous and damaging to him.

Fifty-two athletes, 43 local and nine from other countries within the region, have so far been confirmed (and a lot more are still expected to get on board)  for the Guyana leg of the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF)/South American Athletics Confederation 10KM Road Classic, scheduled for Sunday.

Social activist Mark Benschop has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Guyana National Newspapers Ltd, publishers of the Guyana Chronicle, for libel.

Preparations are going apace for next weekend’s Inter-Corporation Dominoes tournament with Ansa McAl Trading providing sponsorship for the event.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson yesterday reiterated that star batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan had not been discarded from the team set-up but needed to take his fitness seriously in order to be selected.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has called on education ministers to pay more attention to out-of-school and unemployed youth, as they seek to advance the youth development agenda within the context of human and social development.

Forty-four-year-old Mark Vieira who is accused of damaging the windows of another man’s vehicle was on Monday sent on his own recognizance after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) yesterday received sponsorship to the tune of $1,250,000 which will be allocated towards various projects.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications recently awarded three contracts for the installation of street lights along the Corentyne Highway.

-GuySuCo laments ongoing impact More than 800 sugar workers remained off the job yesterday as the Guyana Agricul-tural and General Workers Union (GAWU) awaits the continuation of discussions with the sugar corporation over an increase in wages and salaries.

Dear Editor, The order by Dr Roger Luncheon to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that GINA must use the new government website for all its advertisements other than those associated with discharging its constitutional and legal responsibilities raises some serious questions with grave implications.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain will cut half a million  jobs, slash the welfare state and raise the retirement age as  part of an unprecedented cost-cutting drive that will test the  strength of both the economy and the ruling coalition.

President Bharrat Jagdeo (third from right) at the opening ceremony yesterday for the USS Iwo Jima’s – Continuing Promise 2010 mission.

The long overdue rehabilitation of the MV Malali is now set to take place, as cabinet has given its “no objection” to $87.8 million for the docking and repairing of the vessel.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – An air of decay hangs heavily  among the gutted facades leaning over into al-Rasheed street,  Baghdad’s oldest merchant street, strewn with heaps of trash and  broken concrete.

The Bush Lot Secondary was granted a lease for a 1.2-acre plot of land located aback the school to develop agriculture after waiting for the past two years.

Two patients having their teeth cleaned yesterday at the dental clinic at Rose Hall.

Dear Editor, The race for the position of the PNCR presidential candidate in the next election has reached an interesting stage.

The police early yesterday morning  destroyed an acre of cultivated marijuana along with a camp, fertilizer and other items during an operation at First Creek, Kuru Kururu, Linden/ Soesdyke Highway and four persons have been taken into custody.

Dear Editor, After reading the article in your October 20 edition by Peter Apps titled, ‘The return of great power politics,’ I felt inclined to offer a response.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Rice farmers could boost their yields by 50  percent with a new method that uses less water Oxfam America said yesterday  as climate change and drought threaten the staple crop.

A man and a woman accused of a $1.5M house break-in were on Monday placed on $75,000 bail each when they made their appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A Red Dragon Sports Bar security guard accused of punching a woman in  her face, causing her to lose a tooth in the process, was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $75,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – It was a little-noticed  headline amid the daily crime, violence and accidents in Rio de  Janeiro’s rough outskirts — Adriana de Souza Queiroz, 26, dead  after a clandestine abortion went wrong.

Dear Editor, The decision by the Guyanese Common-wealth boxers who allegedly absconded in the USA is one that they will have to live with, whatever consequences befall them.

A Meadow Bank woman accused of a $278,000 break-in was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $60,000 when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Western counter-terrorism support  for state security forces in Yemen and neighbouring Somalia may  actually be fuelling militancy because such backing is often  seen locally as a form of aggression, a report said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I had this awesome experience which I just could not keep to myself.

Dear Editor, There is an urgent situation developing in the village of Sand Reef, Albion, as well as in  surrounding villages.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A Saudi prince was jailed for  life in Britain yesterday for beating and strangling his servant in the room they shared at a luxury London hotel after what prosecutors called a campaign of sadistic abuse.

A woman who is being blamed for a man being injured because of her un-muzzled dog was yesterday placed on $40,000 bail when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Pryia Manickchand yesterday presented 60 women from Region Two with cheques under the Women of Worth programme.

Dear Editor, The latest statement from the government signals that they are prepared to undermine the work of a legally constituted independent body (GECOM) in charge of the electoral process so that the checklist necessary for the execution of the upcoming general elections may not be fully met.

(Trinidad Express) – Hundreds of public officers swarmed the streets of Port of Spain on Tuesday morning, disrupting traffic and forcing the closure of a portion of St Vincent Street.

The Ministry of Health hosted a walk and rally from the Square of the Revolution to the East La Penitence health centre aimed at boosting awareness of breast and cervical cancer on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, When people have a mindset and are steeped in certain ways, then no matter how much preaching is done in their interest about the virtue or danger of a thing, it will still be to no avail, or as old folks would say, it’s like throwing water on duck’s back.

PRAXEDIS G. GUERRERO, Mexico, (Reuters) – A  20-year-old female college student is the new police chief of  one of Mexico’s most dangerous drug war towns on the U.S. 

The US Armed Forces healthcare operation here was launched in Berbice yesterday.

History this week                    No. 32/2010By Estherine Adams This instalment gives a brief overview of the History of the British Guiana West Coast Railway from 1896 to 1971.

Dear Editor, In my opinion, the Ministry of Human services, is not carrying out its mandate to protect the citizens of Guyana from various forms of abuse.

MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish judge has asked the government to begin extradition proceedings against a man living in Venezuela who is suspected of training members of Basque separatist group ETA.

Haiti still in crisis A United Nations expert says quake-ravaged Haiti remains in a “profound humanitarian crisis” and that reconstruction must begin urgently.

Just last month, four major international organizations announced in a jointly released report that worldwide there had been a drop in maternal deaths by a third.

Dear Editor, In response to your news article, ‘Synergy clearing road site,’ (October 19), I want to challenge your newspaper as well as all other private media houses to sharpen focus on this entire project, starting with this road for which Mr Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall was awarded US$15.4M from public funds to construct.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Venezuelan counterpart yesterday they would defeat their common foes, the latest defiant salvo against Western countries that he says are failing in their attempts to isolate Iran.

The Georgetown Reading and Research Centre is hosting its first book sale by auction tomorrow at its Water Street location.