Daily Archive: Monday, October 25, 2010

A two-year-old child of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice died this morning after a woman who was supposed to drop him off at his playschool forgot and locked him in her car for almost three hours.

(Jamaica Observer) As news of the passing of veteran Reggae crooner Gregory Isaacs begins to soak in tributes are flowing in his honour.

Amerindian communities are to receive US$8M of the US$30M first tranche from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund set up with Norway, President Bharrat Jagdeo today announced.

The Guyana Labour Union (GLU) will be holding its sixth Triennial Delegates Congress on Wednesday, October 27th and it will be declared open by President Bharrat Jagdeo, the first time that a PPP/C representative will be performing this task.

Canadian exploration company Shoreham Resources Ltd has received Canadian Stock Exchange approval for a deal for Guyana’s Sardine Hill with the local company Mariwa Mining.

Want 40% now (Trinidad Express) Members of the CLICO Policyholders Group want Government to pay them an immediate 40 per cent on their deposits, with a promise to pay the balance quarterly over a five- to seven-year period at four to four and a half per cent interest.

– at 6th annual Saraswati Vidya Niketan graduation ceremony Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud in his address to graduates of the  Saraswati Vidya Niketan School, yesterday urged them to take up their role in bringing about change in society as Guyanese Indian males have failed their family and society, the Government Information Agency reported.

Address to the nation by The Hon. Freundel Stuart QC, MP Prime Minister of Barbados (Courtesy Barbados Advocate) Fellow Barbadians, At various times after 2.00 a.m.

`Working at hospital had been her dream’ A registered nurse and mother of two passed away yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital – two days after giving birth – adding to the troubling number of such cases recently.

A new housing development at Sparendaam, dubbed Pradoville 2, has attracted concerns over its proximity to sea defences but Minister of Housing, Irfaan Ali says that, generally speaking, whatever construction is done, engineers ensure that “everything is taken into consideration”.

-see great need for cannery, depot ‘We nah get market… We nah getting price’ (This is the ninth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign) In his laden citrus grove in the Pomeroon, Rudolph Gobin fixes a shirt on a stick and clangs a crude bell.

Several hours after a teenager contacted her brother via cellular phone to say that she’d been abducted hundreds of Lindeners assisted police in a massive hunt which ended just after 7 last evening.

The Chinese government will be the initial financier of the Jagdeo administration’s ambitious US$30 million One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative which it is looking to roll out by year end, Stabroek News has learnt.

– Jagdeo says no need to lower rate President Bharrat Jagdeo has attributed the recent increase in VAT collection by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to the growth of the country’s economy and says that there is no need to revise the 16% rate at present.

-Ordinary General Meeting postponed Turmoil continues to plague the Guyana Cricket Board as there remain serious questions about the board’s finances.

The Ministry of Health on Friday received  20 large containers of medical equipment and supplies from the United States Military’s Continuing Promise 2010 mission, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says the administration supports calls for campaign financing reform but cautions that any model adopted locally should ensure a level playing field for all political parties.

It was not the usual one, two but Guyana gained a first through Cleveland Forde and a second place finish by Alika Morgan at the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) South American Athletics Confederation 10 km Road Classic, yesterday.

Bandits robbed a fishing crew at LBI early Saturday morning as they were preparing to go out to sea, but the police responded promptly and caught them.

Experts from the drug monitoring centres in Latin America have expressed concern over  the rising tendencies in drug consumption in most countries, and the regional use of synthetic drugs, the adulteration of which is a top concern.

All three matches of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s Heroes Cup first division two day tournament ended in draws yesterday with rain affecting two of the encounters.

YEONGAM, South Korea, (Reuters) – Ferrari’s Fernando  Alonso won a rain-hit and chaotic Korean Grand Prix to seize  back the Formula One world championship lead on a nightmare yesterday for his Red Bull rivals.

There has been a huge response to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Business Guyana Magazine 2010 since its launching and the Chamber is currently working on the 2011 edition which promises to be even better, the  Chamber said in a press release.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has commended the historical role Saint Lucia’s former Governor General Sir William George Mallet played in his country’s pre-and post-independence era.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Tino Best was run out going for the winning run to condemn Barbados to a share of the WICB Regional One-day title with Leeward Islands, when the low-scoring Grand Final ended in a historic tie yesterday.

The Ministry of Housing and Water yesterday signed a $24.7M contract for the rehabilitation of a half-mile stretch of road in Block R Sophia.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Incentives and magical  numbers abound for Kobe Bryant and the NBA champion Los Angeles  Lakers as they enter a new season with their sights set on a  record-equalling 17th title.

Dear Editor, In my estimation Barama sending home 274 workers is the ultimate smoking gun, the glaring evidence that labour wise Guyana is far from being ideal for major investments.

Sherwayne Brandt, the Norton Street man who was stabbed multiple times on Friday, is “coming around” according to relatives.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former Trinidad & Tobago Under-19 wicketkeeper/batsman Dion Bennett succumbed to injuries sustained in a vehicular accident seven days ago, and died at the San Fernando General Hospital on Friday.

The fourth edition of the Namilco Football Festival kicked off Saturday night at the Tucville Playfield with Santos and Victoria Kings football clubs becoming the first two teams to progress to the next round.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter in frustration at the noise nuisance that is plaguing my village, Stanleytown, located on the West Bank of Demerara.

Dear Editor, Allow me to congratulate the Ministry of Health, the Cancer Society, the Periwinkle Club and other social partners for the Breast Cancer Awareness month of education and testing including cancer of the cervix.

A century from Tulsie Sahadeo aided the Floodlights Softball Cricket team to secure a five-wicket win over the Ministry of Sports (MoS).

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Swiss master Roger Federer  beat Germany’s Florian Mayer 6-4 6-3 to win the Stockholm Open yesterday and equal Pete Sampras’s haul of 64 ATP titles.

Dear Editor, The Alexander Village Mandir, located at the corner of Third and Cross sts.,

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A multinational medical  response has slowed deaths in a Haitian cholera epidemic that  has killed more than 250 people so far, but the outbreak is  likely to widen, a senior U.N.

Dear Editor, I am an avid reader of Ian on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former European champions  Feyenoord suffered their worst defeat ever with a 10-0 loss to  Dutch league leaders PSV Eindhoven yesterday.

Dear Editor, I have seen the PNC relegate some of its brightest minds to the dustbin of obscurity. 

Lance Corporal Inniss (right) collects a trophy and cash award from Police Commissioner Henry Greene for leading his team; the Felix Austin Police College (Georgetown) to victory during Friday’s finals of the annual drill competition.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada and Guadeloupe became the first two sides to qualify for the Finals of the Digicel Caribbean Cup next month in Martinique.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A G20 agreement to give  emerging market countries more power in the International  Monetary Fund opens the door for breakthroughs on easing global  tensions over trade imbalances.

Dear Editor, As we approach the end of Agriculture Month 2010, Guyanese would have joined the global community in reflecting on one of the burning issues of our times: the inability of too many people around the world to obtain sufficient food and nourishment.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana’s Nigel Bryan emerged winner of the Cecil James Memorial Under-18 Open Junior tournament on Saturday at the Maloney Indoor Sport Arena.

LJUBLJANA,  (Reuters) – A doctor from Ghana was voted  in as mayor of a Slovenian city yesterday, becoming the first  black mayor in an eastern European country.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Limited sponsored National Indoor Hockey championships will bully off at 6pm tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

WASHINGTON – The Democratic Party chief said yesterday he  was feeling more optimistic that Democrats would retain control  of the U.S.

Dear Editor,Brandon Samaroo in his blog on SN stated, “The bottom line is and I have stated this time and time over again Rajendra, no system is perfect none, but the capitalist system is the only one by far that has been successful and allowed poor people to change their social, economic and political system.”

(Barbados Nation) “Gird your loins” and go back to work. This was the advice which Governor General Sir Clifford Husbands had on Sunday for new Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and his Cabinet.

On Friday, the Government of Guyana and the UNDP together with the executing agency, the Board of Industrial Training, launched the East Bank Demerara training programmes which will give 101 youths from the area a chance to learn a skill.

Dear Editor, In the October 22 issue of the Guyana Chronicle, there is a headline story about a miracle at the Radha Krishna Mandir on Camp Street.

Dominic Fraser registered another unblemished day Saturday as the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) Nigel’s Supermarket Junior Classic Tennis Tournament continued at the tennis courts of the Pegasus Hotel.

Ignore all the corny Confucius jokes in fractured English; this was really a man with a startlingly brilliant mind about the human condition. 

(Jamaica Observer) The policeman who is alleged to have illegally handed wiretap evidence to United States authorities in the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition affair, is an innocent man, according to former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin.

As part of its bi-monthly training programme the Guyana Canoe Federation (GCF) held another practice session at the Coverden Marina on Saturday.

Dear Editor, With respect to the cholera outbreak in Haiti I am incensed by the fact that President Obama selected Bill Clinton and George Bush to manage and help solve the original crisis there in the aftermath of the earthquake some ten months ago.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Singer Celine Dion and  actor Matt Damon both welcomed new additions to their families,  representatives for the two entertainers said on Saturday.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column In a column penned two weeks ago as the horrific details of Neesa Lalita Gopaul’s murder emerged, I noted that the paradox in Guyana “is that we seem to be faced with a situation in which proliferating legislation appears to be accompanied by an increase in violence against women and children…one would expect that with more laws and visibility, rates of violence would start going down, but tragically the relationship seems to be in the opposite direction.”

BERLIN, (Reuters Life!) – Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry is  set to make a comeback with the release of his new album  “Olympia” next week.

Dear Editor, ‘The dogs bark but the caravan keeps going.’ To my mind this is an appropriate French proverb.

In a lengthy defence of the Grow More Food campaign by way of a letter in the September 29th edition of Stabroek News following a series of hard-hitting reports in this newspaper on farmers’ complaints, the Head of the Guyana Marketing Corporation Mr Nizam Hassan asserted that there has been much success.

MARGAO, India, (Reuters) – The third and final  one-dayer between India and Australia yesterday was called off  after steady rain over the past two days waterlogged the  outfield, handing the hosts a 1-0 series win.

(Jamaica Observer) Central Jamaica businessman Kenneth ‘Skeng Don’ Black has been awarded J$200 million in a default judgement by the Supreme Court against the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ).

CANCUN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Richard struck  the tiny Central American nation of Belize yesterday, knocking  out electricity as tourists and residents huddled in government  shelters.