Daily Archive: Sunday, October 31, 2010

Articles published on Sunday, October 31, 2010

Canada beats Lady Jags

(CBC) After being held to one goal in its last game, Canada poured on the offence today, hammering Guyana 8-0 at the CONCACAF Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament in Cancun, Mexico.

DOCOL explosion employees badly burnt

Up to yesterday afternoon, Demerara Oxygen Company Ltd (DOCOL) employees Heera Persaud of Leonora and Rabindranauth Ramdhani also of Leonora were patients of the High Dependency Unit at St Joseph Mercy Hospital after suffering burns in an explosion at their workplace on Friday.

 Wayne Dover

Golden Jaguars on a mission to Trinidad

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars will wing out today for Trinidad and Tobago on a mission to advance to the Digicel Caribbean Cup football finals in what is expected to be an intriguing Group F playoff in the twin island republic.

Cleveland Forde

Forde does the ‘double’ twice

Like he did last year Guyana’s Cleveland Forde yesterday won the second leg of the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) South American Athletics Confederation 10 km Road Race Classic in Paramaribo, Suriname.

Players’ Choice!

AFTER their recent rejection of annual retainer contracts, Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo would have carefully studied the schedule for the coming year issued by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) last week.

‘Moves for Life’

Last Tuesday, the Government of South Africa made a giant stride for the popularization and development of chess in the country when it launched the Moves For Life chess programme at a gala dinner.

‘The Hunter’ by Anil Roberts

The rise of Amerindian art

Continued from last week The single event responsible for the world really taking notice of Amerindian art as a major subject and its rise to its present power was the exhibition of six men identifying themselves as ‘Lokono Artists’ at the Venezuelan Cultural Centre in 1998. 

A law unto himself?

Dear Editor, Last Sunday, October 24, some boys of Saraswati Vidya Niketan (more popularly known as the Swami school), Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, were sent by the school into the community to get some dried coconuts to be used for decoration purposes in preparation for the school’s annual graduation which was to begin at 4 pm, the same day.

 A look of apprehension as this male dog wonders if any kind person will come to the GSPCA and offer to adopt him (he has been neutered)

Medication misuse

Continued from last week Antibiotics In the practice of human medicine, the misuse, abuse and incorrect use of drugs and all forms of medication must be high on doctors’ lists of frustrating activities carried out by their patients.

Care workers for persons with a mental disorder

The Sexual Offences Act 2010 Continued from last week 25. (1) A person (“the accused’’) who is a care worker, commits the offence of a care worker engaging in, causing  or inciting sexual activity with a person (“ the complainant”) if – (a) the accused- (i) engages in sexual activity with the complainant; (ii) causes or incites the complainant  to engage in sexual activity with a third party; or (iii) causes or incites the complainant to perform sexual acts including but not limited to causing the complainant to masturbate; (b) the complainant has a mental disorder and the accused knows or could reasonably be expected to know that the complainant has a mental disorder; and (c) the accused is involved in the complainant’s care in a way that falls within section 27.

Amerindian leaders and free speech

“Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of expression, that is to say, freedom to hold opinions without interference, freedom to receive ideas and information without interference, freedom to communicate ideas and information without interference and freedom from interference with his correspondence.”