Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 9, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic that  has killed nearly 600 people in Haiti has gained a foothold  in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince and is expected to spread  widely and quickly in the sprawling city of 3 million people,  health authorities said today.

The reigning World Kickboxing Association’s middleweight champion is a US citizen of Guyanese parentage.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Darren Sammy has vowed to restore  pride and passion in West Indies cricket after replacing Chris  Gayle as skipper.

The United States is continuing to deny a visa to RUSAL boss Oleg Deripaska despite repeated request by Russia for an explanation and the enlisting of a US firm to help with the application.

Several cane-cutters at Enmore have downed tools to protest the weekly sugar target at the East Coast estate among other issues, but the sugar corporation has not agreed to negotiations.

A sixteen-year-old boy was today charged with murder in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Five Guyanese seamen were on Saturday deported to Guyana after they were fined for conspiracy to traffic in electronics that had been stolen from a local yachtsman, the St Maarten Daily Herald has reported.

Parents and students shut down the Golden Grove Primary School this morning protesting the lack of potable water and a subsequent decision to hold “double sessions”.

Parents of children at the Bagotville Primary School, West Bank Demerara, this morning shut the doors of the school over what they have described as its “terrible condition.”

…On the heels of argument about Kamla (Trinidad Express) Talk show host and cricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed is questioning the timing of his dismissal from State-owned media network Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG).

(Go Jamaica) Plans by the United Kingdom (UK) to deport Jamaicans convicted in that country could create diplomatic problems between the UK and Jamaican governments.

The Manager of Mahaicony Rice Mills (MRM) Limited, Taramattie Ghanie was told to report to the Mahaicony police station this morning at 8.30 to assist in the process of making the accounts of the company available.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain  Haider quit international cricket today saying he feared  for his safety after being ordered to cooperate with  match-fixers during the recent one-day series with South Africa.

– MoE retracts QC teachers’ sanctions Following the withdrawal of sanctions dealt to three Queens College teachers, the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) yesterday declared that they will participate fully in today’s National Schools’ track and field, cycling and swimming championships.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Harbhajan Singh emerged  as India’s unlikely batting hero when he scored his maiden  hundred to bail the hosts out of a tight situation for a draw in  the first test against New Zealand yesterday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – West Indies were set to undergo a second full training session today, as they continued to build up to the start of their three-Test series against Sri Lanka starting next week.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England will come up against the  best of Australia’s young cricketing talent in their final  Ashes warm-up match against Australia A in Tasmania next week.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis turned in a fine  all-round performance to lead South Africa to a 57-run win over  Pakistan yesterday and a 3-2 victory in the one-day  international series.

OKLAHOMA CITY, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics brushed  aside Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder 92-83 on  Sunday to claim their fifth straight win.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain  Haider has arrived in England after mysteriously disappearing  hours before the fifth and final one-day international against  South Africa in Dubai.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods will have no special  protection from heckling fans when he defends his title at the Australian Masters in Melbourne this week.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Haile Gebrselassie was hailed as a  sporting hero and genius by IAAF president Lamine Diack yesterday following the Ethiopian’s retirement from athletics.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies tumbled to their first loss of the CLOBI Cup Masters Twenty20 Championship when they went under to Sri Lanka by two runs in their final preliminary game here Sunday night.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – All eyes will be on discarded Test batsman Denesh Ramdin as West Indies A will look to sustain their winning form when they face Pakistan A in the first of three one-day matches here today.

Quarterfinal action in the fourth annual Fruta Conquerors organized Namilco Football Festival unveils tonight at the Tucville Playfield with what is expected to be an intriguing night of competition.

Krystal Sukra won the girls 18-years-and-under title  after she defeated Nicola Ramdyhan 6 – 2, 6 – 3 on Sunday in the final of the Pegasus Open lawn tennis tournament at the Hotel courts.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – Jamaican sprint marvel Usain Bolt has captured one of the top honours at the 29th annual Commonwealth Sports Awards, despite not participating at the Games last month in Delhi.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Audley Harrison’s chequered career  will fade into obscurity if he loses to David Haye in Saturday’s  WBA heavyweight duel in Manchester, according to the man  responsible for steering him to Olympic and Commonwealth gold.

Dear Editor, Totalitarianism is best achieved by controlling and weakening the ability of those who are best equipped to fight it.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Debutants stole the show at the  New York City marathon on Sunday as Ethiopian Gebre Gebremariam  won the men’s race on his marathon debut and Kenya’s Edna  Kiplagat took the women’s title in her first New York race.

Dear Editor, The spate of road fatalities is alarming, to say the least.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Alberto Contador was facing the  possibility of a two-year ban and losing this year’s Tour de  France title after the UCI asked the Spanish federation yesterday to open proceedings against him for failing a drugs test.

Dear Editor, Health facilities have come under scrutiny within the last few weeks.

The ‘Ride For Life 4’ cycle road race was regarded as a huge success by government officials at the presentation ceremony at the National Cultural Centre last Sunday, and plans are already in place to take the event beyond the shores of Guyana,  on to the international stage.

The three police officers who successfully apprehended a man who was later found to have a bag of weapons, were commended and awarded $20,000 each for their bravery by GEB Security Services.

Dear Editor, I am preparing to live in a dark world because I cannot to travel to Georgetown every three months and pay four thousand dollars to get a prescription for eye drops it is penny wise and pound foolish, and there is no eye specialist here in Christianburg.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The death tolls in Haiti from Hurricane Tomas and a raging cholera epidemic have risen, but a top UN official said yesterday there were “no objective reasons” why elections should not be held later this month in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean country.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama endorsed yesterday India’s long-held demand for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, a reflection of the Asian country’s growing global weight and its challenge to rival China.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing my letter on Saturday which addressed a number of issues, including the punishment of four teachers in relation to the events leading up to and after the demise Queen’s College student Neesa Gopaul.

Dear Editor, I was in considerable awe when I read that President Jagdeo is considering pulling Barama’s concession.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US government yesterday urged a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to end a programme authorizing the killing of accused militants like American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and said al-Awlaki should turn himself in.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Colombia will extradite a businessman accused of being a major drug kingpin back to his native Venezuela to face justice, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday on Cuban television.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday banned all cargo shipments to the United States from Somalia, expanding a ban imposed initially on shipments from Yemen in the wake of a recent foiled bomb plot.

Dear Editor, The current debate on domestic violence and violence generally plaguing our society which is being televised through the programme, ‘Our Culture Our Life’ is a good sign.

Dear Editor, A group of forty Guyanese celebrated Diwali in the desert city of Jaipur, India on Thursday and Friday evening.

An official enquiry into the Neesa Gopaul tragedy was clearly very necessary.

Banana exports derailed Agriculture officials in St Lucia say it will be several months before the island’s hard-hit banana industry recovers from the devastation caused by Hurricane Tomas.

The Ministry of Education yesterday withdrew the sanctions it had issued against teachers at Queen’s College (QC) at the end of the Neesa Gopaul probe and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is calling for procedures in all schools to guide teachers when faced with such cases.

Fire of unknown origin yesterday afternoon gutted two houses at Golden Grove on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) leaving 16 persons homeless.

Barama Company Limited yesterday disclosed that it would restart plywood production in June 2011 to meet local demand, a week after President Bharrat Jagdeo threatened to pull the concessions the company currently enjoys.

One of the men who was with New Amsterdam logger Cleveland Hetemyer when he was killed last Thursday in the Canje Creek, says he was shot after he refused to hand over gasoline.

Three children are nursing injuries in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after the bus that was transporting them from school was involved in an accident with a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) vehicle yesterday afternoon.

A Brazilian teen accused of having a quantity of cocaine in his possession at Lethem was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The health and education ministries collaborated with Colgate Palmolive and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) hosted a road march and motorcade on Saturday to launch oral health month.

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) hosts a blood drive today in collaboration with the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), currently observing Road Safety Month.

Head of the Paediatric Department at the Georgetown Public Hospital Dr Clive Bowman said yesterday that the outcome of a hospital visit for every pregnant mother should be positive, but there must be room for “the cases where one party might not survive”.

The John Street man accused of killing his childhood friend after an argument over some clothing was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

– one reportedly confesses Five suspects who were arrested in connection with the murder of Rakesh ‘Raka’ Randolph, 44, of Line Path, Skeldon are still in police custody; one has since reportedly confessed to the crime.

Two years after a “model” farm promoted as one that private sector investors could buy into was launched, it has been reverted to the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI).

– Dennison It is unlikely that Groundstar will begin drilling for oil at its Takutu basin location by the beginning of December.

A man accused of stabbing another multiple times in his shoulder with a knife was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba and Venezuela celebrated their decade-long socialist alliance yesterday in a ceremony that formally extends an economic cooperation pact and should insure a regular flow of oil to Havana for another 10 years.