Daily Archive: Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The sugar union GAWU this evening voiced its disgust over the beleaguered US$100M new Skeldon sugar factory.

The Government Information Agency’s website at www.gina.gov.gy has been down for the last three days after being hacked, according to a source.

(Go Jamaica) The body of reggae artiste Gregory Isaacs is to be flown back to Jamaica tomorrow.

Three families, comprising around 15 persons, were left without shelter this afternoon after a fire suspected to be of electrical origin ravaged their Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust home.

A gun was this afternoon found buried behind the washroom at St.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The co-chairmen of a  presidential panel to cut the U.S.

The woman accused of clubbing her reputed husband to death at Eclipse Falls, North West District on Friday last, following a reported argument over money for their three children was yesterday remanded to prison.

An arrest warrant was today issued for murder accused Carolan Lynch.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon today announced that 50 secondary schools countrywide are to have “fully equipped and fully secured” computer laboratories by year end.

Shoreham Resources Ltd of Canada today announced that it has contracted Ground Structures Engineering Consultants Inc.to

(Trinidad Express) The firing of talk show host Fazeer Mohammed has angered the Muslim community, forcing them to break their silence over what they claimed were months of discrimination against them by the People’s Partnership Government.

(Go Jamaica) Jamaican dancehall superstars Adijah Palmer otherwise called Vybz Kartel and David Brooks otherwise called Movado have been listed as persons of interest by the St.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  said yesterday much more needs to be done to repair frayed  U.S.

-poor conditions at Bagotville, Golden Grove Primary Parents shut down two schools on the West Demerara and East Coast Demerara yesterday to protest poor conditions and lack of teachers.

-District 10 win march past Linden’s District No. 10 with 135 points was yesterday adjudged the winner of the march past at the opening ceremony of the National Schools, Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships at the Guyana National Stadium.

-AND 1 team arrives for All-Star weekend The much talke about AND 1 Streetball team arrived on Guyana’s soil for the first time yesterday to begin their stint which will highlight the annual All-Star basketball weekend.

Quinn George of District No.5 and Doretta Wilson of District No.9 yesterday became the 10km road race champions of the National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships.

– Second Guinness Greatest of the Street officially launched; kicks off tonight The second edition of the Guinness `Greatest of the Street’ Futsal competition was officially launched yesterday at Banks DIH, Thirst park.

-may take week to extinguish The Mandela landfill has once again caught fire and this time it is believed that the fire was deliberately started.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie  Roach questioned his fighter’s dedication to boxing in recent  weeks following a training camp that was more chaotic than  usual, he told Reuters yesterday.

-‘supplier’ can’t be found, registration was forgedShadick: ‘If GECOM cannot be transparent, I don’t know how they could hold transparent elections’ The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament is trying to ascertain how GECOM was able to purchase $24.633M in pharmaceuticals and cleaning supplies back in 2006 from a company with a fake registration,

Paul DeNobrega and Naomi Singh were the winners of yesterday’s cycling events of the 50th National Schools’ cycling, swimming and Track and Field Championships.

Three successful corneal graft operations were conducted yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital,  and were the first of their kind in Guyana.

Saying that he is not convinced maternal mortality is on the increase based on the numbers recorded in previous years, Director of Medical Services at the GPHC, Dr.

-stabber was reportedly tormented by other students A 13-year-old girl from the Linden Foundation Secondary School was hospitalized last Thursday after being stabbed by a schoolmate following an altercation a short distance from the school.

Guyana’s top darts player Norman Madhoo Saturday night qualified to participate in next month’s Ladbrokes.com

The 16-year-old boy accused of murdering 18-year-old Dwayne Durant on the Kitty Seawall on November 4 was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Sloppy work by a contractor hired by the Region One Administration has resulted in hundreds of students and teachers of the Port Kaituma Primary School being without an adequate water supply for several months; a situation that parents fear could lead to a health crisis.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy has described as crucial the three-day tour match against a Sri Lanka Cricket President’s XI starting today.

The Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) is again facing an accusation that its tardy response to a patient in its care has resulted in death.

Carolan Lynch’s court case in which she is accused of murdering her Swiss House Cambio dealer husband was for the third time called yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court but once more she was absent and therefore the charge could not be read.

The Guyana Cycling Federation has  released the official results of the recent  fourth annual Ride for Life five-stage cycle road race which ended last Sunday on Homestretch Avenue.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News has a remarkable record in defending whatever vestige of democracy is left in Guyana.

Unknown persons have erased footage from security cameras that captured last month’s shooting at the Princess Hotel but police say they are working on other leads.

-second crop to extend into January The sugar corporation is proposing a maximum five per cent across-the-board wage hike in the industry tied to production and plans to extend the second crop to January.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s ruling Communist Party  will tinker with the island’s socialist system at a party  congress in April, but its underlying task is to ensure the  system’s survival when the current, aging leaders are gone.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said yesterday it wanted  to open a new chapter in relations with Latin America, pledging  to end its neglect of the region and step up business and  political links with the emerging economic giant.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua, Barbados, and Trinidad have submitted bids to host the Caribbean Twenty20 Championships of 2011 and 2012.

Dear Editor,The first report on deforestation rates produced under Guyana’s MRVS presents the results of a series of assessments that concludes on a number of important areas including total forest cover within the agreed Marrakech Accord definition ranges, historical deforestation assessment across three time periods (1990-1999, 2000-2004, and 2005 to September 30, 2009), and deforestation assessment across various drivers of change, that together derive a total deforestation rate which allows for reference to be made, to an agreed level, between Guyana and Norway under the current agreement.

Raymond Barton, manager of the Rest Team that will contest this year’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior four-day tournament yesterday admitted that his team was inadequately prepared but said the team will strive to make the best of conditions in the tournament.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David  Cameron set out the benefits of multi-party democracy, the rule  of law and a free media on Wednesday in comments that are  likely to rile his hosts China.

The PNCR is yet to settle the process by which its presidential candidate is to be decided almost three weeks after the party’s General Council where that procedure was to be finalised.

An open individual singles table tennis competition for schoolchildren 18 years and under will take place on Friday at the Skeldon Estate Community centre from 10am.

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 yesterday.

Dear Editor, For many years now, I have frequented the Pegasus Hotel with my family, and in recent times the service has become more and more deplorable.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  will make a major speech addressed to the Islamic world today, before an erupting volcano forces him to make an  early departure from the world’s largest Muslim-majority  nation.

A man was arrested along the Arimu Backdam trail on Monday minutes after police ranks observed him throwing a bag through the window of a vehicle which was later found to contain an unlicensed 9mm pistol, 15 matching rounds

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will be holding an Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) today at the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) clubhouse on Woolford Avenue from 18:00 hours.

Two suspects are likely to face charges today at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court in connection with the murder of Rakesh ‘Raka’ Randolph of Line Path, Skeldon, Corriverton while three others have been released.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s highest court reopened the  way yesterday for a legal investigation into tens of millions  of euros worth of assets held in the country by three African  presidents or their families.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Kirk Edwards’ brilliant unbeaten 89 almost took West Indies A over the line but it was Ravi Rampaul’s last ball heroics that earned them a thrilling tie with Pakistan A in the opening game of the three-match one-day series yesterday.

Dear Editor, On reflection it appears that my letter to Stabroek News of November 4 needed some expansion of the organisation management principles to which it referred (‘Some important lessons for the delegation of authority and matching responsibility and accountability’).

Deoram Dinanauth turned back a strong field to win the R.

Dear Editor, The October 2010 Guyana Review featured a question and answer interview with noted businessman Robert Badal, and it struck me that the exercise was obviously mutually self-serving.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The United States has given no  explanation for denying an entry visa to Russia’s fifth richest  man, aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska, despite repeatedly being  pressed to do so, Russia’s Foreign Minister said yesterday.

Berbice television cameraman/reporter Michael Khan is facing seven counts of assault along with a charge of damage to property committed on his reputed wife Shaline Samaroo.

As a 60-year-old woman attempted to use a pedestrian crossing at Camp Road and Barrack Street yesterday morning she was hit by a vehicle which then fled the scene.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan newspapers yesterday  published pictures of mainly women police said had acted in  locally produced pornographic films, part of a court-ordered  crackdown and the latest sign of growing social conservatism.

Dear Editor,Incoming Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, a colourful candidate with a revolutionary background who suffered jail and torture at the hands of her military captors, defeated her rival Jose Serra on the performance of the Brazilian economy.

(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) following an argument he had with a minister over Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar.

LONDON, (Reuters) – David Headley joined the  Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group hoping to fight in Kashmir;  the Pakistani-American ended up scouting out targets for the  Mumbai attacks and helping al Qaeda plan a strike on Denmark.

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

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A Florida woman was charged with  trying to sell her infant son in order to pay for a new car,  police said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am not usually one to follow promotions, since I am of the opinion that I can never win.

Arch rivals Albion Community Centre and Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets cricket clubs will clash in the final of the 2010 Berbice Cricket Board/Tenelec Inc.,

By Meles Zenawi , and Jens StoltenbergThis article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world ADDIS ABABA – At the climate-change summit in Copenhagen last December, political leaders expressed a strong will to urgently combat global warming.

Last week we made some comments on Prime Minister Kamal Persad Bissessar’s initial response to requests for assistance first from St Vincent and the Grenadines, and then from St Lucia in the face of  Hurricane Tomas’ onslaught.

Dear Editor, I wish to extend congratulations to Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud and the Dharmic Sabha for once again organising and staging  a magnificient and spectacular Diwali Motorcade.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Failure by the Group of 20  nations this week to achieve a global solution to the problem  of currency imbalances could lead to a trade war, Brazil’s  Foreign Trade Secretary Welber Barral said.

The Republic of Korea has provided a grant for US$286,860 to Haiti for the construction of 150 temporary houses for families left homeless by the earthquake earlier in the year.

The body of a 14-year-old girl was sexually violated after her tomb was broken into during Monday night and early yesterday morning.