Daily Archive: Monday, November 22, 2010

PNCR Executive Winston Murray passed away at 7:20 tonight at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

PHNOM PENH, (Reuters) – A stampede on a bridge in  Cambodia’s capital killed at least 339 people late today  and wounded nearly as many after thousands panicked on the last  day of a water festival, authorities and state media said.

Presidential candidate for the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan today issued a call for Caricom to conduct an independent investigation into a recent string of maternal deaths.

A fire of unknown origin this morning gutted a two-storey concrete house at Lot 129 First Street, ‘BB’ Eccles East Bank Demerara, leaving in its wake millions of dollars in damage.

Adrian McKenzie, the man accused of hammering his mother to death at their Sand Creek, Rupununi home on November 16 was this morning remanded to prison after appearing before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry.

The Guyana Defence Force on Friday renamed the Drill Square at the Colonel John Clarke Military School at Tacama in honour of  Warrant Officer Class Two (ret’d) Patrick Williams.

Don Lockerbie, who had become known to Guyanese during preparations for the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean, has been relieved of his position as head of USA Cricket Association.

The power company this morning reported that some of its employees who are members of the union NAACIE have gone on strike over wages without following the required procedure.

The body of a 40-year-old man was discovered early this morning in front of his Sophia home and it is believed that he was electrocuted during an attempt to make an illegal connection.

The Ministry of Human Services is launching a year-long campaign against domestic violence which will see the opening of the first `White Zone’ where victims of violence can go for help.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket   Council (ICC) has directed all member countries to introduce   an anti-corruption code in their domestic leagues by April in   the wake of spot-fixing allegations against the Pakistan   cricketers.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Left arm spinner is expected to return to the West Indies lineup  and form a dual spin attack with offspinner Shane Shillingford  when the second test against Sri Lanka begins in Colombo tomorrow.

Seven men were killed and two others were seriously injured when the sand walls of a gold mine collapsed in Suriname, police in the neighbouring country said, according to Agence France- Presse (AFP).

For the past year, fired Aroaima bauxite worker Lennox Williams has been out of a full-time job and has been forced to “catch his hand here and there” to earn money to support his family of seven.

`It cannot be that you’ll be satisfied with being on the fringe looking on, hoping that either the government will step up to the plate or that the next person will do so.

Suriname was the overall winners of the second leg of the Inter-Guiana Games which came to an official close last night

Persaud, Sukhram retain Guyana Open titles

`I am going to call everybody together and sit down, not each hospital but everyone together, and see what has been happening.

A fire yesterday destroyed a two-storey building at De Willem, West Coast Deme-rara, which housed two families and an electronics store leaving millions in losses.

Terror does not begin to describe what a female city constable felt yesterday afternoon as a route 42 minibus sped off with her hanging onto its side for dear life.

Guyana’s junior national basketball team once again suffered a heart wrenching defeat to Suriname in the championship basketball game of the second leg of the Inter Guiana Games at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last evening.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Constant criticism leading up to  the Ashes may actually work in Australia’s favour, galvanising  an under-pressure team against a more settled England side,  former Australian opener Matthew Hayden believes.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – In the conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province of Pakistan, young women is expected to settle down to married life and raising a family.

The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation yesterday issued a press statement in response to allegations of exploitation of clubs and players by president of Alpha United Football Club Odinga Lumumba.

An improperly constituted Evaluation Committee for the Ministry of Education’s Ministerial Tender Board (MTB) illegally granted 16 contracts valued at $10.678 million, the 2009 Auditor General’s report says.

Guyana’s male and female cyclists were in dominant form yesterday morning taking the first and second spots in the female 40km road race and first and third places in the male 60km road race

Minutes after a Better Hope teen tried to avoid an argument at a community dance last evening he was slashed to the neck with a broken bottle.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has been awarded the prestigious trophy for the best Caribbean and American distiller by the International Wine and Spirit Competition body.

Dear Editor, Article 101 of the Constitution was this month tested when Dr.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Shane Shillingford being reported for a suspected illegal bowling action has overshadowed Sulieman Benn’s return, and has conspired to distract West Indies ahead of the pivotal second Test against Sri Lanka, starting tomorrow (midnight Monday Guyana time) at the Premadasa Stadium.

Twelve-year-old Vishram Persaud, who was struck down along the Friendship, East Bank Demerara Public Road two weeks ago, opened his eyes yesterday for the first time.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Kirk Edwards fell just short of his second first-class hundred, but Khurram Manzoor succeeded in scoring his 13th, as West Indies-A drew with Pakistan-A in their badly rain-affected, opening four-day “Test” yesterday.

Dear Editor, I refer to the new system to be introduced by GRA come December 1, 2010 (‘Clearing of barrels simpler and faster’ SN, November 16).

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies plan to include Shane Shillingford in their line-up for the second Test against Sri Lanka, starting tomorrow at the Premadasa Stadium.

When a Diamond resident extended a  morning greeting to a neighbourhood woman the last thing he expected was to be attacked by her enraged, cutlass-wielding husband.

Dear Editor, The Railway Embankment road had signs such as Success, Felicity, Montrose, Vryheid’s Lust, etc.

Dear Editor, The East Bank junction at the Demerara Harbour Bridge needs to be marked by white or yellow lines to assist drivers entering the bridge from the North, and leaving the bridge to go South.

(Trinidad Express) Justice Minister Herbert Volney says his plan to retire from the Judiciary was leaked to the media after it was obtained during a tapped telephone conversation with his wife.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers posted South  Africa’s highest individual score to give them firm control of the second test on the second day against Pakistan at the Sheikh  Zayed Stadium yesterday.

PNCR executive Winston Murray remained in an unconscious state attached to a respirator up to press time, lead physician Richard van-West Charles

Dear Editor, The PNC just announced its election/selection process for its presidential candidate in the 2011 election.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The big surprise with Pope Benedict’s new book is not that he believes the Catholic Church  can permit condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS in some  circumstances, but that he took so long to say so.

Remembering Sheema

NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – Half-centuries from each  of India’s top-order batsmen gave the hosts control of the third  and final test after their bowlers had dismissed New Zealand for  193 on the second day yesterday.

Dear Editor, So our concerned government is providing so much more to Guyana Power and Light.

DUBLIN/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The EU and IMF agreed yetserday to help bail out Ireland with loans to tackle its banking  and budget crisis in a bid to protect Europe’s financial  stability.  

This week more differently-able persons speak of their challenges and accomplishments and how being part of the National Disabled People’s Network (NDPN) has helped them.

Several youths now have the chance at a new start in life after completing a six-week course in welding and fabrication.

Dear Editor, It was news for me reading the letter in KN of October 29 by Claudia Heywood, mother of 2009 valedictorian Loria-Mae Angela Heywood furiously complaining that one year after graduating and receiving the President’s Medal for “distinguished performance” and sending out about 40 job applications (this has got to be a record for a top UG student) her daughter is still jobless.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is offering to sell her Phillipine home to San Fernando East MP Patrick Manning for TT$30 million.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Striding on to court at the O2  Arena yesterday Andy Murray could be forgiven for thinking he had stumbled into a rock concert and he responded with a virtuoso display to kickstart the ATP World Tour finals.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A gang of suspected  kidnappers arrested by Mexican marines had detailed plans of  security arrangements for next week’s U.N.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer got straight down  to business at the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday when the  world number two trounced Spain’s David Ferrer 6-1 6-4.

These columns I produce every week for Stabroek News are fun to write and fun, also, for the feedback they generate.

Dear Editor, I write to comment on the news article `Indian Government  mired in giant graft scandal’ (SN Nov 17). 

Kartik Snaan puja, worshipping

(Jamaica Gleaner) Reports are now surfacing that witnesses are coming out of the woodwork thick and fast to give investigators damning statements against embattled Cabinet minister James Robertson. 

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Amir Johnson made a pair of  free throws with two seconds remaining to give the Toronto  Raptors a 102-101 win over the Boston Celtics yesterday.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – The top U.S. envoy to North Korea today said revelations that Pyongyang had made rapid   advances in enriching uranium were the latest in a series of   provocations over the past 20 years, but denied it was a crisis.

On Friday, the police conducted a drug eradication operation at Warida, Upper Demerara River.

(Go Jamaica) Prime Minister Bruce Golding has given instructions for a team of medical and support personnel to be mobilized for deployment to Haiti.

Dear Editor, There has been a lot going on in the sugar industry over the past six years and we should all pay some attention since it is of national interest.

If nothing else, the thoughtless seven-day strike of sugar workers called on Friday by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union will focus the nation’s attention on what is fast proving an intractable matter – the myriad problems being experienced with the flagship Skeldon factory.

By Kevin Edmonds Kevin Edmonds is a freelance journalist and graduate student at McMaster University’s Globalization Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Editor’s Note: Next week we will return with the concluding column on Edgar Mittelholzer The upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Haiti on November 28th highlight the complexities and difficulties of intergovernmental organizations which seek to chart foreign policy positions outside of the umbrella of American regional power and influence.