Daily Archive: Monday, November 29, 2010

On a soggy course Fazil Haniff persevered to snatch the trophy in last Saturday’s Codol Compound golf tournament sponsored by New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC) at the Lusignan Golf Club.

Statement by the OAS-CARICOM Joint Electoral Observation Mission on the Presidential and Legislative Elections of 28 November 2010 Introduction Present in Haiti since August 2010, the OAS-CARICOM Joint Election Observation Mission was able to monitor the administrative, technical and logistical preparations for both the postponed legislative elections and the presidential elections.

Police ranks today stopped and searched a motor car at Uitvlugt, WCD, during which 21 kilograms 488 grams of cocaine were found.

Commissioner of Police Henry Greene spoke to reporters earlier today about the Kara Kara Creek camp where men wanted for last July’s Ministry of Health fire and a series of attacks in the city in November, 2009 were hiding out.

The Ministry of Public of Public Works and Communication – Works Services Group/Sea Defence Division today advised the public to take all necessary precautions during the spring tide period of December 2, 2010 –December 9, 2010.

Winston Murray’s funeral

I am a Guyanese living in the US for 35 years now and am trying to locate Selene Joseph, formerly of Demerara Tobacco Co.

By Colin Rickards Colin Rickards is an author, journalist, broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.

Guyanese entrepreneur, author, real estate developer and the founder of the famed Henry House Catering and Banquet Hall in Brooklyn, Norman Henry who died from heart failure at his Brooklyn residence is to be laid to rest today, according to the Imagenewsletter.

Heartfelt congratulations are extended to Khadine Alecia Nurse who was called to the Bar of UK and Wales through the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, England.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket   Council (ICC) hopes to finalise plans for their new test and   one-day international tournaments in their chief executives’   committee meeting in Dubai tomorrow.

PARIS, (Reuters) – U.S. diplomatic cables released by  online whistle-blower Wikileaks include remarks from an Iran  source in 2009 saying Supreme Leader has  terminal cancer, French daily Le Monde reported.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Australia and England drew   the first Ashes test today but the tourists will claim a   moral victory after Alastair Cook dominated the last two days   with an unbeaten double century to rescue a match that had   looked lost.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Two car bomb blasts killed one  Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded another in Tehran today, Iran’s al Alam Arabic language television reported.

The visiting Lyzecks Volleyball team of Suriname ran out winners of the John Fernandes Limited and Digicel-sponsored

Moen Gafoor ruled in the senior category while Delon Moffatt won the junior category of the Enterprise Scrabble Tournament held by the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) yesterday at Playland,

Don Singh won the men’s 35 years and over division after he defeated Gilbert Barckoy in straight sets when play in the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) Pegasus Open tournament resumed on Friday last at the courts of the Pegasus Hotel.

The new national men’s champion of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will be known on Wednesday following a playoff between former champion Kriskal Persaud  and Taffin Khan.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez   recovered from a third round knockdown to stop Australian  Michael Katsidis in the ninth and retain his WBA and WBO  lightweight titles in Las Vegas on Saturday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer sent a timely  reminder to Rafael Nadal yesterday, out-gunning the year’s dominant player to win the ATP World Tour Finals with an irresistible barrage of attacking tennis.

In a camp at First Savannah, Kara Kara Creek a gang responsible for composing chilling plots aimed at “getting back at the government” created a rugged training centre where they spent the last 16 months hiding,

MIAMI BEACH, Florida, CMC – Neil McGarrell looks set to breathe life into his international career, after he was identified as a strong candidate to play for the United States national team that will travel to Hong Kong for the ICC World Cricket League Division 3 in January.

Management and workers of the Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion have to make sacrifices to ensure that the sugar industry makes a successful readjustment and blossoms,

FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique,  CMC – Luton Shelton led a first-half blitz with a brace that helped Jamaica thump Antigua & Barbuda 3-1, and start their defence of the Digicel Caribbean Cup in style on a wet and windy Saturday night.

Fundamental breaches in the internal controls in the Region Six (East Berbice/ Corentyne) administration has led to $24.935 million in fuel and lubricants purchased back in 2007 and 2008 not being accounted for to date, the latest Auditor General report says.

Due to a lack of proper development programmes at so called big clubs in Trinidad and Tobago, the country will continue to be the biggest importer of cricketers in the Caribbean and Guyana will continue to be one of the major suppliers.

US-based Guyanese Sookree Boodram, who had experienced 21 years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, threw her weight behind the rally that was held at the Bourda Ground on Thursday where hundreds of Guyanese spearheaded

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Openers Andrew Strauss and   Alastair Cook both posted centuries yesterday to wipe out   England’s first innings deficit and bring the tourists right   back into the first Ashes test against Australia.

Much vaunted plans to grow mushrooms – the type of initiative being targeted in the Grow More Food campaign by the government – have failed to ignite interest and the project has been abandoned while the edible fungi continue to be imported to satisfy local consumption.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Darren Sammy has urged his West Indies side to remain focussed on the task at hand, following the drawn second Test against Sri Lanka.

There is a high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among patients who seek treatment at the Accident & Emergency (A&E) unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC),

Dear Editor, In Business Page of October 3rd, 2010 I expressed the hope that those who were entrusted with powers and duties for the liquidation of Clico would ensure full compliance with the laws.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said that recent comments by Pope Benedict on the use of condoms in the reduction of the HIV infection are important

Dear Editor, I am 70 years old and had been a teacher for 52 years, 38 years with the Ministry of Education and 14 years in after-retirement service.

Residents of Pattensen, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara were yesterday startled following the discovery of the lifeless body of a 71-year old man, described as an alcoholic.

There are several areas where the Caribbean Community (Caricom) can and should be using the Union of South American States (UNASUR) as part of its strategic agenda but the governance structure of Caricom needs to be reformed, Professor Norman Girvan says.

GUWAHATI, India, (Reuters) – Virat Kohli’s brisk  century set up a 40-run win for India over New Zealand in the  first one-day international of a five-match series yesterday.

Dear Editor, According to the Business Page written by renowned accountant Christopher Ram (November 21), “in 2007 alone VAT amounted to 12.6 billion, or 49%, of which VAT by itself had exceeded the taxes it was supposed to replace by a staggering 76%.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Kirk Edwards is the only complete newcomer named in a 15-member squad for the limited-overs leg of West Indies’ tour of Sri Lanka next month.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The family of Pakistan  wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider have told police they have received threatening calls after the player said he would expose  people involved in corruption in Pakistan cricket.

Dear Editor, Perhaps the three security guards’ decision to accept cash (‘Tortured guards accept money’ SN, Nov 25 in return for not giving evidence against those who battered them is the best outcome for the three.

With police moving slowly on the investigation into the murder of Mon Repos carpenter, Kawal Outar, relatives are now offering a reward to anyone with information

Dear Editor, It is written. Yes, it was written, Winston, that we would all pay our last respects to you in one form or the other on November 29, 2010.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s elections ended  in confusion yesterday as 12 of the 18 presidential candidates  denounced “massive fraud” and demanded the polls be annulled  and street protests erupted over voting delays and problems.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – All-rounder Shakib al Hasan has  been retained as Bangladesh captain for next month’s one-day  international series against Zimbabwe, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said yesterday.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – The struggling Miami Heat held   a players-only meeting that lasted 20 minutes following their  106-95 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday.

Last week the headmaster of the Wismar/Christianburg Secondary School Cleveland Thomas was taken to task when he refused to promote children who had not passed their exams contrary to the Ministry of Education’s new ‘no child left behind policy’.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia  repeatedly exhorted the United States to “cut off the head of  the snake” by launching military strikes to destroy Iran’s  nuclear program, according to leaked U.S.

Some 111 members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) were last week awarded the Military Efficiency and Border Defence Medals as part of the Force’s 45th anniversary activities.

Dear Editor, When women are empowered, society is empowered. It is time for the women of Guyana to take a stand in their own interest and for our collective interest. 

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) on Thursday presented several charitable organisations with monetary donations as part of its social programme.

ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Voters in Ivory Coast awaited  the outcome of a presidential run-off on Sunday meant to end a  decade of instability, but reports of violence and accusations  of voter intimidation created an atmosphere of tension and fear.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Cleveland Cavaliers head coach  Byron Scott has been fined $35,000 for criticising game  officials, the NBA said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-seven thousand new jobs are set to stimulate the economy with the construction of two major projects being undertaken by the Ministry of Works.

Dear Editor, President of Alpha United, Mr Odinga Lumumba, who continues to display arrogance in relation to the coordination and successful staging of a football tournament, has once more bitten off more than he can chew by publicly advocating that the co-directors of the Kashif & Shanghai knockout tournament should increase the winner’s prize money to $4,000,000 and give each team a preparation fee of $400,000. 

(Reuters) YEONPYEONG, South Korea, (Reuters) – South Korean   and U.S. forces pressed on with massive military drills yesterday as regional powers considered a call by China for   emergency talks following North Korea’s attack on a southern   island.

Two Saturdays ago, there was a major theft from Mohamed’s Enterprise on Lombard Street.

The Ministry of Housing and Water took its ‘One Stop Shop’ to Uitvlugt last week expecting by the end of the day, that 227 house lots would have been allocated in Phase Two of the Tuschen New Housing Scheme.

(Jamaica Observer) A high percentage of the ambulances assigned to public hospitals are down and almost out for the count, a probe of the institutions by the Sunday Observer has found.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Jose Mourinho has Gonzalo  Higuain and Sami Khedira fit for Real Madrid’s La Liga game at Barcelona today and hinted he is likely to field his regular starting XI for the “clasico”.

In the song “Angels Wings”, dedicated to Caribbean mothers, I am actually singing about the life of my own mother, Zepherina Barcellos, who left many impressions on me. 

Dear Editor, There has been much publicity recently on the state of affairs surrounding the eroding fabric of Essequibo’s cricket generally, and the notion that Essequibo doesn’t belong at the forefront of the nation.