Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 30, 2010

A Russian national is dead after a motorcycle accident on the Farm Public Road, EDB around six this evening.

The prisoner who drank a quantity of suspected formalin was today awaiting treatment under guard in the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Child sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud has been fired from his position at the Georgetown Hospital, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said today in a press release.

A 29-year-old Diamond Housing Scheme man was brutally stabbed to death at Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara by a teenager during an early morning row today.

Guyana is donating $20M each to St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines to help in infrastructure restoration in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Thomas which struck last month.

QUITO, (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean government official  has invited the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website  to live and lecture in the country, days after the site caused  an international uproar by releasing additional sensitive U.S. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government said it  would tighten security after WikiLeaks released more than  250,000 U.S.

Scores of Leguan residents said goodbye to ‘Lloyd’, the name by which PNCR Parliamentarian Winston Murray was well known on the Essequibo River island,

Wikileaks.org which has created an uproar in the US over the release of insider accounts of the war in Afghanistan and now the release of a vast  amount of  US diplomatic cables says 380 of them pertain to Guyana.

(Jamaica Observer) MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The West Indies Union (WIU) Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is no more.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s blazing run to   the final of the Asian Games this month has given them a taste   of success and now they are gunning for the cricket big time.

A year after their son’s decomposed body was removed from the Ekereku River a week after his disappearance from the Guyana Defence Force border post at Eteringbang, Julian and Denise Marks talk with Guyana Review editor Arnon Adams about the still unexplained circumstances of Private Julian Machel Miquel Marks’ untimely death.

Reprinted from the Trinidad and Tobago Review – October 2010By anka Price David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados who died of pancreatic cancer two Saturdays ago, was the 14th prime minister in the English-speaking Caribbean to die in office in the last 43 years.

The following editorial was published by the Jamaica Gleaner on Tuesday, October 26, 2010.

Introduction The disputed Kenyan Presidential elections of 2007 sparked horrendous clashes among supporters of the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki and his losing challenger Raila Odinga.

Importance of partnerships and human rights in the global, regional and national response to hiv and aids: Address by he kofi a annan to the Tenth Annual General Meeting of the pan Caribbean Partnership against hiv and aids (pancap) 31 october 2010, st maarten Thank you for that warm welcome.

The August 1961 general election – nearly fifty years ago – was one of the most significant in the pre-Independence period. 

About Pauline Melville Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948.

One swallow decidedly does not make a summer and we must be mindful that what, for the West Indies, was a commendable outcome to the just concluded first Test match against Sri Lanka does not engender a misplaced sense of euphoria.

Kashif Muhammad gives the signal that plans for the 21st annual K&S tournament are underway One doubts that the twenty first annual Kashif & Shanghai football tournament can match the spectacle of its immediate predecessor, though, over the years, the promoters have proven quite adept at springing surprises.

Information is available on the US source who has been financing, providing arms for and “intellectual” support to the gang responsible for the Ministry of Health (MoH) fire and a series of attacks last year, but the source used multiple identities and his true name is still unknown, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.

More than 21 kilogrammes of cocaine were discovered in a car at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara following a search by police.

Two men accused by the police of having ammunition in a barrel were yesterday remanded to prison until today by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Another Guyanese earlier this year, won a ‘Teacher of the Year’ award, this time in the Central American country of Belize.

Men and boys of Skeldon are the first to embrace an initiative aimed at ending the abuse of women and children countrywide with the signing of the Skeldon Declaration being piloted by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security.

Pay hike talks between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and GAWU are expected to resume this week, but the union said yesterday that a meeting was still to be scheduled.

Lucky G T&T’s Cellink customers can win more than a Christmas bonanza as monthly prizes of motorcycles, air travel and cars are up for grabs in GT&T’s ‘Textmas’ promotion.

Charles Rawlins, the man accused of murdering Okemo Todd, the mother of his children, was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magis-trate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

An educationist first and foremost who was interested in his pupils was how former Queen’s College Headmaster Frederick Morrison Telemachus `Telly’ Lowe was described by two former students of his.

A mining company is proposing a gold and copper mine at Toroparu along the Upper Puruni River and has applied to the Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) for the necessary approval.

A murder accused was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for manslaughter and later granted $200,000 bail, bringing his one year incarceration to an end.

The committee formed by football clubs invited to participate in the upcoming Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Tournament, Clubs for Negotiation (CFN), met with directors of the Kashif and Shanghai Organization on Sunday.

The trial into the Guyana Power & Light (GPL) stolen transformer case was yesterday adjourned until December 20 after defence lawyers indicated to the court that they could not return in the afternoon.

The first phase of construction for a permanent building to house the Guyana Karate College (GKC) will commence next week at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Photos by Orlando CharlesStabroek Sport took to the streets yesterday to ask the ordinary citizen what they thought about the issues surrounding the upcoming Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament.

Accident victim Vishram Persaud was yesterday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital after three weeks there, two of which he remained unconscious.

The Pepsi Sonics basketball club’s senior team won all their games in the recently concluded ‘Refresh your world’ basketball competition to emerge  winners of the tournament last Sunday at the National Gymnasium.

DILLON, Martinique, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago were eliminated from the Digicel Caribbean Cup on Sunday night after they slumped to another shock defeat, this time at the hands of Grenada.

The finals of the second annual Guinness Greatest of De Street Futsal Competition will be decided tonight when the two semi-final matches are contested at the National Park Tarmac.

Dear Editor, It is often said that the flesh of a good man grazes the dust of the earth for only a moment in time but his presence and legacy endure forever.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA should postpone Thursday’s  vote to choose the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts and allow an  independent investigation into corruption allegations, watchdog  body Transparency International (TI) said yesterday.  

Dear Editor, The stand made by the teacher from Linden is a likely catalyst for sensible decision-making by the Minister of Education.

The Male Open and Male Over 40 finals, along with the female semi-finals and finals of the General Marine-sponsored softball competition will be played on Saturday at GCC Ground, Bourda, and the day/night matches will start at 2:00 pm.

Dear Editor, I have been a resident of Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara for the past forty years, residing at Lot 407 Victoria Middle Walk Dam which is my own property.

Dear Editor, Responses to domestic violence have not been as comprehensive as they should because each one is busy blaming the other for not doing enough, or doing the same things over and over again. 

Walter Grant-Stewart rode his way to victory in the 11th annual Diamond Mineral Water 50-Mile cycle road race held on the West Demerara on Sunday.

Dear Editor, With reference to your Sports Scope: Our opinion, headlined ‘Gagged’ about the National Chess Champion not being able to defend his title in the championship, it is my humble opinion that the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) has made numerous blunders in the recent past and continues to do so without any sanction being levelled against it.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Reggae Boyz World Cup star Robbie Earle believes there is a need for an enhanced coaching structure in the Caribbean.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Alastair Cook led England to a  clutchful of records and the unlikeliest of opening test draws  yesterday but most importantly served Australia notice that the  Ashes will not be surrendered without an almighty struggle.

Dear Editor, It’s my firm belief that in the next few years social workers will have their work cut out when it comes to the automatic promotion policy of the Ministry of Education, if we have not already seen the fruits of such a policy.

Participants of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA)/ Olympic Solidarity annual sports administrator’s course for the year 2010 received their certificates of completion at the course’s conclusion at the Olympic House on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Medical practice is about legitimately making the body an object of diagnostic intervention; doctors who are sex offenders can`t do this without transgressing the mental and symbolic barrier (ie via threats) surrounding the body. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – International observers  yesterday cautiously endorsed Haiti’s troubled elections,  saying they could be considered valid despite “irregularities”  that generated popular protests and charges of fraud.

Dear Editor, I am commenting on your news story ‘DDL awarded as best Caribbean and American distiller’ (SN, Nov 22).

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Indiana Pacers held   off the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers for a   95-92 upset victory on Sunday, their first triumph at the   Staples Center.

LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton questioned the mental health of Argentina’s Presi-dent  Cristina Fernandez, asking U.S.

Dear Editor, For the good of the game can the Kashif and Shanghai Organization say why they cannot give dirt poor footballers more money.

Dear Editor, The process of electing a political party or coalition of parties, to rule a jurisdiction, is an enormous one that must be carefully studied and understood by all members of the electorate.

CANCUN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Washington claimed  progress yesterday in easing rifts with Beijing on ways to  fight global warming as U.N.

Dear Editor, The ongoing saga of UG’s 2009 valedictorian, Loria-Mae Heywood, is a grim reminder to us all.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said yesterday a “rigged” election had all but wiped out its presence in  parliament, virtually eliminating opposition to President Hosni  Mubarak’s ruling party before next year’s presidential vote.

These are difficult times for the health sector, more particularly, for state-run hospitals.

Dear Editor, I am greatly disturbed when I view some statements made in the media about Dr Vishwamintra Persaud.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – Secretive North Korea detailed for  the first time its expanded nuclear programme yesterday, saying  it had thousands of centrifuges as pressure built on China to  rein in its ally amid heightened tensions on the peninsula.