Daily Archive: Saturday, December 4, 2010

(BBC) A United Nations report has warned that the Caribbean’s tourism industry is facing a potentially disastrous threat.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Alastair Cook continued to   dominate Australia’s bowlers with an unbeaten 136 to help   drive England to a first-innings lead of 72 with eight wickets   in hand after second day of the second Ashes test today.

KANDY, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – The persistent rain   which has dogged the third and final test continued to thwart   Sri Lanka’s attempts to bowl West Indies out in their first   innings today as the match drifted towards a tame draw.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced that Chinese nationals resident here legally for seven continuous years and more will be automatically entitled to citizenship.

Public service employees and members of the disciplined services will receive a 5% retroactive pay hike for this year.

A taxi driver of  No. 2 Canje died yesterday when he set himself afire in his mother-in-law’s house while trying to elude police who had been chasing after him.

The lifeless bodies of two teenagers whose intention to wed was met with parental disapproval, were found hanging in an abandoned house at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD) yesterday morning.

A third government website has gone down in almost as many weeks and the administration has been reported as saying that it will be seeking assistance from international authorities to identify the suspected cyber attackers.

Minster of Education Shaik Baksh said yesterday that the automatic promotion policy was put in place after a survey throughout secondary schools in the country found that on average 80 percent of students who were made to repeat a class later dropped out of school.

In the wake of the robbery at the Engineering Construction Incorporated (ECI), during which masked gunmen escaped with millions in booty via the Demerara River, police have said that there are usually two river patrols but one is currently down.

President Bharrat Jagdeo told a large gathering at the new Port Mourant market during his commissioning address on Thursday that  persons will no longer be allowed to do roadside vending outside of the  facility but several grouses surfaced yesterday.

Domestic airline Air Services Limited (ASL) has accused the management of the Ogle Airport of discrimination after construction works which the former recently undertook to expand its operations were halted by the airport’s management.

While the availability of anti-retroviral therapies (ART) has transformed HIV from a killer to a chronic condition, there are no grounds for complacency as such an attitude is most likely to undermine gains made in recent years in the fight against the epidemic, according to the National AIDS Committee (NAC).

The PNCR says that neither its Chairman Bishwaishwar “Cammie” Ramsaroop nor any of the party’s officers were asked to deliver a tribute at Tuesday’s Leguan interment ceremony for former chairman Winston Murray.

A 26-year-old Venezuelan tourist and clothing vendor was yesterday sentenced to 30 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of illegal entry, and forgery.

Earl Melville, the prisoner who it is suspected drank a quantity of formalin on Friday last, was yesterday sentenced to a period of four years imprisonment after Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry found him guilty on a drug related charge.

Twenty-five children, from two to 16  years old, recently participated in the Tina Insanally Foundation’s first workshop, an Introduction to Music for children, at Theatre Guild Playhouse, Barrack Street, Kingston.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) said last evening that it could pay its workers a 16 percent increase in wages and salaries but not the across-the-board increase of 20 percent that the unions are demanding.

From the tender age of seven, Richie Righteous knew he wanted to sing and by the age of 18 he was producing and writing his own songs through which he tells the world about Jesus Christ.

I’m watching the final stretch of a race. Some of the athletes look fatigued and drained while others look composed and as fresh as can be.

Hi Everyone, ‘Tis the season the oven gets most fired up.

Cellink Berbice snatched victory from the jaws of defeat after a hat-trick by off spinner Narsingh Deonarine sank the Demerarians by seven runs in Pepsi/Carib T20 tournament last night at the Guyana National Stadium.

It is always fabulous when a boutique can come to you, which is why John Lewis Styles scores high points for pitching the clothes directly to the public with its annual shows.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A British newspaper, the Independent, yesterday launched a caustic attack on FIFA’s high-ranking Trinidadian executive member Jack Warner after football’s world governing body rejected England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

Between 2006 and 2009, two companies–the Bauxite & Alumina Mining Venture Ltd (RUSAL) and Dynamic Engineering Inc–submitted proposals to the government to develop hydropower facilities here, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds told the National Assembly on Thursday.

The Essequibians did not disappoint and were not mere onlookers when they battled the Rest Team who eventually won by four wickets in the first match of the Carib/Pepsi T20 competition at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday.

The Indian Cultural Centre will screen two documentary films today from 5.30 pm at its Lot 5 New Haven, Bel Air premises.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Australia struck early to take   the prize wicket of England captain Andrew Strauss but   Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott eased the tourists to 90-1 at   lunch on the second day of the second Ashes test today.

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Pink scored her third No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart Thursday after “Raise Your Glass” rose one place to the top.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Michael Hall is one of three new appointees to the board of directors for the West Indies Players’ Association.

Sonia Noel believes that the Guyana Fashion Market which was recently launched at the Pegasus Hotel has the potential to advance the growth of the fashion industry here and also impact on job creation in the industry.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Pace bowler James Anderson   finally found his footing on Australian soil with a   spellbinding display of pace and movement to put England in   charge of the second Ashes test yesterday.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – It was not a warm homecoming  but it was a spectacular one as LeBron James scored a  season-high 38 points to lead the Miami Heat to a convincing  118-90 triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Former West Indian captain   Brian Lara wants to take part in the lucrative Indian Premier   League (IPL) next year after ending his three-year retirement   from cricket recently.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Herschelle Gibbs’s  international career could be over after Cricket South Africa  (CSA) said the 36-year-old batsman’s contract had been cancelled  by mutual consent.

THOUSAND OAKS, California, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods  gave himself extra reason to smile after stretching his lead to  a commanding four shots in the second round of the Chevron  World Challenge yesterday.

SUN CITY, South Africa, (Reuters) – World number one  Lee Westwood gave a golfing masterclass to sprint three shots  clear of the field after the Sun City Challenge second round yesterday.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has named an 18-man senior national Sevens rugby squad to begin training for the upcoming International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series in Las Vegas, United States on February 12 and 13 next year.

Dear Editor, Your issue of Sunday, November 28, 2010, carried my letter questioning the legality of the Ministerial Order No.

The National Under-17 football squad will depart Guyana tomorrow for the Dominican Republic to compete in the second leg of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Under-17 World Cup qualification series which takes place next week.

Dear Editor, One is forced to take the Minister of Health seriously when he admits to failure, and insists on apologising therefor.

ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s incumbent Laurent  Gbagbo is due to be sworn in as president toay after his  victory was rejected by world leaders but accepted by the army,  raising fears of a potentially violent power struggle.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican scientist Dr Henry Lowe on Thursday night threw a lifeline to men worldwide when he announced that he had developed a formula that can reduce and eliminate prostate cancer, the number one cause of cancer deaths among males.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Burden, acting chairman of  the Football Association, has withdrawn his application for the  permanent position saying he can no longer trust FIFA members  after the failure of England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

Dear Editor, The management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation has noted with interest the editorial in the Stabroek News issue of Monday, November 30, headlined, ‘The Nurse Houston incident and hospital security.’

CANCUN, Mexico, (Reuters) – China accused some  developed nations yesterday at U.N.

Dear Editor, Early in the year 1996, the fifth year of the “return to democracy,” some Trinidad and Tobago academics invited me to give a public talk at St Augustine on ‘Race and Politics in Guyana.’

Caricom Trade Ministers yesterday agreed on the goods that Haiti will be able to export within the Single Market on a non-reciprocal preferential basis for three years.

DHAKA, (Reuters)- Bangladesh’s Abdur Razzak took a   hat-trick and shared nine wickets with fellow left-arm spinner   Shakib Al Hasan to set up a crushing six-wicket victory in the   second one-day international against Zimbabwe yesterday.

Dear Editor, On May1, 2008, I wrote a letter to the editor on ‘Literacy in Guyana.’

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – U.S.  President Barack Obama, in a surprise visit to Afghanistan on  Friday, praised U.S.

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) continued its assistance to the development of cricket in the ancient county of Berbice with a donation of a Desktop Photocopier/Fax Machine/Phone System valued $120,000 to the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB).

(Trinidad Express) A new agreement will have to be negotiated between Government and former chairman of CL Financial Lawrence Duprey for the State to be in a strong position to recover billions of dollars it invested to save the insurance and real estate conglomerate.

Dear Editor, I am replying to the editor’s note appended at the bottom of my letter titled ‘MT Lowe remembered differently by some’ (SN, December 2). 

(Trinidad Express) Local manufacturers have complained that their exports in Caricom countries faced product boycotts after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s statements on how Trinidad and Tobago would offer assistance following the destruction caused by Hurricane Tomas.

Tain and Skeldon Community Centre Cricket Clubs registered comfortable victories in their respective playoff matches to ease themselves into the quarter-finals of the New Building Society (NBS) Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition in Berbice.

A recent biography of the legendary left-wing journalist IF Stone was memorably entitled All Governments Lie.’

CUERNAVACA, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers  captured a 14-year-old U.S. citizen suspected of being a drug  gang hitman as he attempted to travel to the United States.