Daily Archive: Saturday, January 1, 2011

Articles published on Saturday, January 1, 2011

Cleatus Azeem

Cop on bribery charge

A police officer accused of bribery was yesterday granted $50,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Stocks, commodities shine in 2010; euro suffers

NEW YORK/LONDON,  (Reuters) – World stocks ended 2010  at their highest levels in 28 months yesterday and oil touched  a 26-month peak as expectations of a further recovery in the  global economy supported investors’ appetite for risk heading  into the new year.

Skype could be designated illegal in China

BEIJING/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The popular Internet  telephone service Skype could be dealt a major setback in one  of the world’s largest markets as the Chinese government cracks  down on what it called illegal Internet telephone providers.

Reuters World News Highlights

MOSCOW – Russia rejected yesterday criticism by the West of  a ruling to keep jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in prison  until late 2017, saying foreign states had no right to try to  influence Russian courts.

One mistake?

Dear Editor, Ms Gail Teixeira, Presidential Advisor on Governance is quoted in Kaieteur News of Thursday, December 30 as saying that the failure by the government to bring into force the Amerindian Act, 2006 four years after its passage was “a mistake, but the only such mistake by the Government in their eighteen years in office.”

The cricket ground which needs upgrading with the stand

Seafield

Seafield/No 42 Village seemed quiet, like any ordinary village in West Coast Berbice, but a recent visit established that a lot actually goes on there, especially through the Region Five Disabled Persons’ Network (DPN).

On New  Year’s Day

Light and shadow

Many of us, at some time or another, generally as a new year beckons, have resolved to “keep a diary,” probably as part of some grand and comprehensive plan to organize one’s life better and achieve great things – plans, I am afraid, which very soon run aground on the dangerous

In the eye of the global economic storm

The US economy Because of the leading role the US economy plays in the generation of global output, demand, consumption, trade (imports and exports), technology, cross-border direct investment, and financial flows, the difficulties which it is presently encountering (as highlighted in last week’s column) vividly illustrate the continued fragility of the global economic recovery and why the global economic crisis is not going away.

Scented plants

I have little doubt that most people on this planet have their own list of favourite scented plants – scented buy virtue of their flowers, foliage, their fruit and even roots.