Daily Archive: Sunday, January 9, 2011

LONDON, (Reuters) – R&B singer Rihanna took the pop  music charts by storm this week with a number one single, album  and two other songs in the charts.

The police conducted a drug eradication operation at Swan, Soesdyke/Linden Highway yesterday.

Joey Carew, the former West Indies batsman, has died at age 73, ESPN Cricinfo reported today.

There were no bids for Windies batting legend Brian Lara and former captain Chris Gayle when the second round of bidding in the Indian Premier League ended today in Bangalore, the Times of India (ToI) said.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – An Iranian passenger jet with at  least 105 people on board crashed in bad weather today near  the northwestern city of Urumiyeh, Iranian media said.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma blazed a half-century  as India cantered to a 21-run win over South Africa in a one-off  Twenty20 international at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban today.

(Barbados Nation) Dr Richard Ishmael is back on the job at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).

The People’s Progressive Party yesterday said it was deeply concerned at the attack on the home of Philomena Sahoye-Shury.

African organisations on Saturday met and expressed displeasure at the process used by the Guyana Government to create its programme for the observance of the International Year for People of African Descent and the group further called for the postponement of the launch date.

HAMILTON, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Pakistan   completed a thumping 10-wicket victory in the first test over   New Zealand inside three days after they had bowled the hosts   out for just 110 in their second innings after the tea break.

Fifty-three vendors were allowed to return to their spots on the Stabroek Market Square after a meeting with Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall yesterday morning.

The mettle of the Guyanese players will undergo a series of tests over the next couple of weeks as the second Caribbean Twenty20 tournament bowls off tomorrow in Antigua.

BANGALORE, India, CMC – Chris Gayle will be hoping that he attracts Indian Premier League (IPL) bidders today, after he remained unsold at the players’ auction for the fourth edition of the competition yesterday.

After months of uncertainty, it appears that The Bahamas will in fact be stepping in to save this year’s Carifta Games with an announcement expected to be made by North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletics Association President Neville ‘Teddy’ McCook as early as next week.

Fiona Harris was returned unopposed as president of the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) on Friday evening when the association’s Annual General Meeting was held.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Steady bowling followed by solid batting, led by Stacy-Ann King and Merissa Aguilleira, propelled West Indies Women to a five-wicket victory over the BCCI President’s XI in their opening match of their tour of India yesterday.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – A tidy all-round performance from Kieron Pollard helped South Australia to a 55-run victory over compatriot Dwayne Bravo and Victoria in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – A steady all-round performance from Gary Mathurin helped Windward Islands rebound from defeat, and complete a six-run victory over Leeward Islands in a warm-up match on Friday ahead of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Three table tennis coaches namely Raynor `Copter’ Anderson, Linden Johnson and Muniram Persaud, are on a training course in Trinidad and Tobago that runs from January 5 – 11.

Georgetown Public Hospital could offer haemodialysis services as early as March this year, but the cost is expected to limit the number of initial patients who would benefit.

The St Lucia Government recently honoured two of its leading sport personalities – cricketer and West Indies skipper Darren Sammy and high jump Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Levern Spencer – for the honour that their exceptional achievements brought to their country.

A Canadian company is looking to start mining bauxite here and has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental authorization.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With political battles looming at home, President Barack Obama will pursue more accomplishments abroad this year, keeping foreign policy high on the agenda despite a main focus on fixing the US economy.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi scored a stunning freekick and helped set up two more goals as Barcelona swept hosts Deportivo Coruna aside 4-0 to surge five points clear at the top of La Liga yesterday.

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) – South Sudan’s vote on independence is a morale boost for separatists in other parts of Africa, but the continent’s leaders are unlikely to embrace it as a precedent to be followed elsewhere.

Former member of the Constitution Reform Commission Dr Rupert Roopnaraine is urging GECOM Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally to give up his appointment as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), a role seen in some quarters as a potential handicap in the execution of his duties in an election year.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – AC Milan and Flamengo reached an agreement yesterday for Ronaldinho’s transfer to Brazil’s 2009 champions, the Italian club’s vice-president Adriano Galliani said.

Queen’s Atlantic Investment Inc, the majority shareholder of the New GPC Inc, recently bought an 18.871 acre plot of land in Plantation Ruimveldt from the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL).

LONDON  (Reuters) – Record food prices will hit the world’s poorest hardest, raising the risk of riots, export bans, foreign-owned farmland expropriation and further price spikes fuelled by short-term investors.

Oil exploration company, Groundstar Resources has seen its stock price rise as drilling begins in blocks in which the Canada-based company has a stake.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Any pretensions Australia had to still being at the top table in test cricket have been shattered by their ashes humiliation with India, South Africa and their conquerors England likely to battle it for the right to call themselves the world’s best side. 

Residents at a North Ruimveldt home got a scare early yesterday morning when a gas cylinder exploded in the home.

Monkey business: A stuffed monkey hangs on

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early  yesterday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco as drug violence in Mexico intensified.

HAMILTON, New Zealand (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has undergone blood tests to determine a mystery illness making him lethargic and feel “fluey”, team manager Dave Currie said yesterday.

ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s government said it would slash the cost of some staple foods yesterday to try to quell four days of rioting, triggered by price rises, which killed two people and wounded several hundred.

Pay heed: A villager places an old salt bag in a hole in the Railway Embankment Road at Paradise, East Coast Demerara as a warning to motorists.

The issue of secret balloting to determine the PPP’s presidential candidate remains unresolved with party General Secretary Donald Ramotar yesterday, reiterating that this would be decided by the party at its leadership meetings.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fidel Edwards believes he is fitter than at any other time in his playing career, and is looking forward to returning to serious action.

HAMILTON, New Zealand (Reuters) – Captain Misbah-ul-haq and Asad Sahfiq ground out an unbroken 128-run partnership to resurrect Pakistan’s first innings and guide them to 235 for four at the close of play of the second day of the first test against New Zealand yesterday.

TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) – A US congresswoman from Arizona was shot in the head and seriously wounded and six other people were killed by a man who opened fire at a meeting the politician was holding in Tucson yesterday, officials said.

The Medical Council of Guyana has indicated to child sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud that his name would be officially removed from the register of local medical practitioners.

Trinidad and Tobago’s National Under 20 will travel to Georgetown to face Guyana’s Under 20 team in a friendly match on January 14.

Tigerwood Guyana Inc has filed a lawsuit against the company’s former Chief Financial Officer alleging mismanagement of millions of dollars in its operations and finances and seeking a series of remedies.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – South Sudan must embrace democracy if it wants to succeed as a new nation after Sunday’s referendum on independence, former US President Jimmy Carter said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Thanks for letting the public know that the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission has been appointed Chairperson of the Guyana Livestock Authority and for commenting on the matter in your editorial.

The man who police say was holding the grenade when it exploded at the Stabroek Market square on Wednesday morning has still not been positively identified.

Dear Editor, Of late, PPP and PNC contenders for the presidency have dominated the news, but until and unless I see the backs of President Bharrat Jagdeo and PNC Leader, Mr Robert Corbin, as they exit the door of politics into retirement where recently approved generous retirement packages await both, I won’t place any bets yet.

LONDON (Reuters) – Former Labour home secretary Jack Straw said yesterday some young Pakistani men regard white girls as easy targets for sexual abuse, drawing criticism from the Muslim community and other MPs.

The national carrier Caribbean Airlines has decided to sponsor the national senior cricket team to the tune off US$25,000.

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Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh last Thursday tabled the Pensions (President, Parliamentary and Special Offices Amendment) Bill 2010, which seeks to ensure that a legislator is not disqualified for pension because he did not attain the age of forty.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents.

It is too early to know the full context in which the grenade explosion took place in Stabroek Market on Wednesday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jerome Taylor hopes to manage the weight of expectations, and his creaky body when he makes his return to serious competition for Jamaica in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Justin McKenzie’s SN letter dated January 7, and captioned, ‘Why did GAIBANK never approach the government to make good foreign exchange losses?’

Nine miles from Vreed-en-Hoop is the village of Wales on the West Bank of Demerara.

The Jabiru Stork (Jabiru mycteria) is the tallest (122-40 cm) flying bird in South and Central America and belongs to the stork family, Ciconiidae.

If the multitude of establishment executives spent one half the time spent at cocktail parties doing something constructive or creative Guyana would be an infinitely better place.

“I’m one of the rated sno-cone men pun me park,” says sno-cone vendor Ulan Joseph.

The popular play Watch De Ride by Guyanese playwright Ronald Hollingsworth is a drama arising out of an act of carpe diem. 

‘A truly-global crisis!’ Utilizing the IMF’s terminology for the economic classification of countries worldwide, as a group the “emerging economies” have been clearly out-performing the “advanced economies” during this protracted period of global economic recession, financial crisis and credit squeeze.

Some time this year, Caribbean heads of government will appoint a new Caricom Secretary General.

Persons with Disabilities Act No.11 of 2010 signed by President Bharrat Jagdeo on November 2, 2010 The Explanatory Memorandum in the bill states: “(This Bill in effect spells out Article 149 of the Constitution in relation to protection from discrimination on the ground, in particular, of disability.

A very happy new year to all. Sowing seeds is not so much of a problem as it was say, thirty years or so ago, due to the gradual adoption by gardeners of the technique called space sowing, and the introduction of the cellular seed tray which enables gardeners to hold seedlings under shelter until the weather ‘outside’ is just perfect for them to be planted in the garden

Most people spend the largest amount of time in their living rooms.

There have been big headlines in recent weeks about projections that Brazil will become the world’s fifth-largest economy in five years, and that Latin America in general will become a new global economic star.

Continued Heat stroke After having dealt so copiously with emergencies associated with poisonings, we may now return to other life-threatening circumstances.

The year 2010 was a significant one for the Guyana Chess Federation.