Articles published on Monday, January 10, 2011
There is never a dull moment in the cat sparring between Central Government and City Hal…and things are likely to get worse before they get better with Hammie Green now being not only Mayor but, apparently, harbouring ambitions of being the PNCR’s presidential candidate.
Ties between Britain and its Caribbean dependency of Anguilla took a turn for the worse on Saturday following a fiery speech by its Chief Minister, Hubert Hughes during which he mentioned Guyana thrice and invoked the spirit of the island’s 1967 revolt against its colonial rulers.
Search efforts are ongoing in the Essequibo River for a 22-year-old woman who went missing following a boat mishap in the river yesterday.
A Number 19 Village businessman was attacked and robbed by armed bandits on Saturday evening and is now nursing wounds to the head inflicted by a cutlass beating.
President Pratibha Patil of India yesterday conferred the prestigious Pravasi Samman Award on Guyanese American Ashok Kumar Ramsaran, formerly of Whim, Corentyne.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict called today for Pakistan to repeal its anti-blasphemy law, days after a senior Pakistani politician who opposed the legislation was assassinated by his own bodyguard.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Basque separatist group ETA called a permanent ceasefire today, Basque regional newspaper Gara said on its website, three months after the weakened group announced a halt to armed attacks.
Fire this morning gutted the Humphrey’s building on Main and Holmes streets.
The European Union in December last year disbursed $3.54B to Guyana under the 2007-2010 sugar programme and the coastal zone protection project.
President Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon said that many persons from his party, the business community and even from “some” opposition parties lobbied him to go for a third term in office but his answer has always been no.
Gordon Baird, the man who a relative had identified as the victim of the market explosion on Wednesday is alive and well.
GECOM Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally has been asked by President Bharrat Jagdeo to resign from his post as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).
With global food prices hitting a record high last month and with prices forecast to increase, the Ministry of Agriculture is pursuing initiatives to cushion the impact locally and also benefit economically from higher earnings from agricultural exports, Minister, Robert Persaud says.
Last year was another “sterling” year for gold with export earnings of US$346.4M, an increase of over 22% over 2009, according to the Guyana Gold Board.
Kaneville businessman Majeed Khan who was shot once during a robbery at his home on Thursday evening remains hospitalized in a critical condition with the bullet lodged in his body.
The concept notes for several projects to be funded under Guyana’s forestry agreement with Norway are expected to be submitted to the Steering Committee of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) within the first quarter of this year.
As Ministry of Public Works and City Hall workers continued their demolition at the Stabroek Market square yesterday, owners of permanent business structures watched on silently dreading when it would be their turn to see years of hard work torn to pieces.
A woman was on Friday placed on a total of $100,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, on two separate charges.
The Mayor and City Council is becoming increasingly concerned about the number of abandoned lots as they are being used as hideouts for criminal elements and threaten the safety of communities.
The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has established a permanent presence in Lethem, Region 9, with the commissioning of an office there on Monday, increasing the number of its local offices countrywide to 14.
A man was placed on $50,000 bail on Friday, on charges of conspiracy and uttering a forged document.
Colin Jones, Randy Mars and Jafar Simpson were last week given dates for the commencement of the preliminary inquiries into charges levelled against them, including the attempted murder of three men and an arson attack at the High Court.
The police conducted a drug eradication operation at Swan, Soesdyke/Linden Highway on Saturday.
Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde has urged citizens to reflect on their lives and on the direction of the state and to take decisive action this year to bring about the changes they desire.
NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – An arena that bears the name of a batsman that terrorised bowlers all around the World during his playing days appropriately provides the backdrop, as the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship opens today.
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 yesterday.
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 yesterday.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Women will be looking to make history, when their five-match One-day International series against India Women opens today at the Bandra Kurla Complex.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A half-century from Dwayne Smith failed to inspire Barbados, and they suffered another setback in their preparation for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, when English county Hampshire prevailed in a nail-biting, three-wicket victory on Saturday.
JUBA, Sudan, (Reuters) – Millions of jubilant south Sudanese voted yesterday in an independence referendum which could cut Africa’s biggest country in two and deprive the north of most of its lucrative oil.
TEHRAN, (Reuters) – At least 70 people were killed and 35 injured when an Iranian Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed in bad weather in northwestern Iran yesterday, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent said.
The sport of chess made a couple of tentative steps forward in 2010 with the formation of a regional committee, the hosting of a Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rated tournament and the staging of the national senior and junior championships among the positives.
Dear Editor, As the PPP gets closer to choosing its presidential candidate for the 2011 elections the mechanism by which it will do so has become clearer, although some details are still unclear.
Dear Editor, The United Nations Organisation – an international forum representative of most of the world’s peoples – has chosen to designate this year as ‘The Year of People of African Descent.’
National rugby Sevens director, Mike McCormack disclosed yesterday that the national rugby Sevens squad did not accomplish its goal, nor the goals of the teams coach, Theodore Henry at last Saturday’s trial games at the National Park.
TUNIS, (Reuters) – Fourteen civilians were killed in clashes with Tunisian police in the past 24 hours, official media and the government said yesterday, in the worst violence in the country for decades.
Dear Editor, I have been involved in cricket administration since February, 1983, when I was elected President of Malteenoes Sports Club.
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.
‘Mr.Knowledge’ is no more. Saturday night, Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies lost one the greatest servants of cricket in the region, then Michael ‘Joey’ Carew passed on at the age of 73, at his home at Warren Street Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain.
Dear Editor, There is much anticipation and interest by Guyanese, home and abroad, in the dawn of this new day.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – When the ground shook Haiti on a Caribbean afternoon a year ago, toppling homes like cards and killing around 250,000 people, world leaders promised quick action to ease the human tragedy and rebuild the country.
BANGALORE, India, CMC – Recovering West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor has quite remarkably been able to snag an Indian Premier League deal.
By Vishnu Bisram A memorial plaque will be inaugurated in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, tomorrow in tribute to the hundreds of thousands of Indians who left India under the indentured scheme between 1834 and 1917 in that perilous journey to save the sugar plantations of the colonial empire.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil is planning to spend $6 billion (10 billion reais) on a new project to protect its borders against smuggling and arms trafficking, Folha de S.
SYDNEY, CMC – Chris Gayle served notice on Indian Premier League bidders, when he set a new Twenty20 Big Bash record in a dashing half-century that helped to set-up a 19-run victory for Western Australia against New South Wales yesterday.
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in your newspaper (‘Story and photo caption on website a misrepresentation,’ Jan 7) written by George Vyphuis and containing the following words: “They were present… but moved immediately when they observed Freddie Kissoon taking the photograph.”
If there is one single event last year which signposted neatly all of the failings of the police force it was the hair-raising slaughter in September of five persons – including a child – at Cummings Lodge.
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When I was youngster I worked for about three years at Atkinson Field (now Timehri) which was originally an American base.
Alex Dupuy, a native of Haiti, is a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University and the author most recently of “The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Inter-national Community, and Haiti.”
This week we asked business people in Linden to compare last year with 2009 and give us their projections for this year.
