Daily Archive: Sunday, January 23, 2011

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – West Indies women were let down by their batting to plunge to a six-wicket defeat to India in the opening Twenty20 International of their three-match series here yesterday.

The eruption of another fire at the Mandela Avenue landfill this afternoon has seen nearby residents continuing to express disgust at the situation.

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Yusuf Pathan’s  blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won  the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs today to take the series 3-2.

PARAMARIBO – Since the suspension of payment granted to insurance company Clico Suriname was lifted in October, there is calm among policy holders and creditors who want their money back.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – David Hussey halted a  middle-order collapse and guided Australia to a four-wicket  victory over England in the third one-day international at the  Sydney Cricket Ground today.

Dear Editor, We are shocked but not surprised by the miserable increases in the starvation-level old age pensions and public assistance from $6600 to $7500 and $4900 to $5500 per month respectively.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s interior minister said today the government had proof that the Army of Islam, a  Palestinian group linked to al Qaeda, was behind the New Year’s  Day bombing of a church that killed 23 people.

A long-standing dispute between neighbours over the use of a passageway turned fatal yesterday morning in ‘A’ Field Sophia.

Now Surinamese President Desi Bouterse remained involved in the drug trade after his conviction for drug trafficking in The Netherlands in 1999 until 2006 and was also cooperating with Guyana’s notorious drug lord Roger Khan, diplomatic cables carried in Dutch paper  NRC Handelsblad reported today.

A mother of three is now dead following an early morning accident in Alberttown yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force should focus on stemming the flow of cocaine instead of going behind the drug users which can only make the situation worse, says a United Nations expert on the drug abuse fight.

The proposed amendment to the constitution of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) was a hot button issue at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting yesterday at the Lusignan Community

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett says this country has no concerns at the moment about Venezuela invading Guyana because bilateral relations have been solid within recent years.

The quiet community of Albion, Corentyne has grown from a few residents to a population of about 10,000 with most of the residents depending on the sugar estate for employment.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) had sought legal advice on the extension of the life of the current administration following a request from a government minister, a source told Stabroek News yesterday.

Former first lady Joyce Hoyte was still a patient at the St Joseph Mercy up to news time last night with her diagnosis still unknown.

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said yesterday that her ministry had received no notice of any visit here by Indonesian officials via diplomatic channels as is usually done.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian protesters demanded the departure of the embattled prime minister yesterday, and an investigator promised to uncover the interior ministry’s role in this month’s shooting of scores of unarmed demonstrators.

Before going into a couple of matters arising out of the 2011 Budget let us clear up a few points.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – World powers failed to prise any change from Iran in two days of talks on its nuclear programme, with the EU and United States calling the discussions disappointing and saying no further meetings were planned.

Pandion Haliaetus, more commonly known as the Osprey or Fish Hawk, or locally known as ‘Tanuwaka,’ can be found in forested areas near bodies of water.

An important part of my life in the sugar industry, particularly the latter part, was spent battling the absurd concept that free trade is a universal good.

It’s barely 11 o’clock on a Monday morning; seated inside a bus surrounded by food Keith Hutchins is already busy at work on the pave at the side of Texaco Gas Station on Eping Avenue and Vlissengen Road.

Yesterday, sports in Guyana plunged to a new low. It was the first time in recent history that one can recall two separate annual general meetings being held by one organization.

Former secretary of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB), Raj Singh was  elected president of one faction of the  DCB at the first of what was two DCB Annual General Meetings and elections held yesterday.

For the past two years, the Obama administration has managed to keep its Latin American policy largely out of the headlines, focusing its energies on Iraq, Afghanistan and other

Although the Caribbean is making headway in arguing its case for a change in the level at which the UK’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) is charged, the issue still has some way to go politically.

Former President of the Amateur Athletics Association of Guyana (AAAG) and Attorney-at-Law Martin Stephenson passed away last Thursday at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital at the age of 89.

High expectations As I tried to make clear in last week’s column, the global economic crisis-induced shift in international economic governance and authority away from the G7 club of rich countries, to the

With the profusion of fast food joints that people throng  and the evident increase in obesity locally, the management team of the newly-opened Body Max Fitness Centre is urging Guyanese to get fit and change their lifestyle.

A number of key matches will highlight the opening round of the Stag Beer and El Dorado Rum male and female

Semi-final action will unravel tonight at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground as the BK International Western Tigers Super Eight Knockout Tournament continues with what is expected

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal’s quest to win four consecutive grand slam titles survived a feisty third-round challenge from teenager Bernard Tomic as record crowds flocked to the Australian Open in the hope of local success yesterday.

Julian Hunte has advanced “one fundamental reason” why the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has spent US$6 million in the two as yet unsponsored Caribbean Twenty20 tournaments, the second of which comes to its climax with the final at

Continued Arsenic Several weed killers, rat baits and insecticides contain arsenic and a chemical called metaldehyde, both of which are highly toxic substances.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A breathtaking half-century from stylish stroke-maker Darren Bravo lit up Kensington Oval here on Friday night, silencing Barbados and powering Trinidad and Tobago into the semi-finals of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. 

I have always held the view that amongst the greatest marks of an advanced civilization is the use of plants and wines to enhance the taste of the daily intake.

LONDON (Reuters) – Kenny Dalglish left Molineux beaming in delight yesterday after Liverpool beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 for their first victory since he returned as manager a fortnight ago.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s Prime Minister Brian Cowen bowed to pressure from members of the Fianna Fail party yesterday and resigned as its leader, but said he would serve as premier until a March 11 election.

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Needing 18 runs from the last over, to defeat English Country Hampshire and reach the finals of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, the Windward Islands fell short by four runs at Kensington Oval last night.

(Trinidad Express) There were conflicting reports over the qualifications and appointment of the new spy chief on Friday, with Minister of National Security John Sandy and acting President Timothy Hamel-Smith naming different agencies to which Reshmi Usha Ramnarine was appointed.

If the old political hands feel that we have suddenly entered an unfamiliar new world, they might have some justification.

Mr Michael Pereira, a member of the Guyana Chess Federation since the 1970s, passed away at the beginning of the new year.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Final standings following the completion of the preliminary stage of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship here on Friday:

Dear Editor, For a few years I have been reading the annual diatribe by Christopher Ram on the budgets which the government has been tabling. 

BAMAKO (Reuters) – West African presidents tightened the screws on Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo  yesterday, ridding him of an ally at the top of the regional central bank who had safeguarded his access to funds.

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