Daily Archive: Sunday, January 30, 2011

(WICB)  Colombo, Sri Lanka – The West Indies will open their three match One Day International Series against Sri Lanka on Monday at the Sinhalese Sports Club.

Presidential candidate and businessman Peter Ramsaroop will participate in an economic forum on Guyana on Friday, February 4 in Orlando, Florida.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton said today the United States wants to see  Organization of American States recommendations enacted to  provide a solution to the electoral crisis in Haiti.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Third seed Novak Djokovic  pulverised Andy Murray 6-4 6-2 6-3 to win his second Australian  Open today, dashing British hopes of a first men’s grand  slam champion in 75 years.

CAIRO/KUWAIT, (Reuters) – Qatar-based satellite  channel Al Jazeera was ordered by Egypt’s information ministry  today to shut down its operations in the country, and later  in the day its signal to some parts of the Middle East was cut.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Australia wrapped up a  morale-boosting one-day series victory over England with two  games to spare after a 51-run win in the fifth match at the  Gabba on Sunday.

(De Ware Tijd)  — All public places have to be declared smoke-free before December 2011.

(De Ware Tijd) — The two exploration wells multinational Murphy Oil has drilled about 190 kilometers northeast of the deep sea-area of Suriname till a depth of about 3,500 meters along the maritime border with French Guiana (Block 37) are dry.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – President Hosni Mubarak, clinging  to power despite unprecedented demands for an end to his 30-year  rule, met today with the powerful military which is widely  seen as holding the key to Egypt’s future.

lpha ‘The Hammer’ United easily sailed over  their final hurdle in the NAMILCO Football Festival Tournament to claim top honours on Friday night at the Tucville Playfield.

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Ramnaresh Sarwan is happy to be back in West Indies colours and is eagerly looking forward to the three One Day Internationals against Sri Lanka.

When the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) introduced England ‘A’ into its annual first-class tournament in 2001, some of the reaction bordered on paranoia.

St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced a historic US$360,000 grant programme which is aimed at supporting club cricket across the Caribbean.

Former president of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Martin Stephenson, who died on January 20 at the St.

Alliance For Change (AFC) presidential candidate and Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan said his party will institute ethnic impact audits to ensure that all Guyanese benefit equally from the projects and plans emanating from an AFC government.

Kurt Bess avenged his loss to Anthony Augustin in destructive style with a first round knockout on Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A thirty-seven-year-old man was this morning stabbed to death in a Strathspey, East Coast Demerara bar following an argument with a group of men.

The police say that they are probing the murder of Nandalall Williams known as `Poodle’ of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara.

By Marlon Munroe Former president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association Attorney-at-Law, Anil Nandlall, said yesterday that the injunction which was withdrawn by the Bissondyal Singh-led Demerara

President Bharrat Jagdeo is set to depart today for India to clinch a deal for a specialty hospital to be manned by a team of experts from that country.

Shafiau Rasheid wants to come home. She boarded a plane in March, 1977 as a 17-year old girl to migrate to Ontario, Canada “because Guyana was starting to get really bad.”

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Raphael Trotman said that recent allegations that Suriname President Desi Bouterse and drug kingpin Roger Khan were involved in drug trafficking together until 2006 were an open secret.

A three-category draughts tournament will take place today at the National Gymnasium.

Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand has accused the Rules Committee of the High Court, headed by acting Chancellor Carl Singh, of dragging its feet in the start-up of the Family Court, months after construction of the court building was completed.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mohammad Hafeez scored his  first one-day century and Shahid Afridi blasted the  equal-fastest half century in New Zealand as Pakistan levelled  their one-day series against the hosts following a 43-run  victory at Lancaster Park yesterday.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The International Cricket  Council (ICC) has rejected the Indian board’s request to keep  Eden Gardens in Kolkata as the venue for the World Cup match  between India and England on Feb.

The new landfill located at Haags Bosch behind Eccles Industrial Estate on the East Bank of Demerara will be opened on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 bringing an end to the dumping of garbage at Le Repentir.

The two-day practice match between Assad Fudadin’s XI and Devendra Bishoo’s XI ended in a draw at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda yesterday.

A feasibility study conducted by the Chinese company Bosai Minerals Group late last year did not favour the establishment of an alumina plant in Linden, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said on Friday.

PNCR-1G MP Clarissa Riehl says improved relations between Guyana and Venezuela have provided this country with an opportunity to ask its neighbour to drop its claim to “our territory once and for all.”

MOLINEUX, St Kitts, CMC – St Kitts and Nevis and England Lions played to a draw on the final day of their two-day tour match at Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Tamar Lambert has reclaimed his place as captain of Jamaica’s four-day team, following his axing earlier this month for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) retired Justice Cecil Kennard says the ranks implicated in the torture of a teenager should not face further disciplinary action, given that a properly brought case in the court was dismissed for want of witnesses.

The Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) will launch its 2011 race walk season with a 10K event around the National Park commencing at 06:30hrs this morning.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) and Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will co sponsor this year’s  Mashramani table tennis tournament which is scheduled to begin next month at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall .

Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr Roger Luncheon was discharged from the Georgetown Public

The nationwide Stag Beer and El Dorado Softball  tournament will continue today with several matches at various venues after a successful start last Sunday.

A Lance Corporal from the Guyana Defence Force died last night when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a Toyota Prado on the Tuschen Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

Vickram Sukraj, one of the Crabwood Creek Primary school children involved in the January 10 Tapir accident was discharged on Friday while Rohame Baran is due for an operation on her leg this Tuesday.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Kim Clijsters drew on her huge wealth of experience to ride out a Li Na storm and claim her maiden Australian Open title yesterday by shattering China’s dream of a  first grand slam champion.

Dear Editor,We have all experienced those clichéd opening scenes of horror movies where the wind whistles and sometimes roars through the trees of an overgrown cemetery.

Today is World Leprosy Day, an occasion which has been observed worldwide for the past 57 years.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s street protesters pushed President Hosni Mubarak into naming a deputy who might in time succeed him, but thousands went on defying a curfew and urging the army to join them in forcing Mubarak from power immediately.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray will put friendship aside when they meet in today’s Australian Open final to decide who fills the power vacuum left by the early  exits of Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Philadelphia 76ers surrendered  a 21-point lead in the second half before losing 99-94 to the  Memphis Grizzlies on Friday.

Dear Editor,AFC presidential candidate, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan’s reassurance to Indian Guyanese there is no reason for them to be fearful of African-Guyanese has instead riled others who view the comment as racially provocative.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday it was not enough simply to “reshuffle the deck” with a shake-up of his government and pressed him to make good on his promise of genuine reform.

Listen up

A few days after regaining consciousness Shaunell Warrick has been moved from the Intensive Care Unit to the High

Every autocrat in the Arab world must be shaking in his sandals.

As promised, this week’s column looks at the importance of tax rates in the overall scheme of tax policy in any country.

I love dialects. An Irishman in full cry, particularly under some drink, can be a pure joy, even though we may not understand half of what he’s saying; it’s a musical experience.

President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will visit Brazil, Chile and El Salvador in March – in what will be his first trip to South America – could result in an improvement in Brazil-US ties following a significant downturn over the past two years.

Main Street certainly fulfilled all the expectations of the city’s forefathers from the date it was christened, and matches Brickdam, our oldest street, for popularity and prominence.

“It’s a slow dollar but it’s better than working with people and it keeps me out of trouble,” says Keith Stanley, a 45-year-old man who repairs shoes and umbrellas.

The Jaguar (Panthera onca) is the largest cat in the Americas and ranges from the south western US to Argentina. 

Everywhere in the world the ordinary man in the street has been brainwashed into supposing that the only thing that matters is economic success.

On January 25 the BBC World Service announced that as part of a new funding arrangement with the British Government it will be cutting the broadcaster’s budget by 16 per cent or by around US$73 (£46M) per annum.

The budget next time As on previous similar occasions, beginning next week I shall suspend further discussion of the topic under present consideration in my Sunday columns, in order to present an evaluation of the 2011 National Budget. 

Shade shelters are an important structure where rain forest plants are gathered together.

It was announced on January 24 in London that Caribbean poet Derek Walcott had won the TS Eliot Poetry Prize 2010 for his latest collection White Egrets. 

The following article is by Julie Lewis, herself disabled, on the Disability Rights Act which was passed by Parliament last year and signed into law by President Jagdeo in November.

Continued Since we are dealing with various poisons, it is quite appropriate that we rely on scientists who have reported on specific toxicities.

In the Tata Steel 2011 chess tournament which ends today, it is world champion Vishy Anand and US champion Hikaru Nakamura who lead the field with seven points each in Group A after ten rounds.