Articles published on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – The United States Olympic Committee promised yesterday to have a security plan in place before sending athletes to the Pan American Games this year in Guadalajara, which is engulfed in a deepening drug war.
LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – British reggae star Smiley Culture has died during a police raid in southern England, media outlets reported yesterday, and the death is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Enterprise high water: This Enterprise resident had to wade in knee-high water just to go to the shop yesterday.
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Sand bags stacked in front of a door at De Kinderen so as to prevent water from getting into the house.
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KANDY, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Pakistan are already safely through to the World Cup quarter-finals but coach Waqar Younis is putting a very high premium on their final “dead rubber” with Australia.
The Guyana Post Office Corporation is alerting the public that there have been delays in mail coming from Canada since these have been routed through Jamaica.
The People’s Progressive Party today said it was very concerned that even though the period of “Claims and Objections” is approaching in preparation for general elections the Guyana Elections Commission has not been meeting due to the lack of a quorum.
The United States Embassy today announced that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to close its Mission in Guyana in Fiscal Year 2012 as part of its worldwide strategy to be more efficient in the management of its aid resources.
KOLKATA, (Reuters) – JP Duminy agonisingly missed out on his first World Cup hundred by a run but his sparkling effort propelled South Africa into the quarter-finals with a crushing 131-run win over Ireland today.
MANAMA, (Reuters) – Bahrain’s king declared martial law today as his government struggled to quell an uprising by the island’s Shi’ite Muslim majority that has drawn in troops from fellow Sunni-ruled neighbour Saudi Arabia.
RABAT, (Reuters) – An opposition Libyan news website reported today that rebels flying a MiG 23 warplane and a helicopter sank two pro-Gaddafi warships off the eastern coast near the town of Adjabiyah.
(BBC) The West Indies Players Association says it will have to give more education to cricketers in the region about the dangers of illegal drugs.
The Board of the East Demerara Water Conservancy at 11 am today said that water in the conservancy had reached a threatening level and that a controlled release would have to be made into the Mahaica Creek via the Lama and Maduni sluices.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Silencing Kieron Pollard will be winning half the battle when England, the architects of their own predicament, take on West Indies in Thursday’s must-win World Cup Group B match in Chennai.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan’s earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at risk of possibly developing cancer.
Former project manager of the One Laptop per Family (OLPF) initiative Judson Lohmeyer has come in for harsh criticism from the Office of the President (OP) and labelled a “scoundrel” who misrepresented his qualifications.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan raced to avert a catastrophe after fire broke out today at a nuclear plant that has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and triggering growing international alarm at the escalating crisis.
Indiscipline and criminal activities at the Linden Foundation Secondary School have reached a crisis state, prompting regional officials and other stakeholders to develop an action plan to immediately address the situation.
There are as many permutations to settle the qualifiers for next week’s knockout, quarter-finals stage of the World Cup as to baffle a football pools addict but the West Indies know just what they must do to claim their place.
The police attempted to arrest Mark Benschop yesterday over the publication of documents they said were stolen from the Office of the President (OP), leading him to accuse the state of persistent harassment.
Intermittent rain over the weekend resulted in flash flooding throughout most of the country and, with more rain forecast until Friday, inundated East Coast and Georgetown residents fear worst days are ahead.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) had to be postponed Sunday last but a new date has not yet been scheduled.
Commander of ‘A‘ Division George Vyphuis has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Mark Benschop for allegedly attributing false statements to him on a website and publishing damaging information about him.
The sixth Annual Victory Valley Royals Schools Basketball Championship is set to be officially launched on Friday in Linden at the LEND Building (formally LEAP).
Physically challenged cyclist Ian Jackson pedalled his way to victory in the second leg of the third annual Dr.
While repairs to the bungled Good Hope stelling on the Essequibo Coast are ongoing, further modifications to cater for the roll-on roll-off ferries being sourced from the Chinese may be needed.
Three University of Guyana (UG) students accused of stealing a quantity of groceries, cash, a car and being in possession of cannabis appeared yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The West Indies selectors made a bold move to draft in Devendra Bishoo.
Milerock suffered a heart shattering defeat at the hands of Suriname’s Inter Moengotapoe when they clashed in their first round Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championships at the Mackenzie Sports Complex Ground on Sunday.
The Ministry of Education has launched a new website that aims to provide critical information for parents, teachers and students.
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Bangladesh made short work of their Dutch opponents in a Group B match to keep their World Cup quarter-final hopes very much alive yesterday but England will not be amused.
A Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara handyman was found dead in a drain yesterday and it is suspected that he died of drowning.
Dear Editor, Every so often you reproduce items from the Guyana page of the fortnightly Timber Trade Market reports from the International Tropical Timber Organiza-tion (ITTO); for example, your report ‘Sawnwood demand predicted to soar’ (SN, March 13, 2011).
CHENNAI, (Reuters) – England can still win the World Cup and there is no need to dwell on the upsets against Ireland and Bangladesh, spinner Graeme Swann said yesterday.
Miner Richard Melvin Titus, who was murdered at Five Star Backdam, North West District (NWD) last week, was attacked while asleep and the perpetrator is still on the run.
KANDY, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Asad Shafiq shone on his World Cup debut with a cultured unbeaten 78 yesterday as Pakistan stormed into the quarter-finals with a comprehensive seven-wicket victory against Zimbabwe in a rain-truncated match.
Dear Editor, I have read in today’s edition of the Trinidad Express that TT minister of Agriculture Vasent Bharath had “travelled to Bali Indonesia and arrived Thursday evening to attend an Inter-national conference on agriculture.”
Dear Editor, The commemoration ceremony for the late President, Dr Cheddi Jagan, at the cremation site at Babu John in Berbice has a strange and profound effect on President Jagdeo.
The man suspected of killing police Special Constable Neiburt Isaac-Bacon turned himself in at the Turkeyen Police Station yesterday, in company of his attorney.
PROVIDENCE, Guyana, CMC – Johnny Bairstow made the most of a small window of opportunity to usher England Lions to first innings points over Guyana in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s jets bombed Libyan rebels yesterday in a counter-offensive that has pushed them back 100 miles (160 km) in a week, far outpacing diplomatic efforts to impose a no-fly zone to help the rebels.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Leeward Islands needed just an hour and 20 minutes to snatch the last four Trinidad and Tobago wickets and secure a thrilling 29-run victory in their fifth round Regional First Class Championship match here yesterday.
Dear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek (SN) editorial of March 13 titled ‘Babu John address’ reveals much of the bias of SN written as it is by an old timer.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States yesterday urged Haiti’s exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to delay his return until after Haiti’s March 20 run-off presidential election.
Four people, including a woman, charged with killing a man at Chesney Village, Corentyne, Berbice had their trial aborted after it was reported that a juror was seem speaking with one of the two defence lawyers.
Dear Editor, The common saying is that real men do not cry, but this is exactly what I did when I read of the death of my good friend Jim.
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON — In 2005, the average ransom paid for the release of a ship hijacked by Somali pirates was around $150,000.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies middle order batsman Runako Morton remains in police custody despite having bail set at TT$100 000 (US$16 600) after he appeared in a magistrate’s court here yesterday on drug related charges.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley resigned on Sunday after reports that he labelled as “stupid” and “ridiculous” the Pentagon’s treatment of a US soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website.
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Head of the Commonwealth, Her Majesty the Queen, is calling for supportive measures to be provided to girls and women so that everyone can have a chance of a fuller and more rewarding life, wherever they happen to be born.
LIMA (Reuters) – The battle for second place in Peru’s presidential race has intensified a month before voting as any one of four candidates could squeak through to a likely runoff election against front-runner Alejandro Toledo.
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From the look of things this year’s general elections campaign may well be characterized by the customary verbal vitriol to which we have grown accustomed over the years and which, during previous general elections campaigns, has served to subsume manifesto commitments beneath the din of word-throwing and name-calling on the hustings.
MANAMA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain yesterday to help calm weeks of protests by the Shi’ite Muslim majority, a move opponents of the Sunni ruling family on the island called a declaration of war.
Dear Editor, The issue of a possible David Granger presidency has raised much concern, because of the silly excuses he continues to make regarding his role in the GDF and more importantly his strenuous defence of the role of the army in removing the ballot boxes and storing them at the army headquarters, Camp Ayanganna for more than 3 days.
Boycott call attacked Officials of the governing party in Jamaica have criticised the main opposition party’s decision not to contest a parliamentary by-election next month.
John Kerry, a US Senator from Massachusetts, is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com-mittee.
A man who allegedly robbed a fisherman of his catch, among other items, was refused bail and remanded to prison by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Court.
SPANISH TOWN, Jamaica, CMC – Half-centuries from Wavell Hinds and Chadwick Walton were not enough as Combined Campuses and Colleges grabbed first innings points over Jamaica on the final day of their fifth round match in the Regional First Class Championship here yesterday.
