Daily Archive: Sunday, May 1, 2011

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin  Laden was killed yesterday in a firefight with U.S.

(Barbados Nation) West Indies’ captain Darren Sammy has welcomed back middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan and says his contribution in the middle overs will be the key as the regional cricket team seek to pull back a match against Digicel One Day International series winners, Pakistan.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma  Rousseff has been hospitalized with pneumonia and will remain a  second night for more tests, a spokesman said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Tunapuna Piarco Regional Corporation (TPRC) has launched a forensic audit into the purchase of a T&T$1 million stainless steel automated public toilet, making it the most costly public convenience in Trinidad. The

(Trinidad Express) Pupils at an all-girls prestige high school busted a biology teacher who took up duties last week, revealing that he was convicted in the United States a few years ago, on charges of sexually assaulting five of his female pupils.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Challenging the might of the  “infidel” United States, Osama bin Laden masterminded the  deadliest militant attacks in history and then built a global  network of allies to wage a “holy war” intended to outlive him. 

(Barbados Nation) Some areas across Barbados are seriously affected by the heavy rains being experienced today.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The late Pope John Paul  moved a major step closer to sainthood today at a joyous  ceremony that drew more than a million people, the largest crowd  in Rome since his funeral six years ago.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said today.

Former Office of the President staffer Dr Randy Persaud was on Friday evening arrested by members of the New York Police Department (NYPD), following an incident outside Club Tobago in Queens, New York, where President Bharrat Jagdeo and PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar were meeting with supporters.

Lindener Wenda Hutson  numbers among the good Samaritans who have responded to the plight of the sick and needy in her community and has taken the initiative, along with others, to have a psychiatric unit established in the mining town.

Canadian Immigration Consultant Balwant Persaud was yesterday morning taken into police custody for questioning in relation to his recent case involving the Canadian couple that successfully applied for refugee status in Canada.  

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has expressed concern over what it says is “the growing exclusion of groups” from having a voice in national decision-making in matters that impact their lives.

Executive Member of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) Tacuma Ogunseye has accused Eric Phillips, also an Executive Member of the organization, of revising a statement approved by the executive responding to controversial statements he recently made.

Businessman Ramdat Balkarran, who was shot in the abdomen on Friday by one of two men who invaded his Good Hope home in a robbery attack, was up to press time slowly recuperating in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on supporters in the United States to assist government in tracking down a man who he said is wanted by police here and was involved in a series of “heinous crimes” in this country.

Kenford King, one of the passengers who were in the bus which struck down and killed Jagdeo Ramnarine on the Strathspey Public Road early Friday morning, is in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing a broken leg.

The housing ministry is aiming to have areas such as Plastic City, Container City, West Ruimveldt and East Ruimveldt regularized to allow Diamond, Grove, Herstelling and a number of areas in Linden to benefit from sea defence works, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The new man at the helm of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) from today will be Jamaica national William Warren Smith, PhD.

The E Ward, where I spent the next nine days, I have nicknamed the “estrogen” ward; it has no walls, four rows of beds and full of women in transition.

Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana will in August take part in an Inter-Guiana Cultural Festival.

The consortium that came up dry in the Apoteri K-2 exploratory oil well here sunk US$15 million into that venture, according to a report in the online edition of the oil and gas journal, Upstream.

Works on the reconstruction of the Queenstown Jama Masjid, which was dismantled in early 2007, are scheduled to recommence within two months, according to Chairman of the Building Committee Sattaur Gafoor.

‘Debate what? Debate what happened 28 years ago? What Burnham did?

Government is currently drafting a management plan for the Kaieteur National Park (KNP) along with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Environmental Protection Agency which will include measures for conservation and community involvement.

The Ministry of Labour Human Services and Social Security hosted an outreach exercise at the Sans Souci Primary School in Wakenaam, aimed at informing residents of its available services.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh said government has made great strides in bridging the “domestic digital divide” by creating access to computers and the internet for citizens countrywide, at a recent Information Technology (IT) graduation ceremony held at the Watooka Club in Region 10.

Craig resident Dawn Jarvis was awakened on Friday morning by shouts from neighbours alerting her that a storeroom in front of her yard was on fire.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh said internal audits are important in any corporate entity as they make them more efficient and competitive, in his address to participants at a seminar hosted by the Institute of Internal Auditors-Guyana Chapter.

The Bureau of CARICOM Ministerial Council for Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) has decided that a comprehensive audit should be carried out on the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS).

Features This week I start a discussion on the upside potential/opportunities facing the Guyana economy.

Two reflex catches in the space of three balls from Georgetown Cricket Club’s (GCC) Alex Romalho underlined the allround performance of the club over the Guyana Defence Force in the final of the Noble House Seafoods second division tournament at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground yesterday.

Introduction Even as mainly organized labour assemble at their various points today to march in silent resignation, listen to flat speeches from their leaders, numb their plight and pain with music, food and liquor produced by their colleagues for the profits of the investing class, the evidence so overwhelmingly confronting their membership on this Labour Day points to a movement that is in complete crisis, their numbers in decline, their leadership in disarray, their unity in tatters, and their very survival in question.

Jessica Stephenson achieved a quite historic feat for herself and the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) when she participated in the 2011 CARIFTA Swimming Championships which ended recently in Barbados.

In recent years, with so many lacklustre Caribbean cricket teams frustrating us with their poor play, and particularly with the sad state of the once supreme regional team, you lose some enthusiasm for cricket, and even end up not watching some games at all.

Not long ago I wrote a column throwing freezing water on the usefulness of election manifestos or indeed any master plan.

The West Indies selectors, with the support of head coach Otis Gibson and board chief executive Ernest Hilaire, have made a couple of bold decisions these past six months.

Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice which has a population of just about 100 residents is located about 54 miles from Georgetown and is the administrative centre of Region Five.

By Treiston JosephThe week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Pele Football Club ended Friday night at the Umana Yana with a grand Awards Ceremony, Dinner and Dance hosted by the Pele Alumni consisting of past Pele greats.

Kufa (Clusiaspp) is a plant which is widely distributed in the tropical rainforests of Guyana and belongs to the family of plants known as Clusiaceae.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian security forces arrested two veteran opposition figures and a group of female protesters, adding to thousands of political prisoners in the country, rights groups said yesterday.

A confident Guyana rifle shooting team departs Guyana today assured  of retaining the West Indies full-bore team championships when the regional event is staged from Tuesday in Antigua/Barbuda.

Dear Editor, For 45 years, we, the citizens of Guyana, have been living with some sort of “socialism-communism” at the governmental level, while at the private sector level , there’s a sort of laissez- faire attitude on one hand, to the seemingly structured free enterprise in the traditional rationale, on the other .

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso opposition parties yesterday demanded long-serving President Blaise Compaore step down, blaming him for provoking a wave of violence in the West African nation.

Dear Editor, We refer to Mr. Harold Hopkinson’s letter `GT&T and Digicel should be able to track stolen smart phones’ dated April 29, 2011.

Skipper of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) team to contest the annual Indian Arrival Cup T20 Cricket Championship Leon Johnson is confident of success despite having lost to the East Berbice Universal DVD Club Titans twice before.

  Georgie, a male Giant River Otter

Just a few words to finish off what I was saying last Sunday about ornamental pools in the garden.

Dear Editor, Had it not been for Mr Hopkinson writing in the letter column of SN April 29, I would not have known that GT&T had changed their policy to allow licensed firearm holders to enter their premises to conduct business once they had satisfied the security check.

It should be recognized that Standards were established to make living easier for citizens. 

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni vowed on Saturday to ‘defeat’ a wave of deadly protests triggered by rising food and fuel prices.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Darren Sammy has debunked suggestions that the job of West Indies captain has become like the proverbial albatross around his neck.

KOCHI, India, (Reuters) – Virender Sehwag struck a  47-ball 80 on a difficult pitch to power Delhi Daredevils to a  38-run victory against Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian  Premier League yesterday.

Malefactor (Left) So you is God? Den teck we down! Tiefin doan bad like crucifyin!

Dear Editor, The world is becoming more and more interdependent. Much talk is going on about the global economy.

Kitty seawall

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope John Paul II moves a step closer to sainthood today when his successor beatifies him before an expected crowd of several hundred thousand people.

Continued The week before last, we discussed the ‘washing out’ of the wound.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday 20th April 2011, I received bills from three utility companies.

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No one would have noticed, but April 18 was the International Day for Monuments and Sites.

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OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) – Warren Buffett said he was wrong not to press David Sokol about purchases of Lubrizol Corp stock while his former top lieutenant was pitching the chemicals company as a possible takeover target for Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadian officials said they will miss the Caribbean Championships for the first time this year.