Daily Archive: Sunday, August 14, 2011

Tremaine Aldon Neverson ruled supreme at the Providence Stadium early Sunday morning eclipsing guest star Eve as he drove his female fans wild in what some described as the “greatest show” to be hosted in Guyana.

The New York Post is a wicked newspaper! Deh paint Ed Ahmad like if de man is a clone of Allen Stanford.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Thursday, the authorities again successfully intercepted around 30 kilos of cocaine at Johan Adolf Pengel Airport (JAP) in 3 separate cases.

(WICB) Bridgetown, Barbados – The girls from Jamaica were crowned queens of West Indies cricket today when they beat Trinidad and Tobago by 30 runs to win the WICB Women’s League trophy.

The police this afternoon released a statement expressing concern about a report in today’s Kaieteur News on what the police said was a private meeting in the Commissioner of Police’s conference room.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England can dominate the longer  form of the game for many years to come after humiliating India  to become the top-ranked test nation, a slew of former leading  players have said.

(Trinidad Guardian) The chairman of the National Schools Dietary Services Ltd (NSDSL)—Dawn Annamunthodo—has been fired.

(Trinidad Express) Arima Mayor Ghassan Youseph was robbed of a gold chain valued at $6,000 while walking among revellers participating in yesterday’s Borough Day Jouvert celebrations.

(Trinidad Express) The Virgin Atlantic aircraft which was grounded at the ANR Robinson International Airport in Tobago following a mishap on Thursday, finally got off the ground last evening and departed to London, England.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Suriname lacks the necessary number of construction workers for the more than US$ 2 billion in investments Iamgold, Newmont and State Oil are going to make between now and 2015.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — As soon as all matters regarding the declaration of intent with Ballast Nedam are finished, there will be an international tender for the construction of the bridge across the Corantijn River.

(Reuters) – Veteran actor Shammi Kapoor passed away in the early hours of today after a prolonged illness, the doctor attending to him said.

(Jamaica Observer) High light bills have proved the death of one popular Kingston business.

The government last week appealed the $6.5 million compensation ruling in favour of the teen whose genitals were burnt while in police custody, amidst accusations from defence attorney Khemraj Ramjattan that all the stops are being pulled to avoid paying up.

The 53rd Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships opened yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Henry Greene saying that the association’s work was nowhere near completion.

When a newspaper arrives in Kurutuku, on the sporadic occasions it does, Solomon Lewis reads and explains to villagers eager to learn about anything that catches their eye.

The World Bank says that it is ready but has not yet been asked to release money for projects to be funded by payments from Guyana’s forest partnership with Norway.

Second vice-president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Franklin Wilson was yesterday appointed as acting head of the institution two days after long-standing president Colin Klass was provisionally suspended by the world governing body (FIFA) from all football-related activities.

Two women have been brutally killed under identical circumstances one year apart and though police have leads that the motive for the killings may have been connected to property disputes, this cannot be proved, so both cases are at a standstill.

Introduction The columns I have written so far on the sugar industry, starting on May 29, 2011 are intended to conclude with a broad appraisal of its prospects and suggestions for the way forward. 

Winners of the 2010 Guyana Prize for Literature will be announced at an awards ceremony to be held on September 1.

All roads today will lead to  219 Patrick Dam and Angoy’s Avenue (Niee’s residence) for a grand one day dominoes competition featuring some of the country’s top teams and players.

Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz, a rock-star among left-of-centre progressives around the world, was quite upbeat about Latin America, Asia and other emerging economies when I interviewed him extensively last week about the possibility of a new world recession.

In sport it is always felt that  a group stars in a XI does not make a team win but 11 players working together will.

for what else is there but books, books and the sea, verandahs and the pages of the sea to write of the wind and the memory of wind whipped hair in the sun, the colour of fire.

As one who has written as many words to fill the public library on behalf of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), Dinanath Ramnarine’s comment last week suggested that the penny had finally dropped.

Getting inside a culture and unravelling it for someone is tough enough if you’re from that culture. 

Guyanese will be entertained by Chris Gayle this weekend in the inaugural Hits and Jams Twenty20 competition at the National Stadium.

Every gardener who aspires to the name will really know his or her way round a pair of secateurs, and will, I think, automatically know that the harder you prune shrubs (particularly roses) the stronger the new growths will be.

Dyna’s Bravados and Fire Links cricket teams have advanced to the Super 16 stage of the Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills 10/10 Tapeball Cricket Competition when play in the East Bank Zone ended yesterday at the Diamond Community Centre ground.

There is no escaping the sea in Wakenaam. Here the Essequibo River and the Atlantic Ocean clash and mingle, threatening to overrun the fragile defences of the island as they have done in the past.

The Parliamentary Manage-ment Committee (PMC) has not met for more than a year but the government and the opposition both have to take blame for this PPP/C Chief Whip Gail Teixeira says.

T he Suriname Toad (Pipa pipa) could be one of the strangest frogs you might see in the rainforest; in fact it’s not a toad but an aquatic dwelling frog.

‘Lightning Struck Assassin’ Kwesi Jones will defend his light heavyweight title against Cleveland Fraser in the main event on August 26 at the monthly Pro-Am card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

NEAR ZAWIYAH/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan government forces and rebels clashed around the western town of Zawiyah yesterday as the insurgents tried to push closer to the capital Tripoli.

With thousands of candidates who sat this year’s CSEC and CAPE examinations trying to access their results online on Thursday night, the high volume of cyber traffic caused the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) website to crash for a few hours.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Berlin’s mayor said yesterday he was appalled that some Germans were nostalgic for the Berlin Wall and supported a newly fashionable leftist view that there were legitimate reasons for building it in 1961.

Bakery giants Bakewell of 5-9 Drive, Miller St., Triumph, East Coast Demerara, has joined forces with the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) to sponsor the next nationwide male/female softball tournament, set to kick off on August 28.

Regent Road and Street, with pavements on either side of the carriageway running east to west from Water Street to the Botanic Gardens’ entrance divides the capital city of Georgetown into northern and southern halves.

Karen Kerr, the mother of four who was allegedly shot twice in the shoulder by her reputed husband early Friday morning, is still hospitalized but her condition is said to be improving.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Friday laid down the law to police officers who are threatening to stay away from work tomorrow to “rest and relax.”

The expected delay in the completion of the Amaila Falls access road will not impact on the overall schedule for the project, Sithe Global says.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian troops killed three people as tanks swept into a coastal city yesterday, activists said, in a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad which drew criticism from an international Muslim group.

Dear Editor, The European integration process is in tatters as the once-strong economies of Spain, Italy and Belgium stand precariously to follow the path that already has dramatically weakened Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.

General comments As we introduced this new topic last week, we mentioned that the blood circulatory system comprises the blood itself (red cells, white cells, platelets, liquid plasma, dissolved nutrients, waste products), the heart, which pumps the blood throughout the body, and the blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries) through which the blood flows.

Guyana’s tournament momentum and title hopes came to an abrupt halt yesterday when they suffered their second defeat in a week losing by eight wickets to Barbados at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground, Berbice, in the penultimate round of the limited overs version of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under 19 tournament.

AMES, Iowa (Reuters) – Michele Bachmann narrowly won the Iowa straw poll of Republicans yesterday in the first big test of the 2012 presidential campaign, as Texas Governor Rick Perry formally launched a White House bid that could reshape the race.

Wanted man Dwayne Critchlow, who was on Friday shot by police, is claiming that he was shot without reason and knows nothing of the allegations against him.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Emmanuel Lett continued his outstanding showing at the WICB Regional Under-19 Championship with another brilliant performance yesterday to re-ignite Trinidad and Tobago hopes of winning the One-Day title.

(Barbados Nation) Terrence ‘Papa T’ Phillips was gunned down near the steps of Haynesville playing field just before 5 pm on Friday.

Dear Editor, I write to corroborate Mr Philip Allsopp’s experiences with the police sports noises (‘The police are breaking the noise nuisance law’ SN, August 12).

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain needs to tackle deep-seated social problems following riots and looting in English cities this week, the centre-right government said yesterday, and a US street crime expert it has brought in said arrests alone would not solve the problem.

Three persons were yesterday injured in separate road accidents, all escaping with minor injuries.

A summary offence can loosely be defined as a minor violation of the law. 

Dear Editor, I’ve been in Haiti for the past seven months and would like to verify if there is a Guyana Embassy here, but it’s proving difficult.

(Jamaica Observer) The judge’s order for David Smith to pay US$55 million in restitution and forfeit a US$730,000 house he purchased in 2006 for his sister and brother-in-law, could give hope to investors in his failed ponzi scheme, Olint.

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Jamaica finally got a win in the WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day Championship, as middle-order batsman Brian Gayle hit an unbeaten century to guide them to a two-wicket victory with a ball to spare in a cliff-hanger yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – With social media brutally accelerating the news cycle and allowing rumours from riots to bank failures to spread at lightning speed, politicians, businesses and governments must adapt fast.

President Jagdeo was holding forth on one of his favourite topics on Thursday – post-independence Guyanese history.

Telephone company Digicel yesterday said that it welcomes the government’s plan to break GT&T’s monopoly on the international gateway and promised lower rates on international calls once the requisite legislative changes are enforced.

In the Essequibo River island of Wakenaam, Ram converts coconut milk to oil in a process that takes days.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A spree of bad news — market gyrations, fears of a double-dip recession, stubborn unemployment and fallout from a debt deal — has shaken confidence in US President Barack Obama’s leadership and could cloud his chances for winning re-election.

Dear Editor, The Alliance For Change is profoundly disappointed, but not the least bit surprised at the slandering of the political opposition at the PPP’s youth event at the International Conference Centre. 

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BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England surged to  the top of the world rankings after crushing India by an innings  and 242 runs in the third test yesterday to secure their sixth  consecutive series win.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) embarks on new housing projects across the country, Housing and the Environment Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal says a new building code will be taken to Cabinet next month to ensure all contractors adhere to proper standards.

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Conclusion Introduction I ended last week’s column by suggesting that the commercial banks – which account for 58% of the mortgage lending by financial institutions – have both the liquidity and the reserves to withstand any significant reduction in house prices and consequential foreclosures.