Daily Archive: Sunday, September 11, 2011

Articles published on Sunday, September 11, 2011

Cliff Robertson

Oscar-winning US actor Cliff Robertson dies at 88

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Cliff Robertson, who  won an Oscar playing a mentally disabled janitor in “Charly”  and worked in movies ranging from “PT 109” to “Spider-Man 3,”  died in New York on Saturday, the day after his 88th birthday.

Two Corentyne fishermen die after being set on fire

The police say they are investigating an incident where at about 2300h on September 06, 2011, a man allegedly threw gasoline on fishermen Veran Motilall, 45 years of Bloomfield, Corentyne, and Leonard Fernandes, 15 years of Rosehall, Corentyne, and around the fishing boat that they were in at the Albion Koker, Corentyne, and lit it afire.

United Nations compares T&T murder rate to Iraq

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago now rivals Jamaica as the most violent country in the Caribbean, with the number of annual murders rising sharply from 98 to 550 over the last decade, with some areas in the Port of Spain police division being listed among the most dangerous in the world.

Truck bomb wounds 77 foreign troops in Afghanistan

KABUL, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber driving a truck  of firewood attacked a NATO base in central Afghanistan, killing  four civilians and injuring 77 foreign troops a day ahead of the  tenth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks, NATO and Afghan  officials said today.

Bermuda coach slams Guyana playing surface

With less than a month to go before hosting Trinidad and Tobago in their return 2014 World Cup qualifier, Bermuda are knocking themselves for requesting to switch venues for it’s second Group B match and its head coach Devarr Boyles has criticized the playing surface at Providence Stadium.

Scholars also build a nation

I was lucky enough once to read an article about two remarkable books: The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford, and The Early Poetic Manuscripts and Note-Books of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Facsimile, published by Garland in New York.

All men are not created equal

I’ve talked before about nonsensical ideas we repeat as mantra – “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me” and “Time heals all wounds” are two of them. 

Simon Pures for Barbados tour

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has named 11 boxers to represent Guyana at the Ronald Wilson Memorial championship in Barbados from November 30 to December 15.

Halt the ‘business as usual’ at GuySuCo

Introduction In an effort to encourage ACP countries to embrace the Sugar Protocol (SP) in the mid-1970s, European officials were at pains to stress that, when fixing the annual price for sugar, account would be taken to ensure a “reasonable rate of return for a reasonably efficient sugar enterprise, over the long run.” 

Mustafa Abdel Jalil

Gaddafi bastion assaulted; NTC chief in Tripoli

NEAR BANI WALID, Libya – Libya’s new authorities launched a military assault on one of the last remaining bastions of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, and the provisional government’s head arrived for the first time in the capital to take charge.

Darren Bravo

Bravo eyeing ICC Emerging Player honour

LONDON, England, CMC – Rookie West Indies batsman Darren Bravo has admitted to being surprised over his short-listing for the International Cricket Council Emerging Player-of-the-Year award, but is now backing his chances of walking away with the honour.

Survivors say Zanzibar ferry was overcrowded

STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) – Survivors of a ferry that capsized off Zanzibar overnight killing at least 192 passengers said the vessel was overcrowded and appeared to be in trouble even before it started its ill-fated voyage.

Keeping your bird caged

Very recently, an eighteen-year-old boy had the temerity to exercise his right to freedom of expression and ‘flipped the bird‘ or ‘gave the finger‘ to the presidential motorcade which was passing.

Paralysed T&T man chopped to death

(Trinidad Express) A 31-year-old San Juan man, who is paralysed from the waist down, was chopped to death at his home on Thursday after he reportedly arranged to have a fellow resident beaten and robbed as he attempted to purchase drugs from him.

President’s appreciation planning

President’s appreciation planning: From left to right are Sheik Zakir, a member of the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG); Bishop Juan Edghill; Housing Minister Irfaan Ali; trade unionist Carvil Duncan and promoters Kerwin Bollers and Rawle Ferguson of Hits and Jams at

WikiLeaks and Dr Ramsammy

Since for obvious reasons much of what was divulged in the US Embassy cables by WikiLeaks concerned individuals in government, the administration was reluctant to comment initially, although Dr Luncheon was eventually moved to dismiss the contents as “predominantly opinions,“ while PPP presidential candidate Donald Ramotar deemed them not “earth shattering” and described himself as “slightly amused” by them.

This is intelligent-looking female dog (she has been spayed) is waiting for someone with a kind heart to come down to the GSPCA and adopt her.

Ailments of the heart

Continued from last week Right-sided (congestive) heart failure Last week, we discussed the left-sided congestive heart failure, which was the result primarily of the inability of the left ventricle (lower chamber) to function properly.

Papandreou says to save Greece, stay in euro

THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday he would do whatever it takes to rescue his country from bankruptcy and stay in the euro zone, as doubts in Europe grew over its membership in the bloc.