Daily Archive: Friday, November 11, 2011

Goals from English-based mid-fielder and defender Ricky Shakes and Leon Cort propelled the Golden Jaguars to a historic 2-1 victory over the Soca Warriors, in the penultimate Group B, 2014 World Cup Qualifier at the Providence Stadium last evening.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican Interior Minister  Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash today, a  blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels.

The National Parks Commission today said that the 22-year-old lioness at the zoo died yesterday.

Donald Ramotar has been saying at Bartica that the leaders of the political opposition have “no moral right” to hold public office in Guyana.

(Trinidad Express) “Serious concerns” were raised about the suitability of Lawrence Duprey and Andre Monteil to manage the affairs of Republic Bank Limited 15 years ago.

Seventeen people died in last night’s horrific accident in St Lucia after a bus carrying mourners plunged off a cliff.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is in for some major exposure through a live broadcast on NBC’s popular Today Show this morning.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa captain  Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla led their country to a remarkable  comeback victory against Australia when the hosts won the  topsy-turvy first test by eight wickets today.

The highly anticipated 2014 World Cup Qualifier, Group B Clash between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago kicks off this evening at 8:00pm at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Essequibo clinched their first and only victory in this year’s inter-county under-17 tournament when they defeated the President’s X1 by 99 runs in their final round match at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in partnership with Carib Beer and Pepsi yesterday launched the nationwide Twenty20 competition at the GCB  Boardroom on Regent Street.

The four presidential candidates yesterday presented their visions for overhauling the education sector, creating jobs and ensuring unity if successful at the November 28 polls, at a University of Guyana (UG) forum that ended abruptly during the scheduled question and answer session.

More challenges were issued by competitors yesterday, two days before the final leg of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Race of Champions at the South Dakota Circuit.

Police yesterday said that they are investigating an alleged murder/suicide at Kaikan Settlement near the Guyana/Venezuela border.

Over 30 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) will benefit from an annual $20M government disbursement to boost job creation among people living with disabilities.

Former national cyclist Wilbert Benjamin made a donation of cycling attire and equipment to the Flying Ace Cycling Club (FACC) yesterday.

Various group winners in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport 7:15 inter-block football competition will be presented with their prizes today at the ministry’s office on  Main Street.

Dear Editor This Hindu taxpayer objects to the use of state funds for the Inter-Religious Television channel.

Canadian companies are pumping millions of dollars into the oil exploration and mining industries and efforts are being made to bring more firms onboard, new Canadian High Commissioner David Devine said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The purpose of this letter is to appeal to speakers at election meetings and rallies to heed the truism that while everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, no one is entitled to his/her own facts.

Last Saturday’s opening of the New Stelling View Mall was an unquestionable triumph for the small business sector.

A group of parents and students of the Wismar Christianburg Secondary School took to the streets in Linden yesterday calling for repairs to the school to be treated with some level of urgency after a section of the building was destroyed by fire.

National junior table tennis champion Nigel Bryan will seek to ensure that The Business School retains its Schools Nationals Table Tennis Championships when the Guyana Table Tennis Association Schools championships bounce off today at Queen’s College Auditorium from 16:00hrs.

The theft of fuel markers from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) is integrated into a “profitable racket” that embraces some GEA employees, fuel smugglers and some legitimate business operators, an energy sector source has told the Stabroek Business.

A 17-year-old cane harvester had his head almost completely severed from his body on Wednesday, after he was chopped to the neck by his cousin during an argument at Jackson Creek, Berbice.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News reported that the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Robert Persaud, described the presidential pension issue as “extraneous” and not a “serious” one (November 8).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Teenaged utility player Shemaine Campbelle has backed her West Indies Women’s side to perform at the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers in Bangladesh next week.

The Business Cartoon

The accountant who was admitted to hospital in a critical condition after being struck down by two motorcycles on October 25, died late Wednesday night.

Dear Editor, As consultant to the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), I was invited by its President and CEO to be one of several resource personnel during the Business Session of the recently concluded 19th Biennial Delegates’ Conference.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Australia narrowly avoided  scoring the lowest ever test total as they capitulated to 47 all  out but the tourists could still win the first test against  South Africa following an extraordinary second day yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Lawyers representing former West Indies batting stylist Lawrence Rowe have initiated legal action against the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) for withdrawing the naming of the Players’ Pavilion at Sabina Park in his honour.

Dear Editor, There has deservedly been a lot of public concern about what a PPP majority Parliament approved (over the objections of the opposition) under the Former Presidents (Benefits and other Facilities) Act 2009, since the present government’s reputation for use and allocation of resources generally has been anything but ‘lean and clean.’

Municipal officials are doing their best to put a brave face on the problem.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is calling on residents of Sophia to have their water service regularised, warning that customers without accounts will not benefit from  the new $101M well station at Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown.

Dear Editor, “If one finds oneself find hoisted on one’s own petard, then the least one should do, is dangle with dignity” – Old lawyer’s saying.

The national women’s rugby team will wing out today for Barbados on their quest to secure their fourth consecutive North America Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Sevens title.

Former member of the reform wing of the PNCR, Dr Joseph Haynes has announced his support for the PPP/C.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A leading opposition candidate  hoping to challenge Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez at next year’s  presidential election would revise preferential oil deals with  Cuba and other Central American nations if he wins.  

Officials of various small and medium-sized business enterprises from across the region will meet in Guyana from November 14 -16 to participate in a forum being sponsored by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to explore possibilities for increased networking and ultimately expanding the levels of intra-regional trade.

People marvel at the performance and  the drivers get the glory, but very few spare a thought for the mechanic, or wrench as they are referred to in the sport of motor racing, who get the vehicles ready for race day.

Guyana’s tourism product, the Eco-Tour has also been called the Amazon Adventure among local tourism officials and there often appears a reluctance to concede that tourism, as a major money-earner, is yet to catch on in Guyana.

While Guyana has moved up two points on the global Human Development table, failure to adhere to sustainable environmental plans, implement ‘green’ policies and negating the fact that climate change plays a significant role in the overall development of this country may see that positive growth decline in coming years.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cubans lined up at notary  offices and banks yesterday to do deals or lay the groundwork  for them on the first day they could legally buy and sell  houses in more than half a century. 

Dear Editor, Quite apart from the break in the trend of timing (usually in December) of the announcement and payout of across-the-board increases to public servants, and members of the disciplined forces, the 2011 announcing of an 8% across-the-board increase to the named categories, raises at this particular juncture a number of interesting questions.

Dear Editor, Agriculture Minister, PPP Central Committee member and Donald Ramotar‘s Campaign Manager Robert Persaud, is reported as issuing a statement denouncing what he says was the ongoing campaign of the opposition parties heading into this month`s general elections to pin corruption to the PPP/C.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Police captured one of  Rio de Janeiro’s most-wanted drug traffickers yesterday as  they prepared to occupy the Brazilian city’s largest slum, a  vital step in preparations to host the Olympic Games in 2016.  

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India selectors have retained  their 15-man squad for the second test against West Indies in  Kolkata, meaning there is no place for off-spinner Harbhajan  Singh.

Cecil Romeo who was in police custody for the past four years after he was accused of having carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl was yesterday freed after he was found not guilty by 10 persons of a 12-member jury.

In recent years, China’s emergence as an economic power has overshadowed that of other dynamic Asian economies, such as Korea.

Dear Editor Mr Donald Ramotar has recently returned to the theme of the WPA’s betrayal of Walter Rodney because of its alliance with the PNC in the APNU partnership.

Regional legislators and regulators need to act collaboratively and with greater haste to better position Caribbean countries to remove their traditional sectors from within monopoly structures and into a more competitive environment, Barbados Minister of Commerce and Industry Haynesley Benn told the Ninth Annual Conference of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OCUR).

The GuySuCo Training Centre-Port Mourant (GTC-PM) volleyball team seemed unstoppable as action resumed in the Berbice Volleyball Association’s Reggie Goberdhan Memorial League Competition in the Lower Corentyne Zone.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential  candidate Rick Perry crashed on the big stage on Wednesday and  may never recover.  

A government of “National Unity”?  No PPP?   Hello.  Even as I attempt these semi-moralistic, advisory pieces, I bear in mind today’s changed values, norms and mores, from my young adult-hood. 

By Tantaliser If only Presidential Candidates were horses… And discourses were debates… And Guyana was a sultanate… Or is it?

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 433 November 9, 2011

The Ministry of Works is currently conducting a massive clean-up campaign on a former dumpsite, situated in the vicinity of Station Street, Kitty [on the railway line], for the purpose of constructing a sports facility; a basketball tarmac to be exact. 

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece named banker Lucas  Papademos as head of a new crisis government on Thursday, ending  the country’s chaotic search for a leader to save it from  default, bankruptcy and expulsion from the euro zone.

Common sense has triumphed over political correctness and bureaucracy at the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), with that much maligned body reversing its decision to ban the England football team from wearing poppies embroidered on their shirts in their friendly match against Spain tomorrow, and instead allowing them to wear a poppy on black armbands.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Chavez said yesterday an unidentified nuclear-powered submarine violated  Venezuelan territorial waters this week and was chased away by  the South American nation’s navy.

Dear Editor, I have seen the reports in the newspapers about the Governor of Roraima, Brazil mounting the PPP/C campaign platform, an act which is contrary to all international diplomatic norms, and whilst I understand that the opposition political parties are outraged by this act, I actually would like to add another dimension to this matter.

Politikles

(Barbados Nation) REDjet says it’s in discussion with Government to address the delay in approval for new routes and chief executive officer Ian Burns has insisted that the company “is not moving out” of Barbados over the dispute.

(Barbados Nation) Patrina Lord was strangled to death. This was the main finding of a post-mortem carried out on the body of the 31-year-old woman yesterday, as a former schoolmate and family friend appeared in court charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Express) A conman defrauded the National Energy Corporation (NEC) of US$9.6 million (TT$61.7 million) in September by presenting false documents to the corporation’s bankers which enabled money to be transferred to several bank accounts around the world.