Daily Archive: Thursday, February 16, 2012

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Chris Gayle was sidelined in the middle of another ferocious innings, when he aggravated a groin injury in the Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 today.

Workers of the Blairmont Sugar Estate who have taken strike action to protest newly implemented rules including a cut in their wages are determined not to return to work until their issues are addressed.

(BBC) Former Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds has announced his retirement from professional cricket.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Officials from the left-leaning ALBA bloc of Latin American countries threw down the gauntlet to the United States yesterday by insisting Cuba participate in April’s Sixth Summit of the Americas in Colombia and asking the host country to invite the communist island.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Oscar-winning documentary maker Kevin Macdonald has made what critics are calling the definitive biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, aided by the singer’s family and record label who have given the project their blessing.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Kumar Plummer, 53 years of Line Path, Skeldon, whose body was found yesterday at Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni.

CARACAS/BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – A Barbados-based holding company led by executives of Venezuelan food and beermaker Empresas Polar has filed an international arbitration claim against President Hugo Chavez’s government over its nationalization of a fertilizer project, documents show.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh’s malignant lung tumour is almost out of his system following his first cycle of chemotherapy, the Indian cricketer said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former West Indies opener Chris Gayle says he does not intend to apologise to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for comments he made in a radio interview last May regarding the team and the state of West Indies cricket.

(de Ware Tijd) SIPALIWINI – “Disi na wan gaang yepi (This is a big help)”, says Johan Djanie, captain of Dritabiki in reaction to the announcement by Minister Falisie Pinas of Transport, Communication and Tourism (TCT) that the state is subsidizing 40% of the fares of flights to the hinterland.

Fans who want to bid Whitney Houston farewell will be able to watch her private funeral on the Internet, according to the Associated Press.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A woman is in police custody after allegedly being held with cocaine at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.

Distinguished former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has resigned from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), citing the controversy posed in relation to his role as Head of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) to run local cricket.

Opposition APNU and AFC yesterday called on President Donald Ramotar to either substantiate or retract accusations that they manipulated the results of last year’s elections, while warning that his statements

While progress has been made on a series of grievances, protests will continue at the University of Guyana until dismissed lecturer Freddie Kissoon is rehired and a World Bank loan document is signed, according to the head of the senior staff association.

Jaikishan ‘Josey’ Seebarran, 38, of No 3 Village, West Coast Berbice, who relatives believed was dead after a body washed up at the No 5 Village foreshore on Tuesday has turned up alive.

By Carwyn Holland Grasstrack action is set to return to the West Bank of Demerara this Sunday when the National Grasstrack Racing Club stages its first meet of 2012.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said that President Donald Ramotar’s recent accusations that APNU and AFC manipulated the results of the 2011 general elections are justifiable.

Two men have been taken into custody after they confessed to beating Ajai Mohabir, 32, a farmhand of Crabwood Creek (CWC), Corentyne to death.

Controversial president of Alpha United Football Club, Odinga Lumumba, yesterday withdrew his club from participating in activities organized by the Georgetown Football Association (GFA).

The Government of Guyana (GoG) will be sending a full dossier to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 48 hours, articulating its reasons for implementing  the Interim Management Committee (IMC) to deal with the affairs of local cricket.

A man who travelled to the US from Guyana last Sunday was busted with 11 pounds of cocaine packed in the false sides of his bag at the J F Kennedy Airport in New York.

The annual Mashramani Swim Meet which was scheduled to begin today has been cancelled by the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) which is contemplating squashing future meets billed for the new 50-metre pool at the National Aquatic Centre at Pattenson.

The owners of the $499 store located on Sheriff and Garnett streets were awakened yesterday morning to an explosion and upon further investigation they found that someone had thrown Molotov cocktails at their home.

The US$2 million Sacred Heart insurance scam case had to be adjourned yet again on Monday after the prosecution indicated that its witness was testifying in another case at that very moment.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indian players suffered rare failures in the Bangladesh Premier League yesterday but batsman Marlon Samuels still managed to emerge on the winning side for Duronto Rajshahi in the night’s feature encounter.

The finals of the national Children’s Mashramani Competition had a fiery start yesterday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), where there were energetic performances in the Dance and Masquerade finals.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Experienced stroke-maker Ramnaresh Sarwan seems set to be unavailable for West Indies’ upcoming engagements after striking a deal with Leicestershire as their overseas player for the imminent County season.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – French Caribbean side Haiti have displaced Trinidad & Tobago, as the second ranked team in the Caribbean Football Union.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Four-time defending champions Jamaica will be highly favoured to take a third straight win when they clash with struggling Leeward Islands at home in the third round of the Regional Four-Day Championship starting today.

Some residents in Region Eight have been depending on the rains for their daily water supply since last June, opposition party AFC said yesterday, while calling for “emergency interventions” in some hinterland communities.

Half centuries from Nazim Mohamed and Deoprakash Ramdat helped No.71 defeat No.73 Young Warriors  in their final Zone `O’ preliminary match and earn a spot in the last 16 playoffs of the 2011 New Building Society (NBS) second-division, limited overs competition in Berbice.

Five pupils from the St Ambrose Primary School, Queenstown yesterday were treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital for food poisoning.

St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Women’s team have a tough assignment ahead of them in the coming weeks but they believe the hard work they have put in over the last 12 days will pay dividends in the upcoming series against India Women.

Dear Editor, I have witnessed what I view as a major injustice meted out to a man who came to serve a country to which he owed nothing, when he could have very well been doing something more personally beneficial.

There was some success for Success XI, Wolf Warriors and Mahaica Masters in the Demerara Zone of the  Guyana  Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA)Hadi’s World Incorporated  softball competition over the week-end.

Secretary-General of CARICOM, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the Foreign Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Under-standing (MOU) identifying a number of areas in which CARICOM can assist the member state.

Dear Editor, I write to voice my full support for the recent sit-in and protests by lecturers and students of the University of Guyana. 

An avalanche of goals heralded the start of the Thomas United Mashramani Challenge Cup football competition on Sunday.

Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces President Donald Ramotar yesterday urged members of the Disciplined Services to resist quick riches that could compromise the nation’s security.

* FIFA rankings are in brackets. 1 Jamaica (50) 2 Haiti (71) 3 Trinidad and Tobago (85) 4 Antigua and Barbuda (90) 5 Guyana (92) 6 Bermuda (105) 7 Puerto Rico (113) 8 Cuba (116) 9 St Kitts and Nevis (117) 10 Suriname (126) 11 Dominican Republic (129) 12 Grenada (133) 13 St Vincent and the Grenadines (145) 14 The Bahamas (154) 15 Aruba (165) 16 Barbados (169) 17 Dominica (176) 18 US Virgin Islands (180) 19 Cayman Islands (185) 20 St Lucia (186) 21 British Virgin Islands (198) 22 Anguilla (200) 23 = Montserrat (205) 23 = Turks and Caicos Islands (205)

A youthful Golden Jaguars unit kicked off their four-game Caribbean tour on a losing note going under 1-2 to a Tobago All-Star XI at the Dwight Yorke Stadium on Valentine’s (Tuesday) evening.

(Reuters) – Alastair Cook became the first England captain to score consecutive one-day centuries yesterday to set his side up for a 20-run victory over Pakistan in the second one-day international in Abu Dhabi.

The Caricom Secretariat says its Youth Desk is close to finalising a guide that will be used to empower young people throughout the Region with knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to successfully run a business.

Dear Editor, Some may see the claim made by President Ramotar that the APNU and AFC have manipulated the results of the November 2011 elections thereby denying the PPP the “minimum of 53 percent of the votes” as ludicrous or clutching at dry grass.

(Reuters) – NBA results on Tuesday (home team in CAPS). Miami 105              INDIANA 90 NY Knicks 90              TORONTO 87 San Antonio 99         DETROIT 95 MEMPHIS 93              Houston 83 CHICAGO 121         Sacramento 115 OKLAHOMA              CITY 111 Utah 85 DENVER 109              Phoenix 92 Washington 124        PORTLAND 109 LA LAKERS 86       Atlanta 78

Dear Editor, Pensioners of the National Insurance Scheme who have to visit the NIS office for one reason or the other are placed in a position of pressure when they have to climb those winding stairs both at Bent and Camp Streets, and at Brickdam.

Surama moves: Students from Region Nine

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former football strongman Jack Warner has brushed aside comments by football’s world governing body, FIFA, that it was awaiting an explanation about the whereabouts of emergency aid money intended for Haiti which had been sent to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation two years ago.

REDjet yesterday announced plans to begin service to St Maarten from Barbados.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News headline, dated February 13 and captioned ‘Cabinet will have to discuss if any disciplinary action against Top Cop -Nandlall,’ is another unfortunate story.

Region Six: One of the performances

The Tobago Hill Adult Literacy Programme (THALP) was launched in Region One through collaboration among the Guyana, United States, Canada and New Zealand governments.

Softball teams interested in participating in the third annual Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company Limited 10/10 tournament now have until Monday to register following a decision to extend the registration period.

The crewmembers that will man the new Chinese roll-on/roll-off ferries have completed about 60% of their training for operating the vessels and will soon start navigation exercises.

HONG KONG/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Leaders battling for promotion in China’s Communist Party are using pages out of an old manual for negotiating the rungs of power, with the launch of separate probes that have tarnished the chances of one rising star and burnished those of another.

Dear Editor, During the busy Christmas season, I visited the Republic Bank on the Essequibo Coast to transact some business; I was there with a friend.

Running Rebels edged out Smurfs 1-0 in the final of the Hikers Hockey Club’s second annual House and Land tournament recently.

Dear Editor, Sunday’s January 29 publication of the Vacancy Notice 2012 by the Teaching Service Commission makes interesting reading.

WASHINGTON – China’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping wooed and warned the United States on Wednesday, offering deeper cooperation on trade and global troublespots while demanding Washington heed Beijing’s demands on Tibet and other contentious “core interests.”

UN Special Envoy for HIV in the Caribbean Professor Edward Greene said he was confident about the ability of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) to build on past successes to reverse or eliminate the spread of AIDS, during his inaugural visit to the Secretariat of the Partnership.

Dramatic: Second place winner Melissa Meggins

Khadija Musa, United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative,

COMAYAGUA, Honduras (Reuters) – A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison in Honduras, killing more than 350 inmates, many of them trapped and screaming inside their cells.

Pile-up

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched a wave of state-backed social programmes in the run-up to an October presidential election.

People need, want and aspire for good leaders to lead them into a good future.

Dear Editor, I write to applaud Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, a Guyanese American, for a stirring speech she delivered recently on the state of Queens, her support for a development project in Richmond Hill, and the recognition she received from politicians in the city.

Put them on the back foot

Before Ms Simona Broomes and her colleagues launched the Guyana Women’s Miners Association, the average Guyanese would only have known about a few women miners, one of them being Ms Cyrilda DeJesus, who for years had been the face of women miners in Guyana.

An Invaderz XI gave defending GT&T 10/10 softball champions Wolf Warriors a wake up call last Sunday at Leonora Primary School ground beating them by 34 runs in the West Coast Zone final of the Preparatory 10/10 tournament currently underway.

Minority Government

(Barbados Nation) The recent heavy rainfall has a veteran St Philip farmer reaping his fill of spuds.

(Barbados Nation) With the overall rate of joblessness said to be in the order of 12.5 per cent, Barbadians have been filing for unemployment claims by the hundreds.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soldiers have moved into state-owned Petrotrin and set up base two days ahead of an impending strike action.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has filed a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

(Trinidad Express) Ex-national coach Russell Latapy has sued the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) for over $5 million dollars which, he claims, represents salary owed to him and compensation for being wrongfully dismissed.

(Trinidad Express) Despite assurances from Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine, the National Petroleum Company (NP) and Petrotrin that there would be no shortage, panic-buying motorists purchased all the fuel at most service stations in South and Central Trinidad on Tuesday.