Daily Archive: Sunday, June 10, 2012

Articles published on Sunday, June 10, 2012

Jamaica: Pink slime not safe

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s health ministry has declared that the controversial product known as lean finely textured beef, or pink slime, will not be allowed into the country as it is not safe for consumption.

US aiming at `Dudus’ assets

Jamaica Gleaner) Having managed to convince a judge to send Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to prison for the maximum 23 years, United States (US) law-enforcement agencies are now turning their attention to the assets of the man they once labelled as one of the world’s biggest drug traffickers.

Ramdin cracks century, Best 95

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – Wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin gathered his second Test century while Tino Best astonishingly hit the highest score ever by a number 11 to narrowly miss out on three figures, as West Indies were bowled out for 426 at lunch on the penultimate day of the final Test here Sunday.

Suriname reporting 800 flu cases

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The number of influenza cases with airway infections keeps increasing, with the Medical Mission (MZ) registering more than 800 cases in the hinterland alone in four weeks’ time, says Irma Jaglall, region doctor mid-Suriname with MZ who also works for the department of Patient Surveillance, Registration and Research.

Windies all out for 426

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – West Indies, sent in to bat by England, were bowled out for 426 at lunch on the fourth day of the third and final Test at Edgbaston here today.

Sharmaine Francois (left) and Anderson Badal (Trinidad Express photo)

In T&T: Man, woman shot dead

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the discovery of two bodies bearing gunshot wounds in the Hindustan, New Grant, community yesterday morning and Friday night and have taken a relative of one of the victims into custody for questioning.

Dr Bheri Ramsarran

Maternal and child death figures on par with last year’s, Ramsaran says

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has recorded, what many believe is a staggering number of maternal and infant deaths for the year so far, but Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsarran said the figures are not alarming as they are on par with last year’s and consideration should be given to the fact that it is the country’s only public referral facility, which receives the high-risk and critical cases.

These Liverpool youths enjoy a game  of dominoes at a small hang out spot.

Liverpool

Photos by Anjuli Persaud and Frances Abraham Liverpool on the Corentyne coast is situated about 18 miles from New Amsterdam, and consists of 450 homes with about 1,000 persons, the largest proportion of whom are African-Guyanese.

Environment and Safety Officer of Banks DIH Limited, Nirmala Surjudai (centre) hands over the winning spoils of $200,000 for the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Competition to a D’Urban Street player. (Orlando Charles photo)

D’Urban Street is the greatest!

By Emmerson Campbell After defeating Back Circle (Team Guyana) three goals to one in the first semi-final, D’Urban Street edged Albouystown in the final to claim the $200,000 first prize in the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Competition at National Cultural Centre tarmac.

Assad Fudadin drives delightfully during his debut knock of 28. (Windiescricket photostream)

Samuels, Ramdin hold Windies together

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – In-form batsman Marlon Samuels stroked his third half-century in as many innings while the struggling Denesh Ramdin hit his first in three years to break a prolonged slump, as West Indies rode their luck on the third day of the final Test here Saturday.

ICC CEO-elect among team for WICB, WIPA talks

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A three-man mediation team from the International Cricket Council will take part in negotiations between the West Indies Cricket Board and players’ union, WIPA, in an effort to settle the protracted dispute over a revised Collective Bargaining Agreement.

 Rafael Correa

Leaders lie blatantly about OAS rights group

All politicians lie, or sometimes play games with the truth, but the Presidents of Bolivia and Ecuador were so off the mark when they asked the Organization of American States to effectively kill its Human Rights Commission that one can only wonder whether they were being ignorant or blatant liars.

The greatest game of all

When I was young I played a little cricket. Indeed, one of my most precious memories, a memory now more that sixty years old, is of playing for my school third eleven on a rough pitch up at Mount St Benedict in Trinidad and taking five wickets in one eight-ball over with some slow cunning off-breaks which did not turn – they were an early incarnation of the doosra.

Lewis Hamilton

Hamilton eyeing first win

MONTREAL, Canada,  CMC – McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was  yesterday eyeing his first win of the Formula One season after snatching a share of the front row for today’s Canadian Grand Prix.

Aliann Pompey

Pompey sets sight on Olympics

The Olympic Games are 47 days away and although track star Aliann Pompey  will definitely compete, she is cautiously optimistic of  peaking in  time for world’s biggest sports event next month.

Do your homework

Some weeks ago I mentioned in a column that when I bought a nightclub in Toronto as a home base for Tradewinds, that although I had put up my house to secure the purchase, that didn’t quite cover it, and I had to turn to  my sister and her husband to put a second mortgage on their house to seal the deal.