Daily Archive: Sunday, July 15, 2012

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Powerhouses Jamaica crushed St Lucia to start their Americas Federation of Netball Associations (AFNA) Caribbean Championship on a winning note here Saturday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The national director of epidemiology Dr Manuel Santin Peña has said the cholera outbreak in south-eastern Cuba has not spread to other parts of the island.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The central Jamaica town of Mandeville in Manchester is in shock over the killing of well-known radiologist, Dr Phillip Chamberlain.

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – American Danny Garcia knocked out Britain’s Amir Khan in the fourth round to add the WBA light-welterweight crown to his WBC super-lightweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday.

(Barbados Nation) One of Barbados’ wanted men was captured this morning.

ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – Doctor and diplomat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma of South Africa won a vote today to become the first female head of the African Union Commission, delegates said.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Off-spinner Sunil Narine says he had recognised the importance of Saturday’s fourth One-Day International and had seized the moment.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Fast bowler Tino Best said he knew his second spell in Saturday’s fourth One-Day International against New Zealand would have been crucial to West Indies’ hopes of a victory.

Days away from the PNCR Congress, former Member of Parliament Aubrey Norton has levelled a verbal broadside at Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) David Granger for suggesting in his lecture on July 6 that there was no father or mother of the nation in the struggle for independence.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of Colombia’s leading cardiovascular hospitals has extended its services to the Children’s Life Fund, a pet project of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, at a fraction of the cost in the US.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s parliamentary opposition has warned that it will resolutely resist any bid to use the impending opportunity to appoint a new contractor general as a means to silence the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) or reduce the oversight of the Government’s contract awards process.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Financial Investigation Division (FID) of the Ministry of Finance is increasing its effort to secure the forfeiture of J$18 million in local and foreign currencies seized from convicted Matthews Lane strongman, Donald ‘Zeeks’ Phipps in May 2005.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) president Roustan Job says the country is facing a serious literacy problem that it will need to address through specialised programmes.

DAMASCUS,  (Reuters) – Syria denied today accusations by special envoy Kofi Annan that it used heavy weapons or helicopters in clashes in the village of Tremseh last week, saying his comments about the fighting, which activists called a massacre, were “rushed”.

(Trinidad Express) The death of a Chinese businessman and the murder of a Tobago resident have pushed the murder toll to 223 for the year so far.

(Trinidad Express) The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has instructed national carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to drop its Air Jamaica (AJ) brand from its aircraft.

(Trinidad Express) Recently-appointed Finance Minister Larry Howai says a more efficient and equitable property tax has to be reintroduced in the country.

The high level policemen implicated in the $16M boat scam should be subject to criminal sanctions and not just be allowed to repay the stolen sum, member of the AFC Nigel Hughes says while concluding that the Ministry of Home Affairs has made a mockery of all efforts to stamp out corruption.

Story and photos by Alva Solomon Situated some three miles off the Linden-Soesdyke Highway is the sprawling religious community of Hauraruni.

Several army pilots who recently completed a training course to be command pilots to operate the Chinese Y-12 aircraft are peeved at not being given the opportunity to fly the aircraft solo.

The mother of a boy recovering in hospital from physical abuse allegedly inflicted by his father, yesterday blamed the police, saying several earlier reports had yielded little action.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Chronicle Keith Burrowes is defending the newspaper’s publication of a letter sympathetic to the views expressed in its July 2, 2012 editorial, which was branded “racist” and “inflammatory.”

An 11-year-old boy known in the Parfaite Harmonie community for both his pranks and helpfulness was yesterday found hanging from a beam in his bedroom.

A 14-year-old girl is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle in the vicinity of Company Road, Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD) around 11 am yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Defiant West Indies withstood a brilliant Ross Taylor hundred to beat New Zealand by 24 runs in the fourth One-Day International and clinch a series win over a top eight ICC side for the first time in four years here  yesterday.

Officials of KRS Construc-tion Co Inc. have agreed to stand the funeral expenses of the watchman who was strangled while on duty at their New Hope, East Bank Demerara worksite.

The worry was that it was too good to be true.

Introduction No free chow mein. That was my first thought as I tried to interpret the words of Minister of Public Works and Communications Robeson Benn in relation to the airport expansion project that “we [meaning the government] had to enter into an agreement because we had a very narrow window in September where a Chinese Vice Premier came to the Caribbean with several billion dollars to fund projects and it was the only opportunity we had then to fund this undertaking.”

Leading junior swimmer Britany van Lange swam 1:03.68 in the 100m freestyle to achieve a Goodwill “A” qualifying time in that event as the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association  trials continued yesterday at the The multiple Goodwill gold medalist, also swam a Goodwill Games “B”

The Alliance for Change (AFC) welcomed  the convening of the recent diplomatic retreat but expressed disappointment that the diplomatic corps is made up mainly of “the same old party loyalists and sinecure appointees.”

Failure to develop female football in the Rupununi will eventually lead to young women losing interest in the sport, according to senior footballer Lorian Toney.

Seeking to revive a dying language, Arawak Amerindians from the Guianas are collaborating to produce a comprehensive book to make learning the language easier.

There is literally no problem in Guyana which is more intractable than the problem of bureaucracy in all its deadly guises.

LONDON, CMC – Olympic legend Carl Lewis has cast doubt on sprint sensation Usain Bolt repeating as 100 metres champion at the London Olympics starting later this month.

The Linden Evangelical Ministries Fellowship (LEMF) has urged government to hold consultations with the people of Region 10 on the electricity hikes, which they warn will cause the collapse of the region.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday defeated the USA-based Friends and Former Guyana Cricketers (FFGC) team in a memorial match for the late DCC player Andrew Lyght.

Falcon Transportation and Construction Company (FTCC) is making moves to uplift money it claims is owed to it for work undertaken on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) four-lane road project, but the Works Ministry is maintaining a hold on the release of funds.

An EZJet aircraft is grounded and the passengers stranded when a ground handling vehicle drove into a part of the fuselage causing minor damage and the cancellation of the flight to JFK New York.

The low-income revolving loan facility for which the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) received a $2 billion subvention from the government in 2010 has not been touched and earned $80 million in interest up to the end of last year.

As carjackers continue to target taxis, drivers are slowly making use of Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking devices to recover their stolen vehicles and at least one city taxi service is taking full advantage of this technology, which is becoming increasingly popular around the world.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan stroked a fantastic even hundred to propel Leicestershire to a dramatic four-wicket win over Worcestershire in the Clydesdale Bank 40 Championship here  yesterday.

Trophy Stall has joined the list of supporters of the Inter-Market/Municipality Futsal tournament which commences later this month at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

By Emmerson Campbell This year’s sixth Annual ‘Ride for Life’ 226-mile five-stage cycle road race which is set to  pedal off in the first week of October is gearing up to be better than last year’s event, according to Director of Sport Neil Kumar and National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed.

One of the best examples of what can be described as “cliché thinking” is to be found in the frequent diatribes against well-known artistes, particularly popular singers, who are lambasted these days for leading the public, more especially youth, into various negative social actions. 

Continued Today, we will continue making some more general remarks on this matter of breeding companion animals. 

Career nurse Penelope Layne has been quietly leading an army of three at the Guyana Cancer Registry for the last twelve years.

Junior player Khalif Gobin will next come up against the defending men’s singles champion Anthony Downes after he held his own against veteran player Harry Panday in a men’s singles match of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Open competition last Friday at the GBTI Recreational Centre, Bel Air.

In 2010 the US Congress enacted legislation that has the effect of extending the reach of US tax law to the Caribbean and all other countries.

Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa says in a new book that we are living in a “culture of entertainment” in which everything — including literature, journalism, politics and sex — is becoming increasingly trivial, and that this phenomenon can have disastrous consequences for mankind.

An indicator of disturbance, the Kabukalli (Goupia glabra) tree is especially common in secondary forests and is frequent on sandy soils and old clearings.

A home in the small community of Hauraruni on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway provides a sanctuary for abused and abandoned young girls, and while reintegration with their families is the key aim some are allowed to remain after the stipulated 18 years if they have nowhere else to call home.

LE CAP D’AGDE, France, (Reuters) – German Andre Greipel snatched his third Tour de France win this year when he outsprinted Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan to claim the 13th stage yesterday.

Caribbean Under-15 silver medallist Chelsea Edghill has failed to advance to the last 16 of the Latin America junior championship in Mexico after placing third in her group.

When the two teams met last year in the semi-finals of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition Wismar/Christianburg showed their superiority on the way to winning the match and advancing to the finals.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies have fallen to one from bottom of the pack in the International Cricket Council Test rankings.

Lawn grass needs as much attention as any other plant.  With the heavy rainfall we are getting at the moment, the grass on your lawn may well be showing signs of distress.

The Caribbean performance traditions have always included very strong forms of comedy.

Dear Editor, Minister of Transport, Robeson Benn stated recently that after taking all options into consideration he considered the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) the most feasible option available to upgrade and provide a modern airport for Guyana.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The Red Cross now views fighting in Syria as an internal armed conflict – a civil war in layman’s terms – crossing a threshold experts say can help lay the ground for future prosecutions for war crimes.

LONDON, CMC – World champion Kirani James warmed up for his first-ever assault on an Olympic medal with a victory in the men’s 400 metres but Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce tasted defeat on the final day of the London Grand Prix here  yesterday.

Dear Editor, Those running and ruining this country cannot see further than their own hubris, hauteur, egomania and self-preservation.

CAIRO  (Reuters) – Hundreds of people chanted anti-US and anti-Islamist slogans outside Hillary Clinton’s hotel on Saturday as the US secretary of state urged Egypt’s military and Muslim Brotherhood to complete a transition to full democratic rule.

Dear Editor, With reference to Mr Lloyd Davidson’s letter dated Wednesday, June 27, 2012, captioned ‘A census allows a government to plan for its people,’ as Mr Davidson indicated, census-taking goes as far back as Biblical times. 

Dear Editor, The now infamous editorial of the Guyana Chronicle published on July 3 has been the subject of much commentary over the past week.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Africa faces a serious threat from al Qaeda and its allies trying to set up a sanctuary in northern Mali, African leaders said yesterday as they pondered political and military strategies aimed at reuniting the divided West African state.

NEW YORK, CMC – CONCACAF, the governing body for football in North, Central America and the Caribbean, has appointed Colombian Enrique Sanz as its new general secretary.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s verbose Hugo Chavez is reaching out to voters with tweets sent as text messages to even the most basic mobile phones as the socialist president fights a vigorous opposition campaign in the Twitter-mad country ahead of an Oct 7 election.

A week last Friday Mr David Granger, the Leader of the Opposition, gave the inaugural lecture in the National Assembly’s Governance and Democracy series.