Daily Archive: Sunday, August 5, 2012

KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) – Hundreds of Jamaicans who braved the wind and heavy rain to watch outdoor screenings of the Olympic 100 meters final today, erupted in wild celebration, blowing horns, banging pots and pans and waving flags, as their star sprinter Usain ‘Lightning’ Bolt retained his title.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Ernesto kept on a westerly course in the Caribbean Sea today and was expected to strengthen slowly over the next 48 hours, soaking Jamaica as it passed the island on its way to Mexico’s Yucatan, U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Any doubts that Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter to grace an athletics stadium were swept away in 9.63 seconds at the London Olympics last evening.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A man was arrested for throwing a bottle at Usain Bolt and the seven other competitors just before the start of the Olympic 100 metres final at the London Olympics today.

(Trinidad Express) 28 ex-Niger Delta militants who were in the country on a training agreement between Trinidad and Tobago and Nigeria were deported to their homeland because they were threats to the good relationship between Nigeria and Trinidad and Tobago.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Usain Bolt defended his Olympic 100m title but admitted he was worried when the race started.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Forget the decorum of genteel Wimbledon. This was a gladiatorial contest with no quarter given – and that was just the crowd.

(Jamaica Observer) Usain Bolt defended his men’s 100m title in 9.63, a new Olympic record.

OAK CREEK, Wisc.,  (Reuters) – A shooting during Sunday services at a Sikh temple left at least seven people dead, including a gunman, and at least three critically wounded, police and hospital officials said.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Typically stoic batting from Shivnarine Chanderpaul and a career-best knock from Kemar Roach allowed West Indies to formalise a five-wicket victory over New Zealand in the second Test today here.

Police say that the prime suspect in the murder of Bert Whyte was arrested by the police yesterday during a stop and search of a mini-bus at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Meteorological centre reported this morning that Tropical Storm Ernesto has shown signs of weakening last night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Under the radar, deep within the shadows, Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell is quietly staking a claim for sport’s richest prize; Olympic gold.

(Barbados Nation) Oprah Winfrey is in Barbados. She’s here to interview Barbadian Grammy Award winner Rihanna for Oprah’s Next Chapter to be aired on August 19.

(Barbados Nation) The killing of a woman has disturbed the peaceful community of Marchfield, St Philip.

(Trinidad Express) In his first public speech since being appointed Acting Commissioner of Police, Stephen Williams on Friday night laid out his immediate agenda, saying he intends to correct the perception that crime is spiralling out of control.

Khemraj Ramjattan is the new leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) while Nigel Hughes is the chairman.

“I came here about five years ago from West Berbice but I find it ok here because it peaceful,” said Roy Shivdat, one of the  less than 200 residents who live in the Region One mining community of Arakaka.

Thirteen-year-old Basmattie Moonsammy of Woodley Park Village, West Coast Berbice is suspected to have been raped and murdered after her decomposing body was discovered in a rice field aback of the village yesterday morning.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday said that he will not visit Linden unless the roadblocks have been cleared and that the ongoing protest action is doing more harm than good to the residents of the mining community.

President Donald Ramotar last evening said that government stands ready to grant tax free concessions to any company desirous of setting up a recycling plant while lauding the introduction of biodegradable food packaging containers which could reduce the burden on the landfill and create a cleaner environment.

Popular chutney artiste, Mahendra Ramkellawan of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, had his Toyota Allion car stolen, stripped and set alight by car hijackers early yesterday morning.

The Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) has removed information from its website about financing for the US$840 million Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, to which developers hoped it would commit about US$200 million.

The National Assembly on Thursday passed a bill for the Official Gazette to be made available online, making it more widely accessible.

Cabinet gave the go-ahead to four contracts valued $176.4M for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the Linden-Lethem road, and three others, at its July 31 statutory meeting.

Acting Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali and his counterpart from Ecuador, Minister Freddy Ehlers, recently held talks on the integration of the two countries’ tourism product, which could see airlifting being introduced through connecting flights in the Carib-bean and South America.

Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur has said that the agency will start occupying the Clico building on Camp Street within a month’s time, although the rental terms are still being worked out with government and owner, the National Insurance Scheme.

President of Conservation International (CI) Russell Mittermeier recently held talks with President Donald Ramotar about the country’s prospects to have some of its sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, the Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) has reported.

Departing AFC leader Raphael Trotman will no longer be the party’s List Representative—a responsibility that will be passed to the new leader.

Like a stampede of wild horses on a dirt highway, daily events in the constant chaos of their unfolding kick up a vast obscuring cloud of dust and smoke.

Folks who come back to Guyana, even for a visit, are hardly off the plane before they suddenly become experts on what’s wrong with the country. 

Nearly 200 elected Amerindian leaders from far-flung villages will participate in consultations with decision-makers at the annual National Toshaos Council (NTC) meeting at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC), beginning tomorrow and ending Friday.

A 39-year-old Guyanese man in West Hempstead, New York, was allegedly attacked and killed Thursday night by a  fellow resident with whom he was drinking and  Nassau County Police said while the men weren’t friends, they weren’t strangers either.

From Orin Gordon in London Aliann Pompey was apologetic. “I got your message,” she told me as she came off the track in her last race for Guyana at an Olympic Games.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Marlon Samuels defied a dropped chance and the “distraction” of the women’s Olympic 100 metres final being shown in the ground to score a pivotal 52 that fortified West Indies’ bid for a series-clinching victory over New Zealand in the second Test here yesterday.

ALEPPO, Syria  (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad’s forces used artillery, planes and a helicopter gunship to pound rebel positions in Syria’s biggest city, witnesses said, in a battle that could determine the outcome of the 17-month uprising.

In Focus is the title of a new newspaper that was officially launched on Friday with over 10,000 copies printed for distribution free of cost to readers.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Three athletics golds crowned host nation Britain’s best Olympic day for over a century after the greatest swimmer of all time bowed out on a high by winning yesterday’s last pool race of the Games.

The conventional wisdom is that Venezuela was the big winner at last week’s Mercosur summit when the country officially joined South America’s trade bloc.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Sudan said yesterday it had reached a deal with South Sudan on oil transit fees, a first step towards ending a dispute which had brought the hostile neighbours close to war, but also said it wanted a border security agreement before oil flows resumed.

Caribbean countries are well poised to respond to the challenges in sustaining the HIV response in the region, PANCAP Director Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland said at the XII International AIDS Confer-ence (IAC) in Washington, DC.

Part 6 Introduction The last grouping of challenges and threats to macroeconomic stability over the near to medium-term which remains to be covered, is a miscellany of items which I term economic-structural.

Trying to understand what China wants of the Carib-bean has become a subject of conversation from one end of the region to the other.

With West Indian attention firmly set on London and our special stars at the Olympics on track and in pool, a breathtaking individual performance in the team discipline that first established the region’s sporting excellence passed on Friday at a hallowed Caribbean cricket venue without the acclaim it truly deserved.

PASADENA, Calif  (Reuters) – The Mars rover Curiosity, the most sophisticated mobile science lab ever sent to another world, hurtled closer to the Red Planet yesterday, on track “to fly through the eye of the needle” for a precise, safe landing on Sunday night, NASA officials said.

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) – Pirates attacked a ship being used by an oil servicing company in the waters off southeastern Nigeria  yesterday, killing two Nigerian naval guards and kidnapping four foreigners, the Navy and the boat’s shipping firm said.

By Yonalla Dalrymple The Goodwill draughts series between Guyana and Suriname got underway on Friday evening with the opening ceremony at the Providence National Stadium with Guyana’s Director of Sports Neil Kumar declaring the tournament open.

Rain forests are rich in biodiversity and are home to many different plants and animals as well as indigenous communities.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened yesterday and will soon bulk up into a hurricane while keeping a westerly course in the Caribbean Sea that may threaten Jamaica, US forecasters said.

Says Iva Wharton Mention the name Colin France and the image of a table tennis ball readily springs to mind.

During the earlier period of this country’s history, one or another of the Dutch colonies which once occupied the space that is now Guyana, came under periodic attack from French or English raiders.

LONDON,  CMC – St Kitts and Nevis’ most decorated athlete Kim Collins was  yesterday barred from competing in the men’s Olympic 100 metres for breaching team rules and says his career for the tiny Caribbean country could now be over.

Looking for a small tree to plant in your garden?  Look no further!

BEIRUT (Reuters) – As it spirals deeper into civil war, racked by violence, bombs and assassinations, Syria is led by an invisible president.

Dear Editor, Please entertain a response to the article, ‘The economics of Linden and electricity rates,’ by Christopher Ram, in the ‘Business Page’ of Sunday Stabroek, dated July 29, 2012.

Continued The stud dog Last week, we dealt with the brood bitch.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding said he felt betrayed by Tivoli Gardens gangster Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

KANDY, (Reuters) – India fast bowler Irfan Pathan’s second five-wicket haul helped his team beat Sri Lanka by 20 runs in the fifth and final one-day international at Pallekele yesterday.

Dear Editor, I refer to the notice published in your newspaper recently by the Ministry of Education informing members of the public of the appointment of the task force with the mandate to have consultations with the public on the matter of the abolition or retention of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure in schools under the control and management of the government.

Top Brass: AFC’s executives at the opening of the party’s Third National Conference yesterday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – For all its recent tough talk, Israel looks highly unlikely to launch an attack against Iran ahead of U.S.

Every day Mary (not her real name) is faced with the struggle of getting her young daughter to take her anti-retroviral medication and then wait for the side effects which can vary from week to week.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Caribbean Containers Inc (CCI) Ronald Webster (second right) explaining the ECO PAK food packaging line to President Donald Ramotar, Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds.

The Minister of Local Government is a very busy man. There he sits, ensconced behind his capacious official desk positively snowed under by a blizzard of petitions from all over the country (especially opposition areas), complaining about non-functioning Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.

Dear Editor, My colleague and I, like many others who have always respected his persona, were relieved at the clarification offered by Major General (rtd) Joseph Singh of his relationship with the Office of the President, which at the same time represented him more as an adviser than as an assistant (‘Forgoing monthly salary at OP’ SN, August 1).

DUBAI (Reuters) – A bus load of Iranians were abducted by gunmen while on a pilgrimage in Syria yesterday, Iranian media reported, the latest in a string of kidnappings of visitors from the Islamic Republic, a country allied to President Bashar al-Assad.

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We have previously made comments on different factors concerning Emancipation and the state of African culture in Guyana and the Caribbean. 

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Bauxite mining company Suralco is in the red and needs to change its policy drastically to be able to compete on the world market.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen led an England counter-attack with a scintillating unbeaten century to lift his side to 351 for five on the third day of the second test against South Africa  yesterday.

By Ronald Austin The nature of American politics in the past made it  possible for a politician to take a principled position on an issue if he felt that it was in the best interest of his party and country.