Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Articles published on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Devanand Nauth

Carpenter loses leg after bad diagnosis

By Mandy Thompson A carpenter has had his left leg amputated as a result of poor medical care after a road accident and his family is blaming the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), which is now investigating the case along with the Medical Council.

George Braithwaite

Braithwaite lauds Pre-Cadet, Cadet team, GTTA

The successful Pre-cadet and Cadet table tennis team which took top honours at the recent championships in Jamaica has come in for praise from none other than former Caribbean men’s singles champion George `The Chief’ Braithwaite himself.

Gairy `Superman’ St Clair, left slips a left jab from Lovemore Ndou during their World Boxing Federation welterweight title fight in Australia on Friday.

St Clair loses World title fight

Guyana’s Gairy `Superman’ St Clair lost a unanimous decision to Lovemore `Black Panther’ Ndou Friday night in Queensland, Australia for the vacant World Boxing Foundation (WBF) welterweight title.

Warne wants Bolt for Big Bash

(Reuters) – Usain Bolt could repackage himself as a big-hitting cricketer in Australia’s Big Bash League after defending his sprint double at the London Olympics, local media reported yesterday.

Linden fire claims haven for HIV patients, children

The early Friday morning fire in Linden that destroyed several buildings in the old Guymine compound dealt a huge blow to the work being done among the HIV community in Region 10 and over 300 hundred children will now be worse off because the haven they have had for the last eight years was razed.

Nicola Ramdyhan

Nicola Ramdyhan advances at SVG lawn tennis tourney

Guyana’s top junior lawn tennis player Nicola Ramdyhan breezed through the qualifying round of the First Citizens Investment Services sponsored 2012 International Junior Tennis Tournament in St Vincent and the Grenadines and is into the main draw of the competition.

 Tyrell Tull

We are not the favourites

Despite the fact that the Hits and Jams Spartans team possess a quartet of the most explosive Twenty20 players in the world cricket, its captain Tyrell Tull is downplaying his team’s chances of winning this weekend’s  Jamzone Masters Cup competition which commences Friday at the Providence National Stadium.

David Granger

Putting the PNC/R back together again

Long after the contest between David Granger and Carl Greenidge for the PNC/R’s presidential candidature had passed and gone, Party insiders were alluding to what they claimed was a lingering division between the rival camps that wasn’t going away.

Education: CAPE – The Post-Secondary Advantage

By Cheryl Stephens Through the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), the Caribbean Examinations Coun-cil (CXC) and its stakeholders have created a post-secondary system that is seamless, inclusive, democratic, socially responsible, developmentally focused and internationally recognised.

GCF AGM set for Saturday

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was previously postponed will now be held this Saturday at the Guyana Olympic Association building.

Mimicking al Qaeda, militant threat grows in Sinai

AL ARISH, Egypt,  (Reuters) – They came in Toyota pick-up trucks, dozens of heavily armed masked men, firing machineguns and waving the black flag of al Qaeda as terrified residents and police huddled indoors, and then disappeared again, melting away into the mountains and remote villages of Egypt’s Sinai desert.

Instead of asking for $65M for NCN the government should ask for $65M for tools that allow teachers to effectively educate the nation’s children

Dear Editor, In acknowledging the relevant concerns of Mr Lowe (KN , August 11), I wish to state that the problem of poor performance of CSEC graduates at the university level has been accruing over a number of years in the botched and uninspiring education system that is being championed by the relevant authorities.

Kenyans to investigate poor track showing

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities are frustrated that foreign athletes who train in the country turned the tables on the east African nation, whose disappointing track and field performance at the London Olympics has kicked off a storm of protest back home.

Books: Bridging The Artificial Division Of Race

By George Lamming The following statement titled “Rodney and the Concept of Labour” was delivered via skype at the re-launch of Walter Rodney’s seminal work “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” which took place on June 13, 2012 at the CLR James Auditorium at Cipriani Labour College.  

Vatican orders butler to stand trial, charges second man

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – The Vatican yesterday ordered Pope Benedict’s former butler to stand trial for leaking documents alleging corruption in the Holy See, revealing the involvement of a second Vatican employee and details of secret nocturnal meetings with a reporter.

Reuters World News Highlights

CAIRO – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has driven back the biggest challenge to civilian rule by dismissing top generals and tearing up their legal attempt to curb his power in a bold bid to end 60 years of military leadership.

Since the PSC has operated like an extension of the government it will not be trusted as a mediator  

Dear Editor, With reference to the Private Sector Commission’s (PSC) criticism of Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon, we should like to point out that while it is the right of the commission to express its views, it must be reminded that for conflict resolution to be successful in Guyana, civil society bodies must preserve their independence and impartiality in order to be treated with the respect they deserve.

Granger’s challenges

Presumably, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) would have much preferred that the verbal jousting between supporters of David Granger and Carl Greenidge, the two candidates for the leadership of the party, not enter the public domain.

CARIFORUM is open for business

CARIFORUM is open for business and is unflinching in its commitment to implementing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU, Director General of the CARIFORUM Directorate, Ivan Ogando Lora, and Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), Pamela Coke-Hamilton said at the closing session of the 2nd CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum held in London from August 8-9.