Daily Archive: Sunday, September 9, 2012

HAMILTON, Bermuda,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Leslie churned east of Bermuda on Sunday, buffeting the island with stiff winds and rain and heading on a path that may carry it to Canada’s easternmost province of Newfoundland.

(de Ware Tijd) ZANDERIJ – National carrier SLM has finally obtained permission from the French authorities for the Paramaribo-Cayenne-Belem route.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams, through sheer force of will as much as her unquestionable skill, beat world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-2 2-6 7-5 in a dramatic U.S.

The lifeless body of a 15-year-old boy was this afternoon pulled from the Lama Conservancy, commonly called the `Blacka’.

(WICB) Bridgetown, Barbados – Darren Sammy urged fans to continue to “rally around the West Indies”, as his side flew out to Sri Lanka today for this month’s World Twenty20 Tournament.

(Trinidad Guardian) CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb confirmed on Thursday that the United States’ Internal Revenue Services (IRS), accounting firm BDO International and global legal company Sidley Austin LLP are working in tandem to scrutinise the legacy of his predecessor and National Security Minister Jack Warner.

(Trinidad Guardian) The biggest fraud cases in this country’s history—which saw billions of dollars in taxpayers money allegedly being pumped into the pockets of the United National Congress (UNC) financiers—are expected to be dismissed later this week.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A media entity in Zimbabwe has reported that the country’s president, Robert Mugabe, has taken an unprovoked swipe at Jamaica and, in particular, Jamaican men.

Police say that at about 1100h yesterday, fisherman Shameer Safeek, 44 years of Good Hope, ECD, and three crew members were fishing in the Pomeroon, Essequibo area when they were attacked and robbed by four men in another boat who were all armed with firearms.

MONZA, Italy,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Italian Formula One Grand Prix for McLaren today with Sauber’s Mexican driver Sergio Perez finishing second.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court today after he was convicted of murder in a ruling likely to further exacerbate sectarian tension.

(Barbados Nation) Grounded Barbadian-based airline REDjet owes well in excess of Bds$2 million in landing and other fees to the airports of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, but under a new company plan, just released to creditors, the airports will only get back Bds$580 000 collectively.

(Trinidad Express) It was no ordinary day for reporters yesterday as gunmen in the Beverly Hills area opened fire while CCN TV6 and the Sunday Express media crews were interviewing the relatives of a woman killed in the area.

(Trinidad Express) Five killings in ten hours, including that of a 51-year-old mother of eight, between Friday night and yesterday morning, have pushed the country’s murder toll to 289 for the year so far.

Salim Mohamed, one of the porters in the Bakewell truck involved in Friday’s accident in which former commissioner of police Henry Greene and 10-year-old Shaffiya Jamaluddin died, said that prior to the collision, Greene’s vehicle had been swerving from side to side.

Story and photos by Frances Abraham At 81, ‘Cousin Mavis’ rears chickens, plants a garden, produces coconut oil, pepper sauce, achar, pointer brooms and other items which she sells while she walks.

Quick action by firemen last night averted what could have been a major disaster at the Jainarine Singh Building on Croal Street which houses several magistrates’ courts, lawyers’ offices and other legal affairs business places.

In the light of concerns that the recently-appointed governing board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is almost wholly composed of persons with links to the government, AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes believes that it is time the opposition move to amend the Broadcast Act.

A grief-stricken Kamla Singh has made a passionate plea to anyone with information on the Cummings Lodge shooting two years ago, in which her daughter and grandson were among those killed, to come forward so that she can have some closure.

There are three regional commissioners sitting on the recently set up Commission of Inquiry into the incidents in the mining town of Linden which saw three persons being shot and killed.

Chairman of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Nigel Hughes says that the party will consider other avenues to effect change to the state broadcaster NCN and the Government Information Agency (GINA), given that the subvention cuts seem to have done little to reform programming.

San Salvador, El Salvador – Guyana’s Golden Jaguars clinched their first points in Group B with a commendable 2-2 draw against El Salvador when action in the North, Central American and Caribbean Zone third round 2014 World Cup qualifiers continued Friday evening at the Estadio Cuscatlan ground.

By Neil Barry It is not often that the winning club is decided before the final of a competition.

Introduction Today I continue appraising the sugar industry (and GuySuCo) in view of the considerable European Union (EU) support and the further $4 billion transfer to GuySuCo from the National Budget 2012.

Months after promising that farmers whose crops were damaged during the construction of the Hope Canal would be compensated, the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday finally handed over cheques to farmers but it was not to the level expected.

Winston Messenger and Cleveland Thomas know that when it comes to today’s AINLIM 10K road race, they are not among the favourite to win it all.

A fire, allegedly caused by a junkie (drug addict) at Lot 1 Public Road, Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, completely gutted the abandoned building of what used to be Guyden General Hardware Store, yesterday afternoon.

Workers of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) and residents of the area are threatening to take to the street again in protest action to force the commencement of works on Casuarina Drive at Mackenzie.

Over 20 individuals participated in the International Swimming Federation (FINA) coaches clinic conducted by international swimming coach Rick Powers at the National Aquatic Centre (NAC).

By Neil Barry Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) defeated Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) at the GCC ground in a match of the New Building Society, limited overs second division competition.

In late 2009 Marilyn  realized that she was losing weight rapidly and her worst fear was confirmed when she tested positive for HIV.

How Ernest Hilaire saw his task when he took over as West Indies Cricket Board chief executive in October 2009 reminded me of the celebrated bodybuilder Charles Atlas’ ads in the comic books of my schooldays (yes, it was that long ago).

The Capybara or ‘Watrush’ as it’s known in Guyana is the largest rodent in the world. 

By Neil Barry The Carib Beer and Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup first division two day compeitition continued yesterday with two enthralling matches in Georgetown.

The Demerara Tobacco Company Limited (Demtoco) is prepared to welcome tougher cigarette packaging rules once legislation to address this issue is presented.

Introduction Here is a cheque drawn on the account of Clico – in Liquidation.

For those of you who would like a plant which thrives indoors, but cannot manage anything that is too demanding in terms of care and attention, then the Aglaonema is probably for you.

The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) nationwide male and female softball cricket competition sponsored by Mikes Pharmacy, Ariel Enterprise, Trophy Stall, Survival, Ramchand Auto Spares, Motor Trend, and Petama Enterprise, continues today with several matches.

A 26-year-old tractor driver was pinned to death in a rice field at Carlton Hall, Mahaicony, about 5 pm on Friday.

Ministry of Home Affairs sixth annual sports programme will take place today at the Police Recreational Hall, New Amsterdam.

By Alim Hosein Guyana has a long history of visual art competitions, going back to the colonial days.

A 28-year-old miner was attacked and stabbed by a group of men at Mahdia, around 10 pm on Thursday as he was walking along the Public Road.

If there were any doubts that Republican candidate Mitt Romney is not a closet moderate but a true convert to his party’s extreme right wing, they should have been cleared by now.

This is a story with a number of levels.  One is simply musical, in that it involved a number of performers, all living in North America except me, in one concert called Caribbean North staged to help raise funds for the Burn Care Unit at our Georgetown Hospital.

By Ronald Austin The Republican Conven-tion is over. As I write, the Democratic Convention is about to begin.

Continued Further preparation This week, we’ll continue with the preparation of the two actors in the drama of canine reproduction.

More than sixty years ago – can it be so many years, gone so quickly, insubstantial as a dream?

WASHINGTON  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago smashed 14 runs off the last over to beat Barbados by five wickets and keep their archrivals winless in the Caribbean vs Asia Twenty20 tournament here Friday night.

     Dear Editor, When in 2010 I first raised the question of the fate of the country’s parliamentary records it attracted little attention.

Dear Editor, I refer to my previous letter on the abovementioned subject which was published in your newspaper on Sunday August 5, 2012 (‘Guyana has ratified the UN Convention…’) in which I brought to the attention of your readers that, Guyana like other Caricom states, having ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, without making any reservations to the Convention, is under a legal obligation under international law to give legal effect to the Convention at the national level.

Dear Editor, Mr Henry Greene, former Commissioner of Police and President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association died in the early morning of Friday, September 7 on the Harlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara. 

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A rare tornado struck New York City yesterday, blowing out the windows of at least one building, and a separate twister hit the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, as a line of fierce thunderstorms swept the region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the headline for the SN September 8 article ‘Kwakwani election could set a bad precedent, says Whittaker.’

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt and Israel are coordinating on Cairo’s biggest security sweep in decades against militants in Sinai, in which 32 people have been killed, an army spokesman said yesterday, the first clear statement on communication between the neighbours.

In a matter of days, representatives of Caribbean civil society will meet in Trinidad to discuss the process of EPA implementation.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s government withdrew plans for a compulsory Chinese school curriculum yesterday after tens of thousands took to the streets in protest at what they said was a move to “brainwash” students.

(Reuters) – A fourth-wicket stand of 90 between Jacques Kallis and Jean-Peal Duminy guided South Africa to a comfortable seven-wicket win over England in the opening Twenty20 match played at Chester-le-Street yesterday.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to share some thoughts after having read a letter to the editor:  ‘No point in LCDS supporting documents being in Amerindian languages because most Indigenous peoples can’t read them’ (SN, September 6).

If it hadn’t been for Kwakwani holding its community elections in defiance of the central authorities, most people would not have known that the government had rescinded a 1983 ministerial order which gave oversight of Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) to the respective Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs).

(Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh will have to wait a little longer for his return to international cricket after rain washed out India’s first Twenty20 International match against New Zealand at Visakhapatnam yesterday.