Daily Archive: Saturday, May 4, 2013

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – All-rounder Dwayne Bravo has replaced Darren Sammy as West Indies captain for next month’s Champions Trophy in England, in a move aimed at reinvigorating the One-Day International side.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Powerful explosions struck the outskirts of Damascus early on Sunday, sending columns of fire into the night sky, and Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military facility just north of the capital.

(Trinidad Guardian) When Melanie Fiona performed at the 2013 Tobago Jazz Experience this past weekend, it was her first time in Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan’s use of the term “wanted man” to describe former CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey is “illogical and inexplicable,” said Duprey’s attorney Lionel Luckhoo in a letter to the AG yesterday. Describing

(Reuters) – Orb won the 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs today.

(Jamaica Observer) OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Tourism Minister Wykeham McNeill has hailed Copa Airlines for its decision to host its annual convention in Jamaica, especially at a time when the airline has doubled its capacity to Jamaica, improving the possibility of more visitors from Latin America, which Copa serves.

Following concerns about the erosion of the embankment and accumulation of garbage, the Ministry of Works today announced that the seawall between Vlissingen Road and the Ocean View International Hotel will no longer be available for recreation and vending from tomorrow.

(Barbados Nation) The Royal Barbados Police Force will be launching a full internal investigation into the circumstances that led to the death of a Guyanese woman who was chopped to death earlier this week.

(Barbados Nation) THE FIVE GUYANESE GIRLS involved in the first human trafficking case here are in protective custody as the Royal Barbados Police Force continues investigations into a probable ring involving scores of female non-nationals.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Saturday, a U.S.

(Trinidad Express) FORMER justice minister Herbert Volney has jumped to the defence of embattled former executive chairman of CL Financial, Lawrence Duprey, slamming his former Cabinet colleague Attorney General Anand Ramlogan.

(Trinidad Express) Jack Warner will be standing alone in his bid to be re-elected as the Chaguanas West MP.

(Trinidad Express) FOR being the parents of a 33-year-old gang member, a Diego Martin mother and father paid with their lives yesterday afternoon when gunmen first shot and killed their son then, realising his parents were at home, murdered them as well.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Israel has carried out an air strike targeting a shipment of missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah guerrillas in neighbouring Lebanon, an Israeli official said on Saturday.

Following weeks of anxiety in the local rice industry, Guyana and Venezuela yesterday extended an export agreement for another year that will see 210,000 tonnes of rice being shipped to the Spanish-speaking country in a deal worth US$130 million.

Guyana and Venezuela yesterday signed a bilateral agreement for information sharing to combat narco-trafficking, as part of a continental initiative.

A mentally-challenged man was crushed to death yesterday afternoon after he was the victim of a hit and run at the junction of Princes and High streets as he was attempting to cross the road.

The arbitrators who presided over the NAACIE/GuySuCo Tribunal yesterday revealed that workers in several categories, who were represented by the union, would receive wage increases, while an additional one per cent (1%) was awarded on all the union’s scales The tribunal was presided over by Major General Rtd Norman McLean, who served as the body’s Chairman, as well as Dr Gobind Ganga and Professor Clive Thomas.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been forced to temporarily relocate its paediatric ward due to an invasion of German cockroaches.

As expected, rifle shooting ace David Calvert of Great Britain was adjudged the most outstanding shooter Thursday night at the awards ceremony at the Georgetown Club.

A suspected con artist was on Thursday arrested with documents and monies received from the victim of a visa scam.

The PNC has done everything legally possible, everything humanly possible to refute the allegations made against members of our party as to the involvement in [the murder].

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies opener Lendl Simmons kept Trinidad and Tobago in the hunt but persistent rain spoiled an intriguing battle for first innings points on the second day of their Regional Four-Day semi-final against Jamaica here yesterday.

Four up and coming junior tennis players  were expected to depart Guyana yesterday morning accompanied by national coach Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan for Antigua where they will participate in the Antigua Junior 12 and under Invitational Tennis Tournament that takes place today and tomorrow.

The AFC will be pushing for the operationalising of the Access to Information Act and has expressed concern that the provisions are yet to be implemented.

Acting Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali has signalled that government would be weighing a decision to open the country to extra-regional cement suppliers, in wake of the 5% increase announced by Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) for its Portland-Pozzolan cement.

Kolkata Knight Riders used the comfort of their home territory to register only their fourth win in the competition, effortlessly beating Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets.

Editor of Stabroek News’ ‘In the Diaspora’ column Dr Alissa Trotz has been conferred with the President’s Teaching Award by the University of Toronto, where she is an Associate Professor in the Women & Gender Studies Institute and Caribbean Studies Program, Faculty of Arts & Science.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is resorting to light-hearted bribery to keep his Premier League winners focused tomorrow’s match against Chelsea by telling them they will only be allowed a day at the races if they win.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – LeBron James scored the game-winning points in the dying embers of overtime as the Miami Heat held off a determined Indiana Pacers 103-102 in a thrilling Eastern Conference Finals opener on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, In your editorial last Sunday you referred to the posthumous award by President J G Zuma of South Africa of the Order of the Companions of O R Tambo (Gold) to the late President L F S Burnham “for his integral part in the sport boycotts against South Africa during the apartheid regime and support for the liberation movement and freedom fighters in South Africa.”

Coast Guard Commander Gary Beaton says there have been no reports of piracy in the Essequibo area since the deployment of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard Floating Base at Pomeroon, in November last year.

Twenty-three doctors have now been enrolled in postgraduate residency training programmes for the 2013 academic year as part of a collaborative effort between the Institute of Health Science Foundation and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England have recalled batsman Ravi Bopara and fast bowler Tim Bresnan for the one-day series against New Zealand and next month’s Champions Trophy on home soil, the England and Wales Cricket Board said  yesterday.

Dear Editor, The WPA has a real problem now that it has merged itself with the PNC-APNU. 

Dear Editor, It appears that the battle lines have been drawn – stridently and abrasively though not definitively.

(Reuters) – Ziaur Rahman emerged the unlikely hero as he took five wickets for 30 runs to skittle out Zimbabwe in just over 30 overs and guide Bangladesh to a comfortable 121 run win in their first one day international in Bulawayo yesterday.

When it comes to pageantry, the perception is that it’s a woman’s thing.

       Nrityageet 34 dancers polishing their performance yesterday in preparation for this evening’s show at the National Cultural Centre in celebration of the 175th anniversary of  Indian Arrival Day.

Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, is refuting allegations that he is seeking the removal of Town Clerk (ag), Carol Sooba, after she refused to grant his wife a write-off of taxes she owed for her business.

The semi-final of the GT&T Jingle and Song Competition featured Caribbean Night so the contestants had to bring it home with Soca, Reggae and Dancehall.

Last year a team from the Guyana Police Force (GDF) spearheaded by Sergeant Andrew Daly, former national table tennis player, sprung a surprise and won the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Inter-Ministry/Corporation tournament.

Dear Editor, The published findings of mercury in the bodies of Guyanese gold jewellers cause concern for their future health.

Minister of Natural Resources Robert Persaud and Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai yesterday met residents of Hururu, in Region 10 and personnel from RUSAL to discuss several issues to do with road access for loggers and infrastructure works, utility and other services to the village.

The Annual Muneshwar’s Hardware Medal Play golf tournament will tee off today at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) from 12:30 hours.

Hi Everyone, It does not take much convincing for me to try a new or different recipe when certain ingredients are involved.

The National Library is continuing to expand its annual essay and short story competition, which will include a poetry category next year and will be rebranded the “Crea-tive Writing Competition.”

Dear Editor, Over the past few days I had cause to visit government offices, the last was on Thursday, May 2, that of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development in Kingston.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said yesterday he does not foresee a scenario in which he would send US ground troops to Syria and outlined a deliberate approach to determining whether the Syrian government had used chemical weapons in a 2-year civil war.

Region Five celebrated Arrival Day yesterday in grand style with several schools and groups participating in cultural activities including African and Indian dancing, drumming and dramatic poetry.

 Flamboyant down: The storm that thundered over the city yesterday morning uprooted this huge Flamboyant tree.

The annual Mother and Daughter Pageant is billed for next Saturday at the National Cultural Centre and as usual will see competition and winners in three categories – junior, middle and senior.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – Rookie off-spinner Ashley Nurse snatched a 14-wicket match haul as Barbados flattened Windward Islands for the third lowest ever score in the modern history of regional first class cricket yesterday, to romp into the final of the Four-Day Championship.

Dear Editor, Your editorial ‘Burnham Award’ in Sunday Stabroek of April 28 seemed fair and rational.

A young Georgetown designer escaped serious injuries though he was struck by a car that after a truck ran into it at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice yesterday afternoon.

Dear Editor, Some time this year, I penned a letter to your newspaper concerning my observation of two open manholes on the western lane of the Avenue of the Republic which I described as a recipe for disaster.

Pop singer Michael Buble earns his fourth No 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week with the arrival of ‘To Be Loved’.

Coach of the 2012 IAAF World Junior silver medalist, Shaun Dietz, says Kadecia Baird is presently suffering from an infection.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It’s been dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth and President Barack Obama cited the cost this week as one of many reasons to shut down the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, which burns through some $900,000 per prisoner annually.

Keep Your Day Job! (KYDJ!) on Friday last hosted ‘Acoustic Night’ at the Sidewalk Café and Jazz Club which featured fusions of Punk rock from KYDJ!,

Basdeo Mangra, the North Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara man who passed away on Monday after a confrontation with a minibus conductor over loud music being played in the vehicle, died as a result of a heart attack.

(Reuters) – The United States is watching “crackdowns on the opposition” in Venezuela, President Barack Obama said in a television interview aired yesterday when asked if he considered newly elected Nicolas Maduro to be the country’s legitimate president.

Dear Editor This year we commemorate among other things, the 175th anniversary of the first arrival of indentured immigrants from India to the then British Guiana.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin, who came back from a doping ban to win the women’s 1,500 metres under a cloud of suspicion at the 2012 Olympics, faces a lifetime ban after being charged w ith another anti-doping offence, athletics officials said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Thursday that former Clico executive chairman Lawrenc e Duprey is now considered a wanted man and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has assembled a specialist team of criminal investigators, including an international auditing firm and experienced lawyers, to start a probe of the businessman.

    Three Officers and 30 Other Ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) participated in the Health Walk hosted by the Ministry of Health last Sunday in Georgetown for the commencement of National Laboratory Professionals Week (April 21 to 27).

Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to offer my congratulations to all our journalists and those who work in the media on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day which was observed yesterday.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general is opening the financial records of two-time former president and likely 2016 presidential candidate Alan Garcia as part of a preliminary corruption inquiry, the government said yesterday.

Witness We See

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday said Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe was plotting to kill him, adding to a deluge of accusations by the former bus driver in recent months.

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – Eight-time world champion Floyd Mayweather refused to be drawn into a war of words at the final news conference for his WBC welterweight title clash with Robert Guerrero on Wednesday, despite being labeled a “woman beater” by his opponent’s father.

An autopsy has determined that Steven Renaldo Tinnie, the Surinamese national whose body was found on the Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara on Monday, died as a result of multiple injuries and a fractured skull, supporting the suspicion that he was the victim of a hit-and-run accident.

It starts with something simple: He thinks her jeans are too tight even though the jeans fit perfectly fine.

Shakespeare enthusiasts and students who will be sitting English Literature at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations can enjoy William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Theatre Guild.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria CNN reported yesterday, citing two unnamed US officials.

It is not at all surprising that the nation has not immersed itself in oceans of shock and awe following last week’s two reported vigilante killings. 

An East Ruimveldt woman has won the shopping trip for two to Miami offered by Scotiabank in its holiday MasterCard campaign, which ran from November 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013.

Politikles

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Amazon Indians yesterday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world’s third largest hydroelectric dam for two days.

Dear Editor, Each day as I check the newspapers I become more and more frustrated and depressed about the future of our country from what I deem to be extremist expressions in the letters and columns published.

With retrospect, it seems inevitable that the dramatic shutdown of a major city and the house-by-house manhunt which led to the killing and capture of the Boston bombers would seem justifiable to most Americans.

(SportsDirect) Stephen Curry scored 14 of his 22 points in a decisive third quarter and Andrew Bogut collected 14 points, 21 rebounds and four blocks as hosts Golden State survived a late surge and held off Denver in a 92-88 game six and win the Western Conference playoff series 4-2.

Nrityageet prelude:

 By Basdeo Mangru (Basdeo Mangru received his doctorate in History from the University of London.

By Basdeo Mangru The abolition of slavery in1834, and the premature termination of apprenticeship four years later, created considerable concern among the planting interests regarding the reliability and regularity of the Creole workforce.

Thirty-eight-year-old Mahendra Persaud has been working with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for the past 23 years and while it is a job that comes with benefits, he does not wish to have his children work as cane-harvesters.

The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 against colonial domination in India had been for a long time the subject of much controversy and debate and had produced more literature than any other single event in modern Indian history.

By Basdeo Mangru One of the enduring myths of the Indians in Guyana, and indeed throughout the Caribbean, is that they are a docile, passive people reluctant or incapable of initiating action to disrupt the status quo. 

Views of Enmore Estate today

By Oluatoyin Alleyne The A $2M facelift for the Monument Gardens at Camp and Church Street is how the Indian Commemoration Trust (ICT) is marking 175 years since Indian Arrival in British Guiana. 

175th anniversary of Indian Arrival, 1838

On a Monday morning early 83-year-old Iris Mangru heads over to her fruit orchard, something she has been doing for as long as she can remember even though she knows that there is not much she can do there these days.

Slightly bent over, her glasses perched precariously on her wizened face, Sukdiah Mohabir hurried down a street in the village of Canefield, Canje, Berbice on a sunny morning impatient to match the strides of the younger woman holding her hand.

This article by Dr Chanderbali was first published by Stabroek News on May 5, 2006, under the caption ‘Indian indenture:  Some reasons for immigrants repatriating and settling.’