Daily Archive: Sunday, June 23, 2013

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Mickey Arthur has been sacked as coach of Australia just two weeks ahead of the start of the Ashes series against England after a series of poor results and a string of disciplinary issues in the squad, local media reported on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) -Former South African president Nelson Mandela’s condition deteriorated to “critical” today, the government said, two weeks after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was admitted to hospital with a lung infection.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – India held their nerve to beat England by five runs in a tense finish to a rain-disrupted Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston today.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a mountaineering base camp in northern Pakistan on Sunday and shot dead nine foreign trekkers and a Pakistani guide as they rested during an arduous climb up one of the world’s tallest peaks, police said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government-owned Assets Recovery Agency (ARC) is yet to find any of the millions of dollars in assets which former Tivoli Gardens gangster Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was supposed to have amassed over the years.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s air traffic controllers are on strike. The controllers who went on strike at both the Sangster and Norman Manley International airports yesterday, did not turn up for work again this morning, highly-placed sources have told The Gleaner.

(Barbados Nation) An American professional organization has slammed a local doctor for purporting to be affiliated with it, and has told him to stop making the claim.

(Trinidad Express) A diesel smuggling racket in which the subsidised fuel was exchanged for guns and drugs was uncovered yesterday when a joint team of law enforcement officials swooped down on a truck at a seafront compound in Pioneer Drive, Sea Lots, Port of Spain.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – A former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency, charged by the United States with espionage, was allowed to leave Hong Kong today, his final destination as yet unknown, because a U.S.

Shadow Minister of Agriculture Dr Rupert Roopnaraine says it is amazing that GuySuCo has not done a nutrient analysis of its sugar fields given all of the concerns expressed about recent yields and he believes recent remarks by the Head of State signal that government has no comprehensive plan for sugar.

The village of Calcutta, Mahaicony is made of up predominantly African Guyanese, although the name might suggest it would be occupied by East Indians.

A 22-year-old Alberttown woman is now disfigured after she was doused with a noxious liquid suspected to be acid on Friday night at Cummings and Sixth streets, Alberttown by a man on a bicycle.

A Guyanese woman was among at least four persons rushed to the hospital in Tortola, British Virgin Islands yesterday after a masked intruder walked into a beauty salon and sprayed them with a substance suspected to be some sort of acid.

Since the last elections several revelations have emerged of corrupt, and even potentially criminal, activities by persons currently or previously associated with the PPP and who have friends in the leadership or access thereto.

Sunday Stabroek speaks to two psychiatrists There are a growing number of persons with obvious signs of mental illness on the streets and there have been many calls for the government to address this problem more especially in the light of some recent cases where persons were attacked by the mentally disturbed.

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has said that Iran’s mapping of Guyana’s mineral resources has been shelved but this has nothing to with allegations that Tehran was setting up terrorist cells here.

As residents of the island community of Wakenaam continue to lament the conditions under which they live, the absence of a mortuary, proper school playfields and the inoperability the local library and a school computer lab have also emerged as issues they are faced with.

(BBC) Captain Alastair Cook hopes England can end a 38-year wait for a major 50-over trophy when they play India in today’s Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Another Australian cricketer has withdrawn from the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) tournament scheduled to start in July.

National unity cannot be achieved via formal institutions alone, according to University of Guyana lecturer, Dr Thomas Singh who suggested that Guyanese are not inclined to work together.

The fate of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion is in limbo as it is unclear where government will find the resources to continue the project in the wake of the 2013 budgetary cuts by the opposition.

The triathlon team sprint event, the first Olympic Day activity by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) to be observed yesterday morning was won by Team 10 which comprised Calvin McDonald, Raynauth Jeffery and Daniel Scott.

SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Goals from Dante, Neymar and a brace from Fred gave Brazil a well-deserved 4-2 victory over Italy yesterday as the improving hosts made it three wins from three in the Confederations Cup.

Though the mechanisms of control might be different from the PPP, the PNCR is also a centralist party but change is slowly occurring, according to former party Chairman Vincent Alexander.

In commemoration of World Olympic Day, the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) and the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) collaborated to pedal off the fourth annual five-race BMX programme yesterday at the inner circuit of the National Park.

Team Guyana (Back Circle) suffered mixed fortunes on the opening night of the Guinness Caribbean Street Challenge as they recorded one win and one defeat in their opening two Group ‘A’ matches as the event officially commenced in St.

Introduction In July last year under the caption ‘No such thing as a free chow mein’ I wrote critically of the process leading up to the decision to undertake a proposed expansion project at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

When I interviewed former President Jimmy Carter on a wide range of issues a few days ago, I was especially interested in his views about Venezuela’s two-month-old political crisis.

Government officials on Friday visited Region 10 where they met the families of the three Bosai workers who died in Thursday’s horrific vehicular accident at the Bosai bauxite mine site and expressed condolences.

Most of the truly riveting or memorable things we’ve seen reside in still photographs that freeze a fleeting moment and hold it for us forever.

Fruta Conquerors through goals on either side of half-time defeated Renaissance FC 3-1 as action in the Fruta Conquerors-sponsored U-13 league competition continued at the Tucville Community Centre Ground yesterday.

Switching the captaincy for the 50-overs game from Darren Sammy to Dwayne Bravo, chief selector Clyde Butts explained that he and his panel believed it was “best to freshen the leadership of the team in this format.”

The bid of a Berbice resident to get legal ownership of a piece of land he had occupied for years failed last month when the judges in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) upheld the decision of the Guyana courts and dismissed his claim for adverse possession.

  In 2020 the Cotonou Convention will expire. Then the trade, aid and development mechanism that links 79 nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP) to Europe may well come to end without any successor agreement being put in pace.

Last week’s column summarized the geo-technical features of the troubled Amaila Hydropower Project (AHP).

DOHA (Reuters) – International opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed yesterday to give urgent military support to Western-backed rebels, aiming to stem a counter-offensive by Assad’s forces and offset the growing power of jihadist fighters.

CAIRO (Reuters) – The governor of Egypt’s Luxor province, controversially appointed despite belonging to a hardline Islamist group that massacred 58 tourists in Luxor in 1997, will step down on Sunday “for the sake of Egypt”, the group said.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Sri Lankan selectors have called up Upul Tharanga to replace the injured Tillakaratne Dilshan for the Tri-Series, involving West Indies and India, starting in Jamaica on June 28.

The Housing Ministry has recently seen a “mad rush” by house lot applicants who are seeking available housing options in addition to land allocations, Minister Irfaan Ali said on Friday, while giving an update on the ministry’s upcoming fourth International Building and Construc-tion Exposition.

Zingiberaceae Purpurata commonly called Ginger Lily or Hawaiian Ginger originated in Malaysia and South East Asia  and was brought to Hawaii in the mid-1930s.

Top Demerara Volleyball team Young Achievers edged Port Mourant Training Centre (PMTC) yesterday at the National Gymnasium as the Guyana Volleyball Association commemorated the observance of World Olympic Day.

This subject was earlier approached in a publication The Walter Rodney Factor in West Indian Literature by Al Creighton and partly carried in ‘Arts on Sunday.’

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish riot police fired water cannon to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul yesterday, as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan castigated those behind protests he said had played into the hands of Turkey’s enemies.

Ryan Henry, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) employee who was burned while working on a utility pole at Parika on Tuesday, had his left hand amputated.

(Continued) Caesarian operation The first question to be asked is when should one consider presenting the mother dog to the veterinarian because of a difficult labour period. 

Dear Editor, The purpose of this letter is to comment on the Linden Commission of Enquiry as it relates to the established doctrine of ministerial responsibility. 

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) omitted Ramnaresh Sarwan and Jason Holder in a squad of 13 announced yesterday for the opening leg of the Celkon Mobile Cup Series that also involves Sri Lanka and ICC Champions Trophy finalist India.

By Eusi Kwayana Beryl Adams Haynes (ed. Laurence Clarke) Plaisance from Emancipation to Independence and Beyond  (Beryl Adams Haynes : [Guyana], 20210.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton has fed speculation that she might run for the White House in 2016 by telling an audience in Canada that she would like to see a woman president in the United States in her lifetime.

Walking bush: The sheer volume of the branches of a tree whose leaves are used for medicinal purposes made their carrier appear to be a walking bush as he fetched them along the Railway Embankment at Pattensen, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Relatives of Akeem Sampson, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) corporal who was found dead in his Lamaha Springs home last Friday, are now convinced that he was murdered following the post-mortem examination which stated that he died of a fractured skull.

Dear Editor, The University of Guyana issues are antique.  All the woes that the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers’ Union (UGWU) are now making public were made public before by the University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS).

The Caribbean Press is expected to shift its focus to resident Guyanese writers since the publication of the Guyana Classics is near completion with only a few more titles to be added.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A leading apartheid-era activist launched South Africa’s first new political party in five years yesterday, saying the ruling African National Congress (ANC) was destroying the continent’s biggest economy.

“Seeing the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) return to its days of glory and old friends and family of the club reuniting is my dream.”

Mango season: This young man went to great heights and lengths to pick some mangoes in Lusignan yesterday.

Dear Editor, I was amazed to see our Home Affairs Minister and his colleagues voicing their disappointment when his Bills were recently not passed in the National Assembly.

Sunday Cartoons

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it wants Hong Kong to extradite Edward Snowden and urged it to act quickly, paving the way for what could be a lengthy legal battle to prosecute the former National Security Agency contractor on espionage charges.

It seems many moons ago since the PPP/C embarked on its odyssey in government, while the commitments and assurances it gave then sound to us now like the covenants from a simpler and less cynical era.

Brian Sattaur’s unbeaten century gave Demerara first innings lead against Essequibo while Berbice’s performances with bat and ball left the President’s XI reeling as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/GTM Under-19 Inter-County Three-Day Competition managed to get underway at the Police Sports Club and Everest Sports Club Grounds respectively yesterday.

Secretly, like an earthquake underground hardly noticed, a revolution is going on which will eventually change completely the way the world is organized.