Daily Archive: Sunday, July 7, 2013

(Barbados Nation) A weather advisory has been issued for Barbados. A strong tropical wave located about 1050 miles east-southeast of the windward islands is moving west-northwestward at around 25mph.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska  (Reuters) – Ten people were killed on Sunday when a floatplane crashed and burst into flames at an airport in the Alaska Kenai Peninsula town of Soldotna, officials said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Faced with expulsion from the United National Congress (UNC), Jack Warner is now turning to his political guru, Basdeo Panday, with a heartfelt apology, but Panday has outrightly rejected it. Warner

(Reuters) – Andy Murray wiped out 77 years of pain and hurt as he became the first British man since 1936 to win the men’s title at Wimbledon with a 6-4 7-5 6-4 victory over world number one Novak Djokovic on Sunday.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Rain has caused play to be abandoned in the Celkon Mobile Cup ODI series match between Sri Lanka and West Indies at Queens Park Oval on Sunday.

(Jamaica Observer) Singer Dawn Penn may have the most resilient career in reggae history.

Amid a number of maternal deaths for which the public health system has been criticized, the Ministry of Health is to convene a consultation on maternal health.

(Barbados Nation) PORT OF SPAIN – Barbados is so concerned about the future viability of regional carrier LIAT that it sought legal advice on whether its heavily subsidized competitor Caribbean Airlines (CAL) was following CARICOM rules.

(Trinidad Express) Three men were killed while six were shot during separate incidents in north Trinidad between 9 p.m.

A mother and her child are now counting themselves lucky after her Lot 197 Quamina and Camp streets home and that of her aunt were gutted by fire of unknown origin a little before 3pm yesterday, leaving over 10 persons with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Deemed one of the quietest villages on the East Coast of Demerara by residents living there, Nooten Zuil is one of those settlements which has a fruit tree in every yard, a hammock under every tree and a kitchen garden in almost every home.

United States (US) officials have taken a decision not to contact local police about their widening investigation of an alleged visa scam at the US Embassy in Georgetown because of fears of confidentiality breaches, which may allow some of those involved to escape the dragnet, sources say.

With millions spent once again on rehabilitating the five-mile stretch of road at Burma, Region 5, residents of the community are calling for a proper job to be done instead of the “slam dash” work they have gotten from contractors.

Months after police recruit Harold Haimchand Sukhai was slain during a robbery, members of his family say that the way the police have so far investigated the case has left them unimpressed and with a feeling that nothing will ever come out of the matter.

Guyana and the Caricom Development Fund (CDF) yesterday signed a country assistance programme agreement that will inject US$7.32M ($1.5B) into Guyana’s agriculture sector.

The combination of extreme weather events in the short-term and rising sea-levels in the long-term will render the coastal areas uninhabitable much sooner than expected, according to presenters at a panel discussion on sea level rise.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has warned those who rear large numbers of animals on their premises for commercial purposes to desist from this practice otherwise it will bring actions against them.

Almost four years to the day since he vanished, the mystery of missing boy Ricky Jainarine endures and with the conviction last week of three ex-coastguards of the murder of a gold dealer, relatives want police to reopen the investigation into the boy’s disappearance and the deaths of his father and a friend.

It has been almost six months since an elderly woman was found brutally murdered in her home at Guava Bush, Albion, Corentyne, Berbice and despite the arrest of several persons, including family members, police do not appear to be close to charging anyone.

Six prisoners sustained injuries yesterday after a pick-up that was transporting them from the Timehri Prison skidded off the road and ended up in a trench along the Supply, East Bank Demerara Public Road yesterday morning.

MORELIA, Mexico, CMC – Guyana’s teenage sprinter Kadecia Baird ran a season’s best 51.32 seconds to win the Women’s 400 metres at the XXIV Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Senior Athletics Championships yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – In a blur of explosive motion, Marion Bartoli launched into a 101 mph serve and waited for the furry yellow sphere to hurtle back to her side of the court – except it did not and with it came the sudden realisation that she was Wimbledon champion.

Two men, believed to have been trailing a citizen after a bank transaction, were held on Friday with a gun in a vehicle bearing false registration number plates.

National Scrabble Champion Abigail McDonald created history yesterday when she defied all odds in the Courts National Scrabble Championship, defeating Moen Gafoor 3-nil and booking her spot in the World Championship in Prague, Czech Republic later this year.

Since 2009 a mother has been struggling with her mentally ill son who had a promising future, but she has been frustrated by the system.

DUBAI, UAE, CMC – West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo will miss today’s crucial match in the Celkon Mobile Cup tri-nation One Day International (ODI) series against Sri Lanka in Port of Spain following his suspension for one match after his team was fined for an over-rate offence during Friday’s match against India.

Barely a month passes in the English-speaking Caribbean without a reference on some stage or in some letter or political speech to the deleterious effects of colonialism upon us.

Whether you believe that global warming is caused by human activity, is in one or another way cyclical, or is a complete myth, there is sufficient scientific evidence to show that the world’s weather is changing, the seas are warming, sea levels are rising and the Caribbean is at risk.

PARIS (Reuters) – Olympic champion Usain Bolt sent a strong warning to his challengers by running a world-leading time of 19.73 seconds over 200 metres to win the Paris Diamond League event yesterday.

Colin ‘Mr Clean’ Chesney, John ‘Big John’ Edwards and Gumendra Shewdas kept the Golden Arrowhead aloft when the curtains came down on the Caribbean and Pan American Powerlifting Championships in Orlando, Florida, USA yesterday.

Part 4 Introduction My hope last week was to move seamlessly this week into the big ticket items on the CJIA contract – particularly the runway and the new terminal building.

There will be free admission to view the Guyana vs Pakistan match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda on July 11.

Fruta Conquerors, compliments of a Simeon Hackett first-half brace, pummeled Pele FC by a 6-0 score line as action in the Fruta Conquerors U-13 Football Tournament continued at the Tucville Community Centre, ground yesterday.

It’s no wonder that protesters in Brazil are holding signs reading “more education, less soccer,” or that there are constant teacher strikes in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Mexico — Latin American schoolteachers are among the most miserably paid in the world.

Part 5 In this week’s column and the next I shall wrap up my discussion of the financing arrangements through which the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) is being executed.

Kieron Pollard was somewhat hasty in his assertion following the West Indies’ tight victory over India in the opening round of the current Celkon Mobile Cup at Sabina Park last Sunday.

From Chinese and Japanese manuscripts we learn that they were growing Orchids, ie, Dendrobiums, Cymbidiums and other native species approximately 3,000 years ago. 

(Cricinfo) West Indies’ horror of a match against India on Friday has not only been an eye opener for them, but has also opened up the tournament.

(Reuters) – The appointment of liberal Egyptian politician Mohamed ElBaradei as interim prime minister hit a snag yesterday, as the army-backed transitional authorities were under pressure to restore order after deadly Islamist protests.

A J Seymour is Guyana’s greatest man of letters. Martin Carter is the nation’s most renowned  poet; Edgar Mittelholzer, Wilson Harris and Roy Heath are our outstanding novelists; and Denis Williams combined in one man a Renaissance range of talents as artist, novelist and anthropologist.

(Reuters) – An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 with more than 300 people on board crashed on landing at San Francisco International Airport yesterday after a flight from Seoul and burst into flames, and initial reports said two people were killed and over 70 injured.

A report on establishing a legal office for the National Assembly that would offer assistance with drafting Bills for the Opposition is expected to be taken back to the Parliamentary Management Committee (PMC) before the parliamentary recess begins.

A thunderous right hand by Dexter ‘The Cobra’ Gonsalves brought the crowd at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to its feet on Friday last at the staging of the 28th edition of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card.

Veterinarians (and human doctors as well) speak of the post partum period when referring to the time after the dam (mother dog) has given birth to her puppies. 

Guyana’s economy has been the focus of attention over the past two weeks with the recent Investment Conference.

Station Street, Kitty residents say that for the past two weeks police have not honoured promises to deploy a patrol in the area to control the traffic congestion on Friday nights.

(Reuters) – Bolivia offered asylum yesterday to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, joining leftist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret US surveillance programmes.

Dear Editor, According to Tony Vieira in SN of June 17, and Sasenarine Singh in SN of July 4, you have to have administrative experience of GuySuCo’s factory and field operations before you can become CEO.

(Reuters) – A driverless freight train carrying tankers of crude oil derailed at high speed and exploded into a giant fireball in the middle of a small Canadian town early yesterday, destroying dozens of buildings and killing at least one person.

As the road to the Amaila Falls project continues to lag behind schedule, the original contract sum of US$15.4 million that went to Fip Motilall’s Synergy Holdings Inc is quickly being surpassed by the additional expenditure the government must outlay to complete the project, with one estimate going as high as US$40 million.

(Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff firmly denied yesterday any plans to shake up her Cabinet, following the country’s largest protests in 20 years.

A fireman prepares to soak houses in Quamina Street after two buildings caught fire yesterday afternoon.

There are few articles which have stirred as much interest in recent times as Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s column two weeks ago in the Sunday Stabroek entitled ‘The Kleptocratic Republic of Guyana.’

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Dear Editor, Recently, there have been complaints against the New Amsterdam Hospital.