Daily Archive: Sunday, August 11, 2013

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Mohammad Hafeez and Steven Jacobs ripped through the middle order of the Barbados Tridents to help the Guyana Amazon Warriors register a crucial 27 run win over the front runners after match 13 of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League at the Queen’s park oval here today.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Usain Bolt produced his killer-instinct for vaporising rivals by regaining his world 100 metres crown in the Moscow rain today, restoring some credibility to a sport tarnished by a plethora of doping scandals.

At about 2115h last night, Police say that taxi-driver Troy Anthony Patrice of Lodge Housing Scheme, Georgetown, was standing on the roadway at Robb and Light streets when shots were discharged at him by persons who escaped in a motor vehicle.

President Donald Ramotar this morning said there is still a window of opportunity for the Amaila Hydropower project and he has spoken with Opposition leader David Granger urging the support of APNU.

(Trinidad Express) Babies being switched at birth in a hospital is a scenario parents would expect only in a movie.

Defending women’s individual champion Guyanese Nicolette Fernandes will be going all out to successfully defend her senior Caribbean women’s singles title when the Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squ ash Championships powered by Powerade and Smalta gets underway

With Sithe Global confirming its withdrawal from the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project (AFHP) over its failure to win full support from all the parliamentary parties, Private Sector spokesmen yesterday blamed partisan politics for setting the country back and warned of growing fear among investors.

Story and photos by Tifaine Rutherford and Shakisa Harvey A long drive several miles behind the Mahaica market leads to this agricultural community that is located along the Mahaica River.

Saying it has been “tried and tested” by the opposition’s one-seat parliamentary majority, the PPP has resolved to work towards regaining control at the next elections.

Recognising the one-seat majority of the opposition parties and what was described as their “reckless” and “anti-national” positions, the 30th congress of the PPP has resolved to redouble efforts at reversing this situation at the next general election.

The Health Ministry is hoping to boost the quality of healthcare available by assigning over 300 newly-graduated Cuba-trained doctors with experienced medical personnel at public institutions countrywide.

The body of an unidentified man was spotted in a trench by passersby near a gas station on the corners of Princes and High streets early yesterday morning.

Relatives of Jennifer Persaud who along with her two sons was murdered eleven months ago say that the police have failed to investigate a telephone call which may be a key element in the case.

Diagnosed with rheumatic fever at the age of three, Tiffany Ward lost mobility in her legs when she was just fifteen, forcing her to leave school in the fourth form because of the excruciating pain she had been enduring for months.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has overturned the dismissal of Chief Co-operative Development Officer Kareem Abdul-Jabar, after finding that the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Ministry of Labour found him guilty of breaches of the public service disciplinary code even before giving him a chance to respond to the charges.

The man who was brought to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown on Thursday after being involved in a motor vehicle accident and who succumbed the following day in the High Dependency Unit  has been identified by relatives as Travis Wilson.

Police yesterday discovered a field at Hararuni, Upper Demerara River with marijuana plants and

On Thursday last the police arrested a total of 13 men during cordon and search operations in the city.

The University of Guyana’s Faculty of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, is hosting its first international research conference on sustainable development from August 12 to August 14, 2013, at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC), Liliendaal and at the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT), University of Guyana, Turkeyen.

The long awaited multimillion dollar Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration located at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, was opened yesterday and is expected to provide services to nearly 200 persons.

AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday dubbed Sithe Global’s decision to walk from the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) a “huge disappointment,” while warning of the implications for future investment.

Forty-six-year-old Roxanne Alkins, up until recently a cook in a Puruni Backdam mining camp, is seeking justice after she was assaulted by a co-worker whose sexual advances she turned down.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony said yesterday that the Caribbean needs to embrace a long term development programme for table tennis.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Mo Farah and Usain Bolt ignited the first day of the athletics world championships yesterday but the event was blighted by dire crowds and yet another high-profile doping scandal for a leading sprinter.

Given the lucrative contracts open to them, leading West Indians are unavoidably playing too much for their own good and, by obvious extension, the good of the West Indies cricket.

Guyana’s top sprinters, Kadecia Baird and Adam Harris were yesterday unable to advance to next round of their sprint events as the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championship officially opened at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Russia.

A recent note from a Tradewinds fan about the design of a particular album cover took me back to the time I had begun recording with the band in Toronto in the late 1960s.

Uruguay’s government-proposed marijuana legalization drive has been described as the world’s boldest, and could help reduce drug-related crime, but a conversation I had this week with former Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti left me wondering whether it won’t backfire.

Guyana’s successful amputee marathon champion William France will be staging the 13th edition of his walkathon, ‘William France Fitness Walk’ today from the Two Brothers Gas Station to Mocha Road Head on the East Bank Demerara from 6:45hrs.

Dear Editor, I recall Guyana was looking for a bright future in 1964, but with the PNC from 1968 -1992, that hope became a nightmare.

Introduction The two topics that have dominated national as well as parliamentary debates on Guyana’s political economy in recent months are, namely, the future of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project and Guyana’s money-laundering legislation in light of its regional and global regulatory obligations.

Founder, coordinator, organizer and coach of the Flying Ace Cycling Club (FACC) Randolph Roberts was recently recognized for his unwavering and selfless service and performance over the years in the field of cycling by overseas-based Guyanese Rawle Felix.

MOSCOW, Russia,  CMC– Kelly-Ann Baptiste withdrawal from the 14th IAAF World Championships because of a positive test, according to her teammates Keston Bledman and Rondell Sorrillo is “sad”.

Life at 80 is as full of adventure and interest as it ever was but the adventures and interests are now mostly sedentary.

CHESTER-LE-STREET, England,  (Reuters) – Chris Rogers became the second oldest Australian to hit a maiden test century as he led his team to 222 for five on the second day of the fourth Ashes test against England in County Durham  yesterday.

Continued Cost control Last week, it was observed that though GNPL was experiencing significant difficulties, its management was making the best of a bad situation. 

Saturday, August 3   No compromises, no power sharing President Donald Ramotar yesterday declared that the way forward for the ruling PPP was to remain steadfast in principle and ruled out shared governance with the opposition, which he lambasted for “crippling” the country.

Seven teams will compete in the Banks Malta Supreme Under-13 cricket competition organized by the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) and sponsored by Banks DIH Limited schedule to commence next weekend.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A series of car bombs in mainly Shi’ite areas of Baghdad killed 57 people and wounded more than 150 yesterday, in what appeared to be coordinated attacks on people celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

High dive: Boy jumping off a koker into a canal at Plantain Walk in Beterverwagting, ECD (Photo by Arian Browne)

One of the many things I like about pasta is how easy it is to prepare and to pair with a sauce.

Dear Editor, Please permit the Chinese Landing Village Council to reply to the letter by Mr Wayne Vieira which appeared in the Stabroek News of August 7, 2013 in which he made a number of unfounded allegations about the Village Council and Amerindians of the village (‘The Amerindians are mining illegally at Chinese Landing’).

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes bombed a village in Syria’s north overnight in an apparent effort by President Bashar al-Assad to prevent rebels fighting him from advancing on communities in the stronghold region of his Alawite sect.

Alvin Williams, the former Mr. Guyana and Pro Bodybuilder died on Wednesday at his residence in Grove, East Bank Demerara of natural causes. 

Dear Editor, Full marks to the PPP/C; it has totally outmanoeuvered an opposition that has lost its way in relation to local government reform, and in the process demonstrated that it does not have even a rudimentary understanding of its political context.

By Lori Shelbourn There is unending curiosity about the way Wilson Harris writes.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s approval rating gained six percentage points since hitting an all-time low in late June after massive nationwide protests, a poll published yesterday showed.

The crème de le crème of the nation’s thoroughbreds along with foreign horses will vie for over $12m in cash and other prizes when one of Guyana’s premier horse racing events, the Digicel Horse Race Classic is staged today at the Kennard Memorial Turf Club.

Dear Editor, On March 29, 2010, Stabroek News published an article by yours truly, in which was provided a suggested outline for dealing with school violence.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will open its 2013/2014 season today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda from 16:00hrs with two inter-association exhibition games.

BELFAST (Reuters) – Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in clashes in central Belfast in the latest flare-up in tensions between Northern Ireland’s Protestant and Catholic communities, authorities said yesterday.

Continued Milk fever In high producing dairy cattle, this ailment is serious. 

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health is improving daily and he is now able to sit up for minutes at a time, his youngest daughter told state broadcaster SABC.

Sultan Khan – White Capablanca – Black Hastings, 1930-1931 In this famous game White outplays his equally famous opponent.

Dear Editor, A Tender notice appearing in the Guyana Chronicle of Friday August 9, 2013 in the name of the Board of Governors of President’s College, must surely be invalid.

“A week is a long time in politics,” British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously said, and there can be nowhere in the political universe where that remark was more applicable than in Guyana recently.