Daily Archive: Thursday, November 28, 2013

Less than a month after fire ravaged the Comfort Sleep Bond, the inferno returned, this time destroying the company’s factory also located in the  Eccles Industrial Site.

New non-resident High Commissioner of South Africa to Guyana, Maureen Modiselle today presented her Letters of Credence to President Donald Ramotar  at the Office of the President.

The Ministry of Education this evening said that the following schools will remain closed tomorrow, Friday, November 29, 2013:          The Ministry said the decision to have the schools remain closed was made after checks by Ministry officials revealed that as a result of the slow pace in the receding of the flood waters, no sanitation work could have commenced.

LINCOLN, New Zealand,  CMC-Shivnarine Chanderpaul missed out on a century by eleven runs on the second day of the three-day tour match between a West Indies X1 and a New Zealand X1 here today.

(Trinidad Express) POLICE confirmed this afternoon that missing six-year-old Keyana Cumberbatch has been found.

The Ministry of Health has invited companies to prequalify for supplying medicines and medical supplies to the Ministry between 2014 and 2016, says an advertisement in the Guyana Chronicle on Tuesday.

  I don’t want to get my shoes wet so I will hold them in my hand and walk through the street barefoot – this chap seemed to be saying yesterday.

Hard at work in Bel Air Street, Albouystown yesterday trying to clear up the garbage.

 This man and dog were seen cooling out in La Penitence Street, Albouystown yesterday.

The bumper of this car could not withstand the water yesterday and ended up floating away in Stone Avenue, Campbellville.

(Trinidad Express) Former Prisons commissioner John Rougier will be appointed as chairman of the deportee task force today.

The Guyana Government will make a financial contribution of US$50,000 ($10m) to assist in the international relief efforts in the Philippines in the wake of the devastating loss of life and property due to Typhoon Haiyan.

An off duty police of Guyanese descent employed as a Sergeant with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) was savagely beaten near death in Richmond Hill last week by another man who was later arrested by officers NYPD.

KANPUR, India,  CMC- India rode on a sparkling century from Skikhar Dhawan to beat West Indies by five wickets in the third and final One Day international (ODI), clinching the three-match series two-one here yesterday.

(WICB) CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Former West Indies batsman Stuart Williams says he is pleased to work with the West Indies team as one of the Assistant Coaches for the upcoming tour of New Zealand.

Heavy rain yesterday forced the indefinite rescheduling of today’s  first round double-header of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Senior Inter-county four-day competition.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Two workers were killed yesterday when a crane collapsed at the stadium staging the opening match of next year’s World Cup of soccer, causing damage to the exterior and renewing questions about whether Brazil will be ready to host the event on time.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- A school in Barbados has named its park after a former student, the late West Indies fast bowler Malcolm Marshall.

RIO DE JANEIRO, – Nilton Santos, the galloping left back who was a regular in Brazil’s World Cup-winning sides of 1958 and 1962, has died in Rio from complications caused by a lung infection.

Incessant rain, which began in the wee hours of yesterday, left most of the city under several inches of water, closing schools, shuttering businesses and causing millions of dollars in damage.

Last Sunday, conditions were overcast during the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the South Dakota Circuit but the action was steaming like the engines of the Caribbean’s fastest machines.

Eight clubs and 12 teams are set to battle for top honours in the second annual Colts Basketball Club’s Phillip George Memorial Championships today at the Burnham Basketball Court.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC- The West Indies Under-19 Team will face the Sagicor West Indies High Performance Centre in two 50-over matches before departing for their tour of Bangladesh.

The Ministry of Education last evening said that forty-two schools in Georgetown and one on the East Coast of Demerara will remain closed today following flooding yesterday from heavy rainfall.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand,  CMC- A makeshift West Indies team has made a positive start against a New Zealand X1 who declared on 227 for 8 at stumps on the first day of a three-day match yesterday.

Four years after it was commissioned and innumerable bouts of severe weather later, the $550 million Doppler Radar project intended to provide up-to-the-minute weather reports isn’t doing so leaving some to conclude that the European Union and Guyana-funded project is a failure in that respect.

Globe Yard edged Riverview 5-4 on sudden death kicks from the halfway mark when the opening night of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown Zone commenced at the Demerara Park tarmac in Industrial Site on Tuesday.

President Donald Ramotar says the proposed five per cent salary increase announced last week is above the current inflation rate and is not likely to exceed this sum as the treasury cannot afford more at this point.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) said that while yesterday’s flooding did not reach “alarming” levels, it was ready to deal with emergencies but needed public support.

Six months ago, junior star cyclist, Raul Leal was lying on a Georgetown Public Hospital bed with steel in his hand and foot, urinating in a bedpan and losing pounds of hard-earned muscle.

The police yesterday said that taxi driver Lloyd Johnson was shot on Tuesday night at Liliendaal when he opened fire on cops who were probing the theft of cars.

The Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) Vita Malt-Plus Senior Championships is hosting its first match on Saturday and is expected to feature eight of the nation’s leading players including three-time defending champion Taffin Khan.

The Ministry of Health is advising the public to pay special attention to water safety and personal hygiene in the wake of the flooding and it has announced that an Emer-gency Medical Response Team has been established to address any public health threats.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) seven-a-side rugby competition which was scheduled to kick off last night in celebration of its 48th anniversary at the Camp Ayanganna Playfield was postponed indefinitely due to inclement weather.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – U.S. Masters champion Adam Scott confirmed his remarkable form by carding a course record 10-under-par 62 in the first round of the Australian Open at Royal Sydney yesterday.

Dear Editor, Thank you for allowing the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment an opportunity to offer clarification and comment on the recently published article on the Parabara Mining Road.

The regional civil society on Tuesday presented a petition to Caricom Heads of Government denouncing a controversial court ruling in the Dominican Republic (DR) that could strip tens of thousands of persons – mostly of Haitian descent – of their DR citizenship Presenting the petition, Professor Norman Girvan said Caricom has an “historic opportunity” to demonstrate its relevance to, and its caring for, the citizens of the region by resolving the issue, according to a press release yesterday from Caricom.

Dear Editor, We the residents of Lethem have been suffering a shortage of the main requirements for our day-to-day chores, ie, electricity and water.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic broke off talks with Haiti yesterday and recalled its ambassador for consultations over a recent Dominican court ruling that could strip citizenship from more than 200,000 Haitian migrants, many of whom were born on Dominican soil.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Real Madrid made light of the first-half dismissal of Sergio Ramos to secure a thumping 4-1 win at home to Galatasaray yesterday that put them through to the last 16 of the Champions League as Group B winners.

Harlem, West Coast Demerara appeared to bear the brunt of the flooding affecting Region Three yesterday.

HONG KONG/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s military could struggle to cope with the demands for intensified surveillance and interception if it tries to enforce the rules in its new air defence zone over islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with Japan.

Several villages along the East Coast Demerara were swamped yesterday in the wake of heavy rainfall that hit the coastland in the wee hours of the morning.

Dear Editor, Will President Ramotar ring the bell in order to get a majority in parliament to pass his bills?

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A peace deal between FARC rebels and the Colombian government would greatly help cut cocaine production in Colombia, but officials fear new crime gangs could fill the gap while anti-narcotics police fight a new scourge: synthetic drugs.

Caricom on Tuesday expressed deep concern about any adverse impact on Guyana and the wider region over the failure to pass anti-money laundering legislation here as required by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF).

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC — Nepal, with a last-ball victory, and hosts United Arab Emirates booked their places in next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Bangladesh in playoffs at the qualifiers here yesterday.

Dear Editor, The level of ignorance in some communities is astounding, and worse yet is the lack of judgement and common sense displayed by those who are supposed to be law officers.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago did absolutely nothing wrong in the matter involving the deportation of 13 Jamaican nationals from this country last week, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said.

The area around Bourda Market was also flooded yesterday.

Dear Editor, Mr Bharrat Jagdeo and his associates presented a vision to the Guyanese people way back in 2006 of building a modern and prosperous Guyana.

AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court’s member states yesterday agreed to changes to the court’s trial procedures that could help defuse tensions between the court and the African continent regarding the approaching trial of Kenya’s president.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – The Adelaide Oval curator will seek to juice up what has traditionally been a docile pitch for the second Ashes test between Australia and England next week, meaning batsmen may be in for a torrid opening.

Politikles

Overnight rain resulted in severe flooding in Georgetown and its environs yesterday as well as in Region Three.

NASSAU, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – The Bahamas government yesterday call-ed for urgent talks with Haiti and other nations in a bid to discourage illegal migrant voyages like the one this week that ended with 30 Haitians believed to have died when their boat capsized.

(Reuters) – Pakistan won a bilateral one-day international series against South Africa for the first time when they claimed a one-run victory in a thrilling finale in Port Elizabeth yesterday.

Cartoons

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – With six months to go before the World Cup kicks off, the stadiums are almost ready, the 32 qualifiers are booking their flights and the tickets are selling faster than ever.

Dear Editor, The Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) selectors are being paid a stipend and they are therefore required to attend trial matches and tournaments within the various area committees in order to identify the best group of players.

We talk so easily of the dichotomy between developed and developing societies, without staring stark reality in the face, without confronting the differences, without active challenging of our abstract acceptance of our condition.

Why me? This patron of Merriman Mall seemed very unsettled by the flooding yesterday.

Caribbean Airlines Ltd is advising passengers booked and ticketed to travel today to North America that they will be allowed to make changes to their reservations because of bad weather in the United States.