Daily Archive: Sunday, January 26, 2014

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai (left) hands over the keys to a new truck to Albertino Peters, Toshao of Fairview, Region 9 as Permanent Secretary Nigel Dharamlall (second from left) looks on. 

One hundred and three residents hailing from several areas in Region Three, were yesterday presented the keys to their homes under the Government’s core home initiative, executed under the second Low Income Settlement programme, targeting single parents, the differently abled and the elderly.

Invitees at the reception on Friday in honour of Dr. Yesu Persaud at the New Thriving Events Centre, Camp and Lamaha Streets.

President Donald Ramotar (left) and Dr. Yesu Persaud share a toast at the appreciation ceremony for Persaud on Friday while new Chairman of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Komal Samaroo looks on.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ziggy Marley won his second solo Best Reggae Album Grammy today for his live In Concert set.

Shareholders waiting for the programme to get started

A section of the shareholders who attended

A shareholder asking a question of the board of directors

At about 0700h yesterday, police say that the body of miner Rupert Gray, 31 years, was found in a camp at 23 Miles, Issano Backdam, Mazaruni, with a piece of rope around his neck.

Popular designer Trevor Rose was this morning shot dead after a gunman opened fire on the car he was in which had stopped at the traffic light leading into Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Stanislas Wawrinka held firm in a match of high drama to defeat an injured Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3 and win his maiden grand slam title at the Australian Open today.

 By Jeff Trotman Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon yesterday repeatedly called on the people of Region Ten to hold the government accountable for the deaths of three men during the 32-day Linden electricity protest and to honour the agreement it signed with regional leaders to stop the protest.

Stories and photos by Shabna Ullah Residents of Sandvoort, an agricultural village in West Canje, Berbice whose residents are close-knit, have been involved in self-help activities from the inception.

A gathering of high school friends at the Princess Hotel ended tragically last evening when 17-year-old Shamar Edwards drowned in the hotel’s pool.

A security guard was discovered dead behind his work site in Rose Hall Town in the wee hours of yesterday morning; he had been bound and gagged.

At 18 many young girls would be looking forward excitedly to their future, but for Tammy (not her real name) her future seems grim and as she puts it, “there is nothing to look forward to.”

Police are still hunting for the suspect in the shooting death of 26-year-old Special Constable Quincy Wrights on Friday night during a confrontation with another man who visited his girlfriend’s home in Guyhoc Park.

Recent discoveries of high powered arms and explosive devices in the hands of civilians is a sign that we are in a dangerous situation, says Opposition Leader David Granger who believes that a shakeup of the upper command of the Home Affairs Ministry and a reform of the Guyana Police Force is the best solution to this problem.

Plastic City squatters are rapidly leaving the Best Village foreshore to build their houses after being granted land last year but a few who remain on the muddy garbage-strewn shore say that they cannot afford the price of house lots.

Roraima Bikers Club standout Marlon `Fishy’ Williams, who has just shown flashes of brilliance in recent seasons, prevailed over a star-studded field at the National Park yesterday to win the feature 35-lap event of the 21st annual Ricks and Sari Agro Industries 11-race programme.

“The inability of the system to meet the test of the law which the system itself has established,” is a major impediment to overcoming the crime and security challenges, notably the drug challenge, confronting Guyana and the rest of the region, Guyanese-born regional security specialist Dr Ivelaw Griffith told the Stabroek News in an interview on Monday last.

Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira says that the $300 million Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) Project should in its entirety be put on hold and government and USAID representatives discuss the crafting of another project.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – “Best speech ever” was the universal verdict to Li Na’s unscripted thanks at the trophy ceremony after she erased two near-misses at Melbourne Park with a joyous victory in her third Australian Open final   yesterday.

A restaurant employee was shot to the abdomen yesterday morning by a lone gunman who attempted to rob the Water Street business where he works.

The big news circulating within the chess world is that Anand wants his world championship title back.

Edmay McIntosh, a Surinamese who migrated to Guyana during World War II with her parents after all English-speaking people were called to return their home country, today celebrates her 101st birthday.

By Tony Cozier   However much we pound our fists and rightly rail against the brazen conspiracy between Australia, England and India to effectively hijack international cricket, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is obliged to accept a galling reality.

A visiting delegation, comprising former Jamaican Minister Christopher Tufton and a representative of the Sugar Company of Jamaica Limited, was recently told of the slim prospects of the local sugar corporation being sold despite its dismal fortunes during a recent meeting with the Private Sector Commission (PSC).

This week’s column wraps up my presentation on the long-term situation of the global sugar industry, which as I have argued stands in stark contrast to that of Guyana’s.

A remigrant of Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice suffered major losses after a fire, which he suspected was electrical in origin, gutted the interior of his newly renovated house around 4.45 am yesterday.

(Continued from last week)   Weaning The time to wean the pups away from the mother depends upon several factors which include the size of the litter.

The World Bank has determined that the impact of the Cunha Canal meets its threshold for both the social and environmental aspects enabling the project to move forward.

President of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) Phillip Fernandes is seeking re-election at the upcoming Annual General Meeting expected to be held in February.

‘The unexamined life is not worth living’ – Socrates.   When I was no more than twelve or thirteen the feeling grew in me that it was important not simply to live life day by day but somehow to give greater meaning to it by recording what was happening every one of those days and by planning how I should shape and what I should make of my life in the future.

The final of the Mayor’s 79th birthday anniversary seven-a-side Inter-Ward football tournament will take place today at the Den Amstel Community ground with  home side Den Amstel facing off against Georgetown outfit North East La Penitence from 17:00hrs.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Twenty-nine people were killed during anti-government marches yesterday while thousands rallied in support of the army-led authorities, underlining Egypt’s volatile political fissures three years after the fall of autocrat President Hosni Mubarak.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Five Egyptian embassy staff kidnapped in Tripoli were abducted in retaliation for the arrest of a Libyan militia commander by Egyptian authorities, the Libyan government said yesterday.

National female hockey goalkeeper Alysa Xavier was recently named to the Pan American elite team for the period of 2012/2013 following her sterling international performances between the woodwork.

Last week’s headlines highlighted efforts by Gecom to speed up the reporting of election results by introducing electronic counting and compilation of votes for a limited area, presumably as a pilot project.

The long anticipated Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) grand horse race meet which was initially scheduled to be run off on Boxing Day at the club’s track at Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice will be staged today.

Naan is a Middle Eastern and South Asian type of flatbread.

My mother was an unusual woman who had, among other attributes, an inclination to laugh at anything and everything. 

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande announced his separation from first lady Valerie Trierweiler yesterday following a media storm over allegations he is having an affair with an actress.

Fruta Conquerors Football Club has named Calvin ‘Fluman’ Allen and Jevon Rodrigues to fill the head and junior coach vacancies existing within the club.

What’s most shameful about Latin Ameri-can presidents’ sche-duled visit to Cuba for a regional summit on Tuesday is not that they will visit one of the world’s last family dictatorships, but that they most likely won’t even set foot at a parallel summit that the island’s peaceful opposition plans to hold at the same time.

The Red-capped Cardinal has a crimson head, blackish lores and ocular region, and shiny black upper parts, apart from a white partial collar extending up the neck sides from the white under parts.

KIEV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian opposition leader who was offered the post of prime minister by embattled President Viktor Yanukovich yesterday said the opposition was ready to lead the country.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s top-order batsman Kenar Lewis will replace the injured left-handed opener Chris Gayle for the NAGICO Super50 Regional cricket tournament, according to the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA).

Change in structure A particularly interesting feature of the Guyana economy is the growth that it has exhibited over the last several years. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean athletes made a promising start to the 2014 track and field season including a world leading indoor time by Deon Lendore of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dear Editor, It is quite interesting to note that one of the aims of Carifesta, as outlined in the conference of Caribbean creative artists where it was invented in Georgetown in 1970, was that every four years when the Festival was held an anthology of Caribbean writing should be published. 

(Continued from last week) Mealy bugs can be devastating There are two types of nealy bugs: they are either white or pink.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria’s civil war foes held their first face-to-face meeting yesterday, launching talks aimed at ending nearly three years of conflict which has killed 130,000 people and destabilised the wider Middle East.

(Cricinfo) On a surreal night when New Zealand kept swinging between the spectacular and the silly, they just couldn’t conjure enough to close the deal against a resilient Indian lower middle order, which snuck a tie to keep the series alive.

Dear Editor, Chatting with several of my friends and colleagues and bona fide tax and ratepayers after reading the best local government news for a long time in the local press, namely, that the incumbent Minister of Local Government is reported to have resigned his job as the minister responsible for the administration of this country’s Neighbourhood Democratic Councils, it was repeatedly said that this was a good thing.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Celebrated Jamaican athlete Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is to receive the prestigiousUniversity of Technology (UTech) Chancellor’s medal.

The President of the European Commission (EC), José Manuel Barroso, has confirmed that Europe is presently in the process of debating a significant change in its policy towards Cuba.

COLUMBIA, Md (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire with a shotgun in a skate shop at a crowded shopping mall near Baltimore yesterday, killing two store employees and wounding another person, then apparently killing himself, police said.

(The Sports Xchange) –  – – No Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook?

The resignation of Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud came out of left field. 

Last year the world lost one of its great poets.  Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) of Ireland rather quietly commanded a place at the helm of contemporary poetry, although he received overwhelming acclaim and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Although the Jamaican Government is being encouraged by foreign advocates and agitators to forge ahead with changing its laws to decriminalise marijuana for both recreational and medicinal use, Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson is suggesting that the country still has to proceed with caution in one area.

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Chris Brown Bahamas Invitational Track Meet has been cancelled this year because of ongoing preparations of the track at the Thomas A.

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to make a last statement about the gift bridge handed over to the Betervervagting-Triumph Neighbourhood Democratic Council by the Ali family, that I still consider an unnecessary burden for the NDC.