Daily Archive: Sunday, February 23, 2014

Suspecting a virulent strain of dengue or Influenza, former President Bharrat Jagdeo left for the United States on Friday to seek a prognosis on a bout of illness that has left him weakened.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has launched an investigation into suspected irregular and illegal transactions concerning vehicle concessions to re-migrants.

(Barbados Nation) Central Bank Governor Dr Delisle Worrell has recommended that Government scrap the Value Added Tax as a source of revenue since it is complicated, has hurt the tourism industry and is basically “a mess”.

Seven consultants from the Indian firm Integrated Casetech Consultants Ltd (ICC) arrived in Guyana recently to oversee GuySuCo’s production at the Enmore Estate.

By Dacia Whaul  with photos by Arian Browne “Zeeburg is the largest fishing community on the West Coast of Demerara,” boasted George, “and we have the best cricket team over here.”

Several armed bandits were caught at a road block at the Demerara Harbour Bridge after robbing a gas station on the West Bank Demerara late Friday night.

A public “cast-iron” guarantee that the four bills rejected by President Donald Ramotar will be assented to would see the main opposition APNU supporting the anti-money laundering bill, the coalition’s leader David Granger has said.

Forensic samples for a number of cases, including murders and last year’s plane crash at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara, have been delivered to a lab in Brasilia, Brazil, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud, who seems confident that the wait for the results will not be long.

Opposition Leader David Granger says a breakdown in trust between the US and local law enforcement agencies may be the reason why government was not privy to information on the unearthed plan by international drug traffickers to export 500 kilogrammes of cocaine from Guyana to Italy.

A 47-year-old man died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday after spending 15 and a half hours at Accident and Emergency (A&E) and his wife blames lack of medical care for his death.

Jason-Ray Khalil won his third title in four years while Makeda Harding secured her maiden tournament win last night as the 2014 Bounty Farm Mash Handicap Tournament organised by the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel Guyana ended at the Georgetown Club.

Roraima Bikers Club (RBC) standout, Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams edged club mate, Alanzo Greaves to win the feature 35-lap event of the 23rd annual R&R International 11-race cycle programme in a thrilling two-man sprint finish.

Former national wicketkeeper/batsman Sheik Mohamed produced an entertaining batting performance to lead East Coast Tigers to the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/Raj Singh Insurance Brokers over 40 cricket title yesterday at Everest Sports Club ground.

Before starting an assessment of the key performance indicators for the Guyana sugar industry, two issues need to be addressed.

By Tony Cozier ONLY a couple of days after the administrative leaders of West Indies cricket spoke with heady optimism about the future, the team’s two Twenty20 internationals against Ireland at Sabina Park last Wednesday and Friday brought them back to the present, stark reality.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Barbados’ opening batsman Dwayne Smith has been called up to replace an injured Chris Gayle for the upcoming One-Day Internationals against Ireland and England, according to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

A political novice by the name of Dr Karen Cummings was recently chosen to replace a veteran, Deborah Backer, in the National Assembly, but while she may be a newcomer she has already identified a number of issues in the health sector she would like to address.

Fourteen months after the mysterious disappearance of the then 25-year-old Levoy Taljit, his father says hopes of finding him alive are dwindling rapidly owing largely to the failure of police investigators to get more information out of a suspect who told a story which raised many questions.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Defending champions Barbados are among teams scheduled to play on the opening day of the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Regional Four-Day Tournament, starting on Friday.

Several months after Dorothy Blackman and three of her children were brutally chopped by her husband she has reconciled with the man and insists that she would not testify against him in court.

Professor Clem Seecharan, who is in Guyana at the invitation of the Culture Ministry, made a speech titled ‘To Write is to Learn’ at a gathering held on Thursday evening at Moray House Trust.

President Ramotar has increased the number of Puisne judges to 20, a statement from Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall said yesterday.

Forget the movie Braveheart and the passion and nationalism associated with the long-standing desire by many Scots for independence from the English. 

Kingston, Carmel, Chase’s Academy and South Ruimveldt Secondary schools emerged winners on day three of the second annual Milo-U20 football competition yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground.

I am tired of hearing it.  I heard it again this week. 

A man is presently hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stung by Africanised bees yesterday afternoon at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara.

Thirty-five year-old former national champion Regan Pollard was pure class Friday night in the semi-finals of the 2014 Bounty Farm Mash Handicap Tournament organised by the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel Guyana.

Chilean President Sebastian Piñera will leave office March 11 with high popularity and one of the best economic records in Latin America.

(Reuters) – Real Madrid stormed three points clear at the top of La Liga after they beat Elche 3-0 yesterday and Barcelona slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Real Sociedad.

In the past Guyanese looked forward to the announcement of national honours on Republic Day.

Further cuts   Budgeting for education ought to be a simple task for the administration. 

(Reuters) – Jason Day and Ernie Els advanced with relative ease while American Rickie Fowler and Frenchman Victor Dubuisson had to fight hard to reach the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship semi-finals in Marana, Arizona yesterday.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday said the police are currently working on several pieces of information concerning who pulled the trigger of the gun that shot businessman Deokarran ‘Ram’ Sanasie last week Friday.

It is being noticed more and more – President Obama and Pope Francis are currently making it a theme in their speeches – that inequality is growing and that the already rich and powerful are becoming even more obscenely rich (the President and Pope are too diplomatic to use the word obscene but it is the right one) and even more unchallengeably powerful.

The Guyana national cricket team’s warm up match against the Rest XI yesterday ended in a draw.

Talent spotting by the Guyana Baseball league and E-Networks Inc. in an effort to realize their reality television show is underway and yesterday baseball scout Justin Prinstein was at Liliendaal talent spotting.

Brandade is a dish made of salt fish that has been whipped to create a light, fluffy texture.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday told Stabroek News that the file on the   teen who was allegedly raped at the Stabroek Market outpost is now at the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament voted yesterday to remove President Viktor Yanukovich, who abandoned his Kiev office to protesters and denounced what he described as a coup after a week of fighting in the streets of the capital.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – Hashim Amla’s blistering stroke-play and Morne Morkel’s fearsome bowling put South Africa in control of the second test against Australia as they closed the third day on 192 for four yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Opener Chris Gayle will miss West Indies’ One-Day International against Ireland at Sabina Park today.

Dear Editor, It seems to be again my misfortune to be in Guyana at the time when the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) publishes its Vacancy Notice with the usual (?)

A 13-year-old boy of modest upbringing decides that he will become the world chess champion.

Dear Editor, Last week I stopped at the Kitty gas station to use the ATM Republic Bank Machine.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A female student and a young supermarket worker were the latest fatalities from Venezuela’s political unrest as the death toll from 10 days of violence rose yesterday to at least eight.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago national football team may play friendly matches against three 2014 FIFA World Cup bound teams before the tournament starts on June 12.

As Guyana celebrates Republicanism with Mashramani and the 2014 Trinidad Carnival moves into high gear, the greatest calypsonian of all time, The Mighty Sparrow, is awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s highest honour, but in Guyana questions are raised over the calypso form itself.

LINCOLN, New Zealand,  CMC – West Indies women cricket team suffered a nine-wicket defeat against New Zealand in the opening match of the One Day International (ODI) series at Bert Sutcliffe Oval yesterday.

Dear Editor, Civil society is the local craze these days.  I look at it ruefully; so much difference could have been made by so few, but only if the component bodies are 100 per cent, and out-and-out genuine. 

Dear Editor, Recently I joined the fourth and first form students of the Berbice High School along with their teachers who held their first suicide awareness walk through the streets of New Amsterdam sensitizing the residents and especially young people about the issue of suicide.

Tillandsia commonly called Air plants are epiphytic and come from the Bromeliacea family.

(Continued from last week)   Last week, we discussed the physical examination of young pups, especially their reproductive organs. 

The usual crowds, one imagines, will be lining the parade route today to watch the floats. 

(The Sports Xchange) – – Rookie guard Victor Oladipo scored 30 points, made a career-high 14 assists and pulled down nine rebounds to lead the Orlando Magic to a  129-121 double-overtime victory over the New York Knicks.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s most wanted man, drug kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, has been captured in Mexico by US and Mexican law enforcement officials, sources said on Saturday, in what would mark a major coup in a grisly fight against drug gangs.