Daily Archive: Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) today said that 21066 Private Dellon Nero died by drowning at approx 1825 hours yesterday 2014-03-22 at a GDF location in the New River area, south east Guyana.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud says that a $500M Land Reclamation Project that will be embarked on by the government.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – West Indies lost their opening match of the World Twenty20 Championship after producing a limp performance to go down by seven wickets to India, at the Shere Bangla National Stadium here today.

(Barbados Nation) Governor of the Cen­­­tral Bank of Bar­­­­­ba­dos Dr DeLisle Worrell has made it clear he is not a fan of the whole­sale free move­ment of people in Caricom.

KUALA LUMPUR/PERTH,  (Reuters) – New French satellite images show possible debris from a missing Malaysian airliner deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia said today, adding to growing signs that the plane may have gone down in remote seas off Australia.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – A confident West Indies will launch the defence of their World Twenty20 title when they clash with powerhouses India in mouth-watering clash here today.

Questions are being raised as to why the continuous absence of key witnesses in the Rondy Jagdeo murder case was used as the deciding factor in freeing the accused when there would have been overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against him.

Story by Dacia Whaul Photos by Arian Browne Sandwiched between Success on the west and La Bonne Intention on the east, is the close knit community of Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara, comprising about 600 people, according to the estimate of one resident.

Santa Fe, the mega-farm in the Rupununi was last month at the heart of a dispute involving land surveying which saw the intervention of President Donald Ramotar who ordered that the privately done survey be cancelled and redone by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), but the repercussions have revealed that there are divisions in the agency.

Having recently met representatives of the local private sector and policy makers here, Jamaican economist Dr Christopher Tufton says he is mulling proposals for foreign investors in sugar, rice and finance among other areas.

The Combined Campuses and Colleges team were 224-3 at press time on the second day of their day/night match of the West Indies Cricket Board’s regional four day competition at the 3Ws ground in Barbados.

Psychological therapy for policemen and women especially those who have been involved in traumatic events such as a mass shooting is not readily available, but according to psychologist Dr Faith Harding it is a necessity as police work is associated with a lot of stress and frustration, the effects of which can be felt in the home environment.

Despite a calf strain that forced favourite Tevin Garraway out of the final of the boys’ Under-20 100m,the first day of the CARIFTA trials to select Guyana’s top junior athletes to the Easter weekend games in Martinique saw some scintillating performances.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) is working to staff its ambulances with Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and over the past two weeks, one ambulance has been operating with these personnel as the hospital evaluates the new system.

A second half surge by the rampant Caribs enabled them to pull away from the Guyana Defence Force to earn a convincing 47-22 victory when the Bounty Farm 15s rugby tournament continued at the National Park yesterday.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet may turn out to be a better president than her predecessor Sebastian Piñera, but many pro-democracy activists in Latin America may well come to miss his recent views on Venezuela, Cuba and other authoritarian regimes.

As the saying goes tonight’s Road to Mecca Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation Inter Club championships grand finale at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall could be anybody’s game or put it another way either team can triumph.

It is not often that one can point to a clear victory for the Caribbean; however, that is the message contained in the decision by Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, to return Britain’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) to a two band system.

A hard-fought BK Western Tigers 2-0 win over Milerock FC Friday night  was overshadowed by a fight between Western Tigers’ Ryan Asolph and Milerock’s Mark Moses when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Premier League continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda on Friday.

(Reuters) – Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara held their nerve in the death overs with miserly fast bowling as Sri Lanka beat South Africa by five runs in their World Twenty20 opener at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong yesterday.

Memory is often not the best storehouse for trivial information – it’s an arbitrary process which often excludes something that turns out to be important – so I have developed this habit of jotting down, on a notebook or my computer, transient thoughts or reactions on a range of subjects.

If you can, every now and then it is good to escape the reality which you have settled into.

Proper driving of piles during the construction of medium and high-rise buildings needs to be taken seriously according to a local engineer.

Almost two weeks after Dexroy Brown escaped from under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital, police are yet to locate him even as the policeman who was guarding him has been placed on “open arrest” according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

There can be no other valid objective of the Rodney Inquiry than to seek the truth, namely, the circumstances surrounding his death in 1980.

Guyana’s world ranked squash player Nicolette Fernandes last week  received the Women’s Squash Association’s (WSA) 2013 Sportsmanship Award  in Malaysia.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Romel Currency and Tyrone Theophile stroked half-centuries to give Windward Islands the upper hand over Jamaica, in their fourth round, Regional Four-Day clash here yesterday.

In this week’s column I intended to conclude the evaluation of costs as a performance indicator.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy has hit back at criticism from India’s Suresh Raina that the Caribbean side are only capable of hitting sixes, and suffer from their inability to rotate the strike.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has collected over $1 billion in additional revenue with vigorous monitoring and investigations through its revamped audit department, Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur said, noting that the body is bound by confidentiality.

Anniversary This year will mark the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Dealers in Foreign Currency (Licensing) Act, and there is clear evidence that the market has undergone significant change over the intervening period.  

The recent dismissal of five human trafficking cases against a female shop owner in the Bartica Magistrate’s Court is of grave concern to the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) whose President Simona Broomes has cited it as a clear indication of the authorities’ unwillingness to seriously address Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in Guyana.

Provided they can turn their attention away from events in Bangladesh, and the encouraging warm-up results by both men’s and women’s teams in the World T20, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) directors were scheduled to discuss a vital issue at their meeting in Trinidad over the weekend.

President Donald Ramotar said yesterday that former speaker Deborah Backer did not only contribute to her political party but also to national politics.

Lennox Braithwaite defeated Ransford Goodluck last Sunday to win the Guyana NRA Record Shoot at the TImehri Rifle Ranges.

The body of 53-year-old Lilkumar, who died abruptly on the Lady Zai en route to St Lucia two weeks ago was cremated yesterday following funeral rites in his hometown at Winsor Forest, West Coast Demerara.

BELBEK AIRBASE, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian troops used armoured vehicles, automatic gunfire and stun grenades yesterday to seize a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea a day after President Vladimir Putin signed laws completing Russia’s annexation of the Black Sea peninsula.

(Reuters) – Captain Brendon McCullum played one of the most important six-ball knocks of his career to lead New Zealand to a nine-run win over England via the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-marred World Twenty20 match yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR/PERTH, Australia (Reuters) – China said yesterday it had a new satellite image of what could be wreckage from a missing Malaysian airliner, as more planes and ships headed to join an international search operation scouring some of the remotest seas on Earth.

 Atlas  Give him strength, crouched on one knee in the dark with the earth on his back, balancing the seven seas, the oceans, five, kneeling in ruthless, empty, endless space for grace of whale, dolphin, sea

Dear Editor, It is with a heavy heart and deep sadness that I pen this letter to pay tribute to, arguably, one of Guyana’s most loved politicians.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News dated March 15, 2014 featured a letter under the caption, ‘Royal runaround from NIS.’

CARACAS (Reuters) – Two Venezuelans died from gunshot wounds during protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro, witnesses and local media said yesterday, pushing the death toll from almost two months of anti-government demonstrations to 33.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Maiden first class centuries from Ashley Nurse and Carlos Brathwaite, followed by a devastating bowling performance from Barbados, combined to destroy Trinidad and Tobago on the second day of their fourth round encounter in the Regional Four-Day Championship here  yesterday.

(Continued from last week) Before we launch into today’s theme, allow me to mention that someone – after reading last week’s column – asked me how one could distinguish between a young puppy and an older puppy. 

Dear Editor, I encourage all the respectable to look closely at the bottomless levels to which this society degenerates daily. 

An interesting development for chess presented itself momentarily when news of Anand’s methodical demolition of Aronian percolated out of the ongoing FIDE 2014 Candidates elimination tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

The execution of businessman Leonard Mahadeo has been added to an already long list of shelved police investigations and unless new clues surface it will remain at a standstill.

The Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will now take place on November 20.

Tucked away: A small shed tucked into some bushes in front of the Marriott Hotel is a beach-front home for a vagrant.

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea has received confirmation that a mysterious disease that has killed up to 59 people in the West African country, and may have spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone, is the haemorrhagic fever Ebola, the government said yesterday.

The colour of the Marriott: Painting work has begun on the Marriott Hotel (Photo by Arian Browne)

Dear Editor, A letter appeared in yesterday’s newspaper penned by Eric Phillips, accusing this writer of “disinformation, deceit and plain lies” and diagnosing my condition as being that of a “subtle bearer of self-hate” (‘Bakr has chosen to blame the victims despite the evidence’ SN, March 21).

Sunday  Cartoons

The current Sexual Offences Act has strong legislative power but there is a gap in terms of its implementation.

The Horticultural Society has announced that the annual Flower Show will be held on Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30 at the Umana Yana, Kingston from 10 am to 6 pm each day.

Junior vice president of the  Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Patrick Triumph last Monday spearheaded his team Blue Thunder `B’ to victory as the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) teams league  tournament continued at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Chile yesterday to press centre-left President Michelle Bachelet to follow through with the ambitious reforms she pledged before assuming power less than two weeks ago.

In the halcyon days when a true socialist lived modestly and the word capitalist carried disparaging overtones, democracy was regarded as the path to political righteousness.

Serving their time constructively: Prison inmates cleaning up Hadfield Street yesterday (Photo by Arian Browne)

By Clive W McWatt Clive Wayne McWatt was born in Guyana in 1946.