Daily Archive: Sunday, September 7, 2014

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – World number one Serena Williams swept past good friend Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3 6-3 in the U.S.

This branch which was cut from a tree along Thomas Lands has been left hanging for several days at the side of Queen’s College.

The Vlissengen Road canal is being desilted. (Arian Browne photo)

This stretch of newly paved road, part of the East Bank Demerara expansion project running from Diamond to Covent Garden is almost ready to be opened.

These boys were enjoying a makeshift cart ride along the BV main access road yesterday.

Residents of the Parfait Harmonie housing area on the West Bank of Demerara are benefitting from a 3.5-kilometre access road built at a cost of over $604M and commissioned yesterday by the government.

At about 2300h. last night, police say that motor cyclists Sunil Brijhuram, 21 years, and Joshua Higgins, 18 years, both of Vive La Force, WBD, were allegedly riding at a fast rate along the roadway at Goed Intent, WBD, when they lost control of the bikes and collided with a parked motor car.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – U.S. warplanes launched four air strikes against Islamic State militants threatening western Iraq’s Haditha Dam early today, witnesses and senior officials said, broadening Washington’s campaign against the fighters.

Vice-Chairman of the AFC Moses Nagamootoo is the front-runner to be the party’s presidential candidate in the next general elections and he has gained the support of party leader Khemraj Ramjattan who has also endorsed AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes as the prime ministerial candidate.

Three persons from Cornelia Ida, including a minor, are the new owners of the William Fogarty building on Water Street, which carried a whopping $1.4 billion price tag.

Story and photos by Kenesha Fraser “Westbury is the best village on the whole Essequibo Coast,” is the sentiment of Juliet Lall, a resident since 1960.

A recent study suggests that suicide in Guyana is linked to poor coping skills and a cycle of violence that includes murder-suicide, interpersonal violence, corporal punishment and child sexual abuse.

Police have released CCTV images of a man who is suspected to be the shooter of the Delicious Restaurant waitress, and are asking the public to help identify and locate him.

A massive road rehabilitation programme is set to get underway soon as officials from BaiShanLin International Forest Development Inc met with representatives from the Linden/Kwakwani Road Users Association (LKRUA) to discuss their possible collaboration on the project.

Contretemps following the refusal of entry to Trinidad and Tobago of a University of Guyana (UG) law graduate after she failed to present documents to prove she was accepted into the Hugh Wooding Law School have led once again to calls for a local law school.

Despite its professed interest in value-added processing, Chinese timber company Baishanlin is not even using the facilities already available to it.

The police are seeking the assistance of the Public in identifying a suspect involved an armed robbery at Castello Housing Scheme.

Following the decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to lay no charges against the four New Opportunity Corps (NOC) employees accused of abusing wards, APNU Member of Parliament Christopher Jones says he will seek to privately pursue justice for the victims.

Former Guyana Defence Force Lieutenant Colonel Sydney James has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police and Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force, a senior government official confirmed yesterday.

The care of a seven-month-old baby is now at the centre of a dispute between a young mother and the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA), which she is accusing of seeking to take the child away from her.

This week’s column offers readers a simplified and hopefully accurate description of the methods/techniques employed in official studies of inequality and poverty in Guyana.

The Supreme Court will next Wednesday begin hearing the case brought by the International Pharmaceutical Agency Guyana Ltd (IPA) challenging the prequalification process to supply drugs for the health sector as unconstitutional and seeking to have the decision to select the New GPC as the lone supplier set aside.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Rookie opener Kraigg Brathwaite became the third youngest West Indies batsman to hit a Test double hundred, as West Indies cautiously made their way through the rain-ravaged second day of the opening Test against Bangladesh here yesterday.

Although Roger John has been disabled for the past 27 years he still has dreams of using his feet again as he prepares to enter a new phase of life and hopefully achieve the financial security that he craves.

In the case of Guyana, we’re talking about two contrasting, even conflicting, sets of values and priorities for living, gradually formed and developed and ingrained, for over 150 years.

Two power poles are currently leaning in North Sophia Block R, and one has brought down a meter from a home along the street.

Boodie slams double century as E’bo maul U19s By Delvon Mc Ewan   A record-breaking innings from Kevon Boodie propelled Essequibo to a huge victory over the National Under-19 team in their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Senior Inter-County Limited Overs encounter yesterday at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

With only a mathematical chance of qualifying for the second round of the CFU Caribbean Cup Guyana will require a win against host nation St.

Continued   The topic of euthanasia is assuredly accompanied by heartache.

By Tony Cozier   SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL had to wait into the late afternoon on the opening day of the first Test against Bangladesh in St.Vincent

Perhaps there has never been any time in history when terror, horror, cruelty and brutal suffering, much of it inflicted by men themselves, have set their curse upon so many lands.

I had the privilege of being interviewed on the Spotlight TV programme on Channel 9 in the distinguished company of Henry Jeffrey and Tacuma Ogunseye, both knowledgeable and experienced observers of the political scene.

Debutant Raj Nannan’s four-wicket haul yesterday helped Demerara defeat Berbice by 144 runs as round two of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) one-day Inter-County competition continued at the Wales community ground yesterday.

Naya Zamana 19: The Royal Twist, directed and choreographed by Vindhya Persaud, continued the established practice of annual full dance productions by companies in Guyana with an emphatic statement.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces came under artillery fire late on Saturday near the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in the first serious violation of a ceasefire declared only about 30 hours earlier.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Marathon man Kei Nishikori secured a monumental upset by sweating out a 6-4 1-6 7-6(4) 6-3 win over world number one Novak Djokovic at the U.S.

Bucatini is the name of the shaped pasta that we use prolifically in the Caribbean to make Macaroni Pie (Mac and Cheese).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama reversed course yesterday and delayed taking executive action on immigration reform until after November congressional elections, bowing to concerns it could cost his fellow Democrats control of the US Senate.

Not to be mistaken for a toucan, the Black-necked Aracari (Pteroglossus aracari) travels in gregarious and noisy groups which are often seen following each other in single file across clearings to fruiting trees.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – For Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki, there is a time for friendship and a time for business, and business does not get much more serious than a grand slam final.

As troubling conflicts loom and the world becomes much less secure, it is striking how Latin America and the Caribbean remain a relative zone of peace.

PARIS (Reuters) – A French journalist held hostage for months in Syria said yesterday that one of his captors was a Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May.

New polls showing that opposition candidate Marina Silva is likely to win Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections are leading growing numbers of analysts to predict that Latin America’s biggest country may soon shift toward more business-friendly policies, and rock the whole region’s political scene.

Stewartville Gunners and Showstoppers will faceoff in the final of the Stag Beer ‘West Side’ 5-a-side football tourney today, following semi-final victories over DeKindren and New Road Eagles respectively on Friday at the Vergenoegen Rice Mill Tarmac.

LONDON (Reuters) – Supporters of Scottish independence have taken their first opinion poll lead since the referendum campaign began, according to a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times newspaper.

Last week I wrote about the magnificent Mussaenda in colours of red, white, pink and dark pink.

KINGSTON (Reuters) – Rescuers were searching yesterday for the wreckage of a small US private plane that crashed off the east coast of Jamaica, after the Jamaican military said debris from the aircraft had likely been spotted.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reu-ters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff and environmentalist Marina Silva would be tied in the first round of elections on Oct 5, a poll suggested yesterday, as a meteoric rise in support for Silva showed signs of plateauing.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a US air strike this week and named a new leader, promising “great distress” to its enemies.

(ICC) World champion India has retained its number-one ranking in the Reliance ICC ODI Team Rankings following the conclusion of its series against England and the triangular series in Zimbabwe.

We are approaching the final quarter of year 2014, and traditionally, there are three chess tournaments to be completed before the end of December.

Dear Editor,   It seems as if the immigration officers in the region have little or no regard for the Treaty of Chaguaramas and the recent decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice in the Shanique Myrie case, when a law student from Guyana was denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago to pursue studies at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) I read with great concern how the law student was humiliated at the Piarco Airport and was denied entry because there was no proof that she was a student of the HWLS or that she was eligible to be admitted as a student.

HARARE, (Reuters) – A superb spell of reverse-swing bowling from Dale Steyn and another fluent innings from Faf du Plessis helped South Africa cruise to a six-wicket victory over Australia in the final of the triangular series at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.

Dear Editor,   On Thursday, September 4, both Stabroek News and Kaieteur News exposed the carelessness of animal traders in their article on the discovery of 20 red and green macaws, one capybara, one very young tapir and one very young puma on the road from the South Rupununi.

Guyana has earned itself another dubious world record. According to PAHO/WHO this country had the world’s highest estimated suicide rate in 2012.

Eustace Abrams