Daily Archive: Sunday, October 12, 2014

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of farmer Clifton Clement, 52 years, of Hiawa Village, Central Rupununi, which occurred at about 0130h.

Guyana has a mass preparedness campaign on stream for the Ebola virus and over 1600 medical personnel are to be trained on dealing with the disease.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – Dangerous Cyclone Hudhud has forced the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) to cancel Tuesday’s third One-Day International between India and West Indies scheduled for Visakhapatnam.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo (third from right) delivered a presentation on climate change and green energy at a Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association dinner at the Princess Hotel on Friday night.

A section of the gathering at the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association dinner on Friday at the Princess Hotel where former President Bharrat Jagdeo delivered a talk on climate change.

A section of the gathering at the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association dinner on Friday at the Princess Hotel where former President Bharrat Jagdeo delivered a talk on climate change.

(Trinidad Express) Eleven months ago, 29-year-old Shane Crawford sold his valuables—a van and a big screen TV— to make up money for the airfare to go to war-torn Syria.

(Reuters) – A Texas health worker who provided care for the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States has tested positive for the deadly virus in a preliminary examination, a state health official said today.

A flood of luxury vehicles on the roads prompted a government decision to probe the period 2010 to 2014 to test whether there was an abuse of duty-free concessions to remigrants, sources say.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs is looking to assist the Domingo sisters – who survived a month-long ordeal in the jungle in 1995 – to recover money that was placed in trust for them and which they have since been unable to access.

Despite a statement by logging company Baishanlin that it has only “upgraded” old roads and trails through existing forest concessions, it has been pointed out that a previous study had indicated the need to construct at least 180 kilometres of new roads through intact forests in the areas where the company now operates.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh has signed two agreements with the World Bank that will support Guyana’s education and agriculture sectors with funding totalling US$21 million.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud calls Ebola a frightening disease that should concern everyone and stressed the need for preparation.

Tourney favourites West Ruimveldt blanked Green Acres by a 3-0 margin when the fourth annual Petra Organization/Courts Pee football tourney continued yesterday at the Thirst Park ground.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – Dangerous Cyclone Hudhud has forced West Indies to delay their travel to Visakhapatnam, the venue for the third One-Day International, and has also put that game in doubt.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – A now familiar batting implosion derailed West Indies’ run chase, as the Caribbean side quickly returned to their old habits in a 48-run defeat to India here yesterday.

Cabinet will on Tuesday receive a presentation from the Ministry of Local Government on six companies that submitted expressions of interest (EOIs) to build Guyana’s first solid waste recycling plant, but one firm has already questioned the thoroughness of the ministry’s evaluation process.

IT was a prophecy formed by three turbulent years at the heart of West Indies cricket.

More than 40 PNCR/APNU supporters were locked out of a meeting that was held by PNCR/ APNU leader, David Granger on Friday evening at the Mackenzie High School auditorium.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The West Indies squad in India say they no longer want any part of a Wavell Hinds-led West Indies Players Association, and has asked the West Indies Cricket Board to “urgently” intervene in the impasse.

If you do not read poetry you miss much. You miss star showers around your head and arrows near your heart.

The death penalty has not been carried out in Guyana since 1997.

The Vector Control Services will recommence house-to-house health inspections, including dropping Abate larvicide tablets in drains to kill mosquito larvae as a measure to reduce the rapidly rising cases of chikungunya, Chief Medical Officer Shamdeo Persaud said yesterday.

The Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) yesterday crumbled to the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) by an innings and 274 runs on day one of their scheduled two day match.

Residents of Sandy Babb Street, Kitty say nothing is being done about the continual flooding of their yards and are calling on the relevant authorities to step in and deal with the issue once and for all.

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) brushed aside cellar occupants Beacons 4-0 when the second round of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division league continued yesterday at the Tucville ground.

There were wins for top female teams Wellwoman and Trophy Stall Angels when the latest round of the Ramchand/Rohan Auto Spares male and female softball competition took place last weekend.

With gold prices falling below the key support level of US$1,200, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is again pressing government for urgent and significant relief.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Alastair Cook is “hurt” by accusations made in Kevin Pietersen’s controversial autobiography, believing they have “tarnished” the team’s highly successful period under former captain Andrew Strauss.

Inequality and poverty are independent though symbiotically related forces driving Guyana’s political economy.

If opposition candidate Aecio Neves wins Brazil’s October 26 runoff election — a possibility that virtually no pollster is ruling out — South America’s biggest country would “de-politicize” its foreign policy and end 12 years of preferential ties with Venezuela, Argentina and other leftist governments, top aides to Neves say.

The first thing to be said about the ebola crisis is that the region should be very proud that among the first to fully understand the seriousness of the threat and respond has been a Caribbean nation: Cuba.

Subscribers to Digicel’s data services experienced disruptions over two days last week and some who were promised compensation have complained that they were yet to receive it.

Balancing act! A firefighter makes his way across a canal by way of an extended ladder to gain access to a grass fire at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus yesterday.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Roger Federer brought world number one Novak Djokovic’s juggernaut to a halt when a 6-4 6-4 victory in the Shanghai Masters yesterday set up a final against unseeded Frenchman Gilles Simon.

Palms having adapted well hundreds of years ago to the tropics and the Caribbean are now very common in local landscaping.

Magnus Carlsen, the 23-year-old Norwegian grandmaster and World Chess Champion who has demonstrated an extraordinary power over the finest chess players on the planet, has launched a chess playing app that allows players all around the world to challenge him.

“Teaching is a profession, not a job. It is a special calling from God,” Ingrid Peters said as she reminisced on her more than 35 years of service to Guyana’s children.

SOCHI, Russia, (Reuters) – Championship leader Lewis Hamilton put his Mercedes on pole position for the first Russian Grand Prix   yesterday with team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg having to settle for second.

The Assembly Rooms on fire in 1945. The Bank of Guyana was eventually built in the space.

Beckwiths Hotel on the left behind an empty lot where the Hand-in-Hand was later built.

The Republic of Guyana’s annual National Drama Festival (NDF) will take to the stage of the National Cultural Centre for the fourth time starting this Tuesday and running from October 14-22.

Orville Hinds warmed up nicely for next week’s signature ‘Ride For Life’ five-stage road race by winning his fourth circuit event of the season yesterday at the National Park.

MURSITPINAR, Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a US-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey yesterday.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – In the hometown of Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai, the students at the government-run Girls’ High School Mingora sit cross-legged on sacks and sheets on the floor because there is not enough furniture.

The National Agricultural Research Extension Institute (NAREI) is set to benefit from Surinamese expertise in fighting black sigatoka, with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Suriname and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) on Friday.

Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (late 19th century)

  Making a stew out of the many cuts of beef that lend themselves to long, low, slow cooking is one of the most delicious things to eat.

(Continued from last week) Last week, I advised that you involve your veterinarian in that debate as to whether to put the pet to sleep permanently, or to try to keep it alive as long as possible, in spite of the agony being experienced by all.

Dear Editor, I learnt of Rafiq Khan’s passing with a profound sense of sadness.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka,CMC – West Indies A were made to toil with little success as opener Dimuth Karunaratne struck a hundred to propel Sri Lanka A on the opening day of the first unofficial “Test” here yesterday.

The Georgetown Fire Brigade (c 1930(?)) 

The UG Wolves and the Yamaha Caribs played unbeaten in their respective games yesterday to leapfrog the Pepsi Hornets and clinched finals berths in the Golden Brook/WindJammer/Toney Sevens league which culminates on Saturday at the National Park.

FERGUSON, Mo (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters marched through St Louis yesterday as part of a weekend of demonstrations against police violence organized after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer last summer.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News is a good newspaper but yesterday’s headline ‘Vote on death penalty repeal has no chance’ was misleading.

(Reuters) – Members of an NBC News crew who worked with a cameraman who contracted ebola in Liberia have been quarantined, New Jersey health officials said yesterday.

A Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia) photographed at 3Vs in Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke The Spotted Puffbird is often found near forest edges.

The Cricket Club, Bourda in its heyday (nd)

Dear Editor,The year 2013 opened with flooding on the East Coast Demerara in January.

Guyana’s bird-watching tourism potential was recently explored through a presentation by veteran local bird-guide and wildlife biologist Waldyke (Wally) Prince at Moray House.

All systems are in place for Guyana’s speedsters to defend home turf today against the Surinamese invasion in the second edition of GMR&SC’s Burnout, Guyana’s Drag Race Championships.

Old ideas GuyExpo might have presented new experiences for many Guyanese, but it also brought home the reality of the tragedy of the history of the country.

On April 27, 1953 Guyanese, voting for the first time on the basis of adult suffrage at age 21, gave the PPP 18 seats of the 24 to be filled.

CARACAS (Reuters) – An outraged Venezuelan government sought on Friday to block an Argentine website that published photos of the corpse of a young Socialist Party legislator stabbed to death last week in a mystery that has convulsed the nation.

Universal secondary education is expected to be a reality in Guyana in another three years according to Chief Education Officer (CEdO) Olato Sam, who however admitted that the Ministry of Education would at no time be able to say that every child was enrolled in a secondary school owing to what he described as the country’s “geographical reality.”

Sunday Cartoons

Dear Editor, In the second letter by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Ms Indira Anandjit, published in SN on October 10, she resorted to accusing me of male chauvinism, claiming, dishonestly, that I “insinuated” that she did not write the first letter.

On Wednesday afternoon at 4.30, misfortune struck the East Bank Demerara communities of Peter’s Hall, Nandy Park and Providence.

Main Street (c 1940)

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, was laid to rest yesterday, marking the end of a political dynasty notorious for its corruption and abuse of human rights.

Wedge Capped or Weeper Capuchin (Cebus olivaceus) are commonly seen in the forest along river edges in the Rupununi.

Fishing grounds: Fishing at the confluence of the Rewa and Rupununi rivers where the fishes are bountiful.