Daily Archive: Thursday, February 19, 2009

A 26-year-old woman is now hospitalised following a violent knife attack by the father of her child who later killed himself.

ST. JOHN’S/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Hundreds of people  rushed yesterday to withdraw money from banks in Antigua and  Venezuela linked to Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, as the  fallout from U.S.

Shadow Minister of Finance, Winston Murray yesterday ripped into the 2009 Budget declaring that the budgetary deficit has been misrepresented thus 30% of the government’s proposed expenditure is dependent on grants or borrowing money to achieve the targets set.

Case points to collusion The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday arrested a 16-year-old drug trafficker with 7 kilos (15 lbs) of cocaine in his hand luggage.

Facts ‘n Roses’ owners yesterday pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of  failing to produce tax returns when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Nearly four months ago, an  employee at Texas tycoon Allen Stanford’s financial empire told  the company’s investment chief a big customer was preparing to  yank his money if he did not get assurances his funds were  safe.

Republic Bank (Guyana) has fired three senior staff members in relation to a $250M fraud but according to the Trinidad-based parent company the dismissed persons were not involved in the scam.

Gallons of diesel flowed from an unknown source through the drains along Croal, Water, America and Longden streets yesterday morning resulting in a mad rush by residents to collect some.

-charges likely to be laid The high court has granted a police request for the extension of the detention of two of the five suspects held in the Smythfield, New Amsterdam double murder while three others were released on station bail yesterday.

Several businesses have fallen victim to a fraudulent scheme in which payments for large amounts of goods were made via fake manager’s cheques, police stated last evening.

Four days after being shot in the head, 30-year-old Terrence Plummer has lapsed into a coma and remains in a critical condition.

Five years ago, the ground that has hosted more record-breaking West Indies’ performances in its relatively brief existence witnessed its most unexpected and uplifting.

Four persons including a taxi driver are in police custody following a daring gunpoint robbery on a Bartica gold dealer on Tuesday night during which a bag containing $1.8M and a quantity of gold was snatched.

– Dover offered job as head coach President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass said on Tuesday that it was “not prudent or economically viable to retain a technical director at the moment,” since Guyana will not be engaging in any international tournaments for approximately two years.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a policeman in connection with an investigation.

A man-of-the-match performance from Feaz Mustapha (2-28 and 51) steered Queen’s College (QC) to a five-wicket victory over Berbice High School (BHS) in the National Sports Commission (NSC)/Allied Arts Department 40-overs-a-side cricket match at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

A Brazilian miner was robbed of his vehicle and shot at Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni River early yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, Yet again, the Guyana Power & Light yesterday dispatched a disconnection crew to my 88-year-old mother’s home to cut the power although the company was owed nothing.

Ministry of Sport Inter-School Basketball tournament By Rawle Toney Charlestown Secondary and the Government Technical Institute (GTI) were the first two teams to advance to the semi-finals of this year’s Ministry of Sport Mash-ramani Inter-School Basket-ball Tournament, after recording remarkable victories on Tuesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

– 200 schools this season Eight lucky teams representing the eight zones of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Ministry of Education(MoE)/Scotia Bank-sponsored Kiddy Cricket competition will have the opportunity to showcase their skills when the second-one day match between West Indies and England is contested at the Providence National Stadium next month.

Dear Editor, There is a famous saying, ‘A job worth doing is worth doing well.’

–PM tells Bartica massacre observance Prime Minister Samuel Hinds urged the public to support the police during the unveiling of a plaque in memory of the three police officers slain in the line of duty when gunmen ambushed the Bartica Police Station a year ago Tuesday.

Representatives of the business community in Region Six are seeking to urgently meet with officials of the Berbice Bridge Company to discuss the toll structure and other pertinent issues relating to the smooth operations of the bridge.

Dear Editor, Unfortunately, in his letter to the press (‘Josh Ramsammy had the support of leading government officials on the UG Council throughout his tenure as Pro Chancellor,’ SN February 17), Mr Nanda K Gopaul is trying to revise the unethical treatment Dr Josh Ramsammy and the  University of Guyana received from senior PPP officials in their administrative capacity at UG.

-says T&T coach Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) cricket team Kelvin Williams yesterday described his country’s chances against Guyana in their seventh round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four-day encounter scheduled to commence tomorrow as “good.”

Dear Editor, Over the past few weeks, the headlines in the local daily newspapers have highlighted the plight of women and girls who are the victims of sexual crimes.

Residents of Kartabo, Region Seven recently began benefiting from potable water powered by solar energy.

Region Eight’s (Potaro/Siparuni) 2009 Mashramani sports programme has been given a major boost with sponsorship from local beverage giants Banks DIH Ltd for activities planned in the mining community for Mash Day.

Dear Editor, I refer to Dr Nanda Gopaul’s letter of February 17 (SN ‘Josh Ramsammy had the support of leading government officials…’) as a response to my interpretation as to why Dr Josh Ramsammy was relieved of his post of Pro-Chancellor at the University of Guyana in 2000. 

Guyana remains at the “tipping edge” in relation to security, says PNCR-1G Member of Parliament, Deborah Backer while issuing a call to Government to implement and undertake reforms mentioned in several reports.

The Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice will run off a 40-mile road race for schoolboys, juniors, females and BMX riders on Sunday.

Dear Editor, I start by expressing my disgust and total rejection of Mr Andrew Hicks’s opinion expressed on VCT Channel 28 on January 26.

-Alpha United to face stern test from Pele The annual Mayor’s Cup Invitational Inter-Club knockout football tournament gets underway tomorrow with a double header at the Georgetown Football Club ground (GFC) with the usual Georgetown versus Linden rivalry.

The government will spend $251 million this year on its ongoing literacy drive, but poor test scores show that the programme has been failing students, an opposition MP has charged.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday dismissed the  six traffic charges against retired Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will soon be conducting field exercises to ensure that shopkeepers who sell intoxicating liquors hold the required licences.

Dear Editor, The People of Guyana should refuse to pay the new increases in water rates imposed by the Guyana Water Inc.

Fiasco, farce, farrago, embarrassment, debacle, disgrace – just some of the more polite utterances following the abandonment of play on the opening morning of the aborted Second Test Match between the West Indies and England, at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, at North Sound, in Antigua.

– Dwayne Dick earns  Best Individual Player Award Dwayne Dick copped the Best Individual Player Award as he led his Natural Sciences team in the inaugural Farfan and Mendes Inter-Faculty Table Tennis Tournament which took place in the Cafeteria Building at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus.

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