Articles published on Monday, March 9, 2009
Veggie export ‘business’ used to gather money In a case that has echoes of a ‘Ponzi scheme’, an employee of a state agency is in police custody as the lawmen probe a scheme that offered a 35% rate of return monthly and into which hundreds of persons invested their monies but were not paid their profit since the year began.
A 32-year-old man accused of having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s court on Wednesday.
A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) corporal died on Saturday night when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a car on the Friendship, East Bank Public Road.
A 33-year-old motorcyclist succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) one week after colliding with a minibus along the Cove and John, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road.
Female policyholders of the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire Insurance Company who have comprehensive motor insurance will now benefit from a club created by the company which concentrates on helping women who encounter road mishaps.
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will be intensifying its presence in Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) as the area develops and the Takutu Bridge, linking Guyana and Brazil, is opened.
This year International Women’s Day provides an opportunity to call women and men everywhere to action by shining a spotlight on the issue of violence against women, the National Congress of Women (NCW), the women’s arm of the People’s National Congress Reform, said in a message marking the occasion.
– GPL The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says while it has received the test results of samples of contaminated fuel sent to Trinidad to determine who was responsible for it becoming tainted it will not reveal the results until a meeting is held.
– Deonarine, Fudadin fall agonizingly short of career landmarks Bottom of the table Guyana were pressing for an outright win at the end of the third day’s play of their four-day regional West Indies Cricket Board-sponsored tournament match against the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) team at the National Stadium at Providence yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will lift his predecessor’s restriction on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research today and will give the National Institutes of Health four months to come up with new rules on the issue, officials said yesterday.
Bobby Hemraj, the 21-year-old nursing student, who was shot in the abdomen on Friday night while at an internet café on Sheriff Street, remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Eleven swimmers smashed eight national records at the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) Mashramani Swim Meet which ended yesterday at Castellani Pool on Homestretch Avenue.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – While accused hedge fund swindler Arthur Nadel sits in a Manhattan jail, Burton Wiand is busy seizing control of his assets — a 453-acre mountainside tract of land in North Carolina, several airplane hangars and a jumble of bank accounts.
Was he a ganja farmer? A man accused of cultivating cannabis and trafficking in the drug was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
By Tony Cozier at Queen’s Park Oval For Chris Gayle, the physical pain would have been trifling compared to the mental anguish.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s attorney-general will charge former president Moshe Katsav with rape and other sex offences against women employees while he was president and tourism minister, the Justice Ministry said in a statement.
ANTRIM, Northern Ireland, (Reuters) – The dissident republican group Real IRA claimed responsibility yesterday for killing two British soldiers in Northern Ireland, one of the worst attacks since a 1998 peace deal stemmed years of violence.
The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) successfully hosted its coaches workshop on Saturday at the Thomas Lands YMCA building.
The 259 families who had been occupying the state reserve on the Lamaha Railway Embankment between Ganges and Parade streets have been relocated to Region Three to make way for GPL expansion works.
Dear Editor, Our roads have deteriorated and are in such a terrible state in some parts, that when the rain falls they are almost impassable.
The Esau and Jacob community on the right bank of the Mahaicony River on Friday received two computers, printers and stationery from the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States should let some big troubled banks fail rather than commit more federal funds to prop them up, two key congressional Republicans said yesterday.
National striker Nigel ‘Powers’ Codrington featured in Charleston Battery’s 1-2 defeat to Toronto FC in the Carolina Challenge Cup at Blackbaud Stadium USA.
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says he has nothing to say over the report that equipment reportedly used by drug-indicted businessman Roger Khan to intercept calls was re-exported to the US in 2007, since he only read about it in the newspaper and has “not thought” about it.
CONAKRY, (Reuters) – Guinea’s military junta has demanded that four former mines ministers repay more than $5 million it says they embezzled from the state, according to a senior official.
The cream of the country’s racquet wielders will be on show this week at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) hosts its seniors and U-21 tournament on March 10-11.
Dear Editor, In the March 5, 2009 Stabroek News article titled ‘Bank of Guyana says financial sector adequately capitalized at Dec 2008’ the Bank of Guyana in response to purported continued deliberate attempts to mislead the public on the health of the financial system made it abundantly clear that Guyana’s financial sector was adequately capitalized until the end of December 2008.
Dear Editor, I am a resident of La Grange West Bank Demerara and I am a customer of GT&T.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Extremist groups in Southeast Asia are increasingly using the internet and social networking to radicalise the youth of the region, said a new security report released on Friday.
-as Australia extend lead to 506 DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Phillip Hughes powered to his second century of the match as Australia extended their lead over South Africa to 506 at the close on the third day of the second test at Kingsmead yesterday.
Guyana’s position on avoided deforestation was again highlighted when President Bharrat Jagdeo delivered the feature address at the Forest Carbon Finance Summit 2009: Making Forest Carbon Markets Work, on Capitol Hill, Washington DC on Friday.
Dear Editor, Recently, a letter writer sought to remind us of an unsung hero, one Mr.
BAGHDAD – The United States will reduce the number of troops in Iraq by around 12,000 in the next six months, the U.S.
Three national rugby players have been named to the West Indies Rugby 12-member squad which will participate in the International Rugby Board (iRB) Hong Kong Sevens tournament which begins later this month.
The effects of the current global economic and financial crisis on the region and possible mitigating actions will be the focus of discussions when CARICOM Heads of Government meet in Belize City, Belize from March 12-13.
Guyana’s first-ever wedding expo is scheduled for March 28 and 29 and is intended to give couples an idea as to how to make their wedding a truly memorable event.
(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira has presided over the billion-dollar bail-out of the CL Financial group, even as she herself has owned shares in the conglomerate, Guardian investigations have revealed.
Dear Editor, Almost ten years ago, on August 8, 1999, to be exact, Mr Bharrat Jagdeo took over the Guyana presidency from Mrs Janet Jagan, who served from December 1997 after successfully leading her party’s A-Team comprising herself, Mr Jagdeo and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, in a tensely waged election fight against the PNC.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar’s 43rd one-day international century hoisted India to a 2-0 series lead over New Zealand with a 58-run victory in Christchurch yesterday.
Demerara retain U-15 titleDefending champions Demerara easily retained their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol U-15 Inter-County title when they defeated arch rivals Berbice by seven wickets on the Duckworth/Lewis system in the final round match yesterday.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted bail to a ‘horse cart driver’ who allegedly snatched a woman’s purse containing a quantity of cash and a gold chain.
(Trinidad Express) Non-performing loans on the books of the state-impounded CL Financial-owned Clico Investment Bank (CIB) could account for over 20 per cent, significantly more than the industry standard of two-to-three per cent, sources close to the bank have disclosed.
Dear Editor, For some time I had planned to write about the epidemic of abuse, disrespect and violence against women.
Colin Ming emerged winner of Saturday’s General Equipment Medal Play Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course.
Dear Editor, The TV programme ‘Our Culture Our Life’ hosted by Wanita Huburn, and which quite recently featured Jimmy Hamilton and Don Gomes leading up to the Mash celebrations was one with a big, big difference.
In a letter to the President, six gay rights groups say Guyana should stop arrests of transgender persons and repeal laws that criminalise wearing clothes considered appropriate only for the opposite sex.
By Sara Bharrat with photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man/woman in the street how they thought the recent terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team will affect the future of cricket in Pakistan.
(BBC) The president of the Caribbean Development Bank, Compton Bourne, said Friday that the problems facing conglomerate CL Financial point to a serious gap in the region’s regulatory system.
On petty tyranniesArif Bulkan lectures in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies By Arif Bulkan The issue of Presidential (non) assent to Bills is being discussed again, this time by Prem Misir in his reply to Christopher Ram.
Future bright for soup drinkers, those in power, but not for athletesIn today’s society power is to be coveted.
–Caricom Caricom says the first regional training workshop on the Standards of Care for Treatment and Rehabilitation Facilities for Substance Abusers was a “resounding success.”
DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Developing countries could face a financing gap of $270-$700 billion — equivalent to the latest U.S.
Dear Editor, On January 29, a letter by Mr Ogunseye was published in SN captioned ‘The work of Ronald Waddell resulted in a reduction in extra-judicial killings,’ wherein it is stated, “There is therefore an urgent need for re-thinking and re-strategising on the way forward by the leaders of the African community.”
Fixed at last: This bridge at Sussex Street which leads into the Le Repentir cemetery and which was previously in a state of disrepair, has been fixed and the rails painted.
In last Monday’s editorial entitled ‘Clico and the failure of leadership’ we dealt with the actions taken by the President, the Minister of Finance and the Commissioner of Insurance in relation to the crisis that has engulfed the local Clico subsidiary.
