Daily Archive: Monday, June 22, 2009

-Minister of Finance announces Low income earners can now access up to $3M from approved mortgage finance companies to build their homes.

An 18-year-old who was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Saturday following an attempt to end her life after becoming frustrated at investigations into a rape ordeal was in a stable condition yesterday and her mother is to meet with the police today.

A Guyanese woman who flew to Canada in April to visit relatives is now missing following an afternoon walk on Saturday.

Who sleeps in a church dress and petticoat, prepares sardines and biscuits for dinner, covers their bodies in candle grease, snaps like an alligator and calls immigration in matters of a mate?

How cash-squeezed insurance giant bankrolled 2007 electionsBy Camini Marajh Investigative Desk Trinidad Express Lawrence Duprey’s CL Financial Group provided scarcely imaginable largesse to the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) party in the last general election at a time when it was already on the ropes-short on cash and highly leveraged.

The Hadfield Foundation which had been a vibrant aspect of the arts scene and staged novel exhibitions and fashion shows in its heyday is closing its doors at the end of next month.

-focus on non-traditional exports reaping benefits Guyana is still waiting for the large investment dollars in agriculture, as it takes steps to become a key producer in the region’s multi-billion dollar food industry.

The image of a man burying bones in the sand was still on my mind as I engaged in the long and arduous journey out of Lindo Creek.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee last Friday commissioned the remodelled East La Penitence and Brickdam police stations, two of a total of 12 earmarked for modification by the government through the Citizen Security Programme (CSP) with funding provided by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

-customers actually get to pick what they want ‘Shopping for value’ is  among the new catch phrases  for customers in ‘stiff’ economic times and one young Linden entrepreneur is listening -offering customers the choice of determining their product, quality and price.

Lindie Sharpe, husband of the May 22nd Amelia’s Ward accident victim, Enid Sharpe said that he got no assistance from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for the burial of his wife and was told that the matter is in the hands of the police.

The main opposition PNCR has named its nominees for the special select committee examining legislative reforms for impending local government elections.

-says Guyana mischaracterised as a trafficking haven The Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) has rejected the US State Department’s labelling of Guyana as a “Tier Two Watch List Country” and its continual mischaracterization of the country as a trafficking haven.

Troy De Mattos, the Stabroek Market drink vendor who was shot and robbed on Saturday night, is in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

-GGMC The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) intends to turn down applications for mining licences in the Rewa and Rupununi rivers, Commissioner William Woolford says.

Kwame Rumel Jobronewet, who went missing mere hours after he arrived in Guyana two Fridays ago, had still not been found up to press time last night.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted a woman a total of $17,000 bail when she appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of assault and malicious damage to property.

The Region Three administration is calling on residents to make an effort to bring their rates and taxes payment up to date, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

…after confessing to stealing mangoes Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ordered a labourer to keep the peace for two years and to serve a period of community service after he admitted stealing a quantity of mangoes because  “de tree de loaded and yuh could see that de people deh don’t use de mango.”

A 45-year-old Port Kaituma man was pronounced dead at the Kwakwani Hospital after a tree fell on him while he was logging on Saturday afternoon.

Two armed men on Saturday night robbed a Survival Supermarket clerk of a bag containing some $1.7 million.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health on Monday signed the ‘100% Smoke Free Policy Declaration’ in the company’s boardroom.

LONDON, England,  CMC – Pakistan are ICC World Twenty20 champions after man-of–the-moment Shahid Afridi belted an unbeaten half century to steer them past previously unbeaten Sri Lanka in yesterday’s final.

The Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities elected a new executive and established several committees aimed at fulfilling its mandate, when it held its first general elections held on May 22.

EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject  to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take  pictures in Tehran.

By Tiadi Blair A team from the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP), the game’s governing body, is currently working with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports to launch the game competitively in  secondary schools.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – If it were in a position to do  so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in its fight  against the United States, a top leader of the group said in  remarks aired yesterday.

Triple Olympian and 2002 Commonwealth Games 400 metres gold medalist Aliann Pompey has expressed her frustration at not being able to compete at this year’s inaugural Caribbean Games in Trinidad and Tobago next month, since it was cancelled.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu extended the tenure of the Mossad chief to an  eighth year yesterday, a testament to the spymaster’s perceived  success in waging shadow wars against Iran and its allies. 

Guyanese-born former International Boxing Federation (IBF) champion Gairy “Superman” St. Clair’s announced retirement from the boxing ring this week has brought to an end an illustrious career for a fighter who possessed great potential but might have been robbed of much needed success earlier in his vocation in the fistic sport.

It has been three months since Guyanese striker Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson has been playing in the USA Major League Soccer (MLS) with the Colorado Rapids and speaking with Stabroek Sport on Saturday from Colorado, Richardson said that he has been enjoying the league so far but he is waiting on his time to shine.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Russian spies are targeting the  German energy sector to help Russian firms gain commercial  advantages, the head of Germany’s domestic counter-espionage  unit said yesterday.

As a table tennis player national men’s singles champion Godfrey Munroe is more feared for his vicious forehand loops than his forehand slams.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli archaeologists said  yesterday they had discovered the largest underground quarry in  the Holy Land, dating back to the time of Jesus and containing  Christian symbols etched into the walls.

ROME, (Reuters) – A top Sicilian mafia boss on  Italy’s list of 30 most dangerous men has been arrested in  Venezuela, the interior ministry said yesterday.

Local manufacturing giant Edward Beharry and Company has stepped on board with sponsorship of the National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) which is set to bounce off on June 26 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall featuring over 26 schools from around the country.

Want to see whether Roger Federer will capitalise on the absence of defending champion and world number Rafael Nadal and snare his 15th Grand Slam title?

KIRKUK, Iraq, (Reuters) – The death toll from Iraq’s  deadliest bombing in more than a year rose to 73, police said yesterday, a day after a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed  with explosives outside a mosque in the north of the country.

Dear Editor, I refer to the news item: “UG needs academic and admin overall – Vice Chancellor; says crumbling infrastructure to be addressed (SN June 20, 09).”

Dear Editor, “The family is a most important foundation. And we are called to recognize and honour how critical every father is to that foundation.”

Kingston, Jamaica: With the two Bravos (Dwayne and Darren) now selected to the West Indies squad for the first two Digicel One Day Internationals thoughts will naturally drift towards siblings playing cricket on the world stage.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – A Mumbai court on Monday remanded Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja to three days in police custody after police charged him with raping his teenaged maid, his lawyer said.

Dear Editor, Now that Guyana has done the honourable thing and admitted that it did break the law as it pertains to the waiver of the Common External Tariff (CET) on cement as a consequence of which it will end up paying a considerable amount to the Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), I hope that the other member states of Caricom will wake up and stop the illegal activities of not paying the CET on rice.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Sandra Bullock achieved her  first No. 1 movie in 10 years at the weekend box office as  moviegoers across the United States and Canada said yes to “The  Proposal,” which also marked her biggest opening.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Guyana’s Cleveland Forde underlined his growing status as a commanding force in regional distance running with a good win against a quality field in De Heart Uh Barbados 10-kilometre road race on Saturday.

Photos and interviews by Cathy Richards Dustanni Barrow – Businessman `One of the main problems in Linden is that certain powers that be that should be managing the town and assisting business persons and those interested in starting up businesses are not doing so.

Dear Editor, So much publicity was made of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela presenting the above-titled book (subtitled: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent) to President Barack Obama of the USA, at the Summit of the Americas Meeting in Port of Spain that I felt that I just had to obtain a copy read it.

In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana an the Caribbean) By Norman Girvan Norman Girvan is Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s women added the  Twenty20 World Cup to their 50-over crown when they beat New  Zealand by six wickets in the final at Lord’s yesterday.

SILVERSTONE, England, CMC – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton could only manage a 16th place finish as Germany’s Sebastien Vettel sped to a magnificent victory in the British Formula One Grand Prix event yesterday.

Dear Editor, I read with great care and interest Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s letter which was published in Kaieteur News on Friday June 19, 2009, under the caption, ‘David Hinds and history.’

So It Go by Dave Martins A few weeks back, on a flight from Miami to Toronto, I ended up chatting with a Jamaican about the painful and often unintentionally humorous mangling of the English language that we see these days. 

Since the unveiling of the new Barbadian policy on undocumented Caricom citizens which was styled as an “amnesty” but is anything but that, there have been frequent reports that Barbadian immigration workers and security forces have been rounding up illegals in the most uncivilized manner and depositing them at the Grantley Adams Airport for immediate return to this country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ghost gangs have surfaced again in the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) in at least two of the ten regions in Trinidad, according to auditors in the field.