Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The police said yesterday that they would charge an ex-officer today, several months after he allegedly brutally raped and repeatedly traumatised a teenage girl, who was driven to attempt suicide on Saturday.

Sumintra ‘Lalita’ Ramkellawan and four family members narrowly escaped death early Friday morning when her estranged husband made good on a promise to set her Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant, Corentyne house on fire, in an attempt to kill her.

Years of abuse at the hands of her partner, which heightened after the popular “Radica” chutney songs hit the local airwaves have forced a 33-year-old Blairmont, West Bank Berbice woman into hiding.

City Hall views as alarming, the fact that 41 members of the City Constabulary have chalked up 349 sick days in a single month.

-lawyers argue In objecting to the sale of its assets, Clico (Guyana) said that Judicial Manager Maria van Beek closed all of its business offices without a single attempt to operate any line or class of insurance business.

– says Darren Bravo PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, June 22, CMC – Darren Bravo has predictably identified Brian Lara as his cricket hero, but denies he makes a conscious effort to bat like the West Indies legend.

– But Federer marches through with military precision LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer turned up at  Wimbledon yesterday resembling an army general ready to conduct  his latest campaign and soon disarmed the opposition on the opening day of the grasscourt championships.

Participants from the central Guyana National Library have once again outshone competitors from the branch libraries, this time in the semi-final round of the Champion Readers Competition. 

– GDF and Buxton battle to a draw Sunburst Camptown endured a nail biting encounter to the end with the Fruta Conquerors on Sunday evening and were crowned the Camptown Goodwill Series Champions while automatic third place finisher Guyana Defence Force (GDF) drew with Buxton United in the  friendly encounter earlier at the Camptown ground.

-Thomas The David Thompson administration’s targeting of Caricom nationals in its crackdown on illegal immigrants is an act of profiling, which Distinguished Professor Clive Thomas says needs to be met with the strongest possible protest.

By Tiadi Blair The faculties of Natural and Social Sciences proved that they understood the dynamics of a basketball better than the faculties of Agriculture/ Forestry and Technology respectively as the University of Guyana’s basketball competition continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony yesterday confirmed that seven inmates of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) escaped from the facility on Saturday.

Dear Editor, As a fan of race walking and a former prize-winning competitor, I’ve been paying attention to the exemplary efforts of the Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) to make this Olympic event popular here.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a mother of two who was allegedly driving the car which struck down and killed a 57-year-old man at Broad and Ketley streets two weeks ago.

The Stabroek Market drinks’ vendor who was shot and robbed on Saturday night remains in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Sylvan Gardner is continuing his climb in the sport of bodybuilding after placing sixth in the Pro-Class of this year’s Musclemania which was held over the weekend in Miami.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Michael Vaughan and Steve  Harmison saw their hopes of playing in this year’s Test series  against Australia fade when they were left out of a 16-man  pre-Ashes squad named by England yesterday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday granted a 21-year-old and an 18-year-old bail when they appeared before her charged with stealing a quantity of quicksilver valued $1.7M.

Guyana’s “Lady Jags” football team placed second to USA’s Bethseda FC in the Turks and Caicos (T&C) Football Festival after losing 0-3 in Saturday’s final but Technical Director Mark Rodrigues feels the tournament was a great start to the national women’s programme.

Forty medical personnel, who graduated from the Ministry of Health’s Information Technology Training Course yesterday, will now be able to merge their health care skills with technological advances to offer better services.

An 18-year-old is now hospitalised after being shot in the right hip on Sunday night by the man with whom she shares a relationship, a release from the police said yesterday.

CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – Younus Khan, who led  Pakistan to the World Twenty20 title on Sunday, has been named  captain of the International Cricket Council’s team of the  tournament.

Ramoutar’s performance spurs Everest to victory A terrific all-round performance from Demerara’s former inter-county softball cricketer Talesh Ramoutar spurred Everest to a 20-run win over Part Plus’s XI in the final of the four-team 15-overs-a-side softball competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground on Saturday.

The $550M Doppler Radar Tower being built at the CJIA, Timehri is expected to be completed within another two weeks and should be in full use by year end.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara couple and their tenant were terrorised and robbed of almost $500,000, jewellery and two cellular phone by three men armed with guns.

A day of activities has been planned for Sunday by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) to mark the occasion of Olympic Day.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) plans to regularize the office of Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court and has advertised the position.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack  Obama has accepted an invitation to attend the opening ceremony  of the soccer World Cup finals in South Africa next year, FIFA  president Sepp Blatter said on Monday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – PowerGen Sports captured their third Premiership title, when their final round match against Clarke Road United in the 2009 Trinidad & Tobago Premier Division ended in a stalemate at Syne Village in Penal last weekend.

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a prisoner who escaped from the New Amsterdam Prison earlier this month.

Parbattie Ramsundar, the  Guyanese woman who went missing in Canada on Saturday afternoon after going for a walk, has returned to her relatives and is said to be save and in good health.

Dear Editor, Regarding your article editorial, ‘Mexico’s drug wars,’ published on June 13, 2009, I find it essential to highlight some of the far-reaching measures taken by President Calderón’s administration in its fight against organized crime in Mexico.

LONDON, CMC – A former Australia captain believes that West Indies need to look no further than Dwayne Bravo for their next captain.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting his former girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, in an agreement with prosecutors that calls for him to spend five years of probation and attend courses on domestic violence.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Suriname and Jamaica each claimed two picks among the eight players named from the Digicel Kick Start Clinic series for a training stint with English Premier League side Sunderland later this year.

PersaudMinister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday underscored the importance of pesticide control in advancing the agriculture sector in the region.

Dear Editor, Mr Ogunseye, in his letter of June 22 captioned ‘The PCD and history,’ challenges me to “demonstrate political maturity and integrity by publicly correcting [my] falsification of an important development in this country’s political history.”

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, who was arrested in Virginia on fraud charges last week, is in transit back to Texas for a detention hearing in federal court, his lawyer’s office and a federal official said yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, I came across a supplemental advertisement in a New York newspaper featuring our neighbour to the east, Suriname, and after reading it, all I kept asking myself was: Why not Guyana?

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson and Kelly-Ann Baptiste delivered fast 100-metre victories at Trinidad and Tobago National Track and Field Championship this past weekend.

Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur on Friday last signed a certificate declaring the GRA’s environs smoke-free zones as part of the agency’s Occupational Safety and Health programme.

Dear Editor, I was pleasantly surprised with SN article of June 21, 2009 which reported that the Government of Guyana (GoG) through the Ministry of Local Government has elevated without any pre-qualification the Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Company, Puran Brothers, as a contractor to build an access road to the dumpsite within the city of Georgetown.

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

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) will be engaging the Guyana missions to take legal action against Bedessee Imports for using the ‘Demerara Gold’ brand to market sugar made in the Mauritius.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Three newcomers have been selected on the Young Trinidad & Tobago team for the TCL Group West Indies Youth Challenge in Jamaica from July 7 to August 6.Opening

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Tuesday ordered the East Ruimveldt man who said that he had not intentionally exposed himself to his neighbour to pay a fine of $7,500 when he appeared in court.

Enmore XI, Bank of Guyana (BOG) and Finewood Marketing Inc. scored convincing victories as the 2009 Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) sponsored 15/15 Tapeball cricket tournament got off to a flying start last weekend at the GS&WCA ground on Carifesta Avenue.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Washington, DC, subway trains collided during yesterday afternoon’s rush hour, killing six people and injuring 70 in a mass of tangled metal.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to Ms Gitanjali Persaud’s letter captioned, ‘No published accounts of evidence of communist funding of the PPP prior to 1969,’ in the Stabroek News of June 19.

Dear Editor, I just arrived home after my visit to Guyana. Well

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A brokerage firm and a Hollywood investment adviser that were key middlemen for Wall Street thief Bernard Madoff were hit with civil fraud charges yesterday, accused of steering new clients into the swindler’s lair as he sought to keep his massive Ponzi scheme running.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Wednesday put an Alexander Street man on a bond to keep the peace for a year after he pleaded guilty to making use of threatening behaviour.

By Aaron Kamugisha By now we wonder if the “male marginalization” theories, which first appeared in the Caribbean in the 1980s, can be considered discredited.

No longer a road: Third Street Turkeyen has become almost impassable since the construction of a swimming pool started in the area.

Gavin Todd defied the inclement weather and a strong field to secure victory last weekend at the GEB Security Service-sponsored Medal Play Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club.

The Weekend Mirror newspaper on Sunday, June 14, 2009 published an article titled ‘Tenure of Police Commissioner Extended,’ stating “The PPP-Civic government has announced that it is extending the tenure of Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, citing his own struggle to give up smoking, signed a law yesterday giving the US government broad regulatory power for the first time over cigarettes and other tobacco products.

By Tiadi Blair Barama defeated Prospect Jammers 48-38 while Herstelling got past Grove Weavers 54-41 to become the latest team to record victories in this year’s East Bank Basketball Championships which continued at the Burnham Basketball Court Sunday last.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Wednesday remanded to prison a man accused of robbery under arms.

– Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world.

A resident of Croal Street is appealing to the police to remove the bus stop sign they placed in front of her property which now hinders her free ingress and egress from her home.

Dear Editor, I have been watching the news on television and reading about domestic violence in our country which I found very interesting.