Daily Archive: Saturday, June 27, 2009

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr Compton Bourne says the issue of undocumented immigrants in Barbados should be handled with much more sensitivity than it has been so far, adding that there are too many stories of people being rounded-up during raids and deported.

-will be a main issue on Caricom agenda The treatment of Guyanese immigrants in other countries continues to be of great concern to President Bharrat Jagdeo and he is urging that they be treated with “respect” and “dignity” wherever they go.

“‘The knock on the door at night’ is not within our regional culture; still less are intimations of ‘ethnic cleansing’” Senior regional integrationist, Sir Shridath Ramphal says that it is sad that the Caribbean is experiencing a period  when both policies and practices are deepening divisions and he cautioned that “we forget our oneness at our peril.”

A 22-year-old Fyrish, Corentyne labourer was yesterday charged with the murder of  29-year-old Arifa Muntazali who was found in a trench at Chesney Backdam.

-analyst dep’t makes big seizure An alert has been issued to consumers by the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department to carefully examine the labels of food items for expiry/best before dates and other defects after tampering was discovered in Region Six.

-President President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday ruled out any probe into the alleged link between Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy and confessed drug trafficker Roger Khan without factual evidence.

-fleeing bandit shot at pursuer The two Castello Housing Scheme residents who were shot in separate incidents on Thursday night are recovering from the gunshot wounds they sustained.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday fended off criticism of the benefits for former Presidents, saying they have been enshrined in law to ensure transparency about the entitlements, almost all of which had been enjoyed by his predecessors.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – West Indies made a gallant attempt at victory but still crashed to a 20-run defeat after being undermined by Yuvraj Singh’s sensational century in the opening One-Day International against India at Sabina Park yesterday.

– court hears An 18-year-old man who allegedly attempted to commit a felony was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 16-year-old boy who was jointly charged with another person over a house break-in was on Wednesday ordered to remain in police custody when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

After weeks of tough talk of who’s going to knock out who and who’s going beat who to a pulp, the S and S Promotions ‘final execution’ boxing card is finally here and tonight the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall will be ground zero.

A 30-year-old father of four who was charged with the offence of robbery with aggravation was on Wednesday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The recently selected Guyana Under-19 team which is under the leadership of Anthony Bramble played to a draw against a Rest Team yesterday in the two-day practice match at the Eve Leary Sports Club Ground after resuming from their overnight score of 90–3.

Following the announcement that all systems are in place for the staging of this year’s Caricom 10K road race tomorrow, the local organising committee (LOC) for the event yesterday stated that all of the regions’ top distance runners have confirmed their participation.

A 35-year-old contractor who allegedly forged a Certificate of Compliance was granted bail on Thursday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Classique is going contemporary for a full show for the first time in an upcoming production since selling itself as just that, a contemporary dance company.

As the opening days of the Mike’s Pharmacy 15-Over Softball League Countrywide Softball Competition unfolded Superstreet, Endeavour and Players XI enjoyed their match-ups to the fullest.

– boyfriend missing A 14-year-old, who succumbed to burn injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Monday, had reportedly set herself ablaze two Fridays ago after an argument with her boyfriend.

Culture Box There is something strangely compelling about reality television here, we follow people as they pursue dreams and watch as they crumble in front of the cameras, and or break out as new stars.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I made pizza for the first time several weeks ago and marvelled at how well it turned out.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Declared “persona non grata”  by the United States nine months ago, Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez’s envoy returned to Washington yesterday, calling for  more oil cooperation and the extradition of an ex-CIA agent.

A mural paying homage to Wilson Harris for his celebrated work, ‘Palace of the Peacock’ was on Thursday unveiled at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus.

EUGENE, Oregon, (Reuters) – Olympic bronze  medallist Walter Dix crashed out of the world athletics  championships when he injured his right hamstring in the 100  metres semi-finals at the U.S.

There have been cancellations of several tournaments and games in the Caribbean owing to the outbreak of H1N1 (swine flu) in the region, but Minister of Sport Dr Frank Anthony says people have nothing to worry where Guyana is concerned because we are free of the virus.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz  Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law granting more than a million  people land titles in huge chunks of the Amazon, aiming to end  decades of legal chaos in the world’s largest rain forest.

More than 2000 Linden school students are set to benefit from the human services ministry’s annual school uniform programme where vouchers were recently distributed for parents to redeem for uniform and other supplies.

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

Films by Guyanese diaspora members Dr Michelle Mohabeer and Renata Mohammed open the fifth week of the SASOD Film Festival on Monday.

The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall was the venue for last Sunday’s Junior National Karate Championship under the Guyana Karate Federation (GKF).

A team including ministers Priya Manickchand and Robeson Benn resettled 44 roving street dwellers at the La Penitence Night Shelter earlier this week.

Reggae songbird Alaine is still high off excitement from her recent performance in French Guiana, where she electrified a crowd of more than 20,000 people.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Manchester United winger  Cristiano Ronaldo completed his 80 million pound ($130 million)  world record transfer to Real Madrid yesterday, signing a  six-year deal with the Primera Liga club.

Phyllis Carter, widow of Guyana’s poet laureate, Martin Carter, was the guest of honour at a ceremony inspired by students and held early yesterday morning at her husband’s graveside at the Place of the Seven Ponds in the Botanic Gardens in Georgetown.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Doctors completed an  autopsy on the body of Michael Jackson yesterday but said they  could not immediately establish a cause of death for the “King  of Pop” as speculation centred on his use of prescription  painkillers.

Dear Editor, When a government uses its clout and lays Orders in Parliament which are design-ed to bypass the judicial process and give legitimacy to an illegal act, that government can only be considered to have rendered the rule of law of a country a nuisance and an irrelevance.

The ninth Miss Jamzone pageant is slated for August 30 at the Splashmins Fun Park and promoter of the pageant Hits and Jams promises that the run up to it would be bigger and better with lovers of different types of music treated to some of the best in the Caribbean and elsewhere.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – American Kenny Perry  maintained his two-shot lead in Friday’s weather-hit second  round of the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut  despite struggling with the pace of the greens.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Abu Bakr’s letter of June 25 in SN (‘It doesn’t matter what the historians say if we continue to hold on to the myth of a single guilty race’), and Mr Kwayana’s of June 26 in SN (‘To rely on PPP sources alone is to give only “one side of a historical narrative of guilt”’).

A man was remanded to prison after he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s court on Thursday on a charge of robbery under arms.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Financier Allen Stanford will  remain in a Texas jail at least until Monday as a federal judge  reconsiders his $500,000 bond at the urging of prosecutors who  say the accused swindler is a flight risk, according to a  ruling on Friday.

Dear Editor, The sudden death of larger-than-life world celebrity, Michael Jackson, shocked me to the core, but it was only as I surfed my pre-set radio stations in my car and found all the stations were playing Michael Jackson songs that I started having flashbacks of where I was in Guyana when certain songs came out, that I actually found myself tearing up as I drove for an appointment in New York on Thursday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Leftist Honduran President  Manuel Zelaya yesterday pressed ahead with his effort to extend  presidential terms as opposition lawmakers, saying he had  overstepped his authority, moved to oust him from office.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan and Australia will play  two test matches and two Twenty20 internationals in England next  July, the English Cricket Board said yesterday.

Speaker Ralph Ramkarran on Thursday warned the National Assembly about the impact of continued deferrals on the conclusion of crucial parliamentary business.

LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s death dominated news bulletins, radio airwaves and social networking sites the world over yesterday as tributes poured in for a man called the “King of Pop” and “natural heir to Elvis.”

Dear Editor, I wish to compliment two ministries for what I feel is good news.

The Ministry of Education has come under fire in the 2007 Auditor General ‘s Report for its “deficiencies in the preparation of contract documents” which the report says allows contractors to get away with doing substandard work.

Reigning soca queen Shelly G is now online, having recently launched her website which is said to be dedicated to what she has accomplished in the music arena and also to what she is involved in.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Wimbledon’s usually reliable  weather forecasters got it completely wrong yesterday although  Roger Federer made all the right moves as he breezed into the  second week of the grasscourt championships.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  scored a major victory yesterday when the U.S.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – World leaders face pressure to  find a new policy for dealing with Iran following its disputed  presidential election and crackdown on protesters, but are  unlikely to tighten sanctions any time soon.

Dear Editor, Having read so many letters which can be seen as politically motivated, I am pressed to express my feelings of frustration about many of the writers.  

EUGENE, Oregon, (Reuters) – World champion Tyson  Gay ran a wind-assisted 9.75 seconds in what he called a  “horrible” 100 metres preliminary at the U.S.

City Hall’s Charlotte Street fence can do with some work.

Are you’re smart, knowledgeable, well read? Do you have friends that are similarly gifted?

– PM inconclusive because of decomposition `Is just mommy I had and now she gone…’ A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Shira Khan, which was found in a trench a short distance from her Unity, Mahaica home, was inconclusive because of the advanced decomposition of the body.

(Antigua Sun) – Shondelle Natasha Beaton Licorish has pleaded guilty to remaining in Antigua and Barbuda after the expiration of a permit granted by the Immigration Department.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Shane Bond has  been officially welcomed back to New Zealand Cricket (NZC)  after being offered a playing contract for the next  international season.

Bees being cleared on Thursday from the City Engineer’s Department. Linden Stewart was doing the job.

A 37-year-old father of one, who admitted stealing a quantity of scrap iron valued over $2.4M from a woman’s storage house, was remanded to prison on Thursday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

(Trinidad Express) Camille Daniel died a hero. This was the sentiment expressed by Daniel’s husband, Lance Cpl Stanley Nottingham, and acting Police Commissioner James Philbert.

Dear Editor, Michael Jackson (MJ) was extraordinarily talented and occupied a space in the public imagination shared with none other.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In death, Michael Jackson is enjoying a commercial renaissance that had eluded him for years.

Dear Editor, Today, I read of yet another death in Guyana that perhaps could have been avoided but for a lack of some basic education.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The hotly anticipated  welterweight fight between American Floyd Mayweather Jr.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Barbra Streisand has joined forces with Canadian jazz singer-pianist Diana Krall on her first studio album in four years, which is set for release on September 29, her record label said on Monday.

When Michael Jackson’s death was confirmed on Thursday afternoon, MTV gave over its scheduled programming to a marathon retrospective of the music videos which had made him so famous.

Martinique offered more autonomy French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has offered the island of Martinique a referendum on autonomy.

Zamani Khan, a 20-year-old carpenter of Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara, was on Thursday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly wounding a man and hijacking his car.

The dismantling of the old Plaza Cinema well underway.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is likely to run for the presidency again in 2014 if an opposition candidate wins next year’s election, he said in an interview published yesterday.