Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 1, 2009

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians can expect a 60 per cent increase in water rates from today.

-says has zero tolerance position For this year, up to last week Monday, the police received 2,488 reports of domestic violence resulting in 694 cases being made out and 530 persons were warned at the request of those reporting the incidents.

Barbados PM to hold press conference CARICOM  Heads of Government are expected to arrive in Georgetown today ahead of the official opening of the 30th regular meeting, to caucus on agenda matters.

A 19-year-old waitress of Hong Chinese Restaurant at Canefield, East Canje was stabbed on Monday evening and her attacker who was also chopped is in custody at the Reliance Police Station.

Shortly before 6 am yesterday, Matilda Lewis, 113, passed away, one of the oldest persons in the world.

-Barrow urges Linden high school graduates Graduating in a climate of economic and social decline means graduates will have to make certain sacrifices and create opportunities to ensure that they are not left behind, a Linden entrepreneur told recent high school graduates.

Albert Van Vieldt, who was naked and barely alive on Monday on a dam at the back of Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara, passed away yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) where he was admitted on Monday night.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – England’s most  successful test captain Michael Vaughan said yesterday he was  retiring from the game, after failing to regain his place in the  team for next month’s Ashes series against Australia.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Leeward Islands batsman Runako Morton is relishing his new lease on life, after being recalled to the West Indies team for the four-match one-day series against India.

Supreme Court Registrar Sita Ramlal and Norman McLean yesterday made another court appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and were both ordered to return on July 27 when the matter would be re-assigned and set for reports.

St Pius and St Angela’s are Georgetown ChampionsA terrific first innings batting total for St.

Lindeners are upset at the pace of the investigation of a police sergeant who allegedly sexually exploited seven teenage boys at the Wismar, Linden police station.

Guyana’s Ian Gouveia was among the top performers at the 26th Beacon Barbados Open Golf championships played last weekend at the Royal Westmoreland Club in St.

GT&T’s Cellink Plus subscribers have started to receive SMS texts giving pointers on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and directing them to its website; joining forces with the Office of Climate Change to promote the Strategy.

An Airy Hall man, who allegedly caused the death of another by driving dangerously, has had his license suspended.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – ICC Elite Panel umpire Billy Doctrove has urged Dominicans to turn out in large numbers for the two historic One-Day Internationals between West Indies and Bangladesh at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium here next month.

The National Parks Commis-sion on Thursday launched the Kaieteur National Park (KNP) Management Plan proposal and held a public consultation where concerns were raised about mining near the area among other things.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen  will rely on advice from friends in South Africa’s team when he  faces new-look Australia in the opening Ashes test in Cardiff  next week, the England batsman said on Monday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Sobriety returned to Wimbledon yesterday after the heady brew of the night before with Centre  Court open to the sunny skies and the insatiable Williams  sisters blasting through to the semi-finals.

Child Protection Services says public interest in Mary Sandy’s four children has heightened since her tragic death by accident last month, but the children are currently in the care of the government and are likely to be for another month.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Bizarre in life, Michael  Jackson’s complex personal affairs are taking even stranger  twists in death, with sketchy reports yesterday of plans for  an elaborate public memorial and questions over the parentage  of his children.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Captain Andrew  Strauss said England’s players needed to improve their  timekeeping after Andrew Flintoff was reprimanded for missing a  team engagement.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A former CIA station chief  has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Algeria  and could face up to life in prison if convicted, the Justice  Department said yesterday.

-list numerous areas for attention Indigenous leaders say that they support “in principle” proposals that aim to protect standing forests but said that they must not be pressured into make decisions without full understanding of the implications of such policies.

The Government is moving to establish a trade point in Guyana which will allow small and medium enterprises to have access to global markets.

MINNEAPOLIS, (Reuters) – Democrat Al Franken, a  satirist turned politician, was declared the winner of a Senate  seat in Minnesota yesterday, clearing the way for President  Barack Obama’s party to secure a critical 60-seat majority in  the U.S.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – India’s captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has admitted to being impressed by West Indies seamer Ravi Rampaul.

Dear Editor, What a display by members of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at the just concluded election for leadership of the Georgetown District.

TEGUCIGALPA, June 30 (Reuters) – Ousted President Manuel  Zelaya vowed yesterday to return to Honduras flanked by  foreign leaders to serve the rest of his term, defying a  warning from a hostile interim leadership that he will be  immediately arrested.

State Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin’s application to reopen the Oliver Hinckson advocating a terrorist act preliminary inquiry (PI) was denied yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Enterprising Trinidadian top order batsman Lendl Simmons said he was surprised at his axing from the West Indies team to face India in the four-match one-day series but has promised to bounce back strongly.

Dear Editor, I am indeed pleased the way the mother of the young woman who was sexually assaulted, allegedly by a former policeman handled the matter.

The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has strongly condemned the limitations to the freedom of expression in Honduras, following the recent coup there and the break in   constitutional order.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidadian teenaged batting sensation Adrian Barath says he is eyeing a West Indies call-up soon and hopes to impress the selectors when he turns out for the regional “A” side against the touring Bangladeshis in a three-day tour match starting this Friday.

MORONI, (Reuters) – An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen  with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed  into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it  approached in bad weather early yesterday, officials said.

Dear Editor, Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s reply to my letter addressing his implicit suggestion that the PNC should apologize to the Guyanese people and that the PPP has nothing to apologize for has drawn responses from Tacuma Ogunseye, Abu Bakr, Freddie Kissoon and Eusi Kwayana.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister David Thompson is disheartened by the responses to his domestic immigration policy coming from regional leaders. 

The Caribbean Community yesterday condemned the military action which it said had interrupted the democratic process in Honduras and contravened the principles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The country’s top Olympic official has labelled the cancellation of the Caribbean Games a missed opportunity to show that the Caribbean can host multi-sport events.

(Trinidad Guardian) Eighty-five workers of Caribbean Steel Mills (CSM) will soon be on the breadline as the company has decided to stop manufacturing steel products.

Dear Editor, Recently, Mr Abu Bakr wrote in SN on June 29: “…Dr Jagan seemed, as a collectivity, and by that I mean as a political being with a retinue of followers, to have done little to change the grand narrative driven over the years by the PPP, Dan Debidin’s Apaan Jhat slogan, Balram Singh Rai’s Hindu communitarianism, and all the other currents, including the frank racism, alive in his segment of society” (‘The PPP like the PNC has to do some internal cleansing’).

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Hours after U.S. troops handed  over full control of Iraq’s cities to its domestic security  forces, a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at  least 30 people yesterday, police said.

Meadow Brook ponds: The rainy season has seen the development of three ‘ponds’ on one half of Takuba Road in Meadow Brook Gardens. 

The response of the countries of the hemisphere has been swift, and decisively negative, to the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales by the military, in conjunction with the leadership of the Honduras Congress and the Honduras Supreme Court.

ROME, Italy, CMC – Former World record holder Asafa Powell will clash with resurgent American sprint ace Tyson Gay next month, in a prelude to the much anticipated World Championships in Berlin in August.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express congratulations to Ms Volda Lawrence, the newly elected chairperson of the Georgetown District of the PNCR, and the entire team of officers on their election to the executive body of the Georgetown District.

A 39-year-old father of two was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of assault, threatening language and ill-treatment of a child.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday  ordered Texas financier Allen Stanford, accused of a $7 billion  fraud, held without bail until trial.