Daily Archive: Monday, July 13, 2009

-found in car trunk with plastic taped over head Ramzan Alli, a Good Hope businessman, was yesterday discovered dead in the trunk of a rental car with a plastic bag duct-taped over his head on the Coldingen Railway Embankment Road.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, (Reuters) – If there’s one group  of executives at this week’s Sun Valley media and technology  conference who ought to be in good spirits, it’s the handful  steering the fleet of Internet social networks.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Deep in the world’s tropical  rainforests, workers are hammering thousands of barcodes into  hardwood trees to help in the fight against illegal logging,  corruption and global warming.

With the model farm joint venture between Neal and Massy’s (NM) Geddes Grant division and the Government serving as a “hub”, the eventual participation of other private sector investors in the Mon Repos project is envisaged.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) –  Fresh reports of alleged  fraud and embezzlement by Brazil Senate chief Jose Sarney in  Brazil’s weekend press are fueling an ongoing Senate ethics  scandal and have renewed pressure for Sarney to resign.

-Meeting of Atlantic branch of CPA opens Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran last evening called for the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP) to be resourced and seriously promoted as an institution of Caricom “to bring the views of parliamentarians across the region to bear on the integration process”.

Sunburst Camptown recorded one of the most comprehensive victories by crushing Houston Stars in the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture (MYS&C)/Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Guinness Futsal Competition which got underway at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday night.

-mainly mining community bustling with activity “Mahdia is the most wonderful place in Guyana!”,

Guyana continued where they left off from yesterday’s morning session at the 2009 Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) championships in Barbados with Daina King capping off a very successful first day for the team.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran interim leader  Roberto Micheletti said yesterday ousted president Manuel  Zelaya would not be allowed to return to power under any  conditions but could be granted an amnesty if he comes home  quietly to face justice.

-following foreign minister’s visit to Caracas Following an unannounced one-day visit to Venezuela, Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues–Birkett and her Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro have agreed to work on a programme of several areas of interest including the resumption of the Good Offices Process The Good Offices Process of the United Nations Secretary General which is aimed at assisting the two countries in developing a peaceful resolution to the controversy relating to the Arbitral Award of October 3, 1899 has been in abeyance for several years following the death of Good Officer Oliver Jackman.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The CIA withheld  information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism  program on orders from former U.S.

KINGSTOWN,  (Reuters) – Tamim Iqbal scored his maiden  test century to help Bangladesh build a 252-run lead over West  Indies with the tourists eyeing just their second win in test  cricket on the final day today.

CARDIFF,  (Reuters) – England last pair Jimmy  Anderson and Monty Panesar proved their country’s unlikely  batting heroes when the hosts defied the rules of probability by  drawing the first Ashes test against Australia yesterday.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il  has pancreatic cancer and the illness is life-threatening,  South Korean broadcaster YTN said last night based on  information gathered by Chinese and South Korean intelligence  sources.

Some $500M is to be invested in one of the fastest growing housing areas in the country, the Diamond/Grove housing scheme, with the establishment of three banks, a gas station, a shopping mall as well as a market and another access road being proposed for the area.

CANBERRA, (Reuters) – China’s President Hu Jintao  personally endorsed an investigation into global miner Rio  Tinto that led to the detention of four of its China-based  staff, a newspaper said last night, citing Chinese government  sources.

Officers attached to the Human Services Ministry on Saturday visited the home of Barrat Dass, the husband of the late Hemwantie Indira Singh who passed away on Thursday at the Georgetown Public Hospital, her cause of death given as dengue fever with leptospirosis being a contributing factor.

TURNBERRY, Scotland,  (Reuters) – Tiger Woods goes  into next week’s British Open as heavy favourite to clinch his  15th major crown, despite having failed to convert winning form  into success at the first two grand slam events this year.

Dear Editor, The power of the media once again manifested itself last week after my letters about the blackout crisis in Berbice were published in both the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News.

A 37-year-old man is now a patient at the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after suffering a stab wound to his hand early yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, I read in dismay yet again in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek the futile effort the Honourable Minister of Agriculture is making in trying to salvage an industry for which the problems are so obvious.

NUERBURGRING, Germany,  (Reuters) – Australia will  have at least one win to celebrate when Mark Webber joins  captain Ricky Ponting and the Ashes cricket team for dinner yesterday.

CONAKRY, (Reuters) – Guinea’s military rulers have  put their armed forces on maximum alert, saying drug traffickers  and their allies in neighbouring countries want to destabilise  the world’s biggest bauxite exporter, state television reported.

TARBES, France, (Reuters) – Seven-times champion  Lance Armstrong is looking forward to the Alpine stages after  losing 21 seconds to Astana team mate Alberto Contador in the  first mountain finish of the Tour de France.

The police are investigating an armed robbery with occurred around 4.30 pm yesterday at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara in which goldsmith Anand Cheddie was attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

Dear Editor, On numerous occasions, every year, the well at Covent Garden breaks down.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Bruno,” British  satirist Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest subversive outing, narrowly  claimed the No.

The joint political and civic appeal to regional leaders during the recent Heads of Government conference signals the recognition of a need for change in government and the country’s political culture, according to AFC leader Raphael Trotman.

The Honduras coup is the Caribbean’s businessBy Andaiye, Norman Girvan and Alissa Trotz On April 11, 2002, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez was briefly removed from office by an abortive coup d’etat.

MONTREUX, Switzerland, (Reuters) – African American  singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone was celebrated at  the Montreux jazz festival in a tribute by four black women to  the “High Priestess of Soul”.

TARBES, France,  (Reuters) – Former French champion  Pierrick Fedrigo won yesterday’s 160-km ninth stage of the Tour de  France as the main contenders kept out of the action before a  first rest day in Limoges.

-4,000 lost, says economist (Trinidad Express) More than 4,000 Government-created jobs have been lost in the past ten months, economist Jwala Rambarran has said.

Dear Editor, For the sake of everybody’s information, including that of Messrs Ramjattan and Kissoon, I do have access to local doctors and I consult with my doctors at the GPHC periodically.

…in Parliament vote (Trinidad Express) Opposition MP Jack Warner says that his crucial vote in the Parliament on Friday night that secured the passage of a bill meant to tackle financial crimes such as insider trading was not a betrayal of the United National Congress but a matter of putting his country first.

POREC, Croatia,  (Reuters) – Croatia powered into the  Davis Cup semi-finals when Marin Cilic beat James Blake of the  U.S.

Dear Editor, Farmers in the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abary regions who depend on these three rivers for drainage have a great fear of flooding.

Businessman Tony Amres, of Readymix Concrete Limited, died in Canada early yesterday.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – A city court on Wednesday rejected the bail application of Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja who is in prison on charges of rape, prosecutors said.

The music scene By Dave Martins Recent letters from Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green and from Mr.

Repairs on Vlissengen Road on Saturday

Lake Mainstay Resort will host its 9th Annual Regatta  at its freshwater lake on Sunday, August 16 starting at 10:00am and prizes will be awarded   to the top three competitors in each race category.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Within two weeks, finance minister Audley Shaw is expected to jump into heat of the discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the Bruce Golding administration forges ahead with plans to seek balance of payment support from the multilateral lending organisation.

Dear Editor, Over 85% of Guyana is covered with tropical forest, and although we have been utilizing this resource for centuries, the maximum export revenue to Guyana from forest utilization has been just over US$60M.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street at Linden what they thought about the medical facilities there and the new Linden Hospital Complex that is to be completed shortly.

To use a well worn boxing cliché pound-for-pound Lionel Gibbs was one of the best boxers of his era.

If there was a single area in which Caricom could have partially shielded itself from the global onslaught of collapsing financial markets, depressed commodity prices, harsher terms of trade, spiralling budgetary deficits  and the ever diminishing pools of cheaper financing it was the diminution of its annual food import bill.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – In 2007, a film by a little known director earned box-office success and critical acclaim with a storyline that brought Bollywood romance back in fashion.