Articles published on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
-campaigning on unity platform Ending months of speculation, incumbent Robert Corbin yesterday officially announced his decision to contest to retain the post of leader of the main opposition PNCR, saying his primary motivation is the need to have stable leadership to make the party “fit for purpose.”
A 59-year-old RK’s security guard, who was discovered last night by police unconscious and bleeding in the middle of a crowd at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, died shortly after being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
After over four months in hiding, Danella Evans called ‘Nelly’ or ‘Samantha’ was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for reportedly aiding Colin Mack, the entertainment promoter, in the alleged rape of a nineteen-year-old girl in April.
President Bharrat Jagdeo last Friday assented to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Terrorism Act.
A 53-year-old Greek national was yesterday morning discovered dead with a gunshot wound to the head, suspected to be self-inflicted, moments after his wife left their Annandale home following an argument.
Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday remanded one man who is accused of robbing two women of two cell phones while on his way home from the Bikers Fest with his friends and she dismissed the case of another man who allegedly snatched a man’s gold chain while he was seated at the National Park during the same event.
General Manager of the Avinash branch stores, Harry Panday says his business practices on Water Street had been exemplary until two recent incidents which “were unfortunate and serious”.
While Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has floated the possibility of amendments to the Petrocaribe agreement, an Associated Press (AP) report on Sunday quoted the Petrocaribe Secretariat as saying that there were no plans along this line.
The Office of the President, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Ministries of Health, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport will benefit directly from a one-year stint by 14 Chinese Youth Volunteers who are skilled practitioners in various disciplines, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
A prison inmate was on Saturday admitted a patient to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed in the chest during a fight wit another prisoner.
The Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL), which up to last July owed farmers about $2B, is once again causing unease in the industry by delaying payments of approximately $290M, most of which is owed to farmers in Regions Five and Six.
A $10.5M contract was signed between the Ministry of Agriculture and Pioneer Construction Services on Sunday for the construction of eight culverts in Blueberry Hill, Region Ten, to bring relief to residents who are affected by flood during the rainy period, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Monday.
By Marlon Munroe Host nation Guyana ended its championship bid when they crashed out of the WICB Senior Women’s Challenge 50-over tournament with a three-wicket defeat to St.
The Government Information Agency (GINA) has accused employees of the Kaieteur News of impersonating its employees in an effort to gain information, a claim vehemently denied by the newspaper’s Editor Adam Harris.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Jackson will be buried in a private ceremony for family and friends on Aug.
Two hundred more house lots are to be developed in the Diamond-Grove housing scheme, East Bank Demerara, with the conversion of the reserves in Sections ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ Diamond and Section ‘C’ Grove, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported yesterday.
Dear Editor, As a former member of the WPA I was waiting and hoping that someone from that party would have set the record straight with regards to acts of torture that took place when the PNC was in government.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – The United States struck back in their track duel with Jamaica yesterday when Sanya Richards won the world championship women’s 400 metres in convincing style and Kerron Clement took the men’s 400 hurdles gold.
Dear Editor, I read the letters by Attorneys-at-Law Messrs K Juman-Yasin and Anil Nandlall on the issue of whether Magistrate Yohhannseh Cave had the power to determine whether an alleged confession statement was admissible in evidence at a preliminary inquiry.
A Blankenburg man was admitted a patient to the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being involved in a vehicular accident.
KABUL, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital yesterday, killing at least eight people in a wave of violence two days before an election the Taliban has vowed to disrupt.
A director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has revealed that players who boycotted the recent home series against Bangladesh could return for the Test series in Australia in November and December if they participate in the regional limited-overs tournament in October.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – Former President Kim Dae-jung, a giant in South Korea’s shift to democracy who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to forge a reconciliation with the prickly communist North, died yesterday at the age of 85.
Eight days of high tides began on Monday and several vulnerable areas across the country’s coastline are under surveillance.
Dear Editor, Powerlifting is a sport that continues to struggle for serious recognition among athletes, patrons and corporate sponsors.
Fernandes advances to semi-finals World-rated squash player Nicolette Fernandes remains the only Guyanese contesting the individual championship at this year’s senior Caribbean squash tournament in the Cayman Islands after Keisha, Kayla and Kristian Jeffrey along with Victoria Arjoon were booted from the competition in the quarter-finals.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Criminal impunity has become an increasing target of public anger in Sri Lanka since the end of a 25-year war in May, which exposed the extent to which the rule of law has eroded in the Indian Ocean island nation.
Dear Editor, With nothing coming out of the West Indies Cricket Board impasse and with the unopposed election of Hunte and Cameron again, I believe the whole unity of the Caribbean has blown away.
Guyana could end up with a gold medal in the boy’s U10 team events at this year’s fourth annual Pre-Juniors and Cadet table tennis championships now underway in Barbados.
Like other Dochfour farmers, single mother Omwattie Manooj wakes early to work in her small farm in the cool of the day.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had arrested eight people for hijacking a merchant ship off the Swedish coast and diverting it to the Atlantic Ocean — while maritime authorities pretended they had lost track of it.
Carl Fraser was on Monday sentenced to a one year prison sentence after pleading guilty to breaking and entering another man’s house and stealing a DVD player along with a quantity of DVDs and CDs.
Dear Editor, It is disturbing to see so many accidents recently.
(Trinidad Express) Locking them out of their offices was the final straw that broke the backs of CLICO insurance sales agents.
– driver aims “to be very competitive” Kevin Jeffery’s Mitsubishi Evolution was the last car from team Guyana to leave for Barbados where they will take on the rest of the Caribbean in round two of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship at the Bushy Park Circuit on Sunday, August 30.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe stepped closer to re-election yesterday when a congressional committee approved a bill aimed at allowing him to run for a third term next May, but a tough vote looms in the full House.
The Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club will continue its 5th Race Walk Month events this weekend commencing with the West Bank Demerara race walk and then the Bartica 2009 race walk.
(Jamaica Observer) A plan by the People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) to field a candidate in next month’s by-election in North West Clarendon will result in its immediate expulsion from the party, authoritative PNP sources have told the Observer.
Dear Editor, The fact that the PNCR is investigating a claim of dead persons on the membership register seems to indicate that it continues to fail its supporters by not having long overdue group meetings.
Magistrate Priya Beharry on Monday remanded a pork-knocker who allegedly assaulted and burned his common-law wife with a lit cigarette after an argument.
Ride Forest! Ride! Brazilian Renato Campinho (inset) as he rode his all-weather bike along Thomas Lands yesterday, continuing his mission to raise global warming awareness.
A man, who allegedly assaulted and injured both his wife and eighteen-month-old daughter, was on Monday remanded to prison.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Joel Garner believes that the dissenting West Indies players who withdrew from the recent home series against Bangladesh should start asking some serious questions of the West Indies Players’ Association.
The suspension of the constitutional arrangements – the ministerial system and the House of Assembly – of the Turks and Caicos Islands, promised by the British government earlier in March this year, is upon the islands, and is to last two years.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch city of Rotterdam and its university have fired Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan as an adviser to the city over his involvement with groups that detractors say hurt his role as an expert on integration issues.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Hurricane Bill trekked west-northwest over the open Atlantic yesterday and was poised to develop into a major hurricane, but its forecast path seemed likely to miss the U.S.
Dear Editor, Responsibility for the current condition of Guyana lies with all who have governed this nation since independence; however, the buck stops with the current government/party that has held the reins for the past seventeen years.
Development Watch By Tarron Khemraj Introduction This month marks ten years since Mr.
