Daily Archive: Monday, January 18, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The United States was  sending more troops today to help protect a huge relief  operation in Haiti from marauding looters as tens of thousands  of earthquake survivors waited desperately for promised food  and medical care.

Security cameras at the entrance of a building in the area where Nicholas Hoyte was murdered last Tuesday may have footage of the car which transported his murderer.

The driver of a Toyota Surf vehicle, PHH 471, that was reportedly racing a group of CBR bikers caused serious damage to a house belonging to a 63-year-old man at Lovely Lass, West Coast Berbice around 7 last evening.

`We are not asking you to take guns and run behind the criminal but we are asking you to pass on information to us and let us do the fighting’ Ways of improving policing, community policing and the relationship between the two were discussed at this year’s first Police Outreach Programme yesterday in Kitty.

– US company reneged on promise to compensate By Gaulbert Sutherland Removed from the life he once knew, goldsmith Tulsiram Sukdeo prepares to undergo yet another operation as he fights for compensation from the US-based company involved in the boat accident that maimed him, leaving him unable to earn a livelihood.

A 23-year-old man was electrocuted yesterday morning by an exposed wire at his Felicity workplace.

Transport Sports Club (TSC) won the Raymond Panday/ Cummings Electrical two-day second division tournament when they defeated the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) by eight wickets in the final at the DCC ground, Queenstown yesterday.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – A Trinidad & Tobago batting collapse triggered by Narsingh Deonarine in the extended final half-hour overshadowed Imran Khan’s memorable bowling performance yesterday against Guyana in the WICB regional first-class championship.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday again told Black Bush Polder residents that plans are in train to upgrade the main road at a cost of US$7M. 

Persons who have been involuntarily returned to Guyana now have the opportunity to access assistance from the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) to start up a business.

By Rawle Toney Former magistrate cum attorney-at-law Gordon Gilhuys yesterday told Stabroek Sport that he will be stepping down as President of the BK International Western Tigers Football Club.

Reconstruction of the 6.2 miles Mahaicony Branch Road has been completed at a cost of $175M.

Experienced golfer Mike Guyadin and Sportswoman-of-the-Year nominee, Christine Sukhram, kicked off the year on a high note by copping the men and women’s titles at the Hibiscus Restaurant of New York-sponsored Medal Play golf tournament Saturday at the Lusignan Golf course.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – The Toronto Raptors used the  strong play of Chris Bosh and Andrea Bargnani to turn back the  Dallas Mavericks 110-88 yesterday.

A 38-year-old man of unsound mind died after he was hit by a mini-bus while reportedly trying to cross the road at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Saturday evening.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa won the fourth and final test by an innings and 74 runs yesterday, bowling England out for 169 just before lunch on the fourth day at the  Wanderers to level the series at 1-1.

A roadblock mounted by the Linden Police at Bamia along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway yesterday resulted in the arrest of a 27-year-old man.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Cesc Fabregas provided the  inspiration as Arsenal stayed in hot pursuit of Premier League  leaders Chelsea and champions Manchester United with a 2-0  victory at Bolton Wanderers yesterday.

Life sometimes moves slowly in the Rupununi. And for one man, it is an agonising wait to collect his salary for the past year with officials only telling him to be patient.

Carl Newton, 36, of 20 Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt was placed on $15,000 bail last Thursday for unlawfully assaulting Alicia Blackman on January 10.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Champions Jamaica were eyeing a victory over the Leeward Islands in spite of extensive weather setbacks on the third day of their second-round WICB Regional First Class game at Warner Park yesterday.

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis,  CMC – Steady rain prevented a ball from being bowled in the WICB regional first-class match between Barbados and Combined Campuses & Colleges yesterday.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News once again carries a letter about the MMA from Bramdeow Singh (‘Instead of vouchers for fertilizers the money should go to MMA to clear the canals,’ January 16).

The Ministry of Agriculture has opened discussions with  livestock farmers in particular within a six-mile radius of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri with a view to determining alternative placement for them.

Thirty-one-year-old Dwayne Little called `Tattoo’ of 2707 Billimby Place, South Ruimveldt was on Friday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly using a gun to rob another man of a quantity of gold in the Puruni, Bartica area last year.

Dear Editor, The tragedy in Haiti reminds us all just how vulnerable we are from nature’s terrible fury whether  an earthquake, a hurricane or other natural disasters; it reminds us here in Guyana of how fortunate we are to be living in a land which is basically free of serious natural disasters.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s South Australia, already assured of a spot in Saturday’s final, lost their unbeaten label yesterday when his West Indian colleague Dwayne Smith helped dethroned champions New South Wales whip them by eight wickets.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Conservative billionaire  Sebastian Pinera won Chile’s presidential election yesterday,  ending two decades of centre-left rule in Latin America’s most  stable economy and the world’s top copper producer.

By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column It is now nearly one endless week since the earthquake that devastated Haiti, shattering lives and communities.

Dear Editor, For the past two weeks I have been making stops at various lumber yards, cement outlets and by National Hardware on Water Street, talking with horse-owners about the condition of their animals.

(BBC) Australia are on course for a 3-0 series whitewash against Pakistan after Simon Katich hit his ninth Test century on day four in Hobart yesterday.

Thirty-year-old Dwight Heywood of South Ruimveldt was remanded to prison on Friday when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly slashing another man in his face with a broken glass bottle.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s voodoo priests  are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake — and  have taken their complaint to President Rene Preval.

No, that’s not a misprint; you saw it right.  There is such a thing as rubber from the dandelion plant; that yellow-flower weed that grows like crazy over a piece of land left unused.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez yesterday nationalized a chain of supermarkets controlled by France’s Casino (CASP.PA)

Dear Editor, After reading the almost daily accounts of how people are losing their lives in Guyana today, I would like to share the following bit from a book recently on the bestseller list – Outliers – by Malcolm Gladwell.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Left-arm spinner  Shakib Al Hasan and paceman Shahadat Hossain took four wickets  each as Bangladesh left India struggling on 213-8 before bad  light brought an early end to the opening day of the first test yesterday.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud has said that Guyana is pursuing the strategic management of water and so it is crucial to decrease water wastage and increase its conservation.

Dear Editor, I want to respond to your news article, ‘Jagdeo renews pitch for partnership with opposition,’ (January 15), in which President Bharrat Jagdeo’s reported signalling of a renewed interest in ‘enhanced collaboration’ with the political opposition is being viewed by members of the political opposition with skepticism or just another hollow call in which his political rhetoric does not match his political reality.

Interviews by Tiffny Rhodius and photos by Jules Gibson In light of the destruction in Haiti caused by last Tuesday’s earthquake, we asked the man and woman in the street what they thought Guyana could do for the people in Haiti.

The Men Empowerment Network (MEN) is observing National Men’s Week with a roster of activities set to start from today aimed at engaging and enabling men to fulfil their roles in the family as well as in society.

There is nothing like a disaster of the enormity of the one that engulfed Haiti on Tuesday to drive home harsh realities that we would rather not accept.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s cabinet met yesterday. On a bench and some plastic chairs in an open-air yard.

PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand, CMC – West Indies Under-19s revived their title hopes with a thrilling one-run victory over Bangladesh in a nail-biting ICC Under-19 World Cup Group D match yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan soldiers this week  captured alleged Colombian drug lord Salomon Camacho, known as  “Big Papa,” who has a $5 million price on his head in the  United States for smuggling cocaine.