Articles published on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital this morning, creating panic among survivors of last week’s devastating quake camped out in the streets but apparently causing no new destruction.
-relatives baffled Relatives yesterday identified the bloodied body that was found on the Kingston seashore behind the Guyana Forestry Commission a day earlier as Llewelyn Fitzgerald Campbell called Elton of Lamaha Street, Kitty.
A man, who police were seeking in relation to a string of recent robberies in the Ruimveldt area, was shot in the groin by a cop yesterday in Roxanne Burnham Gardens.
-commercial banks donate The Guyana National Com-mittee for Haiti Relief has netted over $230M in cash and there have also been several donations in kind which head of the committee, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand said can be used to provide sustained assistance.
The El Nino phenomenon currently being experienced countrywide has caused the water level in the East Demerara Water Conservancy to drop to a level below the lowest design safe level for irrigation.
As attorney-at-law Trenton Lake slept, bandits invaded his home during the wee hours of yesterday morning carting off items worth more than $1M.
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it repaired 19, 393 leaks last year.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – Rookie West Indies players Kieron Pollard and Kemar Roach were among those slapped with expensive price tags at the Indian Premier League auction yesterday.
The Harley Davidson Club of Russia paid a courtesy call on the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport at its conference room on Main Street.
Attorney-at-law Anil Nandlall says he has filed an appeal in the Buddy’s fuel case and is awaiting a date for the matter to be heard.
Thirty-year-old Odessa Stoby, called Odessa Mingo, accused of being the hairdresser who placed a quantity of cocaine in another woman’s wig, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer a trafficking in narcotics charge.
Football administrators have taken lots of flak over the state of the sport locally over the years but recently there has been an upsurge in the number of competitions staged and an overall increase in sponsorship.
A 48-year-old seaman accused of having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl was granted bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Farfan and Mendes renewed its 15-year alliance with the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) with a $160,000 sponsorship cheque for 2010 yesterday at the company’s head office on Urquhart Street, Cummingsburg.
– Campbell 6-35, Perreira 75 and Sinclair 65* The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club continued its domination of youth cricket in Berbice when their Under-17 team crushed D’Edward by 103 runs to advance to the final of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Leslie Amsterdam Memorial Tournament at the Area H Ground last weekend.
Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir is refuting recent statements made by Opposition Leader Robert Corbin and says that his Ministry has been doing all in its power to intercede in the dispute between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and RUSAL’s Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.
For the next three months an Interim Management Com-mittee (IMC) implemented by Guyana’s governing body for football, Guyana Football Federation (GFF), will be dealing with the management of football in Georgetown following an emergency meeting held by the federation last week.
The pastor of the Linden Church of Christ recounted on Monday how he advanced on a gunman even though he had already been shot and the man was still firing at him.
The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will stage its first tournament of the year on Saturday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club on Camp and Hadfield Streets.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – The dark clouds were still hovering above Roger Federer and Serena Williams when they made their first appearances at the Australian Open yesterday.
“Everything belongs to me,” stated 23-year-old Imran Khan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday shortly before he was jailed for five years and ordered to pay a fine of $55,000 for cultivating cannabis plants and being in possession of a shotgun without a firearm licence.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Guyanese batsman Narsingh Deonarine has declared himself ready, in mind and body, for the upcoming tour of Australia.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies chief selector Clyde Butts says he hopes the upcoming one-day series in Australia will be the start of a positive run for the regional side.
The husband of the Stabroek Market vendor who was fatally wounded by a businessman last August says that he is seeing evidence of “foot-dragging” by the police as charges are yet to be laid and he is disappointed that a promise to offer compensation has not been fulfilled.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers picked up where they left off in the NBA Finals last June by finishing strongly to beat the Orlando Magic 98-92 on Monday.
In the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake, the Princess Hotel and GEMS Theatre Productions are teaming up to host a ‘Benefit Concert for Haiti’ on Saturday at the Princess Hotel Poolside.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The key to working in a disaster zone hospital, where casualties pile up faster than patients can be discharged, is to avoid getting emotionally involved, says Dr.
Joanna Danhai, the mother on trial for the murder of her two children, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the High Court yesterday and is to be sentenced next month.
LUANDA, (Reuters) – Depleted Ghana beat Burkina Faso 1-0 on yesterday to advance to the African Nations Cup quarter-finals.
The paint samples from the boat involved in last year’s collision in the Essequibo River that left two men dead and 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine missing are still to be tested by police.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Thirty members of the Haitian Football Federation have been confirmed dead and dozens others are missing following the massive earthquake that rocked the northern Caribbean country last Tuesday.
– Australian general CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia’s former military chief has characterised recent attacks on Indian students as racially motivated, rejecting Canberra’s official line that the violence has been purely criminal rather than racist.
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo missed Victoria Bushrangers’ win over Queensland Bulls yesterday with injury but is expected to play in the grand Twenty20 Big Bash final on Saturday.
JOS, Nigeria, (Reuters) – More than 150 Nigerians have been killed and dozens injured in three days of clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs in the central city of Jos, where police imposed a 24-hour curfew, residents said.
Dear Editor, I seek to correct factual errors and misconceptions contained in your editorial of Monday 18 January 2010, captioned ‘Haiti and the Caricom reply.’
CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says it is necessary to have significant progress in the area of contingent rights in light of hindrances to the establishment of a protocol on those rights.
PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand, CMC – A pulsating, fifth-wicket century stand between prolific opener Kraigg Brathwaite and wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich hauled West Indies from the brink of disaster and catapulted them to a crucial five-wicket win over Papua New Guinea in their final preliminary match of the ICC Under-19 World Cup yesterday.
Dear Editor, In response to the letter in the Saturday issue of the Stabroek News by Mr Bramdeow Singh, captioned ‘Instead of giving paddy vouchers for fertilizers the money should go to MMA to clean canals,’ I would like to inform Mr Singh and others like him, that this is one of the many farmers programmes that GRDB is executing on behalf of the government.
Devon Douglas, 27, of 67 Hunter Street, Albouystown pleaded not guilty to having 240 grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking when police stopped a minibus at a roadblock at Bamia, Linden/Soesdyke Highway on Sunday.
LEOGANE, Haiti, (Reuters) – Two hours drive west of Port-au-Prince, in the banana-growing hills where the epicenter of Haiti’s earthquake tore chunks out of hillsides, hurled boulders and cracked roads, survivors with festering wounds sleep by their wrecked homes, unseen by aid workers.
Dear Editor, I was saddened when I read a letter that was published on January 11, 2010 in the Guyana Chronicle Kenneth C Singh of Toronto, Canada, captioned, ‘Surprised to hear from the animal lover.’
The couple, who had been recently charged with a string of visa scams, was yesterday granted $1M bail each when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – Republican Scott Brown took an early lead in a tight Massachusetts race for the U.S.
Dear Editor, This letter is written to you after more than 12 requests to the Peters Hall local government about a car wreck in Republic Park over a period of three months.
-man, two women on charges A man was charged with two counts of assaulting his ex-girlfriend’s cousin and her mother while his ex-girlfriend and her cousin were jointly charged with assaulting him.
By Tarron Khemraj Introduction By now readers would realize a common theme of these columns is the need for structural transformation of the Guyana economy.
Below the surface of the rough and tumble of day-to-day international politics and economic relations, the traditional major powers have begun to take notice of a new economic development phenomenon, namely, the rise of a group of countries which a Western observer has christened “the BRICS.”
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – India rapidly reached 122 for one in their second innings before bad light stopped play on the third day of the first test against Bangladesh yesterday.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan Airlines Corp filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, owing more than $25 billion, and vowed to slash 15,700 jobs and unprofitable routes as it tries to survive volatile fuel costs and fickle flyers.
(Trinidad Express) Haiti will need an estimated US$2 billion a year for its rehabilitation and restoration in the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that struck there on Tuesday.
