Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A teenage girl was pulled alive from under a collapsed house in Port-au-Prince today, 15 days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. troops pulled a man  alive from under a collapsed building in Haiti’s capital yesterday as U.N.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that petitions are routinely made to him and the one that led to the granting of a mining licence to his presidential advisor Odinga Lumumba was a “reinstatement” which benefited from the advice of Prime Minister Sam Hinds.

“Rich” miners have embarked on a $30M campaign to get other miners to oppose the government’s plans for reforms including a six-month notice prior to the commencement of mining.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 14-year-old girl be kept in police custody when she appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of the murder of another female at Port Kaituma, North West District last year.

The suspect who was held in the brutal killing of Nalini “Nalo” Bhoge at her Line Path, Skeldon home on Monday is still in custody at the Springlands station as police continue their investigations.

Justice Franklin Holder yesterday ordered a stay in the CLICO (Guyana) winding-up proceedings in the High Court until a constitutional writ filed by the company is determined.

-magistrate appalled at  police ‘unpreparedness’ Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that three boys be kept in police custody when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly beating a woman in her head with a toy gun and robbing her at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC).

Following his recent Middle East trip, President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday reported likely investments in the housing, health and mining sectors, while saying the country would continue to pursue an independent foreign policy.

A ministerial team including agriculture minister Robert Persaud told Region Three farmers that over $385M will be spent from Vergenoegen to Bonasika to improve irrigation and other structures and to rehabilitate 30 bridges.

-primary education dropout rate ‘staggering’ Unemployment among young people in the Caribbean Community is higher than in a large number of developed and developing countries, according to stark statistics in a new study that links investment in youth with economic growth.

By Rawle Toney The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) yesterday announced the team that will compete at next month’s Inter-national Rugby Board’s (IRB) USA International Se-ven’s World Series and according to the selected captain Claudius Butts, the team is well crafted.

Alliance For Change Leader Raphael Trotman has deemed recent attempts suggesting that his party is considering merging with the PNCR, as deliberate bids to create mischief.

By Marlon Monroe As the Holland’s Entertainment Promotion ‘Season’s Beatings’ fight card draws closer, fighters and trainers alike are fine tuning their preparations for Friday night’s showdown at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

A South Korean trade mission is in Guyana seeking to source goods from local suppliers and also investment opportunities.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Legendary former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has been named along with Brent Lockie to investigate the use of the decision review system during the recent fourth Test between South Africa and England.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh says more focus will be given to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) this year in keeping with the ministry’s five-year strategic plan.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall and Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon recently met with Chesney, Guava Bush and Belvedere residents and announced that the Albion Road will be repaired.

By Rawle Toney The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) had nominated Alika Morgan for the title of 2009 Senior Sportswoman-of-the-Year award but according to the Caribbean distance star, she is still a junior and so she should have been nominated for both awards.

Twenty-five students from several schools across Linden are a part of a special anger management programme.

Guyanese World Boxing Council (WBC) Light Heavyweight CABOFE Title holder Shawn Corbin will face German Karo Murat on Saturday in Germany for his World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Inter-Continental title.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday sentenced a 40-year-old man to four years imprisonment after ruling that she had found him guilty of buggering a seven-year-old child in 2008.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) seems poised to take first innings points from the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) in the Guyana Cricket Board first division competition which got underway at the Malteenoes Sports Club last Sunday.

The multi-million dollar NBS fraud case was on Monday adjourned to February 11 just before Magistrate Fazil Azeez recalled arrest warrants for two witnesses in the case.

-Western Tigers to face Topp XX in feature game As the benevolence of thousands of Guyanese continues to pour out, the Haiti Disaster Relief Committee (HDRC) of Linden is teaming up with the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation to bring off what is expected to be an exciting evening of football on Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes granted bail to one of two men accused of murdering Odingo Dingham Bryan in January 2004 after the state prosecution team failed to commence their trial yesterday as was previously ordered.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (Reuters) – Utah Jazz rookie  Wesley Matthews scored 10 of a career-high 21 points in the  fourth quarter to steer the home team to a 124-115 victory over  the Phoenix Suns on Monday.

Davendra Bholanauth, the Sheriff Street businessman who was shot by robbers on Monday night, remains in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Dear Editor, The following letter was sent to Benoit Bosquet, Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank, with appendices and copied widely to representatives working at governmental, non-governmental and international levels.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal limped out of the  Australian Open yesterday, his title defence shattered by a  recurring knee problem and a devastating display by Andy Murray.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North and South Korea last night exchanged what appeared to be artillery fire near a  disputed sea border with the South off the west coast of the  peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported government officials as  saying.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Justin Gatlin is  learning how to sprint again, a fact that has little to do with  the American’s four-year absence from athletics under a doping  ban.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Agriculture Corps says it has already harvested from its cultivation of cauliflower and broccoli, a project it initiated as these vegetables are gaining popularity locally.

Dear Editor, Once again the Starlite Drive-In destroyed the sanctity of peace and quiet in the neighbourhood of Atlantic Gardens, Happy Acres and Montrose.

Dear Editor, Not too long ago, I wrote that President Obama’s biggest issue would be unemployment; that the swollen ranks of jobless could turn out to be his Achilles heel; and that this vulnerability would be lethal. 

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan police  arrested former Presi-dent Alfonso Portillo yesterday after the  United States requested his extradition to face money-  laundering charges.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – LeBron James made two free throws  with four seconds remaining to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to  a 92-91 win over the Miami Heat and win his personal duel with  Dwyane Wade on Monday.

(BBC) Prime Minister Denzil Douglas has won a fourth term. The governing St Kitts and Nevis Labour Party is back in power for a fourth successive term after Monday’s general election.

The Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) on Saturday hosted an award ceremony to honour 25 nurses who graduated from the University of Guyana (UG) with a degree in nursing.

ROME, (Reuters) – The late Pope John Paul flagellated  himself regularly to imitate Christ’s suffering and signed a  secret document saying he would resign instead of ruling for  life if he became incurably ill, a new book shows.

The Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) recently hosted a tour for 20 students from Wisburg Secondary School.

Dear Editor, I am penning these short notes to inform readers that so-called pollster, Vishnu Bisram, got it badly wrong in Trinidad on the UNC elections.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Tamim Iqbal smashed a blazing  century before Zaheer Khan took two late wickets to help India  reduce Bangladesh to 228 for three on the third day of the  second test yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) A nine-point strategy aimed at bolstering Barbados’ economy and returning real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to the annual average rate of 3.0 per cent by 2012, is to be implemented soon.

LONDON, (Reuters) – WBA heavyweight champion David  Haye will face twice former champion John Ruiz when he defends  the title for the first time in Manchester in April.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – A suicide blast killed at least  17 people at a police forensics office in Baghdad yesterday,  officials said, the latest attack to raise doubts about Iraq’s  ability to keep people safe weeks before a national election.

Dear Editor, The recent spate of letters and columns in both SN and KN concerning the so-called split in the PPP as it approaches the local and general elections  are all off the mark in more ways than one.

(Trinidad Express) Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar won hands down at the UNC internal elections on Sunday, beating fellow contenders, Basdeo Panday and Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, even on their home turf by a large margin.

Cyrus Clarke, 27,  and Clayton Vanhersal, 27,  both of West Watooka, Wismar, Linden were remanded to prison on Tuesday on the indictable charges of  indecently assaulting a juvenile and having carnal knowledge of a juvenile, respectively.

(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean Airlines pilot was shot dead after confronting bandits at his Glencoe home on Monday afternoon.

As we reported in this paper on Monday, Ms Kamla Persad-Bissessar won a decisive victory over longstanding Leader of the UNC Basdeo Panday in the party’s leadership elections.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – One student was killed and nine  police officers injured on Monday in the Venezuelan city of  Merida in violence linked to protests over the suspension of a  TV station opposed to President Hugo Chavez.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowler Ravi Rampaul is expected to be fit enough to take his spot in the West Indies squad for the Australia tour, despite being ruled out of Trinidad & Tobago’s clash with Barbados last weekend through illness.

The man, who was shot in the shoulder while resisting robbers on Monday, is recuperating in hospital and recalled that during the attack one of the gunmen said “is you we want”.

Dear Editor, I expected the WPA to come out with guns blazing, given that the issues I raised in my letter had not been previously ventilated in the Guyana media (‘We must escew the “us” versus “them” mentality in the New Year’ SN, December 31).