Daily Archive: Wednesday, February 3, 2010

AFC leader Raphael Trotman yesterday accused the ruling PPP and the main opposition PNCR of engaging in secret shared governance talks-a charge that both parties strongly denied.

The partial remains of a skeleton were yesterday morning discovered on cane land aback of the Bel-Lu Clay Brick Factory, Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara.

Local beverage company Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is sending bottled water worth $8M to earthquake-devastated Haiti.

A man and a teen appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with last week’s killing of 62-year-old security guard, Dhanpaul at Chesney, Corentyne and were remanded to prison.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh will be presenting the 2010 National Budget to the National Assembly on Monday, February 8.

A businessman was among four people recently jailed in the United Kingdom for importing cocaine from Guyana hidden in tins of Chinese cooking sauce.

The AFC is “very, very concerned” about the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) “lack of preparedness” for upcoming local government polls, saying that the citizenry remains in the dark about its rights and responsibilities under the new electoral system.

A day after Barticians shut down the community and staged a massive protest, life in the community returned to normalcy yesterday as the residents await word from President Bharrat Jagdeo regarding the implementation of six months notice before mining among other controversial proposals.

-study cites poor salaries, conditions Money is a major pull factor for nurses to migrate but a poor working environment also plays a significant role in the country’s nurses leaving, a recent study on nursing migration in Guyana found and a plan is to be devised to staunch this flow.

A man who was allegedly found with a little over six kilos of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri  was charged on Monday.

The Vreed-en-Hoop office of money-transfer agency, MoneyGram was broken into sometime over the weekend and $3.3M was taken away, the police say.

The three-year-old child who was hospitalized on Saturday at the Fort Wellington Hospital after a severe beating is expected to be placed in protective custody and charges are likely to be laid against his relatives.

A special constable attached to the Guyana Power & Light (GPL) office at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice suffered injuries above his left eye and forehead after a glass bottle was thrown at him around 4:15 pm yesterday.

-brother held A 27-year-old woman who was trying to save her sister from being attacked ended up being badly chopped on her head and left hand around 1:30 pm yesterday at Number 29 Village.

– Lady Jaguars to begin World Cup qualifiers March 3 The Lady Jaguars will start their stride to Germany in 2011 on March 3 at the GCC ground against Suriname as the first leg of the Women’s World Cup Qualifiers begins for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) affiliates.

A 43-year-old man is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital after he stepped into the path of Fire Service vehicle on Monday.

A burglar was given a severe beating by residents of Campbellville Housing Scheme early yesterday morning shortly after he had broken into at least five homes, stealing cash and cellular phones.

Brandon Baldie won two matches and Akesia Nedd one to help Mae’s `A’ stop the rampaging Bishops’ High School team in the final of the 18 years and under Guyana Table Tennis Association/National Sports Commission  Business School sponsored schools’ team tournament Monday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Mae’s Secondary School and Bishops’ High School winners of the U18 and U15 and U13 categories respectively of the just-concluded Business School sponsored schools’ table tennis championships will each receive a donation of a table from former national player Diane Chance.

The parents of the Australian who was shot during last month’s attack at Safraz Bar have expressed frustration at their failed attempts to return him to his homeland for urgent medical attention According to yesterday’s edition of the Australian Herald, Jason Montgomery remains in a critical condition here.

Persons with Disabilities (PWD) will have a chance to benefit from the National Sports Commission and the Special Olympics Committee of Guyana Swimming Instructors Course that commenced yesterday at  Colgrain Swimming Pool on Camp Street.

A hire car driver was placed on $65,000 bail on a charge of fraudulent conversion on Monday.

Over the last five years, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTYSC) has invested millions of dollars on youth development as the key to the club’s development.

CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington told a regional Youth Forum in Suriname last week that free movement within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is being gravely hampered by the Immigration Restriction Acts within member states.

-uncleared conference advances also a worry Overpayments by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for fuel from GuyOil in 2006 have been queried by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.

The Guyanese pair of Steve Neils Jr and Andrew Ifill led the Royal Extra Lions to a 78-68 upset win over top contender Detour Shak Attack as play in the Trinidad and Tobago National Basketball Federation Club Championships “Big Eight” continued on Monday at St Paul Street Complex in Port of Spain.

A Swiss House Cambio cashier was on Monday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for reportedly fraudulently converting monies to his own use and benefit.

– Warriors squeeze past Mocha Champs Soesdyke Falcons’ John Gordon scored a helmet-trick to help his team get past Kuru-Kuru Lions on Sunday when the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) Stag First Division League continued at the Grove Playfield.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb 2, CMC – New West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson said yesterday he was looking forward to the challenge awaiting him in developing regional cricket.

A fifty-year-old farmer from the village of Paramakatoi was yesterday remanded on two counts of the indictable charge of carnal knowledge of girls under the age of 15.

MARBELLA, Panama, CMC – Kirt Sinnette, of Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaican Nicholas Walters have secured their highest ever world boxing ratings while  Guyana’s Leon Moore holds a prominent top 10 spot in the latest rankings by the World Boxing Association (WBA).

A 57-year-old Moruka miner was yesterday remanded on the indictable charge of carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 15 by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

Dear Editor, There is no doubt that Guyana is on the right path and has taken a bold step in offering its forest as a token of concern for the ailing environment.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Gilbert Arenas issued a public  apology yesterday as he prepared to start rebuilding his image  less than a week after the NBA suspended the Washington Wizards  guard for bringing guns into the team’s locker room.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Mr Freddie Kissoon’s letter captioned ‘Bisram got it wrong’ (SN, January 27) in which he attacked me for polls conducted in Grenada.

A clothes vendor and a construction worker were yesterday placed on $50,000 bail each when they appeared on a robbery with violence charge before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

Dear Editor, This year the Guyana Teachers’ Union will hold its biennial elections.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Five of the 10 American  Baptist missionaries accused of illegally trying to take  children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti left their jail  cells temporarily to plead their case to a judge yesterday.

Two mobile music vendors were placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday  after they pleaded guilty to making loud and continuous noise.

-as Taffin Khan secures first senior tournament triumph National Chess champion Wendell Meusa put a spoke in Errol Tiwari’s wheel allowing former national junior chess champion Taffin Khan to secure his first tournament win playing as a senior.

LONDON, England, CMC – Guyana’s international squash star Nicolette Fernandes continues her rise up the world rankings and is up to No.62 in the February ratings released yesterday.

Caricom and Haiti Youth Ambassador Leticia Cadet asked a special meeting of COHSOD to make rebuilding Haiti’s education system a priority “to avoid creating a potentially detrimental gap in qualified human resources.”

EIJING/WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama still  plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said yesterday,  despite China’s warning that such a meeting would hurt ties  already strained by U.S.

Amidst the turmoil caused by the earthquake and extensive destruction and loss of life in Haiti, and the focus of the international community on rescue and recuperation efforts, there has been little time to pay too much attention to the unfolding of  events in the Central American republic of Honduras.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in Sunday Stabroek dated January 31, captioned ‘Declined nomination for presidency of GCA.’