Daily Archive: Monday, February 22, 2010

–US court documents now reveal Convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan may have paid US$250,000 for the infamous spy equipment on which he had a list of names that he called the “target list”, according to a recent US court document.

A 23-year-old Guyanese became the first murder victim for the year in the New York town of Schenectady when he was hit by a hail of bullets early Saturday morning  on Maple Avenue.

-4,000 plants destroyed Police arrested three persons on Saturday and destroyed a marijuana field and two camps while seizing a quantity of chemicals and other items during a raid at Sand Hills, 60 miles up the Berbice River.

…boat capsized near Dalgin The bodies of a mother and her young son were pulled out of the Demerara River early yesterday morning, two days after they went under when the boat they were in capsized.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told farmers of Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) reeling from drought conditions that $258M will be set aside to support the Ministry of Agriculture’s efforts to bring relief to them.

By Marlon Munroe National schools’ champion high jumper Maxsim Duncan fittingly brought the curtain down on the Inter-Guiana Games trials at the Enmore Community Centre ground yesterday after pulsating track rivalry when athletes vied for places on Guyana’s Track and Field team for Cayenne, French Guiana next month.

COUVA, Trinidad, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s 52nd first-class hundred put things in train, and purposeful bowling put Guyana on the verge of their first win in the last three seasons in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

Perennial rivals Victoria Arjoon and Mary Fung-A-Fat’s titanic battle was one of the highlights of the Toucan Industries Mashramani junior squash tournament which ended yesterday at the Georgetown Club’s courts.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Olympic and World Championship 400-metre silver medallist Shericka Williams registered a 200-metre victory Saturday as several of the island’s elite athletes appeared at the early season UWI Gatorade Invitational.

As he was being beaten by one of the bandits who invaded his family’s Grove, East Bank Demerara store on Saturday night, 38-year-old Bhojindra Gopaul thought he was going to die so he attacked the man who was armed with a gun.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo inspired Real  Madrid to an entertaining 6-2 victory over Villarreal that moved  them two points behind leaders Barcelona in La Liga yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Adrian Barath continued his comeback from injury, and helped Trinidad & Tobago’s push to finish the season strongly to take shape against Windward Islands in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) is again calling on President Bharrat Jagdeo to  intervene to reinstate tax-free overtime pay for bauxite workers.

Aubrey McClennon, the taxi-driver stabbed by a man believed to be mentally unsound, remained in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday, having completed surgery on his intestines.

Dear Editor, Migration over the years has hit the tiny East Canje Berbice community of New Forest, located some thirty minutes from the town of New Amsterdam, as its name suggests, amidst a forested area.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Oklahoma City Thunder  spoiled Tracy McGrady’s New York debut with a 121-118 overtime victory for their eighth consecutive win yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am concerned about the recent upsurge of violence being committed by students on students within the confines of our city’s schools.

-Shelly G fails to turn up for title defence Four years of trying paid off for soca singer Orlando ‘Bonesman’ when he was crowned the Carib Soca Monarch early yesterday morning but some of the sheen from his victory may have been lost as the reigning soca queen failed to turn up and defend her crown.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico,  CMC – Guyana’s former world boxing champion Vivian Harris suffered a contentious fourth-round technical knockout loss to Argentina’s Lucas Martin Matthyse in their non-title welterweight boxing bout on Saturday night.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A healthy body and a healthy mind  have become the priorities for tennis world number four Andy  Murray.

Dear  Editor, I have been looking at the TV programme ‘NIS and You’ and I have to say that what is being discussed is far from reality.

Even as use of the Mandela Landfill as a means of disposing of waste gradually comes to an end, residents in the area were yesterday forced to endure the effects of yet another fire.

Dear Editor, The recent letter by Minister Jeffrey (‘The many difficulties faced by Malaysia do not preclude us from learning from its experience’ SN, February 19) I must say, really showed me up for the mediocre writer I must be, because his philosophical analysis of shared coalition governance was, to say the least, introspective and incisive; his letter captures the essence of what I tried to put forward, except that his perceptions were much more orderly and prescient than mine were.

Twenty-five women are currently being empowered through a three-month sewing class, conducted by a Canadian-based Berbician, Dr.

…company to announce new payment schedule(Trinidad Express) The Government has issued bonds valued TT$3.4 billion to Clico, in a move that may bring some relief to the thousands of depositors and policyholders who have experienced delays and difficulties in getting funds from the beleaguered financial institution.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico, (Reuters) – The death toll  from last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti could jump to  300,000 people, including the bodies buried under collapsed  buildings in the capital, Haitian President Rene Preval said yesterday.

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – Pacer Pedro Collins took five for 32 and Sulieman Benn claimed four for 50 to spur Barbados to a commanding 10-wicket victory over Jamaica half hour after lunch on day three of their WICB first class match at Frank Worrell Oval yesterday.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – France suggested yesterday the  international community might recognise a Palestinian state  before its borders had been fixed, in order to break a stalemate  in Middle East peacemaking.

(Jamaica Observer) The commission that probed the circumstances leading to a fire that killed seven female wards of the state at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in May last year has blamed a police constable for starting the deadly blaze and blasted Correctional Department staff, including Commis-  sioner June Spence-Jarret, for keeping the girls in cramped, inhumane conditions.

A pregnant woman has been released on $25,000 bail while her partner was remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Nigel Hawke at the Weldaad Court on Thursday charged with unlawful possession of ammunition.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer has been forced to  withdraw from the Dubai tennis championships starting on Monday  because of a lung infection, the 16-time grand slam winner said  yesterday.

NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – Niger’s military plans to run the  uranium-exporting country until politicians agree on a new  constitution and are ready for fresh elections, West Africa’s  regional mediator said after meeting the junta yesterday.

Four gunmen robbed an East Canje businessman and his family of $130,000 cash and other valuables on Saturday night.

Dear Editor, The present El Nino effect (drought conditions) is highlighted in our local news.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A small Jamaican firm that has made a name for itself providing technology-based solutions for some financial administration problems that plague schools has secured a United States government contract and an undisclosed amount of capital from American billionaire George Soros to transfer its expertise to a problem-plagued school-lunch programme in the West African nation of Ghana.

In The Diaspora Beverly Bell is the author of Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance, and co-ordinator of Other Worlds, a women driven, multi-media education and movement-building collaborative:a (http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/alternatives/just-alternative-haiti)

Dear Editor, The police in my home village of Aurora have been very unprofessional.

Goodwill presentations to the relief fund for Haiti were made recently by the Bartica Lions Club, the AME Zion Church (Suriname/ Guyana Conference) and the Guyana International Relief Organisation (GIRO) at the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

(Trinidad Express) Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Saturday declared she has secured the support of the majority of the 15 Opposition MPs she requires to replace Couva North MP Basdeo Panday as opposition leader.

HOBART, Australia, Australia, CMC – The West Indies batting collapsed again and Australia motored to their fifth win in two weeks over the Caribbean side as their two-match Twenty20 International series began yesterday.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – A prestigious Chinese  university and a lesser-known vocational school have denied a  report they were the source of recent cyber attacks on Internet  giant Google and other U.S.

Horse racing may be the sport of kings, but soccer is the king of sports.

The Speaker of the National Assembly Mr Ralph Ramkarran in his column in the Weekend Mirror and on his blog www.conversationtree.gy

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced that it will be collaborating with the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO) of Guyana to disseminate “pertinent information” about the upcoming local government elections, among the constituents of the various religious groups here.

JAIPUR, India, (Reuters) – South Africa tail-ender  Wayne Parnell was run out from the final ball to hand India a  thrilling one-run victory in the first one-day international at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium yesterday.

FUNCHAL, Portugal, (Reuters) – Portuguese rescuers  used excavators and their bare hands yesterday to sift through  mud and debris for victims of violent floods and mudslides that  killed at least 42 people on the resort island of Madeira.

Dear Editor, Last year a UK resident, Mr Gary McKinnon, who is wanted by the United States government for hacking into 97 computers belonging to NASA, the US Department of Defense and branches of its military, lost his extradition case in a highly publicized and emotional court battle.

JERUSALEM – Israeli intelligence experts dismissed yesterday  the prospect of lasting diplomatic fallout for Israel or damage  to its Mossad spy agency over the spotlight shone on the  assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

Interviews and photos by Cathy Richards Dr Joseph Haynes – ‘Mashramani was a household name in Linden and for some strange reason we have allowed it to be taken away from us.

Dear Editor, Over the past two weeks, the residents of Regions 5 and 6 have been plagued with an invasion of mosquitoes.