Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 23, 2010

– Uzi, knife found near body Minutes after Lamaha Gardens residents heard what sounded like a gunshot, Orlando Harris was discovered dead with a sub-machine gun near his body.

COUVA, Trinidad, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul walked Guyana to its first win for the season in the WICB regional first-class championship against Leeward  Islands yesterday.

By Rawle Toney A new look Alpha United football team  tactically defeated BK International Western Tigers in the feature game of Sunday evening’s Haiti benefit match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground organised by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation.

– to shoo-in Ramotar as PPP candidate A major cabinet shake-up is on the horizon as the PPP/C paves the way for its General Secretary Donald Ramotar to become more connected with the citizens given that he is tipped to be the party’s presidential candidate come next year, according to informed sources.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Zimbabwe will touch down in the Caribbean this evening for their one-day series against West Indies.

Mark Lashley had a lot to celebrate when he won the Charlise Adams Mashramani Stableford Golf tournament Sunday at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara.

The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and four men, who were fined last year on a charge of wearing female attire, have filed a motion in the High Court against that section of the law stating that it contravenes their fundamental rights.

By Marlon Munroe Guyana’s chances of retaining their Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) Track & Field title may be in jeopardy after it was found that some of the nation’s top junior athletes are not affiliated to any institution of learning, one of the main criteria for selection for a junior championship.

Rebel had the titillating song, obvious crowd support and a solid performance, which is all it took for him to grab the calypso monarchy for the sixth time early yesterday morning.

There was an early victory for the reigning 55 years and over doubles champions Maxie Fox and Steve Surujbally who outplayed Bobby Khan and Roy Rampersaud by two sets to none when the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) Ming’s Products veterans’ tournament continued at the Le Meridien Pegasus Tennis Courts.

– family wants answers Ganesh Ramgoolam, the Guyanese man gunned down in Schenectady, New York on Saturday had no enemies, his family said.

Driving their Fullworks-sponsored Toyota Levin vehicle, Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin, drove to victory in the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) endurance race last Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit.

Three persons who were caught cultivating a marijuana field at Sand Hills, Berbice River on Saturday and one who had 150 pounds of compressed marijuana in his possession were remanded to prison yesterday.

Boxers yesterday inked their contracts in the boardroom of Abdool and Abdool Insurance Company for the first Friday Night Fights on February 26 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

Immediately after the reopening of the Harpy Eagles Gym in Albouystown on Saturday it held  a nine-bout amateur card which the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) organized in an effort to resuscitate amateur boxing in the country.

Two London-based Jamaican women were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly attempting to export a quantity of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

– Singh says opposition out of touch with reality By Mark Mc Gowan Moments after Opposition Leader Robert Corbin pilloried Budget 2010’s “lack of vision”, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh responded with a stinging attack against the opposition parties for their baseless criticisms which, he said, showed they were “out of touch with reality”.

– students relieving themselves in the yard Regional education officials in Region Three are said to be working to renovate a sanitary facility at the Meten-Meer-Zorg Primary School on the West Coast Demerara, which has been in a deplorable state for years now, according to parents of students attending the school.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Officials from England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup will be the special guests at the ordinary congress of the Caribbean Football Union which takes place over the weekend.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – South Africa is working with   international agencies like Interpol and the FBI to minimise the  threat of terror attacks during the World Cup, the country’s top  policeman said yesterday.

Residents of Lethem are decrying the police investigation into the death of a man who was killed on the area’s main road by a well-known woman, but the police commander of the area said the police acted in accordance with the law.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN (Reuters) – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said Latin American leaders backed her objections to oil exploration in the British-controlled Falkland islands, as the first well began drilling yesterday.

The PNCR in a Republic Day message has called on Guyanese to recommit to loving the nation and fighting for their rights.

Dear Editor, In response to my letter in SN expressing the view that due to a lack of diligence by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) the water resources in Guyana had been poorly managed (‘There has been poor management of water resources by the Agriculture Ministry and NDIA,’ February 15), I was accused by the Corporate Secretary of NDIA, Mr Omadatt Chandan, of consistently without justification attacking the ministry and its executing agency (‘Ministry of Agriculture, NDIA made efforts to ensure there were adequate amounts of water from the time El Niño was predicted last year’ SN, February 17).

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – Philadelphia 76ers guard  Allen Iverson will be out indefinitely while he spends time  with his sick daughter, the NBA team said yesterday.

VANCOUVER, (Reuters) – Germany surged to the top of  the Winter Games medals table alongside the United States yesterday while host nation Canada struggled with a demoralising  ice hockey defeat and diminishing medal hopes.

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo and Cabinet Ministers Robert Persaud and Manniram Prashad engaged farmers and the broader communities yesterday on the Essequibo Coast.

MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A NATO airstrike in Afghanistan mistakenly killed 27 civilians, the government said yesterday, hurting a campaign to win over the local population and defeat Taliban insurgents.

(Platinum News BVI) Dominican born Ovel Benjamin Matthew, 23, who is accused of beating his Guyanese girlfriend unconscious in public in April last year, pleaded guilty to the charges of causing grievous bodily harm and damaging property.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetically altered mosquitoes that cannot fly may help slow the spread of dengue fever and could be a harmless alternative to chemical insecticides, US and British scientists said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am a teacher, and the audit report for Region Two stated that I was overpaid an extra month’s salary in 2006 while I was attached to the Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary School.

COUVA, Trinidad,  CMC – Rabindranauth Seeram has applauded Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s input into the Guyana team in the last two rounds of the WICB regional first-class competition.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan cable TV station known for fierce opposition to President Hugo Chavez yesterday accepted new broadcast rules to get back on the air again, after the government last month suspended it.

SYDNEY, Australia,  CMC – West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin says he is willing to open the batting for West Indies as the beleaguered side continues to search for a way out of their winless streak Down Under.

Dear Editor, I respect that Guyana is a secular society and that there is freedom of worship.

GAWU said its felicitations on Guyana’s 40th Republic anniversary are tempered by sober reflection on the nation’s progress which has been mixed with a number of challenges and urges leaders to pass this milestone with less confrontation.

A lone gunman yesterday robbed a building contractor of $2.5 million as he was about to make a purchase at a Charlestown Hardware store.

Magistate Nigel Hawke sentenced a labourer of Number Four Settlement, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice to three years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to possession of 13 grammes of cannabis sativa.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Amit Jaggernauth was almost unplayable on a dusting pitch, and spun Trinidad & Tobago to a 155-run victory over Windward Islands in the WICB regional first-class competition yesterday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – A very rare, first edition Superman comic book in top condition sold yesterday for a record $1 million in a public sale held by website ComicConnect.com.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Umpires in the Caribbean are the latest constituents bemoaning their relationship with the West Indies Cricket Board.

Dear Editor, I was listening to the television broadcast of the budget speech when during the presentation of Basil Williams of the PNCR as he was dealing with the wages of the working people, someone from the government side shouted that the PNC had 28 years to deal with it.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A mild 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Monday 20 miles (35 km) west of Port-au-Prince, the US Geological Survey reported.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett’s presentation to the National Assembly during the budget debate last Thursday was remarkable for what she did not say. 

Dear Editor, I read with great interest the letter published in your Friday February 19, 2010 issue about Mr Boyo Ramsaroop’s excellent experience at the Georgetown Public Hospital (‘Hospitalization experience at GPH was excellent’) and wondered why many other similar letters written by ordinary citizens have not been published in your newspaper.

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBARain ah fall ah roof you put barrel fuh ketch am.