Daily Archive: Wednesday, April 21, 2010

-suffers fainting bouts Broadcaster and Justice For All Party leader Chandra Narine Sharma was yesterday remanded to prison after pleading not guilty to a single charge of carnal knowledge before acting Chief Magis-trate Melissa Robertson.

ST. PAUL’S, St. Kitts, CMC – West Indies Women were undermined by three run-outs, and Suwini de Alwis’ left-arm spin, and crashed to a 38-run defeat in the second One-day International against Sri Lanka Women on Tuesday.

Trinidad and Tobago IFBB Professional Bodybuilder Candice Carr-Archer is set to ignite the National Cultural Centre stage when she makes a guest appearance at the Second Hugh Ross Classic Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship.

Yvette Thom, a supervisor at the Edge Lounge in Georgetown, estimated her losses to be in excess of $10M after a fire late Monday night completely gutted her Central Amelia’s Ward home.

Former national youth player Lookeshwar Mahabeer grabbed six wickets for ten runs to spur Eccles Sports Club to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Eccles ‘B’ in the East Bank Cricket Association (EBCA)/Good Wood Racing Services 40-over cricket competition.

Professor Norman Girvan, who is widely respected in international affairs, has been appointed by the United Nations (UN) as the Special Representative in the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy.

The completion of the $54.5M Wakenaam airstrip is likely to be delayed as the project remains only in its initial phase.

Council member of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Leslie Black says that if the association wants to move ahead and develop athletes and the association then all involved need to work together.

Medi-Care, FIB, Regal and AVD are the teams through to the playoff in the Regal Stationery and Computer Centre dominoes competition.

As the Ministry of Education (MoE) intensifies its countrywide campaign against truancy 35 minors from the Parika area were apprehended last month and their parents have since been issued letters of warning.

The ICC has announced the schedule of warm-up matches to be played in the lead-up to the ICC World Twenty20 tournament slated to be staged in the West Indies from April 30 to May 16.

The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has been asked to recoup more than $6M overpaid for drainage works undertaken to sections of the East Coast of Demerara following the 2005 floods.

The East Bank Cricket Association (EBCA) and a Media team will do battle tomorrow in a feature T20 game at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Several persons were injured yesterday when a Route 44 bus and a car collided on Camp Street around midday.

Demerara Speedboat Sports Club (DSSC) and Stabroek Market are set to clash tonight in a feature softball T20 match at the famous Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.

Dear Editor, I refer to an April 18 Stabroek News report titled ‘Lumumba netted millions in controversial land deal.’

-after region assigns new teachers A new teacher has been sent to take over classes at the De Veldt Primary School, in the Berbice River, according to Captain of the community Laxley Lindie.

Fifty-eight persons in the region have so far been certified since the  Caribbean Officiating Programme for Squash (COPS) was introduced in 2005, President of the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Craig Archer says. 

Dear Editor, The government has spent millions of dollars to build a new hospital at Bartica, but to date not an operation has been performed there.

A prison officer, who took two cellular phones and cigarettes inside the Camp Street prison, was yesterday granted $30,000 bail on a charge that he took forbidden items into the prison.

-still unidentified An unidentified man of Chinese decent was killed at Versailles, West Bank Demerara on Monday night, after he lost control of his motorbike and crashed into a bridge.

(Cricinfo) The IPL governing council will meet on April 26 and take a unanimous decision on the way ahead from the current controversy, Sharad Pawar, the ICC’s president-elect, has said.

Dear Editor, Recently, I saw a letter by Mr M Azeez (‘We need $5,000 and $10,000 banknotes’ SN, April 2) suggesting that we have banknote denominations of $5,000 and $10,000 to cater for the large amount of $1000 bills in circulation which have to be counted and transported.

DUBAI (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) said it was preparing to fly teams participating in the Twenty20 World Cup starting next week directly from Dubai to the West Indies.

Dear Editor, Elections are nigh in Britain. The main parties, Labour and Tories (Conservatives) are in fearful suspense since the aftermath may result in an hung parliament. 

LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s skies were open for business today, but with so many planes having been grounded by the pall of volcanic ash spreading from Iceland it could take days, or weeks, to clear the backlog.

A $50 million investment in the start up of a metal and fabrication workshop is the latest venture in Linden and it has employed some 25 persons from the area.

Dear Editor, Clarence Ellis was a good man and will continue to live in our minds as long as we continue to recognize his life’s work of fighting in the interest of right.

Demerara Speedboat Sports Club (DSSC) and Stabroek Market are set to clash tonight in a feature softball T20 match at the famous Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it is reviewing its opposition to a UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, in a gesture to Native Americans who support the sweeping but non-binding document.

By Cathy Richards Minibus operators say the ‘short-drop’ taxi service at Linden is currently threatening the round-the-town bus route and the current rehabilitation of Co-op Crescent Mackenzie and the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge are fuelling this process.

LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) – Winners of this year’s Wimbledon singles titles will not only own the world’s greatest grasscourt title but also a cool 1 million pounds ($1.53 million) in prize money, organisers said on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, If a writer of fiction thought of a story about a head of a state and his senior officials being killed in one single incident, he would think twice before putting pen to paper since he would feel the readers would consider it too improbable.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil awarded a domestic consortium rights to build the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest in a chaotic auction amid criticism the dam is an environmentally hazardous money loser.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday placed a father of two on bail in the sum of $70,000 when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of vandalizing two vehicles belonging to an auto dealer.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to ‘Union should provide answers,’ SN, April 17, signed by Orin Forde, Reford Byas and Elymuwell Barkoye.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The last leader of Argen-tina’s 1976-83 dictatorship was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday for his involvement in the kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people in a clandestine concentration camp.

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BOGOTA (Reuters) – A leading Colombian presidential candidate yesterday accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of meddling in the nation’s May election, the latest flare-up in the Andean neighbours’ tense feud.

(Cricinfo) India opener Virender Sehwag has suffered a shoulder injury, which has ruled him out of the ICC World Twenty20 beginning in the West Indies on April 30.

Dear Editor, It is almost one year since Attorney General Charles Ramson said an investigation into convicted Guyanese drug lord Roger Khan’s operations here was possible and responded to a question about whether the administration would go after Khan’s assets given that the money laundering legislation had been assented to.

MADHOUN, India (Reuters) – India’s government is spending billions of dollars on welfare schemes, and plans even more this year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) An influential senator warned the official US overseas aid agency: come down to earth with the impoverished people or see your funding cut.

-organisers hoping for new world record KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Organisers are hoping for a new record when sprint icon Usain Bolt runs at the Daegu Pre-Champion-ships Meeting in South Korea for the first time in three years next month.

The man identified as Glenvis Hinds in the story, “Canje River trio remanded on gun, narcotics charges,” published in our April 17, 2010 edition, was not him.

A scheduled meeting of the BRICs – Brazil, Russia, India, China, the countries recognized by the Western world as at the top of the pile of so-called emerging economies – took place last Thursday, April 15.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Ecuador could nationalize operations of foreign oil companies unless they sign contracts that increase state control in the sector, President Rafael Correa said in an interview on broadcast yesterday.