Daily Archive: Monday, May 24, 2010

NORTH SOUND, Antigua (Reuters) – South Africa  overcame a sizzling late innings blitz by Darren Sammy to take a  2-0 lead in the one-day international series against the West  Indies today.

-gunman fled in car Businessman Terry Bacchus died shortly after he was shot outside his Water Street, Georgetown business place on Saturday night, just over a month after he received a threatening phone call.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Soldiers and police stormed a  Kingston slum today and traded gunfire with supporters of  an alleged Jamaican drug lord who faces extradition to the  United States.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the escape of a prisoner who was arrested last week in relation to possession of an unlicensed firearm in a vehicle.

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Compton Greene called ‘Red Eye’, who is wanted by the police in connection with the murder of security guard Arjune Gobin as well as a series of armed robberies committed on the Corentyne.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica declared a state of  emergency in two parishes of its capital Kingston yesterday  after shooting and firebomb attacks on police stations by  suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces  extradition to the United States.  

-amid raucous scenes Amid raucous scenes and allegations that the process was “hijacked”, Clement Corlette was yesterday elected Chairman of the PNCR’s Region Four Committee.

Government will continue to support the transformation of the economies in Amerindian communities but slow res-ponses from areas like Wiruni have been affecting increased development.

Staff members of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) are up in arms against the institute’s principal over his reported refusal to recognize the elected President of the Staff Association, Delphine Bakker.

The Permanent Representative of St Kitts and Nevis to the OAS recently handed over to Haiti and Chile, the funds Caricom collected for the victims of the earthquakes that struck both countries on January 12 and February 27 respectively.

A  25-year old miner, of Kwakwani, Berbice River is nursing first and third degree burns to the upper parts of his body, after he was set alight by a workmate at a mining camp in the Cuyuni area, Region Seven last week.

By Cathy Richards Following complaints by workers of the Linden municipality that they had not received retroactive payments due to them since 1999, President Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday promised to see that they are paid.

Kings Duty Free shop has joined several other businesses which have opened their doors to the travelling public at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri.

Two years after young Arjune Narine Singh was brutally gunned down at an unauthorized Middleton Street road block, police are no closer to finding the killer/s even as his relatives continue to call for justice and harsher penalties for the ranks involved.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited recently made two senior appointments to its management team.

De Hoop farmers are set to benefit from $20M for the purchase of seed paddy and fertilizers, as part of a $300M El Nino assistance package announced by the president.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has committed $25M to building a road from the Linden Highway to St Cuthbert’s Mission to facilitate easier transporting of goods to the coast.

Ansa McAl Trading has donated $155,000 to the University of Guyana Pamela Bourne ‘Donate a tree’ Environmental Project.

-says FIFA’s KonstinBy Floyd Christie The participants of the recently concluded International Football Federation (FIFA) Futsal coaching course were yesterday presented with tokens and certificates of participation at the Transport Sports Club.

Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo sentenced a woman to three years imprisonment after she admitted to a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking at the New Amsterdam Court on Friday.

A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to three years imprisonment after he admitted to Magistrate Nigel Hawke at the Fort Wellington Court on Thursday that he robbed another youth at knife-point.

President of the St. Lucia Amateur Boxing Association David “Shakes” Christopher says the Caribbean Amateur Boxing Association  (CABA) needs a shakeup in order to wake up from its sleep on the amateur canvas.

LAUDERHILL, Florida,  (Reuters) – With the smell of  Jamaican jerk chicken and Indian biryani wafting through  stands, New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by 28 runs in the first  official international between two test playing nations in the  United States.    The Twenty20 match on Saturday provided an unusual sporting  atmosphere for the suburbs of Fort Lauderdale, the flags and  shirts in the crowd revealing supporters from Indian,  Pakistani, English, South African and Caribbean backgrounds.  

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud inspected works on the $150M three-door sluice being built on the right bank of the Mahaicony River that is expected to relieve pressure on the Mahaicony Creek.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – South Africa’s authorities dispatched its procurement officer to the Caribbean on Friday to ensure the Proteas had a replacement playing kit ahead of the One-day International series with West Indies, which started on Saturday in Antigua.

Two men who reportedly behaved disorderly after one of them was slapped with a traffic charge were released on bail on Thursday  when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with the offences.

“Angel, good morning, you  looking beautiful,” were the words that landed a man in court on Friday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with provoking a breach of the peace.

(FIFA.COM) The only thing Steven Gerrard knows about his future is that it is not going to interfere with his 2010 FIFA World Cup™ present.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies have added opener Dale Richards, and increased their squad to 15 for the second One-day International against South Africa today at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground.

By Dr Indira Rampersaud (Trinidad Guardian) “The truth is that no one can predict these elections with any degree of certainty as it seems to be a dead heat race in some of the critical marginal constituencies.”

Dear Editor, The article in the Stabroek News of Monday, May 10 reported former GDF aeronautical engineers as saying that the GDF Air Corps at Timehri needed to be upgraded.

Patricia De Abreu, the woman who along with her 4-year-old son was injured in a Mash Day accident involving a minibus, has developed complications and was recently forced to undergo surgery to her collar bone which was fractured during the accident.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications is conducting sea defence maintenance works at Cullen, Essequibo Coast in anticipation of the May/June rains.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The sun beat down from a cloudless  Parisian sky yesterday as the French Open began with a sultry Venus Williams raising the on-court temperature and French favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga almost getting caught cold.  

Dear Editor, I can only speculate whether it was a momentary lapse that caused Ms.

SHANGHAI, China, CMC – Usain Bolt marked his debut in the IAAF Diamond League yesterday, with another comfortable victory in the men’s 200 metres at the Olympic Football Stadium here.

Dear Editor, Of recent there has been some attention given to the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) of our students, especially those who are less academically inclined.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics tightened  their grip on the Eastern Conference finals with a crushing  94-71 win over the Orlando Magic on Saturday.    The Celtics lead the best-of-seven series 3-0 and could  wrap up a trip to the NBA finals as soon as today on home  court.  

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Henry Jeffrey’s letter ‘The problem is not racism but radical ethnic polarization’ (SN, May 22).

Dear Editor, It is good to see pressure being put on the Guyana government by the UK, Canada and other governments for an independent inquiry into the notorious phantom squad.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – West Indies will seek to break the stride of South Africa in the second One-day International today at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground.

Our Opinion It’s difficult not to get fed up with the West Indies cricket team these days.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Duchess of York, caught  on camera apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband,  UK trade envoy Prince Andrew, said yesterday she was sorry for  her “serious lapse in judgment”.  

Dear Editor, A photo is indeed worth a million and I have to give SN a ‘pump fist’  for  its back page report and picture dated May 22 of  the photo finish between overseas-based Guyanese Marian Burnett and Panama’s Andrea Ferris.

SAVAR, Bangladesh, CMC – Brendan Nash warmed-up for higher intensity battles, and Chadwick Walton enhanced his reputation with important half-centuries that drew West Indies-A out of a tailspin against Bangladesh-A in their second and final “unofficial” Test yesterday.

Dear Editor, I would like to see our opposition parties and our trade union movement represent workers who paid their contributions to the NIS for decades and who cannot collect the benefits they are entitled to when they retire.

VENICE, La/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government  threatened yesterday to remove BP from efforts to seal a  blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico if it doesn’t do  enough to stop the leak, though it acknowledged only the  company and the oil industry have the know-how to halt the  deepwater spill.  

If you travel back and forth between Guyana and North America, one of the things that strikes you is the almost complete absence in Canada and the USA of what I call “the roadside artisans” so common here. 

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Former world champion Lewis  Hamilton has been charged with ‘intentional loss of control of  a motor vehicle’ after performing a stunt in his Mercedes road  car on a public street at the Australian Grand Prix in March.  

WARSAW, (Reuters) – The Polish astronomer Nicolaus  Copernicus has been reburied in Poland in a lavish ceremony 467  years after his death, media reported over the weekend.    During a Roman Catholic ritual, the remains were interred   beneath the altar of Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland,  where the astronomer had been the canon (head priest) and where  he originally was buried in 1543. 

LONDON, (Reuters) – Twenty20 World Cup winning captain Paul Collingwood and bowler Stuart Broad will miss  England’s test series with Bangladesh starting at Lord’s on Thursday, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said.  

Dear Editor, I spoke to several persons in the Berbice area who were all ripped off by an unscrupulous distributor of DirecTV in Guyana.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column(This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) Jamaica has made international headlines, with Prime Minister Bruce Golding battling for his political life and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) demanding his resignation.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago outside the GPO building in Robb Street there was a traffic gridlock which an armed policeman on duty was able to resolve.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Dallas Mavericks owner Mark  Cuban has been fined $100,000 for violating the NBA’s  anti-tampering rules over comments he made about Cleveland  Cavaliers’ LeBron James, the league said on Saturday.  

CANNES, France, (Reuters) – Thai film “Uncle Boonmee  Who Can Recall His Past Lives” won the coveted Palme d’Or for  best picture at the Cannes film festival yesterday.  

It is no secret that the Guyana Police Force has been hard-pressed to continuously prove to its critics that it is capable of rebuffing political interference in its work.

Interviews by Tiffny Rhodius and photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked persons visiting the National Museum their thoughts on the exhibits housed there in observance of Museum Week which was observed last week.