Daily Archive: Friday, July 9, 2010

-mattresses torched Fire-fighters were summoned to the Georgetown Prisons yesterday afternoon after several inmates set mattresses ablaze in the western section of the facility.

–asks Washington for evidence Caricom leaders have expressed deep concern about the US continually placing several of the region’s countries in the Tier 2 Watch list of its Trafficking in Persons (TIPs) annual report as countries that are placed in this category for three consecutive years will be subjected to sanctions.

Armed pirates attacked and robbed the captains and crew members of two fishing boats just off the shore at Whim, Corentyne on Wednesday night and later set one of the boats valued over $1.5M on fire.

The Melanie Damishana man whose fence caused the death of a fifteen-year- old boy on Monday was yesterday charged with manslaughter and released on $250,000 bail.

Three men have been arrested for the murder of Allan Welch who was beaten to death at 14 Miles Issano on Tuesday.

The Preliminary Inquiry into the first witness tampering charge against Chandra Narine Sharma did not get underway as scheduled yesterday as Special Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin made an application for the magistrate to recuse herself from the matter.

– alleged plotter says in taped conversation One of the men accused of planning to blow up New York’s John F.

Five police ranks, returning from the funeral of slain colleague Vickram Singh, sustained minor injuries last evening after their bus was hit by another around the Mahaica, East Coast Demerara area.

Still grieving over the loss of their son in a horrific smash-up at Craig last month the parents of Anthony Beepat were terrorised by bandits at their Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara home early yesterday morning.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has been named to a committee within Caricom which will review proposals on regional governance ahead of a key meeting in September.

The ‘Plastic City’, West Coast Demerara carpenter who was battered by robbers early Sunday morning and later succumbed in the hospital died of congestive heart failure due to a diabetic condition, an autopsy found yesterday.

Divisional Commander David Ramnarine says that he is unaware whether the rank involved in the Bartica brutality matter was officially appointed a cadet officer but one of the victims, Winston Miller Snr is insisting that he saw him on television.

Some South Ruimveldt vendors located at the corner of Aubrey Barker Road and Manatee Place yesterday complied with a request by the Public Works Ministry and voluntarily removed from the government reserves.

A man who pleaded guilty to breaking into the La Belle Hotel and stealing a quantity of liquor was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

Leola Narine who was charged in 2008 with embezzlement by clerk walked out of the Christianburg Magistrate’s court on Wednesday a free woman after Magistrate Ann McLennan dismissed the case against her for want of prosecution.

Construction work on three bridges in the Annandale/Buxton area on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) over the past several weeks has created traffic chaos in the area, especially during the early morning rush hour.

-Bourda members concerned about planned exclusion of cricket By Marlon Munroe The government is to submit a comprehensive proposal outlining its vision for the possible merger of the historic Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda, and the Georgetown Football Club to create a sports facility.

By Floyd Christie The national men’s rugby squad is “well on course right now,” according to their coach Theodore Henry.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Olympic and world 100  metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser has tested positive, her track  club (MVP) president Bruce James said.  

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – LeBron James announced last night he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to join Dwayne  Wade and Chris Bosh at the Miami Heat next season, ending one  of the biggest transfer sagas in U.S

By Tamika Garnett Dian Gladstone, mother of Youth Olympic Games Scholarship awardee, Jevina Sampson, after returning from the assessment interview at the Singapore Sports School from June 14–18, has affirmed that her daughter will be accepting the scholarship once the offer is confirmed.

By Marlon Munroe The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) practice facility in the compound of the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) ground, Woolford Avenue, is now a sanctuary for cows, wasps and vines.

DENNERY, St. Lucia, CMC – An unbroken seventh-wicket stand of 43 between Kwame Crosse and Andre Stoll put Guyana within reach of first innings points over the Leeward Islands in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – A half-century from Trinidad & Tobago’s Nicholas Alexis trumped a penetrative spell from Jamaica’s Nicholson Gordon in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Bronte Bess hit back for the Windward Islands, after Jomel Warrican helped Barbados dismiss the hosts cheaply in their first innings in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.

Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali along with officials from the Region Five RDC and GuySuCo’s Blairmont Estate on Tuesday discussed plans to regularise and relocate residents of the Blathylock squatter settlement.

Dear Editor, Red Thread Domestic Violence Survivors Self Help Group and GWAR (Grassroots Women Across Race) have been campaigning for the past month against the upsurge in the brutal slaying and maiming of our women.

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital were last evening closely monitoring the condition of a 12-year-old boy who came into contact with a high voltage electrical wire while playing a game of football in the city.

– revenue down by more than $50M over 2008 Despite what it says was a “sharp decline” in demand for services in the insurance sector last year, the Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd has reported an impressive 35 per cent increase in life insurance sales in 2009 over the previous year.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The refereeing system will  change for the next World Cup with goalline technology and extra  officials being considered, FIFA said yesterday.

The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence is inviting nominations for its 2011 Awards.

– private sector urges privatization of Municipal Day Care centres Against the backdrop of yet another urban garbage disposal crisis resulting from the withdrawal of services by private collectors owed millions of dollars by a cash-strapped and increasingly beleaguered Mayor and City Council (M&CC), representatives of the municipality met top private sector officials last week to discuss how the two sides can work together to help the council secure the hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding rates and taxes owed by urban business houses.

Dear Editor, I am surprised that no one has written about this before.

Director of the Medical Laboratory of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation,  Dr.

Dear Editor, In an article in SN dated July 4, 2010 captioned `Search for PPP candidate still in initial phase –Ramotar’ PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar said  “…We have not pushed the process any further,” .

DURBAN, (Reuters) – The sheer quality of Spain’s  performance in the 1-0 win over Germany that sent the European  champions into their first World Cup final has prompted coach  Vicente del Bosque to wax lyrical over his talented team.

Business Editorial All of the ills of the City Council cannot, justifiably be laid at the door of the Mayor and Councillors (M&CC) and the city’s public servants.

Dear Editor, Since the death of young Kelvin Fraser I have been losing sleep, every time I think how this youth lost his life.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has joined with the Guyana Police Force in mourning the loss of four of its ranks within the last week and called for adequate compensation for their families.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Netherlands striker Robin  van Persie had saved his best for last and was set to shine in  the World Cup final against Spain, said coach Bert van Marwijk.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Ten people pleaded guilty yesterday to being agents for Russia while living undercover in  the United States as part of a spy swap between the U.S.

The July 10-15 meeting of the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunications Network which is being held in Curacao will witness a special ceremony at which two senior officials of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Suriname’s national telecommunications facility, TELESUR will formally launch their jointly owned Suriname/Guyana Submarine Cable System (SGSCS) GT&T’S Chief Financial Officer Yog Mahadeo, who assumes duty as the company’s Chief Executive Officer on August 1 told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week that he and Russ Headley, a senior TELESUR adviser will be the officials involved in the launch ceremony.

Dear Editor, I attended the statutory meeting at City Hall on June 28, and as a former Councillor and  community leader, I was saddened by the display shown by Councillors Jordan, Garrett, Chase-Green and John.

A group of underprivileged and single-parent women from Kwakwani will soon benefit from Information Technology and Office Procedure training to make them employable.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – CNN has fired a senior  editor for Middle East news after she published a Twitter  message that said she respected a Lebanese Shi’ite cleric  branded a terrorist by the United States, U.S.

HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – South African world 800 metres  champion Caster Semenya will return to competition next Thursday  in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta, after an enforced break due  to controversial gender tests, her agent said.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Jamaican triple  Olympic champion Usain Bolt overcame a nagging Achilles tendon  strain to equal the season’s fastest 100 metres at the Lausanne  Athletissima Diamond League yesterday.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security on Wednesday donated several pieces of salon equipment to the cosmetology programme of the David Rose Special School and committed to providing four sewing machines to its sewing programme.

By Rawle Lucas Big Dent The administration promised that by 2010 it would put a big dent in the housing problem which existed throughout Guyana at the end of the 20th century. 

Dear Editor, It is with regret I apologise for the emotional pain and psychological stress which I have caused.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Three Britons were convicted yesterday of plotting to murder hundreds of people in suicide  bombings after being recruited by an al Qaeda-inspired cell bent  on blowing up transatlantic airliners bound for North America.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A white former transit  police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter yesterday in the videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black  man that triggered riots in Oakland, California last year.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs on Tuesday presented a $360,000 solar panel to Wiruni village to help boost electricity production.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Sherlina Nageer (‘There is no such thing as sexual conversion” SN, July 7).

By Jacquelyn Hamer Jacquelyn Hamer is a retired Guyanese diplomat and a Director of the skills training organization Visions of Excellence.

MONTARGIS, France, (Reuters) – Mark Cavendish burst  into tears and broke down on the podium as weeks and months of  tension were finally released by victory in the fifth stage of  the Tour de France yesterday.

– other small business lending schemes possible, Head of Credit says Several applicants for micro-business lending, under the Guyana Bank for Trading and Industry’s (GBTI) new Women of Worth (WOW) lending facility have had their loans approved, according to information disclosed to this newspaper by a senior bank official.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba took the first steps toward releasing 52 political prisoners as the island’s Catholic Church yesterday notified five they would be freed soon in a deal struck with the Cuban government that drew praise from Washington.

RIO DE JANEIRO/ JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Brazil’s  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva winds up his final presidential tour  of Africa with a clutch of deals after dramatically expanding  ties during eight years in power.

Dear Editor, In a letter written by Mr. Mac Mahase to the Stabroek News (June 22, 2010) and titled, “Iran’s offer to do mineral mapping should have set alarm bells ringing in Georgetown,” the letter writer skillfully manipulated the history books in a frenzy to demonize Iran.

Crime and security remains a priority area in the Caricom region and leaders are calling for movement on the development of a Regional Crime and Security Resource Mobilisation Plan.

BERLIN, (Reuters Life!) – Some Germans are calling  for a public roasting of the oracle octopus who correctly picked  the winner of all six of their national soccer team’s World Cup  matches — including a bitter defeat to Spain yesterday.

Caricom says it is concerned that the United States and Antigua and Barbuda have failed to negotiate a settlement, years after the WTO ruled in favour of the Caribbean country following an internet gaming services dispute.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – In a victory for gay rights in  the United States, a U.S.

Dear Editor, I once lived at Lethem during the latter part of the 60s, mid 70s and mid 80s and went through hell and high water to get my retirement pension and gratuity and NIS pension.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Ian Bell hit an unbeaten 84 on  his first one-day international appearance since November 2008  to guide England to a six-wicket win over Bangladesh yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) –  Energy Minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan confirmed [on Wednesday] that government had pulled the plug on the Alutrint aluminium smelter project at La Brea Industrial Estate.

IPED sees industry becoming top export Guyana’s aquaculture industry may still be experiencing the challenges of infancy and growth but investors and enthusiasts’ confidence in the sector appears to bode well for its breakthrough.

The Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) has selected 10 of its most promising junior stars to attend the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior Tennis Championships set for St Vincent and the Grenadines in August.

-she and co-accused remanded for trafficking Magistrate Ann McLennan fined a 37-year-old woman $80,000 for four traffic offences and remanded her and her co-accused to prison for trafficking in narcotics.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News would not publish a news story based on unnamed ‘sources’, let alone make it the lead story, if this newspaper was not fully satisfied that its ‘sources’ are believable.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has put in place a number of measures to tackle the effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, should some countries become directly affected by it.

NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals  court yesterday rejected the Obama administration’s request  to stay a lower court decision to lift a six-month moratorium  on deepwater oil drilling in the wake of the BP Plc oil spill.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 363’s trading results showed consideration of $3,472,671 from 210,289 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 362 which showed consideration of $2,136,142 from 200,082 shares traded in 17 transactions. 

Magistrate Ann McLennan sentenced a Central Amelia’s Ward teen to three years jail after he pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

(Prepared by the Guyana marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek News Business as a public service)

Guyana and Trinidad And Joe Singh’s last day “After God is de police, is an expression older folks were fond of when I was growing up in Alberttown in the capital.

Dear Editor, I write to you in disbelief over the headline `Sport fishing to be reeled in’ SN July 1, 2010.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, (Reuters) – Carles  Puyol’s match-winning header against Germany in Wednesday’s  World Cup semi-final was the fruit of a move worked out on the  training ground at Barcelona, the defender said yesterday.

The details of the story of the uncovering by the FBI of a ring of alleged “deep-cover” spies in the United States have already been compared in several media reports to vintage Cold War spy thrillers.

MONTEGO BAY (Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Wednesday cautioned regional governments that Trinidad and Tobago does not operate like “an ATM card” while stating the oil-rich twin-island republic was not prepared to fund the regional security budget.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Three men were arrested in Norway  and Germany yesterday on suspicion of plotting attacks and of  having links to al Qaeda as well as people under investigation  in the United States and Britain, Norwegian police said.