Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 28, 2010

-five men held A burglar yesterday died hours after he was stripped naked, tied up and severely beaten in Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, resulting in the arrest of five men who irate relatives said are innocent.

Three persons, including a husband and wife, were yesterday charged jointly with the wedding house murder of Victor Williams when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson who later remanded them to prison.

Several weeks of heavy rainfall in Region Nine has left parts of the Linden/Lethem Road impassable.

The police force’s handwriting expert has confirmed that Assistant Superintendent Ivelaw Murray wrote the suicide note found in his home hours after he killed Constable Kevin Shepherd and took his own life.

-Guyana’s women rubgy team in last gasp victory over T/dad By Floyd Christie It was described by International Rugby Board (iRB) Regional General Manager, Tom Jones as the best game of rugby he has seen in years.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has installed a help desk and a television monitor at Customs House, Main Street, which it says “will boost overall efficiency” and validate the integrity of officers.

-Adam Harris, Prowell also eliminated from 200m Guyana’s Aliann Pompey failed to land a second medal after placing sixth in the women’s 200m final at the XXI Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico yesterday.

By Tamica Garnett Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday declared that construction work of the Olympic-size swimming pool at Liliendaal has been “making steady progress.”

With a dengue outbreak being declared in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica spending millions of dollars to avoid a similar situation, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said that Guyana faces a dengue outbreak threat and he has urged citizens to be careful and to keep their surroundings clean.

– Captain Shemaine Campbelle By Marlon Munroe National women’s cricket captain Shemaine Campbelle is soft spoken but very competitive and as rounded and gifted as most in the sport and she sets a high standard for her other teammates to follow.

-crewmember still missing A Zeelugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD) fisherman who sustained burns after an unregistered trawler caught fire in Surinamese waters on Saturday night, succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Manager Dave Small has hailed the character of the Barbados Under-17 side after they overcame several challenges to advance in the Caribbean Football Union Youth Cup last weekend.

-court told Two men who allegedly were in league to forge a Guyana passport by switching surnames in order to facilitate a trip to India were granted bail when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – For former world and Olympic  heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft, scraping into the European  championship long jump final as the last qualifier yesterday  was a huge achievement.

Murder accused Albert Campbell who had appealed against his conviction and death sentence and had subsequently faced a retrial  which was aborted last week, pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter at the Berbice Assizes yesterday.

A pump attendant employed at M. Ali Gas Station at 13 Strand, New Amsterdam, Berbice, is believed to have absconded with $1,100,700 after collecting the money from  a fuel purchaser.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Diego Maradona’s stormy  spell as Argentina coach came to an end yesterday when the  Argentine Football Association (AFA) voted unanimously not to  renew his contract.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Three decades after winning  the first of nine Olympic medals, the remarkably  youthful-looking Merlene Ottey has no intention of discarding  her running shoes.

-design approved, final cost still not known Government is hoping to begin construction of the much-debated Hope Relief Canal before the end of the year after having settled on a design for the channel.

“When you would have met Edna you met somebody good,” was how a longtime friend of Clarice Edna Northley summed up the avid sports lover who once served in the British Army.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies cricket chief Julian Hunte has lauded the Windward Islands’ historic capture of the regional Under-19 Challenge title on Monday.

Dear Editor, In response to Mr. Ramdial Balbadar’s letter in the Stabroek News `An unpleasant experience with the Registrar of the Land Registry’ dated 20th July, 2010,  the following is what transpired.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s relationship with  the United States, and its pivotal role in Afghanistan, is  unlikely to be changed by leaked reports about its support for  the Taliban, and the ensuing uproar they caused at home and in  Washington.

Officials of Tate and Lyle (T&L) recently met government and GuySuCo officials to brief them on the company’s recent acquisition by American Sugar Refining (ASR) Inc.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Venezuela will present a  peace plan this week to end a bitter dispute with Colombia, but  its Andean neighbour yesterday belittled any suggestion of  talks with the leftist rebels at the heart of the crisis.

Dear Editor, Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye in his recent letter `Opposition should struggle for constitutional reform instead of participating in elections’ (July 20, 2010)  is  putting forward arguments which  invite Guyana to face its future and reach for its repressed political conscience.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe  Bryant is finding it hard to take it easy in the NBA off-season after having arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.

Dear Editor, As elections 2011 draws near the fear of the nation, of all law abiding citizens, and the international community, must be the return of the PPP to power.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian singer and  songwriter Wyclef Jean is weighing a bid for the presidency of  his earthquake-shattered Caribbean homeland but has not yet  decided whether to run in November’s election.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Adverse weather again threatens the Caribbean Twenty20 Trophy which is scheduled to bowl off here with a blockbuster encounter between pre-tournament favourites Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica today.

Following an article published in this newspaper yesterday about the children of Plegt Anker, East Bank Berbice who survived being poisoned six years ago, the Oldendorff Bauxite Company reached out to them.

vCOLOMBO, (Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara smashed his  seventh test double hundred and Mahela Jayawardene broke Don  Bradman’s record for the most test centuries at one venue as a  rampant Sri Lanka tormented India in the second test yesterday.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to a letter in the July 6, 2O10, edition of the Kaieteur News and written by Leon Jameson Suseran captioned ‘When will the GPOC modernize its service in NA?’

Safuna Lewis is your normal three-year-old who is excited at the prospect of starting her first day of nursery school come September and like most little girls she likes posing for photographs, but there is just one big difference – she has lost her left eye and is in danger of losing the right one  unless she receives urgent medical attention.

LONDON/HOUSTON – BP Plc’s newly named chief executive called  the Gulf oil spill a “wake-up call” for the entire industry as  the company tallied up its losses and disclosed two U.S. 

LOUGHBOROUGH, England, (Reuters) – England batsman  Paul Collingwood believes the Pakistan bowling attack that  helped end Australia’s seven-match winning streak has a lot to  do to prove it is the best in the world.

Dear Editor, Every country in the Caribbean takes pride in its hotels for the role they play in the local tourism industry, the backbone of its economy.

PHNOM PENH,  (Reuters) – A United Nations-backed  court set up to find justice for 1.7 million people killed by  the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s is at risk of losing credibility  and relevance among Cambodians outraged by its first verdict.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Reverend Keaven Dixon’s last posting on Facebook, the popular social-networking portal, on July 21 was a portent of his own death five days later, even as he warned a friend to consider that he could die at any moment.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France is at war with al Qaeda’s  North African branch and will intensify military support for governments in the region combating the Islamist fighters, Prime  Minister Francois Fillon said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) It now has control of both Central and Local Government.

The body of a man of Amerindian descent believed to be in his late 30s or early 40s was found on the Amelia’s Ward Highway yesterday morning.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National Pro League champions Joe Public left here Monday for Costa Rica where they will clash with Brujas in their first leg of the preliminary round of the CONCACAF Champions League tonight.

Forty-three years ago this month, in 1967, the island of Anguilla voted in a referendum in which its leaders sought to confirm their secession two years before, from the then British colony of St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, re-baptised as an Associated State of the United Kingdom.

Dear Editor, The tracking opinion poll conducted by the New York-based North American Caribbean Teachers Association on the just concluded local government elections in Trinidad was on target.