Daily Archive: Wednesday, September 1, 2010

-three men held Hours after Omadevi Singh left a family gathering for a walk she was discovered dead in a Skeldon backdam canal.

Taxi driver Bahardo Parvattie was refused bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

A man was stabbed to death at 14 Miles, Bartica on Monday and the details surrounding the incident were still sketchy at press time last night since police ranks dispatched to the remote area had not yet returned.

By Tiffny Rhodius The police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has launched an investigation into the custody and handling of the prisoner who ran out of the Mahaicony Police Station on Monday, plunged into the nearby river after being shot at and is now feared dead.

A two-year-old boy of Tempe Village, West Coast Berbice succumbed around 1 pm yesterday after he ingested hydrogen peroxide that was in a bottle on a ledge in a bedroom.

Official reports from Suriname indicate that President Desi Bouterse is expected in Guyana on a two-day state visit next week.

A two-storey Quamina Street building, which was home to a mother and her two young children, and which also housed a motorcycle repair shop went up in flames last evening, in a likely case of arson.

Lethem businesses would welcome any attempts by the authorities to upgrade the Linden/Lethem trail to an all-weather road, according to Chairman of the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Alfred Ramsarran.

High waters in the Kamarang River and other waterways have led to flooding in parts of Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni), reports yesterday said.

A man was yesterday charged with obtaining money by false pretence after he allegedly took the sum of $800,000 from a woman and then failed to deliver on a promise to get her a car.

Guyana is in court battles in two countries following lawsuits filed by a Canadian company owned by a Guyanese-born man, but now operated by his two sons, which is in a tussle with the Government and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) over the trademark ‘Demerara Gold’.

(MHS) has once again proven its standing in Linden with the top ten students in this year’s Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Exams while the Wismar Christianburg Secondary School has recorded significant improvement.

Guyana Revenue Authority head, Khurshid Sattaur underwent an emergency heart procedure on Monday at the Caribbean Heart Institute of the Georgetown Public Hospital after an echo cardiograph test showed he was at risk of a heart attack Yesterday, Dr Pratik Soni said that Sattaur was taken to CHI by his physician on Monday morning after he was suffering from chest pains for five days.

Tourism and Commerce Minister Manniram Prashad is unsure whether increased taxes on alcoholic beverages would lead to a reduction in local consumption thereby reducing the high rates of suicide and domestic violence in the country.

– West Indies middle order batsman overlooked for retainer contract BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Marquee West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan is among three high profile players snubbed by the West Indies Cricket Board for central retainer contracts.

– ‘Reds’ Perreira tells national cricketers By Marlon Munroe Veteran cricket commentator Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira has reminded the national cricketers who are bound for South Africa for the Airtel Champions League T20 championships   to believe in themselves and their ability.

ROVERETO, Italy, (Reuters) – Former Olympic 100  metres champion Justin Gatlin continued to improve in his comeback from a doping ban when he ran 10.09 seconds yesterday but Caster Semenya endured an 800m race to forget.

The Hikers Hockey Club’s tournament for the advanced division of the Junior Hockey Summer Camp that was held last week in the forum of the St Stanislaus College, Brickdam began Monday night.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic dispelled his  reputation as a quitter after battling his way through five  gruelling sets in scorching heat to win his first round match  at the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British customs officials have  arrested three people in London as part of an investigation into  money-laundering following a police inquiry into allegations of  corruption within the Pakistan cricket team.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s top crime  investigative agency will send a team to Britain this week to  look at corruption allegations against some of the country’s  cricket players, a senior official said yesterday.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Holders Spain have no more room  for error after suffering their second defeat in three games at  the World Championship yesterday while hosts Turkey and dark  horses France reached the last 16 with two games to spare.

Dear Editor, Every human being is born with the cardinal right to liberty/freedom.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Laurent Fignon died of cancer yesterday at the age of 50 with two Tour de France wins to his  name — but the eight seconds that cost him a third triumph will live just as long in the memory.

Dear Editor, We wish to express our appreciation and gratitude to your newspaper for publishing our views and objections as contained in our press statement of August 26, regarding the irregular and unacceptable manner in which the appointment of the membership of the Public Service Commission (PSC) was approached by the Standing Committee on Appointments of Parliament.

Dear Editor, Just over a month ago the President announced that he was making small loans available through the Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry to single mothers to set up small businesses or to expand if they already had businesses set up.

The director of Tigerwood Guyana Inc., UK citizen Timothy John Ashworth-Foster has been cleared to leave the country after Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday discharged the order which prevented him from travelling.

WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – President Barack  Obama declared an end to the seven-year U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Batsman Kevin Pietersen was  dropped by England yesterday for the first time in his career  and will move from Hampshire to Surrey on loan for the rest of  the county season.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Brazil striker Robinho ended his  unhappy spell at Manchester City when he joined AC Milan yesterday, just two years after arriving in England for a British  record fee.

A minibus conductor who allegedly stole a gold band from another was yesterday admitted to $50,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Dear Editor, According to the findings of NACTA’s opinion conducted in July, National Assembly Speaker Ralph Ramkarran and Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud lead other potential contenders to succeed President Bharrat Jagdeo, who because of constitutional term limits cannot seek another term in office. 

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The Palestinian Islamist group  Hamas claimed responsibility for killing four Jewish settlers in  the West Bank in an attack that blighted a Middle East peace  summit before it even began in Washington today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Tens of millions of people in low  and middle income countries would be pushed below the poverty  line by buying common but vital medicines which are already  unaffordable to hundreds of millions more, a study has found.

The decomposed body of missing fisherman Keshwar Madramootoo, 42, of Kilcoy Squatting Area, Corentyne, Berbice who was reported missing was found yesterday.

Dear Editor, NACTA’s recent poll survey conducted in July claimed 59% of Guyanese approving of President Jagdeo’s performance while expressing strong disapproval for the rest of his government.

A Memorandum of Agreement for the refurbishment of the lawn tennis courts of the National Park has been signed between executives of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) and the National Parks Commission (NPC).

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan farmer who died after  a hunger strike to protest President Hugo Chavez’s land takeover  policies was denied his own doctor and has become a symbol for the  oppressed, his mourning family said.

Dear Editor, Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Inc is the company which does the transshipment of bauxite for BCGI/Rusal at Aroaima, Berbice River.

– Persaud Funds from the PetroCaribe account are used to pay local farmers and millers who supply rice and paddy to Venezuela under the US-multimillion dollar deal, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico paraded one of its  most violent drug lords yesterday after a police raid that  President Felipe Calderon’s government hopes will mark a  breakthrough in its campaign against powerful cartels.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Premier League (IPL)  cricketers had been approached about spot-fixing over the last  two-and-a-half years, former India player Atul Wassan said on  Tuesday.

The cream of the country’s distance runners will compete in the inaugural Neal and Massy  (Guyana)  Anniversary 10 kilometres road race and 5km fitness jog on Sunday on the East Bank Highway.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Fidel Castro took the blame for  a wave of homophobia launched by his revolutionary government  in the 1960s, but said it happened because he was distracted by  other problems, in an interview published yesterday in a  Mexican newspaper.

Dear Editor, It is now apparent that the Guyana Times has joined forces with the state-controlled radio, the Guyana Chronicle, Channel 11 and some other television stations, as we sink to the lowest level of journalistic impropriety.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Douglas said yesterday he felt optimistic about recovering from throat cancer  but drew gasps when he told a television audience he had the  most advanced stage.

A 45-year-old Den Amstel man accused of breaking into a church and stealing a quantity of items was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

-court hears Jason Lawrence, 21, was yesterday remanded to prison on the charge that he used a pair of scissors to carry out an armed robbery on a woman.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Powerful Hurricane Earl churned  toward the eastern U.S.

Dear Editor, I would like to agree with Dr Richard Van West-Charles who openly endorsed Mr Winston Murray as the most competent person to lead the PNCR into the future (Sunday Stabroek, August 29). 

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) was saddened yesterday morning by the news that former national player Stanislaus ‘Knox’ Hadmon had passed away.

(Jamaica Observer) OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Police Constable Sheldon Williams, accused of misbehaviour while on a pleasure boat in this resort town, was fatally shot under questionable circumstances during a confrontation with his colleagues Sunday night, prompting a probe by the Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI).

BROOKLYN, New York, CMC – A St Lucian woman who was shot in the chest during a melee in which a St.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – An accused former top aide to  Osama bin Laden was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for  stabbing a guard through the eye with a sharpened comb while  awaiting trial for conspiring with al Qaeda to kill Americans.

Dear Editor, Receiving an adequate supply of blood has always been a challenge for the Ministry of Health in Guyana, and health facilities and organisations all over the world.

Prime Minister Golding of Jamaica might well have thought that with the dispatch of alleged drug baron Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to the custody of the United States of authorities, the long travail that threatened to destabilize not only Jamaica, but his own political legitimacy, had come to an end.

(Barbados Nation) David Thompson has resumed his duties as Prime Minister of Barbados.

-fined $50,000 for DUI A man was refused bail after he pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving and was fined $50,000 for admitting his guilt to driving under the influence (DUI) when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.

Students from the Hinterland Scholarship Programme perform a dance at the Umana Yana yesterday.