Articles published on Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Seven kilogrammes of cocaine that went missing may have led to last Saturday’s deadly attack and the mother and child, who were among those killed, may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, Police Commissioner Henry Greene said yesterday.
Richard Fresco, 29, of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam who had fractured his spine when he fell from a truck in April last year, succumbed yesterday at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
– funeral homes refuse to move body Three days after 69-year old Elsie Nieuenkirk was last seen alive, her badly decomposed body was discovered at her 52 Winkle Road, New Amsterdam home after 10 am yesterday.
Persons of questionable character were seen in Bartica over the weekend and reportedly left hurriedly prior to the discovery of the bodies of gold dealers Ramdeo Deonarine and Jainarine Raghubar.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday confirmed that Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall was involved in a traffic accident on Saturday night but declined to provide details.
An 18-year-old girl has been missing from her home since August 27 and worried relatives believe she is being held captive in Berbice.
– rules breached; ammunition found in living quarters In excess of 20 commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) now face disciplinary action following the discovery of over 200 live and blank rounds of ammunition, helmets and a training grenade in their living quarters at various army bases across the country.
Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said on Monday that he was unaware of any regional agency requesting HIV testing as a pre-requisite for employment, adding that if this was occurring at a Caricom agency he was “not informed”.
A Block 22 man was found dead, hanging from a tree in his neighbourhood, less than 24 hours after he was seen with the rope that was used.
– academy head The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been surpassing its recruitment targets, Assistant Commissioner of Police and Commandant of the Police Academy, Stephen Conway told a recruitment exercise in Linden.
A Canadian mining company is seeking manganese and iron here and on Monday signed a licencing agreement with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).
A 34-year-old man accused of converting a car to his own use after being entrusted with it to operate a taxi service was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $300,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
– finds many cases, pleads for action Dengue fever surveillance in several East Coast Demerara communities by a private group has found a number of confirmed and probable cases, and according to the team there appears to be no aggressive initiative in place to prevent the spread.
‘I want justice,’ wife pleads Fifty-year-old Mohamed Yusuf who was on July 13 remanded to prison on charges of unlawful assault, abusive language and damage to property, after his visibly terrified wife told acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson of constant abuse she has suffered at his hands was yesterday further remanded to prison.
A documentary on the life of the late Guyanese scholar and activist Dr Walter Rodney will be screened at the Theatre Guild Playhouse on Saturday.
– move away from dependence on millers General Secretary of the Rice Producers Association (RPA) Dharamkumar Seeraj has urged Essequibo Coast rice farmers to look towards drying and storing their paddy for export as this will allow them to move away from dependence on millers.
By Orin Davidson A new standard of ineptitude by sports administrators was set by the actions of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) vice president and his faction last Saturday.
–Sensei Jeffrey WongConstruction of a permanent Guyana Karate College (GKC) is expected to commence in November, according to Chief Instructor (ag) Sensei Jeffrey Wong.
The Beepat Scorpions basketball team has risen from the obscurity which seemed to have plagued them in the recent past to become the number one Division Three team in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Open and Division Three Leagues.
Six staff members of the Parliament Office who work in the Committees Division left on Sunday for London to do a week of training at the House of Commons in Westminster, a British High Commission press release stated.
Lower Corentyne emerges victoriousA brilliant all-round performance from national under-15 player Shailendra Shameer led Lower Corentyne to an easy 44-run victory over New Amsterdam/Canje and the $50,000 victory in the Berbice Cricket Board(BCB)/Diamond Fire and General Insurance Company Inter-Zone Under-19 final last weekend.
Franchises in the IPL believe that the league’s new format and the player retention clause take away their control over their players and also affect their bottom lines.
Dear Editor, A GINA release in early March 2008, reported that the Amerindian Act, 2006 passed on February 16, 2006 and assented to by the President on March 14, 2006 had “paved the way for Amerindians to empower themselves socially, economically and politically.”
Dear Editor, In his September 5, 2010 column in another section of the press, Mr Ravi Dev has called me ‘Elder Kwayana,’ and says that I am the eminence grise of Buxton – the grey eminence.
Steps have already been taken for the resumption of the Guyana Prize for Literature this year, according to Al Creighton Secretary of the Management Committee.
Dear Editor, PPP veteran, Mr Moses Nagamootoo’s publicly expressed aversion to the ‘state sponsorship’ of the PPP General Secretary as the party’s presidential candidate comes hard on the heels of another party veteran, Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s inadvertent public indictment of the Jagdeo administration when he said if, as the party’s candidate, he becomes President, he will make corruption one of the first three areas he will tackle.
Dear Editor, Since the furor over his visit to Buxton, the President of Guyana has had a lot to say about race, ethnicity, and national unity.
Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman is back and his first assignment will be against rising star of the middleweight division Kwesi ‘Lightning Struck Hitman’ Jones on September 23 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Dear Editor, The regularity with which police stations inform victims of crime that they are unable to respond to reports because of the unavailability of a vehicle hardly needs to be emphasised.
LONDON, (Reuters) – World champions England profited from an abject batting display by Pakistan yesterday to win the second Twenty20 international in Cardiff by six wickets.
Dear Editor, A scene too common on our roads today is that of abused, injured, overloaded or over-worked animals of animal-drawn vehicles, some of which are driven by children who are not mature enough to operate such vehicles.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Forward Luis Scola steered Argentina into the world championship quarter-finals with a breathtaking individual performance in a 93-89 victory over traditional rivals Brazil yesterday.
Dear Editor, We the members of the Mahdia Red Thread group bought a pump to flush out the clogged pipeline which supplies water throughout our community.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – United States captain Corey Pavin named Tiger Woods, Zach Johnson, Stewart Cink and Rickie Fowler yesterday as his four wildcard selections for the Ryder Cup against Europe next month in Wales.
Dear Editor, With reference to an article in Monday’s Stabroek News, captioned, ‘Some farmers leaving crops to rot because of low price’ (September 6), it was said that the ochro price is $5 a pound in Black Bush Polder.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – CONCACAF side Canada secured a narrow win to open their FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup on a high at the Larry Gomes Stadium on Monday.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China wants to quell tensions with the United States through quiet talk, not shouting matches, senior officials told White House advisers yesterday, saying the two powers should focus on repairing the global economy.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived yesterday in Rwanda, the United Nations said, following a dispute with the African nation over a leaked UN report saying its troops may have committed genocide.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ reputation as a safe tourist destination is being compromised, says the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI).
West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin will get a chance to improve on his batting when he lines up with former West Indies batting legend Gordon Greenidge from next week.
Dear Editor, It is very disgusting having to travel with loud music in minibuses.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US religious leaders joined yesterday to condemn an “anti-Muslim frenzy” in the United States, and the head of US forces in Afghanistan warned that a Florida church’s plan for a Koran-burning could endanger American troops abroad.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will soon turn some small-scale manufacturing and retail services into cooperatives as the state retreats from minor businesses in an effort to boost the island’s troubled economy, government and Communist Party sources said.
MEXICO CITY – Here’s an interesting detail about the much-publicized recent arrest of Mexico’s top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better known as ‘La Barbie’ – he was caught with a US-made M-16 semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials suspect were smuggled from the United States.
LONDON, (Reuters) – WBA heavyweight world champion David Haye promised to finish Audley Harrison’s career after it was confirmed yesterday that the two British fighters would clash in Manchester on Nov.
During the last fortnight, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent & the Grenadines has circulated what many might have found a curious document to be emanating from a Prime Minister’s office, and certainly one more reminiscent of the days of intense ideological confrontation of the mid-1970s into the 1980s.
By Naomi Wolf This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world NEW YORK – In the 1992 United States presidential election, George H W Bush’s campaign made a political splash by going after the television show ‘Murphy Brown’ – one of the first times, but far from the last, that a fictitious character was introduced to score political points in America.
Arrow flown to Antigua International soca star Alphonsus ‘Arrow’ Cassell has been airlifted to neighbouring Antigua for further medical attention.
Dear Editor, We are back to school. The twelve-year march continues, at the end of which our children will be knowledgeable in the sciences and the arts and skilled in technology and sports.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Two top UN officials urged the Security Council yesterday to consider sanctions against the rebel masterminds of what they said appeared to be organized mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
DURBAN, (Reuters) – Cricketers must take more responsibility for their actions to prevent the spread of corruption, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said yesterday.
Arrow flown to Antigua International soca star Alphonsus ‘Arrow’ Cassell has been airlifted to neighbouring Antigua for further medical attention.
