Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

– after trying to back-out Latoya Corley, who was caught last September at the JFK Airport with cocaine, says that she was raped after she indicated her desire to withdraw from the plan to travel to the US with the drugs.

Scrap iron dealers engaged in the recycling of ferrous metals will be allowed to continue their trade from October 27, following the lifting of a ban that was instituted earlier this year.

Little Keith Barker leapt tirelessly about the room laughing with everyone and shouting as only a three-year-old can.

Vandals on Sunday night broke into the nursery section of the newly-opened Tuschen Primary School, defacing walls, scattering school items and stealing snacks.

– Nagamootoo The PPP’s recent announcement that it will select its presidential candidate for the next election via the traditional procedure has surprised presidential hopeful Moses Nagamootoo, who says that the party’s members should be stunned that “they no longer count”.

A 13-year-old student of the Golden Grove Secondary School was yesterday hit in the head with a piece of wood by another student after an inappropriate touching incident.

Three employees of the Pegasus Hotel who were told not to return to work more than a week ago without any formal communication from the hotel’s management have expressed concern about the termination of their services and benefits due to them.

– tracks attacker to Trinidad Four years after she was brutally attacked with acid by the former reputed wife of her then boyfriend, Joann Lynch is still crying out for justice and she is accusing members of the Guyana Police Force of frustrating the process and “sending her round in circles” in her quest.

A land dispute between four brothers turned physically violent on Sunday morning in Wakenaam leaving one hospitalised and three injured.

– Harris, Pompey and Bascom leaving US today for Commonwealth Games; Harris receives Ato Boldon helpThe three overseas-based athletes Adam Harris, Aliann Pompey and Jeremy Bascom are today scheduled to depart the United States for New Delhi, India, where they will represent Guyana track and field at the Commonwealth Games from October 3 – 14.

The national rugby Sevens team is now in England after an intensive four-day training camp in Barbados where they also competed against a Barbados Rugby Union (BRU) select rugby Sevens team.

Relatives of a 26-year old Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara (WBD) carpenter were yesterday hoping for the best after the man was struck down by a SUV while standing on the public road, near his home on Sunday evening.

Chatterpaul Deo warmed up for the Suriname Open with an impressive win in  the Akbar’s Auto Sales sponsored golf tournament played Saturday at Lusignan Golf course.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene’s car was on Sunday struck by a drunk driver who has since been charged and fined $7,500.

Trinidad & Tobago Lawyers’ Association (T&TLA) re-bounded from their loss to the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) XI on Friday to comfortably beat the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) on Saturday at GCC ground by five wickets.

The woman who reportedly murdered her former boyfriend’s current girlfriend is known by police but is still on the run, a senior police source said.

Miss Republic was again unstoppable on Sunday when she galloped to victory in the feature B class event of the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sport Facilities annual Champion of Champion horse race meet at Alness, Corentyne, Berbice.

A mother of three who is accused of having a quantity of cocaine in her possession was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Ravens basketball team bounced back from a dismal second quarter performance to retire the Beepat Scorpions 62-49 in the Open Division of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Pepsi Street Playoff Series Sunday night at the Burnham basketball court.

-Chanderpaul, Sarwan to skipper sides The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) senior trial match for the upcoming El Dorado 50-over Inter-County competition gets underway today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, from 09:30 hours.

Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall yesterday said that concerns raised about the safety and conformity of the Haags Bosch landfill facility, which is to be opened next year, are unfounded.

Suspects in two murders committed in the Cuyuni/ Mazaruni area during this month remain on the run and relatives are calling on the police to work harder to capture them.

-DoverGolden’s Jaguars coach Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover  has said that playing as a unit and proper team organization were the factors responsible  for  the senior national   football team holding the number one ranked team in CONCACAF to a draw in their encounter on Sunday at the Guyana National Stadium.

Statistical information continues to indicate increasing violence across the Caribbean region with women experiencing higher rates of domestic and sexual violence, and according to Caricom gender advocate Dr Rosina Wiltshire there is a link between domestic violence and societal violence.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India promised to have the  athletes’ housing for the Commonwealth Games cleaned up  tomorrow and said workers were labouring at double time to  have all facilities ready for the opening ceremony on Oct.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Organisers of the CLOBI Cup World Masters Tournament hope to develop the event into an unofficial World Cup in the future.

Dear Editor, As at 24th instant I have screened over 100 applications to fill an advertised vacancy for clerk/receptionist in my organization.

Red Thread yesterday announced its partnership with a women-focused group at Cane Grove, Mahaica saying that increased community activism is one of the main steps in stemming gender-based violence in the country.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s ailing leader Kim Jong-il has named his youngest son as a military general, state media said early today, marking the first stage of a dynastic succession.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)  chairman Ijaz Butt will arrive in London today to consult  his legal advisers about replying to English demands that he  apologise over allegations about match-fixing.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The disgraced president of a Chinese state-owned enterprise has been jailed for 20 years for leaking state secrets in connection with a bid for foreign-made nuclear reactors, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Twenty-one persons in Region Seven have now been trained and certified in Red Cross Standard First Aid after completing a course facilitated by the charity.

Dear Editor, We have never mastered the science of taking care of our horses.

Dear Editor, Not a week passes without a suicide or murder emanating from domestic problems in Guyana, athough we have such a small population.

JERUSALEM/PARIS (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday put off a threatened decision to quit peace talks with Israel, leaving more time for diplomacy to save negotiations from collapse over Israel’s settlement building.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Yawar Saeed has stepped down as  Pakistan manager following the team’s controversial tour of  England, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.

An autopsy conducted on the body of breast cancer patient Sandra Alli found marks of violence to the back, blunt trauma to the head and that she was underfed, her friend Sharon Harding said.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean was hospitalized during the weekend to treat exhaustion, his publicist said yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, September 21, a Grade 9 student of the Vryman’s Erven Secondary School was taken by his class teacher to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after complaining of a stomach ache.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – LeBron James said yesterday he had  to make his “own destiny” and would not worry about the Hall of Famers who denounced his move to the Miami Heat.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian president Alan Garcia demanded yesterday that Yale University return the archeological treasuries its researchers “looted” from the country’s Machu Picchu site in the early 1900s.

NEWPORT, Wales, (Reuters) – The United States Ryder  Cup team arrived at Cardiff airport yesterday and even before  being reunited with their baggage captain Corey Pavin was  fielding his first questions about Tiger Woods.

Dear Editor, I ask readers and Mr Ravi Dev to be patient if they expected an earlier response from me to his printing of my statement as I made it.

– court hears A 24-year-old man accused of breaking into a woman’s house and stealing a quantity of items was yesterday placed on $125,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

ASHDOD, Israel (Reuters) – The Israeli navy boarded a yacht in the Mediterranean yesterday to prevent 10 Jewish activists sailing to Gaza to protest against Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Dear Editor, The assault on our history by highly paid, high-tech propagandists continues unchecked.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s rejuvenated opposition celebrated yesterday after reducing President Hugo Chavez’s majority in parliament and set their sights on defeating him at the next presidential election in 2012.

Workers decorating a sign at the entrance to the Sophia Exhibition site where GuyExpo is set to be opened on Thursday.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand said she is pleased with the strides groups supporting deaf persons have made and she urged participants in the Fifth Annual Deaf Awareness Week to collaborate so that they can identify and advocate for changes that will boost the lives of persons living with this disability.

By Bernd Debusmann “It’s like the American dream in reverse.” That’s how President Barack Obama, ten days after taking office last year, described the plight of Americans hit by the faltering economy.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Real Madrid’s problems in front  of goal are starting to worry coach Jose Mourinho, and a trip to  France to play Auxerre in the Champions League does little to  settle the unease at the club.

OECS heads to meet OECS heads of government will meet in St Lucia this week to discuss possible growth prospects for the sub-region, in light of the global financial crisis.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat boast three of  the biggest names in the NBA after their off-season free agency  coup, but head coach Erik Spoelstra and face-of-the-franchise  Dwyane Wade insist there is no worry of clashing egos.

Dear Editor, In response to Minister Kellawan Lall’s letter ‘The truth is not important to some people’ in Stabroek News (SN) of September 21, WPA says the following: The truth to the WPA is very important.

The official ‘Response of the Government of Guyana to the Universal Period Review’ presented by Ms Gail Teixeira in Geneva on September 13 was a dangerous setback for public security.

Volumes of Guyana Classics will be distributed to the Sixth Form schools in Georgetown, the Berbice High and New Amsterdam Secondary School.

TAMPA, Florida (Jamaica Observer) — Reggae star Buju Banton will have to wait until December to know his fate.

The new car park at Diamond which is now sited in front of the DDL plant.

Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world.