Daily Archive: Friday, October 8, 2010

A dazed Bibi Sharima Gopaul and her partner Jarvis Small were this afternoon jointly charged with the murder of her 16-year-old daughter Neesa Gopaul.

Police this evening issued an arrest warrant for businessman Royston Penniston for questioning in relation to murder.

Police at midday released three more bulletins in relation to an extensive murder probe including one for businessman Salim Juman Azeez of West Bank Demerara.

-including Bramanand Nandalall, Clay Hutson Police last night issued bulletins for nine persons in relation to murder and the list included ex-policemen and Bramanand Nandalall who had been the subject of a major investigation by Canadian Mounties around 15 years ago and had been kidnapped at the height of the 2002-3 crime spree.

Guyana’s Aliann Pompey secured a bronze medal in the finals of the women’s 400 metres today at the XIX Commonwealth Games held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi, Indian.

– blood evidence found at home -relatives want father’s death revisited Based on evidence police have accumulated, the two prime suspects in the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul will soon be charged in relation to her death and relatives of her father have hired an attorney to investigate the man’s ‘sudden’ death last year.

– education, home ministries also launch probes Officers of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) clearly breached the written protocols in their handling of the case involving murdered teenager Neesa Lalita Gopaul, according to Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said about 150 Clico policyholders have retrieved their assets in full since the start of the rescue plan outlined by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

A Lodge family last night escaped unharmed from a fire which gutted their lower flat after reportedly being started by a toddler.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) has condemned the brutal murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul and is urging investigators to be steadfast in their efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Cabinet has cleared three contracts in the security, public works and water sectors including one for a revetment at Craig on the East Bank which has been threatened by flooding emanating from the Demerara River.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama killed  proposed legislation yesterday that had attracted growing  political rage over how banks have moved to evict struggling  borrowers from their homes.

–to approach director of culture on plan Mayor Hamilton Green and the central government have found common ground on the way forward to raise some $400 million to restore the deteriorating buildings of the historic City Hall complex.

Aliann Pompey produced her season’s best time to book her place in the 400m final today after she advanced yesterday from the semi-final round with the second fastest time for the women’s event at the XIX Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.

Up, Up and over! Under-16 high jump action yesterday at the North Georgetown District No.11 Inter-Zone Championships at the Guyana Teachers Union ground, Woolford Avenue.

Demerara will be without its captain Ramnaresh Sarwan for the final of the El Dorado 50-over Inter-County tournament against Berbice at the Guyana National Stadium tomorrow.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Chaos ruled again at the  troubled Delhi Commonwealth Games yesterday when Australian  Sally Pearson was disqualified for a false start three hours  after crossing the line first in the women’s 100 metres.

Jamaica’s Reggae Boys and Guyana’s Golden Jaguars under-20 teams will be aiming to continue their good run today after getting off to a terrific start in Group ‘C’ of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup qualifiers at the Guyana National Stadium on Wednesday.

St Stanislaus College (Saints) athlete Hilton Moore gave three dominating performances to put his school in the lead of Zone Three at the end of the field events of North Georgetown District No.11 Inter-Zone Championships at the Guyana Teachers Union ground, Woolford Avenue.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African Nobel Peace  Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who used his church pulpit as a  platform to help bring down apartheid, officially retired from  public duties yesterday.

Campbellville Secondary yesterday completed their inter-house track events at the Carifesta Complex ground, Carifesta Avenue and the school’s athletes are expected to participate in the East Georgetown District No.12 inter-district events which start  today.

The Office of the President (OP) has begun advertising for ICT trainers to fill positions on the US$30 million One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project as the government aims for a year-end roll out, which will see the instruments eventually given to some 90,000 families.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Peruvian writer and one-time  presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, a chronicler of  human struggles against authoritarianism in Latin America, won  the 2010 Nobel prize for literature yesterday.

Three men including an ex-immigration officer charged with forgery of immigration stamps were yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $250,000 each when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Jamaican Lerone Clarke took  advantage of the absence of his illustrious compatriots Usain  Bolt and Asafa Powell to win the Commonwealth Games men’s 100  metres final in Delhi yesterday.

GYOR, Hungary, (Reuters) – Toxic red sludge from a  Hungarian alumina plant reached the Danube yesterday and crews  struggled to dilute it to protect the river from what the prime  minister called an “unprecedented ecological catastrophe”.

`These initiatives have had limited, if any, success, however, because they have been prepared and executed in isolation from other policies.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – Teenagers Stafanie Taylor and Deandra Dottin fashioned contrasting half-centuries as West Indies hammered Ireland by a mammoth 165 runs, to post their second successive win of the ICC Women’s Challenge yesterday.

Ahead of their debut at the ongoing Commonwealth Games (CWG) on October 11, the national rugby Sevens team has been continuing intensive preparations with a couple of warm-up games.

BISSAU, (Reuters) – Guinea Bissau has reinstated Bubo  Na Tchuto, accused by Washington of being a narcotics kingpin,  as head of the west African state’s navy, according to an  official statement read on state radio.

More workers attached to the Wales Estate of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) have joined their colleagues in the land preparation section of the estate who are on strike over a change in their job description.

A 27-year-old woman slapped with four charges of cannabis possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters Life!) – Airline passenger Deborah  Sigmund noticed something strange about the man and boy who ran  up late to catch a US Airways flight last December from  Washington to Palm Beach, Florida.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Cricketing great Viv Richards  feels the game has hit rock bottom in the West Indies and  lashed out at the board for ostracising former players,  preventing them from helping revive the Caribbean’s glorious  past.

Dear Editor, The recent announcement by retired Brigadier David Granger that he is a contender for the presidential candidacy of the PNC has caused reactions in the press both positive and negative.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Caroline Wozniacki became the  first Danish tennis player to be crowned world number one when  she beat Czech Petra Kvitova 6-3 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals  of the China Open yesterday.

Fifty more Women of Worth (WOW) recipients received cheques from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) to pursue their economic ventures.

Dear Editor, On October 6, in your newspaper, Mr Hydar Ally accused Mr Lionel Peters of misrepresenting the facts regarding the selection of presidential candidates.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of people in  poor countries suffer from untreated mental health disorders  that could be helped with inexpensive care, the World Health  Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand has a very difficult job, one in which she will have to make some very tough decisions.

A scheduled meeting between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) with the Labour Ministry yesterday failed to materialize after the Chief Labour Officer failed to show, the union says.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US poverty rate rose to 14.3 per cent in 2009 from 13.2 per cent the year before, bringing the percentage of the population living in poverty to the highest level since 1994, as the economic downturn took its toll on jobs, the government said yesterday.

A woman accused of having a quantity of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

QUITO (Reuters) – Former Ecuadorean leader Lucio Gutierrez says the unrest that rocked the South American country last week was a “media show” cooked up by President Rafael Correa and fellow leftist Hugo Chavez.

Dear Editor, When Minister Clement Rohee stood up and told the Private Sector Commission in late August that “there is no threat to national security,” someone from the audience should have told him to sit down again.

A broken section of the Ogle sea wall

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The federal government  announced three contracts worth up to $68 million yesterday  to make three new vaccines against dengue fever and anthrax.

– Persaud The Ministry of Agriculture told a forum on beekeeping that stakeholders must collaborate to address the problems hindering growth in this sector.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – On the edge of Haiti’s earthquake-ravaged capital, a freshly-painted square blue and gray building dabs a bright sign of renewal on an otherwise depressing palette of destruction.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned ‘Granger denies ballot box allegations’ published in your edition of October 1, where you quoted me as stating that Granger was the officer responsible for “seizing the ballot boxes on the Corentyne” and the shooting of two PPP citizens in the July 1973 general elections.

By rejecting the West Indies Cricket Board’s central contracts, Chris Gayle has effectively handed in his resignation as West Indies captain and Dwayne Bravo has disqualified himself for consideration.

Dear Editor, Those persons who lost their savings in the Clico fiasco were given a breath of fresh air by Dr Bharrat Jagdeo; they have begun receiving their money as was promised.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a man accused of stealing a motorcycle when he on Tuesday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Second Bahamian plane crashes Four Bahamian passengers are being treated in a Florida hospital for injuries sustained in a plane crash on Wednesday.

LONDON,  (Reuters Life!) – A lost flute concerto by  18th century composer and virtuoso violinist Antonio Vivaldi has  been discovered by an academic among a set of dusty papers  housed in Scotland’s National Archives in Edinburgh.

Not sure why in Heaven’s name I’ve chosen to comment on the three PPP/C administrations (October 5, 1992 to today) which have been in government and “in charge” of us for 18 years non-stop.