Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 22, 2011

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – The depth in their  batting and the variety of their bowling make South Africa one  of the teams to fear at the World Cup and they will be looking  to prove a point in their opening match against West Indies on  Thursday.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Jailed financier Allen Stanford  has been moved to a prison hospital in Butner, North Carolina,  for treatment to his addiction to anti-anxiety medication,  according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

A 32-year-old Berbice man was stabbed to death early this morning at the Rosignol Stelling and the alleged perpetrator is in police custody, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.

One of the two runways at the Ogle Airport has been closed as a result of water accumulation over the past twenty four hours.

NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – England laboured to a  thrilling six-wicket victory completed with eight balls to spare  over the Netherlands in a Group B match to avert what would have  been the first upset of the World Cup today.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Familiar conditions and an  abundance of all-rounders make West Indies as good as any other  top team chasing World Cup glory, vice-captain Dwayne Bravo said  today.

(De Ware Tijd) – Suriname has submitted five requests for legal assistance to the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Pakistan, South-Africa and Great Britain.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – A furious Ricky Ponting  took out his frustration at being run out in Australia’s opening  World Cup match by smashing a television set with his bat in the  team’s dressing room.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Not a single ticket for the  Cricket World Cup final to be held in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium  on April 2 was sold to the public after the official website  crashed, the ICC told Reuters today.

BAMAKO, (Reuters) – At least 36 people were killed in  an overnight stampede at a stadium in Mali’s capital, state  radio reported today.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – U.N. High Commissioner for Human  Rights Navi Pillay called today for an international  investigation into Libya’s attacks on anti-government  protestors, saying they may amount to crimes against humanity.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – A strong earthquake killed at  least 65 people in New Zealand’s second-biggest city of  Christchurch today, with more casualties expected as  rescuers worked into the night to find scores of people trapped  inside collapsed buildings.

Persistent overnight rainfall on Sunday continued into yesterday, leaving the city and a number of villages along the East Coast Demerara under several inches of water.

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi vowed to die in  Libya as a martyr in an angry television address today, as  rebel troops said eastern regions had broken free from his rule  in a burgeoning revolt.

The Mash day parade will be held tomorrow as usual despite the rains.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s reggae superstar Buju Banton, real name Mark Myrie, has been found guilty of three cocaine related charges.

Well-known journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of the Guyana Chronicle Sharief Khan passed away early this morning at his East Coast Demerara home.

Heavy rainfall swamped sections of Laluni yesterday leaving anxious farmers fearful for their crops and renewing their plea to the authorities to clear the overgrowth that clogs the Laluni Creek.

A Strathspey cane cutter and his family were on Sunday night held captive for over two hours by gunmen, who later attacked the Devin’s Hangout Bar and left the bartender with multiple stab wounds.

The Blairmont/New Amsterdam launch service which had started to run at a loss since the establishment of the Berbice River Bridge has been forced out of operation, resulting in many schoolchildren being affected.

At the Whim Court yesterday Lueon ‘Eye Lash’ Morgan, 33, of 313 ‘B’ Field Sophia was charged with setting fire to a place of worship when he appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore.

A woman who allegedly took a cell phone into the Camp Street jail was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A young woman and her two children are homeless after a suspicion fire gutted their one bedroom ‘D’ Field Sophia house early yesterday morning.

A woman, who was charged with malicious damage to property has been fined $60,000 or three months imprisonment.

A man, who was charged with unlawful and malicious damage to property, yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The minibus operators plying the University of Guyana (UG) route have increased fares, citing the increased cost of spare parts and gasoline.

UK Professor Audrey Butt-Colson gave the first testimony by audio visual link in the High Court yesterday as Justice Roxane George continued hearing an ongoing Amerindian land rights case.

The government through the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU) has an obligation to say publicly who has been allocated what frequency in this country and how, according to broadcaster Enrico Woolford.

Several housewives who lost their husbands following mining accidents in the goldfields of Guyana, though at their wits’ end as regards their future, are determined to take care of their children’s welfare.

A man yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a simple larceny charge.

An island in the Essequibo River touted as a prime spot for eco tourism is now up for sale to anyone who can pay the $80 million price being quoted.

In a Sunday Stabroek (20/02/11) article on the Mahaica Hospice it was stated that Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security Trevor Thomas had stated that he was unaware that a nursing staff had fallen through a rotten flooring at one of the cottages.

By Treiston Joseph The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) yesterday congratulated the athletes who  represented Guyana at the North America, Central America and Caribbean (NACAC) cross country race in Trinidad last Saturday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe  Bryant won a record-tying fourth All-Star Game most valuable  player award as he led the Western Conference to a 148-143  victory in front of his home fans on Sunday.

The New Amsterdam Warriors and the Fyrish Fire Hawks have advanced to the final of the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association Mashramani basketball tournament at the New Amsterdam basketball court.

The final of the Linden Stag Beer Inter-Ward street football tournament will be contested tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Combined Campuses & Colleges created a small piece of history, when they completed a 158-run victory over Leeward Islands in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

Cycle races as a feature of this year’s Mashramani celebrations will continue this weekend at the National Park and the West Coast of Demerara.

Rain forced a last minute postponement of the Rising Sun horse race meet on Sunday at Arima Park, West Coast Berbice.

Having fun: This lad decides to take a dip in the overflowing

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Champions Australia  softened up a resolute Zimbabwe with fiery pace and bounce to  kick start their campaign with a resounding 91-run victory yesterday, their 30th World Cup win on the trot.

The Corentyne man who was found dead in a Linden drain on Sunday died as a result of a broken neck and haemorrhage to the brain, a post-mortem examination yesterday revealed.

Huge ponds of water on the

NAGPUR, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew Strauss  expects Kevin Pietersen to thrive in his newly assigned opener’s  role and wants the team to play the smart one-day cricket that  was conspicuously absent in their recent tour of Australia.

A woman wades through a flooded road at Bare Root,

The two suspects in the murder of Rhampattie Ramsundar have been released on station bail and the police are continuing their investigators.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Marlon Samuels stroked his second hundred for the season, as Jamaica settled for a draw with Barbados in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s military rulers are expected today to step up efforts to restore stability, hoping a promise of a swift transition to democracy will prevent a new flare-up in the protests which forced out Hosni Mubarak.

Dear Editor, The undertaking is hardly about just being a president.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Lendl Simmons narrowly missed-out on a hundred, as Trinidad & Tobago earned a draw with England Lions in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

A minibus moves along a flooded street in South Ruimveldt Park

Dear Editor, One of the tests of democracy is that every few years, the baton of power passes to another party.

A resident of Dazzel Housing Scheme on the East Coast Demerara

While outgoing president of the Guyana Cricket Board  (GCB) Chetram Singh claims that he has no idea  how investigations are proceeding, some executive members are not satisfied with the work of the investigator.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A strong quake hit New Zealand’s second-biggest city of Christchurch today for the second time in five months, toppling buildings, causing “multiple fatalities,” trapping people beneath rubble and sparking fires.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to the attention of the entire Guyanese public as well as visitors to this wonderful country, the celebration of the arrival of Indians here on May 5, 2011, at Highbury, on the East Bank Berbice.

BERNE, (Reuters) – AC Milan captain Gennaro Gattuso  has been given a four-match European ban for head-butting the  assistant coach of rivals Tottenham Hotspur at the end of last  week’s Champions League tie, UEFA said yesterday.

A resident of Stratsphey, East Coast Demerara was forced to place

RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco’s King Mohammed said yesterday he would not cede to “demagoguery” a day after thousands of Moroccans took to the street to demand he give up some of his powers to a newly elected government.

LYON, France, (Reuters) – Real Madrid are a stronger  proposition than last year after the arrival of Champions League  specialist Jose Mourinho and several new midfielders, bogey side  Olympique Lyon said yesterday ahead of their last-16 first leg.

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said protesters demanding an end to his 32-year rule could not achieve their goal through “anarchy and killing,” after nationwide unrest which has killed 12 people since Thursday.

A  kitchen garden of a resident of Stratsphey, East Coast Demerara which

Dear Editor, As we concentrate on the issue of potential candidates for the presidential elections we address questions such as the position of the candidates with regard to inclusiveness, presidential powers, etc.

Dear Editor, Almost everyone in India strongly believes India will win the World Cup this year. 

By Bernd Debusmann On February 18, the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Hosts Britain will be nervous  about their medal chances at next year’s London Olympics after  raising expectations by finishing fourth in the table at  Beijing, according to Australia’s Chef de Mission Nick Green.

KELKHEIM, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s defence minister said yesterday he would give up his doctorate title in an attempt to quell a plagiarism scandal that has prompted a criminal investigation.

Flood

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s World Cup captain  Shahid Afridi will play for Hampshire in the 2011 English  domestic Twenty20 competition, the county said yesterday.

By Michael Spence and Sandile Hlatshwayo NEW YORK – Since World War II’s end, the global economy’s trade and financial openness has increased, thanks to institutions like the International Monetary Fund and successive rounds of liberalization, starting with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947.

The tumultuous events currently unfolding in the Middle East continue to dominate the reportage of the major news providers around the globe.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Rikki Jai (Samraj Jaimungal) became the first $2 million monarch of Carnival 2011 when he won the NLCB Chutney Soca Monarch competition at Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Saturday night, Jai’s victory, however, drew mixed reactions, with cheers and boos from the packed audience when he was announced as the winner.

The Police Consumers Cooperative Society on Saturday held the drawing of its ‘Christmas Consumeramus’ promotion. 

Dear Editor, Guyanese people of all races are concerned about the economy.