Daily Archive: Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 2155h last night on businesswoman Rajpattie Ramnarace, 58 years of Nigg Settlement, Corentyne, Berbice, during which

The police are investigating an accident that occurred at about 1030h yesterday which resulted in the death of Rabindranauth Goorsammy, 56 years of ‘B’ Field, Sophia, Georgetown.

The Office of Prime Minister Sam Hinds today announced that the trading of ferrous metal scrap has been suspended until further notice.

ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo  has surrendered and asked for United Nations protection, an  internal U.N.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Departing India coach Gary  Kirsten hailed World Cup winning-captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as  the best leader in contemporary cricket as he bid an emotional  goodbye today following a successful three years in charge.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The Vatican urged the  faithful today not to let reports of huge crowds or  unscrupulous hoteliers deter them from coming to Rome for the  beatification of the late Pope John Paul on May 1.

(Barbados Nation) Three police officers were being questioned last night in connection with the alleged rape of a Jamaican woman in February.

Dr Robin Ramcharan, son of well-known Guyanese Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, has just been appointed Professor of International Relations and International Business at the internationally-recognized Alliance University in Bangalore, India.

Guyanese, Laurence Clarke, has been promoted to the position of Director in the World Bank.

The death of a Guyanese teacher in New York before his green card was approved has left his family in an immigration nightmare.

PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar yesterday said that he was humbled by his unanimous selection as the party’s presidential candidate and said he will stand by the party’s record of achievement.

A fisherman of No. 79 Village, Skeldon was stabbed to death with a broken bottle around 8:15 pm on Sunday and his 19-year-old attacker has been taken into custody.

A US-based consortium says it will invest US$75M to build Guyana’s first oil refinery in the next 18 months.

Five persons accused of robbing employees at the Guyana Stockfeeds Limited were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Providence Magistrates’ Court yesterday, while an arrest warrant was issued for an alleged accomplice.

The five men, including three Guyanese who were charged by the Barbadian authorities in connection with a US$642,000 cocaine bust last week, were yesterday remanded to prison after making an appearance at the Holetown Magistrates’ Court on the island.

Two West Berbice schoolgirls, an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old ended up at a hospital where it was discovered that they were both pregnant.

Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) General Secretary Lincoln Lewis has lashed out at newly-selected PPP presidential candidate Donald Ramotar, saying he ought to answer for government policies that have stymied the working class and led to the degeneracy of the society.

Charges are likely to be laid soon against three persons who were held over the weekend in connection with the huge cocaine bust made in Jamaica last month on board a ship that left Guyana.

An elderly man died on the spot yesterday when a Mayor and City Council tractor and trailer ran over his head on Water Street.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) said yesterday that it has noted comments attributed to Chairman of IPED, Dr Yesu Persaud regarding “political interference” in the current operations of the industry and published in the Friday, April 1, 2011 business section in Stabroek News.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the attempted murder of Police Constables Rajindra Singh and Damintra Indrapaul for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Anthony Watson and Basil Morgan are accused continued yesterday.

A man and his reputed wife accused of having a quantity of unlicensed ammunition in their possession were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The Ministry of Health commissioned a $100M Tuberculosis Programme Unit at the Georgetown Hospital as part of this year’s observances aimed at eradicating the disease.

Region One residents benefited from specialised medical care when a team of volunteer doctors and surgeons held clinics at the Mabaruma Hospital (Barima/Waini) recently.

Social activist Mark Benschop was yesterday admitted to self-bail on charges of unlawful assault and malicious damage to property, while his alleged victim was charged with assaulting an MP.

The Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) has paid more than 90% of the monies it owed to farmers for paddy supplied since the first crop last year.

Venezuelan, Francisco Silva perished during a fire at an apartment building in Aranka, Cuyuni on Saturday.

Police in Mahdia have arrested a second person in connection with last Saturday’s brazen multi-million robbery at the Brazilian-owned Excel Minerals Inc.

Guyana’s bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China were further strengthened last week with the signing of agreements to boost priority projects in transportation, health care, training and culture, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

In Belle West, phase two, 538 house-lots were allocated to residents last Wednesday through the Housing Minis-try’s ongoing ‘One Stop Shop’ campaign, the Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) has reported.

Hundreds of residents of East Ruimveldt and nearby communities last Wednesday benefitted from a one-day clinic held at the East Ruimveldt Life Improvement Centre.

A Guyanese man whose suitcase was found with cocaine at the top of his cooked rabbit at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York had the drug charge dismissed against him early last month by Judge Cheryl L.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thanks to help from the public, baby Ricardo Vijay has a bright future.

Road safety is now a priority in Lethem and surrounding communities in Region 9 that are seeing a greater volume of traffic daily.

The woman charged with neglecting her children at Kingelly, West Coast Berbice was fined $10,000 when she appeared at the Blairmont Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to the offence.

Robb Street handyman Warren James was remanded to prison yesterday on the charge that police found him with two grammes of cocaine while searching his premises.

Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir yesterday responded to comments made by president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh over the weekend stating that if the body had wanted to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in a timely manner it “should have had its house in order.”

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – Pakistan’s talismanic one-day captain Shahid Afridi is now likely to lead his side against West Indies in the Caribbean later this month, after reconsidering his decision to miss the series.

A miner accused of having a gramme of cocaine in his possession was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Water Street vendors operating illegally along the roadway have been advised to move again by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) following an incident which left a Mocha Arcadia pensioner dead yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Jamaica predictably qualified for the Regional First Class Championship final after their semi-final against Trinidad and Tobago finished in a controversial no-decision yesterday.

St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is considering the issue of performance-related pay for its cricketers.

Former Kaieteur Cycle Club cyclist Maurice ‘Trini’ Lewis was laid to rest in Brooklyn, New York recently.

Dear Editor, David Granger calls for a judicial inquiry into all aspects of the drug trade.

One of the most historic nights in local football history took place at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground Sunday when  Guyana’s top two football teams were sent packing from the annual Mayor’s Cup tournament.

Dear Editor, Al Creighton’s poison pen, which is usually used to advance the interests of his elitist friends and viciously demolish the achievements of brilliant talent, has reached a new low in his absolutely ferocious denigration of Ron Morrison’s ‘Mori J’von Comedy Jam’ and Maria Edwards-Benschop’s  ‘Nothing to Laugh About.’

Fairy Landing of the Sherriff Stable upset a top notch field to win the feature C class race when the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facilities held its horse race meet at the club’s Alness track, Corentyne, Berbice.

TRIPOLI/SFAX, Tunisia, (Reuters) – Forces loyal to  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are staging a “massacre” in the  besieged city of Misrata, evacuees said yesterday, as Libya said  it was ready to discuss political reform, led by Gaddafi.

Top Class proved to be in a class of their own playing unbeaten on the opening night of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets football tournament at the Mackenzie Municipal tarmac in Linden Sunday evening.

Dear Editor, I would like to air my two bits on the ongoing feud that has been engulfing our cricket lately.

After two nights of basketball on the opening weekend of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) National Club Championships last Saturday and Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, the semi-finalists for the tournament have emerged.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  declared himself a candidate for re-election in 2012 on Monday,  jumping ahead of a slow-starting Republican field and hoping an  economic recovery will boost his case for a new term.

Three more teams found themselves in winners’ row on the second day of the inaugural Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst Orange Juice Under-15 League Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground.

Some 79 students were tested last Saturday in the first grading exercise for 2011 by the Japan Karate Association/World Federation at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – U.N. and French helicopters  attacked Laurent Gbagbo’s last strongholds in Abidjan yesterday  as forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane  Ouattara streamed into the city in a “final assault”.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Only 10 teams will contest the next two World Cups, after the International Cricket Council confirmed yesterday it had cut the quota for the cricket’s largest showpiece.

Dear Editor, Further to your subject article published in your daily of March 9, captioned ‘Union wins key battle at RUSAL –derecognition denied’, please be informed that it was 131 members of the bargaining unit (employees of Bauxite Company Guyana Inc and members of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU)), who petitioned the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board in December 2009 for the derecognition of GB&GWU.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Champions League debutants  Tottenham Hotspur will not be intimidated by Real Madrid or their  imposing Bernabeu stadium when they square up in today’s  quarter-final first leg, manager Harry Redknapp said.

Dear Editor, It was some time in 1972 that the Mighty Chalkdust sang a calypso which he called ‘Ah Fraid Karl.’

Dear Editor, My letter titled: ‘Guyana is not a democracy’ (SN, April 1) sought to provoke a national debate on the topic.

ATLANTA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government  will order emergency checks of some Boeing Co 737s for the kind  of fatigue cracks that prompted Southwest Airlines Co to ground  dozens of planes and cancel hundreds of flights after a hole  opened in one of its jets.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Michael Clarke got an idea of  the sort of scrutiny he will be subject to as Australia captain  over the weekend but said yesterday his appointment to the post  had not yet properly sunk in.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan has asked nuclear  superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship  used to decommission nuclear submarines as it fights to contain  the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media  said late yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Michel Martelly, a  shaven-headed singer and political outsider, won Haiti’s  presidential election in a landslide victory that tapped into  deep popular desire for change in the poor, earthquake-battered  Caribbean state.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United striker Wayne  Rooney has been charged with using foul language while  celebrating a goal in Saturday’s 4-2 win at West Ham United, the  Football Association said in a statement yesterday.

Politikles

Dear Editor, The decision by the Government of Norway to give Guyana the US$40M on the LCDS initiative is timely and a good decision; this country needs the money to continue its development. 

Some of us are still trying to get our minds around last Tuesday’s incident allegedly involving seventeen students from two city schools who, reportedly armed with knives, travelled several miles from Georgetown to Leonora, reportedly to settle a score with a student at the Leonora Secondary School.

(Trinidad Express) President George Maxwell Richards revoked the appointment of Police Service Commission (PSC) chairman Nizam Mohammed, yesterday morning.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – A United Nations plane  crashed while trying to land at the airport serving Congo’s  capital Kinshasa yesterday, killing 32 people, U.N.