Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 10, 2011

A bystander was last evening shot on Longden Street after a gun went off during a struggle between a policeman and an assault suspect.

(WIPA) The West Indies Players Association has written to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) condemning remarks made by West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Director and Principal of the UWI’s Cave Hill Campus, Sir Hilary Beckles, in which he unfairly compares former West Indies Captain, Christopher Gayle to Christopher “Dudus” Coke. 

The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 1800h yesterday at James and Hunter Streets, Albouystown, Georgetown, during which Meskshaka Brazilio, 24 years, was shot and injured to his chest.

A three-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was badly burnt in a fire at Enmore, East Coast Demerara this morning.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – The Commonwealth Games  Federation (CGF) is to approach the International Cricket  Council (ICC) again to push for Twenty20 cricket’s inclusion in  future Games, the CGF said today.

Linden police today found a large quantity of items which are believed to have been stolen from a garment business before fire destroyed it on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, announced yesterday that they were separating.

Guyana is on the radar of Wendy’s/Arby’s International, a popular United States restaurant chain, according to a report by the Caribbean Media Corporation.

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Pakistan may let  U.S. investigators question the wives of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. 

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Gold multinational IamGold is one step closer to expansion of its operations at the Rosebel Goldmines N.V.

Buildings at ‘Pradoville 2’ where President Bharrat Jagdeo and top government are building houses may be in violation of several regulations as permission was not sought from the local authorities, building plans were never submitted nor were they certified by the Environmen-tal Health Officer.

(Trinidad Express) The appointment of Trinidad Government Senator and Minister of Planning, Restructuring and Gender Affairs, Mary King will be revoked by President Maxwell Richards this afternoon.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former English Football  Association chairman David Triesman has accused FIFA executive  committee members Jack Warner, Ricardo Teixeira, Nicolas Leoz  and Worawi Makudi of asking for favours in return for their  votes for England’s 2018 World Cup bid.

Two Guyanese and three Jamaican men are in custody after a police search unearthed a gun, among other items at a Cummings Lodge home on the East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Sugar would be dead without the political commitment of the administration, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday at the opening of the new packaging plant at Enmore, where he predicted a brighter future for the industry under a Donald Ramotar-led government.

More than five months after a massive fire destroyed the historic Humphrey building on Main Street, the Guyana Fire Service has completed its investigation and concluded that the fire was the result of an act of arson.

The operations of the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) are expected to be disrupted over the next few days, after extensive damage to key offices during a fire on Sunday.

Two armed bandits yesterday held a gun to a husband and wife, who usually sell groceries at Bourda Market, and grabbed $575,000 from them; the incident has left the couple pleading for security to be beefed up.

At least 16 persons have been arrested as police intensify investigations into the armed robberies at Number 11 and Number 56 villages, in the Corentyne that left one man shot and another nursing chop wounds.

A truck collided with a car on Mandela Avenue on Sunday night, killing taxi-driver Quincy Kellman and leaving his eight-year-old daughter an orphan.

Officials from the Region 3 administration came under intense scrutiny yesterday from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament after they were unable to properly account for a quantity of wooden piles that had been seized from a defaulting contractor back in 2005.

Two Canje residents had their driver’s licenses suspended pending the outcome of a causing death by dangerous driving case following a fatal accident last June.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said yesterday that maintenance works at its new Kingston plant have come to an end, five days ahead of schedule but a second round is expected to begin later this month.

Gecom has started conducting the mandatory claims and objections exercise of entries on the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) for the imminent general and regional elections.

Two years away from all forms of cricket must have roused a beast out of hibernation in Marlon Samuels because certainly the double hundred he plundered yesterday against his West Indies counterparts was as savage as ever.

A Guyana XI yesterday drew its two-day First Class match against Pakistan at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda yesterday.

A 27-year-old-year-old emotionally disturbed Guyanese man has been charged with stabbing his mother to death in their Brooklyn apartment last week Wednesday.

JAIPUR, India, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni and  his top order colleagues fired in unison as Chennai Super Kings  thumped Rajasthan Royals by 63 runs to jump to second place in  the Indian Premier League yesterday.

Developer of the Amaila Falls hydropower plant Sithe Global will this week be holding community meetings in Linden and Georgetown to discuss the recently released Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Report (ESIA).

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The aging and erratic Los  Angeles Lakers faced an uncertain future yesterday after the  NBA champions were embarrassingly swept out of the second round  of the playoffs by the Dallas Mavericks.

The man accused of murdering his younger brother after throwing a lit stove on him was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Eagles squeezed past Retrievers Unknowns 3-2 to lift the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Futsal football tournament in front of a mammoth crowd at the Mackenzie market squad Saturday evening to bring the curtains down on the Linden leg of the series.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – West Indies selectors have announced a 13-man squad for the first Test against Pakistan starting here Thursday.

Even as residents protested the move, Bartica speedboat operators yesterday hiked the fare for travel between the interior community and Parika to $2,500.

Seven-year-old Althea Clement died on Sunday evening, after she and her father were struck down by a car in a hit and run on the Wales Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

HAMBURG, Germany, (Reuters) – British WBA heavyweight  champion David Haye called rival Vladimir Klitschko “a fraud” yesterday as the duo began verbal sparring ahead of their  unification fight in Hamburg on July 2.

By Treiston Joseph Once a budding star in Guyana at the tender age of 13, Kadecia Baird returned to her homeland three years after  migrating to the United States of America (USA) where she now resides in New York (NY), with her mother Natasha Baird.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the Charlestown murders of Cedrick Blackman and Ann Cham-A-Koon with which William Light has been charged commenced yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani rejected allegations yesterday that the killing of Osama bin Laden near Islamabad by US forces showed Pakistani incompetence or complicity in hiding the al Qaeda leader.

National full-bore captain Mahendra Persaud has expressed disappointment in Guyana not retaining the prestigious Anchor Cup, symbol of short-range team shooting in the region at West Indies Fullbore Shooting championships held last week in Antigua.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – NATO planes pounded Libyan government targets yesterday but stalemate in the rebel war to unseat Muammar Gaddafi has presented Western powers with a dilemma over whether to offer covert aid to the cause.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – A shoulder injury seems poised to rule dashing opener Virender Sehwag out of next month’s tour of the Caribbean.

All systems are in place for REDjet’s inaugural flight between Guyana and Barbados today and the regional airline has expressed delight at the initial response it has been receiving from the travelling public.

Dear Editor, Ever since the existence of the recent accord between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) became public, some of us were ‘regaled’ while others were jaded by the numerous criticisms which it attracted.

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s President Idriss Deby won a presidential election by a landslide, according to official results released yesterday, but the outcome was rejected by the opposition as illegitimate after a boycott.

The Guyana Chess Federation will stage a one-day Rapid Chess tournament on Sunday in Linden as the GCF moves to decentralize the sport.

Six senior Social Work students at the University of Guyana recently held an eight-week ‘Girls to Women Empowerment Transition Programme’ for 17 girls from the Joshua House Children’s Centre.

Dear Editor, Yesterday’s Stabroek News Editorial: ‘A special water main for fighting fires’, is instructive and of a concern to all citizens.

Co-Founder and President of the Haynes Foundation, Paul Haynes, has declared that his 10-day visit to Guyana was very productive.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) declared yesterday in a press release that its actions “have never been and will never be politically motivated,” contrary to statements made by three guests on  ‘Walter Rodney Groundings’ on HBTV Channel 9 on April 24.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba published yesterday economic reform guidelines approved by the ruling Communist Party that include proposals for the sale of homes and cars and possible changes to make it easier for Cubans to travel abroad.

Dear Editor, The death of Osama Bin Laden is good news for the whole world and as I have said time and time again, President Obama has been on the right track since he became the leader of the democratic world.

Security guard Eon Davidson, the father of eight who was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital with a severe stab wound to the neck on Sunday night, was recovering from the incident yesterday following a successful surgery.

DURANGO, Mexico (Reuters) – Suspected drug hitmen dumped six headless bodies outside a school in northern Mexico yesterday a day after forensics pulled victims out of a nearby mass grave in a stream of unrelenting violence that is pressuring Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

Giftland Office Max confirmed its support for the second year running of the President’s/Jefford Track & Field Classic when Marketing Manager Compton Babb handed over a cheque for an undisclosed sum to the co-ordinator, Edison Jefford yesterday at the company’s Head Office on Water Street.

Dear Editor, With regards to your recent reports on RedJet’s low fares (SN Apr 12, 13, 22, 24, etc.),

A man who admitted using abusive language but denied using threatening behaviour towards Dr Cheddi Jagan Jnr appeared yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor says he opted for the Indian Premier League in order to erase the uncertainty surrounding his future.

(Trinidad Guardian) Immigration officials have begun hunting down illegal Chinese nationals who have come into T&T to “slave” in thriving casinos, Chinese supermarkets, restaurants and private members’ clubs.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Colombia extradited one of the world’s most wanted suspected drug lords to his native Venezuela yesterday in another sign of warming relations between the Andean neighbours after years of acrimony.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board has  demanded one-day captain Shahid Afridi explain comments he made in the media about differences with team management.

A domestic worker accused of trafficking in a quantity of cannabis and cocaine at Alexander Street was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to state the following points in response to a letter by Eric Phillips in the May 9, 2011 edition of Stabroek News headlined `Brother Tacuma should know better than anyone else that Odinga Lumumba cannot threaten Eric Phillips’.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – Phil Jackson, the most successful  coach in NBA history, walked gingerly off the court for what is  likely to be the final time following the Los Angeles Lakers’  season-ending loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

Last week the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) issued a statement on Mr.

Lance Corporal Jermaine Laundry was yesterday cross-examined in the witness box by Attorney-at-law Vic Puran as the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of schoolgirl Neesa Gopaul continued.

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(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is losing important artefacts to the scrap-metal trade.

Dear Editor, My ram goat with a market value of $32,000 was killed by a lorry driver who owns the vehicle and unexpectedly sometime later the entire carcass vanished mysteriously with the police showing no interest or concern about my predicament.

Sugar would be dead without the political commitment of the administration, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday at the opening of the new packaging plant at Enmore, where he predicted a brighter future for the industry under a Donald Ramotar-led government.