Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Police say that at about 1330h. yesterday, miner Lallbachan Narayan, 40 years of Lusignan, ECD, was driving an ATV at Arakaka, NWD, when the vehicle turned over an pinned him.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Authorities seized 1.1 tonnes of  cocaine worth 42 million euros ($61 million) aboard a yacht  sailing from the Caribbean to Europe, the German Federal  Criminal Police Office (BKA) said today.

The Ministry of Home Affairs today warned escaped sea bandit Kevin `Long Hair’ Narine that it will soon catch up with him and said that the  police have been told to boost intelligence gathering so that ongoing piracy can be crushed.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The hotel maid who accused  former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued  the New York Post and four of its reporters for libel today for reporting that she was a prostitute.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has stated that the Caricom heads of Government, at their meeting over the weekend in St Kitts, have agreed in principle to waive immunity from cocaine prosecution for individuals at the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs).

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO/BASSETERRE – When Suriname takes over the chairmanship of CARICOM on January 1, 2012, the country must have put its stamp on the organization by having achieved a number of goals.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname’s candidate for Secretary General (SG) of the CARICOM was unjustly excluded by the selection committee without any reason.

KARACHI, (Reuters) –  Pakistan  cricket’s endless parade of controversies and scandal has made  playing for the national team akin to ‘mental torture’,  according to captain   Misbah-ul-Haq.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British Government inquiry into  corruption allegations surrounding World Cup bids has accused  FIFA of trying to brush aside the evidence and has questioned  president Sepp Blatter’s commitment to reforming the  organisation.

Caricom Heads of Government have agreed to interview the short-listed candidates for the post of Caricom Secretary General within the next two weeks and committed to making a decision on the matter shortly after.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – CARICOM Heads of Government have heeded Chris Gayle’s call, and will seek to intervene in the impasse between the former West Indies captain and the West Indies Cricket Board.

A former national youth footballer was shot dead with an arrow, which pierced his back, on Sunday night at Karasabai Village following an argument and the incident has left the football fraternity in Region Nine and Guyana in shock and deep mourning.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ever-theatrical President Hugo Chavez made a surprise homecoming yesterday after cancer surgery in Cuba, thrilling supporters with an emotional pledge to win the fight to regain his health.

Steve Anthony Carew was left lying in a hammock at Black Water Landing, Region Eight with seven stab wounds for three days and though persons knew what had transpired no one tried to assist him.

A live newborn was last evening found abandoned in the Merriman’s Mall, Bourda.

A Partnership for National Unity presidential candidate David Granger has urged Lindeners to develop a spirit of forgiveness for those who they alleged planted the bomb on the Son Chapman that claimed the lives of 43 persons in the community.

Alonzo Greaves out sprinted his opponents to win yesterday’s 8th Annual Caricom Day Wheat Up Cycle Road Race sponsored by National Milling Company (NAMILCO) held  on the East Bank of Demerara.

A WikiLeaks cable from the US embassy in Brasilia in 2009 noted ongoing talks between Guyana and Brazil on a massive hydropower plant and said that President Bharrat Jagdeo’s thinking was that it would help to consolidate Georgetown’s hold on Essequibo which is the subject of a  longstanding controversy with Venezuela.

For Lindener Gem Elliot, the Women of Worth (WOW) programme has been a big boost to her catering business as since managing to get a bank loan she has expanded her operations.

After an exhibition game on Saturday evening, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Tennis Open curtains came down with the winners receiving their trophies on the lawns of the GBTI Sports Club.

Asks Colin Benjamin As the talented but non-producing West Indies batting again stumbled disappointingly to put up a substantial total in the just concluded second test against India, it seems likely that the team would most certainly have lost the second test if rain hadn’t washed out the third day’s play.

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Orealla, Corentyne River resident,  allegedly by a police constable early yesterday morning in the Amerindian community.

Many in the cricketing world will be surprised to learn that Basil Butcher was the first person of Amerindian descent to represent the West Indies in the English ball game of cricket.

A Linden parent is calling for action in an incident where her child, a student of Wisburg Secondary School, was denied the opportunity to complete end-of-year exams because she refused to apologise to a teacher.

While the spread of the leaf spot disease Black Sigatoka is being monitored by the authorities, its impact on other Caribbean territories has seen an increase in demand for plantains from the local market.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez was last Tuesday forced to dismiss the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) stolen transformer case based on the insufficiency of evidence with the failure of the prosecution to call key witnesses being the primary factor in its collapse.

Diamond Cricket Club yesterday won the 2011 Saskia Investment Trading and Ice-Parlour sponsored East Bank Cricket Association limited overs competition after  securing a 31-run victory over association rivals North Soesdyke in the final at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

He was gifted with eagle-like eyes’ and he had the speed of a hare and the concentration of a man on fire.

Dear Editor,On June 17, the Government of Guyana introduced a draft law in Parliament for the purpose of guaranteeing people’s access to information from government bodies and agencies.

Police at Bartica have detained a miner who cut open the stomach of a fellow miner following a drunken brawl at Takutu backdam last week.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian tanks surrounded Hama today, residents and activists said, threatening a large-scale assault on the city after the biggest protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

Guyana’s Euleen Josiah- Tanner on Sunday won the female category of the sixth CARICOM 10K road race held in St Kitts, Nevis under the theme “Run for life… Exercise your right.”

Dear Editor, In the light of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) report regarding Guyana National Insurance Scheme pension, as reported in SN in its July 3 issue, the President of Guyana, Dr Jagdeo should personally and publicly make an official statement giving NIS pensioners the assurance that their minuscule pensions are secure and protected from roving, ruthless, predators and an undependable board of directors.

A nine-year-old girl is now dead, and her five siblings are patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) as a result of suspected food poisoning.

Dear Editor, With reference to an article by Treiston Joseph in the Stabroek News sport section dated July 2, 2011 titled ‘Guyana sending 29 athletes to ALBA games in Venezuela,’ it was stated in the third paragraph that this would be the first time that our country would be sending athletes to the Olympic-style event.

Police on Sunday found an unlicensed gun and matching cartridges in a camp at Manacura, Matthew’s Ridge, North West District.

Guyanese fighters Stephan Gouveia and Bert Braithwaite have qualified for today’s quarterfinal of the American Boxing Confederation’s third and final qualifiers in Panama City on Sunday evening.

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Socialist Party said yesterday it was unlikely its erstwhile star Dominique Strauss-Kahn would enter the 2012 presidential race, despite the weakening of the sex assault case against him in New York.

By Treiston Joseph School of the Nations edged out Government Technical Institute (GTI) 37-34 in the National Schools’ Basketball Festival organized by the Youth basketball Guyana (YBG) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Sunday.

Two men are in police custody after they reportedly attacked and robbed a man at knifepoint of a quantity of articles in Bartica early yesterday morning.

TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian court sentenced former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in absentia yesterday to more than 15 years in prison for illegal possession of drugs and weapons.

Dear Editor,I may be very late in congratulating Natural Black and First Born, but I find myself listening and studying their songs. 

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The Libyan government said yesterday it was in talks with opposition figures but there seemed little chance of a swift end to the conflict as both sides stuck to entrenched positions on the fate of Muammar Gaddafi.

Finalists in the Miss Sophia Pageant held on

Dear Editor,I refer to Dr Joey Jagan’s letter titled ‘Shared coalition governance is the only way to go?’

A boy, said to be in his teens, is now hospitalised in an unconscious state after he was hit by a car near the Canje Bridge yesterday.

Robin Persaud powered to the Caricom Day 50-mile Cycle road race which was staged from Bushy Park on the East Bank of Essequibo to the Demerara Harbour Bridge where it concluded, on Sunday.

Now that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has publicly conceded that he has cancer — after his regime had accused independent media of being “agents of imperialism” for speculating that his prolonged stay in Cuba was due to a serious illness — here are three scenarios of what may happen in Venezuela.

A four-year-old girl fell into a well at Woweta Village, Region Nine and drowned on Sunday afternoon shortly after she slipped away from her brother who was left by their mother to care for her and a one-year-old baby.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is correct in its pronouncement that the bellyaching by the Indian cricket Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni over what he felt were flawed decisions made by Umpire Daryl Harper in the first Test of the current three-Test West Indies vs India series has deprived Mr Harper “of the opportunity to sign off as a Test umpire in a manner befitting someone who has served the game so well since making his debut back in 1994.”

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The nation’s largest teachers union voted yesterday to recommend that President Barack Obama be elected for another term.

President Bharrat Jagdeo poses with Guyanese resident in St Kitts. Jagdeo, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Dear Editor,I am by no means an AFC supporter but I acknowledge that the AFC is, despite its flaws, the best of the current lot.

Politikles

East Coast and West Demerara will clash this morning in the first match of the rescheduled Inter-Association cricket tournament according to a release from Cricket Development Officer of the Guyana Cricket Board Reon King.