Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The time has come to stop beating around the bush about these horrendous minibus smash-ups on our roads that end in multiple fatalities.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A court in Mexico today sentenced a 14-year-old U.S.

While the PPP says indicted businessman Ed Ahmad made no contributions to its 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C government” he was one of the contact persons listed for an April 29 event in the US where the party’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar was introduced.

RABAT,  (Reuters) – At least 78 people were killed today when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a  mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the  military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The family of Amy Winehouse  gathered at a north London cemetery today to bid farewell  to their “angel”, three days after the troubled singer was found  dead at her home.

(Jamaica Observer) SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — The community of Junction in South East St Elizabeth is in shock following the shooting death of a 17-year-old girl close to her home last night.

BERNE, (Reuters) – FIFA are set to open a further  investigation into the meeting of Caribbean football officials  which resulted in former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin  Hammam being banned for life.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A financial institution has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay US$70,000 with interest to one of its customers who was given wrong advice by one of its employees to invest her money in the failed investment scheme Cash Plus Ltd.

(DWT) PARAMARIBO – The controversial photo in the history book “Wij en ons verleden” (We and our past) for the sixth grade of primary school in which a demonstrator hold a sign calling President Desi Bouterse a murderer should be removed.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Nearly half of the workers at Nickerie’s District Commissariat turn out to be involved in the big fraud case that has had the district in its grip for some time now.

(Barbados Nation) Cancer patients in need of radiation treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) are in limbo because the radiation machine is not working.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is making steady progress towards becoming the first country in the world to have free wireless access everywhere.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on  Monday called on divided congressional leaders to compromise  and break a deadlock over raising the U.S.

PORT LOUIS, (Reuters) – Six ministers, including the  finance minister, resigned from the Mauritius government today, local radio reported, throwing the Indian Ocean island  into political turmoil.

A two-year-old was killed and 11 others were injured yesterday, after a minibus and a truck collided head-on in Linden.

Government has tapped into the budget to fund solar panels for hinterland villages and is prepared to do the same for land demarcation exercises owing to slow disbursement of funds from the forests’ saving deal with Norway, President Bharrat Jagdeo told Amerindian leaders yesterday.

Three Mabaruma children are now hospitalized following an accident in which a car slammed into a lamp post, injuring them in the process.

Businessman Omprakash ‘Buddy’ Shivraj and some of his employees are being accused of assaulting and threatening members of a National Insurance Scheme (NIS) inspection team last Friday, when they visited his New Providence, East Bank Demerara construction site and seized wage records and time sheets.

Managing Director of Channel 6 CN Sharma has said he is being “harassed” about his programming, explaining that the “authorities” want to dictate who can appear on the airwaves.

US-based Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad, who was last Friday slapped with mortgage fraud charges, allegedly conspired on numerous occasions, to obtain mortgage loans from lenders through fraudulent means, according to a complaint filed against him in the New York Eastern District court by FBI Special Agent Bryan J Trebelhorn.

By the end of July next year, Guyana’s public health sector should be given a boost in dealing with patients in the high dependency as well as intensive care units, as a result of a critical care nursing programme launched yesterday.

Seventeen passengers escaped unhurt after a speedboat sprang a leak in the deep waters of the Essequibo River on Sunday afternoon.

By Colin Benjamin The third round of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under 19 three-day competition bowls off today with three-matches.

Two men were yesterday charged with involvement in last week’s raid at Five Star Backdam, North West District, during which a Brazilian was shot multiple times and others were robbed of over $2 million in raw gold and a gun and ammunition.

King Maker reigned supreme in the feature B Class event of the Digicel Classic Horse Race, running away with the $1.2M prize when the meet was held on Sunday at the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club in West Coast, Berbice.

The body of a 29-year-old Corentyne woman was discovered with suspected stab wounds at the Number 61 Village foreshore around 6 am on Sunday.

The PPP said yesterday that New York-based businessman Ed Ahmad who was charged by the US FBI with mortgage fraud has not made any financial contributions to the PPP/C’s 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C government”.

Many might be of the view that FIFA’s justice is quick, but it leaves others to ponder whether FIFA’s justice is really fair?

Thomas St Rose, a Survival Supermarket guard, was yesterday charged with stealing money from a shopper’s basket, an act which Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton heard was recorded by a surveillance camera.

The East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) opened its 10th annual Cricket Academy yesterday with the participants being urged to be good ambassadors for the sport and country by Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana Tota Mangar.

Dear Editor, Mr Balkarran’s letter of March 16 in SN highlighted the farmers’ plight (‘Belle Vue Co-op Society land being taken over’).

LONDON, (Reuters) – England produced a disciplined  and determined bowling display at Lord’s yesterday to dismiss  the world’s most talented batting lineup for the second time and  win their 100th test against India by 196 runs.

The final New Building Society (NBS) multimillion-dollar fraud preliminary inquiry (PI) has been hit with yet another delay, this time due to the absence of Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The second annual senior elite training programme organized by the special events committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will bowl off tomorrow at the Albion Community Centre ground.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter published in the Stabroek News of July 21, under the caption ‘The General Registrar Office should go into the regions to issue birth certificates’ by Pooran Persaud.

A man who stole a quantity of mangoes was yesterday fined $25,000.

The first wife of the late president Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, Sheila Lataste Burnham, died last Friday at her daughter’s home in St Vincent at the age of 90.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will seek another six-year term in an election next year despite recent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, he told a state newspaper in an interview published late on Sunday.

Dear Editor, I would like to offer a few notes on a letter published in the July 21 edition of SN by the daughter and son of the Stabroek News founder, David de Caires (‘Market forces cannot prevail in a newsroom’).

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Diego Forlan scored twice  after Luis Suarez’s opening goal as Uruguay beat Paraguay 3-0 to  win the Copa America on Sunday and be crowned South American  champions for a record 15th time.

Dear Editor, Ever since I was a little child growing up in Guyana I always wondered why even by local standards traffic accidents and road deaths were always considered high.

Amerijet International is celebrating 20 years of providing all-cargo service to the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago and the South Caribbean.

Georgetown, Guyana – After two rounds of matches in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 three-day tournament, left-arm spinner Derone Davis has emerged as one of the leading bowlers.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The leader of one of Colombia’s most powerful criminal groups was gunned down by his own bodyguards yesterday in the drug-plagued Antioquia province, police said.

Norman Holder of Lot 6 James Street, Albouys-town, Georgetown, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s police believe Anders Behring Breivik probably acted alone in killing 76 people last Friday, and Norwegians united in revulsion against the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War Two.

Dear Editor, I know the warmest season of the year in the north temperate zones is summer, which is between spring and autumn.

PARAMARIBO (De Ware Tijd) – With the reactivation of its membership of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Suriname is going for financing of its agrarian programs by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the OIC’s financing branch.

Seventeen-year-old Carlos Petterson won the Banks Malta one-day Rapid Chess Tournament Sunday at the West Demerara Secondary School, Pouderoyen.

A farmer was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $120,000 on a charge of false pretence, stemming from a gold purchase he made.

ROME (Reuters) – Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern Africa, UN aid officials said yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – South American independence hero Simon Bolivar was not murdered by Colom-bian foes as suggested by Hugo Chavez but may have died of accidental poisoning, according to a study ordered by Venezuela’s leader.

Three women, charged with abusive language, were remanded yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Dear Editor, The law of vicarious liability allows for the imposition of legal responsibility on some person or organization for the illegal or tortious conduct of someone  (1) who stands in a special legal relationship with that person or organization, such as an employee; and (2) where that employee commits the illegal or tortious act under special legal circumstances, such as during the course of his employment and not while he is “on a frolic of his own.” 

CARIFTA Games Swimming Championships gold medalist Jessica Stephenson yesterday opened Guyana’s performance in the swimming segment of the 14th annual FINA (International Swimming Federation) World Championships, being held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre in Shanghai, China.

Politikles

Former administrator of St Ann’s Home, Sister Beatrice Fernandes OSU, has died.

MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – Kosovo sent special police forces to its Serbian-populated north late yesterday to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia, but local Serbs resisted the move as ethnic tensions rose sharply.

Jamaican Karl Rodney, 73, the founder and head of the weekly New York Carib News, has been sentenced to two years probation and 500 house of community service for lying to the US Congress, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation.

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Hot Momma’s advice: Feed your children’s bodies well, so they can feed their minds well with knowledge!

Guyana women’s hockey players will go into action on Sunday against Paraguay in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) five-nation Challenge tournament in Brazil as they seek a place in the PAHF 2013 World Cup qualifiers.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter in the July 19 issue of the Kaieteur News  headed ‘The Agri Sector in Region One needs urgent attention’ written by Desmond Fernandes, MP.

Former FIFA Vice President Austin ‘Jack’ Warner having been the first victim of his promised football Tsunami, it may now be the turn of the entire Caribbean to feel the full force of the cash-for-votes tidal wave that has buffeted FIFA, international football’s governing body over the past few months.