Daily Archive: Saturday, July 30, 2011

Paying a flying visit to Guyana to condole with the victims of a Caribbean Airlines accident here and to inspect the wreck, Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar tonight said it was a “miracle” that no one had died.

A Caribbean Airlines plane early this morning ran off the runway on landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri resulting in several persons having to be rescued from the aircraft.

The Ministry of Health today issued a statement on the treatment of passengers in the plane accident this morning at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

The Georgetown Public Hospital this afternoon provided details on the 35 passengers it treated this morning following the Caribbean Airlines accident at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

The Guyana Police Force is advising motorists participating in or attending the motor races at the Timehri Racing Circuit tomorrow that the access road behind the CJIA is presently closed.

CARIBBEAN AIRLINES FLIGHT #523 STATEMENT 2 ISSUED 30 JULY 2011 08.00HOURS Port-of-Spain, 30 July 2011, – At 1.32am on Saturday 30 July, A Caribbean Airlines aircraft (Boeing 737-800), operating as flight # BW523, en route from Port of Spain, Trinidad to Georgetown, Guyana was involved in an incident upon landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana.

(Jamaica Observer) Security has been beefed up around Industry Minister Christopher Tufton in the wake of what has been interpreted as threats from disgruntled factions over the ban imposed on the scrap metal industry on Monday, reliable sources told the Observer yesterday.

In front of several hundreds gathered last evening at the Square of the Revolution for an APNU campaign rally, WPA co-leader Dr Rupert Roopnaraine made an overture to the “good” members of the ruling PPP to join the coalition as its gears up to contest the 2011 regional and general elections.

With the passage of broadcast legislation, government will now review applications for radio licences but will not issue any before elections, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh yesterday secured an interim injunction from Chief Justice Ian Chang restraining the Editor of Kaieteur News, Adam Harris, and the

CN Sharma will learn whether his TV station’s licence will be suspended next week even as President Bharrat Jagdeo accused him of generating a “clever plot” to divert attention from the airing of an “offensive” commentary.

The New York Post yesterday reported that real estate broker Ed Ahmad, who has been charged with mortgage fraud, has been denied permission to travel to Guyana.

Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) head James Singh has said a man taken into custody has admitted to providing the 35 pounds of cocaine that Emily Leitch was busted with at the John F Kennedy International Airport.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he has been friends with mortgage fraud-accused businessman, Ed Ahmad for around 15 years but would not condone any wrongdoing.

More suspects in the attack on Guyana Sandport Inc have been released and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday that the Director of Public Prosecu-tions has directed police to conduct further investigations.

One of the primary suspects in the Hogstye, Corentyne backdam shooting, which left a farmer dead and his younger brother seriously injured, has turned himself over to the police.

By Treiston Joseph Leslain Baird claimed a sprint double as Defence Head Quarters (DHQ) amassed 288.5 points to win the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter Unit Championship at the Camp Ayanganna ground yesterday.

Several Toshaos from regions One, Two, Seven, Eight and Nine yesterday accused the government of sidelining concerns about outstanding land issues, while saying they were dissatisfied with the just-concluded National Toshaos Conference.

Mental preparation and exposure to higher levels of training and competition were the reasons given by coach Linden Johnson for Guyana finishing third at the recently concluded Cadets and Under-13 table tennis tournament in the Dominican Republic.

A man died on the spot last evening after he was struck down by a speeding minibus on the McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Stuart Broad  launched a late counter-attack with a blazing 64 to help England  fight back against India on the first day of the second test yesterday.

If passed by the National Assembly, an amendment to the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act could see the appointments of traffic wardens to issue tickets and perform other traffic policing duties.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Michael Phelps will need to  rely on the same turn of speed that brought him home in the  semi-finals on Friday if he is to retain his 100 metres  butterfly title at the world swimming championships today.

By Bobby Walker Louann Jackson is immersed in her art. She lives and breathes it.

Piece by piece, the Latchman children acquire items for their new home.

Hi Everyone, A good Fried Rice is a dish that many of us aspire to perfect.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was  given a card from reporters and a personal greeting from Formula  One boss Bernie Ecclestone on his 30th birthday but what the  Spaniard really wants is a more exciting Hungarian Grand Prix.

The thousands who attended last evening’s opening of the second International Building Expo were told by President Bharrat Jagdeo that it was a vehicle for realising the dreams of families to own a home.

Dear Editor, In May I visited historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia.

(Jamaica Observer) –  Lady Saw and reggae crooner Beres Hammond sizzled on the Sumfest stage last Friday as they delivered an emotionally charged performance of “She Has Changed”, a tune penned by Lady Saw.

Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United was trounced 8-0 by Costa Rica’s Herediano in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League on July 26 but president of the country’s number one football team Odinga Lumumba said that he was not disappointed with his team’s performance.

Model homes were among the attention grabbers at the opening of the Building Expo last evening.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers opened the  way yesterday for a last-ditch bid for a possible bipartisan  compromise to avert a crippling national default just four days  before the deadline to raise the country’s debt ceiling.

KILLARNEY, Ireland, (Reuters) – U.S. Open champion  Rory McIlroy refused to back down in his Twitter spat with  broadcaster Jay Townsend after safely making the cut in the  Irish Open yesterday.

The Ministry of Labour yesterday held a closing ceremony for one hundred and sixty-nine youths and thirty-five parents who were benefactors of its tackling child labour through education (TACKLE) six-week pilot project.

Dear Editor, We in Charity have to be very careful about the cutting of the mangrove and courida trees so as to facilitate wharves.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Air travel between the United  States and Cuba will become easier with the opening of charter  flights to the forbidden island from an additional nine U.S. 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska,  (Reuters) – A wildfire that  burned over 400 square miles (1 million sq km) of Alaska tundra  in the scorching summer of 2007 poured as much carbon into the  atmosphere as the entire Arctic normally absorbs each year,  according to a new study in the scientific journal Nature.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Basketball’s international  federation (FIBA) has given its approval for locked-out  National Basketball Association (NBA) players to compete  overseas during the work stoppage, it said yesterday.

Guyanese Mortimer Softley, better known as Natural Black, is in Guyana for Emancipation Day celebrations, compliments of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and GuyEnterprise.

Dear Editor, The emancipation of the African ancestors was not a whim of the colonial masters, when they suddenly had an awakening, or a renaissance, or a sudden inspiration of conscience about the worst human bondage in mankind’s history.

The Mexican Embassy and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Guyana will host ‘An Evening of Mexican Folk Dance’ at the National Cultural Centre tonight.

 ANKARA, (Reuters) –    Turkey’s top military brass  resigned yesterday, in the latest and possibly decisive round of  a long battle between the traditional secularist establishment  embodied by the army and the Islam-rooted government of Tayyip  Erdogan that has dominated Turkey for nearly a decade.

Dear Editor, Firstly I want to extended congratulations to Terron Alleyne of Regma Primary who topped at the National Grade 6 Assessment examinations and also his classmates Carol Hopkinson in third position and Teryka Mohabir in sixth, along  with all the other students who have performed well.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) proved too strong for Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in recording an 83-run victory in the Banks DIH sponsored Tropical Mist Pee Wee cricket final played Thursday afternoon at the Thirst Park ground.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The number of poor people  in Mexico increased to 46.2 percent of the population, or 52  million people in 2010, up from 44.5 percent in 2008 following  the global economic crisis, a government body said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The present ruling party and other political parties are getting ready to compete in the upcoming elections and in so doing speak of their interest in youth and of their plans if they are elected.

A labourer who took 13 grammes of cannabis and 12 packs of cigarettes into the Camp Street Prison was yesterday sentenced to a three-year jail term by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Popular Indian actress and model Shilpa Shetty was on Thursday announced as the star to headline the Bollywood/Filmi leg of the Jamzone string of events next month.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Polish Defence Minister Bogdan  Klich resigned yesterday after a government report chronicled a  litany of errors and neglect by the crew of the military plane  that crashed in Russia last year killing Poland’s President Lech  Kaczynski and 95 others.

Local telecommunication giant Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) Company and the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) inked a multi-million sponsorship deal that will see local referees being fully outfitted at matches.

(Trinidad Express) Exactly one week after the bodies of Vonetta Haynes-Reyes and her sons Makasi and Malik were found at their La Horquetta home, a 23-year-old neighbour of the victims has been detained by police in connection with the murders.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Pilots of a doomed Air France jet  which crashed into the Atlantic two years ago killing all 228  people onboard ignored stall warnings and appeared to defy the  manual, a new crash investigation report showed yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Britain’s second royal wedding of the year takes place today but the marriage of Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Zara Phillips to her rugby player boyfriend will be far removed from the lavish pomp that surrounded the nuptials of her cousin Prince William.

A man was yesterday charged with stealing $300,000 from his ex-girlfriend’s bank account.

The Sanjay Jewellery tournament and a farewell match for outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Francois Montour will keep golfers busy this weekend at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Dear Editor, Another Emancipation Day celebration is upon us in Guyana, and the significance of this momentous event in this particular year has impacted on numerous Guyanese, but notably those of African descent.

AMSTERDAM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The U.N.-backed  Lebanon tribunal yesterday released the names, photographs and  details of four men wanted for killing statesman Rafik  al-Hariri, saying it had acted in a bid to speed up their  arrest.

(Trinidad Express) The Integrity Commission has cleared Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of any breach of the Integrity in Public Life Act when she stayed at the private residence of her friends Ralph and Maureen Gopaul last year.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two British newspapers have been  found guilty of contempt of court for publishing potentially  prejudicial coverage of a former suspect in a murder  investigation, the Attorney General’s office said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to use your letters column, to make an appeal.

Ansa McAl CEO Beverly Harper said she was confident that the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) will continue to prosper when she was inducted as its patron at a ceremony held at the company’s headquarters at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.

Some 115 children in Georgetown, East Coast Demerara, Berbice and Linden have completed a steel pan music literacy programme sponsored by Republic Bank – ‘the Right Start Pan Minors Music Literacy Programme’ and were this week awarded certificates.

I must admit that I asked the following question of Guyana’s presidential candidates simply because the nation’s last ‘First Lady’ attempted to play a significant role in helping the people of Guyana, but her work was frowned on by the President.

Police in Norway have yet to determine whether Anders Behring Breivik acted alone when planning and carrying out the bombing and shooting spree that claimed at least 77 lives in Oslo last week.

Defending champions, Emanie Netball Club plans to pull out all the stops to keep their title at the Guyana Netball Association National Under-23 Tournament which started yesterday afternoon at the National Gymnasium.

The Lilian Dewar Award for the Best Graduating Student in English at the University of Guyana was presented on Thursday  to the

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Syrian forces shot dead at least  20 civilians in attacks on pro-democracy demonstrations across  the country yesterday, the Syrian human rights organisation  Sawasiah said.

Do you know what the powers of the police are? Do you know what your rights are in relation to the police?

Hits and Jams (HJ) Entertainment has added rapper Eve to the line up on its Jamzone International night.

Politikles

Dear Editor, When one looks at Guyana and looks also at Mauritius, one truly understands how the PNC and the PPP failed us. 

(Trinidad Guardian) The murder toll continued to rise, after two men were gunned down at Desperlie Crescent, Laventille, on Thursday. Police

(Jamaica Observer) Dancehall Deejay Beenie Man, has been issued with a United States visa.

(Trinidad Express) The 23-year-old neighbour of Vonetta Haynes-Reyes has been charged with her murder and that of her two young sons, Malik, eight, and Makasi, four.