Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 16, 2011

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI is examining  documents charting more than $500,000 in payments made by a  Caribbean soccer group to a top U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Opposing lawyers disputed the  meaning of a medical report that said “rape” caused injuries  sustained by the woman who has accused former IMF chief  Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc  today said that lightning affected one of the two transmission lines linking the Garden of Eden power station on the East Bank and Sophia causing a complete 50Hz system shutdown in the Demerara Interconnected System (DIS).

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – Fifteen year old Barbadian school girl Shaquana Quintyne has won a call up to the West Indies Women squad to face Pakistan in the Caribbean. Quintyne

Bollywood star Shammi Kapoor was yesterday cremated at  the Banganga crematorium in Mumbai, according to the Hindustan Times.

Brazilian diamond dealer Sergio Mattos was early this morning abducted in front of his girlfriend’s home in Georgetown, but his captors later released him without a ransom payment after learning that police had been notified.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Phone hacking was widely known  about at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, according to a  reporter blamed as the sole culprit, contradicting repeated  denials by senior executives and dragging Britain’s prime  minister back into the scandal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Both Minister of Communication Dr Suruj Rambachan and Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh yesterday declined to comment on recent reports that the National Security Council, headed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, had met with Digicel to get assistance in tapping cellphones.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In the coming four years, the United Nations (UN) will provide considerably less financial assistance to Suriname.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Police arrested India’s  leading anti-corruption campaigner today, just hours before  he was due to fast to the death, as the beleaguered government  cracked down on a self-styled Gandhian activist agitating for a  new “freedom” struggle.

Ambassador Irwin LaRocque yesterday morning became CARICOM’s seventh Secretary-General and identified the reformation of “the architecture and governance of our integration arrangements” as key if the Secretariat is to be more effective in its mandate.

The dismembered body of a man, believed to be that of a missing Corentyne cattle farmer, was found last night in a canal at Black Bush Polder.

Police were yesterday forced to release miner Gavin Joseph on station bail, after his wife, who he allegedly shot twice in the shoulder last Friday, refused to give investigators a statement about the incident.

Preliminary figures compiled by Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) officials indicate more than $700M in losses from last Thursday’s fire, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn says.

One man is dead while another is wounded after they were both allegedly shot by a businessman yesterday at Powis Backdam, Five Star, North West District.

-cites domination by Correia Group A fuel supply row which saw a tanker ramming a gate at Ogle Airport on Thursday deepened yesterday with Air Services Limited (ASL) calling for an inquiry into operations there and charging that domination of the facility by a competitor was the root of the problem.

The promised return of the radio serial Merundoi to the airwaves of the National Communication Network (NCN) yesterday did not materialise and no one seems to know what the future holds for the popular drama.

Guyanese Dr. Cary F. Fraser, a historian of international relations, has been appointed the new president of the University of Belize, a release from the university said.

Guyanese Lloyd Charles, previously convicted of robbery in Canada, was last week found guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm by a Canadian Judge.

The Attorney General has cited errors in several aspects of law as the grounds for appealing the decision by Justice Roxane George to award $6.5 million to the teen who was tortured while in police custody.

A fire, believed to be electrical in origin, gutted a house at Stewart Path, Wismar, Linden early yesterday morning, leaving one man seeking a place to rest his head.

With 15 Grade One passes, Anuradha Dev shares the top spot at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, and she did it without any extra lessons.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC)  urged  young people yesterday  to    be aware that they are empowered to change their present and mould their future.

The price for chicken continues to climb countrywide, due to increased consumer demand and a shortfall in production.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded a robbery accused, after he gave the court a false address.

Kenny Creame, the 19-year-old miner who was beaten to death at Monessee Backdam, at Port Kaituma last Tuesday, died as a result of blunt trauma to the head, a post-mortem examination has revealed.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – One of Communist-ruled Cuba’s  best-known singers, Pablo Milanes, said in quoted comments he  would like to see more freedom to protest on the island as he  prepared for a controversial concert this month in Miami.

In Greek mythology the Titans, were a race of powerful Gods and in the famous Tintanomachy “War of the Gods,” The elder Gods were overthrown by a group of younger Gods known as Olympians.

MOSCOW, (Reuters Life!) – Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre  celebrated the 90th birthday of Cuban dancer Alicia Alonso with  a gala performance this week of Russian classics performed by  her pupils and countrymen.

Sport Minister Dr. Frank Anthony labelled the De Sinco Trading Limited hard court cricket facility a step in the right direction for cricket development when it was commissioned at the Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) ground, Woolford Avenue, last evening.

Minister of Public Service Dr Jennifer Westford has said the administration’s investment in youth and providing opportunities for them to access tertiary training is unparalleled within this hemisphere, with over 2,800 youths having benefitted.

Trinidad and Tobago walked away with an easy mixed doubles title when the 2011 Caribbean Table Tennis Championships continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall (CASH).

A man, charged with stealing a BlackBerry Smartphone and another, charged with receiving the stolen item, were on Friday each placed on $35,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Officers attached to the Drug Enforcement Unit of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday morning intercepted a quantity of cocaine in a card bound for Canada.

Dear Editor, I am very pleased with the news that the Government of Guyana is giving consideration to establishing a rail link between Guyana and northern Brazil (‘Jagdeo discussing Boa Vista/George-town railway’ SN, August 10).

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican lawmakers  fumed yesterday over potential lost American exports because of  a free trade deal between Canada and Colombia that has taken  force before President Barack Obama has even sent a  five-year-old U.S-Colombia

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Mozambique invites Brazilian  soy, corn and cotton growers to plant on its savanna and  introduce their farming know-how to sub-Saharan Africa, the  head of Mato Grosso state’s cotton producers association Ampa  said on Monday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel  appealed to kidnappers on Monday for the safe return of his  father after he was abducted in Nigeria last week.

About 25 CEOs and business leaders from Central America and the Caribbean are scheduled to meet with Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin this week in El Salvador to discuss strengthening trade relations between both regions in the face of economic challenges in the hemisphere.

Dear Editor, Air Services Limited has serious doubts about your impartial handling of news relating to issues between ourselves and the Ogle Airport Inc, whose PR Consultant seems to have a special relationship with you and your staff.

Dear Editor, I am bemused by the Junior Minister of Forestry’s remarks in last Friday’s Stabroek Business of August 12 that all is well in the timber industry, the quality of lumber produced is good and all’s well and dandy.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Warwickshire  County Cricket Club, which hosted the England-India test that  ended on Saturday with the home side crowned the world’s best,  has incurred a 29 million pound debt to retain its international  status but has no regrets about the “risk”.

The Ministry of Agriculture is expanding its Grow More Food campaign following what it said was the successful implementation of the first phase.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – A college student who  overstepped a safety railing fell into Niagara Falls over the  weekend and searchers looking for her body on Monday found an  unidentified male body instead.

PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – A 65-year-old man was  sentenced to a year in a federal prison and fined $10,000 yesterday for sexually abusing a fellow airline passenger while  she slept under a blanket in the seat beside him.

Dear Editor, Thank you for your promotional article ‘Deaf Got Talent’ in The Scene last Saturday.

The annual one-week Summer Youth Camp organized by the Georgetown Football Club ggot underway yesterday at the club’s venue, North Road Bourda.

More stringent measures and laws to deal with drivers who misuse the road were among the proposals made to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Sunday, during a meeting with hire cars, mini-bus and truck operators at Diamond Secondary School, East Bank Demerara on Sunday.

Dear Editor, The Emancipation celebration in Linden, though not a big shout, nevertheless had a sprinkling of activities that somewhat stimulated and enlivened the African spirit on a higher plane that was wonderful.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former employees of elite Wall  Street firms are triumphing over their previous investment  banks in Google Inc’s blockbuster $12.5 billion deal to buy  Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

Champtress won her second of three feature events on Sunday when the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club (KMTC), Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne held its annual post-Emancipation horse race meet.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded a man who is accused of trafficking 295 grammes of cannabis at Potaro-Siparuni.

ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels said they  had seized a second strategic town near Tripoli within 24 hours,  completing the encirclement of the capital in the boldest  advances of their six-month-old uprising against Muammar  Gaddafi.

Phlebotomist Candacie Haniff, 28, was yesterday charged with possession of cannabis.

Guyana’s Nicola Ramdyhan breezed through the qualifying round to come out on top of the girls 14 round robin qualifiers, while teammates Aretta Dey and Daniel Lopes also made it into the main draw of the First Citizens Investment Services 2011 International Junior Tennis Tournament currently ongoing in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

(Jamaica Observer) MALVERN, St Elizabeth – Education Minister Andrew Holness is targeting the end of October for completion of a rehabilitative residential school now under construction to serve “disruptive students”.

The boys from the Land of Flying Fish made it five wins out of five  en route to dethroning 2010 winners Trinidad and Tobago as the regional limited overs champions with a commanding nine-wicket win at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, yesterday.

Dear Editor, Training, supervision and trust are the keys to high quality service and professionalism in the security industry, and the building blocks for integrating safety, security and process control for enhanced productivity.

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Suicide attackers and car bombs  struck cities across Iraq yesterday, killing at least 50 people  and wounding scores more in a rash of apparently coordinated  assaults carried out by affiliates of al Qaeda, authorities  said.

Christine Gasper, who is accused of talking to her imprisoned son, was on Friday placed on $5,500 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

LILONGWE, (Reuters) – Malawi police killed 19 unarmed  citizens and shot 58 others during protests in July, the  government’s rights body said yesterday, in the first official  report on unprecedented rallies against President Bingu wa  Mutharika’s government.

A series of workshops are underway to strengthen the organisation of Community Policing Groups (CPGs) countrywide.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds

Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram and NACTA continue to be the topic of outrage, consternation, concern and allegations of polling and opinion-taking fraudulence in many parts of the Guyana media.

(Barbados Nation) The police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding any information pertaining to the death of Adrian McDonald Wilkinson.

Dear Editor, My absence from home is made more bearable by the plethora of Guyana-focused online publications. 

Guyana’s Under-19 cricket team ended its chequered campaign of the WICB limited overs tournament with a draw against the Windward Islands at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

Media accounts of the recent shocking episode of the bullying and intimidation of a team of NIS officers by a prominent businessman and his employees suggest that the act was as crude as it was barefaced,   One of the more disturbing things about the incident is that it appeared to matter little to the perpetrators that they were unlawfully and forcefully menacing and impeding public servants pursuing their legitimate duties as officials of the state.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Malcolm Harripaul’s letter (‘The Federation of Indian Americans should not be endorsing a Guyanese presidential candidate’ SN, August 12) in which he made incorrect comments about the FIA, seeking to bring it into disrepute.

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The AFC is adamant in its refusal to join a pre-election coalition with old parties mired in old politics and its Acton Plan 2011 speaks of its seeking to establish “A liberal democratic culture for Guyana (based on) Western democratic political systems, such as Australia, the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Canada, India, Brazil and others.”

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Jamaica made light work of the Leewards Islands to end their WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day campaign on a high yesterday.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Beset by civil unrest at home and  lambasted by the West and his Arab neighbours for his violent  crackdown on dissent, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad can  count on one firm ally: Iran.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The fuel price in Suriname is now among the highest in the region.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Global food prices held near  three-year highs in July and stocks were low, piling on  pressure on the world’s poor, the World Bank said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The Government yesterday claimed victory after planned sick-out action by police officers to stay at home for a day of “rest and reflection” crumbled with more than 80 per cent of the officers turning up for duty.