Daily Archive: Friday, September 23, 2011

 UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations today to recognize a  state for his people, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu said only direct negotiations could deliver peace.  

The Caribbean Media Corporation is reporting that six Guyanese have been held in Suriname on drug-related charges after crossing over from the Corentyne.

A man and a baby are dead following a head-on collision involving a truck and a minibus at 35 Miles Mabura Road.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Guyana FA president Colin Klass  became the second high-ranking official, and the fourth in all,  to be banned for their part in a bribery scandal when world  soccer’s ruling body FIFA suspended him today for 26 months.  

Cay Hill (St Martin News Network) — Mark Anthony Deygoo, the Guyanese business man who was shot multiple times on Wednesday evening in his Back Street store passed away early today at the St Maarten Medical Center.

(Trinidad Express) A US$49-million deal has been sealed between Lake Asphalt Trinidad and Tobago Ltd to supply asphalt to China Railway Construction, Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Lawrence Duprey was paid TT$1.1 billion from the deposits of CLICO policyholders in the five years prior to CL Financial seeking a billion dollar bailout from the Government.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Loud cheers rang out on-board a Caribbean Airlines/Air Jamaica Boeing 737 immediately after the aircraft touched down at the Orlando International Airport, Florida, last week Thursday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican policeman who is accused of murdering 18-year-old Ravin Thompson in July 2007 has been ordered to be extradited from the United States to face trial.

Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced yesterday that Shameer Allie, a 36-year-old native of Guyana, has been deported back to his homeland, according to the Edmonton Journal.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Former India captain Mansur  Ali Khan Pataudi has died aged 70 after losing his battle  against a lung infection yesterday.

LUSAKA, (Reuters) – Zambian opposition leader  Michael Sata, a critic of Chinese investment, secured an upset  presidential election victory today which may dent foreign  companies’ view of Africa’s biggest copper producer as a sound  investment destination.

The government yesterday failed to deliver on its promise to liberalise the telecommunications sector during the life of the Ninth Parliament, with the deferral of two bills it said was critical to the process.

Better Hope resident Rosaline Lloyd was grazed by a bullet as she crept to shield her sleeping children, in the middle of a shootout between police and vandals early yesterday morning.

The National Assembly yesterday approved $3.3 billion in extra budgetary allocations, including $35M to support the establishment of a multi-faith religious television station.

Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the racial connotations contained in the article that triggered President Bharrat Jagdeo’s $10M libel suit did not change his perception of the Head of State.

An Enmore businessman and his family are now traumatised, after they were attacked by armed bandits and robbed of approximately $2M in cash and jewellery.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin and off-spinner Shane Shillingford have been recalled to the West Indies Test squad for their tour of Bangladesh next month.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Harsh economic realities threaten to derail the Trinidad & Tobago Pro League.

Both defending champions Berbice and archrivals Demerara began their preparation for Sunday’s Inter-County 50-overs final in Berbice with net sessions at the Albion Community Centre Ground and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, respectively, yesterday.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will be partnering with the Guyana Parliament to help it boost its operations in several areas.

A man was shot at Sussex Street, Charlestown yesterday morning, after a fight with an acquaintance, who accused him of stepping on someone’s foot at a dance.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Former India captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi has died aged 70 after losing his battle against a lung infection yesterday.

A fisherman lost his home on Wednesday night in a fire at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara that is believed to have been deliberately set.

In what he told the UN General Assembly was his final address to it, President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday threw out four security challenges which he said must be addressed.

A 61-year-old journalist accused of raising a false bomb threat at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will hold its Annual Awards and Appreciation Ceremony today at the club’s pavilion, Lance Gibbs and New Garden streets, Queenstown, commencing at 6:30 pm.

Rawleston Cummings was yesterday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment after pleading not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Lloyd Kandasammy before Justice Roxane George on September 5.

LONDON, CMC – A vastly under-strength West Indies will contest the first of two Twenty20 Internationals that reportedly no one wanted when they face England on today at The Oval.

The semifinals of the 2011 Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Busta Champion of Champions Tournament will be played tomorrow between Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Gizmos & Gadgets and Blairmont at the Area “H” ground and the Port Mourant Karibee Rice and Edinburgh at the Port Mourant ground.

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, was honoured on Wednesday evening by members of the National Community Policing Secretariat for his “fifth year of excellent ministerial duty”, a GINA press release said.

National sprint champion, Rupert Perry, and silver medallist at the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) Games Winston George will clash in the men’s 100 metres invitational race at this Sunday’s Police Gymkhana at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

Guyanese businessman Mark Deygoo is in a serious condition in the St.

By Emmerson Campbell The 18th edition of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Pro Am Friday Night Fight card will box off tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

An eight-acre field under cultivation with cannabis sativa (marijuana) plants was on Wednesday last discovered during a

Beacon and Police Football Clubs will join Fruta Conquerors and Santos in the semi-finals of the Milo Under-23 competition tonight at the Tucville Playfield from 18:00 hours.

ATLANTA (Reuters) – A month after winning his first major title, Keegan Bradley improved his odds of claiming FedExCup honours by charging into an early two-shot lead in yesterday’s opening round of the elite Tour Championship.

The National Commission on Law and Order agreed that the Home Affairs Ministry and the police would continue to collaborate with the private sector to restart the Crime Stoppers Programme.

Akbar Mohamed of Charity, Essequibo Coast was on Tuesday found guilty of being in possession of illegal petroleum.

New food safety legislation enacted by the Obama administration and scheduled to come into force in January next year could hurt local exporters of food to the United States, according to Head of the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department Marilyn Collins Come January the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin to enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) passed into law earlier this year and requiring prior testing of food products being imported into the United States by accredited in-country laboratories.

The Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central organized a book drive to furnish the library of the Care Centre for Children as part of its observances for education month and international Day of Literacy held on September 8.

The Council for the Promotion of Inter-national Trade (CCPIT) in China has agreed to investigate various incidents on loss and inconvenience suffered by Guyanese businesses that have imported goods from China following protests made at a meeting between CCPIT officials and officials of the Guyana/China Business Council (GCBC) in Port of Spain earlier this month.

Dear Editor, Please provide me the space to respond to the comments attributed to the Minister of Health, Dr Ramsammy, in the Kaieteur News September 20 article ‘Govt.

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The top US military officer accused Pakistani intelligence yesterday of backing violence against US targets including the American Embassy in Afghanistan, a stunning remark that fueled a war of words and seemed certain to deepen tensions in South Asia.

BENGALURU, India, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago arrived in the Garden City on Wednesday, looking ahead to roll over the Mumbai Indians in their first match of Group-A in the Champions League Twenty20 on Monday.

Dear Editor, Launched in May 2009, the Caribbean Press initiative came out of the President’s promise in 2008 to commit US$100,000 – some $20 million – annually towards an indigenous regional publishing house, one dedicated as it was understood then to the publication of contemporary Caribbean writing.

Economic Ties The prominence of China in the Caribbean is a reality that the world will have to contend with, but most certainly the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. 

A 63-year-old man who was charged with assaulting his partner was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Diplomats scrambled yesterday to head off a clash over Palestinian plans to seek full UN recognition with little visible sign of progress and a deadline less than 24 hours away.

Countries in the Asia/Pacific region continue to tighten their stranglehold on expanding tropical fruit markets in the United States and the European Community, even as the fruit industry in the Caribbean continues to show few signs of making any significant impact on the region’s agricultural exports.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government said yesterday that vocal US critic Hugo Chavez played an influential behind-the-scenes role in securing the release of two Americans detained in Iran while hiking on the border in 2009.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the matter of setting fire to the Supreme Court for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Basil Morgan and Anthony Watson are accused commenced yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Dear Editor, What Guyanese are witnessing now is that time changes people.

An arresting installation by Mexican artist Mayela Leiva on

The regional round of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s National Spelling Bee 2011 is being held today.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Amnesty International urged Haiti yesterday to bring former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier to justice as the human rights group issued a report on killings and torture committed with impunity during his 15-year rule.

Dear Editor, We note the further misspending of state funds and the abuse by the government-controlled television and radio at the Appreciation event for our head of State, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo.

There is no doubt that the Chinese delegation to the Third China-Caribbean Economic and Trade Forum, journeyed to Port-of-Spain earlier this month with the specific intention of dazzling the region with its new-found status as one of the world’s few genuine economic giants.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) – A man convicted of the 1994 execution-style shooting of a store clerk in Alabama was put to death yesterday by lethal injection in the third US execution this week.

BERLIN (Reuters) – World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe has dismissed any suggestion that she will be under extra pressure as the home favourite in next year’s London Olympics after failing to do herself justice in the last two Games. 

The Women’s Affairs Bureau hosted an interactive session on Tuesday at the Ministry of Agriculture as part of a series of planned sessions on gender awareness in ministries and corporations.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says the power outage that occurred in Anna Regina on Sunday was due to the failure of a high voltage cable and it is working to restore power to Essequibo consumers.

Jamaican Reggae artiste Mr. Vegas (third, right) and Guyanese Natural Black (second, right) pose with Mike Fung of

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress has approved the creation of a Truth Commission charged with investigating human rights abuses, including those committed during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship.

For more than 30 years beekeeping or apiculture has been pursued primarily as a hobby with apiaries yielding modest amounts of honey sufficient to sustain no more than a cottage industry.

(Jamaica Observer) When reputed Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ coke pleaded guilty last month to reduced charges in a New York court, speculation was rife that he would call names.

MADRID (Reuters) – Playing alongside new Barcelona team mate Cesc Fabregas is helping Xavi improve his game, the 31-year-old Spanish international said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Rice farmers whose crop was affected by the red rice infestation are benefiting from the free distribution of fertilisers by the Guyana Rice Producer’s Association (RPA) in Region Two.

Alright, of course, the lead caption with “Ramotar” and “Granger” is a journalistic attention-grabber. 

(Trinidad Express) – Lawrence Duprey was paid $90 million a year from the deposits of policyholders in collapsed insurance company CLICO, attorney Neal Bisnath said on Wednesday.

A fortnight ago, we reported that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in a study released last month, ‘Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2010-2011,‘ had called for “a new alliance” with the United States of America in order to facilitate the “better integration” of the region into the world economy.

Politikles

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia wicketkeeper batsman Brad Haddin has retired from international Twenty20 to prolong his career in 50-over matches and tests, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

Business Cartoons

CANBERRA (Reuters) – Senior Australian ministers sought to douse speculation that former leader Kevin Rudd is preparing a leadership challenge against Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who unseated Rudd last year to trigger dead-heat elections.

Dear Editor, One can understand the rhetoric the Guyanese people are constantly fed by government officials about how things are bright and beautiful, the economy is booming, and how the nation is being transformed into a paradise.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 426’s trading results showed consideration of $205,000 from 16,000 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 425 which showed consideration of $9,637,409 from 130,419 shares traded in 5 transactions. 

Police ranks discovered an unlicensed .32 Taurus pistol with seven rounds on one of three men on whom they conducted searches in the Tucville area on Wednesday last.

Mexican artist Mayela Leiva chats with Prime Minister Sam Hinds yesterday at the opening of her exhibition of

ATLANTA, Georgia, CMC – Former undisputed World cruiserweight champion O’Neil “Give ‘Em Hell” Bell will be looking to put a string of bad defeats behind him when he faces American Harvey Jolly on October 8 in a 10-round bout.

It probably comes as a surprise to Guyanese consumers that the issue of sub-standard Chinese goods was raised at a recent Guyana/China forum in Port of Spain and that the Chinese state agency responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of Guyana/China trade and economic relations has agreed to investigate the matter.