Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Reporters Without Borders today condemned President Bharrat Jagdeo’s order suspending broadcasting by CNS Channel Six for four months from 30 September.

A suspected bandit and a hostage drowned in the Mazaruni after a getaway boat capsized following a stunning raid by an armed gang against a Puruni mining camp during which three Brazilians were shot and several other persons robbed and beaten.

President Bharrat Jagdeo today told a press conference at the Office of the President that he will name the date for general elections “within a week”.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan  spiritual leader, cancelled a trip to South Africa planned for  this week that had put Pretoria in a bind between its biggest  trading partner China and one of its modern heroes, Nobel Peace  Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In the coming two years, Suriname can count on US financial support for the fight against drugs and for law enforcement.

NASSAU, (Reuters) – Bahamas will crack down on gun  and drugs crime by introducing tougher penalties, strengthening  the police and courts system and applying the death penalty for  some categories of murder, the prime minister said.

GWI is advising customers served by the Mon Repos Water Treatment Plant, East Coast Demerara, that they are currently experiencing a disruption to their service or low water pressure because of operational challenges at the plant.

(Jamaica Observer) Former West Indies captain Christopher Gayle has been recommended as captain of Jamaica’s team which includes two newcomers Jermaine Blackwood and Kenardo Lewis in a 14-man squad for the Regional Super50 cricket tournament which starts on October 19.

FRUITFUL VALE, Portland — Fay Reid, a 69-year-old missionary of Shrewsbury, Fruitful Vale, has become Portland’s fourth murder victim this year.

(Jamaica Gleaner) VP Records will honour two dancehall greats this month through its 17 North Parade Anthology series.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Money laundering charges have been levelled against a 29-year-old Montego Bay, St James, man held during an international police operation two weeks ago targeting persons involved in the lottery scam.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel is scheduled to appear in the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning after being slapped yesterday with multiple charges, including murder and conspiracy to murder.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked  rebels struck at the heart of the capital Mogadishu today,  killing at least 65 people with a truck bomb in the group’s most  deadly single attack since launching an insurgency in 2007.

ROME, (Reuters) – American student Amanda Knox left  Italy for home today after an appeals court acquitted her  of murdering British student Meredith Kercher and freed her from  four years in jail.

CNS Channel Six ceased operations at 6 pm yesterday following a four-month suspension by President Bharrat Jagdeo over remarks broadcast about Bishop Juan Edghill and a range of groups rallied last evening in support of the station and were considering options to challenge the sanction.

Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday that there were no moves to make any capital investments in the bauxite industry, as was done with the sugar industry, because bauxite was unprofitable and a pact with the IMF precluded any such investment.

The New York Daily News says that a Guyanese man in Queens, New York convicted of the largest 9/11 swindle is getting out of prison after serving less than half his maximum sentence and will be deported here.

A fisherman has gone missing since Friday last and his family has reason to believe that he was kidnapped, following telephone calls to them demanding a ransom of $1 million.

A 49-year-old businessman is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), following an early morning robbery during which he was shot and robbed of $8 million.

The PNCR yesterday said it will deal internally with the recent disclosure that its Region 10 Chairman Mortimer Mingo had accepted and had attempted to pay for a house lot at the controversial ‘Pradoville 2’ Scheme.

The mangrove secretariat continues to spread its message to conserve and protect the tropical specie and yesterday the body presented a copy of a mangrove teacher’s manual which will be utilized in the secondary school curriculum to the Agriculture Ministry.

The blood bank is at a critically low level on blood at present and so the Ministry of Health has issued an SOS for blood.

Former senior member of the PNCR Joseph Hamilton yesterday defended his move to the ruling PPP/C saying it was the only party that has presented a programme of development for Guyana.

A Canadian who allegedly had 1.548kg of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Three men who allegedly attempted to defraud and obtain money by false pretence were yesterday placed on $125,000 bail each after they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The occupants of the St Joseph’s and adjoining Holy Family homes of the elderly on Vlissengen Road yesterday expressed disgust as they were affected by a strong stench of smoke and burnt flesh from a nearby empty lot, where a dead horse was set alight by its owner after it died last week.

A 24-year-old hairdresser who allegedly had 418 grammes of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison after she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Ten-year-old Sameer Samshuddin remains in an unconscious state in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where his condition is said to be critical.

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says that should it assume office it will immediately raise the income-tax threshold to $100,000 and reduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) from 16 per cent to 10 per cent.

Journalists from across the Caribbean were last week exposed to a range of skills and knowledge for applying international labour standards in their reporting during a three-day workshop in Trinidad and Tobago.

By Marcelle Thomas Whether it was swirling clay taken from rice fields on a passé potter’s wheel, using banana and other plant leaves to make commemorative collectable dolls and fashion clothing, assembling awara, buckbead tamarind and other seeds to make jewellery or using local wood to make dhall swizzlers, clothing beaters, mortars and pestles and rolling pins, local craft producers were out in full force at GuyExpo, the annual trade fair held at the Sophia Exhibition from September 29 to October 2.

Development Coordinator Harripersaud Nokta and a team of officials were given a warm welcome during a recent visit to Kanapang and Itabac in Region Eight.

GT&T said nine persons have been chosen from a group of over 30 who auditioned on the Essequibo Coast recently for its Jingle and Song contest.

The Mayor and City Council advises the public that the Solid Waste Management Department has implemented a revised schedule for collection in wards from category eight.

The Plus One deal took another twist yesterday with the Kashif & Shanghai Organisation (K&SO) co-director Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major saying that all grievances between the organisation and the local clubs have been settled.

Chris Williams was phenomenal as he led Victory Valley Royals to the next round of the Mackeson Smooth Moves 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament last Sunday evening at the newly-refurbished Mackenzie Sports Club Basketball Court, Linden.

Guyana’s national football team the “Golden Jaguars” continued its preparation for the 2014 World-Cup qualifying away legs against Barbados and Bermuda on Friday and next Tuesday with an intense practice session at the Enmore Community Center Ground, yesterday.

BENGALURU, India,  CMC-IANS – Estranged West Indies opener Chris Gayle whipped up the tempest, blowing away English county Somerset with a hurricane innings, and leading Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 51-run victory in the Champions League Twenty20 yesterday.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) met on Saturday and following that meeting a fresh team for this year’s Inter Guiana Games competition was named.

PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) – Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend left prison after four years yesterday when an Italian appeals court cleared them of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former champions Colin Jackson and Daley Thompson hit out at drug cheats yesterday, saying they had wrecked some sports and ruined the reputation of athletics.

The 2011 Tenelec Incorporated first division limited overs competition organized by the Berbice Cricket Board, continued last Saturday with only one of the scheduled fifth round matches taking place.

Dear Editor, With reference to the article ‘Teachers blind to it…’ written by Marcelle Thomas (Sunday Stabroek  October 2), I am indeed pleased that someone has taken notice of bullying in schools, and if the investigation reveals that the youth from Charity committed suicide because of it I wouldn’t be surprised.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Campaigners for a loosely regulated Internet are alarmed at the risk to Web freedom from fast-growing BRIC and other emerging economies seeking more say in how the online realm is policed.

Dear Editor, Organized and promoted by Guyanese, the West Indian Music Awards (WIMA) was held a week ago in Jamaica, New York. 

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces have captured a district in Sirte after fierce battles that further raised concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Muammar Gaddafi’s besieged hometown.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Devon Thomas and Danza Hyatt hit half-centuries, after Andre Russell warmed-up for higher-intensity battles in Bangladesh with a workmanlike spell to limp West Indies to a five-wicket victory over ICC Associate side Afghanistan in a One-day match yesterday.

VISAKHAPATNAM, India,  CMC – Justin Greaves top-scored with 90 and Kavem Hodge made 80 not out, but West Indies Under-19s again failed to ease concerns about their readiness for next year’s Youth World Cup, when Sri Lanka Under-19s prevailed over them by two wickets in the Quadrangular Youth One-day International Series yesterday.

Dear Editor, This is what some people would call a defining moment.

Dear Editor, My support and liking for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has gradually deteriorated over the past years.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman whose murder trial in the death of her retired police officer husband is considered a test of the battered woman defence said yesterday that “the truth has now been told” as her case wound to a close.

Fairy Landing of the Mohammed Shariff Stable won the feature E and Lower horse race when Rising Sun Turf Club, in collaboration with the True Friendship Society, held its fundraising meet at the RSTC facility, West Coast Berbice, on Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) General Secretary Aundre Franklin has taken issue with the media’s use of words like fractious and divisive to refer to the current leadership bid.

Dear Editor, Last week Chandra Narine Sharma was told By President Bharrat Jagdeo that his television station would be pulled off the air for four months for airing highly controversial statements. CNS

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

Albion Community Centre had to fight hard to secure an eight-run victory over Port Mourant and earn  a place in the final of the 2011 Ramcharitar Construction Services first division limited overs cricket competition.

Emaciated cart horses gamboling on D’Urban Street near Vlissengen Road yesterday temporarily halted traffic and drew pity from some commuters.

Dear Editor, While some simple minds will get excited over the side issues of what Region 10 Chairman, Mortimer Mingo, and the PPP said or did or didn’t say or didn’t do, there is a bigger lesson in this entire fiasco.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Doctors who tried to revive Michael Jackson at a Los Angles hospital testified yesterday that the singer’s personal physician never told them he gave him the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Rene Gonzalez, an airplane pilot imprisoned for 13 years for spying on anti-Castro groups in Miami, will be a free man on Friday, but the first of the so-called Cuban Five agents to be released from prison won’t be going home to Cuba anytime soon.

Assad Fudadin and Narsingh Deonarine will skipper teams which will be involved in a practice match tomorrow following a meeting of the senior national selectors, coach and captain of the national cricket team.

Hot Momma’s Advice: Getting to know your child’s teacher will help you learn more about your child’s education!

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