Daily Archive: Sunday, October 9, 2011

Police today said that robbery suspect Kelvin Poonsammy died in hospital after being found unconscious in the Brickdam lock-ups.

President Jagdeo announced at the PPP rally in Kitty, Georgetown this evening that the suspension of CNS Channel Six would be lifted until December 1.

New York city police on Friday announced the busting of what was described as “the biggest ID scam in American history” after arresting 111 people including Guyanese who allegedly made bogus credit cards as part of a Queens-based scam that cost consumers, banks and retailers a whopping US$13 million.

Election day is Monday, November 28, according to a Proclamation issued by President Jagdeo a short while ago.

The Office of the President has maintained that the Sharmas’ attempted to negotiate for a reduced suspension of their television station and accused the couple of “dishonesty of the highest order.”

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Rosebel Goldmines (RGM) has achieved a record production in Brokopondo of nearly 400,000 troy ounces (12,440 kilos) of gold.

(Jamaica Observer) Herman Webb is an angry man.The 65-year-old says that Noranda Bauxite Company has been giving him, his neighbours and hundreds of residents in districts neighbouring the community of Stepney in South East St Ann a raw deal.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after reports of skin-tone discrimination in Jamaica’s job market hit the fan, the Government’s job placement and training agency – HEART Trust/NTA – has announced that internal investigations have yielded no proof that the agency has ever received requests from employers for light-skinned trainees to fill vacancies at their establishments.

(Barbados Nation) A dedicated whistleblower hotline for employees to anonymously report white-collar crime and other wrongdoing in their workplaces is about to go live in Barbados.

(Trinidad Express) A decline in drug trafficking has caused the murder rate to increase in Trinidad and Tobago, according to a recent report from the United Nations.

Police have held a  suspect in the killing of a 14-year-old-old girl of Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder who quit school to avoid a former boyfriend  and ended up being stabbed to death by him in the school playground around 2.20 pm on Friday.

The US Department of Justice was prepared in 2009 to respond to a request from Guyana for information on the activities of convicted drug lord Roger Khan but it is unclear if Georgetown ever followed up.

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA), the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and Red Thread are among 19 civic organisations that have joined calls for the government to review the “excessive” four-month suspension of CNS TV 6.

The PPP has urged the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) to review the appointment of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) as an observer group for the upcoming elections, saying a union executive’s apparent endorsement of an opposition candidate makes it unsuitable.

CHENNAI, India, IANS-CMC – Kieron Pollard will square off with West Indies counterpart Chris Gayle in today’s Champions League Twenty20 final after his Mumbai Indians beat English county Somerset by 10 runs in the second semi-final of the lucrative tournament here yesterday.

A 38-year-old motorcyclist lost his life when a left-hand drive Nissan Maxima motorcar, PNN 7187 crashed into him at Onderneeming, West Coast Berbice around 7.30 am yesterday.

Less than two months after a car careened off the East Bank Demerara Highway into the upper flat of the Razack house at lot 35 Bagotstown Public Road, another car slammed into the front fence at the same location early yesterday morning. 

By Emmerson Campbell With Guyanese Godfrey Pollydore and Mark Lewis winning the first and third stages respectively, their fellow countryman Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams must have felt the urge to taste success as well Williams responded by winning yesterday’s fourth stage of this year’s Ride for Life five-stage road race in fine fashion

Top junior player Suhai Feng shrugged off his controversy with the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to snatch the lead after two rounds of the Closed National Junior Chess Championhips which got underway yesterday at the West Demerara Secondary School.

Sixty-eight year old Phulmattie Rami died the most horrible death one could ever imagine.

Co-defending Regional limited overs champions the Leeward Islands (who tied with Barbados at Sabina Park in last year’s final) and the Windward Islands are expected to arrive in Guyana this weekend in order to have an early acclimatisation camp ahead of the Regional Super50 one-day tournament which is scheduled to bowl off in Guyana on  October 18.

On October 6, Juliane Kokott, an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice handed down an opinion in a case that brings aviation, the environment, taxation and sovereignty face to face.

When I worked in the sugar industry I remember once discussing a problem with a young and junior colleague.

The ‘Sport of Kings’ is back at the Bush Lot United Turf Club, West Coast Berbice, today where another grand contest will start from 13:00 hours featuring  eight races and prize monies totaling over $2M.

Introduction The process of consolidating and centralizing capital and other productive assets in Guyana’s sugar industry reached its apogee with the establishment of GuySuCo in 1976. 

The  Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association  organized Bakewell Countrywide Male open 15/15,Male over 40 yrs 25/25,and female 10/10 softball tournament continues today at various venues.

The Muslim Youth Organization of Guyana in association with Raf’s Variety Store, First Annual Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Memorial Countrywide Inter-Jamaat 10/10 Knockout Softball Cricket Tournament continued last Sunday  at Chesney Ground and CPCE Ground.

Introduction “The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented,” US President Barack Obama said in a statement.

Unless the quote was lost in translation in the Reuters transmission from Dhaka, neither the question at the media briefing on the West Indies’ team arrival in Bangladesh or Ottis Gibson’s answer was surprising.

A Tweet I received from a Spanish follower hours after the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs caught my attention.

The softball cricket fraternity has organized a benefit game for Royston Ramsarran former organizing secretary of the Guyana Softball Cricket Association (GSCA).

Hardly a day goes by without someone, in a private gaff or a public forum, waxing eloquently about “the good old days,” and how great things were then, and how unfortunate our young people

Members of Guyana’s premier Capoeira group, Grupo De Capoeira Camangula (Guyana), Third Street, Alberttown, returned from Brazil after participating in the fourth annual International Jungle Meeting in Manaus, Brazil marking Guyana’s place in the world of Capoeira.

CARDIFF (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of fans rocked to the hits of Michael Jackson yesterday at a tribute concert his brothers hoped would put the spotlight on his musical legacy after so much controversy.

In May, 2003, Justin John, an Amerindian from Karasabai, was arrested for murder, a charge which does not permit of bail.

Before we begin with this instalment of this heartworm drama, allow me to surprise you with some facts. 

Malteenoes were eight runs ahead at the end of the opening day of the Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup, two-day, first-division match against the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, yesterday.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Islamists stormed a university in Tunisia yesterday after it refused to enrol a woman wearing a full-face veil, a staff member said, highlighting tensions over religion that are likely to dominate an election later this month.

HAMILTON, Bermuda,  CMC – Bermuda coach Devarr Boyles was over the moon while his opposite number, German Otto Pfister said there was no need to “press the panic button just yet” after the home side stunned regional powerhouses Trinidad and Tobago on Friday night

CAPE TOWN – China is built on lies and its officials are hypocrites, the Dalai Lama said today, speaking via videophone after visa problems prevented him from joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s birthday celebrations in South Africa.

On a hot, lazy afternoon, Ian Jackson sits outside a bicycle shop, working away on a broken cycle chain.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez condemned on Saturday the “horrible repression” of anti-Wall Street protesters and termed a US Republican presidential candidate “crazy” for his criticism of Cuba and Venezuela.

The ‘Golden Jaguars’ returned to Guyana yesterday afternoon from Barbados minus all the team equipment and most of the individual pieces for the players on their LIAT flight.

The importance of the Amerindian heritage to the literature of Guyana has been articulated with specific reference to the fact that what is normally referred to as Guyanese literature includes Amerindian folk tales. 

By Roxanne Clarke with photos by Anjuli Persaud There is a rural community not far from Georgetown whose peace is only shattered by the whine of vehicles racing on the highway.

Director of Sports, Neil Kumar, said yesterday that he has been really impressed with the preparation of the various disciplines for the upcoming Inter Guiana Games and expects the teams to do very well.

Dear Editor, In early February, 2010, eighteen months ago, there was delivered to the office of the Minister of Legal Affairs a letter by Mr Leon Rockcliffe, an Attorney-at-Law seeking the Minister’s attention to many of the deficiencies in the operations of the Deeds Registry, a government department under that Minster’s charge. 

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh suggested yesterday that within days he would step down, a promise he has made three times already this year, and analysts said it was yet another stalling tactic.

Seven persons, including an Essequibo vendor, were on Friday injured in a vehicular collision which took place in the vicinity of Middlesex, Pomeroon.

Digicel has pumped thousands of dollars into the preparation of Guyana’s team for their participation at the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) in Suriname.

Dear Editor, The pull of emigration and the search for a better life in the greener pastures of North America and the Caribbean have wrought significant changes in the political demography of Guyana.

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Transitional Libyan government forces swept into Sirte yesterday in one of the biggest assaults yet on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown, but had to seek cover when they drew fire from his die-hard loyalists.

Begonias spend their entire lives germinating, growing, flowering, seeding and germinating in the twilight zones of the forest.

Savannahs are grassland ecosystems that are characterised by small trees or trees that are widely spaced so as not create a closed canopy.

The Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) organized Bakewell Male/Female nationwide softball tournament continued last Sunday at various venues.

Linking with stakeholders is key to transforming the University of Guyana (UG) and tackling the range of issues the educational institution faces, says newly-installed President of the University of Guyana’s Students Society (UGSS), Duane Edwards.

LONDON/MISRATA (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron stepped into a row surrounding his defence secretary’s working relationship with a former flatmate yesterday by demanding initial findings of an inquiry be delivered within 48 hours.

Dear Editor, An article in the Guyana Chronicle under the caption, ‘No basis for negative reactions, allegations over Sharma ban‘ refers.

This is a very strange election season. It lacks any kind of fizz.

Boycott