Daily Archive: Monday, December 19, 2011

Of all the holdovers from the Jagdeo Administration, Roger Luncheon is perhaps the most notable.

Police say that at about 1200h today ranks of a mobile police patrol stopped and searched a man who was riding a motor cycle along Princes Street, Georgetown, and found an unlicensed .32 revolver and four matching rounds in his possession.

(Jamaica Observer) Female deejay Gaza Slim and her Portmore Empire boss, Vybz Kartel, were remanded in when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning.

Rawle Rickford Coleman is wanted by the police after having escaped from lawful custody on 2011-12-15 from the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – India have fought some epic   battles with Australia but now embark on a test tour with what  many believe is their best chance of humbling the wearers of the  baggy green caps in their own back yard for the first time.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australia’s test team have rarely  been far away from crisis this year and it has again been the  prevailing mood as they prepare to try and prevent another hefty  chunk being taken out of their once formidable reputation.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Syria agreed today to let Arab  League observers into the country to monitor implementation of a  deal it agreed last month to pull troops from protest-hit towns,  free political prisoners and start talking to dissidents.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea’s state news  agency KCNA has called dead leader Kim Jong-il’s son Jong-un a  “great successor” in what appears to be the first such mention  of the late leader’s youngest known son, who had been groomed to  take over power.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tension is mounting in West Portland among supporters of the two major political party’s following the stabbing death of a resident on Sunday, in the Charlestown community of Buff Bay.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados and Venezuela are in the early stages of discussion to introduce a free health care programme for Barbadians who suffer from eye and heart problems.

(Barbados Nation) Two of Barbados’ longest serving prisoners are to be freed today.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of farmer Ramlogan Singh, 73 years, whose body was found at about 0830h yesterday on his bed with his hands and feet bound.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il,  revered at home by a propaganda machine that turned him into a  demi-god and vilified in the West as a temperamental tyrant with  a nuclear arsenal, has died, North Korean state television  reported last night.

(Barbados Nation) A 27-year-old man is in serious but stable condition after suffering a gunshot wound to the head on Saturday.

Leaders of the opposition have welcomed police commissioner Henry Greene’s decision to go on leave in light of an investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman.

Opposition leaders say that the administration should have consulted with them before setting up the panel to review the tax system.

Synergy Holdings Inc, the company which is constructing the access roads for the Amaila Falls hydro-electricity project is seeking truckers to work on a contract basis in hauling laterite to the project area.

The home of former army Chief of Staff Norman McLean and former Registrar of the High Court, Sita Ramlal was destroyed yesterday morning after a fire of electrical origin started in the upper flat.

By Frances Abraham and Lakhram Bhagirat While many persons are excited about taking to the streets of Georgetown to get their last minute Christmas shopping done, elderly residents of the Uncle Eddie’s Home and Archers Home are content with just ringing in the season and welcoming the new year.

President Donald Ramotar told NCN on Saturday that the convening of the new Parliament was deferred to January following a request by opposition coalition, APNU.

By Emmerson Campbell World Boxing Council’s (WBC) CABOFE cruiserweight champion Barbadian Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox scored a sensational first round knockout of Guyana’s Kurt Bess Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall at the 19th staging of the Friday Night Fight card organised by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control.

Despite the inclement weather, shoppers came out in large numbers in the main commercial areas of the city on Saturday, reversing the slow business trend in the immediate pre and post-election periods.

National table tennis player Nigel Bryan yesterday created history by becoming the first person in Guyana to win the junior, senior and under-21 titles at the annual national championships.

“They kick me up and slap me with [their] gun.” This was the account of another victim of the recent Five Star robbery/murder.

Forestry expert, Janette Bulkan says that government has continued to allow “unlimited” exports of logs and at low prices and she has slammed the “perverse policy measure” in place.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Batsman Kieran Powell of Nevis and Antigua & Barbuda leg-spinner Anthony Martin, who both played for West Indies in the recent One-Day International series against India, are in the Leeward Islands 14-man squad for the 2012 Caribbean Twenty20 championship in Antigua and Barbados from January 9 to 22.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies limited overs fast bowling all-rounder Andre Russell snatched four wickets to help title holders St.

Deputy Mayor of Georgetown Robert Williams is currently a patient of the Caribbean Heart Institute where he is said to be attached to a heart and oxygen machine.

A helmet-trick from Daniel Favourite propelled Back Circle to a 5-2 win over West Front Road to be crowned 2011 Guinness In Da Street champions Friday night at the National Park.

President Donald Ramotar says everyone affiliated with the tourism sector is sensing and grasping that tourism is going to be major in Guyana, and therefore  both the private sector and the government have started making preparations to meet the growing expected arrivals and demands.

Dear Editor, I write this letter with a deep sense of concern for the welfare of the many families in Region 10 and other Guyanese who are taking care of their families by mining gold on a small scale at Omai.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Taufiq Umar closed in on a half-century as Pakistan reached 87 for one in replying to Bangladesh’s 338 all out on the second day of the second test  yesterday.

A memorial service will be held tomorrow at the St George’s Cathedral in memory of former prime ministerial candidate of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Sheila Holder, The service is slated to begin at

Dear Editor, The decision that Acting Police Commissioner Greene should proceed on leave (whoever made it) is a welcome first step towards a proper investigation into the allegations of rape made against him.

Dear Editor, The AFC’s leader, Khemraj Ramjattan, talked a good game about investigating, prosecuting and jailing corrupt government officials.

In support of Haiti’s national strategy to combat the cholera outbreak, CARICOM is executing a project to improve sanitation infrastructure and sensitize residents of a Cite Soleil community in Haiti in the practice of safe personal and community hygiene.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan players have been refused permission to play in a Bangladesh 50-over league by their cricket board (PCB) in order to concentrate on next month’s test series against England in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Fourteen-year old third form Richard Ishmael student Saeed Ali yesterday won the Open individual event at the annual national schools ‘chess championships held at the Providence National Stadium.

Dear Editor, The majority of Guyanese, at home and abroad, as demonstrated by voters, looked forward to a change, and as the Manifesto of the Guyanese Youth Congress states, a new dispensation to allow for “Inclusiveness, Rebirth, Renewal, Reconciliation and Rebuilding” against a background of national unity.

(Barbados Nation) Police have arrested a Guyanese woman who allegedly tried to smuggle a kilo of cocaine – hidden in her hair, bra, underwear and private parts – into Barbados.

The gutted house

The new Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) will begin operations from January 3  when it will accelerate the ‘Wellness Revolution’ in the Caribbean, according to Project Manager Dr Jerome Walcott.

(Barbados Nation) If there was an attempted palace coup against Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of the ruling Democratic Labour Party, heads will roll.

YOKOHAMA, Japan,  (Reuters) – Lionel Messi scored two wonder goals as European champions Barcelona ripped apart Brazil’s Santos 4-0 to win their second Club World Cup in swashbuckling style  yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian Finance Minister Chris Sinckler has come clean on a NATION report that he and ten of his Government colleagues were seeking an “urgent audience” with Prime Minister Freundel Stuart to discuss matters of “grave” concern and to chart a path forward for the retention of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) in Government.

PRAGUE,  (Reuters) – Vaclav Havel, a dissident  playwright jailed by Communists who became Czech president and a  symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless “Velvet  Revolution”, died at 75 yesterday.

Dear Editor, Since the Burnham administration when Mr Gavin Kennard was the Minister of Agriculture, we the residents of south Essequibo were told of the government’s plans to empolder about five thousand, five hundred acres of land for agricultural purposes behind the villages stretching from Supenaam to Adventure, a distance of about nine miles, and although Reid and Malik and Taylor Woodrow both did some drainage and irrigation work along the Essequibo Coast and the areas aforementioned, that promise was not kept.

Spearheaded by former national junior chess champion Cecil Cox, Queen’s College `A’  ran away with the team title when the annual National Schools’ teams Chess championships ended yesterday.

Dear Editor, It was with delight that I fed on your editorial of December 17.

Xmas village: Diego and one of Santa’s helpers took a stroll in the National Park yesterday among children who

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The crew and captain of an  Indonesian boat packed with illegal immigrants grabbed life  vests and swam away as it sank during a heavy storm, leaving  more than 200 passengers missing, Australian media reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, In October there was a letter in the newspapers by Mr.

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Time Magazine has named ‘The Protestor’ as its ‘Person of the Year’ an accolade it bestows at the end of each year on a deserving person.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Nigel Harrison, the former Barbadian first-class umpire, has died after a brief illness.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – After 10 months of secret  dialogue with Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. 

By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas teaches at Hamilton College “The people are doing nothing.

Politikles

Just days into his administration and with much political uncertainty around, President Ramotar’s government will have to urgently address the concerns expressed by the European Union about the need for swifter work on sea defence projects failing which grant funds can be at risk.

(Jamaica Observer) Erica Atkinson and Shauntell Ferguson sat on a bench outside the arrival area at the Norman Manley International Airport depressed, tired, and infuriated by the treatment they said they received from Antiguan immigration authorities last Thursday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former Finance Minister Karen Tesheira yesterday described as “highly improper and highly irregular,” the conduct of the Integrity Commission in its pursuit of a conflict of interest probe against her.