Articles published on Thursday, January 5, 2012
(Jamaica Observer) The government of Jamaica intends to remove all ties with the British monarchy, according to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, during her swearing-in ceremony today, at King’s House.
As a row over the management of Guyana’s cricket seethes, the West Indies board this evening asked the Guyana Government to enable the Guyana Cricket Board to complete the process of fielding a team for the T20 tournament starting in Antigua on Monday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York City man accused in a series of New Year’s Day Molotov cocktail attacks that hit a mosque and a Hindu place of worship has been ordered held without bail, prosecutors said today.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya is investigating an accusation by a security guard that the deputy chief justice threatened her with a pistol during a security check at an upmarket shopping mall on New Year’s eve, police and the judiciary said today.
The police today said they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 0010h today at Kiskadee Drive, Meadow Brook, Georgetown, where a molotov cocktail was thrown into the premises of the residence of Presidential Adviser Odinga Lumumba.
Former PNCR executive member Joe Hamilton, who endorsed the PPP/C party ahead of the November 28 polls, is set to become the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Health, when the Tenth Parliament is convened later this month.
(Trinidad Guardian) Neal & Massy Holding’s total comprehensive income for the year ended September 2011 plunged to TT$4.6 million from TT$379.6 million for the company’s 2010 financial year.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just before he was shot dead by robbers, Barrackpore farmer Anand Ramkarran screamed to his ailing mother for help.
In a move that could break an acrimonious deadlock over who will be the Speaker of the National Assembly, A Partnership for National Unity today said it is open to the rotation of candidates for the post with it holding the position for the first term.
(Trinidad Express) United States-based natural gas company Range Resources Ltd has successfully drilled a new development well on its Morne Diablo concession in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Express) Gita Sakal, former corporate secretary of CL Financial, put the needs of Lawrence Duprey above the will of the country, Senior Counsel Fyard Hosein, legal representative for the Ministry of Finance, stated yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck the Dominican Republic today, the U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner) At minutes to 6 a.m. yesterday when the family awoke and found two-year-old Ronaldinho ‘Nichile’ Dixon not breathing, they panicked.
(de Ware Tijd) Paramaribo – REDjet, the Barbadian price buster in the airline sector is to obtain a license to include Suriname in its schedule.
CASTRIES – West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) officials have thrown their full support behind the embattled Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Michael Clarke hit a majestic unbeaten 329 before declaring Australia’s first innings at 659 for four with a lead of 468 on the third day of the second test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday.
The team from Jamaica that will support the local probe of the rape allegations against Police Commissioner Henry Greene is expected to arrive soon, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.
Nine persons, whose ages range from 12 to 36 years old were held and released as police investigate the rape of a five-year-old Canje girl on December 23 last year and a relative has expressed outrage and called for justice.
Taxi-drivers charging exorbitant fares, during holiday periods and big events, has sparked fresh interest in the setting up of a regulatory authority to determine how much passengers should pay.
Beaten without a ball being bowled. That is the downfall of the Guyana National T20 cricket team known as the Amazon Conquerors.
President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Colin Boyce has deemed last year a successful year and is optimistic about the future of athletics in Guyana especially for this year.
The Office of the President yesterday defended Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali over a report in the Kaieteur News which stated that he was building a “mansion” at Leonora, West Demerara believed to be worth $300M.
A source on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has confirmed that there was originally to be a declaration that the elections was won by the PPP/C with a majority in Parliament but this was scuppered after it was pointed out that there had been a miscalculation in the allocation of seats.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Champions Manchester United suffered a second straight Premier League defeat yesterday, losing 3-0 to Newcastle United to leave Manchester City three points clear at the top of the table.
Two tarmacs, being built in the North West District of Region One, at a total cost of $72M, are to help bring order to parking, serve as a marketplace and provide a recreational place especially for youths in those areas.
DOHA, (Reuters) – Roger Federer extended his winning run to 19 matches with an easy victory at the Qatar Open yesterday while longtime rival Rafael Nadal was equally impressive in reaching the quarter-finals.
Efforts to find three Guyanese sailors and their vessel are continuing and the authorities are expected to meet with the families of the men today to provide an update on the situation, Transport Minister Robeson Benn said yesterday.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis completed his second test double century and AB de Villiers scored an unbeaten 160 to put South Africa in control of the third and deciding test against Sri Lanka yesterday.
A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of New Year’s Day murder victim Bebe Jahooral Banu yesterday revealed that she died of manual strangulation, according to her daughter Salima Ibrahim.
St John’s, Antigua – The third application period for the West Indies Cricket Board Digicel Grassroots Grant Programme is now open to all clubs and cricket clusters across the Caribbean.
Ryan Clemenson was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the April 2008 murder of two Brazilian miners during a robbery, while his co-accused, Lloyd Sadloo and Charles Hackett, were discharged.
Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy said officers from the Livestock and Crop Division are in Canal Number 2 to assess damages and prepare compensation packages for farmers affected by recent flooding.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Kirani James is expected to be a shoo-in for the Grenada Sports Personality-of-the-Year award for the second straight year.
LONDON, (Reuters) – London’s police must end their cosy relationship with the media that has damaged their reputation and seen officers leaking confidential information to journalists in late-night drinking sessions, a report said yesterday.
The police officers Old Year’s Night ball
CANTERBURY, England, CMC – Jimmy Adams has been appointed the new head coach of the Kent County Cricket Club.
The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) on Tuesday said it was unaware of reports of damage to miners’ equipment during their eviction from the Omai ‘Bone Yard’ on New Year’s Eve.
What a waste
Government complex in waiting
A Queens, New York judge yesterday sentenced a Guyanese private eye to 32 years in prison, calling him a “diabolical conniver and sinister manipulator” who framed his ex-girlfriend for robbery after she accused him of rape.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Michael Clarke hit a brilliant unbeaten 251 and Ricky Ponting his first hundred in two years as Australia took control of the second test against India yesterday, finishing the second day on an imposing 482 for four.
PILAR (Reuters) – Argentina’s popular president, Cristina Fernandez, is recovering well after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer yesterday, setting the stage for her return to work later this month.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke is naturally hoping his biggest ever test score will set up a second test victory over India but he would also like it to garner him a little more respect.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – German President Christian Wulff admitted yesterday making a “grave mistake” by trying to stop a paper publishing an embarrassing story about a home loan, but said he had no plans to resign.
Distribution under the Government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme continued yesterday when residents in Kitty/ Campbellville, Lodge and Sophia received their computers.
Dear Editor, It seems that the way to get prime mining land from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is to break the law, seek government intervention, further break the law and then you are granted prime land for mining in the long term.
(Reuters) – Kobe Bryant rediscovered his scoring touch to tally 37 points and lead the Los Angeles Lakers to top spot in the Pacific division with a 108-99 win over the visiting Houston Rockets on Tuesday.
Dear Editor, Several years ago, there was a period of time when the power company was GEC, and whatever salary and wage increases were announced during the reading of the National Budget, such increases were also enjoyed by the employees of GEC.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former chief justice and president of the Caribbean Court of Justice Michael de la Bastide says the award of Senior Counsel (silk) to an incumbent Chief Justice or to a sitting judge of the Court of Appeal of T&T is an “aberration.”
Almost half a year since devastating floods, Region Nine is “back on-stream,” according Regional Executive Officer (REO) Ronald Harsawack.
SAN DIEGO, Calif, (Reuters) – Once powerful Mexican drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty in a U.S.
Dan Kissoon started working at the Demerara Company at Diamond as a barefooted 15-year-old boy who ran errands in the General Stores and worked his way up to producing some of the finest alcohols ever made in Guyana.
RIO BRAVO, Mexico, (Reuters) – A fight between rival gangs inside a prison in northern Mexico left 31 inmates dead in the latest violence to erupt inside the country’s overcrowded jails, local officials said yesterday.
Dear Editor Airplay royalties payments to Guyanese recording artistes and songwriters, registered with the PRS and other copyright bodies, was an annual fixture in Guyana until 1992.
For a right start
Dear Editor, The human being is a multidimensional entity with the capacity to think, make decisions and choices.
We start the year 2012 with the hung Parliament hanging over our heads, as the political parties bicker and quarrel in acrimony and strife over the Speaker’s chair.
DES MOINES, Iowa/MANCHESTER, N.H., (Reuters) – Michele Bachmann was out, Rick Perry was back and Rick Santorum was up in the most volatile Republican presidential nominating contest in decades yesterday, as conservative Republicans searched for an alternative to frontrunner Mitt Romney.
(Reuters) – Memphis forward Zach Randolph could miss up to eight weeks playing time after tests revealed the Grizzlies’ second leading scorer has a torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee, the team said yesterday.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Batting continued to be a problem for three of the sides preparing for the Caribbean Twenty20, when the Barbados T20 Festival opened on Tuesday.
(Jamaica Observer) NEW YORK, USA — A permanent memorial to honour Jamaican nationals who died in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 will be erected at the British Garden at Hanover Square, in lower Manhattan.
School was clearly back in session
A Queens, New York man, said to be Guyanese, confessed on Tuesday to a New Year’s Day firebombing spree — claiming a personal vendetta drove him to throwing the Molotov cocktails, police said, according to yesterday’s New York Daily News.
This North Georgetown Primary youngster seemed very happy
(Jamaica Gleaner) Hyacinth Ford-Dryden, the woman suspected in the trafficking of several Jamaican children to the United States, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the attempted murder of Police Constables Rajindra Singh and Damintra Indrapaul, for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Anthony Watson and Basil Morgan stand accused, will continue on Friday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
The election of a minority government in Guyana has been a collective shock to all our systems.
A word of advice son
LONDON, (Reuters) – Two white men were jailed yesterday for murdering a black teenager in London 1993, a landmark case which exposed the “institutional racism” of the capital’s police in an official inquiry into the initial botched investigation.
St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board has noted a recent pattern of WIPA press engagements seemingly aimed at establishing a familiar unsavoury and antagonistic approach towards the WICB.
President and wife
Dear Editor, We the pensioners of Uitvlugt Sugar Estate experienced what a senior citizen once described as, “When you turn pensioner you turn a begga.”
The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) donated
On Old Year’s Night some of the church-going citizens of Georgetown were reportedly heard praying urgently that on the stroke of midnight a brisk breeze would descend on the capital and that all of the garbage in the city would be caught up…..like
