Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 6, 2012

(Trinidad Express) One of three police officers assigned to the Morvant Police Station, who are before a disciplinary tribunal on charges of neglect of duty, has pleaded guilty.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter sought to defuse a war of words between FIFA and Brazil today by personally apologising for disparaging remarks made by a top official about the country’s slow progress in preparing for the 2014 World Cup.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World.

(WICB) As a result of the situation in Guyana there has been speculation regarding the Barbados v Guyana Regional 4 Day match scheduled to start on Friday March 9th at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Selection Panel today announced the West Indies squad for the first three Digicel One-Day Internationals against Australia to be played on March 16, 18 and 20 at the Arnos Vale Cricket Ground in St.

Police say that at about 2220h last night, Sherwin Fileen,19 years of De Kenderen, WCD, was walking along the Georgetown Seawalls with a friend, when they were confronted by a man during which he was shot and injured to his right hand.

Amid questions about how $90M allocated to the police during the last general elections was spent, the force today issued a statement saying it could account for the entire amount.

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Allen Stanford was convicted today of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, a verdict that caps a riches-to-rags trajectory for the former Texas financier and Caribbean playboy.

APNU’s Leader of the Opposition, David Granger, in his presentation last Saturday to the PNCR’s first General Council for this year highlighted as an imperative the reforming of the PNCR, the NCW (National Congress of Women – the women’s arm of the party,  and the GYSM (Guyana Youth and Student Movement – the party’s youth arm) in order to ensure that they get in tune with the times.

The Operational Head of the One Laptop Per Family project  Sesh Sukhdeo has resigned, the programme confirmed today.

(Trinidad Express) State-owned airline Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has fired back at Tobago House of Assembly (THA) chief secretary Orville London who has claimed that the airline is not doing enough for Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago cannot turn a blind eye and allow the economy of Grenada to collapse, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley stated yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) New uniforms which were purchased for the Police Service are water resistant and stain proof, according to secretary of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association, Sgt Michael Seales.

(Trinidad Express)  A man who allegedly used his seven month-old son to swindle TT$5,000 from the San Fernando Rotary Club, appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with extortion.

(Jamaica Information Service) Jamaica could soon benefit from significant new investment in a number of sectors, coming out of the just concluded Jamaica Investment Forum.

(Barbados Nation) The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) may have used integrity and accountability as part of its pathway to success in the 2008 general election, but according to former Prime Minister Owen Arthur, it doesn’t practice what it preaches.

(Barbados Nation) The controversial Bds$10 million the Central Bank of Barbados placed at the disposal of former CLICO subsidiary CLICO Mortgage and Finance Corporation (CMFC) in 2009 has been repaid in full and with interest.

(Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene shared an opening partnership of 179 as Sri Lanka hammered Australia by eight wickets today to take the one- day international Tri-series final to a third and deciding match.

(Trinidad Express) The procurement rules apply both to the leasing or purchasing of items by Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs, including the TT$900,000 light aircraft to monitor criminal activity.

A woman was instantly killed yesterday morning when her head was crushed by a sand truck, after she fell from a motorcycle on Lombard Street, in Georgetown.

A 13-year-old boy, who was reportedly repeatedly abused by another boy his age, is nursing third degree burns, to his face, eyes, chest and neck after being set a blaze on February 27, allegedly by the same boy.

Search parties yesterday recovered a door from the sunken MV Crissan-V as they scoured the Waini Coast, in the North West District (NWD), for two crewmen who are still missing.

Residents of Block 22 and Amelia’s Ward, in Linden say moss has been flowing through their taps and they are calling for an urgent intervention by the Guyana Water Inc (GWI).

With a possible cement shortage looming owing to continued industrial action at the Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) Trinidad factory, the Ministry of Public Works is concerned about the possible impact on its projects, such as sea defence and road works, which would need cement to be completed.

By Zoisa Fraser In Barbados Officials at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) are looking to implement a common regional primary assessment programme, which would be a modified and enhanced version of the Common Entrance exam.

As reports of violence across Syria continue, China is lobbying the government and opposition forces to begin an inclusive political dialogue to resolve the current crisis.

After a seven-week trial for the murder of 34-year-old dental technician Vishnu Santie, one of the accused has been released while the second one was returned to prison after the 12-member jury failed to deliver a verdict.

GAWU President Komal Chand has warned that some persons and groups are using the name of the late former president Cheddi Jagan in their bid to undermine the working class.

Hubert Thomas of Catherina’s Lust and Deochand Kurhair of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice are worried that leaning and rotting electricity poles close to their homes would fall and cause damage.

Like true marksmen, the strikers of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Football Club found their range Sunday night.

President Donald Ramotar encouraged the Albouystown community to participate in the services and programmes offered in the newly opened $44 million Masjid an-Najm and social centre.

The sudden death of anyone in the prime of life is sad and shocking, more especially an international sportsman constantly in the public eye.

By Emmerson Campbell After hosting a successful and historic all-pro card last month that featured five World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title fights, the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will now return to the Pro Am initiative.

Guyana’s penultimate round clash of the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) four-day tournament against Barbados yesterday remained in doubt for two reasons.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has partnered with Hand-in-Hand Group of Companies to stage a 40-over Inter-Club tournament for teams in the West Berbice district.

UPSIDE DOWN WITH JOY

The victims of the Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara accident are said to be recovering slowly with Marvin Wray now no longer dependent on a life support machine.

(Reuters) – Rory McIlroy was proclaimed as golf’s next truly great player after winning the Honda Classic on Sunday and taking over as the world’s number one ranked player.

In downtown Atlanta, a casually dressed young woman with an impeccable hairstyle sits in an office chair filling out a form, the first step that would eventually see her transformed for the world of work.

Spending by the Agriculture Ministry of money voted for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has again been criticized by the Office of the Auditor General and a call made again for this to end.

(Reuters) – Rory McIlroy was proclaimed as golf’s next truly great player after winning the Honda Classic on Sunday and taking over as the world’s number one ranked player.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – The jury weighing evidence against Allen Stanford said yesterday it was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of the former Texas financier.

Raul Kissoon, witness for the plaintiff, in the libel case between former president Bharrat Jagdeo and Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon, yesterday failed to make his appearance, which caused the plaintiff to pay $20,000 each in legal fees for a wasted day to the two defence attorneys.

Dear Editor, In the January, 2011 edition of the Guyana Bar Review, I wrote in respect of efforts by the political executive to exercise control over the judiciary: “In The Judiciary and Governance in the Caribbean, (2001), Professor Ryan quotes Miles Fitzpatrick, S.C.

Michael Whyte of Lot 77 Triumph Village East Coast Demerara was yesterday sentenced to three months imprisonment for unlawfully smuggling 60 packs of Bristol cigarettes into the Camp Street prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates Court.

DURBAN, South Africa,  CMC – Former West Indies captain Chris Gayle says he will remember late teammate Runako Morton as having “a heart of a lion” and said he always wanted the Nevisian in any team he led.

Huge potholes along Cemetery Road in the Ruimveldt area

Dear Editor, More than seven years after the Chief Co-operatives Development Officer (formerly styled Commissioner for Co-operatives Development) assumed control of the affairs of the Paradise Multi Purpose Cooperative Society (PMCS) and appointed an interim committee of management an annual general meeting was called on Sunday October 1, 2011. 

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria‘s President Bashar al-Assad faces growing pressure for blocking humanitarian aid and human rights abuses, with the UN humanitarian chief set to visit the country this week and the broadcast of harrowing pictures said to show torture victims at a hospital in the embattled city of Homs Secretly shot video footage aired yesterday by a British television station shows what it said were Syrian patients being tortured by medical staff at a state-run hospital in Homs.

The former New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns has begun a UK High Court action for libel damages over an accusation on Twitter that he was involved in match-fixing.

Dear Editor, Without giving credence to or affirming Mr. Nigel Hinds’s claim `Under US election guidelines Granger would have won the presidency’ (SN Mar 5), I believe there is a need to urgently replace the Burnham constitution that allows any minority control of the government. 

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said that on Sunday March 4 it experienced two total generation system shutdowns in Demerara around 00:10 hrs when a Wartsila unit at Garden of Eden experienced an electrical fault and 14:30 hrs as a result of a burnt jumper on one of the main feeders at Sophia.

Dear Editor, I note with some alarm Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s reference to race dealing with my letter expressing concerns about the proposed specialist hospital.

Power to West Demerara is expected to dramatically improve in the coming months with the building of a series of new substations and high powered transmission cables to feed power from Kingston by way of submarine cable across the Demerara River.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to give sanctions more time to curb Iran‘s nuclear ambitions, but the Israeli prime minister gave no sign of backing away from possible military action.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian riot police detained more than 500 protesters including opposition leader Alexei Navalny yesterday at rallies challenging the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin’s victory in the presidential election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are reporting that six persons including a 13-year-old girl were killed in Denham Town in West Kingston yesterday afternoon during what they say was an intense gun-battle between themselves and gunmen.

Executive members of the Guyana Women’s Miners Association will visit Itabali backdam in Region Seven on Friday to meet female miners in the area in an effort to sensitise them about their rights and to listen to issues they may have.

Dear Editor, It is with a feeling of disgust and deep regret that I write to you on the matter of the Sunday, March 4th 2012 Demerara Waves’ article titled `PNCR’s Congress pushed back again; concerns about factionalism and debt raised’ written by Mr.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa will play India in a Twenty20 international at the end of this month after establishing the match as a permanent fixture on the calendar, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced yesterday.

By Bernd Debusmann For decade after decade, diplomats at the United Nations have had on-again, off-again talks on how to reform the Security Council, the supreme decision-making panel on international security.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition blamed each other yesterday for a violent melee at a campaign stop by presidential candidate Henrique Capriles in which several people were injured by bullets.

Dear Editor, Our governance situation has developed into a state of stagnation, where no political party can dictate a policy, and, in fact, they have to work together.

The autopsy of fallen cricketer Runako Morton will be performed Today at the Forensic Science Centre in Federation Park, Port-of-Spain.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Three months after one of the world’s most expensive elections, the Democratic Republic of Congo has no parliament or new government and its people are beginning to wonder what has become of their publicity-shy president, Joseph Kabila.

The Guyana Energy Agency, on January 13, through Special Prosecutor, Attorney-at-Law, Gino Persaud, secured a conviction against Delon Prashad at the Charity Magistrate’s Court in a ruling handed down by Magistrate Leron Daly.

Scarce skills are the bane of the private sector’s existence. Not that there is any shortage of unemployed persons in Guyana.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuter) – Kobe Bryant came back from a broken nose to score a game-high 33 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat Miami Heat 93-83 in an emotion-charged victory at the Staples Center yesterday.

Politikles

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Britain’s Prince Harry has arrived in Jamaica on a four-day official visit.

A 27-year-old horse cart operator was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to unlawfully wounding his reputed wife, and three months for unlawfully assaulting her when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court before Magistrate Priya Beharry.

Dear Editor, The statements from Dr. Faith Harding, who recently resigned from the Executive Committee of the PNCR, that the PNCR engaged in electoral skulduggery in its presidential primary leaves no surprise in my mind.

By José Graziano da Silva ROME – After six months and the deaths of tens of thousands of people, the famine in Somalia – caused by the worst drought in 60 years – is over.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran will hold run-off elections for 65 parliamentary seats, state media said yesterday, after loyalists to the paramount clerical leader won a dominating majority at the expense of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.