Articles published on Monday, April 9, 2012
LONDON, (Reuters) – International vaccines group GAVI has struck a deal for bulk buying rotavirus shots from GlaxoSmithKline and Merck which cuts the price by two-thirds and will allow poorer countries access to them at around $5 per course.
(Reuters) – West Indies kept the pressure on Australia on day three of the first test in Bridgetown, Barbados today with the tourists restricted at the close to 248 for five in 95 overs.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Kidnappers have seized a Costa Rican diplomat in the latest high-profile abduction in crime-plagued Venezuela, authorities of both countries said today.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh has arrived home in India after cancer treatment in United States and doctors are confident the player will not suffer a relapse, his national cricket board (BCCI) said today.
(Barbados Nation) One of Barbados’ most renowned furniture manufacturing companies was destroyed in an early morning fire today.
Trinidad Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal says the effect of the ruling by Chief Justice Ian Chang quashing the advice of the DPP to charge Police Commissioner Henry Greene with rape is that any accused person in Guyana can now go to court and seek a stay of a criminal charge.
(Trinidad Guardian) Guyana-born international musician Dennis De Souza has died. De Souza, who was known among his Caribbean counterparts as a famed Caribbean pianist, died on Saturday in Canada, after battling with Parkinson’s disease.
(Trinidad Guardian) Disrespectful, unfortunate, irresponsible. These were the responses of members of the media community to Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds’ reference to the media as vultures.
(Jamaica Observer) Mandeville, Manchester — Family Psychologist Dr Barry Davidson has blamed slavery for the failure of many Jamaican men to adequately fulfil their role as fathers.
(Jamaica Gleaner) As the Ministry of Education makes J$10.3-million room in its budget to facilitate a review of Jamaica’s Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) by a consultant from overseas, local educators have pointed out that aspects of the national high school placement exam are age inappropriate.
A teenager was electrocuted while on a merry-go-round during a fair at Two Friends, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
A series of problems including a defective conveyor system has plagued GuySuCo’s Enmore packaging plant raising questions about its ability to operate at full capacity but a top official has said that the facility is functioning well.
A mother and her three children, who were allowed by her husband’s employer to occupy a recently purchased house, now have to look for another place to live because fire yesterday afternoon des-troyed the building at Agri-cola, East Bank Demerara.
Five men were taken by police for questioning yesterday after they were found removing goods from Halima’s Fashions on Regent Street.
Floodwater from overtopping and breaches in sections of the Essequibo River island of Leguan was receding slowly yesterday as residents expressed frustration at the continuing problem at almost each spring tide.
A bus conductor was on Thursday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court reprimanded and discharged after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton on a charge of behaving disorderly in a public place.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has identified a number of offences for which a traffic ticket may be issued, particularly to operators of motor vehicles, including motor-cycles, bicycles and animal-drawn vehicles.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has cleared the operations of several prospective mining and sawmilling companies, saying they will not have any significant impact on the environment.
Banks DIH Ltd has begun the renovation of a small building just north of its Campsite branch, where a new Quik-Serv outlet will service patrons of that branch after it would have closed down.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s 25th Test century underpinned a gallant batting effort as West Indies battled their way into a strong position on the second day of the first Test against Australia here yesterday.
A year after 73-year-old Compton Lacon was fatally run over by a Mayor and City Council (M&CC) tractor and trailer, his family is still awaiting justice while the driver, who had fled the scene, is back on the job.
By Emmerson Campbell Jude Bentley’s last name is synonymous with a luxurious automobile so it was only fitting for the 2006 Commonwealth Games cyclist to ride in vintage style.
Idi Lewis has been a successful player for Guyana winning the Caribbean Junior boys singles title and gaining a bronze medal as a senior player.
A Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) emergency crew technician was on Thursday night shocked and suffered severe burns to his body while working on a utility pole at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara Eustace Abrams, 39, of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara was working with a crew fixing a faulty wire when the incident occurred.
After a full day of rest the six member Guyanese contingent at the 41st Carifta Games will look to make good their efforts when they compete on the final day of the games today at the National Sports Centre in Bermuda.
The Ministry of Public Works on Wednesday received a ‘cherry picker’ and a tow truck, which were procured at a cost of $18M through a loan agreement with the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) and the Government of Guyana.
Even as Guyana’s best bodybuilders are hard at work sculpting their physiques ahead of what is anticipated to be the biggest Hugh Ross Classic Body Building and Fitness show, corporate support is also flexing its muscle.
A couple had to pay dearly on Tuesday when a domestic matter landed them in court and despite their wish to discontinue the case after deciding to work things out and move on they were both ordered to pay court costs of $50,000 each.
A man was on Tuesday denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded not guilty to using abusive language to his nieces.
Towering
Group stage action in the Linden leg of the 2012, Guinness Greatest of the Street Futsal competition continued on Saturday evening at the New Silver City Hard Court with four of the eight fixtures producing results Eight (8) pulsating matches warmed the hearts of the fans who braved the persistent showers earlier in the day, to throng the venue and witness the night’s action, which also saw defending champions Eagles being held to a two all draw by Trainline Warriors.
An auto sales clerk was on Thursday accused of embezzling over $2M.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Experienced West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has praised the maturity of the side’s younger players and said yesterday’s performance was testimony of their improvement.
Hawk-eyed
Dear Editor, During the just concluded November 2011 General and Regional Elections, political parties campaigned rigorously and laid out their plans for the people should they win the elections.
West Indies coach Ottis Gibson is at it again. Hardly had the dust settled on his long standing confrontation with former West Indies opener Chris Gayle over ironically, Gayle’s criticism of him before the West Indies Coach found himself embroiled in another controversy with another West Indies player.
Kite flyers
Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter published in the March 18, 2012 edition of the Kaieteur News which was penned by a concerned citizen and published under the caption ‘Unfair competition between Chinese and local businesses.‘
Guyana will be represented this year at the 3rd International Quranic Competition for memorization, recitation and interpretation of the Holy Quran by 18-year-old Muzzammil Ramzan Khan of Corriverton, Berbice.
Dear Editor, I would like to make some observations on the NBS accounts for the benefit of its members.
The Guyana and Jamaica national football teams known as the Golden Jaguars and Reggae Boyz respectively will lock horns in a major international friendly on May 18 at the Catherine Hall Stadium in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Persons who suffered losses in the fire that gutted a seven-apartment building in Timehri two months ago, have been given additional assistance by officials of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
Today the National Parks Commission will charge a nominal fee for persons who wish to vend and those who will be bringing their vehicles (buses, cars, motorcycles) into the Botanic Gardens and Joe Vieira Park.
Quality kite time
OKLAHOMA CITY, (Reuters) – Authorities were investigating racially charged comments on the Facebook page of a suspect in the shootings of five black people in Tulsa but said yesterday it was too early to call the killing spree a hate crime.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Mike Wallace, the grand inquisitor of CBS’s “60 Minutes” news show who once declared there was “no such thing as an indiscreet question,” has died at the age of 93, the network said yesterday.
Dear Editor, There is the promise of change in the air, if the newspaper reports are to be believed.
Dear Editor, As by chance, this week past France has had to deal with a similar case to that of Henry Greene.
JERUSALEM/DUBAI, (Reuters) – The United States and its allies are pressing for an end to Iran’s high-level uranium enrichment and the closure of a facility built deep under a mountain as talks on Tehran’s nuclear standoff with the West resume this week.
Sleeping beauties
This week’s Classic Tuesdays film is British film director, Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot (2000).
A man from Grove was put on $10,000 bail on Thursday for allegedly wounding a woman in Broad Street, Charlestown.
Politikles
This week we asked Lindeners about the announcement in the budget that power bills will be going up as the government subsidy will be gradually removed.
Clearing up fire damage: Stallholders yesterday clearing out the
Dear Editor, On April 6, 2012, Stabroek Business carried an article emanating from a Trinidad-based consulting group which promises two other parts on performance management practices.
For the average struggling Guyanese, the most noteworthy announcement made by the Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh in his budget presentation would have been the lifting of the income tax threshold substantially from $40,000 per month to $50,000 per month.
KADUNA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – A car bomb killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna on Easter Sunday, after security officers stopped the vehicle carrying it from approaching a church, witnesses and police said.
Picnic
By Dana Seetahal This column originally appeared in the Trinidad Express on February 24, 2012, and appears here along with an addendum following Justice Chang’s recent decision, courtesy of Dana Seetahal.
A Plaisance man, accused of unlawful assault, was on Thursday put on $20,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
(Barbados Nation) The Regional Security System (RSS) is taking an active interest in gangs across the region.
(Trinidad Express) Kenneth Lu, who was kidnapped on Saturday in Claxton Bay, showed up at the Piarco Police Station unhurt later that night.
(Trinidad Express) Brian Mario Bovell and his wife, Savitri, were on their way home from church yesterday, when a van crossed the median of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in St Augustine and crashed head-on into their family car.
(Trinidad Express) An illegal dump and nearby crops created a “bird hazard” for airplanes leaving the Piarco International Airport on two consecutive days over the Easter weekend.
