Daily Archive: Friday, April 13, 2012

(Trinidad Express) Transport Minister Devant Maharaj has said he will not meet with REDjet executives until the regional low-fares airline receives an Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Barbados government.

(Trinidad Express) Darren Bravo has constantly had his batting style compared with that of retired batting maestro Brian Lara, who is also his cousin.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has threatened legal action against the Express over the publication of a front-page story entitled “Neighbours Flee”, which she is claiming was libellous and damaging to her character.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and other Caricom heads will be holding bilateral discussions with United States President Barack Obama tomorrow in Cartagena, Colombia.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Feisty Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez acknowledged o n Friday that radiation treatment for cancer was wearing him down, but he vowed to squash his opponents in October’s presidential election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Broadcaster Wayne Whyte, 44, and another man, 35-year-old Safari Farr both of Harbour View addresses have been charged in connection with the shooting of radio worker Jody-Ann Gray.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, one of the world’s best known couples, are engaged to marry, ending a fevered, seven-year celebrity media dance over whether they will ever say “I do.”

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Allinva Andrews, 46 years of Moraikobe, Mahaicony River, ECD.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the demise of Hilbert Mayers, 48 years of Section ‘C’, Golden Grove, ECD, whose body was found in a neighbouring yard this morning and the power company says that the death occurred as a result of electricity theft.

Police say that Vincent Vandenburg, 26 years of LFS Burnham Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was today charged with murder committed on Lord Edwards of Edinburgh Housing Scheme, EBB.

Police say that a post-mortem was today performed on the body of Dexter Marshall of Two Friends Village, ECD, by Pathologist Dr.

Three persons have been charged with the armed robbery of several persons travelling from the airport.

(Jamaica Observer) Vybz Kartel and his co-accused were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Supreme Court this morning.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Americas Summit host President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed businessmen and fellow leaders to Colombia today with a call to bury political differences and advice for the United States to turn its attention back to Latin America.

The Guyana Water Incorporated has intensified service disconnection activities on the East Coast of Demerara and says some of its customers there have not paid bills in three years.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two attorneys have refused to represent alleged child-molester Abdul Samad who is accused of buggering a five-year-old boy and three teenagers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke said the Government is now formulating an ambitious plan to put 500 acres of land into rice cultivation by July and another 1,500 by December.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Aiming to provide greater transparency and accountability for its operations, the Office of the Director of the Public Prosecutions (DPP) will today launch the document The Decision to Prosecute: A Jamaican Protocol at the Norman Manley Law School at the University of the West Indies in St Andrew.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Wilhelmus de Bekker, bishop of Paramaribo, admits in an interview with de Ware Tijd that his statement about Bouterse supporters was unnecessary.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Organization of American States (OAS) will provide technical assistance to Suriname with establishing a truth and reconciliation commission related to the December murders and other crimes committed in the 1980s.

(Barbados Nation) Following four major industrial fires in the last five years, the Barbados Manufacturers Association (BMA) will launch a forensic audit of more than 70 industrial companies across the country.

(Barbados Nation) After more than two weeks of waiting for their pay, REDjet workers have been told they’ll get at least some of their money by next week.

Coach of the six-member CARIFTA Games team Julian Edmonds assessed the team’s efforts at the 41st edition of the event in Bermuda as creditable, although he acknowledged some below par performances.

President of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) Sheik Ahmad has stated unequivocally that the Tony Elite Styles Floodlight two-day Twenty20 tournament scheduled to bowl off today will go ahead despite suggestions that the tournament has not been authorized.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud says Guyana will very soon be receiving the third tranche of funds under the Guyana/Norway forest agreement, as the country is on course to meeting all of the conditions.

By Emmerson Campbell CABOFE flyweight champion Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques is now scheduled to headline the 22nd edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card on April 27 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall following the postponement of the initial headliner.

Human Services Minister Jennifer Webster yesterday declined to comment on embattled Police Commis-sioner Henry Greene’s conduct but stressed that persons holding public office should act in a proper manner—even as AFC MP Khemraj Ramjattan called for an appeal of the court’s decision to dismiss the advice to charge him with rape.

Guyana’s top riders are expected to open fire on the peloton tomorrow when they turn the inner circuit of the National Park into a speedway as national cycling coach Hassan Mohamed and Universal Auto and General Supplies team up to host their eighth annual  11-race cycle programme.

Vice-Chairman of the main opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Dr.

An argument over a hammock has left a miner from the Five Star Backdam, in the North West District of Region One dead, in the latest incident that has raised concern over the growing violence in the interior area.

(WICB) PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — West Indies all-rounder Narsingh Deonarine made a successful return to international cricket with the ball, as he played a crucial role in his team’s fight-back against Australia on the final day of the first Digicel Test on Wednesday.

A report out of Kingston has indicated that a Jamaican airline, Fly Jamaica, has announced its intention to commence operations between Jamaica and Guyana.

(Reuters) – His “Predator” style hair flowing, Aries Merritt skimmed the hurdles with new enthusiasm.

Evidence of heightened economic activity as reflected in the number of high rise buildings being erected in the New Amsterdam area may be concealing more deep-seated economic problems in parts of Region Six where the too few jobs manifests itself in evidence of idleness particularly among young people.

A father of five was last night struck dead by a car on the Vryheid’s Lust Public Road as he was returning home, mere minutes, after bidding the friends he had visited good night.

CHENNAI, India, CMC – Big-hitting Chris Gayle found his feet in the Indian Premier League yesterday, blasting a typically aggressive half-century in a losing cause for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

New opportunities may lie on the horizon for Guyanese women in business following the establishment in March of a regional organization named Women Entrepreneurs (WEN), a US State Depart-ment-backed organization that is concerned with identifying resources available through international organizations with which to support the growth and development of women-run enterprises in the region.

The government is anticipating that the defects in the troubled multi-million dollar Skeldon Sugar factory will be remedied this year, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Windward Islands off-spinner Shane Shillingford has been called up for the second Test against Australia starting here Sunday, on the heels of a disappointing performance by leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo in the Kensington Oval opener which West Indies lost by three wickets on Wednesday.

Fly Redjet

The finals of the 2012 Mayor’s Cup tournament should be well supported despite the low turnout at preliminary games, according to organizer Lennox Arthur.

The lifeless body of a security guard was discovered in his Fifth Street, Alberttown home by his brother on Wednesday.

Four Guyanese returning home from overseas have been attacked and robbed by armed bandits during the last few weeks and according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud investigators are on the verge of cracking these cases.

Officials of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) were yesterday due to undertake a “walk through” in the Sophia community in an attempt to tackle what company sources say has been renewed acts of vandalism against its telecommunications infrastructure targeting the company’s insulated copper cable.

Guyana’s senior 20/20 selectee Rajiv Ivan is to receive the prestigious Cricketer-of-the-Year Award for 2011 when the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports club (RHTYSC) hosts its 22nd Annual Awards Ceremony on Sunday,  April 22 at the Annexe Restaurant in Rose Hall Town.

Early Appeal As Guyanese were coming to the endof the Lenten Season, they were presented with a new fiscal offering from the newly constituted Donald Ramotaradministration. 

A number of GT&T customers in Section “B” and Plum Park, Block “E” Sophia are without telephone service as more of the company’s cables in the area have been vandalised in a wave of attacks.

(WICB) KINGSTON, Jamaica – For Jamaica and Barbados, the two most successful sides in the modern West Indies first-class championship (from 1966), the Final of this year’s Regional 4 Day Tournament, starting on Friday at Sabina Park, will have extra-special meaning.

A fuse box explosion is suspected to be the cause of the La Parfaite Harmonie fire that claimed the lives of two children

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Syrian troops held their fire yesterday after a U.N.-backed

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter written by Karen de Souza and others of the Red Thread organisation which appeared in your issue of Friday, April 6 last (‘No response from Police Complaints Authority, et al’).

DUBAI/SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Formula One organisers are to make a final decision within days on whether to go ahead with the Bahrain Grand Prix as they consider whether anti-government protests, which prevented last year’s running of the premier motor race, will flare up again.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Jerome Khan’s missive (SN, April 11), ‘Organizations which have criticized Chief Justice Chang’s decision have their own extra-legal agenda.‘

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea’s much hyped long-range rocket apparently crashed into the sea a few minutes after launch yesterday, U.S.

(Reuters) – Big Buck’s, ridden by Ruby Walsh for trainer Paul Nicholls, notched a record 17th consecutive victory over hurdles when winning the first race on day one of the Aintree Grand National meeting yesterday.

Word out of the National Assembly on Wednesday that government is holding to its budget decision to gradually remove the subsidy for electricity in Region 10 sparked another street protest in the mining town yesterday, this time with hundreds turning out.

Trading with Europe still tough despite EPA Trading with Europe is likely to continue to prove difficult despite the presence of the CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and Barbadian businesses are coming to terms with the reality that

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Leaders from North and South America will mix perennial controversies over Cuba and the Falklands with trade tensions and a new look at the war on drugs at a weekend summit in Colombia.

While the AFC plans to support some aspects of the 2012 budget, MP Dr.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Vladimir Klitschko will have a rematch with American challenger Tony Thompson in the Swiss city of Berne on July 7, the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world heavyweight champion said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ editorial note to a letter published under my name on April 11 (‘Organizations which have criticized Chief Justice Chang’s decision have their own extra-legal agenda’) states “Stabroek News at no time suggested in any of our reports of Ms Priya Manickchand’s comments on the Henry Greene issue that these reflected a Government of Guyana position.”

BISSAU, (Reuters) – Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau attacked the residence of former Prime Minister and presidential election front-runner Carlos Gomes Junior yesterday in what regional ministers condemned as an attempted coup in the small West African state.

Norman Nicholson is not what one might call a run-of-the-mill minibus operator.

By Neil Barry A solid all round performance from the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) team propelled them to a seven-wicket victory over Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) ladies.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE/PARAMARIBO – The Netherlands is conducting a campaign to impose sanctions on Suriname and the 25 suspects in the 8 December trial.

Due to circumstances beyond our control we were unable to publish part II of the promised three-part series on Performance management Practices by the Trinidadian consultant Averil Williams.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Pentagon is establishing a fast-track acquisition process that would enable it to develop new cyber warfare capabilities within days or months if urgently needed, the Defense Department said in a report to Congress.

The Visually Impaired Cultural Association of Guyana (VICAG) yesterday donated $20,000 to eleven-year-old Paula Ann Cottam to help her to undergo vitreo retinal surgery in Trinidad.

Guyanese businesswomen are poised to benefit from the newly formed Caribbean Women Entrepreneurs (WEN) established last March and arising out of a forum for Caribbean women entrepreneurs organized by the United States State Department’s Global Women’s Issues Initiative being led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Dear Editor, As the National Assembly considers the 2012 Budget, including the significant proposed government contribution to the Amaila Falls Hydropower project, we have undertaken an exercise to calculate, based on publically available information, the estimated electricity cost arising from the project.

Scotiabank yesterday issued a call to all youths, including Guyanese, who want to make a difference for themselves and their communities when it announced an international youth award programme called the “Scotiabank Bright Future Young Leaders”.

The father of Shamar Success is upset at the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard, after one of its vessels passed his dead body in the Demerara River on Wednesday and later reported the sighting to police.

(Reuters) – Chris Paul scored 24 of his game-high 31 points in a dominant second half display to carry the Los Angeles Clippers to a last-ditch 100-98 road victory over the West-leading Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, Today Guyana is becoming a lawless country. Look at the cars with heavy music sets; look at the noise they are making.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s most lurid political scandal in years could claim yet another victim – the boldness to grasp difficult reforms needed to ward off mounting risks to growth and stability.

(Trinidad Guardian) Low-cost carrier REDjet, which suspended its operations since March 16, has requested a meeting with officials of the T&T Civil Aviation Authority (TTCAA).

Dear Editor, Today Guyana is becoming a lawless country. Look at the cars with heavy music sets; look at the noise they are making.

Guyana’s apiculture industry may still be light years away from matching the honey production levels of the global giants but President of the newly formed Guyana Apiculture Society (GAS), Karl Persaud believes that there are significant economic gains to be realized from the sector if it can secure a heightened level of private sector interest and a more generous measure of public sector support.

An 18-year-old construction worker who appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on two counts of robbery under arms was put on $40,000 bail by Magistrate Allan Wilson but he has to report to the Brickdam Police Station every Friday at 9:00am.

(Trinidad Guardian) Justice Minister Herbert Volney says that under the leadership of  Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs, the Police Service has become a “runaway service.”

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people in attacks he saw as punishing pro-immigration “traitors” in Norway, a psychiatric team said on Tuesday, contradicting a prior report that found him psychotic.

Oldendorff welcome

The Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) Inter-Jamaat Softball Competition sponsored by Bakewell bowled off with exciting games at the MYO ground on Sunday.

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has voiced her country’s concern to US President Barack Obama over what she says are policies by developed countries that allow for easy credit, threatening the growth of emerging economies like Brazil’s.

Dear Editor, I find it so amusing that the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs would actually, at this stage, release a photo of the Captain of Tobago Hill with a hassar in hand.

Just prior to this weekend’s 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), the Chilean politician, José Miguel Insulza, expressed a wish that all the countries of the continent would be present at future summits.

So many “juicy” issues abound! From Budget `Busing to Legal Loopholes to crime, corruption and cocaine.

(Trinidad Express) The doctors who treated Cheryl Miller at the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital have been ordered to hand over her medical records to independent psychiatrist Dr Gerard Hutchinson, who will determine whether Miller needs further treatment and, if so, what kind of treatment is required.

(Trinidad Express) Three men were shot dead in Laventille early yesterday and police believe one of the victims was among four armed assailants who had earlier stormed the dwelling house where the shooting took place.