Daily Archive: Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Articles published on Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Panday to know his fate tomorrow

(Trinidad Express) The criminal retrial against former prime minister Basdeo Panday who is charged with failing to declare a London-based bank account to the Integrity Commission for three consecutive years is expected to be decided tomorrow.

Tougher Dutch measures against pesticides in Surinamese produce

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has tightened controls at importers of fruit and vegetables from Suriname because spot-checks carried out in 2010 and 2011 show that products from Suriname and many other countries contain too many residues and pesticides that carry a health risk.

Jamaica Reverend: I would carry `Dudus’ again

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite facing the perils of prison if convicted for harbouring a fugitive and attempting to pervert the course of justice, the Reverend Al Miller says he would transport Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke if he were confronted with the situation again.

War on Jamaican guns going high tech

(Jamaica Gleaner) The war on guns is going high tech as Columbus Business Solutions (CBS), in collaboration with the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Ministry of National Security, fights to find funding for a technology capable of preventing gun crimes.

Cops ordered Yarakita young men to strip in front of school -resident

Pandemonium reigned on Friday at the Yarakita Primary School in the Mabaruma Sub-Region when a party of heavily armed policemen forced a dozen young men from the community to strip naked in According to a teacher at the Region One school, on Thursday evening several men who work in the goldfields across the Venezuelan border were robbed by four armed men as they walked along  the trail which led to the goldfields in the Polvo de Oro area and which is  frequented by Guyanese miners.

Two of the protestors yesterday

Activists up pressure for justice in Karen Badal case

Women’s rights activists yesterday took to the picket line and called on the Medical Council of Guyana to investigate cases of unlicensed doctors, specifically in the fatal case of Karen Badal, and they also want Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran to make abortion procedures accessible countrywide.

Paul Bhim

Sugar first crop dismal

Sugar production for the first crop this year as of May 6th was 67,299 tonnes – the lowest figure for over two decades – and the output from the US$200M flagship Skeldon factory was only 6,596 tonnes which was surpassed by Uitvlugt, historically the poorest performer.

 Viswanthan Anand

Anand, Gelfand deadlocked after three games

After three games of the current World title clash between World Chess Champion Viswanthan Anand of India and challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel, the two players are locked on one and a half points each following three straight draws, FIDE website reported.

Jayawardene guides Delhi into playoffs

(Cricinfo) Mahela Jayawardene’s half-century may have been the slowest for Delhi Daredevils this season but it was compiled under trying circumstances and helped his team become the first side to qualify for the playoffs.

Not forced to condemn the budget cuts

Dear Editor, Please allow us to clear the air on pronouncements made by APNU Public Relations Officer Malika Ramsey on the May 13 airing of Nation Watch, which stated that employees of the Government Information Agency (GINA), were forced or threatened to make statements condemning the 2012 Budget cuts.

Kenisha Pascal

Pascal to face off against Burnett

Grenadian Kenisha Pascal is set to spearhead the three-member contingent for the upcoming third edition of the President’s/Jefford Track Classic this Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden.

Rebekah Brooks

Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks charged in hacking scandal

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged yesterday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon’s empire and sent shockwaves through the British political establishment.

Passport fraud accused gets $100,000 bail

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Friday granted a man $100,000 bail when he appeared in court to answer to charges that he had attempted to commit passport fraud and he had submitted false information to the Central Immigration Office.

Greece to hold new election, jolts euro markets

ATHENS/BERLIN, (Reuters) – Attempts to form a government in Greece collapsed yesterday, jolting financial markets at the prospect that leftists opposed to the terms of an EU bailout could sweep to victory in a June election and tip the euro zone deeper into crisis.

Germany in Europe’s economic crisis

Only a few weeks after Chancellor Merkel of Germany appeared to be on the upswing as she dominated Eurozone policymaking in respect of the crises in Italy, then Spain and Greece, her apparent success seems to have begun to unravel.