Daily Archive: Wednesday, June 20, 2012

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 24-year-old man who chopped his brother to death and injured two other family members has turned himself in to the Greater Portmore police this afternoon.

Chief Executive Officer of COPS Security and former army Lieutenant Colonel, Gregory Gaskin, died earlier today after suffering internal injuries when he fell from his motorcycle at the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri.

Speaker of the National Assembly and Leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman tonight announced that the mantle of party leadership will be transferred to MP Khemraj Ramjattan who currently holds the position of Chairman.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional panel voted today to charge Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress after the Obama administration invoked executive privilege for the first time since coming to office, withholding some documents related to a failed gun-running investigation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of National Security has signed a Military Cooperation Agreement with China.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and the Ministry of Health today announced that the hospital performed its first Haemodialysis treatment today on a patient with renal failure.

(WICB) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad — The West Indies Cricket Board Selection Panel today named the West Indies A Team 13-man squad to face India A in two T20 matches.

A mid-morning argument between neighbours, over a game bird, has left one person critical and two others nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital after an irate man opened fire in Middle Street, McDoom.

(Trinidad Guardian) Planning and the Economy Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie is confident that this country’s music industry can prove to be a very lucrative export if packaged properly.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman today issued a statement condemning a report in the June 17 edition of the Sunday Chronicle and called for a retraction and  for the newspaper to lift the standard of its reporting.

(Jamaica Observer) Dancehall act Busy Signal was yesterday extradited to the United States to face trial for jumping bail shortly before the start of his cocaine-trafficking trial a decade ago.

The police today said that at about 2210h last night, two men armed with firearms entered the Popeye’s Restaurant at Vlissengen Road and Duncan Street, Georgetown, and held up the three female cashiers and two customers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica, Ministry of Finance and Planning, and the Attorney General’s Department will be collaborating to handle the risks, costs and impact on Jamaican law of local financial institutions’ compliance with United States legislation aimed at catching tax cheats under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians are weak-willed and too afraid to stand up for their rights, says Christine Eli, who is at the forefront of protest action by aggrieved REDjet ticket holders.

KADUNA/ABUJA,  (Reuters) – At least 80 people have been killed since Monday in clashes in two northern Nigerian cities triggered by Islamists waging an insurgency against the government, figures from police and the Red Cross showed on Wednesday.

Government has made no discernible progress in holding human trafficking offenders in Guyana accountable, the US State Department has said in its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for 2012 which also says that limited progress was made in preventing human trafficking during the reporting period.

Construction work on a church at Linden came to an abrupt halt yesterday after a sandpit caved in killing  one of the workers, 23-year-old Bobcat operator Ray Garraway of No.

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Worker’s Union (UGWU) are proceeding with plans to resume protests at the Turkeyen Campus today to press for better salaries, benefits and working conditions.

LONDON, England,  CMC – Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle lashed half-centuries but captain Alistair Cook’s fifth One-Day International century condemned West Indies to a demoralizing eight-wicket defeat and another series loss at the Oval here yesterday.

Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira said yesterday that the next meeting of the Tripartite plenary will be next week Tuesday as the parties continue to try to find common ground in the wake of bitter sentiments across the floor surrounding the Opposition’s latest exercise of parliamentary control in burying for good financial paper 9/2011.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Test opener Kieran Powell hammered an attacking, unbeaten half-century to complete an outstanding match as West Indies A crushed India by 10 wickets on the final day of the third and decisive unofficial “Test” here  yesterday.

Three men are missing and feared drowned after the boat they were travelling in capsized in the Puruni River on Monday morning.

A man sustained a gaping stab wound to his abdomen after a fight with another man at the Texaco, Mandela Avenue gas station last evening.

The National Community Basketball League (NCBL) which is a revamped version of the Inter Ward Basketball Tournament is not receiving enough corporate assistance which is not only stifling the league but basketball as a sport according to the organizers of the league.

Lindeners are incensed at Government’s decision to increase their electricity tariffs to gradually bring them on par with the rest of the country and parliamentarians intend to bring a motion to the National Assembly to outline the conditions in the mining town and the historic context in which Linden electricity is placed.

Abdulssalam  Azimullah, a fugitive from justice since 2004 when he was wanted for murder, appeared at the Albion Court yesterday before Magistrate Fabayo Azore and the Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Gary Simon has been set to commence on July 24.

Thirty-eight-year-old Budhuram Ishwar  of Lot 163 Smythfield, New Amsterdam, yesterday admitted using a series of expletives  to his mother at their home, while he  was under the influence of alcohol.

A man accused of beating another with a metal pipe was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $100,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Former president Bharrat Jagdeo has abandoned a lawsuit that he brought against Stabroek News over eight years ago.

Acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma documented a number of uncertainties in the accounts of the National Communications Network (NCN) over 2007 and 2008, resulting in qualified opinions for both years and among these was $733M in fixed assets which could not be validated as a register was not maintained during this period.

Works to make a five-mile stretch of road at Burma, in Region Five, temporarily passable are almost completed but rice farmers and residents that use it are pessimistic about the scope of the project.

Three new black belts were awarded when the Black Hawks Martial Arts Management Network Association held its annual martial arts grading at the National Gymnasium last Saturday.

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) opened bids yesterday for the Region One Regional Democratic Council’s rehabilitation of the Kumaka San Jose Bridge and Revetment at Moruca.

A man accused of snatching a policewoman’s gold chain from  her neck while she was on her way home from church was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says the continued support of development partners is critical as the administration pursues development at a rapid rate.

By Emmerson Campbell The lucrative three-night inaugural Guinness Caribbean Street Football Challenge which kicks off at the National Park tarmac tomorrow night involving Back Circle (Team Guyana), Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, St Vincent and Antigua is the brainchild of proud Guyanese.

By Emmerson Campbell After mauling Trinidad and Tobago 20-nil two weeks ago, the Guyana Jaguars are ready to roar to victory and avenge last year’s Caribbean Championship loss when they tackle Bermuda in the final NACRA 2015 RWC 15s regional qualifier match on Saturday in Bermuda.

By Iva Wharton Linden Foundation Secondary School advanced to the second round of the Digicel Schools football tournament after securing a walk over from  Mackenzie High School.

Officials of Sithe Global, the developer of the Amaila Falls Hydroelectricity Project, say that the delay in financial closure of the project until next year will likely result in a higher overall contract cost since foreign currency exchange rates could change over the period.

A US federal judge on Monday ordered that a Guyanese woman remain in federal custody in the US state of Connecticut until her next court appearance on mail fraud and conspiracy charges.

Muscle cramps caused overseas based distance runner Lionel D’Andrade to finish third at the Butler Classic 20K run in Trinidad which started at 06:00hrs yesterday morning.

The lifeless body of a man was discovered yesterday morning on a farm in West Watooka backdam.

A 42-year-old man accused of indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl who lives in the same yard with him was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Dear Editor, I was intrigued by the closing paragraph of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds’ letter, ‘The PPP/C government embarked on a programme to refashion the bauxite sector so it would become profitable again’ in your edition of Sunday, May 20, 2012, which reads as follows: “Truth is that nothing is forever; every situation has its time of birth and growth and glory days, but the world steadily moves on; things change. 

The New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation yesterday called on the Audit Office to carry out a ‘Value for Money” audit to determine if the Ministry of Health received value for purchases from the company.

Dear Editor, In April 2012, Prime Minister Hinds pronounced that hydroelectricity will be available on the national grid in 2016.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter which you kindly carried in your newspaper, I suggested that because of the bitter competition that took place at the last two congresses of the PNCR which I gather have left lingering divisions and enmities within the party, at this year’s congress, the party’s membership should agree on a consensus candidate in order to avoid past divisiveness.

US Ambassador to Guyana and Plenipotentiary Repre-sentative to Caricom Ambassador Brent Hardt says the Caricom Implemen-tation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs) continues to be central to the region and international community in executing regional security initiatives.

LOS CABOS, Mexico, (Reuters) – Europe won support from world leaders yesterday for an ambitious but slow-moving overhaul of the euro zone, even as pressure built in financial markets for quicker solutions to its debt crisis that threatens the world economy.

DONETSK,  (Reuters) – A Wayne Rooney header and a slice of luck when Ukraine were controversially denied an equaliser gave England a 1-0 win over the co-hosts and a place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 yesterday.

Dear Editor, A contractor from the Drainage and Irrigation Department of the Region 2 administration is employed to weed trenches here, but instead of doing that along a 200-odd metre stretch alongside my farm by the canal dam area at Onderneeming, this portion is only being sprayed to kill the grass.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – World powers and Iran failed to secure a breakthrough at talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme yesterday and set no date for more political negotiations, despite the threat of a new Middle East conflict if diplomacy collapses.

(Reuters) – Injury-prone paceman Mark Gillespie has missed out on a central contract with New Zealand despite tearing through South Africa’s batsmen in the home series in March.

A man accused of stealing a chainsaw valued in excess of $200,000 was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $200,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 21-year-old man accused of forging a driver’s licence was on Friday admitted to bail in the sum of $100,000 when he made his appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

(Trinidad Express) The village of Carapo, Arima, was thrown into shock and mourning on Monday when two sisters were chopped to death and then their bodies burnt.

Dear Editor, Like so many of us, my respected friend David Hinds is clearly a fan of West Indies cricket.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s increasingly assertive Supreme Court declared Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ineligible for office yesterday, plunging the country into fresh turmoil as it deals with Islamic militancy, a weak economy and a crisis in relations with the United States.

(Barbados Nation) Thirty percent of the candidates who sat the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) in the 2011 May to June sitting obtained no subjects at acceptable grades.

It is a sign of the continuing political and psychological distance between the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean and other states in the region, that there should have been so little commentary on the presidential election that has recently taken place in the Dominican Republic, a member-state of the EU-Caribbean Forum countries that are party to the Economic Partnership Agreement  signed in 2007.

Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud has admitted “difficulties” in maintaining crusher run- and some Double Bituminous Surface Treatment (DBST)-surface roads in many communities.

In my previous article I pointed out that one of the reasons given by former Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr.

Dear Editor, I am compelled to respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News captioned ‘Six months on and still no changes at UG,’ penned by two known opposition writers, namely, Asquith Rose and Sasenarine Singh.

QUITO/LONDON, (Reuters) – WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London and asked for asylum, officials said yesterday, in a last-ditch bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crime accusations.

(Trinidad Express) It was a bloody Labour Day holiday yesterday as six people were killed on the nation’s roads, with a drunk driver being responsible for five of the fatalities.

(Trinidad Express) Jamaican detectives disclosed yesterday that the burnt body found in a cane field in Montego Bay last week Monday is that of school teacher Michelle Coudray, the daughter of San Fernando Mayor Marlene Coudray.