Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Police say that a post-mortem was today performed on the body of Bhim Narine Ramanand of Garden of Eden, EBD, by Pathologist Dr.

Police say that a post-mortem was today performed on the body of Khemraj Dass of Bella Dam, Klien Pouderoyen, WBD, by Pathologist Dr.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Talismanic opener Chris Gayle failed for the first time in five innings, triggering a miserable West Indies batting slide that culminated in a disappointing 88-run loss in the third One-Day International, as New Zealand clawed their way back into the series with a gutsy performance here today.

City Councillor and GAWU stalwart Premchand Dass has passed away. In a statement this afternoon, the Mayor and Councillors expressed sadness at the passing of Dass, on July, 6 2012.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of security guard Notoam Ifee Holodar, 54 years, of Cinema Street, Diamond, EBD, which occurred at about 0130h today at New Hope, EBD.

Anger and frustration boiled over again today along the East Bank Berbice road corridor as trucks transporting sugar workers and belonging to the Guyana Sugar Corporation became stuck in the huge craters along the roadway.

(Trinidad Guardian) Security has been increased around Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard after he reportedly received death threats last week.

(Jamaica Observer) Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell confirmed in Parliament yesterday that Russian firm UC Rusal will be closing its Ewarton (Windalco) plant by October, threatening the jobs of some 600 employees.

(Jamaica Observer) Four hostage takers were collared by the police last evening after they held three women captive in an apartment inside the Haining Mews housing development in New Kingston.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday demanded that the “utterly offensive episode” which unfolded in the House of Representatives last week, must never happen again.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO/CASTRIES – Suriname has changed its stance on small-scale commercial whaling.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican athletes Simoya Campbell and Javon Gallimore this morning collapsed and had been taken to hospital to receive medical attention.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians don’t want a devaluation of their currency and Governor of the Central Bank Dr DeLisle Worrell says he has delivered that blunt message to international rating agencies and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

(Trinidad Express) The Hindu Credit Union (HCU) bought a foreign used vehicle from Roma Maharaj, the wife of its president Harry Harnarine, for just under TT$1 million, Senior Counsel Deborah Peake said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA)will advise players to skip future editions of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) over outstanding payments, the cricketers’ body said today.

SANAA,  (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people, mostly cadets, inside a police academy in Sanaa today in an attack that bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda, police investigators said.

Robert McRae, one of the partners of the Ram & McRae accounting firm, has lodged a complaint against Minister of Finance Dr.

A vagrant was stabbed to death early yesterday morning during a row for money owed by him to another vagrant, a short distance from where eyewitnesses said he went to purchase illegal drugs.

Devon McFarlane, who was on trial for raping a woman at Bare Root, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday freed after a jury returned a majority not guilty verdict in the court of Justice Roxane George.

Before the post-mortem examination was done on the body of slain robber Randy Morris, family members say they counted at least fourteen bullet holes on his body, including several to his head.

The body of Kemraj Dass, suspected to have been killed by a mate aboard a tug and dumped into the river, was yesterday recovered in the vicinity of a koker at Wales, West Bank Demerara.

Miners at a special meeting yesterday declared no confidence in Minister of Natural Resources and the Environ-ment, Robert Persaud after unanimously expressing their opposition to the ministry’s decision to halt the processing of river claims.

Caricom Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has urged that the region invest in evidenced-based policies and sustainable programmes to decisively address the social causes of violence against children and youth.

The man found in the bedroom of a 13-year-old, at Ogle, on Monday, met her on social networking site Facebook, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud, who said investigators are trying to determine whether she told him her real age.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang is set to rule on government’s application for the restoration of funds cut from the national budget by the parliamentary opposition, after lawyers for both sides concluded their arguments yesterday.

A 34-year-old man facing a multi-million dollar larceny charge was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $250,000 when he made his appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall is urging the withdrawal of APNU MP Volda Lawrence’s bill to make the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly independent, saying it violates the constitution.

More than a year after the government had set out to restore the Le Repentir Cemetery, the burial ground has returned to its deplorable state and has caught the attention of the public.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Secretary Anand Sanasie was yesterday formally charged with perjury, for allegedly falsifying an affidavit that was part of a High Court case.

Red Thread and WPA activists are inviting the public to join them in picketing the Office of the President tomorrow, as they stand in solidarity with Linden over the proposed hike in electricity bills.

Thirty-six-year-old Gordon Rollins of Cumberland, East Canje, was sentenced to one year imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a charge of break and enter and larceny before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Court on Monday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies enter  today’s third One-Day International against beleaguered New Zealand knowing that a win will hand them their first series triumph over a top-eight side in four years.

The long-awaited rehabilitation works to Casuarina Drive, Watooka, Linden are  expected to commence shortly following the award of a $6.9 million contract to Sukram and Associates.

“Once he breaks the 47s barrier and gets past the first round anything is possible for him but we just want him to break the 47s barrier,” were the words of local junior 400 metres star Stephan James’ co-coach Julian Edmonds prior to James’ departure last Saturday for the World Junior Championships in Spain which ends July 15.

Repeated requests from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment for a status update on the drilling campaign of Repsol’s exploratory operation at Jaguar have been futile.

Overseas-based sprinter Jeremy Bascom will be on the Guyana team heading for London a few weeks from now for the Olympic Games starting on July 27.

Marlon Kennedy, a 37-year-old father of three, of Block ‘E’ Sophia, yesterday pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of narcotics when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Perjury accused, Anand Sanasie, secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board and a former Director of the West Indies Cricket Board, was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) met yesterday to consider the resignation of its chairman, Yog Mahadeo, and to decide on the election of a new chairman.

The Guyana Karate College (GKC), led by 10-year-old Aliyah Wong, copped second placed at the 2012 International Karate Daigaku Shoto Camp and World Cup Karate Tournament in Toronto, Canada On Sunday.

When the curtains came down on the Housing Ministry’s International Building Expo 2012 on Sunday night, many of the businesses that had showcased their offerings to thousands were upbeat about their future prospects.

Dear Editor, I write in no official or professional capacity, only as a citizen of Guyana.

(Reuters) – Ravi Bopara’s flamboyant unbeaten 52 steered England to an emphatic seven-wicket victory over Australia in the reduced-overs fifth and final one-day international in Manchester yesterday.

Dear Editor, Particular attention must be paid to the reason offered by Prof Bourne for his resignation just after being appointed to a second three-year term as Chancellor, UG.   

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has finished implementing the second phase of the Caribbean Disaster Management (CADM) Project; establishing an emergency shelter, early warning system and evacuation response mechanisms in the Upper Mahaica area.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court said yesterday it had overruled President Mohamed Mursi’s decision to recall the Islamist-led parliament that was dissolved by the country’s generals last month.

Caricom leaders have agreed that HIV services have to be more fully integrated into the healthcare system, including pre and post-natal care, in order to eliminate mother-to-child transmission and to reduce stigma against the most at-risk groups, at the 33rd Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government.

Dear Editor, I refer to your Sunday edition’s July 1 editorial, parts of which remind me of other commentaries on the ‘Appointments fiasco’ at the Audit Office of Guyana (and not the ‘Office of the Auditor General’) as not being fully informed of the facts surrounding this constitutional entity.

By Emmerson Campbell The 25th edition of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Fight Night Pro Am card became official yesterday with the professional boxers affixing their signatures to their respective contracts at the Abdool and Abdool Building.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A cholera outbreak in Cuba blamed for at least three deaths has been mostly contained so far to the eastern city of Manzanillo and surrounding towns, with just a few scattered cases confirmed elsewhere in the country, a public health official told Reuters yesterday.

The Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill has been receiving an average of 350 tonnes of waste on a daily basis—more than a hundred tonnes over initial expectations—and Project Manager Walter Willis has warned that the situation will shorten the lifespan of the first cell at the facility.

A study based on Australia sports has found  that it costs the Australian government approximately A$40m to win an Olympic medal.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Facing its first major parliamentary defeat, Britain’s coalition government yesterday at the last minute dropped plans for a controversial vote on reforming parliament’s unelected upper chamber, the House of Lords.

Dear Editor, We seek through your newspaper to bring to the attention of the relevant authorities the establishing of a commercial tyre business at Lot No 26 W Atlantic Gardens, and to ask that something be done urgently to stop this madness.

Dear Editor, a.  Brickdam Police Station.  Good news, some police stations have been repaired, refurbished and extended – hurrah, to the Minister. 

The annual P&P Insurance Tennis Summer Camp held by the Guyana Tennis Association, got off to a bright start on Monday morning last, following a brief opening ceremony, at the courts of the Pegasus Hotel.

NEW YORK/CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. futures trading industry reeled on yesterday as federal regulators accused Iowa-based broker PFGBest of misappropriating over $200 million in customer funds for more than two years in an alarming echo of MF Global’s collapse.

The Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) and the Guyana United Sadr Islamic Anjuman are inviting the public to classes for the teaching of Urdu and qaseedas.

Dear Editor, A significant event took place a few months ago that made no news in Guyana, and that was the elevation of Guyana’s image and presence in the Persian Gulf region and amongst the 84 countries that participated in the Doha Forum.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc yesterday said that as a precautionary measure, the Onverwagt Power Station was shut down at 09:10 hours on Monday due to unsafe water levels resulting from heavy and persistent rainfall along with the high tide.  

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – U.N. peace envoy Kofi Annan waded into big power politics yesterday, insisting regional heavyweight Iran should be involved in efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Syria crisis despite the West’s firm rejection of a role for Tehran.

By Emmerson Campbell As part of the vision to decentralize amateur boxing, the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) will embark on a series of clinics outside of Georgetown to spot and develop the skills of the local Simon Pures.

Overtaken by bush: Le Repentir Cemetery in its present state.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British lawmakers yesterday accused Barclays former chief executive Bob Diamond of misleading a parliamentary inquiry into an interest rate-fixing scandal that has forced him to resign and give up bonuses worth up to 20 million pounds ($30 million).

QUINCIE EN BEAUJOLAIS, France, (Reuters) – Locked in a duel with Cadel Evans at the Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins is putting his trust in one of the defending champion’s compatriots, Australian coach Tim Kerrison.

Dear Editor, I have been living in Linden town for over fifty years where we enjoyed a social and economic lifestyle of a high standard, second only to that of the people of Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Since I decided to publicly support the AFC in 2011, I felt constrained to comment or criticise the APNU.

Politikles

Notwithstanding the present stagnation in the area of political reform, I believe that our political parties are on the cusp of major restructuring and that John Maynard Keynes was perhaps correct when he claimed that: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood”, for even today, notions like “democratic centralism” and “party paramountcy,” rooted as they were in autocratic political cultures that are either dead or in their death throes, are still being used to explain contemporary issues.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Veteran South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher announced his retirement from international cricket  yesterday after undergoing eye surgery following a severe injury this week.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Delivering its first sentence, the International Criminal Court jailed Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for 14 years yesterday for recruiting child soldiers.

There has been relatively little comment in our regional press about the change of government which took place after the general elections last week in Mexico.

(Trinidad Express) Whoever operated the equipment that caused the death of hundreds of leatherback turtles at Grand Riviere on Sunday should be held accountable.

(Trinidad Express) A pensioner and a security guard were denied bail yesterday when they appeared before a court charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl.