Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 25, 2012

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – Sunil Narine fought back for West Indies in the final hour with two late wickets – including Martin Guptill – in the first Test against New Zealand today here.

Managing Director of Caribbean Containers Incorporated, Ronald Webster is the new Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC).

The National Assembly is debating a motion of no confidence against minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee for the actions of the Police in the shooting to death of three protesters and the wounding of many others last Wednesday in Linden.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Government has approved a contract worth over J$800 million to China Guangzhou International Economic Technical Cooperation, Trinidad and Tobago Limited, for construction work at the University of Technology (UTech).

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has taken a major step toward making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Jamaica’s final appelate court.

(Barbados Nation) Two St Michael men have been charged with last Friday night’s killing at Thyme Bottom in Christ Church.

Independent pathologist Professor Hubert Daisley revealed today that the three slain Lindeners were all shot in the chest with what appeared to be bronze capped rounds.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI) said it has made peace with former captain Kapil Dev after the all-rounder agreed to cut his ties with an unofficial rebel league.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Silence will envelop the Olympic stadium on the evening of Aug.

LONDON/PARIS, (Reuters) – The world’s first vaccine against dengue fever, being developed by French drugmaker Sanofi SA, protected against three of the virus’s four strains in a keenly awaited clinical trial in Thailand.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia said today it had clearly told the Syrian government it was unacceptable to threaten to use chemical weapons, after Damascus warned it might do so if faced with foreign intervention.

CARDIFF/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The British and New Zealand women’s soccer teams kicked off the Olympics today as the sporting action began, and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, hero of the Beijing Games and the fastest man on earth, vowed to win again, declaring: “This is my time”.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) this afternoon reopened to light vehicles General Manager Rawlston Adams at a news conference, this morning, stated that approximately 95% of works are completed on the section of the bridge that collapsed, on Monday morning, and heavy vehicles will be able to begin traversing the bridge by tomorrow at noon.

(Jamaica Observer) Noranda aluminium plans to start a US$11 million (J$970 million) expansion of its harbour capacity at Port Rhodes in Discovery Bay this year.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Philip Paulwell, minister of science, technology, energy and mining, said Tuesday that South Korean company Samsung has emerged the preferred bidder to develop Jamaica’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A minister of religion who is accused of marrying three women without getting a divorce has been remanded on bigamy charges.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – If schools would start a month earlier, teachers would not only demand air-conditioned classrooms but also more pay.

(Trinidad Express) The 2012-2013 national budget is expected to include a TT$410 million package to be divided equally among the Parliament’s 41 MPs for work in their constituencies.

(Trinidad Express) The four police officers who were arrested last week and subsequently charged with kidnapping and robbery made their first appearance before a Port of Spain magistrate on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) After 50 years as an independent nation, this country is still divided by race and politics, Roman Catholic priest Fr Martin Sirju said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The Emancipation Support Committee (ESC) has refused a TT$1 million cheque from the government for Emancipation celebrations as it was not enough.

El PASO, Texas (Reuters) – Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played George Jefferson on television in “The Jeffersons,” a 1970s sitcom that was one of the first to focus on a black family, has died at age 74 in El Paso, Texas, his representative said.

By Mandy Thompson A 24-year-old vendor was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend who slit her throat at their home around 11 am yesterday.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge is expected to reopen to light traffic today, General Manager Rawlston Adams announced yesterday, a day after a section of the structure sank.

A six-year old boy was crushed to death under a car at Islington, on the East Bank of Berbice (EBB) yesterday morning.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) will join with the Alliance For Change (AFC) in the National Assembly today in a bid to utilise its one-seat majority to adopt a motion of no-Confidence against Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee in the wake of the killing of three Linden protesters by police last Wednesday.

Trinidadian pathologist Professor Hubert Daisley is the person who has been identified to witness today’s post-mortem examinations (PMEs) of the three Linden protestors who were shot dead by police a week ago, AFC member Nigel Hughes said yesterday.

The prosecution yesterday submitted that a case has been made out against Kwame McCoy in the gun-butting charge levelled against him and as a result urged that the court find him guilty as charged.

The contractor who was tasked with building a house at Coldingen, East Coast Demerara (ECD), where teenager Travis Mangra died when a stairway collapsed on Sunday,  was released on station bail by the police on Monday night.

Digicel yesterday announced reductions of up to 88% in its rates for overseas calls in the wake of a ruling by Justice Rishi Persaud in a case by a DSL subscriber and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph immediately said that the decision had been stayed and that it is appealing the ruling.

Declaring that the country’s morality is under siege from western powers, former PPP/C government minister Clinton Collymore says that impending consultations on the decriminalisation of same sex relations here ought to be met with a “resounding no!”

A 29-year-old policeman accused of allowing a prisoner to escape from custody was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after appearing before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

A Number 19 Village, Corentyne household came under gunfire early yesterday morning, after a failed bid by a group of armed bandits to enter their home.

Ulric Michael Cameron, one of the Lindeners wounded after police opened fire at the Mackenzie-Wismar bridge a week ago, was flown to the city yesterday as his condition worsened.

Albion Sugar Estate workers continued to strike yesterday to protest low payments for ‘over-run’ canes, even as GuySuCo’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Bhim signalled that management cannot meet their demands.

By Iva Wharton Speed and size cost the Rupununi females the Guyana Football Federation’s female Inter Association title when they were beaten 0-3 by Georgetown at the Georgetown Football Club Ground, Bourda yesterday.

Red Thread and a number of social activists yesterday staged a picket in front of Freedom House in solidarity with Lindeners and they have vowed to continue picketing the offices and homes of those in authority until results are seen.

After overcoming Barbados and Bermuda on day one of the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Junior Team Championships in Jamaica, Guyana’s female team completed a clean sweep against The Cayman Islands yesterday.

City Hall spokesman Royston King has been appointed to act as Town Clerk, after the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) selected replacements to act in the stead of six officers sent on leave to facilitate the police investigation into the city’s operations.

In preliminary voting, the corporate membership of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has overwhelmingly supported Managing Director of Caribbean Containers Incorporated Ronald Webster for the chairmanship of the body.

A 25th minute strike by Lethem-based forward Franklyn Parks failed to save Guyana’s Junior Golden Jaguars from a 3-1 defeat at the hands of nemesis Suriname in their opening match of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup qualification tournament in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is currently taking steps to automate its sale of liquor and trade and miscellaneous licences through its Regional Integrated Offices countrywide.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A confident West Indies will chase their first series win against New Zealand in over a decade when the first Test bowls off here  today.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC- An ICC Americas under 20 side is to participate in the West Indies Cricket Board Under 19 Tournament scheduled to begin in Barbados next Monday.

Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) president Al-Hajj Fazeel Ferouz is urging Muslims to make full use of the month of Ramadan to fast and give charity in order to earn Allah’s mercy and forgiveness.

North Sound, Antigua – Shivnarine Chanderpaul said yesterday that he totally enjoys every moment on the cricket field and it’s that love for the game which keeps him going day in and day out.

A man who threatened to kill his father was on Friday ordered to undergo drug rehabilitation when he was brought before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana team to the seventh pre-cadet and cadet table tennis championships in Jamaica was yesterday declared overall champs when the tournament climaxed at the University of the West Indies Sports Auditorium last night.

A taxi driver of 52 Dowding Street, Kitty was on Monday placed on $25,000 bail when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly threatening to kill his reputed wife.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago, this writer visited Guyana for the first time after some forty-five years absence to rekindle afresh memories of the reasons for my visit in 1967.Then,

Dear Editor, After numerous letters expressing my concern about the Demerara Harbour Bridge, the ferry stelling at Vreed-en-Hoop and the conditions that commuters face travelling with speedboats, all of these problems together manifested themselves on Monday and have caused me to be in a state which I cannot express in words.

Buxton’s residents and activists are inviting the public to a candlelight vigil tomorrow to stand in solidarity with Linden and condemn the killings and injury suffered during protests in the town last week.

After stumbling to the Organisation of Easter Caribbean States (OECS) 2-3, the Guyana’s boys team rebounded with a resounding 5-0 win against Barbados in their third match of the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Junior Caribbean Team championships at the Liguanea Club Jamaica.

Newly appointed GMSA president Mohindra Chand has pledged to advance several projects the association had started over the past year, including trade with Brazil and resolving issues in the local wood products industry.

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to the attention of the football fraternity, parents, administrators and junior football coaches an impending fiasco that is now threatening the staging of an Under 11 football competition here in Georgetown.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A longtime Olympics ticket broker is apologizing for delays in distributing tickets to the London Summer Games that have forced some fans to spend up to six hours in sweltering heat this week waiting for their orders.

Dear Editor, The AFC New York/New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, Washington and Maryland Chapters are deeply saddened and express our grave concern and strong condemnation of the attacks on the citizens of Linden that occurred on Wednesday, July 18, 2012.

Headquarters sped out of the blocks to take a commanding lead over the other divisions when the Annual Guyana Police Force track and field championships commenced yesterday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

The Sophia Artists Group is hosting its fourth annual Exhibition of Art and Craft at the Pattensen Multipurpose Community Centre August month end.

The Guyana United Sadr Islamic Anjuman and the management of the Shaheed Boys and Girls Orphanages are calling on the Muslim community to support the orphanage as observances start for the month of Ramadan-ul-Kareem.

Dear Editor, Reading the editorial of the July 22 in the Sunday Stabroek one cannot help but wonder whether this newspaper contracted out the writing of its editorial to an irrational anti-government force.

BASSETERRE, St.Kitts, CMC – Front runners Windward Islands and Barbados were locked in a keen tussle at stumps on the opening day  yesterday of the third round of matches in the WICB under-15 Championship here.

Dear Editor,     As someone in the field of communication, I am well aware of the impact messages can have on  viewers, listeners and readers.

BARCELONA, Spain, (Reuters) – Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James can all rack up the points, but the ability to stop opponents scoring is what separates the U.S.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, who won international praise for presiding over a stable model democracy in Africa, died suddenly yesterday and his vice-president was quickly sworn in to replace him at the helm of the oil, gold and cocoa producer.

Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Antigua and Barbuda, Anthony Liverpool, on Monday applauded Japan for being one of the few countries to date to have provided its full pledge to Haiti after the January 2012 earthquake.

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has launched a mini Dining Guide that points visitors to some of the best places to eat out in Guyana.

Dear Editor, We, the executive and members of the North American Democratic Council (Toronto Chapter) write to you in order to register our absolute dismay at the unleashing of reckless violence by ranks of the Guyana Police Force on the peaceful protesters at Linden, killing three of them and injuring many others.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday the South American nation is withdrawing from a regional human rights court that Latin America’s leftist leaders have increasingly criticized as a pawn of Washington.

Veteran Carlos Adams defeated Harry Panday on Monday to retain men’s over 45 singles title as the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Open tournament continued at the GBTI Recreational Centre.

Guyana was represented among 22 CARIFORUM Cultural Industries firms that participated in a European Study Tour organised by Caribbean Export Develop-ment Agency (Caribbean Export) and African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Business Climate (BizClim) from July 2 to July 11.

Dear Editor, A leader in my humble opinion should not merely be one who holds office.

AMMAN/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Syria sent thousands of troops surging towards Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, where its forces have been pounding rebel fighters from the air, engulfing the country’s largest city in total warfare to put down a revolt.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain deployed 1,200 extra soldiers  yesterday in a last-minute effort to bolster Olympic security while global diplomatic tensions started to play out among athletes and politicians three days ahead of the opening ceremony.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A new combination of three drugs killed 99 percent of patients’ tuberculosis bacteria in two weeks, raising hope for a new weapon against increasingly resistant forms of TB.

Dear Editor, For all men, freedom in their own land is the pinnacle of their ambition, and nothing can turn men of conviction aside from that.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-Triple Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt is injury free and ready to defend his titles at the 30th Olympiad starting in London on Friday, his long time Manager Norman Peart has said.

Large crowds built up at the Demerara stelling yesterday. (Anjuli Persaud photo)

The decision of the financial ratings agency Standards and Poors (S&P) to downgrade its ratings on the Barbados government’s potential ability to service its foreign bond repayments, seems to have come as a shock to both the government and the highest technocratic levels of public sector financial management.

Dear Editor, I have, over the last year or so, watched David Granger as he made his pitch to be the presidential candidate of the PNCR.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – Veteran Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, self-described as “America’s toughest sheriff,” denied yesterday that his deputies targeted people because of the color of their skin in a controversial crackdown on illegal immigration.

It is generally believed that the presidency of Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo constituted one of the most autocratic periods in the post-independence political history of Guyana in spite of the fact that he did not have control of both the government and the PPP the way Cheddi and Janet Jagan did.

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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Seamers Thisara Perera and Angelo Mathews shared six wickets as Sri Lanka came back strongly to level the five-match series at one-all with a crushing nine-wicket win over India in the second one-day cricket international yesterday.