Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 14, 2012

(WICB) Bridgetown, Barbados — Barbados bowled exceptionally well to take all 10 Guyana wickets on the first day of the fifth and final round of matches in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 Three-day Tournament on Tuesday.

Promotion group Hits and Jams this evening announced that it was postponing its Master’s Cup Tournament after a row between local cricket administrators and the West Indies Board flared up today.

The New York Post today said that the Guyanese man convicted of masterminding a plot to blow up fuel pipelines at JFK Airport plotted from behind bars to kill key witnesses against him, according to newly unsealed court documents.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — West Indies all-rounder, Jamaican Stafanie Taylor is the first woman to be nominated for the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Cricketer of the Year award.

The police today said that Superintendent Errol Watts had not been ordered out or pulled from operations as reported in the media.

Police say that the following persons have been charged after the unrest in Linden and appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court today before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Police say that at about 1045h today, two accounts clerks attached to the Farm Supply and General Equipment Ltd.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s prime minister came under pressure to resign today after an official report said police could have prevented a murder spree by far right militant Anders Behring Breivik last year that killed 77 people.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Three suicide bombers killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 70 today when they blew themselves up outside a hospital and within a busy city market in southwest Afghanistan.

The West Indies Cricket Board has written to territorial boards warning that the Hits and Jams tournament planned here has not been approved and warning that players who participate may face possible sanctions.

The body of Gewan Jagdeo, 63 years, of Bonasika, Essequibo River, was found at about 1830h.

(Trinidad Express) The domestic violence protection order granted to Rio Claro mother Julie Parris earlier this year proved worthless yesterday, when she was chopped and stabbed to death by the man whom she tried to escape.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo) yesterday rubbished a claim by International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound that it is difficult to test Jamaican athletes because they are hard find.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Suriname and the Caribbean are unable to optimally use development aid from the European Union (EU).

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Dissension in the army has reached a boiling point.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab said today President Bashar al-Assad’s government is falling apart and only controls 30 percent of the country, in his first public appearance since defecting to the opposition.

By Iva Wharton Fresh from the London Olympics, Britany van Lange is one of 27 swimmers who will represent Guyana at the 2012 Goodwill Swimming Championship being held locally at the National Aquatic Centre from Friday, August 17 to 19.

The government will not be addressing any issues regarding Linden unless normalcy is returned, presidential advisor Gail Teixeira said last evening, even as skirmishes continued between residents seeking to re-erect roadblocks and Joint Services ranks encamped in the town.

Former Commissioner of Police, Laurie Lewis passed away yesterday at his Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.

A six-year-old boy died on the spot after he was struck down by a minibus on Mandela Avenue in the vicinity of the Plaza Bridge yesterday around 6:30pm.

LONDON, (Reuters) – London looked back on the Olympics yesterday with satisfaction and sorrow, confident it had hosted a successful Games yet aware that the 17-day party was over and it was back to the reality of economic recession and painful spending cuts.

A labourer at a Number 54 Village, Corentyne rice mill was pronounced dead on arrival yesterday morning at the Skeldon hospital following an accident on the Number 53 Village Public Road.

The Ministry of Public Works says that contractor Falcon Transportation and Con-struction Company (FTCC) has been terminated from a $468 million road works contract for non-performance and for falsifying results of compressive strength tests among other transgressions.

The Joint Services’ movement into Linden last Friday morning was ordered by President Donald Ramotar, a day ahead of a planned operation, after residents allegedly attempted to burn the Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr.

By Iva Wharton Despite their last minute notification Western Tigers Football Club is ready to participate in the fourth annual Inter-Guiana Cup which starts today in Suriname.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Trinidad and Tobago, basking in the glory of its first Olympic gold medal for 36 years, has showered teenaged javelin champion Keshorn Walcott with a number of gifts including a million dollars in cash and TT$2.5 million (US$390 000) home in a high end residential area.

By Mandy Thompson A carpenter has had his left leg amputated as a result of poor medical care after a road accident and his family is blaming the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), which is now investigating the case along with the Medical Council.

The successful Pre-cadet and Cadet table tennis team which took top honours at the recent championships in Jamaica has come in for praise from none other than former Caribbean men’s singles champion George `The Chief’ Braithwaite himself.

Former Caribbean men’s singles champion and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) certified Course Conductor Sydney Christophe is conducting an ITTF Level One Coaching Course at the Westchester Table Tennis Center in New York State.

Guyana’s Gairy `Superman’ St Clair lost a unanimous decision to Lovemore `Black Panther’ Ndou Friday night in Queensland, Australia for the vacant World Boxing Foundation (WBF) welterweight title.

A dredge owner was yesterday put on $450,000 bail after he denied the theft of an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV).

(Reuters) – Usain Bolt could repackage himself as a big-hitting cricketer in Australia’s Big Bash League after defending his sprint double at the London Olympics, local media reported yesterday.

The early Friday morning fire in Linden that destroyed several buildings in the old Guymine compound dealt a huge blow to the work being done among the HIV community in Region 10 and over 300 hundred children will now be worse off because the haven they have had for the last eight years was razed.

With drugs smuggled via Caribbean ports to Canada continuing to be an issue of concern, Ottawa is working with the region to establish a mechanism for better information gathering, analysis and sharing, the country’s Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, Diane Ablonczy says.

Guyana’s top junior lawn tennis player Nicola Ramdyhan breezed through the qualifying round of the First Citizens Investment Services sponsored 2012 International Junior Tennis Tournament in St Vincent and the Grenadines and is into the main draw of the competition.

LONDON,  CMC – Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown says she is eyeing a fifth consecutive Olympic Games despite her disappointing outing at the 30th Olympiad in London.

President Donald Ramotar is the first Guyanese Head of State ever to have to compete for the presidential candidature.

The Guyana Human Rights Asso-ciation yesterday said that a new initiative is needed to resolve the crisis in Linden and it argued that responsibility for all of the mayhem suffered by civilians in the mining town rests on the government.

It will be some time before a definitive determination can be made regarding the real significance of the leadership change that occurred a matter of days ago inside the People’s National Congress/Reform.

Lead Opposition spokesperson on economic issues Carl Greenidge says the fact that former President Bharrat Jagdeo signed into law the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act 2009 shows how rapacious an administration he led and how contemptuous he is of the Guyanese people given income disparities.

Despite the fact that the Hits and Jams Spartans team possess a quartet of the most explosive Twenty20 players in the world cricket, its captain Tyrell Tull is downplaying his team’s chances of winning this weekend’s  Jamzone Masters Cup competition which commences Friday at the Providence National Stadium.

A motion calling for the removal of barricades around the Public Buildings, in order to allow members of the public to assemble in closer proximity of the National Assembly, was approved early last Friday morning.

Long after the contest between David Granger and Carl Greenidge for the PNC/R’s presidential candidature had passed and gone, Party insiders were alluding to what they claimed was a lingering division between the rival camps that wasn’t going away.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Olympic women’s shot put champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.

TOWNSVILLE, Australia, CMC – Opener Sunil Ambris smashed a stunning half-century as West Indies Under-19s crushed Papua New Guinea Under-19s by nine wickets here yesterday to put one foot in the quarter-finals of the ICC Youth World Cup.

By Sam Lochan This move to emphasize citizenship and values education in schools in Trinidad and Tobago, we are told, is motivated by the high incidence of murderous crimes by young males and the anti-social behaviour of our children.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang last Friday said that paper committals under the Sexual Offences Act are unlawful as the accused is given no opportunity to defend him or herself in the Magistrate’s Court which is a breach of one’s constitutional rights.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang last Friday said that paper committals under the Sexual Offences Act are unlawful as the accused is given no opportunity to defend him or herself in the Magistrate’s Court which is a breach of one’s constitutional rights.

A clothes vendor was yesterday put on bail after denying charges of threatening behaviour and abusive language.

One of the survivors of Sunday’s Lima Public Road, Essequibo accident was thrown into further shock after yesterday discovering that she had lost her unborn child as a result.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, (Reuters) – The superlatives are once again being heaped upon Rory McIlroy after the Northern Irishman, for the second time in 15 months, blew away the world’s best to win his second major crown.

By Cheryl Stephens Through the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), the Caribbean Examinations Coun-cil (CXC) and its stakeholders have created a post-secondary system that is seamless, inclusive, democratic, socially responsible, developmentally focused and internationally recognised.

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was previously postponed will now be held this Saturday at the Guyana Olympic Association building.

SAN ANTONIO,  (Reuters) – A gunman killed two people yesterday, including a law enforcement officer who was serving him an eviction notice at a home near Texas A&M University, before police fatally shot him, officials said.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Nine Nobel Peace laureates, including retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, o n Mo nday called on television network NBC to cancel its “Stars Earn Stripes” reality show, calling it a bid to “sanitize war by likening it to an athletic competition.”

A man who allegedly assaulted a woman and a minor with his firearm was yesterday placed on $80,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The sense of shame that I feel cannot easily be explained; nor can it be wished away.

Two men accused of having an unlicensed shotgun in their possession were yesterday denied bail.

AL ARISH, Egypt,  (Reuters) – They came in Toyota pick-up trucks, dozens of heavily armed masked men, firing machineguns and waving the black flag of al Qaeda as terrified residents and police huddled indoors, and then disappeared again, melting away into the mountains and remote villages of Egypt’s Sinai desert.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – South Africa team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee has issued an official statement in response to the continuing fallout from the Kevin Pietersen text-messaging affair.

Guyana Review Cartoon

I feel privileged to join my Colleague Heads of State and Government here in St Lucia at this Thirty Third Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and I am pleased to reaffirm Guyana’s commitment to the integration process.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, whose decomposing remains were found along a trail at Siparuni, Region Eight on Sunday.

Dear Editor, In acknowledging the relevant concerns of Mr Lowe (KN , August 11), I wish to state that the problem of poor performance of CSEC graduates at the university level has been accruing over a number of years in the botched and uninspiring education system that is being championed by the relevant authorities.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities are frustrated that foreign athletes who train in the country turned the tables on the east African nation, whose disappointing track and field performance at the London Olympics has kicked off a storm of protest back home.

JEDDAH,  (Reuters) – Foreign ministers at a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) agreed yesterday to suspend Syria from the international body, an OIC source said, further isolating President Bashar al-Assad.

DES MOINES, Iowa, (Reuters) – Republican Paul Ryan got a taste of the rough side of a presidential campaign on Monday when protesters heckled him and President Barack Obama accused him of blocking emergency aid to drought-hit farmers.

Cleon Forrester, who was charged with physically and verbally abusing his sister, was yesterday given a stern warning by the court.

Dear Editor, The shooting deaths of three protestors by police in the mining town struck me with a revolting sense of something gone terribly wrong in Guyana.

By George Lamming The following statement titled “Rodney and the Concept of Labour” was delivered via skype at the re-launch of Walter Rodney’s seminal work “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” which took place on June 13, 2012 at the CLR James Auditorium at Cipriani Labour College.  

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – The Vatican yesterday ordered Pope Benedict’s former butler to stand trial for leaking documents alleging corruption in the Holy See, revealing the involvement of a second Vatican employee and details of secret nocturnal meetings with a reporter.

Guyana’s longest surviving secular choir, The Woodside Choir, celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.

A clothes vendor was yesterday put on bail after denying charges of threatening behaviour and abusive language.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to your attention the state of the roads here in C Field, Sophia.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Government is keeping a close watch on the elections in Venezuela as the fate of the country’s petroleum sector is tied up in the outcome of the polls which are due in less than two months.

Dear Editor, Guyana has one of the most archaic, uncompetitive and monopolistic telecommunication sectors in the western hemisphere.

President Donald Ramotar has said that claims of government corruption are overstated, while defending the PPP/C’s record of tackling the situation during its two decades in office.

CAIRO – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has driven back the biggest challenge to civilian rule by dismissing top generals and tearing up their legal attempt to curb his power in a bold bid to end 60 years of military leadership.

This year, Kingston Methodist Church is commemorating the One Hundred and Eighty First Anniversary of its establishment.

The governing party PPP has sounded its concern about opposition supporters using the unrest in Linden to spread race hate messages, while blaming social media sites and some senior members of the private media for aiding such a campaign.

(Trinidad Express) Speaker of the House Wade Mark says the Parliament “wants to get into serious discussions with” Chief Justice Ivor Archie about “the future” of the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court.

Dear Editor, With reference to the Private Sector Commission’s (PSC) criticism of Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon, we should like to point out that while it is the right of the commission to express its views, it must be reminded that for conflict resolution to be successful in Guyana, civil society bodies must preserve their independence and impartiality in order to be treated with the respect they deserve.

By Margaret Walcott It is the week before the Panorama Competition semi-finals.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian guru known to millions from a television show on Hinduism and yoga was arrested at a protest against corruption near the parliament yesterday, putting pressure on a Congress Party-led government trying to revive its political fortunes.

Over the last two weeks, two important events took place in relation to public procurement.

Presumably, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) would have much preferred that the verbal jousting between supporters of David Granger and Carl Greenidge, the two candidates for the leadership of the party, not enter the public domain.

CARIFORUM is open for business and is unflinching in its commitment to implementing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU, Director General of the CARIFORUM Directorate, Ivan Ogando Lora, and Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), Pamela Coke-Hamilton said at the closing session of the 2nd CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum held in London from August 8-9.

For as long as he remains captain of the West Indies team Darren Sammy’s credentials as a cricketer deserving of a permanent place in the Caribbean side, far less the distinction of being its leader, will probably always be in question.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in Economics, is Professor of Economics at Columbia University.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Come the new academic year, the Ministry of Education will begin to roll out a specific tutorial programme tailored for boys, which will be more practical-oriented.

PARIS/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Leading members of the Group of 20 nations are prepared to trigger an emergency meeting to address soaring grain prices caused by the worst U.S.

Dear Editor, It was definitely not good news to learn that Linden was burning at the same time as the London Olympics flame.

(Trinidad Express) It was a day of rewards at Piarco International Airport yesterday as Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott returned home after a stunning gold medal performance at the London games.