Daily Archive: Saturday, September 1, 2012

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Hal David, a lyricist who along with composer Burt Bacharach took the pop world by storm in the 1960s with hits such as “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on my Head” and “Walk on By,” died in Los Angeles today at age 91, a representative said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 25-year-old pregnant woman has been killed and another female injured following a shooting incident involving a policeman in Yallahs, St Thomas, this afternoon.

Police today said that investigations are being conducted into a fire of so far unknown origin that occurred at about 1115h today which resulted in the destruction of a wooden house at Breda Street, Georgetown, and the death of a man.

The Alliance For Change today said it will participate in the NCN organised debate on the former presidents benefits Act scheduled for tomorrow, September 2, 2012.

The Ministry of Agriculture will on Monday hold a consultation with experts on a major constraint facing the poultry industry – the availability of quality stock feed – and Minister Leslie Ramsammy warned that he will ensure that all laws are complied with, a statement apparently aimed at Guyana Stockfeeds Limited.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The community of Central Village, St Catherine is now tense following a midnight attack that left three people dead and two hospitalised with gunshot injuries.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – In its 5:00am bulletin the Meteorological Service said that the centre of Tropical Storm Leslie was located near latitude 17.8 degrees north and 53.5 degrees west or about 885 kilometres east of the Leeward Islands.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Renowned obstetric gynaecologist Dr Barry Dixon has succumbed to injuries he sustained after he was shot by gunmen at his Spring Gardens home in St James this morning.

At about 1800h yesterday, the police said that personnel from the Berbice Anti-Smuggling Squad (BASS) conducted a search on a boat at the No.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1820h last evening on the Adelphi Village Public Road, East Canje, Berbice, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Sewdat Bipoo, 35 years, of Adelphi.

Over 300 employees of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday began a strike to press for the removal of the acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba over the non-payment of salaries for last month, among other standing issues.

The International members of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the July 18 Linden protestor shootings will be arriving in Guyana next Wednesday, when they are to be sworn in.

Prominent chartered accounting firm Ram & McRae has been selected to carry out the audit into the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) credit union.

Six staff members of the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project have been sent home to facilitate a probe by police into the theft of around 150 computers, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported last evening.

Despite having convened a press conference last Saturday on the controversial award of a contract for the specialty hospital to Surendra Engineering, the Ministry of Health is still to answer key questions, including why a company with major hospital building experience was not chosen.

By Neil Barry Demerara Cricket Club `A’ earned their third straight Georgetown Under-15 title when they completely outclassed Transport Sports Club by 155 runs at the Gandhi Youth Organization ground.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday defended Guyana’s abstention from a United Nations vote on the strife in Syria, saying that the international response can only succeed if it is united and addresses all sides of the conflict.

A Canal No.2, West Bank Demerara businessman was yesterday robbed of $1 million in cash and his licensed revolver during a stick-up carried out by two men.

Director of Sport, Neil Kumar, said yesterday that his ministry was looking to walk the walk with the national associations as they set sights on the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.

Euclid Da Silva, who authorities say escaped from a prison in Boa Vista where he was jailed after drug trafficking and money laundering convictions, was yesterday accused of illegal entry into Guyana and hit with fraud charges that date back to 1997.

A man’s left lung was punctured after he was stabbed with a broken bottle last night, as a result of being accused of fondling a woman.

By Emmerson Campbell Lack of funding mixed with poor preparation were the main ingredients that caused Guyana, the six-time NACRA Champions’ cookie to crumble at this year’s NACRA Championships in Ottawa, Canada.

Days before the University of Guyana (UG) commences the semester, minor work is being done on the Turkeyen Campus and while the unions which have been rallying for more to be done say they are thankful for this, they do not believe that much change will follow.

Guyana’s national football team (the Golden Jaguars) is currently preparing for their key home and away 2014 World Cup fixtures against El Salvador on Friday.

Deep in the rainforests of southern Guyana, Masa-kenari, long known as a bastion for conservation, is in a renewed push for economic development.

A technical joint working group that would have carried out a review of environmental issues and concerns pertaining to river and tributary mining never got off the ground but issues are being discussed between the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA).

A sea defence breach at Profitt, West Coast Berbice, coupled with the high tide on Thursday and yesterday resulted in saltwater affecting crops and livestock and farmers counting their losses.

National athletes who have been training at the National Park 400 metres track which has deteriorated over the past couple of years, causing injuries to some of them, would soon have better conditions with the planned upgrade.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday launched the Guyana Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition.

Mackenzie High School (MHS) continues to hold its position as the leading senior secondary school in Region 10, attaining 100% passes in 10 out of 12 units offered in the 2012 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), including both Mathematics units.

Nikkoloi Smith, Dominic Vincente and Dominique Douglas will headline the 2012 junior national basketball team to the Inter-Guiana Games slated for French Guiana later this year.

The Guyana Defence Force will hold their annual athletics championships from next Tuesday at Camp Ayanganna Sports Ground, after being postponed three weeks ago.

Kingston’s Grassroots Soccer Academy will kick off its second annual under 13 Little League Soccer Youth Championship (LLSYC) today at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground.

Windjammer International Hotel and Cuisine was the only bidder to supply meals to the National Assembly over the next three years when the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board opened bids for the contract on Tuesday.

By Neil Barry Demerara Cricket Club’s  `A’ team  held on for a tense victory against Malteenoes while the Demerara Cricket Club’s  `B’ recovered from a batting collapse against Georgetown Cricket Club  to ensure an all DCC final in the inaugural Georgetown Cricket Association’s David Persaud Investments Cup one-day Under-19 tournament on Friday.

Digicel yesterday launched its “Unlimited Internet Service,” saying it will offer affordable plans to non-BlackBerry smartphone subscribers.

By Jairo Rodrigues Not all rappers do it for fame and the cash, some rap the stories of their lives, some fall in love with the poetic art and others, like Blaze Anthonio, strive to live their dreams.

Golfers are expected to come out in their numbers today for the Unique Group Golf Tournament, starting off a packed calendar for October and November at 12.30pm.

Memes and Trolling have stormed the internet like wildfire; they are indeed the viral sensations that mastered the recent web age.

A Stabroek Market vendor was on Thursday evening robbed by unmasked gunmen at his Eccles, East Bank Demerara home, becoming the latest victim in a series of robberies on the vendors.

Sean De Freitas Sookdeo, the Mon Repos taxi driver whose bullet-riddled body was found at Thomas Road early Tuesday morning, died as a result of multiple gunshot injuries, a post-mortem examination has revealed.

Hi Everyone, My mom makes a mean (really good) shrimp cake.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Unlisted conglomerate Sahara, one of India’s biggest groups and a household name through its cricket sponsorship, must refund 174 billion rupees ($3.1 billion) raised by “dubious” means from 22 million small investors, India’s top court has ruled.

Charles McLeod, 27, of French Guiana, who was facing charges of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking before Magistrate Krishndat Persaud, walked out of the Springlands Court a free man on Tuesday.

ZURICH, Switzerland, CMC As the curtains come down on a grueling season, Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt says if it were not for the fans he would have ended his campaign earlier.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-Jamaica, a powerhouse in world athletics, is considering the possibility of hosting a diamond league event, Sports Minister Natalie Neita-Headley has announced Neita-Headley has confirmed that Jamaica has already indicated its interest to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Baron and the Kes Bands are expected to spice up things when Mc Neal Enterprise put on its tenth Miss Guyana Universe pageant slated for the September 15 at the Princess Hotel & Casino.

Justice Prem Persaud will chair the Board of Inquiry (BOI) that will investigate the break out and arson by inmates at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), at Onderneeming, on the Essequibo Coast last week.

Dear Editor, In the opinion of the International Committee in Continuing Defence of Linden, the statement of the Guyana Government through its Ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS)  delivered on August 22, 2012, instead of reciting the sequence of events, went out of its way to accuse the government’s critics of incitement to racial disaffection.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government has estimated that there would be a US$600-million annual impact on Jamaica’s balance of payments if Venezuela discontinues its deferred financing arrangement of the PetroCaribe Energy Cooperation agreement at this time.

Later this evening, the Transport Sports Club will come alight when East Coast Demerara crooner, Super Cat and his one man band celebrate its 13th anniversary.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC -Grenada’s first Olympic medalist Kirani James was given a hero’s welcome when he arrived home Thursday evening for a weekend of celebrations following his historic feat in London earlier this month.

Dear Editor, In his book, The Wild Coast, the author, John Gimlette, refers to his brief interview with me (conducted in a public place at the Pegasus Poolside) and then proceeds without my knowledge or sanction to embellish the scenarios, using his author’s licence.

Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon has asked Prime Minister Sam Hinds to take the required action to have “inaccuracies” in Ambassador Bayney Karran’s presentation on the Linden unrest to the Organisation of American States (OAS) corrected.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – A former Indian state minister was sentenced to 28 years in jail yesterday for murder during one of the country’s worst religious riots, when up to 2,500 people, most of them Muslim, were hunted down and hacked, beaten or burnt to death in 2002.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Discarded West Indies middle order batsman Brendan Nash passed 750 runs in his first County Championship season as Kent defeated Leicestershire by 147 runs here yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Are we civilised? This question was asked last night by President George Maxwell Richards in his Independence Day address which was delivered on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Independence of Trinidad and Tobago at the National Multicultural Extravaganza and Re-Enactment of the 1962 Independence at Woodford Square, Port of Spain. 

Dear Editor, Guyanese Americans have to be applauded for the interest shown in the just concluded Republican Convention, and I hope the same will be displayed this coming week during the Democratic convention, deepening the group’s interest and involvement in American politics.

Chris Lighty a major figure in the hip hop music industry, is dead after shooting himself. 

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Swiss authorities said they had arrested Guatemala’s former chief of police yesterday in connection with a series of murders committed in the Central American country between 2004 and 2007.

Factory workers attached to the Blairmont Sugar Estate returned to work yesterday while the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) honoured its promise to make a salary payout to them.

Dear Editor, The adopted country (US) of Jamaican-born Sanya Richards Ross (400m gold medalist at the London 2012 Olympics) paved the way towards international stardom for her.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday that Haiti was struggling to cope with a cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and deteriorating conditions in tent camps as aid groups withdraw from the impoverished country due to a lack of funding.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – Republicans may have made Mitt Romney’s day with the presidential nomination he long sought, but it was Dirty Harry himself who nearly hijacked the show with a rambling diatribe against President Barack Obama – addressed to an empty chair.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Some 10,000 people who stayed in tent cabins at Yosemite National Park over the summer may be at risk for the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus, the U.S.

(Reuters) – R&B artist Trey Songz topped the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with his latest album “Chapter V,” edging out three other new entries on the chart this week.

The Ministry of Education said yesterday that the reopening of some schools across Guyana will be delayed but teachers of the affected schools are required to report for duty on Monday to the Department of Education in their respective areas.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Olympic gold medalist Keshorn Walcott will receive Trinidad and Tobago’s highest award as the twin republic celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence.

(Jamaica Observer) The window for Jamaica to take advantage of the expanded Panama Canal is closing fast.

ISTANBUL/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Turkey will continue to seek international backing for a foreign-protected safe zone inside Syria after a U.N.

Dear Editor, I am compelled to respond to Mr Archie Cordis constant griping on the contents of  my television programme in Region 2, ‘Let’s Talk Essequibo‘ (Romel Roopnarine’s programme mostly on Linden did not tell Essequibo viewers that three protestors had been shot dead by police’ SN, August 31).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Reggae veteran Jimmy Cliff’s latest album, Rebirth, is spending its fifth week on the Billboard charts.

They say art is a reflection of society. If this is true, the local female musicians are proving that the women of this nation are on a good path. 

(Reuters) – British-Irish boy band One Direction took the music industry by storm earlier this year when its debut album topped the U.S.

Some weeks ago, at a ceremony to mark the 27th anniversary of the death of President Forbes Burnham, Mr Granger, newly elected leader of the PNCR, paid homage to Burnham’s “visionary leadership, his astute statesmanship and his watchful guardianship of our young nation for over two decades from 1964 to 1985.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich emerged victorious yesterday from a $6 billion legal battle with his former mentor Boris Berezovsky that has laid bare the intrigue behind the post-Soviet carve-up of Russia’s vast natural resources.

The European Community Overseas Caribbean Territories (ECOCT) Project Steering Committee is scheduled to meet in Aruba next week.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The disgraced power couple of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair will be played by two of France’s best-known actors, Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani, in an upcoming movie about sex, politics and love on the rocks.

(Barbados Nation) The Ministry of Finance has ordered all ministries and Government departments to make a 3.3 per cent reduction in their allocations, excluding those which are statutory in nature, such as salaries.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Ross Taylor kept his promise of attacking India’s spinners by smashing an entertaining hundred as the visitors reached 328 for six at the close of the first day of the second and final test in Bangalore  yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Police on Monday arrested and charged a man believed to be the main suspect behind a major cyber crime offence involving the posting of nude photographs of women on a local website.

(Barbados Nation) Government, with Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler at the forefront, is coming to the rescue of the cash-strapped University of the West Indies (UWI).

(Trinidad Express)  ST GEORGE’S  – A few thousand revellers wearing Grenada’s red, green and yellow flag crowded outside the country’s tiny airport on Thursday night to welcome back a young athlete who won the nation’s first Olympic medal.

(Trinidad Express) It was a fitting tribute to Trinidad and Tobago’s “50 Greatest Legends in Sport 1962-2012”, with an unprecedented gathering at Hilton Trinidad Ballroom for Thursday night’s gala dinner.