Daily Archive: Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Dear Editor, Recently, there have been letters discussing the US presidential elections and predictions have come from all directions as to the outcome, with the current polls showing an election too close to call.

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Terry Andrew Joseph in relation to robbery under arms and piracy.

The body of an unidentified man was found in a drain at Kara Kara shortly after 8 am today.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities and media remained silent on the whereabouts of Vice President Xi Jinping today, sparking rumours and raising questions over why Beijing is not being more forthcoming on the health of its president-in-waiting.

KARACHI (Reuters) – At least 261 people burnt to death as fires swept through two factories in Pakistan, police and government officials said on Wednesday, raising questions about industrial safety in the nuclear-armed South Asian nation.

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – The US ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed as they rushed away from a consulate building in Benghazi, stormed by al Qaeda-linked gunmen blaming America for a film that they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad.

A day ahead of his 18th birthday, Shaquille Grant was yesterday fatally shot by members of the Guyana Police Force at Agricola, East Bank Demerara, where enraged residents later confronted lawmen over their actions.

The Education Ministry invited seven pre-selected local firms to supply primary and secondary-level textbooks, prompting a surprise bid by the Trinidad and Tobago-based Royards Publishing Company, which holds the copyright for many of the books.

The agreement for the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydro project and Transmission Line was signed yesterday in Xian, China by Sithe Global and China Railway First Group (CRFG) and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh urged all partners to recommit their efforts to seeing the timely realisation of financial closure and implementation.

The burnt remains of the eight victims of the Lindo Creek massacre were buried yesterday following a simple funeral service at the Lyken’s Funeral Home where only one family turned up to bid final goodbyes.

By Johann Earle in Jeju, South Korea The motion proposed by WWF France calling for a moratorium on oil drilling along the Guianas offshore region was adopted after votes came in overwhelmingly in its favour as the curtains start to come down on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea.

By Emmerson Campbell It was surely not what the thousands of the yellow clad supporters of the Golden Jaguars went to see at the Providence National Stadium.

The 15-member committee recently elected by Kwakwani residents to run the community is prepared to work as a parallel body to the Interim Management Committee (IMC) installed by the Local Government Ministry, if the central government continues to refuse to recognise its legitimacy.

Three suspected pirates, who attacked several fishermen off the Pomeroon River and the Waini Coast last weekend, were apprehended by police and the Coastguard during a raid in the North West District.

A 22-year-old, ‘C’ Field Sophia, woman is now in a critical condition at the Georgetown Hospital after she was stabbed to the left side abdomen during a fight last evening.

By Javone Vickerie Rabindranauth Seemangal, one of the six persons charged in last year July’s $7 million Bel Air heist, was yesterday sentenced to eight years imprisonment after changing his plea to guilty.

The 10-year-old girl who was killed along with former police commissioner, Henry Greene will be laid to rest today, while relatives of Greene remain tightlipped on his funeral arrangements.

In his second track event in a 10-day span, national 5000m record holder Cleveland Forde once again dominated the field, lapping every competitor to make a commanding statement on day one of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter Unit Athletic Championship at the GDF ground Camp Ayanganna.

Former Inter-Services Athletics Championships (ISAC) 400 metres champion Patrick King is poised to earn a sprint triple crown today after blazing his way to top qualifying times in two 100 metres heats and the 400 metres tack event yesterday.

A miner who was found with cocaine at Mabaruma was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment.

A driver/salesman was yesterday accused of stealing over $700,000 in goods from his employer, some of which were allegedly recovered at his home.

Top Berbice cyclist Neil Reece Sunday edged the in-form Dwight Holder in a thrilling finish to win the Furniture World 50-mile cycle road race last Sunday winning the Flying Ace Cycle Club event in one hour and 55 minutes.

Former Guyana and England cricketer, Monty Lynch, is now the head coach of the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC).

Unable to convince the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide an exclusive window for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have decided to do it on their own.

The new University of Guyana (UG) council is today expected to hold its first meeting since the start of the new semester and members anticipate discussions will focus on the selection of a new Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson has expressed confidence in his side’s chances in the World Twenty20 Tournament taking place in Sri Lanka this month.

Former national junior sprint champion Letitia Myles began her track and field career at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter Unit with two impressive performances on the track and in the field on day one of the GDF Inter Unit Championships yesterday.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), in conjunction with the National Sports Commission (NSC) will this evening host a vigil for the late president of the GTTA, Henry Greene at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue from 7pm.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has ordered 12,000 more prepaid meters at a cost of about US$1.2 million, which will soon be available to the public as it has become the metering system of choice for consumers.

Former National champion Lennox Braithwaite shot three possibles in a fine display of precision shooting at last Sunday?s

Guyanese pharmacists again excelled at the Caribbean Association of Pharmacists (CAP), winning an award and election to a senior post within the regional grouping.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) is accusing outgoing WICB CEO Ernest Hilaire of making misleading statements concerning a recent ruling in favour of West Indies cricketer Ramnaresh Sarwan.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced that Admiral Sportswear will be the official kit supplier of West Indies cricket until August 2013.

Dear Editor, It was the hope of the two authentic booksellers left in Guyana that after the end of Mr Shaik Baksh’s tenure as Minister of Education, the practice of illegally printing textbooks for schools would have ended.

Abigail McDonald is the winner of the just concluded Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) open tournament played on Sunday at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

Dear Editor, In Saturday’s Stabroek News (September 8) a Jamaican attorney-at-law, Hugh Wildman, reportedly asserted, inter alia, that the quality of judgements of the Privy Council is “far superior” to those emanating from our Caribbean Court of Justice and in purported proof of his conclusion, he cited an unspecified case in Guyana.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme yesterday and reaffirmed their united determination to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, the White House said.

Dear Editor, I have always taken a keen interest in the careers of students with whom I had interacted, whether directly or indirectly. 

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – West Indies are banking on off-spinner Sunil Narine playing an important role in the World Twenty20 on the dusty pitches of Sri Lanka this month.

WASHINGTON/CAIRO/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Protesters in Egypt and Libya attacked US diplomatic missions yesterday, leading to the death of an American staffer at the consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi after fierce clashes at the compound, a Libyan official said.

TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States cautioned China and Japan against escalating a row over a group of islands that both nations claim, warning that tensions between the world’s second and third-biggest economies would have global repercussions.

Dear Editor, I write in response to a series of inaccurate information in the media by elements of the opposition in their rabid attack against the former President and his pension plan.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh was denied a fairytale comeback from serious illness as New Zealand beat India by one run in a see-saw Twenty20 International to win the two-match series yesterday.

Dear Editor, The government representatives, officials, big-business miners, the Private Sector Commission, etc, in condemning the Linden electrical increase protest spouted all sorts of things.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund yesterday said member countries were moving closer to authorizing voting reforms agreed to in 2010 to reflect a shift in global power away from developed countries.

Dear Editor, During a portion of the corruption debates on NCN Channel 11 last week, a most awkward statement was made by the former Head of the Public Service, Nanda K Gopaul who said, “What is wrong with a former President seeking to ensure that he lives a comfortable life after his presidency?”

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The victims of Sept. 11 will be remembered “no matter how many years pass,” President Barack Obama said yesterday during one of three main ceremonies marking the 11th anniversary of the attacks in which nearly 3,000 people were killed by airliners hijacked by Islamist militants.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Britain’s long wait is over. The nation that invented modern tennis finally has a champion for the new age after Andy Murray won the U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) – Jamaica House was up to Monday night yet to comment formally on unflattering comments attributed to President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe about Jamaican culture at a recent regional three-day Expo in Harare, Zimbabwe, which is causing a firestorm in diplomatic circles.

Dear Editor, I applaud the government and opposition for expediting the inquiry into the Linden shooting agreeing to its terms of reference and the composition of the Commission of Inquiry.

(Trinidad Express) The government announced yesterday that steps were being taken to convene the House of Representatives today for the purpose of repealing Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings Act 2011).

This intervention was motivated primarily by a report in the Stabroek News that from ten Caribbean programmes which were highlighted as “best practices” for the provision of services to the elderly by the Third Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean, which took place recently in Costa Rica, Barbados was recognised for three of its programmes: the Home Care Programme, Nursing Pilot Project and its Information Communication Technology Programme.

The announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia that his government will recommence negotiations with the main guerilla grouping, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), towards a solution of their continuing contention over the movement of narcotics in the context of a wider, long-running civil war, has been welcomed on all sides.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka spinner Ajantha Mendis has promised to deliver all five of his bowling variations in the Twenty20 World Cup tournament which begins next Tuesday.