Daily Archive: Thursday, September 13, 2012

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Afghan-American allegedly caught with more than euro 300,000 at the Norman Manley International airport is to return to court on September 27.

Three men, Richard Mangal, Eon Sampson, and Gary Joseph, were yesterday charged with robbing several fishermen of over $6M in a series of pirate attacks over the last weekend, and the court prosecutor said that they confessed to the crimes after leading police to the stolen articles.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The West Indies lost their warm-up match to Sri Lanka by nine wickets today ahead of the World Twenty20 competition.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has responded to the disparaging comments by Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe against Jamaican men calling them unfortunate, misguided and disrespectful.

(Barbados Nation) Eight young men, charged with the theft of copper and cable from businesses in St Thomas and St Michael, were remanded when they appeared in the Bridgetown Traffic Court yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Margaret Yvonne King, 48 years of Harmony Hall, St.

(Trinidad Express) An “oversight” by the “entire Parliament”. That’s how Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday explained the crisis created by Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act, which has provided an avenue for businessmen Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson and others charged in the Piarco corruption scandal to escape prosecution.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0100h.

Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc. (TIGI) says it is extremely concerned at the recent allegations of irregularity in the tendering process for the US$18.1m specialty hospital and it welcomed the government decision to review the contract.

(Trinidad Express) Security has been strengthened at the United States Embassy in Port of Spain in light of the killing of four American personnel including ambassador Chris Stevens at the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Public Affairs Officer Alexander McLaren has said.

Sydney, (Reuters) – Australia can win the Twenty20 World Cup this month, test captain Michael Clarke said on Thursday, even if they are ranked ninth in the world and will have to do it without him.

SANAA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt today in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and American warships headed towards Libya after the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) – Relatives of murdered woman Afiya Osbourne, who was shot about the body on Tuesday morning near her Dorata Street, Laventille home, said yesterday she was killed for her “hot mouth”.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – a Haitian-American weekly newspaper has been sued by Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe for defamation over its reporting on the sale of a telecommunications company acquired by his government.

Government spokesman Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said that it was a Cabinet decision to procure pirated textbooks for public schools, disregarding copyright laws once the “good quality and better price” requirements are met by a supplier.

An eyewitness has substantiated the account that Shaquille Grant, 17, was gunned down by police in Agricola, according to AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes, who said the party would share the evidence with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in order for criminal charges to be laid.

Police and the Guyana Fire Service were last night deployed to Agricola, East Bank Demerara after residents briefly blocked the public road, burning tyres in protest of what they called “police discrimination.”

The relatives of a man whose body was found in a drain at Linden are crying foul and are calling on police to take swift action to investigate.

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

Work on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) four Lane highway project is being delayed by the inability of the utility companies to reconfigure their various infrastructure, coupled with the unavailability of material to replace existing ones.

National senior sprint champion Rupert Perry had his first run on home soil yesterday since returning from a High Performance Training Centre in Jamaica and  easily qualified for the men’s 200 metres finals of the Guyana Defence Force annual athletics championships.

By Emmerson Campbell A 2-3 defeat by El Salvador Tuesday night at the Providence National Stadium put paid to the Golden Jaguars hopes of qualifying past the third round of the 2014 football World Cup Qualifiers.

Bids were received from three companies on Tuesday for the supply of prepaid meters for the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL), after the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) defused potential controversy over the submissions by one of the firms in the running.

Caribbean Airlines has been granted approval by government to operate direct flights to Canada.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday donated six black tanks to the Waiakabra community on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway and called for swift government intervention to ensure a better quality of life for this depressed area.

Pepsi Sonics basketball Club will lather this month stage a first and third division tournaments at the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court.

Anneta George, the ‘C’ Field Sophia woman who was stabbed to the abdomen after a fight on Tuesday evening, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday.

Stabroek News is pleased to celebrate with its oldest vendor, Ismay Young called ‘Aunty May’ of 53 Russell Street, Charlestown, who turned 90 years old on Monday.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday that authorized broadcasters have until September 27 to renew their licenses for the continuation of their broadcast service.

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) donated an International Volleyball Federation (IVF) net and other gear to the Mibicuri Primary School in keeping with its mandate to promote the sport in that county.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – Talismanic opener Chris Gayle has backed West Indies to reach the final of the World Twenty20 Champion-ship.

Six coaches – Michael Hyles-Franco, Renwick Batson, Delbert Hicks, Winston Smith, Julian Moore and Adrian Amsterdam – were last weekend honored in the annual Tribute to Coaches Programme held by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) at the board’s office, Cheddi Jagan Street, New Amsterdam.

Four hundred and thirty-seven Region Three families received computers through the One Laptop for Family (OLPF) programme when the second phase of the programme started on Monday last.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said late Amerindian rights advocate Stephen Campbell’s life illustrated how to overcome challenges and utilise opportunities, at an evening of reflection hosted on Tuesday at Umana Yana.

The Caricom Secretariat urged parents to reflect on the examples they set at home regarding the consumption of a balanced diet and exercise when the agency collaborated with the Health Ministry to host a health walk at the National Park on Saturday last in observation of Caribbean Wellness Day.

The police are working on the images captured by Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to help identify the arsonists who set fire to the Jainarine Singh Building on Croal Street late Saturday night, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has said.

A Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) worker was on Tuesday threatened with a cutlass by an occupant of a Cove and John, East Coast Demerara property, where he had gone to disconnect the water supply.

A 24-year-old clerk was robbed of $3.1 million while in the back seat of a motorcar at Alexander Village yesterday.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated plans to implement a social management plan and other initiatives to reduce electricity theft as it has again noticed an increase in this practice.

St John’s, Antigua – In light of a statement reported in the media as being attributed to the West Indies Players Association relating to the Ramnaresh Sarwan arbitration matter, the WICB deems it necessary to allow the public the benefit of the full facts.

Plans are in place for the Education Ministry to implement a World Bank-funded programme designed to improve the University of Guyana’s (UG) biodiversity’s capabilities, Education Minister Priya Manickchand has said.

Two more police witnesses yesterday identified two of the accused in last year’s $7 million Bel Air heist as being the men apprehended by units that responded to the report of the robbery.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-The Jamaica Government has announced plans to stage ‘scaled down’ celebrations for members of the team which participated in the London Olympics last month.

Experienced golfer Carlos Adams found his rhythm to cart off his first major tournament for 2012 with victory in the Annual El Dorado Medal Play Golf tournament played over the weekend at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Rupert Perry has admitted that in  posting the fastest time in the 200m preliminary on his return to track after a six-month hiatus yesterday at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter Unit Championships held at the GDF ground Camp Ayanganna, his only intention was to test his peed.

An accident on the New Amsterdam Public Road on Monday has left a man severely injured.

The Roraima Learning Trust in collaboration with the Education Ministry is launching a micro-learning project that breaks down the CXC syllabus into small modules for fourth formers.

The driver of a motor car was yesterday arrested and is assisting police with investigations after a motorcyclist collided with him and died on the Mahaicony public road.

(Reuters) – England will depart for their Twenty20 World Cup defence in Sri Lanka in good heart after squaring the three-match series against South Africa with an emphatic 28-run win at Edgbaston yesterday.

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) continues to face an uphill battle to attract females in large numbers to the sport.

Dear Editor, I recently came across Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge by Gimlette and Knopf. 

Twenty-five persons are now certified archaeologists, after completing a course by the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology which included field research in various hinterland communities.

The Environmental Community Health Organization (Echo) is hosting an interactive session for children, teachers and parents to design an environmental information package for distribution in Echo clubs countrywide.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – West Indies’ opening batsman Chris Gayle rates the bowling of fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt and reckons the six-times Olympic gold medallist has what it takes to excel at the game.

A Linden mason was on Tuesday accused of trying to use a forged passport to leave the country.

Dear Editor, What must the public do? I have been having problems with GT&T ever since I signed up for the DSL service.

Clifton Deochand, a Guyanese based in France, was yesterday fined $100,000, after he admitted to having a forged passport.

Secretary of the Guyana Amateur Power-lifting Federation (GAPF) Gordon Spencer was one of two lucky fans attending the Guyana/El Salvador World Cup Qualifying game who won Caribbean Airlines (CAL) return tickets to New York.

Dear Editor, I am happy to see that the Mayor and City Council is considering establishing a debt recovery unit to address its dilemma of unpaid taxes and other revenues.

A teenager, who is charged with snatching a woman’s purse, yesterday told Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry that he committed the crime because he was “hungry and confused”.

WASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed yesterday to “bring to justice” the Islamist gunmen responsible for a ferocious assault that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans – an attack that may have been organized in advance.

Dear Editor, Recently I was privileged to have the opportunity of listening to an outstanding singing voice, namely, that of John Braithwaite Critchlow, known around the world as Johnny Braff.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said yesterday that jailed US contractor Alan Gross is in “normal” health, despite his wife’s claims to the contrary, as it reiterated its willingness to talk with the US government about resolving the case.

Jonellor Bowen has already been appointed Town Clerk of the Linden Municipality in Region Ten and has already commenced duties.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Rival supporters in Venezuela’s presidential election fought and threw stones yesterday before a campaign stop by opposition leader Henrique Capriles less than a month before an October 7 vote.

Dear Editor, I wish to take this opportunity to salute the Coast Guard for work well done.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s biggest telecommunications equipment maker said its path into the United States had been blocked by unsubstantiated “allegations based on allegations” that threatened to harm ties between the world’s two biggest economies.

Dear Editor, Those of us who watched the Ladies US 2012 Open final would agree that the pendulum swung both ways.

(Reuters) – Argentina’s Sergio Martinez is set to fight WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

LONDON (Reuters) – Countries across the world are making rapid progress on child survival rates, showing it is possible to bring down child mortality significantly in two decades, the United Nations Children’s Fund said today.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A Guatemalan judge yesterday ordered an alleged Costa Rican drug trafficker to stand trial for the murder of Argentine singer and composer Facundo Cabral.

Dear Editor, When I received an email from a colleague inside the TUC in London informing me about today’s demonstration outside South Africa House in London, in support of the mine workers killed in South Africa and the dismissed bauxite workers in Guyana, my first thought was, why no mention of the slaughtered three at Linden.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) recalls the sacrifices and contributions made by its youth arm, the Progressive Youth Organization as it celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Dear Editor, I have absolutely no regrets about the glowing way in which I wrote on the election of Barack Obama as head of the White House and the first black president of the USA: ‘Obama has become another Moses to the world’ (SN, Nov 2008).

The Guyana Police Force may have closed the chapter on the Lindo Creek massacre on Tuesday when it interred the burnt remains of the eight victims after a funeral service, but the complete book has not been written – at least not for some of the relatives of the slain men – and perhaps it never will be.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru will crack down on the political wing of the Shining Path and quash armed remnants of the insurgency, President Ollanta Humala said yesterday, dismissing the idea of holding peace talks with the rebels.

Q: I am a US citizen and I want to vote in the next US presidential election, can I vote while I am living in Guyana?

By Brahma Chellaney Brahma Chellaney is the author of Asian Juggernaut and Water: Asia’s New Battleground.