Daily Archive: Friday, September 14, 2012

PARIS/LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s royal family began legal action against a French magazine today for a “grotesque” breach of privacy after it published topless photographs of Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Americans need to get used to Jamaica’s men dominating the global sprinting scene because it will not change soon, Jamaican double Olympic silver medallist Yohan Blake said on Friday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Seven Asian players including India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara were selected in the International Cricket Council’s one-day team of the year on Friday.

(WICB) Colombo, Sri Lanka – Marlon Samuels believes he will have a key role to play in the West Indies team in the upcoming ICC World T20 tournament.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has ordered a security review for U.S.

KHARTOUM/TUNIS, (Reuters) – Fury about a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad tore across the Middle East today with protesters attacking U.S.

Seventeen-year-old Shaquille Grant, who was killed during a police operation in Agricola earlier this week, was shot 3 times,  AFC chairman and attorney at law Nigel Hughes said a post-mortem examination (PME) conducted this morning revealed.

A police constable attached to the Berbice Narcotics Branch was early this morning found dead, shot to the head execution-style, according to Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell, who opined that the policeman knew his killer.

Commissioner of Police (acting), Leroy Brumell, has promised the family of 17-year-old Shaquille Grant who was shot and killed by police earlier this week than an intense investigation will be undertaken.

Kwakwani residents yesterday walked out on Junior Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker after they took exception to an insult he directed to a resident at a community meeting.

A motorcyclist of New Amsterdam yesterday lost his life in a gruesome accident, which occurred in Sheet Anchor, East Canje, Berbice around 1.30 am.

Three men, Richard Mangal, Eon Sampson, and Gary Joseph, were yesterday charged with robbing several fishermen of over $6 million 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.

Defending female champions of the Amerindian Heritage football tournament, Eagle United, was told to mix the composition of its team if it wanted to successfully defend its title this year.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Filipino southpaw Manny Pacquiao is expected to return to the ring on December 8 for a fourth fight against long-time rival Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico, according to several media reports.

Employees of Trans Guyana Airways are expected to benefit from an in-house initiative in which two eligible staff members will be trained as pilots in Miami, Florida, USA.

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

The company that was awarded the $23 million contract for the repairs to the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus was yesterday accused of unacceptable and sloppy work by campus staffers during a visit by Education Minister Priya Manickchand.

Canada on Tuesday said that effective that day citizens of St.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says that the objection by main opposition APNU over the appointment of two lawyers associated with his law firm as legal counsel to the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Linden protester shootings is without merit.

While the owners of the burnt out site of the last Regent Street fire contemplate site rehabilitation vendors took advantage of the busy business spot to ply their trade.

(ICC) New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum and Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal have taken over as the leading batsman and bowler in the latest Reliance ICC Twenty20 Player Rankings.

Sections of the mining industry that were affected by the recent protests at Linden which impeded the movement of critical supplies to some interior mining locations for several weeks are “rolling again” according to an official of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA).

Dear Editor, A few years ago, when I started off in the tenuous business of editorial consultancy, one of my flagship medium term projects was the production of a specific type of textbook intended for secondary schools across the Caribbean. 

In its continued effort to promote domestic tourism the Guyana Tourism Authority in association with the Ministry of Tourism treated 15 more Guyanese to an all-expenses paid journey to the Kaieteur National Park.

Critics of the distracting noise levels emanating from the loud music from ‘boom boom’ boxes that have been an integral part of the annual GuyExpo in previous years appear to have gotten their way with the organizers, according to GuyExpo 2012 Public Relations Officer Indranauth Haralsingh.

Dear Editor, I have had cause in the past to observe that Mr Frederick Kissoon in his numerous public utterances gets away with multiple forms of offence to others, misrepresentations, and false and inaccurate statements. 

The Guyana Government, through its Foreign Ministry, has strongly condemned the attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others, as well as the attack on the US Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

Dear Editor, The public is hereby advised that Shaquille Grant of Agricola, East Bank Demerara, who was shot and killed by member of the Guyana Police Force on September 11, 2012, was not a member of the ‘A’ Division Community Policing Group, as was stated in Stabroek News on September 12, 2012.

In a recent interview with this newspaper Director of Tourism at the Guyana Tourism Authority, Indranauth Haralsingh, who is serving as the public relations ‘point man’ for this year’s GUYEXPO, declared that the event which begins later this month will be seeking to attract more overseas buyers in order to expand external markets for Guyana’s manufactured products.

Former Police Commissioner Wilfred Henry Greene, DSS, DSM, will be buried on Sunday following a funeral service at the National Cultural Centre (NCC).

Dear Editor, I often wonder how Dr Roger Luncheon deals with his conscience when in his quiet moments he recalls all the untruths and half truths that he spews out in defence of a government whose only use for him is to put him out there in the line of fire to try to confuse citizens with empty words while ministers of the government and other government officials shelter in the safety of their offices.

Dear Editor, I refer to Thomas Hobbes’ thesis of a Hobbesian state.

A night shelter lodger, accused of assaulting and threatening to kill another lodger, was yesterday placed on a bond to keep the peace by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Diaspora Unit Many years after they left the country for a variety of reasons, and settled in other places around the globe, the diaspora that Guyanese became is now a focus of the Guyana Government. 

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Schoolboy pranks, over-inflated egos, a lack of team unity and unrealistic expectations filtered into the public domain yesterday as reasons for Australia’s poor showing in the Olympic swimming pool.

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

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to articles published in the Kaieteur News, Stabroek News and Guyana Chronicle on Wednesday September 12, 2012, in relation to the arrest of three men and the recovery of stolen articles following an operation mounted during investigations by the police into recent reports of piracy in the Pomeroon area.

Marjorie Rodrigues is a 50-year-old an Arawak woman born in the village of Santa Rosa at Moruka in Region One.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Nobody said it to his face but when All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel said last week India’s goal was to qualify for the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, his sunny optimism bordered on grim absurdity.

Dear Editor, The Alliance For Change is apparently in full damage control mode after being exposed on the nationally televised corruption debates.

A “financially sound” Roraima Airways is making significant investments aimed at expanding both its aviation and hospitality operations over the next two years, Group Chief Executive Officer, Captain Gerry Gouveia, told his staff at a special meeting held on Monday to announce a range of activities to mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of the company.

SANAA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Demonstrators attacked the US embassies in Yemen and Egypt yesterday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and the United States sent war ships towards Libya, where the US ambassador was killed in related violence this week.

Dear Editor, Is there anything in the training at Felix Austin or otherwise that suggests any group of Afrikans in the streets is a bunch of criminals?

(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”.

Jerry Bacchus is an unpretentious if decidedly focused businessman who prefers to swap the much overused title of entrepreneur for the less fashionable one of “flat foot hustler.”

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, once notorious for his bad boy antics, has a new goal: he’d like to dance and act in musicals.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Six Chinese patrol ships entered Japanese waters near disputed islands claimed by both Beijing and Tokyo today, said Japan’s Coast Guard, further heightening tensions in a long-running territorial dispute between Asia’s two biggest economies.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – French Open winner Maria Sharapova will join US Open champions Serena Williams and Andy Murray in warming up for next year’s Australian Open at the Brisbane International, organizers said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating a 16-year-old suspected hitman who was believed to have participated in at least 50 murders while working for a drug gang.

Douglas Deen is anticipating his company’s third consecutive appearance at GuyExpo at September month end.

Dear Editor, I wish to distance myself from the Kaieteur News article of September 11, 2012 ‘Moleson Creek School saga: what is the truth?’ 

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.

Notes 1 – Interim Results 2 – Prospective Dividends 3 – Shows year-end EPS but Interim Dividend EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

LONDON (Reuters) – World road race champion Mark Cavendish lost the overall lead of the Tour of Britain yesterday as Marc de Maar recovered from a crash near the end to win the fifth stage in Stoke.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles kicked a top aide off his campaign yesterday after vague corruption accusations by government leaders, potentially harming his bid to unseat socialist President Hugo Chavez.

LONDON (Reuters) – Engineers in Britain have developed an ultrasound scanner that costs under 40 pounds to make and could improve prenatal care in parts of the developing world where this technology is out of reach.

Every now and then I bore many who read this by listing some of my professional life’s significant disappointments.

Dear Editor, The West Indies will commence the 2012 20/20 World Cup event in Sri Lanka as the favourites in a major cricket tournament for the first time since 1979, when the Clive Lloyd-led team defended their 50 Overs World Cup title against England.

Power plays its most crucial role in this country not at Parliament, but within the Cabinet – that mysterious government forum where ministers and state officials choose programmes and policies.

A few months ago, it was announced that a sub-atomic particle called the Higgs Boson may have been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider atom smashing machine near Geneva.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Members of a Syrian opposition group will visit China next week, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday, weeks after an envoy of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s visited, as Beijing steps up diplomacy to help resolve the crisis gripping the country.

(Trinidad Express) Plans by National Security Minister Jack Warner to acquire shares in two local newspapers were “unfortunate” and undemocratic, says executive director of the Centre for Law and Democracy Toby Mendel.

(Trinidad Express) After close to ten hours of debate, the House of Representatives passed the amendment to the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act close to midnight on Wednesday which will see the removal of the controversial Section 34.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar can take her sister Vidwatie Newton on any overseas trip she wishes at State expense as the Integrity Commission has found there was no breach of the Public Life Act when the PM did so in the past.