Daily Archive: Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Workers of the Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) at Mabura downed tools today calling for improved electricity and water.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow accused the United States today of using its aid mission in Russiato meddle in politics and influence elections, a charge likely to push relations between the former Cold War foes to a new low after Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinafor the first time today implicated former senior politician Bo Xilai in a criminal act while avoiding naming him directly in a published account by state media of the trial of his one-time police chief.

(WICB) Colombo, Sri Lanka – The West Indies have assembled some of the leading power-hitters of the modern era in their 15-man squad for the ICC World T20 tournament.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The assault on the US consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a “terrorist attack” that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top US counterterrorism official told Congress today.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The first group of foreign workers for the Staatsolie Refinery Expansion Project (REP) are gradually arriving.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In the past ten years the police has not received any reports of drugs planes stranding in the Tibiti area.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname’s chargé d’affairs and acting Ambasador Chantal Doekhie did not attend Queen Beatrix’s speech yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s Customs Department is reporting a spike in the number of persons attempting to smuggle cocaine in the island.

(Jamaica Observer) Local financial stakeholders lobbying for the Government to take on a US tax compliance rule, which require them to release client information to American authorities, have gone regional.

LONDON, (Reuters) – In a study that prompted criticism from other experts, French scientists said today that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumours and multiple organ damage.

(Reuters) – India beat Afghanistan by 23 runs in their opening Group A match of the Twenty20 World Cup today.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Shane Watson’s allround brilliance powered Australia to an easy seven-wicket victory over Ireland in their opening Group B match of the Twenty20 World Cup today.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The mega gold investments to be made in Brokopondo and East Suriname will cause enormous shifts in the labor market.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France said it would temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday after a French magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, a move it fears will further inflame tensions over a film mocking the prophet.

(Trinidad Express) Thousands heeded the call of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley to march from Woodford Square to deliver a petition to President’s House yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) THERESE Baptiste-Cornelis, former Trinidad and Tobago Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, has reigned her position and indicated that she has no intention of returning to this country.

 – fought to keep bandit from harming her children A Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, woman was shot twice and gun butted after she tried to fight off an armed bandit who had invaded her home and attacked her around 11.30 pm on Monday.

An exporter of exotic animals is counting her losses, which she says run into the millions, after a freak storm on Monday afternoon severely damaged a part of her business office and the cages in which she houses the animals  causing quite a few of  them to escape.

The National Milling Company of Guyana Inc (Namilco) will institute a 6% across-the-board increase in the price of flour with effect from September 21 as a result of the increased price of grains including wheat.

Pain, rage and raw emotion boiled over yesterday during the funeral service for 17-year-old Shaquille Grant, who was shot and killed by members of the Guyana Police Force on September 11, 2012.

With Guyana’s fisheries under threat from overfishing, pollution, destructive fishing practices and climate change, the implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) is being advocated to ensure sustainable management of the resources.

An elderly driver ended up stuck on the Mackenzie-Wismar bridge yesterday afternoon, after he avoided a collision with a speeding car.

More than 250 persons representing several groups and organisations early Saturday morning cleared the seawall from the Kingston Bandstand to Camp Street of mounds of garbage in an activity organised by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment as part of the current Pick-it-Up Guyana programme.

The stage is set for the next phase of lender due diligence and documentation needed to reach project financial closure and begin construction of the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric facility, scheduled for the second quarter of 2013, now that the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) has been signed.

The body of Bartica boat captain Daniel Colinet, who fell overboard near the mining community after being struck by lightning on Monday afternoon, was found this morning, not far from where the incident occurred.

President Donald Ramotar urges the nation to cooperate with the census team as the data collected will inform policy-making, after the Census Bureau started its enumeration exercise at State House on Saturday morning.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Confident strike bowler, Fidel Edwards, says the West Indies will be firing from all cylinders in an effort to win their opening game against Australia in the ICC World T20 tournament when both teams meet on Saturday.

Sanjay Ramsood, the brother of the victim of last year’s $7.2 million Bel Air robbery, yesterday identified three of the men accused of the crime, saying he had followed them in a high-speed chase as they attempted a getaway.

Another cycling programme is set for Saturday around the inner circuit of the National Park.

The Scouts Association of Guyana, PAHO/WHO and the US Embassy all engaged in public awareness and clean-up exercises on Saturday as part of the Clean Up the World and Day2Shine environmental campaign focused on cultivating sound environmental practices.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Manchester United are relying on a better performance on the pitch to boost earnings after a barren season pushed the English Premier League club deeper into the red in its first results since flotation.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has extended felicitations to St Kitts and Nevis, Barbados and Jamaica for emerging the top three winners in the Third Caribbean Organisation of Tax Administration (COTA) Essay competition.

-lauds athlete for her hard work, dedication and determination The Hand-In-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company has come to the assistance of three-time

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Veerasammy Permaul and Carlos Brathwaite followed up the Sagicor High Performance Centre’s ruthless batting with purposeful bowling to cement their side’s upper hand over the Bangladesh Cricket Board Academy in their tour match  yesterday.

– after catching husband rubbing her face Tracy Garnett, who allegedly threw a woman’s glasses in a trench after she caught her husband with her, was yesterday arraigned on a simple larceny charge.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC-The striker who squandered a penalty that cost Guyana their world cup qualifier against El Salvador last week says he would not shy away from a chance to shoot from that spot again.

To commemorate slavery uprisings from 1823 to 1838, the year when slavery was finally abolished in Guyana, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday opened bids for the development of the site where a monument will be erected.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo may have been down in the dumps recently but he stepped up when Real Madrid needed him most to snatch an electrifying 3-2 comeback win at home to Manchester City in Champions League Group D yesterday.

The decomposing body of Dr Charles Validen, which was found in his Triumph, East Coast Demerara home last month, remains at the Lyken’s Funeral Home unclaimed.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison on the charge that he choked a woman and robbed her of her handbag.

KHULNA, Bangladesh, CMC – KHULNA, Bangladesh – The Sagicor HPC team is hoping to push for outright victory, weather permitting, when their four day match against the Bangladesh Cricket Academy enters its final day here today.

(BBC) Ireland bowling coach Craig McDermott believes the Irish have a “very good chance” of shocking his native Australia in  today’s opening ICC World Twenty20 Group B clash.

Residents of Patamona, Region Eight are mourning the passing of 106-year-old Madeline Simon.

Dear Editor, When the government argues that its decision to source pirated textbooks is driven by economics, although conscious that it is violating time-honoured principles, laws and rules of engagement among its Caricom partners, it is exhibiting behaviour that is not dissimilar from that of the pirates who prey on our fishermen.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Ajantha Mendis produced extraordinary bowling figures of six for eight to lead Sri Lanka to a crushing 82-run win over Zimbabwe in the opening Twenty20 World Cup match yesterday.

A 67-year-old housewife is missing after leaving home on Monday last and her family is worried that something dreadful may have happened since it is not like her to disappear without informing anyone.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England have left out controversial middle-order batsman Kevin Pietersen from the team to tour India next month despite recent talks between management and the player.

Dear Editor, It is with profound disgust that I read a letter written by Mr Rajendra Singh who describes himself as President of the Demerara Cricket Board (‘The government must allow the GCB to carry out its functions,’ SN, September 17).

A carpenter, who had fallen from an open back pick-up on the Jibb Public Road, Esse-quibo, on August 22, succumbed to his injuries on Monday at the Georgetown Hospital after being hospitalized for 26 days.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia has forced the United States to close its aid mission in Moscow, the US government said yesterday, in a blow to US efforts to improve ties and a step that may aid the Kremlin’s crackdown on pro-democracy groups.

Dear Editor, The press had chivalrously refrained from attacking President Ramotar for his having one Minister trying to run two important ministries – Housing and Industry, Tourism and Commerce.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee and all-rounder Rob Nicol will travel to Kandy to join up with the squad after staying back in Colombo due to illness, the side’s media manager Ellery Tappin said yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan pop group Los Amigos Invisibles says it is the latest victim of socialist President Hugo Chavez’s wave of expropriations.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Banned Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir have been signed by local television channels for special Twenty20 World Cup shows during the tournament which opened in Sri Lanka  yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Rebels have set up a de facto administration in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Tuesday as the Security Council urged a political solution to the crisis rather than applying sanctions.

Dear Editor, A little girl named Shaffiya Jamaluddin died, through no fault of her own, in a horrific vehicular accident which also took the life of Henry Greene. 

Dear Editor, Government is spending millions every year on the Bartica-Potaro road. 

BOGOTA (Reuters) – One of Colombia’s most wanted drug traffickers was captured in neighbouring Venezuela yesterday with the help of Caracas as well as British and US intelligence agencies, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Australia are finally coming to terms with the demands of Twenty20 cricket after failing to take the shortest form of the game seriously, World Cup captain George Bailey said yesterday.

Caribbean members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) scored a win at the just concluded World Conser-vation Congress in Jeju, South Korea after a motion aimed at making the IUCN’s work more relevant and visible in the Caribbean and involving more regional institutions in its work programme was passed.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Observer) — Accused porn-site mastermind Ronald Oates was offered a $500,000 bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s court yesterday He is to return to Court on October 16.

Dear Editor, Like Mr Carl Cheong I too have been following the exchange of letters between Vishnu Bisram and Wesley Kirton with respect to PNC electoral rigging and its illegality between 1968 and 1992. 

REYNOSA, Mexico (Reuters) – At least 26 people were killed and as many injured when a Pemex gas facility burst into flames in northern Mexico yesterday, one of the worst accidents to hit the state oil monopoly in recent years.

Assessing the damage yesterday

ST.JOHN’S , Antigua, Sep 18, CMC– Management consultant Michael Muirhead has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board, (WICB) the regional governing body for the sports announced on Tuesday.

Aging, along with and its moral and practical implications is so visible that most societies have had to establish norms to deal with it, but as Thomas R Cole, et al, observed in The Meaning of Aging and the Future of Social Security, “the ancient and medieval understandings of aging as a mysterious part of the eternal order of things gradually gave way to the secular, scientific, and individualist tendencies of modernity.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Observer) — Damian Marley, Konshens, Mr Vegas, Popcaan and Sean Paul have been nominated for a Music of Black Origin (MOBO) award in the Best Reggae Act category.

The Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) signed two multi-million-dollar contracts last Friday for the rehabilitation and upgrade of the Linden water distribution system, under the Guyana Government/IDB US$12.3 million Linden Water Supply and Rehabilitation Pro-gramme (LWSRP).

Dear Editor, Shortly after the debate on NCN about the President of Guyana‘s pension package and all other benefits that goes with same, I caused a letter to appear in the letter columns of our two major daily newspapers, the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News in which I mentioned that if would be very very interesting to have NCN with the same moderator and the same panellists, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall,  Minister of Labour Nanda Gopaul and Mr Carvil Duncan one of our senior trade unionists, debating the National Insurance Scheme and the old age pension paid to our senior citizens.

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) – A former police chief at the centre of China’s biggest political scandal in decades admitted attempting to defect to the United States, and did not contest charges of bribery and illegal surveillance at his trial today, a court official said.

Politikles

‘Layers’ ensure transparency of protect procurement process, Gov’t says Government, at the final NCN debate on corruption, defended the procurement process as transparent—even though there is no Public Procure-ment Commission (PPC) as required by the Constitu-tion—and said that there are several layers to ensure its transparency.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Prominent Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque and 29 others ended an eight-day hunger strike and declared victory yesterday when they said Cuban authorities would free a jailed opposition member whose release they had demanded.

By Jeffrey Frankel CAMBRIDGE – The political fallout from Mitt Romney’s characterization of 47% of the American electorate as “victims” who are “dependent on government” and refuse to take “personal responsibility” for their lives demonstrates anew that cultural generalizations, particularly in politics, are usually dangerous.

The murder of the United States Ambassador and three colleagues in Libya, followed by demonstrations in other countries of the Middle East, indicate that the cauldron is still boiling in that part of the world, as it certainly continues to do in Syria.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle said he is pleased with the overall performance of his team which defeated Afghanistan by eight wickets before its opening game of the ICC Twenty tournament in Sri Lanka this weekend.