Daily Archive: Monday, September 24, 2012

(Trinidad Express) While the mortality rate with respect to HIV and Aids in Tobago is on the decline, the infection rate continues to make steady strides and is a developing trend.

(Trinidad Express) Teenager Marcus Akiel Peters was abducted and stabbed to death as he attempted to walk away from an argument at a pool party yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations appointed Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan a goodwill ambassador today, with a mission to help stop new HIV infections in children and promote increased access to anti-retroviral treatment.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown has tested positive for marijuana, leading a Los Angeles judge today to set a November hearing to decide whether he violated his probation stemming from a 2009 assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna.

COLOMBO (Reuters) – West Indies qualified for the Twenty20 World Cup super eight stage without winning a game after their final Group B match against Ireland was abandoned because of rain today.

A second person has been arrested, police said today, even as the results of post-mortem examinations revealed that the mother and her two children, who were found brutally murdered on Saturday evening in their Anna Catherina home, died of haemorrhagic shock due to the wounds they received.

A 60-year-old man was shot to his shoulder by bandits this morning as he was about to enter his Mandela Avenue premises.

A 24-year-old United States national was early yesterday morning arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport after four kilogrammes of cocaine were found concealed in the false walls of his checked in luggage.

(Reuters) – Apple Inc sold out of its latest smartphone, with more than 5 million iPhone 5s sold in the three days since it hit stores, the company said today.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – Police in St Maarten have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of an American couple in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St Maarten, officials said today.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Four Chinese ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East ChinaSea today, prompting an official protest from Tokyo and renewed diplomatic efforts to cool tensions between the rivals.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Observer) – The St James police have taken one man into custody for questioning in connection with a fatal stabbing on the weekend of an Austrian national who was staying in Greenwood, St James.

A 41-year-old businesswoman and her two young sons were murdered some time between Friday night and Saturday morning and their bodies were found at her Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara home on Saturday evening.

Residents of the Bougain-villea Housing Scheme, on the East Bank of Demerara, are concerned about the impact of the ongoing four-lane public road expansion on their community, saying they are already enduring drainage problems as a result of the project.

A huge new housing scheme which will comprise 600 lots is under construction at Five Miles Bartica.

An eroding road is threatening the safety of at least two households as well as motorists traversing Phase Three of the Wisroc Housing Scheme, at Wismar, Linden, but the Region Ten administration does not have the funds to address the problem given its scale.

A man died after being hit by a truck last night on the Railway Embankment Road at Chateau Margot.

The Support Group for Deaf Persons is hosting a week of awareness exercises including a sign language workshop this week.

Guyana’s pair of 19-year-old sprint sensations Stephan James and Chavez Ageday each secured a bronze in their first events of the CAIXA South American Under 23 Championships which began on Friday evening in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Guyana Power and Light CEO Bharrat Dindyal says work on seven substations is moving apace and the company hopes to commission those on the West Bank Demerara next month as it implements its massive US$42M infrastructural improvement programme.

– Overseas riders for next year’s event By Emmerson Campbell National cyclist Alonzo Greaves yesterday blitzed a star-studded field of riders to win the senior category of the Victor Macedo Memorial road race while this year’s Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships gold medalist, Michael Anthony, rode off with the junior title.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – As a strike in Dhaka led to the suspension of the second day’s play of the four-day match between Bangladesh A and West Indies Sagicor High Performance Centre yesterday, Sheldon Cotterrell said he was proud of the way he toiled with the ball to help give his team an early advantage on the opening day.

The quick-thinking driver of a truck managed to avert a more serious accident following a collision with a car by driving his vehicle into a fence yesterday morning.

—Alika Morgan beaten by Euleen Josiah-Tanner Guyana’s distance champion Cleveland Forde won his second straight 10K road race for the 2012 offseason after crossing the finish line of the Courts 10k and Walk Race in front of the furniture store’s head office on Main Street in first place yesterday.

Dear Editor, I was invited to make a keynote address to the UG Students for Social Change on the topic ‘Legislating as a means of Effecting Policy Changes.’

Little has changed in Plastic City. Children run and jump on their creaky verandahs or on the narrow walkway that is the only dry spot in this squatter settlement by the seaside on the West Demerara.

By Iva Wharton Top chess player Anthony Drayton won the Topco Juice-sponsored Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) junior chess qualifiers when that competition ended yesterday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club building Hadfield Street.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News published the most bizarre headline in the newspaper of September 22, 2012. 

Guyana will this week receive its first batch of security supervisors and managers trained to international standards, as 14 participants complete the Certificate in industrial Security Management (CISM) at the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, All across the world persons with disabilities are the poorest in the society.

Reigning Hugh Ross Classic (HRC) bantamweight champion, Devon Davis, Saturday  posed and flexed his way to a gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships..

PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – Mohammed Hafeez led by example and Saeed Ajmal bamboozled the batsmen as 2009 champions Pakistan beat New Zealand by 13 runs in their Group D opener of the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday.

Dear Editor, On September 6, an employee from Toolsie Persaud‘s bond on Lombard Street came to my gate and told me about a dog lying next to a gutter for several days.

BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea plans to allow farmers to keep more of their produce in an attempt to boost agricultural output, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said, in a move that could boost supplies, help cap rising food prices and ease malnutrition.

Dear Editor, I am very perturbed about the management of the City of Georgetown and wonder when it will return to the state of being the Garden City.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy has conceded that his team must improve on their bowling in the decisive ICC World Twenty20 Group B tournament match against Ireland here today.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton harbors ambitions to run for president, she is keeping them under tight wraps.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Indian spinners Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla ripped through the England batting to lead their side to a crushing 90-run win in a one-sided Twenty20 World Cup Group A match yesterday.

Dear Editor, Objective investigation requires the finding of facts as the first approach to understanding the issues that matter in any set of circumstances.

By Chelsea Fung Chelsea Fung recently completed her BA degree in Environmental Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

President Donald Ramotar last week blamed the opposition for the prolonged delay in establishing the constitutionally mandated Public Procurement Commis-sion (PPC) but he remained cautiously optimistic that the two sides would reach agreement.

Dave Mohamed, Secretary of the Lusignan Golf Club won the Courts Guyana Inc.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it, a senior commander of its elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying yesterday.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to Mr Brynmor Pollard’s letter in SN of September 23 urging government to abolish corporal punishment.

Dear Editor, Guyana does not  have diplomatic ties with significant African countries.

Part I Introduction I briefly watched the NCN debate on corruption as it relates to NICIL, and I cannot help but form the impression, as in the case of the earlier debates, that the government is trying its best to present to the nation its version to counter the various allegations of corruption.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – In Venezuela’s biggest slum, a graffiti artist stencils a painting of President Hugo Chavez dunking a basketball.

Given the government’s stance on pirated textbooks as revealed by Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon, we asked the man and woman in the street for their views on the issue.

Without a doubt, the following rhetorical question by the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Luncheon at a press conference on September 12 will go down in the record of this government as the clearest self-admission of the criminalization of the state.

Amerindian children from different parts of Guyana painted a mural on the concrete base of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs fence on Saturday.

LONDON (Reuters) – A new virus belonging to the same family as the SARS virus that killed 800 people in 2002 has been identified in Britain in a man who had recently been in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

Politikles

(Trinidad Express) The man who will always be known as the Calypso King of the World, the Mighty Sparrow, received a standing ovation when he came on to the stage at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA), in Port of Spain on Saturday evening.

(Trinidad Express) A PRIMARY schoolteacher was fatally stabbed on Saturday night, following an argument with four men over a “bad drive”.