Daily Archive: Thursday, October 4, 2012

(Trinidad Express) More babies are dying in Trinidad and Tobago despite this country’s economic progress and prosperity, according to statistics provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).

(WICB) Colombo, Sri Lanka – Chris Gayle says he is ready to perform his heroics on the “big stage” on Friday night when the West Indies clash with Australia in the semi-finals of the ICC World T20 tournament.

Police today issued bulletins for policemen Warren Blue and Jamal Lewis who have been charged with murder committed on Shaquille Grant at Agricola, on 2012-09-11.

(BBC) Sri Lanka’s bowlers stifled Pakistan to give the host nation a 16-run win and a place in the final of the World T20.

All the calls from a cellular phone assigned to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee that were made to a number assigned to E&F Division commander Clifton Hicken on July 18, the day of the Linden shootings were made after 9pm and not between 4pm and 7pm as was reported earlier.

(Jamaica Observer) Government is giving US$7 million (approx J$630 million) in revenues to the Russian-based aluminium producer UC Rusal, under a one-year waiver of the bauxite levy, Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell announced yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – After several difficult weeks, Republican Mitt Romney found his footing on Wednesday night in a strong debate performance against Democratic President Barack Obama.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Forty-five year-old Michael Nicholas and his son, 18-year-old Andre, are among three men who died last night when their trailer plunged into the Rio Cobre.

(Jamaica Observer) CASTRIES, St Lucia – Britain has raised the possibility of following Canada and imposing visa restrictions on St Lucians travelling to the United Kingdom.

(Barbados Nation) COLOMBO – An unwanted and unnecessary distraction has reared its head in the West Indies’ camp on the eve of their crucial semi-final match against Australia in the ICC World Twenty20.

(Trinidad Express) Finance Minister Larry Howai said yesterday that once negotiations with CLICO policyholders and shareholders are complete, the government will move to consider all its options to recoup the nearly TT$20 billion of taxpayers’ money it shelled out to save the failed insurance giant.

(Trinidad Express) Despite being granted bail by a Port of Spain magistrate on three criminal charges, Shane Aleong, the son of Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh, spent Tuesday night in prison after he was unable to secure the bail bond.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s government confirmed today that representatives from Colombia’s government and the FARC guerrillas will hold a joint news conference in Oslo on Oct.

(Trinidad Express) Three days after he presented it in Parliament, Finance Minister Larry Howai’s national budget continues to receive blows.

Three Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara men were yesterday morning crushed to death when the mining pit they were working in at Aranka, Cuyuni caved in.

-cops met by angry residents “Murderers! Murderers!” were the chants that greeted former E&F Division Commander Clifton Hicken and Assistant Superintendent Patrick Todd yesterday when they made their way towards the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge at Linden, where three residents were shot and killed on July 18.

-c-section had been recommended A Bagotville, West Bank Demerara mother is calling on the authorities to investigate the death of her 21-year old daughter after giving birth at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) yesterday.

-released on $500,000 bail A police officer was yesterday charged with raping a woman at the Enmore Police Outpost, on the East Coast Demerara (ECD).

A United States citizen was yesterday sentenced to a four-year prison term after he was found guilty of possession of heroin that was discovered in his suitcase at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) in 2009.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says the National Industrial and Com-mercial Investments Limited (NICIL) is not a public corporation as Government purports and therefore moveable and immoveable property cannot be vested in it.

-knows that daughter died Zaitoon Hoosein, 39, of Adelphi, East Canje has started to remember that she was involved in an accident with former Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene on September 7.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) now has a $72 Million HI-VAC Truck Mounted sewerage cleaner purchased by the Government of Guyana through the Inter-American Development Bank.

The day after the man accused of murdering two brothers was remanded to prison, the family has laid the bodies to rest and hopes that justice will be served.

-Powerlifter smashes world deadlift record en route to giving Guyana its  first World title By Emmerson Campbell Seventy-four kilogramme Master’s Two powerlifter, Winston ‘Little Master’ Stoby, Tuesday night smashed the world deadlift record en route to lifting Guyana’s first World powerlifting title at the World Master’s Championships in Killeen, Texas.

A mishap yesterday morning at the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) Kingston Power Station resulted in oil spilling into the Demerara River.

Autopsies performed on the bodies of Florry Papiah and Jennifer Pooran, the two women murdered at Adventure, Black Bush Polder, have given the cause of their deaths as shock and haemorrhage due to incised wounds.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC- Three British women were arrested after police broke-up a hotel room party involving four West Indies cricketers including Chris Gayle  yesterday, police and hotel sources have said.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, CMC-The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) has thrown its support behind the decision by leading St.Kitts

Murder accused Mahadeo Seewah yesterday pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter when his trial for killing Banand Persaud was called before Justice Diana Insanally in the High Court yesterday.

Two men have been arrested after they were caught with a motorcycle that was taken from a man who was attacked by a cutlass-wielding gang near Sophia, on Tuesday night.

Registration for the upcoming Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) annual five stage road race will close on Monday.

Residents of McDougal and Owen streets are enraged over what they say is shabby work being done by Courtney Benn Contracting Services (CBCS) on McDougal Street, Kitty.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago coach David Williams says his team will be a force to be reckoned with as it prepares to leave the Caribbean today for the Champions League Twenty/20 in South Africa which begins next week.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC- The West Indies cricket team is starting to climb again according to the latest Reliance ICC T20 rankings released  yesterday.

In wake of piracy furore… The government expects a decision soon from its ongoing engagement with publishers on whether original textbooks can be accessed at a cheaper price, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr.

One of the persons held in connection with the recent arms find in Lethem is expected to make a court appearance today even as the police continue to look for the main suspect.

Guyana’s Chelsea Edghill has teamed up with South Korean Kyojin Ku to  reach the final of the Canadian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Open girls’ team event in Markham, Ontario Canada.

-only six completed in June session The Director of Public Pro-secutions (DPP) office says 240 matters have been listed for the Demerara October 2012 Criminal Assizes which started on Tuesday, while six matters were completed in the June Assizes that closed on September 28.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Modern bats and the crash-bang format of 20-over cricket may suggest otherwise but Ajantha Mendis and fellow practitioners of unorthodox spin bowling have proved they are not in the World Twenty20 just to play cannon-fodder.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC- The leading women’s cricketer in the world, Stafanie Taylor, says the semi-final clash between West Indies and Australia  tomorrow will be one of the biggest days of her cricket career.

-Police Association urges members Members of the police force are being urged to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities, while avoiding any violations of the human rights of citizens.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez credited the team’s progress in the World Twenty20 to his slow bowlers on Wednesday and said he was banking on them to spin them to victory again in today’s semi-final against hosts Sri Lanka.

Seven companies are lining up to transform the defunct  Mon  Repos, East Coast Demerara-based Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory into a state-of-the-art facility as part of Guyana’s effort to tap into the lucrative overseas livestock market .

A fine all round team effort from Cotton Tree Die Hard enabled them to score a hard fought 45 run win over Hopetown United in the final of the inaugural Berbice Cricket Board/Hand-in-Hand Insurance Company, limited overs competition Sunday at the Bush Lot cricket ground.

As Children’s rights continue to rise to the forefront of public policy consideration, the Rights of the Child Commission (ROCC) on Monday launched its Strategic Five Year Plan (2012-2016).

Teams will begin arriving at the weekend ahead of the West Indies Fullbore Rifle Shooting championships billed to fire off next Tuesday at the Timehri Rifle Ranges.

A former employee, who was accused of stealing almost $200,000 from the Survival Supermarket, yesterday changed her plea to guilty.

-contract  signing today The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, will today at 3pm sign a contract to add a Resource Centre to the National Racquet Centre on Woolford Avenue.

Truck driver Iran Narine was yesterday granted $100,000 bail after he denied fraudulently converting the proceeds of pipes he was asked to sell to his own use.

By Iva Wharton Motor racers in Guyana will be counting on home court advantage to keep the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship title here.

Dear  Editor, There is one secondary school in the Mabaruma Sub-region which caters mainly for the successful Grade Six Assessment pupils. 

Defending champion Mike Mangal will be among a large field expected to compete in this weekend’s United Insurance Medal Play Golf tournament at the Lusignan golf Course, East Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, During the decade of the 1950s I happened to work in three different locations.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A cloud of uncertainty which was hanging over the 600 jobs at the Ewarton bauxite plant in St Catherine was lifted on Tuesday with the announcement that the Russian-based aluminium producer, UC Rusal, will be investing US$100 million (J$9 billion) in the facility.

-says vice president Kwabina Griffith; says entire executive should resign By Iva Wharton Vice-President of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Kwabina Griffith said yesterday that the association was beset with internal wrangling and that the entire executive should resign if it is unable to find a solution to its problems.

(Trinidad Guardian) Speaking at an event of the T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce yesterday, Neal and Massy Holdings president and Group chief executive officer Gervase Warner said at the chamber’s post-budget panel discussion, “I think the worse agency to run anything in T&T is the government.”

Dear Editor, One wonders what it will take for Guyanese to take a stand on all the things that are destroying the physical and mental well-being of us citizens.

Twenty four under-19 footballers have been invited to participate in a two days of trial matches with a view to representing Guyana at this year’s Inter Guiana games.

DENVER,  (Reuters) – An aggressive Mitt Romney took the fight to President Barack Obama yesterday and the Republican candidate appeared to breathe new life into his struggling campaign with a solid performance at their first debate.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Labor Inspectorate’s Medical Bureau will cooperate with gold purchasing companies to reduce the levels of mercury vapour in Paramaribo.

Kadecia Baird is Guyanese. She is also the second fastest 400m female junior competitor in the World this year and her silver medal performance at the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF)  World Junior Championships in Barcelona Spain in July was where she made her talent known to the world.

Dear Editor, I was leased Lot 50, a seven-and-a-half acre of land in Hosororo in the Mabaruma sub-region  about thirty years ago.

AKCAKALE, Turkey, (Reuters) – Turkish artillery hit targets inside Syria sday after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory killed five Turkish civilians, while NATO called for an immediate end to Syria’s “aggressive acts”.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has called on the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry to join it in condemning members of the business community who habitually induce GRA staff to take bribes.

Installment One Hundred Forty Q: What is the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program?

Dear Editor, In a recent conversation with a couple of old colleagues from my younger days I was struck by the depth of their love for this country. 

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – By the time the Tapajai hydro energy project is completed the energy demand in Suriname will be much higher, experts tell de Ware Tijd.

Miners pulling one of their colleagues from the mining pit that caved in yesterday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Coach of the High Performance Centre team, Graeme West, says his players will have to raise their standard of play another notch when they take on Bangladesh A in a two match Twenty/20 series.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – U.S. scientists have sequenced the entire genetic code of four gravely ill newborns and identified genetic diseases in three of them in two days, quick enough to help doctors make treatment decisions.

(Barbados Nation)  Not good enough! That was the unofficial word from several REDjet creditors to the airline’s proposal to repay a minimum of 25 per cent of money owed them, but it will be another few days before an official verdict from Tuesday’s voting on the offer is submitted to the court.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the tomb of an ancient Mayan warrior queen packed with jade jewels and other artifacts that shed light on the long-vanished civilization, experts said yesterday.

How corrupt is the soul of our nation? When our leaders resort to the unethical behaviour of buying pirated textbooks for our school children to be educated, we know our nation’s soul lies in a moral mess.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Controversial middle-order batsman Kevin Pietersen can return to the England fold after making peace with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in a row over “provocative” text messages, officials said  yesterday.

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Dear Editor, I was there and I witnessed it all. I was impressed too.

Todd and Hicken return to Linden: Assistant Superintendent Patrick Todd (first from left) and former E&F Division Commander Clifton Hicken (second from left) in the company of other ranks as they walked towards the crowd yesterday to meet the commissioners.