Daily Archive: Sunday, October 7, 2012

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez won re-election on Sunday, quashing the opposition’s best chance at unseating him in 14 years and cementing himself as a dominant figure in modern Latin American history.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene stepped down as Sri Lanka’s 20-over captain after failing to lead his team to their maiden World Twenty20 title today.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Leading West Indies to their first World Cup title since 1979 gave Darren Sammy a chance to hit back at his critics but the all-rounder preferred to forgive them and talk about a possible resurgence of cricket’s former superpower instead.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Marlon Samuels turned up with more than just his best form in today’s World Twenty20 final against Sri Lanka.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Antiguan police have confirmed that two people are dead following the crash of a Fly Montserrat plane at the V.C.

(WICB) Colombo, Sri Lanka – Darren Sammy led the West Indies to an amazing capture of the ICC World T20 championship on Sunday as they outplayed Sri Lanka at the R Premadasa Stadium.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Barbadian pop singer Rihanna climbed to the top of the British charts yesterday with her new single “Diamonds”, ousting South Korean pop star Psy and his internet video sensation “Gangnam Style” from the number one spot.

(ICC) Australia all-rounder Shane Watson was today named as the player of the tournament at the conclusion of the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 at R.Premadasa

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities stopped a protest over U.S. drone strikes led by cricketer turned politician Imran Khan from entering the troubled region of South Waziristan today, prompting allegations the government was ambivalent about U.S.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Marlon Samuels played one of the most memorable knocks in 20-over format as West Indies hoisted the World Twenty20 trophy for the first time after hosts Sri Lanka choked in the final today.

(ICC) Reigning champion Australia defeated 2009 winner England in the final of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 at R.Premadasa

At about 0930h yesterday, police ranks conducted a search on a building at Junior Ross, Cuyuni River, where they found an unlicensed .380 semi automatic pistol with two matching rounds, 101 rounds 9mm.

Police say that at about 2300h last night, four men armed with two firearms and two knives broke through the door and entered the home of Samnarine Samaroo, 47 years, and his wife Tangama Madramootoo, 52 years, at Nigg Squatting Area, Corentyne.

(Jamaica Observer) Under the Sexual Offences (Registration of Sex Offenders) Regulations (2012) proposals, tabled in the Senate on Friday, all information on sex offenders will be kept secret and confidential.

(Jamaica Observer) Yet another Jamaican woman has claimed that authorities in the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados subjected her to degrading treatment so they could search her body cavities for illegal drugs.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet’s creditors have agreed to accept at least 25 cents of every dollar which the insolvent airline owes them.

SUZUKA, Japan,  (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix today and blew the Formula One championship wide open with five races remaining after Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso spun out at the start.

– groups condemn police action, family calls for justice By Mandy Thompson The three policemen who were on the mobile patrol from which shots were fired on a car during a chase, hitting bystander Dameon Belgrave and killing him, have been placed under close arrest as investigations continue, a police press release said yesterday.

Story and photos by David Pappanah Sitting on the banks of the Corentyne River, approximately 54 miles from Crabwood Creek is one of two Amerindian villages – Orealla.

-victims’ family Two weeks after a mother and her two young children were found murdered in their home at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, their family remains unhappy with the pace of the police investigation, especially the release of suspects despite seemingly strong evidence.

-Rohee admits call, denies cover up The testimony of Senior Superintendent Clifton Hicken, the former divisional commander responsible for Linden, has come under further scrutiny after phone records produced to the Linden Commission of Inquiry (COI) last week showed that he was in contact with Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on the day the three Lindeners were fatally shot despite his denials that he had no contact with Rohee.

– on course to surpass production target The Skeldon sugar factory is likely to surpass its target of 34,000 tonnes of sugar this year, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said yesterday.

Months after bombshell revelations were made about scanty allocations from the $90 million given to the Guyana Police Force for elections-related duties, the findings of an audit into the use of the money is yet to be released, while the opposition pledges to continue to press for answers.

For Norris Cummings, who was born with cerebral palsy and is without control of his upper limbs, life has been about adaptation.

Approximately $10 million in cash and materials were yesterday handed over for the reconstruction of the One Mile Primary School, which was destroyed in an arson attack in August.

-urges team to lift game for final COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy says despite the convincing nature of his side’s semi-final victory, they will have to improve even further if they are to beat Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20 final here today.

Yolanda Cordis, the only survivor in the Drysdale Street, Charlestown fire that claimed four lives including her two children last Saturday, is still in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Hospital,her relatives said yesterday.

The drivers of large and heavy-duty vehicles continue to use the roadways of Linden in reckless and dangerous ways, participants at a special workshop held to address the situation were told yesterday.

The West Indies’ thumping victory over Australia in Friday’s World T20 semi-final was as near to flawless as it gets in Twenty20 cricket.

Police shot and injured a prisoner yesterday morning after he escaped from the Georgetown Public Hospital where he had been admitted as a patient.

By Emmerson Campbell Michael Anthony, gold medalist at this year’s Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships proved yesterday at the National Park that he can also win against the local seniors.

In two of the main centres of democracy, America and Europe, democracy is rapidly failing.

The baby girl born to Tushana Cameron, the 21-year-old who bled to death after delivering at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) on Wednesday, has been discharged and is home with her maternal grandmother.

Guyana has named a strong 13-man squad for this week’s West Indies Fullbore shooting championships which open Tuesday at the Timehri rifle ranges.

The first presidential debate The Democratic camp is still in a state in shock.

Introduction The Luncheonese in the heading is deliberate. Business Page of May 10 2009 wrote that the NIS faced real and disastrous consequences from Cabinet’s failure to act on the recommendations contained in the 2001 and 2006 Actuarial Reviews of the NIS.

—ahead of Saturday’s Foreign Invasion card By Emmerson Campbell Former world-rated super bantamweight boxer, Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore and national featherweight champion, Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell staged a public workout yesterday at the Kitty bus park to promote next Saturday’s six-fight boxing card dubbed ‘Foreign Invasion’.

About two years ago Alison Davis and her sister observed young children clamouring for an opportunity to bounce on a trampoline set up on the Merriman’s Mall during Mashramni celebrations, and an idea was born.

Introduction In last week’s column I presented a graph, which illustrated both the downward trend and the wide variations in sugar production for Guyana over the last half-century or so.

The first of three trial matches to name the squad to contest the 2012 Inter Guiana Games took place yesterday morning at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue.

The postponed final of the Universal DVD and Universal Solutions seventh anniversary T20 championship is set for today at the Cumberland ground, Canje, East Berbice between the Universal DVD Titans and Universal Solutions Tigers.

Female police officer hostile A frustrated North Sophia woman says she can no longer take a male neighbour verbally abusing her teenage daughters in the vilest manner, and while she has turned to the Guyana Police Force for assistance there still seems to be no end in sight.

I’m a bit of a romantic – some would even say quite a bit – so I’ve always been fascinated by the approaches men take as they set about, as we used to say in Guyana, to “trap a binny”.

Harris Paints is celebrating its 40th anniversary this Christmas and is offering every customer who buys a gallon of paint the chance to win a number of prizes including two US$4,000 luxury cruise vacations.

The PNCR yesterday called on the government to formally memorialise those who died in the 1976 Cubana Air Disaster by erecting a permanent monument to them.

GCC looking to maintain dominance over DCC By Neil Barry Jr.,

Wheel And Come Again – An Anthology of Reggae Poetry was published by Peepal Tree Press in the UK in 1998 and edited by Kwame Dawes. 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli air force shot down a drone after it crossed into southern Israel yesterday, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from.

Dear Editor, (a)     I refer to my letter on the issue of the abolition of corporal punishment in schools under the control and management of the State published in your issue of September 23, 2012 in which I declared that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child does not affect the rights of parents and guardians to resort to corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure in the home.

Ansa McAl Trading Limited is hosting two music workshops for past participants of the Carib Soca Monarch competition, as it continues to implement programmes in honour of its 20th anniversary.

Improving Public Accountability: The Guyana Experience 1985-2007 by Anand Goolsarran is an expert, in-depth analysis and discussion of many of the roiling governance issues that have existed for the last several decades, and which continue to bedevil local society. 

The Demerara Volleyball Association in collaboration with the female U-19 national team will today stage a volleyball extravaganza at the Ministry of Education sports ground (formerly GNS ground) from 11am.

Dear Editor, We refer to your article dated Thursday October 4, 2012 with bold headlines stating that “residents slam construction firm over `shabby’ McDougal Street work.”

NEW YORK (Reuters) – One-eyed radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri made his first appearance in federal court in New York yesterday after Britain extradited him to the United States to face trial and a potential life sentence on terrorism charges.

This year’s annual national schools table tennis championships will be held from October 19-21 according to a press release from the Guyana Table tennis Association following the granting of the sponsorship by telecommunications giant Digicel Guyana Limited.

The smallest of the Anteaters, Cyclopes didactylus or Silky Anteater inhabits primary rain forests with continuous canopy; it lives in tall trees under the leaves to avoid detection.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama’s campaign and its Democratic allies raised $181 million in September for his re-election effort, the largest total that either side has announced yet in the 2012 campaign.

Narcotics trafficking through the Caribbean, and the associated criminality that accompanies it may be about to get worse.

Bishop’s High School and Queen’s College ran out zone winners when the Field events of zones one and two of the North Georgetown (District #11) Inter School Championships continued on Wednesday at the YMCA Ground, Thomas Lands.

Dear Editor, It is good to see the Foreign Minister and Director General are undertaking a long overdue Spring clean of Guyana’s Missions abroad.

Dear Editor, A two-page story entitled `Single mother works three jobs to maintain her five children’ published in the Sunday Stabroek of September  30, 2012   celebrates 39-year-old Vanessa Simon.

Anything is possible in Venezuela’s elections today, but there is a good chance that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski will do better than any of his predecessors in the polls, and that — win or lose — he will put President Hugo Chávez’s 14-year-old regime against the ropes.

National chess champion Taffin Khan heads a three member Guyana team which is participating in the third annual Umada Cup tournament in Suriname a release from the Guyana Chess Federation has stated.

BAYAMO, Cuba (Reuters) – Cuban authorities released prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez late on Friday after detaining her on the eve of a Spanish activist’s high-profile manslaughter trial in the eastern city of Bayamo.

By Iva Wharton All’s well that end’s well. The Georgetown Football Association is moving forwards after dealing satisfactorily with the internal issues affecting the body.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen people were injured yesterday when a bus travelling from Toronto to Brooklyn, New York, overturned while approaching an exit ramp on a New Jersey highway, according to New Jersey state police.

Continued Unwilling breeders On several occasions, owners would confront vets with the lament that, irrespective of their efforts and following the rules, their dogs won’t mate.

LIMA (Reuters) – Defence ministers from Peru and the United States agreed yesterday to update their 60-year-old defence cooperation agreement as a step toward deepening military ties between the two countries.

Dear Editor, Education in this country has no clear cut direction or goals.

With the recent housing drive on and many citizens owning their own home, there is the desire to beautify surroundings.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was released from a hospital yesterday and said he was “totally cured” after successful surgery for prostate cancer that had not spread beyond the gland.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday 26th September, I saw a young man ride past me with a knife in his waist in Zeelugt.

(Reuters) – Human rights group Amnesty International urged pop stars Rihanna and Shakira on Friday to open their eyes to recent arrests of journalists, bloggers and activists in Azerbaijan, before their performances in the former Soviet republic this month.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene played down the Chris Gayle factor in today’s World Twenty20 final saying the West Indies team was not just about the swashbuckling opener from Jamaica.

By the time today’s edition of Sunday Stabroek lands on the breakfast table, thousands of Venezuelans will be queueing up to cast their votes in what is by far the most important poll in this hemisphere, bar the US election next month.