Daily Archive: Sunday, November 4, 2012

(Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today federal agencies are looking for apartments and hotel rooms for people displaced by superstorm Sandy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Investigators from the St Catherine Major Investigation Task Force are probing the murder of two women in the parish.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister of Belize Dean Barrow is scheduled to meet with financial advisors in the United States this week to discuss the restructuring of the country’s multi-million dollar foreign debt.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York nanny suspected of slaying two young children of a Manhattan couple last month in their luxury apartment was arrested on Saturday and charged with murder in their stabbing deaths, New York’s deputy police commissioner said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Text messages sent by the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers to Prime Minister David Cameron, published today, have further revealed their close personal relationship.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan test and one-day captain Misbah-ul-Haq has backed an International Cricket Council (ICC) move to introduce day-night tests but suggested initial trials with the coloured ball in first class cricket.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,  (Reuters) – Puerto Ricans, long divided over the U.S.

KANDY, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 14 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method today to finally achieve a positive result on a rain-scarred tour.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A housing crisis loomed in New York City as victims of superstorm Sandy struggled today against near-freezing temperatures and officials fretted that displaced voters would not be able to cast ballots in Tuesday’s presidential election.

At about 0830h today, acting on information received, police ranks went to First Dam, Garden of Eden, EBD, where they found a .38 Taurus Special Revolver along with 1,407 rounds of ammunition of various calibre, two bullet proof vests, two pairs black leather boots, three face masks, and a quantity of clothing in two black suitcases and a travelling bag on the dam.

The police say they are investigating the murder of labourer Herman La Cruz, 49 years, of Port Kaituma, NWD, which occurred at about 1900h on November 01, 2012, at Aranka Backdam.

ABU DHABI,  (Reuters) – Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen won an accident-strewn and thrilling Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix for Lotus today.

(Jamaica Observer) Last week’s beating by security guards of a student accused of engaging in homosexual acts in a University of Technology (UTech) bathroom, captured on video and widely circulated, brought into sharp focus a 2012 study that suggested that Jamaicans are becoming increasingly more tolerant of homosexuals.

(Barbados Nation) CLICO policyholders will lose out on more than half of their investment under the plan recently proposed by judicial manager Deloitte Consulting Limited.

(Trinidad Express) The question has been repeatedly put to the Government that early proclamation of Section 34 was part of a conspiracy to allow certain men to walk free and it has been repeatedly denied by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and the rest of the People’s Partnership Government.

(Trinidad Express) “Don’t shoot the messenger.” That’s the defence which Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) secretary general Sat Maharaj offered up for National Security Minister Jack Warner yesterday.

(Trinidad Express)  Political leader of the Congress of the People (COP) and Minister of Legal Affairs Prakash Ramadhar is distancing his party from racial comments made by National Security Minister Jack Warner on Friday.

Police say that they are looking for two persons in connection with last month’s brutal murder of two Kato based ranks even as relatives are accusing the Force of keeping them in the dark and of being unsympathetic.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah Islington, the first village on the East Bank of Berbice located next to New Amsterdam was described by residents as the “forgotten village” or a “depressed community.”

An Anchorville, Port Mourant woman was shot on Friday night when a robber fired a shotgun from the verandah of a neighbouring house during a robbery.

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Carl Greenidge has said that addressing the appointments made to the Audit Office, including that of the wife of the Minister of Finance, remains on its agenda.

Child labour in the Puruni Backdam A little boy is down in a mining pit working feverishly among adult men who are puffing their cigarettes and chatting among themselves, their conversations punctuated with profanities.

The Guyana Police Force is still awaiting all the results of an eTrace submission made in relation a cache of arms which was discovered in Lethem, Police Commissioner (ag) Leroy Brumell said.

Defending champion Papo Haniff  of Trinidad and Tobago and three-time winner Guyanese Avinash Persaud share the lead while reigning queen Christine Sukhram of Guyana trails at the end of the first day action at the XM Rums sponsored Guyana Open Golf championships yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Club.

– Junior cyclists win team time trial; dominate road race By Emmerson Campbell After out riding the Surinamese earlier in the day in the team time trials in the National Park, the local junior riders later took their talents to the open road and dominated their counterparts to retain their Inter Guiana Games (IGG) cycling title.

Osborne killing The four men whom police held for questioning into the murder of Marlon ‘Trini’ Osborne have been released and police say they are currently searching for another three persons for questioning.

– Says PM Hinds at opening of Goodwill Games By Iva Wharton The governments of Guyana and Suriname are in the process of forging stronger ties, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said yesterday.

-defiant Timehri North residents ahead of meeting on relocation ‘They tell us that they would give us title to this land and now they want us to move out’ – Rita Sam, 62, who said she has been living in Timehri North ‘since Burnham time.’

‘We are not head and shoulders above the other Caribbean teams’ By Emmerson Campbell After topping Group Two in the first round of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Cup, Guyana’s Golden Jaguars will look to roar to victory against second round foes, French Guiana, host Grenada and Haiti when Group Six action kicks off on November 14.

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ron Webster said that Minister Irfaan Ali in his capacity as Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce invited the heads of private sector bodies to a meeting to discuss their submissions to the 2013 national budget.

It was too important to be left to chance so future hotelier Daniel Gajie did what any pragmatic businessman would do and sought an alternative.

By Tony Cozier   Kemar Roach’s torn right knee tendon is, as Ottis Gibson put it, “a blow” to the West Indies team on the eve of the imminent series of two Tests in Bangladesh.

Suriname accident Relatives of the three persons who were killed Friday in an accident in Suriname, were yesterday preparing to have the bodies brought home.

New information suggests that negligence may have played a role in 43-year-old Vishal Ramotar jumping to his death from a window of the second-flat Male Medical ward of the West Demerara Regional Hospital to the concrete ground below, because his psychological issues went unrecognized.

‘Governor Trinidad confidentially warns [me] concerning F.E. Hercules negro race agitator in transit Georgetown in New York steamer Maraval, expected to arrive December 25, He was not allowed to land Trinidad.

-Teixeira Presidential advisor on governance Gail Teixeira says government prefers a consensus approach in finalising the nominees for the long-delayed Public Procurement Commission (PPC) before the process goes to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

-having massive blowing sale on sneakers to facilitate basketball players GiftlandOfficemax has once again demonstrated its commitment towards the development of sports in Guyana by helping to sponsor the Phillip George Legacy basketball tournament which will be held on the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court from November 16 to December 16.

The Black Spider Monkey (Ateles paniscus) is also known as the Red Faced Monkey.

Investigation ongoing – Misir Chairman of the Board of NCN, Prem Misir says that a probe into financial irregularities at the state broadcaster is “ongoing” an assertion called into question by AFC leader, Khemraj Ramjattan who says that no investigation is continuing.

GDF sanctioning of two female soldiers Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon’s suggestion that the sanctioning of two female soldiers presents an opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons to press their case for decriminalisation is an abdication of the government’s responsibility to protect all of its citizens from discrimination, according to rights group SASOD.

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company was on Friday lauded by the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) for its support of motor racing ahead of this week-end’s final round of the Caribbean Motor racing Championships at the South Dakota Circuit.

Guyana’s Randolph Morgan has captured an individual gold medal at the World Power lifting Championships in Puerto Rico.

Chartered accounting firm Ram & McRae has completed its audit into the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) credit union and has handed over its report, Chief Cooperatives Development Officer Kareem Abdul Jabar confirmed.

‘I feel down but I wasn’t surprised’ The South American Youth (Under 17) Championships which were held in Argentina  last weekend but and the agony of not being able to participate in that event still pains 15-year old sprint ace Tevin Garraway.

Top lawn tennis player Leyland Leacock inflicted a double bagel defeat on Seanden David-Longe when the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel Open tournament commenced Friday night at the hotel’s courts.

Many of us grew up in a Caribbean where the frequent message, ranging from gently implied to pungently expressed, was that we were a second-rate people.

Introduction Last Thursday, President Donald Ramotar swore in Mr Deodat Sharma as the country’s Auditor General. 

Introduction Guyanese are rightfully concerned that all major industries in the economy are performing well.

Toolsie Persaud Limited extends deepest sympathy to family Former Toolsie Persaud Limited tapeball cricketer Robert Boodram played his last innings on November 1 in Toronto, Canada after a brief period of illness.

– cost ₤£10,000 An enquiry under the UK’s Freedom of Information Act produced the response that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) had expended ₤10,000 on restuffing a Guyanese anaconda named Albert, which normally hangs suspended from the ceiling in the FCO’s library, according to the BBC website on Thursday.

We have on a number of occasions analysed the state of dance in Guyana, the factors contributing to the way it has developed over the past 35 years, the pre-Independence traditions, the element of formal training, and the notable rise of schools, companies and dance theatre productions.

If, after the successful completion of the physical sex act (called the ‘tie‘ in dogs), the bitch fails to conceive, you may be faced with an infertility problem – in either the male or the female, or both. 

Judging from what President Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Axelrod told me in an interview this week, early voting figures show that Latinos nationwide are turning out in larger numbers than in 2008, which is great news for Obama’s reelection bid.

A week ago, before Hurricane Sandy rampaged across the Caribbean, up the US  east coast and through New York, a wide variety of opinion polls showed a virtual dead heat in the US presidential race; or at least a result that was too close to call.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Wily off-spinner Sunil Narine has been labelled as a “fast learner” and a “match-winner”, and is expected to be one of West Indies’ trump cards on the Bangladesh tour this month.

Dear Editor, After twenty years of PPP/C rule, the residents of the Upper Corentyne still cannot enjoy a reliable supply of electricity from GPL.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – As a new member in Caricom, Suriname must try its best to breathe new life into Caribbean partnerships.

(Jamaica Observer) Two of the guards on duty during Thursday’s beating of an alleged gay student at the University of Technology (UTech) were fired the following day.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Captain Darren Sammy has cautioned against complacency as West Indies prepare to face Bangladesh in a Test and one-day series they are expected to win easily.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s President and his Prime Minister led the PPP/C pack that accused the Alliance for Change (AFC), more particularly Chairman Nigel Hughes and I, with planning and organizing the unrest and violence in Agricola on Thursday, October 11, 2012.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Stuart Meaker has been drafted into England’s squad as cover for the injured Steven Finn, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said  yesterday.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s championship leader Sebastian Vettel will start  today’s Abu Dhabi Grand prix from the pit lane as punishment for a fuel irregularity that could blow the Formula One title battle wide open.

The Pink Poui (Tabeduia pentaphylla) is a member of the Bignoniaceae family and originates from South America. 

Dear Editor, Around noon on October 30, the Presidential Guard lost their favourite guard dog, Brown Girl.

Dear Editor, The firecrackers (squibs) have begun to herald the Diwali celebrations and I am calling on the police to be more proactive in relation to this illegal activity.

There are some things that keep out the darkness that continually threatens in anyone’s life.

National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed yesterday said that there will be a ‘big shock’ in the coming weeks between himself and the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF).

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg abruptly reversed course and canceled today’s marathon, a beloved annual race that had become a lightning rod for people frustrated by the disastrous aftermath of megastorm Sandy.

(Trinidad Express) Thousands of citizens on Friday took to the streets of the capital city, calling for Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and National Security Minister Jack Warner to hit the road.

The Black Spider Monkey (Ateles paniscus) is also known as the Red Faced Monkey.

“The party is over,” chanted anti-corruption demonstrators outside the Supreme Court earlier last month.