Articles published on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
(Trinidad Express) investigation into the death of Lance Corporal Curtis Marshall is still being actively pursued, with homicide detectives detaining several members of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment for questioning.
CANBERRA, Australia, CMC-Captain Darren Sammy has lamented the failure of the West Indies to exploit potential match winning moments in their current One Day International series against Australia.
CANBERRA, Australia, CMC –A scan is to be carried out on West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle on Thursday to determine the extent of an injury sustained during the third One Day international against Australia today.
A 13-year-old Student of the Patentia Secondary School is currently undergoing surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital to remove a pair of scissors from his head after another student threw it at him.
A four-year-old boy was earlier this afternoon stabbed to death by his stepfather.
CANBERRA, Australia, CMC- West Indies middle order batsman Darren Bravo says playing with a straight bat is the remedy to neutralize the dangerous Australian seamer Mitchell Starc.
Gidram Rasiawan, age 17, of Eccles, East Bank Demerara this morning appeared in the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving following Sunday’s smash up at Mon Repos.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland will pay U.S.
Three persons have been confirmed dead after they were shot by plain clothes policemen this morning in what Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said was a “shoot-out” with bandits.
A notice in today’s Guyana Chronicle is notifying residents of Mocha Arcadia, Mocha Housing Scheme, Barnwell, Cane View, New Providence and the general public that the Mocha Access Road will be closed from February 8, 2013 to March 8, 2013 for the reconstruction of a dilapidated bridge along the road.
(Reuters) – A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake set off a tsunami that killed at least five people in a remote part of the Solomon Islands today and triggered evacuations across the South Pacific as island nations issued tsunami alerts.
CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Shane Watson celebrated his return to international cricket with a sparkling innings of 122 to drive Australia to a 39-run victory over West Indies in the third one-dayer and an unassailable 3-0 series lead.
There are signs of youth gang culture among a “small but significant” number of students in Guyana’s schools, Chief Education Officer Olato Sam said yesterday.
Essequibo resident Suresh Persaud, who beat his wife to death, will serve the next 14 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter before Justice Franklyn Holder at the High Court in Suddie yesterday.
Mortimer Melville and Jevon Ismond, the two men accused of killing a former presidential guard, were yesterday freed after the jury found them not guilty in the High Court.
Murder accused Chandrapaul Chatteram was yesterday sentenced to serve 10 years in prison after a jury found him guilty on the lesser charge of manslaughter.
The police say they are conducting investigations into the murder of 14-year-old student Camelos Arthur of Achiwuib, South Rupununi, which occurred at about 1330h yesterday, at Achiwuib.
Justice Navindra Singh yesterday overruled the no-case submission that was made by the defence in the Calvin Bailey murder trial in the High Court.
Employees of the Region 10 Branch of the Strategic Action Security say that they are tired of improper treatment being meted out to them by the company.
The body of a Profit, West Coast Berbice farmer was discovered after 7 am yesterday among some bushes at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony after he apparently crashed head-on into a sign post.
Although the two recently-passed bills piloted by the opposition were partially vetted by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel at the Legal Affairs Ministry, Attorney General Anil Nandlall has said they have not crossed his desk for input.
A 20-year-old mechanic died on Sunday night after the All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) he was driving crashed head-on into an old vehicle parked at the side of the roadway at 1 ½ Miles, Port Kaituma.
A duo charged with robbery was yesterday granted $100,000 bail each, but the second accused was remanded on another charge, when they appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Pegasus Hotel, in association with PEP TV and Carib Feedback Productions, will be hosting the ‘One Love Reggae Night’ to commemorate Bob Marley’s 68th birth anniversary today from 7:00 pm at the Pegasus Poolside.
Nearly a month after it was alleged that a mentally challenged teenager was raped by a driver, the file was sitting at the Fort Wellington Police Station and had not been sent to the DPP’s Chambers as previously asserted.
The Ministry of Housing says the Linden/Soesdyke Highway is its next target area for housing development as it continues to process 33,000 active applications for Regions Three and Four.
The Culture Ministry is collaborating with the local UNESCO office and the UNESCO cluster office in Jamaica to host a National Stakeholders Consultative Workshop aimed at promoting national awareness about the creation of a local intangible cultural heritage (ICH) inventory.
Main opposition APNU on Sunday refuted claims made by Local Government and Regional Development Minister Ganga Persaud that the opposition was to be blamed for the further deferral of the work of the Special Select Committee on Local Government Reform.
Newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon on Monday said that he relied on the report of United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues Gay McDougall to substantiate his conclusions that former president Bharrat Jagdeo was an ideological racist.
Guyana will next week be one of the 196 countries hosting a ‘One Billion Rising’ gathering to demand an end to all forms of violence against women.
Returning Officer at last month’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) Dr.
Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Music Director, Claude “Sonny” Ault was on Sunday discovered dead with a bullet wound at his Florida residence by his son.
A husband accused of assaulting his wife was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The Guyana team for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Super50 competition departed Guyana yesterday confident of success.
Magistrate Judy Latchman refused bail to a mason accused of robbery, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer the charge.
Milerock Football Club of Linden scored a comfortable 2-0 win over recently crowned Kashif and Shanghai champions Buxton United in an entertaining match up when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League resumed Sunday with three matches.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, CMC– Jamaican footballers are responding well to high altitudes as they prepare to take on Mexico today in final round of qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Singapore, which European investigators say is the source for hundreds of soccer matches being fixed in a global betting scam, promised yesterday to aid the probe but some in the game said many of the revelations were nothing new.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago fast-bowler Ravi Rampaul is preparing for a return to regional cricket after a knee injury kept him out of T&T’s successful Caribbean T20 campaign last month.
Crazy and overjoyed: The `Crazy Maids’ of Winfer Gardens Primary were overjoyed at their win yesterday.
(Reuters) – LeBron James was at his deadly accurate best and scored 31 points to help the Eastern Conference-leading Miami Heat shoot down an inspired Charlotte Bobcats 99-94 on Monday.
Dear Editor, I read with great interest, the Notice To All Miners by order Gary Best, Commodore, Chief of Staff and Chairman of Joint Services Coordinating Council (Stabroek News January 31).
The continued failure of the Ministry of Sport to implement a National Sports Policy has come in for some measure of criticism from president of the Guyana Olympic Association K JUman Yassin.
Dear Editor, The reports about ‘vagrants’ attacking persons has led, as is usual when the vagrants attack persons, to some discussion about ‘what to do with the vagrants.’
Wings and fantasy: The pupils of Liana Nursery School yesterday performing `The magic of believing’ in the Fantasy section of the Department of Education (Georgetown) Children’s Mashramani competition at the National Cultural Centre.
Dear Editor, Carl Greenidge stated as follows: “Without a majority in the House the party with the plurality of votes and its cabinet can have no automatic claim on the executive, let alone exclusive powers of decision-making.
MUMBAI, India, CMC- Coach Sherwin Campbell is appealing to West Indies Women to back their ability against higher ranked teams as they stumbled into the Super Six, second round of the ICC Women’s World Cup yesterday.
The lift: `Let’s show the grown-ups how to do the lift’.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament voted heavily in favour of legalising gay marriage yesterday, but Prime Minister David Cameron’s authority in his own party took a blow as his Conserva-tives split in two over the measure he had championed.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago romped to a comprehensive innings and 130-run victory over Canada on the third day yesterday of their three-day match at the National Cricket Centre (NCC) in Couva.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Government has at least two ministries and one agency that should have an interest in the physical environment of the City of Georgetown and the quality of life of its citizens.
Dear Editor, With reference to a letter by Mr Taajnauth Jadunauth in the Stabroek News, on February 2 entitled ‘How is any government to be blamed for failures/mishaps arising from the nonsense we do?’
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Ottis Gibson has signed a new three year contract as Head Coach of the West Indies cricket team, the WICB announced late yesterday.
In the presence: Pupils of Bel Air Nursery yesterday performing `The presence of the Lord’ in the religious beliefs section of the Department of Education (Georgetown) Children’s Mashramani competition at the National Cultural Centre.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese radio and television stations are to ban advertisements for expensive gifts such as watches, rare stamps and gold coins, the Xinhua state news agency said yesterday, as part of a push by the government to crack down on extravagance and waste.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s government plans to eliminate all federal taxes on staple foods, the latest in a series of tax cuts aimed at curbing inflation.
Dear Editor, I am asking the President and Finance Minister to kindly reinstate music royalties for Guyanese recording artistes.
Based on an examination of the existing literature, a situational analysis and discussions with stakeholders, the 2010-2015 “Guyana: Country Cooperation Strategy” (CCS), constructed with the help of the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO), identified some twenty health challenges and seventeen health priorities.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Women narrowly squeezed into the Super Six, second round of the ICC Women’s World Cup here yesterday after their unpredictable batting failed again in a six-wicket loss to defending champions England.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Prosecutors yesterday asked a court to find R&B singer Chris Brown in violation of his probation because they say community service records stemming from his 2009 assault on girlfriend Rihanna contain “significant discrepancies.”
Dear Editor, There may be good news for undocumented Guyanese and other Caribbean immigrants in America.
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Barbados has eventually called the long-awaited date for general elections in his country and the citizens go to the polls on February 21.
Introduction I would like to remind readers about the four groups upon which the analysis is based (see previous column SN Jan 23, 2013).
Guyana’s Jonathan Foo was in sparkling form striking an unbeaten 151 to lead F&E Diamond to an upset victory over First Citizens Clarke Road in their third round National League 50 overs clash at Kennedy Park in Diamond Village, Trinidad on Saturday.
This J.E. Burnham Nursery student won first place with the piece entitled ‘A born Guyanese,’ in the Dramatic Poetry category at the start of the Georgetown District Children’s Mash Competition at the National Cultural Centre on Monday.
(Barbados Nation) THERE IS A SUGGESTION that law-enforcement and regulatory officials here may not be carrying out sufficient investigations and prosecuting people reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit of Barbados (FIU) for suspicious transactions.
(Trinidad Express) THE TRINIDAD and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) has criticised Communications Minister Jamal Mohammed for his “dictatorial manner” about the airing of Government programming and says it will be seeking a legal opinion on the matter.
(Trinidad Express) As the midnight deadline for the nomination of a new President neared last night, queries were raised as to whether Justice Anthony Carmona met the constitutional requirements to assume the post.
