Daily Archive: Friday, April 5, 2013

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines flight BW484 from Port of Spain to Miami had an unexpected delay this morning when, just before take off, a routine cabin check found that someone had pasted 9/11 on the aircraft’s bathroom mirror, using liquid soap.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three years after he was charged with beating his two-year-old stepson Etean George Smith to death, Guyanese national Kamaldeo Singh has been committed to stand trial at the Port-of-Spain Assizes. Singh,

(Trinidad Guardian)  A release from the White House in Washington and the US Department of State to the Government of T&T recognising the valuable assistance of the Government and the Attorney General in effecting the extradition of Doreen Alexander has laid to rest speculation there is some kind of diplomatic rift between the US and T&T, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday.

At about 1230h today, police say that Joseph Harry, 47 years, of Ankerville, Corentyne, Berbice, was travelling on the step of the tray of a motor lorry along the Port Mourant, Public Road, Corentyne, when he fell off.

During this afternoon the police say they conducted searches in the Stabroek Market, Bourda Market, Water Street and the Vendors’ Arcade during which three men were found selling pornographic videos.

(Jamaica Observer) Trinidadian soca star Machel Montano is a man on a mission.

Wayman Ali, of Duncan Street, Lamaha Gardens, and Selwyn Lewis called ‘Selly’, of  Nutmeg Street, Festival City were today charged with Trafficking in Person, following investigations conducted jointly between police officials from Guyana and Brazil, a police release said.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – At least 39 people were killed and dozens injured after an illegal, half-constructed building collapsed in seconds “like a pack of cards” on the outskirts of India’s financial centre Mumbai, officials and witnesses said.

Police Corporal Nafaste Morris of the Tactical Services Unit was today charged with four counts of assault following the beating of a woman and a child on the Marudi Trail.

At about 1635h yesterday, police say British national Julian Dere, 77 years, was seen motionless in the swimming pool at the Pegasus Hotel.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said today there was no sign of “sustained human-to-human transmission” of the H7N9 virus in China, but it was important to check on 400 people who had been in close contact with the 14 confirmed cases.

Two young men are now dead and a 16-year-old girl is injured after the car they were in crashed into a utility pole on the New Hope Public Road, East Bank Demerara, early yesterday morning.

The $160M, 50-room, four-storey Millennium Manor Hotel was opened last night at 43 Hadfield Street.

Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc. is now offering access to a Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath Lab) and advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services to improve medical care for patients.

APNU MP Richard Allen collapsed in the National Assembly yesterday afternoon and he was later admitted at the Georgetown Public Hospital where his condition is listed as stable.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is not renewing the contracts of two magistrates, Haymant Ramdhani and Leslie Sobers, who both say they have yet to receive any official notification of the decision.

Minister within the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill says that the Government has developed a code of conduct and code of ethics for Ministers and members of Cabinet as further efforts to strengthen the fight against corruption and to bring greater transparency in Government.

Dr Dale Arlington Bisnauth, who had served as a minister in successive PPP/C governments, died yesterday following a heart attack.

A Skeldon sugar factory worker on Friday last drowned in a canal in the Skeldon back lands whilst he was on duty.

While government speakers trumpeted its achievements and urged support for its proposed $208.8B budget, AFC MP Trevor Williams on Wednesday evening signaled that his party would not support some of the key allocations proposed unless the administration is accountable for the spending to the National Assembly.

By Clifton Ross Narsingh Deonarine stroked a match winning half century taking Guyana to 177-6 in 48 overs as they defeated Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) in their Regional Super50 match yesterday at the Providence National Stadium.

BANGALORE, India, , CMC – Talismanic West Indies opener Chris Gayle welcomed the latest edition of the multi-million dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) with another scintillating innings to help Royal Challengers Bangalore start their campaign with a win here yesterday.

Human Services Minister Jennifer Webster says government plans to introduce night-care facilities for children of single parents with night jobs and she has also hinted at the introduction of means testing mechanisms to guide old age pension payouts to ensure those in need benefit.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – West Indies opener Lendl Simmons ended a run of low scores with a superb half-century to help steer Trinidad and Tobago to an exciting three-wicket win over Jamaica, with two balls remaining in their sixth round, Super50 encounter here Thursday.

A 38-year-old chips manufacturer/distributor of Belvedere, Corentyne suffered head injuries and a broken right leg when he tried to make peace between two workers who were fighting around 10:30 pm on Sunday.

Kimtia Gobin, the barber who was shot in his leg when gunmen opened fire in the barber shop he was working in on Wednesday, was discharged from the Georgetown Hospital yesterday while the ex-policeman, Nandram Persaud, is in a stable condition in the Intensive Care Unit  (ICU) of the institution.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Leeward Islands snatched their first points of the Regional Super50 Championship when they beat Barbados by 22 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method here yesterday.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with possession of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.

Pele FC through-goals on either side of halftime defeated Camptown FC 2-0 to win the Camptown Football Classic final played at the Camptown Ground, Campbellville on Wednesday evening.

In March, the US embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme donated health supplies to the Ministry of Health and sports equipment to a community group, as part of its mission to provide assistance to social, economic and medical groups in need.

Banks DIH Limited via its Malta Supreme brand on Wednesday donated over $100,000 to the Guyana Chess Federation’s one-day Rapid Chess Tournament set for Sunday at UG’s Tain Campus.

Half mile/One mile defeated Goal Getters 3-0 on Wednesday during the fourth day of play in the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Linden Edition.

The Eleventh Pakaraima Mountain Safari began very early on the morning of March 23.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC– New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor has become the latest international cricketer to link-up with the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL) set to begin in July.

Local maritime officials are upbeat about the future of the shipping industry but have repeated their warning that the realization of the industry’s goals depends crucially on the speeding up of initiatives to clear the Demerara River channel.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling has told Stabroek Business that the decision made by the Chamber to allow modest business enterprises to become members was “a significant step” for the local private sector since it acknowledges the role that small businesses play in the growth and development of the economy.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-Jamaica claims that its athletes have been unfairly targeted for drug testing at the just ended Carifta games in the Bahamas.

Every year the government’s budget proposals never fail to trot out some high-sounding rhetoric intended to send political signals of a commitment to the growth of the small business sector.

Managing Director of Howell Hinds Construction Company of Amelia’s Ward, Howell ‘Yellowman’ Hinds made a donation of several trophies, medals and over $500,000 in cash incentives yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Agriculture should be particularly cautious when discussing a sugar industry which others obviously know better than he.

Whether he wears latex gloves or laces up boxing gloves, Mahmoud ‘The Extractor’ Loul is in the business of dealing with pain.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to respond to an article captioned `Opposition councilors give `disrespectful’ Region Three Chairman silent treatment’ published in the Kaieteur News’s April 4, 2013 edition.

The inner circuit of the National Park will be transformed into a cycling speedway tomorrow when national cycling coach Hassan Mohamed and Universal Auto and General Supplies team up to host an 11-race youth cycle programme.

Functions of the Budget At the time of the annual budget proposal, Guyanese get to learn many things about the national economy. 

Dear Editor, Why the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) continues to adopt a policy which hinges on confrontation and controversy, I don’t know.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – A former member of Guatemala’s armed forces implicated President Otto Perez in civil war atrocities as he testified yesterday at the genocide trial of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt.

The practice of cultivating fruits and vegetables in pots and discarded containers has long been a fringe pursuit in Guyana’s broader agricultural sector, particularly among small scale urban growers keen to grow at least a modest quantity of the food that they produce.

MADRID/FRANKFURT, (Reuters) – Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world’s biggest-spending travellers after a decade of robust growth in the number of Chinese holidaying abroad, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said yesterday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC– The four teams to contest the semi-final stage of the regional four-day tournament have been decided, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, Gentleman and former minister Dale Bisnauth died yesterday, April 4th, 2013.

DAKAR/PRAIA,  (Reuters) – U.S. anti-narcotics agents have arrested the former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau, wanted by Washington as a suspected kingpin of the international drugs trade, in a sting operation off the coast of West Africa, sources familiar with the operation said.

Nuggets 113, Jazz 96 Danilo Gallinari scored 21 points and the Denver Nuggets shot 56.2 percent in a convincing 113-96 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, Response is made to F. Skinner’s statement and questions in the letter `By what means will the TUC enforce legislation to prevent another workers fiasco like Marriott?’,

The government’s stated emphasis on growing the country’s tourism sector has not been matched by evidence of a preparedness to do “what it takes” to market the country abroad in order to attract visitors here, Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business.

Dear Editor, During last month a former President of Zambia, Rupiah Banda, was stripped of immunity from prosecution thus paving the way for investigations into allegations of his abuse of office, corrupt acquisition of public property and misappropriation of public funds.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday it was monitoring a new strain of bird flu and has started work on a vaccine just in case it is needed.

The steady popularization of shadehouse farming in coastal Guyana owes much to the contributions of the Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Partners of the Americas, a Washington-based non-governmental organization, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Caribbean Self-Reliance International (CASRI), a Canadian-based non-governmental organization.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England named four uncapped players yesterday in a provisional 30-man squad for the ICC Champions Trophy in England and Wales in June.

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Dear Editor, I am currently on a personal research project and stumbled onto something very odd and I am now hoping that perhaps a historian or anyone from the general public can give an explanation.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A place in sporting folklore awaits Katie Walsh if, with a slice of luck, a clear round and a willing partner in Seabass, she can become the first female jockey to win the coveted Grand National at Aintree tomorrow.

WASHINGTON  (Reuters) – North Korea’s explicit threats this week to strike the United States with nuclear weapons are rhetorical bluster, as the isolated nation does not yet have the means to make good on them, Western officials and security experts say.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

(Reuters) – James Pattinson is the latest name to be added to Australia’s growing list of Champions Trophy injury doubts with the fast bowler needing abdominal surgery for an existing condition yesterday.

I suppose that my journalistic superiors and senior political columnists (and “satirists”) will point out that the concepts or issues indicated in my caption need no “versus”. 

Dino Giddings was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he used an ice-pick to rob another man.

According to a recent international study conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), teachers are giving girls higher marks than boys in school-based assessments, not simply because they are brighter but because they are being rewarded for such attributes as attentiveness, eagerness and organisational skills.

Dear Editor, Permit me to grace your newspaper with the following: History. 

OLMOS, Peru, (Reuters) – Peru’s Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.

(Trinidad Express) COUSINS Jerome and Dale Ramsahai suffered an agonising death.

(Trinidad Express) Uncle Sam is still silent. Attorney General Anand Ramlogan admitted yesterday that the United States Government had not yet responded to this Government’s request for information on reports of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe in which Daryan Warner, son of National Security Minister Jack Warner, is a cooperating witness.