Daily Archive: Saturday, May 11, 2013

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- A longstanding record set by Brian Lara for the highest individual score in Trinidad and Tobago’s Secondary School Cricket League (SSCL) has been broken.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The regional carrier, LIAT, has charged that the subsidy given to Caribbean Airlines (CAL) by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago is a violation of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Toppled in a 1999 coup, jailed and exiled, Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and was heading for a third term as Pakistan’s prime minister.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over the last ten years T&T’s population has grown by only seven per cent and there is an ageing “population bulge” problem, Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development Dr Bhoe Tewarie says. “T&T

(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has identified 188 crime “hot spots” across the country. Williams

REYHANLI, Turkey, (Reuters) – Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and the government said it suspected Syrian involvement.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Wigan Athletic claimed one of the greatest FA Cup final upsets of all time when a 90th minute header from substitute Ben Watson gave them a 1-0 win over highly-fancied Manchester City at Wembley Stadium today.

Amid shocking murders and other crimes continuing without pause, the Ministry of Home Affairs pushed ahead with planned major reforms when it today announced the names of 10 civilians to oversee the implementation of the police service’s strategic plan.

(Jamaica Observer) THE Senate yesterday said goodbye to its president, Rev Stanley Redwood, only 16 months after he took over the chair with the change of government in January 2102.

(Jamaica Gleaner) AGRICULTURE MINISTER Roger Clarke on Thursday said a window of opportunity seems to be opening up for cassava farmers.

(Trinidad Express) As promised, House Speaker Wade Mark declared the seat of Chaguanas West vacant shortly after yesterday’s sitting of the House of Representatives at Tower D, International Waterfront Centre in Port of Spain Mark told the House he received a letter from Jack Warner on Friday, April 26.

(This editorial appeared in today’s edition of the Trinidad Express) Give radio stations a voice Guyana’s Stabroek News last month marked the 20th anniversary of its first failed application to the government of the republic for a radio licence.

(Trinidad Express) WHEN 17-year-old Sunshine Alfred went missing on Monday night, her frantic family went to three police stations, begging officers to mount a search.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A string of militant attacks and gunfights that killed at least 17 people cast a long shadow over Pakistan’s general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country’s democracy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – White House offices were evacuated briefly on Saturday when an electrical transformer near the West Wing malfunctioned and set off a smoke alarm, a White House official said.

-gas cylinder used to set off explosion Police have opened up a murder probe into the discovery of the burnt bodies of a cambio dealer and his wife at Turkeyen after it was found that the man’s hands had been tied behind his back and a gas cylinder was used to set off an explosion which gouged a hole in their bedroom on Thursday night.

Spearheaded by last year’s Caribbean men’s singles bronze medallist Paul David, a Guyana Table Tennis Association team is set to participate at this year’s World’s individual championships in Paris, France come Monday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) have condemned the recent beating to death of two suspected thieves by citizens.

Stevenson Belle, last year’s Mr. Barbados arrived in Guyana yesterday ahead of tomorrow’s National Bodybuilding Championships dubbed Muscle Invasion.

Two families are in mourning as they await the post-mortem examination results for Vijay ‘Kevin’ Arjune, 24, and Parbattie ‘Priya’ Mangroo, 19, who were found dead in a suspected murder/suicide late Thursday night.

On a evening highlighted by close finishes, Sparta Boss, through first half goals from Devon Millington and Dennis Edwards defeated North Ruimveldt 2-0 0 when the Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ football competition continued at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) tarmac, Mandela Avenue,

After another short delay due to the inclement weather the Hadi’s World Incorporated/City Mall first division, two-day competition is set to resume today and tomorrow with two matches.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday announced that proposals have been made to introduce Portuguese as a foreign language in secondary schools as early as September 2013.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Clinton Urling says that the University of Guyana was poorly equipped to produce graduates with the necessary abilities to satisfy the current needs of the private sector.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- Organisers have released the schedule of matches for the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to be played in the Months of July and August.

Two gun-toting bandits yesterday afternoon robbed the owner and workers of Looknauth Lumber Yard of Coldingen, Industrial Estate, East Coast Demerara, of an undisclosed sum of cash, jewellery and cell phones before escaping on bicycles.

Mary Fung-A-Fat, one of the most decorated junior squash players locally made light work of Taylor Fernandes

  A driver escaped death last night when his car ended up on a pontoon after he careened off the Demerara Harbour Bridge as he was headed west.

US-based quarter-mile athlete Kadecia Baird is set to compete at today’s 46th Glen D.

DOHA, Qatar, CMC- Jamaica’s two-time Olympic 100-metre champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce yesterday sped to victory in the women’s 200m at the season’s first Diamond League meet in Doha.

The Georgetown Chamber has welcomed the announcement by the European Union that it intends to expand the mission and assignment of a coastal engineering design expert to assess and make recommendations to the government regarding the overtopping of the East Coast sea defences.

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC- Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt won his first 100 metres of the season in a photo finish at the invitational track meet in the Cayman Islands.

A high level team of APNU officials on Wednesday met with several UNDP representatives to discuss issues affecting the functioning of the National Assembly and concerns about good governance.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A savage hundred from opener Lendl Simmons gave Trinidad and Tobago a flicker of hope, but Barbados produced a sound batting effort to remain firmly in control of the Regional Four-Day final at Kensington Oval here yesterday.

(Cricinfo) After 16 overs of their innings, Royal Challengers Bangalore were 106 for 3, and Virat Kohli was 47 off 43.

National cycling coach Hassan Mohamed is of the opinion that this year’s 31st annual three-stage road race which will pedal off next Saturday in Berbice will be more competitive than ever.

Dear Editor, After reading the story and viewing the graphic scene of a human brutally beaten, then, from all appearances his lifeless body was about to be burned I was sick to the core.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC- South Africa captain AB de Villiers has named West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle among players to look out for in the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy.

Three more witnesses testified yesterday when the Abickie Ferguson murder trial continued before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South Africa cricket coach Gary Kirsten will not renew his contract after next month’s Champions Trophy, citing family reasons in a surprise decision announced yesterday.

Berbice Education Institute suffered a 0-1 defeat to Vryman’s Erven when play continued in the Scotiabank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy Tournament at the All Saints ground, Berbice recently.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment likes to be quoted when he thinks he has good news but retreats behind the agencies when his policies and practices are questioned. 

A taxi driver was remanded to prison yesterday after he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown court on an armed robbery charge.

Dear Editor, Mob violence continues in Guyana, starting with the citizens from Bare Root who beat Radika Singh to death in 2007.

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced that no objections were offered for 12 contracts in the several sectors, including five in the housing and water sectors valued over $370M, at Cabinet’s statutory meeting held on Wednesday.

The fact that he had known the virtual complainant for some 20 years and she apparently said she also knew him also, did not help a man accused of house-breaking yesterday as he was remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, As an independent research specialist, I just came across some interesting data and I believe that it might be of interest to your readership.

Stakeholders and officials from the Ministry of Education yesterday met the students and teachers who participated in the recent National Level of the Sagicor Visionaries Challenge and pledged continued support for similar future projects.

Dear Editor, I shall appreciate if you will publish my story in the hope that some effort will be made by government officials to pay me for work done.

Dear Editor, This is to inform you about a serious problem that is facing me with smoke where I am residing at Belladrum, West Coast Berbice, and which is affecting my health.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport launched the National Archives database digitization project and website at a ceremony held at the National Archives on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A packed New Delhi courtroom sat in rapt silence this week as an irate Supreme Court judge denounced the elite Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s version of the American FBI, as a “caged parrot” and “its master’s voice”.

A man was placed on $200,000 bail when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer a charge of armed robbery yesterday.

Dear Editor, It must be of interest, particularly to those involved, as well as to other relevant stakeholders, to examine closely the published relative values of posts occupied across the Guyana justice sector.

Mother and daughter Ingrid and Sulan Fung are the brains behind the annual Mother and Daughter Pageant, a production that has become a household name over the past 22 years around Mother’s Day.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Two Indian ministers embroiled in scandals quit yesterday, adding to speculation the prime minister may have to call an early election after the furore paralysed parliament and forced the delay of economic reforms.

Devenand Seenarine was yesterday placed on $300,000 bail after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court  before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Dear Editor, From my observances in recent times, moreso after the budget cuts, executive members of both the Privates Sector Commission and the Chamber of Commerce have thrown down the gauntlet to the parliamentary opposition.

The ten finalists of the GT&T Jingle and Song Competition have been announced from the list of 15 who competed in the semi-final.

SAVAR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – A young Bangladeshi woman who spent 17 days buried alive under a collapsed garments factory was rescued yesterday when astonished workmen heard a voice calling “save me, save me” from the rubble.

Dear Editor, I note with interest the likely approval of Brazil’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization Dr Roberto Azevedo to the post of Director-General at the next meeting of the General Council of that body.

Nine mothers, including an elderly woman of D’ Edward Village, West Bank Berbice were yesterday honoured by the Berbice Bridge Company Inc.

Hi Everyone, I’m sure that many of you have had stuffed duff before.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – An alleged leader of the New York arm of a global cyber crime ring, which stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks, was shot dead during an attempted robbery in the Dominican Republic last month, Dominican police said yesterday.

In today’s world, being a mother can be a real task.

Witness We See

Earlier this week the non-partisan Pew Research Center released a report on gun violence in America.

Dear Editor, I do not have a mother, I lost her on May 5, 2010.

Industry view: Residents from Industry, East Coast Demerara  have excellent views on a daily basis of planes using the Ogle airport.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil campaigned hard to get the top job at the World Trade Organization this week but behind closed doors even it acknowledges that the WTO’s main mission – pushing forward in global trade talks – looks for the moment like a lost cause.

A prisoner was fined $3,000 and ordered to do six months of community service after he pleaded guilty to having cannabis in his possession while in prison.

More than three hundred patients benefited from a free medical outreach organised by the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) in collaboration with the Health Ministry last weekend on the Essequibo Coast.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has taken another apparent potshot at his predecessor, comparing him with tyrannical Roman Emperor Caligula in an increasingly heated internal dispute over the direction of peace talks with Marxist rebels.