Daily Archive: Sunday, June 2, 2013

(Barbados Nation) A man was in police custody last night after reportedly admitting he was responsible for the death of 12-year-old Rashida Bascombe, who went missing 11 years ago.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Beleaguered Indian cricket board (BCCI) president N.

(Reuters) – Martin Guptill blasted a majestic unbeaten 189, the equal fifth highest score in one-day international cricket, to propel New Zealand to an 86-run win over England at the Rose Bowl today.

Werk-en-Rust residents were roused by the sound of rapid gunfire early this morning as unknown persons in two cars sped about randomly discharging their firearms into the air.

(Jamaica Observer) SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland – An American man who unwittingly walked into a robbery at a garment store in Westmoreland last night, was shot and killed during an ensuing gun battle between the police and robbers.

SAN FRANCISCO DE YARE, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says President Nicolas Maduro’s government will “cave in” under the pressure of growing economic troubles, in-fighting and a belief by many Venezuelans that it stole the April election.

(Trinidad Express) The ties between Trinidad and Tobago and China are set to get stronger as State-owned asphalt production company, Lake Asphalt, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chinese firm Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproofing Technology Co Ltd.

(Trinidad Express) The Borough of Arima is to benefit from Trinidad and Tobago’s relations with the People’s Republic of China.

(Trinidad Express) Home Construction Ltd (HCL), a subsidiary of  cash-strapped CL Financial Ltd (CLF) has sold two of its malls-Atlantic Plaza and Valpark Shopping Plaza.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has been assured by President Donald Ramotar that the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the cash-strapped GuySuCo will not be receiving a US$25,000 (equivalent to $5M) monthly wage package.

Sandwiched between Annandale and Good Hope on the East Coast of Demerara, Lusignan, is a predomi-nantly Indian Guyanese community where most residents earn their livelihood in the farming and fishing industries, and some are employed by the public and private sectors.

An early morning fire in New Amsterdam, which destroyed a popular restaurant and a house, has left two people homeless and ten others jobless.

A high number of accused persons have walked free after High Court trials since the start of the year, for which the poor quality of police investigations, inexperienced prosecutors and a vulnerable jury system are being blamed.

By Emmerson Campbell in Trinidad and Tobago The national rugby team was booted out of the NACRA Senior men’s championships after receiving a 20-nil drubbing from Trinidad and Tobago yesterday at the University of the West Indies campus ground here in St.

A 54-year-old Station Street, Kitty woman yesterday was doused with acid in an attack she believed was retaliation for speaking out on the constant noise nuisance from a bar reportedly owned by a senior policeman in the residential area.

CARDIFF, Wales, CMC – West Indies played well in patches but could not withstand an imperious century from opener Shane Watson and slumped to a four-wicket defeat to Australia in their opening warm-up match of the ICC Champions Trophy here yesterday.

United States of America-based distance athlete Euleen Josiah-Tanner is critical of last Sunday’s Banks DIH-sponsored, Ministry of Culture,

In the wake of the Guyana national rifle shooting team’s loss of the short range title at the recent West Indies Full-bore rifle shooting championships in Barbados national Full-bore Captain Mahendra Persaud said the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) is looking to place more emphasis on blooding new shooters to aid in the development of the sport.

Despite the success of the just-concluded annual National Sports Commission-sponsored table tennis tournament Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr.

By Tony Cozier A HOST of variables confront the West Indies in the seventh, and last, ICC Champions Trophy tournament that starts for them against Pakistan on Friday at London’s Oval, venue as well for their second qualifying round match against India on Tuesday week. 

Guyanese Abdul Kadir, 61, and Russell Defreitas, 69, who were found guilty of conspiracy to carry out acts of terrorism in connection with a plot to bomb New York’s John F.

The son of Farida De Souza who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital last month after sustaining three heart attacks during a 12-hour wait, said he is frustrated at the foot-dragging at the hospital while noting that all he wants is a full investigation into the care his mother received.

With the continued delay of legislation needed to liberalise the telecommunications sector, Global Technology proprietor George Melville believes that citizens are being denied “true connectivity” at a lower cost that would come from competition and additional investments in the sector.

Alliance For Change (AFC) executives, including leader Khemraj Ramjattan, General Secretary David Patterson and Treasurer Dominic Gaskin met President Donald Ramotar on Thursday where a number of matters were discussed and in the “frank” talks, the AFC was invited to submit some of its positions in writing.

Scope This week I shall conclude the discussion on the selection of public projects in Guyana and their sequencing.

Three men are in custody after the discovery of ammunition, cocaine and an unlicensed gun yesterday and on Friday in the city and at Baramita respectively.

Cross-border trade with Brazil has dropped from two years ago with commerce still largely weighed in favour of the Brazilian side, according to President of the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), Daniel Gajie who says activities will be held to promote Lethem.

Member of the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources Joseph Harmon says the impact of Bai Shan Lin’s various operations on the environment must be examined by that committee and this is something that he will push for personally.

“The problem of race is the most obscure of all and Lall has opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box, not just by cracking it open, but by ripping the cover off altogether,” Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman said on Friday at the launching of writer GHK Lall’s Sitting on a Racial Volcano (Guyana Uncensored).

A man, who was in a group at Plum Park, Sophia on Friday afternoon opened fire at police, but later surrendered after throwing away the weapon.

Marian Academy yesterday crushed the Georgetown Technical Institute 56-19 to be crowned Georgetown Conference U20 champions for the third consecutive year as the Youth Basketball Guyana’s (YBG) National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) continued at the Marian Academy School Court, Carifesta Avenue yesterday.

Caribbean nations have been relatively slow to recognise that long-term structural changes taking place in tourism require a new and strategic vision for a sector that many industry professionals in the region regard as underperforming.

There is a Guyanese organisation in Toronto called the St. Stanislaus College Alumni Association which has done stellar work over the years raising funds to help maintain the school.

“Records are there to be broken,” Sobers observed when asked how he felt when Lara eclipsed his world record Test score of 365.

While on May 5th the 175th Anniversary of Indian Arrival was commemorated, there was another anniversary two days earlier that slipped by unnoticed.

The dirt dam built to enable children living in Oronoque to access school at Port Kaituma Central, in Region One, is rapidly deteriorating and while residents believe it is the result of substandard work, the region is blaming use by vehicular traffic for which it was never intended.

When Jerimiah Williams left the David Rose School for children with special needs he was employed at a supermarket as a bag-packer, even though there were obvious signs that he was an intelligent young man who could achieve much more.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Rajeev Shukla quit yesterday in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal swirling around the multi-billion dollar Twenty20 tournament.

Perhaps Secretary of State John Kerry’s lack of attention to Latin America might not be so bad after all — it is moving Vice President Joe Biden to get more involved with the region, and may help turn US-Latin American relations into a White House foreign policy priority.

Reunion Manganese disclosed that a diversified Spanish company is interested in investing in its operations, when it introduced representatives from that company to APNU Leader David Granger at a meeting on Thursday.

Introduction Describing its 2012 performance as riding on the back of a growing economy, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI) will be holding its Annual General Meeting for 2012 at its Kingston Office on Monday June 10 at 6 pm.

Former West Indies vice-captain Brendan Nash completed his second century of the County season but Kent were held to a draw by Leicestershire in the rain-affected encounter here yesterday.

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) defeated Old Fort 4-2 in a bruising encounter as action in the Bryden’s Super Classic Indoor Hockey Tournament continued at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue on Friday.

Alfred Scow, a member of the First Nations of Canada died recently.

Tutorial High School male and female teams yesterday booked semi-final and final spots respectively in the Scotiabank/Pepsi Schools Football Tournament at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Students of English at the University of Guyana over the past two years have been going out into the field to collect samples of Guyanese oral literature. 

The Constitution of the PPP was adopted in 1977. It was designed to entrench the ideology of Marxism-Leninism and assist in the transformation of the party to a Leninist party of the new type.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The good news for Rafa Nadal yesterday was his game began to click, the sun shone and the red clay courts got bouncy – the bad news was French Open rival Novak Djokovic looked in the mood to snatch his crown.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made a defiant call for an end to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years yesterday as authorities arrested almost a thousand people in protests across the country.

The eyes of the chess world are planted on Thessaloniki, Greece, where twelve of the planet’s finest chess players are competing in the fourth stage of the FIDE Grand Prix round robin tournament.

Dear Editor, I am writing with reference to your letter under cover of which was forwarded a letter sent to you by Ms Lovern Li-A-Ping titled ‘Poor service at the Guyana Consulate in New York,’ published in your edition of May 24.

This article was published in Stabroek News ‘Arts on Sunday’ on May 9, 1999 having been reprinted from The Portuguese of Guyana:  A Study in Culture and Conflict by Prof Menezes.

A fire last evening destroyed a house at Surat Drive, Triumph, East Coast Demerara and fire fighters came in for heavy criticism for arriving on the scene without water.

(Continued) Prolonged labour (Dystocia, difficult labour) The prolongation of any phase of labour is called dystocia. 

(Jamaica Observer) Two men were on Friday stabbed to death in what police theorise is a reprisal for the death of eight-year-old Tamera Laing, whose body was found in a pit toilet in March Pen, Spanish Town, on Thursday.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – More than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations reported yesterday, stoking fears of a return to civil war.

Dear Editor, A letter that was carried by your newspaper, headlined ‘Lack of funds, poor planning meant UG could not participate in either UWI Games or Hampton Games,’ by Elton Bollers was brought to my attention (SN, May 29).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Newly elected West Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron is planning a major expansion of the High Performance Centre, that will see similar academies established in every cricketing territory across the region.

Residents of Diamond have complained that the standing water on the side of the roadway along the public road is making their lives miserable.

Crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside that’s some good roast potatoes.

DOHA (Reuters) – Leading Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi called yesterday for holy war against the Syrian government after fighters from Shi’ite Lebanese group Hezbollah intervened to help President Bashar al-Assad.

(Reuters) – Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting marked his English county championship debut for Surrey by compiling an unbeaten 120 against Derbyshire yesterday.

Dear Editor, Please permit the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) to comment on the fatal stabbing of a young man during an argument over a bet on a dog fight (as reported in Kaieteur News of 27th May, 2013). 

(Trinidad Express)  The Commonwealth Short Story judging panel on Friday showed their interest in local author Sharon Millar’s short story, The Whale House, by naming her co-winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

All aboard! These boys found use for an old freezer yesterday, taking a sail along the swollen Mandela Avenue trench near the John Fernandes Container Terminal.

(Trinidad Guardian) President of the National Council of Indian Culture Deokienanan Sharma says Indians need to get their act together.

LIMA (Reuters) – Jailed murderer Joran van der Sloot plans to wed his Peruvian girlfriend for love, not to avoid extradition to the United States in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, his lawyer said yesterday.

There is something about governments which are in office for any extended period that causes them to become divorced from the electorate that put them there in the first place.

Gladiolus (plural Gladioli) commonly called Sword Lily comes from the Latin word gladius which means sword, referring to the shape of the leaves. 

Dear Editor, I do not think that there is a single Guyanese who did not feel pleased when it was reported, that President Donald Ramotar on the eve of the Independence anniversary announced that the government would be re-opening the 50-year-old road project between Parika and communities close to Bartica.