Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 3, 2013

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – U.S. Rapper 50 Cent has been charged with domestic violence and vandalism in Los Angeles after an alleged altercation with the mother of his child, the city attorney’s office said today.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan have recalled former captain Shahid Afridi for a one-day series in West Indies but senior players Imran Farhat, Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal have been dropped for poor displays in last month’s Champions Trophy.

Caribbean Airlines today said that flight BW792, a cargo freighter owned and operated by ABX (Airborne Express) departed Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana at 10.52am and returned to ramp at 11.03am due to a fire warning light indicator in the cockpit.

(Barbados Nation) Guyanese national, Hema Baichu and his passenger Everett Crichlow escaped serious injury this afternoon when the cement truck in which they were travelling overturned just off of the St Thomas roundabout around 12:28 today.

(CPL) The Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) today confirmed Ben Rohrer, Ahmed Shehzad and Davy Jacobs have been drafted in as replacement players for the forthcoming inaugural tournament.

(Barbados Nation) LIAT has introduced a security surcharge on tickets in response to rising security demands and spiraling security costs.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s armed forces overthrew elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi today and announced a political transition with the support of a wide range of political, religious and youth leaders.

Stung by criticisms in a Sunday Stabroek Business Page column over the prices for items in the Timehri airport expansion project and subsequent reports in the Kaieteur News, the Ministry of Public Works today said that the figures include other costs such as labour and profit.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Commissioner of Customs Major (retd) Richard Reese has expressed satisfaction with the combined efforts of the various law-enforcement agencies in patrolling the nation’s ports.

(Trinidad Express) Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran said the Trinidad and Tobago Government was not in a position to adjudicate on international human rights reports on President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Commanding centuries from Upal Tharanga (174 not out) and Mahela Jayawardene (107) steered Sri Lanka to a mammoth 348 for one and a crushing 161-run victory over India in the third match of the Celkon Cup tri-nation series at Sabina Park on Tuesday.

DERBY, England,  CMC- West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul hit a superb unbeaten half century to lead Derbyshire to a thrilling seven-wicket win over Lancashire in the Friends Life T20 tournament today.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC- Award-winning El Dorado Rum has signed on as an Official Partner for the Limacol Caribbean Premier League T20, officials announced yesterday.

In a case that had shocked and riveted the country, three former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) coastguards charged with murdering Bartica gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass were found guilty and sentenced to death yesterday at the High Court sitting at Suddie.

The north wing of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital was reopened and rededicated yesterday at a simple ceremony at the hospital’s Kingston location three years following a devastating fire.

Underdogs St. George’s Secondary came from behind to defeat Carmel Secondary 4-2 yesterday afternoon when play in the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Championship continued at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Gunmen early yesterday morning shot a Brazilian miner dead during an apparent robbery in the Barama area, some 100 kilometres from Port Kaituma, in the North West District of Region One.

Kingston Secondary edged newcomers Morgan Learning Institute by a 2-1 scoreline as action in the Digicel National U18 Secondary Schools Football Championships continued at the Campbellville Community Centre, ground on Tuesday.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday granted an Order preventing the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from making a decision not to renew the contract of Gocool Boodoo for the position of Chief Election Officer without following the procedure that the Commission has established for renewal of contracts for senior employees.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Olympic champion Usain Bolt believes he is getting back to his best after the Jamaican trials gave him a confidence-boost in the build-up to next month’s world championships in Moscow.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and its panel of Senior Selectors yesterday released a 14-man warm-up squad led by left arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul to take on Pakistan on July 11 at the iconic Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda.

A gang of masked gunmen on Monday evening invaded a Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder home, where they beat the occupants and robbed them of about $2M in cash and jewellery.

Professor of Research, Measurement and Evalu-ation at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr Stafford Griffith says the initiative to add sport to the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) 2015 syllabus is a good move to intertwine education and Physical Education (PE) for all students.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria’s appeal against a life ban from cricket for spot-fixing was dismissed by an England and Wales cricket board disciplinary panel yesterday.

Dawn Garraway, her face visibly swollen as a result of an attack by her husband who dealt her several lashes to her head with a piece of wood and caused her to lose consciousness, yesterday pleaded with a city magistrate to jail the man because of the blows she has been suffering at his hands.

Romo Andrews, who was charged with killing Andrew Thomas was freed yesterday after he was found not guilty by a jury on both charges of murder and manslaughter in the High Court yesterday.

West Indies middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan was yesterday named Captain of the Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise ahead of this month’s Inaugural Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament which will be played across the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I am duly conscious of the extensive coverage that your paper has devoted to hinterland issues, including many which adversely impact on hinterland residents and which affect and hinder their development.

Milerock heads the standings with four points from two matches in Group B of the Canvas City Vasco Under Nineteen Football competition.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The leading ladies have exited stage left but the understudies kept this most volatile of Wimbledon scripts bubbling along yesterday to ensure a new name will be engraved on the trophy come Saturday.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – The late Pope John Paul II moved closer to sainthood yesterday after a commission of cardinals and bishops credited him with a second miracle since his death, Italian media reported.

A man was yesterday charged with threatening to kill his ex-wife, who said he told her he would make her death look like an accident.

Dear Editor, I have exhausted all options. I have spoken to the Station Sergeant, Inspector, Deputy Commander, Commander and Minister with reference to mobile transportation at Wakenaam Police Station.

Reigning National Senior Chess Champion Taffin Khan dominated the senior category while his junior counterpart Anthony Drayton led the younger players in the annual Trophy Stall Tournament held at the Carifesta Sports Complex over the weekend.

Dear Editor, The cost for the new airport terminal building and runway extension appears to be extremely high. 

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says investigators were having some trouble speaking with the woman who has accused Robeson Benn Jr of assault but maintains that this would not be a deterrent to a thorough probe.

Nismes/Bagotville FC through a Sebastian Edwards second half double overcame Beavers FC by a 2-1 scoreline when action in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Senior League continued at the Den Amstel, ground on Monday Conceding the early lead in the Stag Beer tourney compliments of a Clyde Anderson eighth-minute strike,

(Reuters) – England’s pre-Ashes warm-up game against Essex was stripped of its first-class status after the county’s injury-hit attack had to be bolstered by England’s 12th man, Boyd Rankin.

Patrick Nelson was crowned the Ministry of Home Affairs’ 2013 Caricom Domino Champion when the entity held its tournament on Thursday, June 28th at the Ministry’s location, 6 Brickdam, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Two recent articles caught my attention and I have to ask myself, when is it all going to stop?

Miner and store-keeper Floyd Campbell, who was allegedly found with cocaine and marijuana at Aranka Landing, Cuyuni River, was yesterday remanded to prison on drug trafficking charges.

Dear Editor, I direct your attention to the letter captioned ‘Local government Minister’s statement is a tissue of untruths’ which was published in the letter column of your June 28th edition of Stabroek News, purportedly having my name listed as one of the signatories included among Mayor Hamilton Green, Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and other Councillors.

Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud yesterday told a news conference that the parliamentary review of the four reform bills is still not complete and he remained hopeful of concessions from the opposition on areas of contention.

FREEPORT, Bahamas,  CMC- A television channel that broadcast cricket around the clock is being made available to viewers in the Caribbean.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi vowed to stay in power and defend constitutional legitimacy with his life yesterday as generals worked on plans to push the Islamist aside within the day and suspend the constitution.

Dear Editor, Of recent, I have come to understand more than ever that Guyana as a nation of some seven hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants is way behind in reading, and when I say reading, I don’t specifically mean reading the daily newspapers or reading a text book on Politics, Mathematics or English, or even computers.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Bolivia said President Evo Morales’ plane was diverted on a flight from Russia and forced to land in Austria over suspicions that Edward Snowden might be on board, as several countries spurned the former U.S.

A man was yesterday sentenced to a three-year jail sentence for possession of marijuana, which he claimed that he used to medicate himself for asthma.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Former Jamaica and West Indies cricketing greats, Alfred Valentine and Collie Smith, have been honoured for their contribution to the sport.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday said it will not require employers to provide health insurance for their workers until 2015, delaying a key provision of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law by a year, to beyond the next election.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff sent Congress reform proposals yesterday intended to make Brazilian politics more representative in a bid to recoup popularity she lost in a wave of angry protests against the country’s political establishment.

Dear Editor, The writing is on the wall. It seems as if sooner or later ‒ maybe sooner rather than later that Test cricket will be a game in the past.

Guyana-born Surinamese national Maxwell Anthony Gill, 35, was yesterday fined $60,000 or an alternative of 24 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to illegally entering Guyana and trying to illegally obtain a passport.

NICE, France,  (Reuters) – Orica-GreenEdge’s remarkable start to the Tour de France continued when Simon Gerrans snatched the yellow jersey after the Australian outfit won the team time trial yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Controversial Australia batsman David Warner has a “clean slate” and is in contention to return for next week’s first Ashes test, coach Darren Lehmann said.

Dear Editor, Thrive: A new inclusion in our moral decline is the tendency to thrive on the misfortune of others.

No duelling, just a friendly toast: President Donald Ramotar (right) and US Ambassador to Guyana Brent Hardt in cowboy attire, toasting yesterday at the US Ambassador’s residence on the occasion of the 237th Independence Day anniversary of the United States.

The Bernice Mansell Foundation, at Rahaman’s Park, on June 27, 2013 received a donation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Over the last week President Obama made his second visit to the African continent, the first having been in July 2009.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed was named an Australian citizen yesterday, clearing the final procedural hurdle for his selection for the Ashes series against England starting on July 10.

North Road ride: This cute toddler was out for an afternoon ride along North Road, Bourda on Saturday afternoon (Photo by Arian Browne)  

The single issue over which all Guyanese, and more so all opposition supporters, should unite and forcefully and immediately seek to remove is the constitutional provision that gives the presidency and its not inconsiderable trappings to the party with the largest plurality, and makes it possible for someone to become the president even if his party secures less than 20% of the votes at a general election.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s ‘Pick it Up Guyana’ group partnered with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the United Nations Volunteer Programme on Saturday to campaign for environmental cleanliness at the minibus parks.

Dear Editor, Both Mr Christopher Ram and Mr Gabriel Lall believe they have a god-given right to be published in SN automatically, as seen in the complaint in the SN of July 1 titled ‘Why hasn’t Stabroek News carried Mr Ram’s letter?’ 

Marlon Hackett, 41, is recovering at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after suffering major head trauma when a vehicle struck him down on Sunday evening along the West Demerara Public Road.

(Barbados Nation) The Simpson empire, led by Barbadian business mogul Sir Kyffin Simpson, is about to take on gigantic proportions.