Daily Archive: Thursday, July 11, 2013

(Barbados Nation) Passenger aboard a Jet Blue flight bound for New York had to evacuate the plane after a mechanical fault was detected just before take off from Grantley Adams International Airport this afternoon.

(Reuters) – India captain MS Dhoni smashed 16 off the first four balls of the final over to clinch the Tri Nation series with a thrilling one wicket victory over Sri Lanka in Port of Spain today.

(WICB) PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – The West Indies Board’s Selection Panel today named the 13-man squad for the upcoming One-Day Internationals against Pakistan in Guyana.

Declaring that the time had come to break his silence, elections commissioner Vincent Alexander today said that the near erroneous declaration in 2011 of a parliamentary majority for the PPP/C was not a mistake but a result of the changing of the formula by Chief Election Officer, Gocool Boodoo.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc today apologized to customers in Georgetown, East and West Demerara for the disruption of service yesterday between 15:10 hrs – 18:00 hrs.

(Trinidad Express) Joint-venture projects between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana could be the foundation upon which a unified Caribbean is built, businessman Donald Baldeosingh said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The resignations by senior media personnel at the Guardian newspaper was not because of political pressure, Guardian Media Ltd (GML) managing director Gabriel Faria said in an interview yesterday.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last evening expressed concern that suspected pirates found in this country’s waters were on Tuesday handed over to Surinamese authorities by Berbice fishermen.

Police have detained three suspects in Monday’s fatal shooting at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, a senior police official said yesterday.

The government has “rejected” the recent U.S State Department findings on human trafficking in Guyana, saying its report is “riddled with fabrication” and ignores efforts at combatting the situation.

Shaka Chase, who was held for the murder of a policeman before being freed,  has filed a lawsuit against the state asking for a declaration that he was tortured while in police custody and seeking in excess of $200,000 for a breach of his constitutional rights and assault.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday discharged an order he granted to former Chief Election Officer Gocool Boodoo to block the Chairman and Members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from deciding against renewal of his contract.

Security guard Andre Williams, 52, was fined yesterday for slapping a three-year-old boy who went into his yard to retrieve a balloon, leaving him with a bloody nose.

A logger was reportedly crushed to death on Tuesday by a falling tree in Ituni, Region 10 and details as to what exactly transpired are sketchy.

Police are questioning a man in connection with the murder of Tyrone Boodhoo who was shot on the Vryheid’s Lust Seawall, East Coast Demerara on Sunday night, a senior police officer yesterday.

Gold miner Merwin George was yesterday remanded to prison after denying a charge that he attacked another miner with a cutlass, after confusing him with someone else he had a fight with at a rum shop.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has started the first phase of public consultations on the development of its new public utilities policy profile aimed at getting feedback from key stakeholders on priority areas of the policy profile.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies one-day captain Dwayne Bravo says the team’s performance in the Celkon Mobile Cup Tri Series is a reflection of his leadership but that he will improve as a captain as he continues his career and works on aspects of his leadership.

Marlon Ganesh, who is on trial for killing his father-in-law, yesterday told the jury that he was trying to defend himself when he fatally stabbed the man.

Pakistan and the Guyana XI who square off in a 50 overs-a-side warm up match today at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, were involved in some intense practice sessions yesterday at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground and the Guyana National Stadium, Providence respectively.

By Jeff Trotman Over one hundred Linden residents on Tuesday endorsed the name, Linden Martyrs Monument Park, for the proposed facility to be established in the vicinity of the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge to commemorate the month-long protest by Linden residents against electricity rate hikes and in remembrance of three residents who were shot by the police on July 18th 2012.

Nicholas Cox, the 16-month-old child who was hospitalised for over a month after he was allegedly given an overdose of medication, was discharged from the Georgetown Hospital on Tuesday and his mother says she was told that he had sustained brain damage.

The national under-19 ruggers were booted out of the North America Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) 15s tournament following a 34-nil drubbing by the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) on Tuesday at the Fatima Ground in Mucurapo, Trinidad.

A Charlestown man was yesterday sentenced to two prison sentences after he was found guilty of break-and-enter-and-larceny and unlawful wounding.

The nation’s powerlifters returned from the Caribbean and Pan American Powerlifting Championships with a massive medal haul, world rankings, Caribbean Team honours, several records and a best lifter award.

Teenage block-maker Omari Sinclair was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail after telling a court that he was only defending himself when he hit the uncle of one of his friends with a piece of wood.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies one-day captain Dwayne Bravo says he is very happy to be the National Lotteries Control Board-sponsored Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel captain, as he prepares for the July 30 start to the Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament.

The 33-year-old man facing three charges in the death of Anniesha Persaud of Rose Hall Town on June 30 was on Wednesday slapped with a death by dangerous driving charge when he appeared in the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Dear Editor, The time has come to break my silence on the Boodoo affair. 

(Reuters) – India’s Jeev Milkha Singh has shunned the red carpet of Bollywood to concentrate on the greens of Castle Stuart and the defence of his Scottish Open crown this week.

Dear Editor, I did a double take after reading the “concern” expressed by the PPP/C big wigs against the REOs during the most recent PAC hearings.

Gas station owner Cecil Gajadhar who was shot and wounded during last Monday’s fatal bank trip ambush is recovering well and will be discharged from hospital soon.

St. George’s Secondary edged East Ruimveldt Secondary 4-3 in their Georgetown Zone semifinal encounter as action in the Digicel U18 Secondary Schools Football Tournament continued at the Ministry of Education Ground, Carifesta Avenue yesterday.

Dear Editor, Over three weeks ago, the Guyana Water Inc in one of their countrywide disconnection campaigns, visited the Uitvlugt Sideline Dam and disconnected several houses.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Australia coach Darren Lehmann was in a typically light-hearted and upbeat mood after an incident-packed opening day of the Ashes series against England yesterday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is appealing to livestock owners to exercise proper supervision of their animals during the grazing period as its stray catching units in Georgetown and Berbice impounded a total of 408 animals last month.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has planned several camps to be held in all ten Administrative Regions targeting 10,000 children on their two months vacation.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC– English umpire Nigel Llong and his Trinidadian counterpart Peter Nero will officiate the Grand Final of the Celkon Mobile Cup Series between India and Sri Lanka at the Queen’s Park oval here today The West Indies Cricket Board yesterday announced that Llong will accompany Nero to the middle, with Joel Wilson, another umpire from Trinidad & Tobago, to handle TV Replay duties and Nigel Duguid of Guyana as the reserve umpire.

Dear Editor,   These are recent headlines, ‘Caricom Heads agree on reparations action’ and ‘Caricom to set up Reparations Commission.’

Dear Editor, Whether deliberately, or the result of reflex action, various contributors have been publicising on TV, at rallies, and in print their respective perceptions of GuySuCo’s proposed Executive Chairman’s particular technical and related qualifications, leading importantly to an appreciation of the individual’s capacity for genuine leadership, at a time all are agreed that the sugar industry is begging to be retrieved from the slope of rapid decline.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd is sponsoring a Steelpan Workshop in collaboration with the Tina Insanally Foundation.

Kadecia Baird’s 2013 season is shaping up well after qualifying with an ‘A’ Standard for the IAAF World Championship following her first place finish in the Women’s 400m finals at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) championships last weekend in Mexico.

The Guyana Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory is 45% complete and is expected to be commissioned in approximately four months, the Government Information Agency said yesterday.

National senior chess champion Taffin Khan was unchallenged and carted off the first place prize of $7,000 while Anthony Drayton emerged the junior champion in the Trophy Stall Chess Tournament which concluded on Sunday at the Carifesta Sports Complex.

Dear Editor, I write to congratulate the members of the Guyana Women Miners Organization (GWMO) on their outstanding work of helping young helpless girls, although they are placing their safety at risk.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana (MYL) and three other Islamic groups are urging Muslims to participate fully in the fast and services planned for the month of Ramadan and to use the opportunity to intensify their prayers and give charity to In a press release, the Muslim Youth League of Guyana says Muslims should be grateful for another opportunity to “seek forgiveness, by fasting sincerely and intensifying …prayers” in order to benefit throughout the month from their efforts.

NOTTINGHAM, England, July 10 (Reuters) – England roared back in the final session following a feeble batting display as wickets tumbled on a dramatic opening day of the first Ashes test against Australia at Trent Bridge yesterday.

Dear Editor, It was quite a distasteful experience calling the Berbice Bridge’s information – (592)327-5466 ext 102 on schedules for the bridge’s opening/closure.

BRASILIA/BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Latin American governments urged the United States yesterday to be more forthcoming in answering allegations of U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Turmoil in the Guardian newsroom which began on Monday solidified yesterday when three senior members quit.

Caricom member states have elected representatives to serve on the newly-created Regional Integrated Ballistic Information Network (RIBIN) board to start its work, pursuant to a decision taken of the Fifth Meeting of the Council of Ministers Responsible for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE).

PASADENA, California,  CMC- CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb has stated the region is determined to host the 2026 World Cup and claims any candidate for the FIFA presidency post-2015 would need to support the organisation’s ambitions to receive its backing.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News is perceived as a serious newspaper that is respected by the intelligentsia (as well as the ‘educated’ class) in the Guyanese diaspora and among Guyanese at home.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, with his arm in a cast, accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded “not guilty” to committing the worst mass-casualty attack on U.S.

Twenty more classics: Professor David Dabydeen, who heads the publishing house, Caribbean Press,  yesterday presenting a collection of the Guyana Classics to a representative of the Bishops’ High School at the Umana Yana.

PORTLAND, Oregon,  CMC- Debutants Belize were hammered six goals to one by the United States in their Group C opener of the CONCACAF Gold Cup at JELD-WEN Field Tuesday night.

Dear Editor, ‘PPP “paid the price” at the last polls for neglecting groundwork –Rohee’ (SN, July 10).’

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec,  (Reuters) – The head of the company whose runaway oil-tanker train exploded and devastated a Quebec town faced cries of “murderer” from residents yesterday, and he said the train’s hand brakes were likely set improperly, causing the calamity.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ economy is in deep trouble and the Central Bank’s latest report is signalling more worry about the falling level of vital foreign reserves.

Dear Editor, There have been a flurry letters in the newspapers  by PPP executive member Mr Clement Rohee as well as a press briefing, most recently about corruption and why the PPP paid the price at the last poll for neglecting groundwork in some areas of the party strongholds.

MONT SAINT MICHEL,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Chris Froome extended his overall lead in the Tour de France after finishing second in the stage 11 time trial behind hot favourite Tony Martin.

(Reuters) – Lee Harvey Oswald had closer ties to Cuba’s intelligence agency in the months before his fatal shooting of John F.

Cartoons

Two of the ten random people interviewed by this newspaper for this week’s ‘What the People Say’ column on the ‘International Building Expo’ which was held over the weekend at the Guyana National Stadium Providence expressed concern that there were too few contractors and not enough building materials on display.

Below the surface in our society so much happens. Secrets abound.

(Trinidad Guardian) Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin Constructors Inc was paid TT$2.2 million by the T&T Government to design the Penal hospital, despite receiving a ten-year ban from the World Bank from bidding on contracts which it funded. 

Politikles

(Trinidad Express) Turmoil in the Guardian newsroom which began on Monday solidified yesterday when three senior members quit.