Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 23, 2013

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty today to a hit-and-run charge in a case that could lead to jail time for the Grammy-winning performer, a Los Angeles Superior Court spokeswoman said.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) Supreme Court judge Bryan Sykes has turned down the application to accept two witness statements at the murder trial of dancehall artiste Adija ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer.

Air Services Limited says that all passengers injured as a result of the July 15 crash of one of its planes at Matthews Ridge, Northwest have been discharged from hospital and medical bills so far top $3M.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela is seeking a loan of up to $5 billion from China to finance a state investment fund that was recently the victim of an embezzlement scheme by the fund’s own employees involving millions of dollars.

Alliance For Change Leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday walked out of a select committee of Parliament meeting on the anti-money laundering bill in protest at President Donald Ramotar’s use of the word terrorism to describe the opposition’s vote on Thursday against two matters pertaining to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop turned film and television actor best known for his role as wise-cracking detective Joe Fontana on the hit NBC police drama “Law & Order,” died in Scottsdale, Arizona, yesterday, his publicist said.

(Trinidad Express) The e-mail controversy has taken a new turn and is heading to the courts.

Regional carrier LIAT yesterday made history when it landed the first international commercial flight at the Ogle International Airport, marking the start of its daily service from Barbados.

Former co-accused in the Lusignan massacre Dwane Williams called ‘Small Fren’ yesterday testified that he was part of a gang, which included murder accused James Anthony Hyles and Mark Royden Williams, that killed 11 people and that the killing was in revenge for the disappearance of Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins’s girlfriend.

The Private Sector Commis-sion is taking strong note of foreign currency limitations and the fluctuating value of the Guyana dollar.

Mason Seon Jones, who allegedly cuffed and stabbed his ex-girlfriend because she went to Port Kaituma without his knowledge, was yesterday remanded to prison when the case was called in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Kevin Hope who was accused of causing the death of Patrice “Mitch” Welcome by dangerous driving on November 15, 2011 was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty.

The electricity supply to the First Federation building was disconnected by the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) over the weekend—a move that dozens of tenants, including city lawyers, say is part of an orchestrated attempt by the government to force them out.

Saying that the pros of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project far outweighed the cons, PPP Central Committee member Irfaan Ali yesterday urged the opposition to reconsider its vote against enabling legislation it voted against in the House last week.

By Tom Fordyce (BBC) What a difference a week makes. Victorious in the first Test by just 14 runs, England took this second one by 333 more.

The Youth Action Network (YAN), established under the auspices of the US Embassy’s Public Affairs Section will hold a day of service on Saturday, teaming up with visiting US military cadets to take part in community service activities in Linden.

Under the theme ‘From Resistance, Through Emanci-pation, Toward Empower-ment’ the Council Of Friends Of New Amsterdam (COFONA) is set to host various activities commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Berbice Slave Rebellion and the 175th Anniversary of Emancipation.

After out-posing and out-flexing all comers at the National Senior Bodybuilding Championships on Saturday, newly crowned Mr.

A contingent of Guyanese Cub Scouts left for Suriname on Saturday last, along with their counterparts from Grenada, to take part in the 13th Caribbean Cuboree.

Nearly a month after she was doused with acid by unknown assailants while walking home, 22-year-old Sandy Jackman is slowly on the road to recovery, her mother said.

West Indies player June Ogle was named Captain of a 15-woman Demerara team yesterday, ahead of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Senior Female Inter-county tournament commencing tomorrow.

The sister of an accused in the July 12, 2011 $7.2 million robbery committed at businessman Malcolm Panday’s Bel Air home was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on a charge of obstructing justice.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican sprinting superstar Yohan Blake, may have lost several millions since injuring his hamstring in April, but his manager Cubie Seegobin underlined that the athlete will not be rushed back into competition.

Colts Basketball Club pipped Dyna Ravens by a 69-67 score line as action in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Tier 1 Playoffs First Division Final concluded at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Mandela Avenue on Sunday.

BEAUSEJOUR, St.Lucia, CMC West Indies middle order batsman Marlon Samuels says he has devised a strategy to conquer the Pakistan bowlers as the five-match One Day International series between the two sides heads for a potentially exciting climax tomorrow.

Dear Editor, The long anticipated statement by the PPP in response to what I have been writing is a disappointment.

MIAMI,  CMC– CONCACAF has announced the official pairings and kick-off times of Semifinal matches in the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Almost three weeks after a fire razed their Quamina Street home in a mid-afternoon blaze, matriarch Vanessa Collymore and her family are appealing for assistance to rebuild.

Dear Editor, Comments in the media by President Ramoutar, labelling elected Parliamentary Oppo-sition members of the National Assembly as domestic terrorists, demonstrate how savage and shockingly irresponsible the Head of State and the Government he leads has become.

Headquarters, defending champions in the Guyana Police Force’s annual Inter-Division track and field championship, is currently two points behind following a defeat on Sunday morning in a road race relay to ‘A’ Division.

Dear Editor, I would like to expand on an issue which was not as fully addressed as I would have liked in Mr Sohan’s excellent letter published on July 16 titled ‘It is possible supplementary funds will have to be sought from Parliament to complete the Hope Canal.’

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc yesterday said it was not to blame for the death of 22-year-old Ronald Arthur since Dynamic Engineering, the firm for which he was working at the time of his death, was not contracted to do any work on its behalf.

Dear Editor, The Private Sector Commission (PSC)  and in particular, Mr Kit Nascimento, said recently, it was reported, that politics should be kept apart from the Amaila Falls project, and they condemned the vote in the National Assembly to block that project at this time.

Unions NAACIE and GTUC yesterday rebuffed suggestions by former Chief Labour Officer Mohamed Akeel that Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul may not have adhered to the legal procedure required for creating and implementing the new National Minimum Wage Order.

Guyana’s pound-for-pound king and three-division champion, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell is scheduled to return to the ring on August 10 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Samuel Pinder, 43, of 139 Da Silva Street, Newtown was up to press time receiving treatment for a

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Brazil yesterday on his first foreign trip as pontiff and was swarmed by well-wishers as he drove into Rio de Janeiro, where more than one million people are expected to gather to see the first Latin American to head the Roman Catholic Church.

President of the Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE), Peter Abdool has voiced his grave concerns with respect to the International Amateur Boxing Association’s (AIBA) decision to launch their league of professional boxers which will be allowed to compete at the Olympics Games.

Dear Editor, I would like to highlight the state of First Street, Mocha-Arcadia (a main thoroughfare in the village).

Digicel Guyana CEO Gregory Dean has expressed the concern that government through its Telecommunica-tions Bill is seeking to mandate how companies invest in the sector rather than allow the forces of a free and open market to determine how investments evolve.

Dear Editor, We are never amused by the position taken by Mr Mohamed Akeel since he exited his job as the Chief Labour Officer.

A former employee of Gizmos and Gadgets was yesterday granted bail when she appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate Court charged with simple larceny.

LONDON (Reuters) – The world was awaiting the first glimpse of Britain’s new prince today with camera crews poised to photograph Prince William and his wife, Kate, leaving a London hospital with their baby son.

NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) – The pesticide that killed 23 Indian schoolchildren last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organisation (WHO) describes as its “high acute toxicity”.

PUERTO AYACUCHO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos yesterday agreed to turn the page on a diplomatic dispute triggered when Santos met Venezuela’s main opposition leader in May.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia’s annihilation at Lord’s was slammed by the country’s cricket writers on Monday, and their chances of winning a solitary test on their tour of England all but written off.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has seen the letter to the editor on the National Minimum Wage Order by Mohammed Akeel, former chief labour officer, as well as the joint statement in response to it from President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Norris Witter and General Secretary of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) Kenneth Joseph, who are both members of the Tripartite Board.

September 9 has been set as the date for report and fixture of the commencement of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Adiola Eddie-Barker during the fatal “game bird” shooting last year, in which Mark Assing was charged with the capital offence.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Stringent drug testing means cycling is now probably the cleanest sport, Tour de France champion Chris Froome said yesterday.

Following the spate of armed robberies that occurred in the city last week the top brass of the Guyana Police Force tried once again to put a brave face on its limitations.

Dear Editor, I have had the honour and privilege since 1971 and to talk on several occasions with Mr Ralph Ramkarran, who served as the Speaker of the National Assembly until 2011.

Politikles

By Jeffrey Trotman St Aidan’s Parish commemorated its centenary anniversary with a church service and rededication of the church building at Burnham Drive, Wismar, Linden on Sunday under the theme ‘Celebrating one hundred years in unity, restoring and rebuilding, and regenerating in fellowship’.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The death toll from a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in China’s western Gansu province yesterday more than doubled to 54 people, the municipal government said, with hundreds injured as many homes in affected areas collapsed.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Allan Border, the tough Australian who helped transform the fortunes of the national side in the 1980s, said he would have been embarrassed to be one of the top three batsmen of the current team after their humiliation at Lord’s on Sunday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebels offered armed support to a rural protest in the Andean nation’s volatile northeast – a gesture that could ignite violence and increase friction as the Marxist group seeks a negotiated peace with the government.