Daily Archive: Friday, August 2, 2013

President Donald Ramotar today declared that the “stalled” opposition-controlled Parliament is like a wound on the body politic that has to be resisted.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday warning Americans that al Qaeda may be planning attacks in August, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

The partially decomposed body of Delon Melville, 25 years, of Nelson Street, Mocha, was found at about 0630h.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Senior police investigators are now probing the fatal shooting of 49-year-old businessman Hector Wilson on Darling Street, in the vicinity of the Coronation Market, about 4:30 this morning.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) today disputed a statement by former Chief Election Officer Gocool Boodoo that it was the Information Technology division which had supplied an erroneous computation to the Commission for the allocation of seats at the 2011 general elections.

(Jamaica Observer) Opposition Senator Dr Christopher Tufton says offers being made by China for low-cost financing for infrastructure projects in the region will not be taken up at the desired rate, due to the requirements by Chinese lending institutions for government-backed sovereign guarantees.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica  – An eleven year old girl was shot and killed and two women injured when gunmen invaded a community in West Kingston late Thursday.

An 86-year-old man was yesterday found dead in his yard, hidden under a heap of grass and there were several chops wounds on his body.

A popular Mahdia dredge owner was on Wednesday crushed to death by an excavator he was repairing at Pamela Backdam in Region 7.

A fireman lost his life when the car he was travelling in slammed into a utility pole at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice around 11:15 am yesterday; the driver and another occupant sustained injuries.

Following rounds of discussion among various stakeholders, including project developer Sithe Global and the Opposition, Prime Minister Sam Hinds is hopeful that the US$858.2 million Amaila Hydro Power project gets the necessary approval and goes ahead, locking in financing within the present price window which closes December 31.

A Sophia man went berserk last night and launched a cutlass attack on his reputed wife and three children at approximately 10:30 pm in D Field Sophia.

Eight Guyanese have sued Caribbean Airlines (CAL) over the dramatic crash-landing of one its planes at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on July 31, 2011.

Fresh off their 19-run victory against the Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel in their opening match on Friday at the Guyana National Stadium, Amazon Warriors Head Coach, Roger Harper and Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, are confident about their clash against the Jamaican Tallawahs tonight.

(BBC) Cricket Australia and the Australian prime minister have criticised the decision to give Usman Khawaja out in the third Ashes Test at Old Trafford yesterday.

The body of three-year-old Doukuan Edwards of Industry, ECD, was found in a creek at Marudi, Soesdyke/Linden Highway at about 0900h yesterday.

Relatives of Nazalena Natasha Houston who was severely chopped on Friday evening after her reputed husband, Richard Lord, went berserk and killed their two children say that she is in a stable condition and recalling bits and pieces of what transpired.

A South Ruimveldt Supermarket owned by Chinese nationals was last evening robbed by armed gunmen who carted away cash and fired bullets during their escape.

The Women and Gender Equality Commission is proposing reforms for the handling of human trafficking cases.

A taxi driver was on Wednesday charged with defrauding a couple of $2.4M in the sale of a house, after introducing them to a woman claiming to be a Housing Ministry official that could help with the purchase.

Murder accused Kurleigh Goodluck on Wednesday said he was innocent in the death of fireman fireman Patrick Daly which occurred on September 15, 2009 at Land of Canaan.

Gavin Paul, on trial for trying to smuggle over two kilos of marijuana on a flight to Imbaimadai, said the bucket of paint containing the drug was going to be used to paint his shop, a police witness testified on Tuesday.

The recently constructed Beterverwagting Nursery School is not in compliance with the general building standard implemented since the 2004-2005 Great Flood which suggests that construction of public buildings should have a first storey elevation of 2.5 feet to three feet off the ground.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds says that there will be no need for the Government to bail out GPL when the Amaila project comes on stream since the projected cheaper cost of generation would go towards capital, filling the gap left by uneconomic tariffs.

If multiple -title holder, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell could win fights based simply on confidence, he might add many more titles to his resume.

Gavin Lewis clinched his place in the final four as he overcame Joseph DeJonge in their Men’s Over 35 quarterfinal encounter as action in the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Open continued at the company’s Recreational Club, Kaieteur Street, Bel-Air Park on Wednesday.

A land dispute saw two persons before the court on Wednesday on charges that they assaulted each other.

The nation’s top cyclists are in for another hectic weekend as National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed has once again organized back-to-back events.

BK Western Tigers edged Renaissance FC 1-0 through a Malachi Adonis second-half strike as action in the Fruta Conquerors U-13 final four football tournament commenced at the Tucville Community Centre Ground on Wednesday.

An investigation is ongoing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri into the reported theft of over $800,000 in  gold jewellery with the police being called in to investigate the matter.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) on Tuesday put forward a case to raise the level of funding from its International Development Partners (IDPs) and to increase the number of Community priorities in the bilateral and regional programmes of the IDPs.

President of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Leekha Rambrich is the first to admit that last weekend’s Tenth Berbice Expo held at the Albion Sports Complex may have fallen considerably short of the chamber’s and his own expectations.

The process of fast-tracking the regularisation of Brazilians working in the local gold industry could now begin in earnest following a call issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs for more than 600 miners, mostly Brazilians to report to the ministry’s Immigration Division.

Facing a charge of stealing a wallet filled with cash, security guard John Vaughn told a city court that it had been found on the road.

(Reuters) – India romped to a nine-wicket win in the fourth one-day international against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo yesterday to underline their superiority in the five-match series.

Michael Chester, accused of slapping his fiancé about the face and dragging her into their yard, had the matter against him dismissed after the woman told Magistrate Fabayo Azore that she no longer wished to pursue it.

Dear Editor, I attended the open Stakeholders Meeting on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project at the National Convention Centre on 31 July, described in the programme as ‘a collaboration between the Government of Guyana and Sithe Global.’

There is a dimension to Guyana’s gold-mining industry that is venal, replete with extortion, bribery and violent crime.

“I don’t use it as a hustle, and ah don’t want to lie to the court.

Dear Editor, I wish to take advantage of Sithe’s presence in Guyana to put some pertinent questions to them and the government in connection with the Amaila Falls Hydro Project.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Centurion Michael Clarke played a captain’s innings as Australia shrugged off another umpiring controversy to produce an Ashes fightback and rack up 303 for three on the first day of the third test yesterday.

There is a sense in which New Amsterdam’s recently commissioned four-storey Bristol Shopping Mall and Restaurant (the proprietor sometimes favours the more long-winded title Bristol-Apollo Lounge, Canje Pheasant Restaurant and Mini Mall) defies the widely-held notion that social and political instability in Guyana serves as a disincentive to attracting Guyanese in the diaspora to invest here.

Dear Editor, Permit me to bid a happy and reflectful 175th Emancipation Day /Month to all Guyanese, and in particular to my brothers and sisters of African descent, who must feel reassured that the rest of us are with you in your continued struggles in every part of the world to recover, economically and spiritually, from that crippling blinding white flash in human history that spanned several centuries.

ROME,  (Reuters) – A ruling by Italy’s supreme court upholding a tax fraud conviction against former premier and centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has left the fate of the country’s fragile ruling coalition resting in the balance.

Thousands of Guyanese travelled to the National Park to participate in the annual Emancipation day celebrations put on by the African Cultural and Development Association.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica,  CMC- Hearing into doping charges against sprint star Veronica Campbell Brown is expected to begin soon, the Jamaica Observer has reported.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC- West Indies offspinner Sunil Narine has strengthened his number one position in the ICC T20 Bowling Rankings following a decent showing in the two match series against Pakistan over the weekend.

For the past three years the ladies of the West Coast Berbice Branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) have been crossing the Berbice River to attend the annual Berbice Expo.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – American teenager Missy Franklin won her fourth gold of the week and compatriot Ryan Lochte claimed the 13th of a glittering career on a thrilling day of action at the world championships yesterday.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russia rejected U.S. pleas and granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year’s asylum yesterday, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport after more than five weeks in limbo while angering the United States and putting in doubt a planned summit between the two nations’ presidents.

Dear Editor, The Oxford Dictionary defines a martyr as (a) a person who is put to death for refusing to renounce a faith or belief (b) a person who suffers for adhering to a principle or belief.

Emancipation fun for the children yesterday at the National Park.

Dear Editor, This month marks 175 years since the abolition of slavery in Guyana, a significant milestone in our national calendar.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed Zimbabwe’s election as a farce yesterday after his rival President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa’s oldest head of state.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekara was recalled to Sri Lanka’s 15-man squad yesterday for the three-match Twenty20 series at home to South Africa.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 522’s trading results showed consideration of $2,741,000 from 131,110 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 521 which showed consideration of $1,446,395 from 9,649 shares traded in 14 transactions.

Youth drummers: The future of Emancipation Day celebrations seems to be in good hands.

Jack Warner may have convincingly won the Chaguanas West by-election in Trinidad on Monday but there are arguably more losers than winners after this particularly nasty and game-changing political battle.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa coach Russell Domingo put their disastrous 4-1 thrashing by Sri Lanka in a one-day international series this week down to a lack of experience in the limited over side.

Just over a week after his multi-million dollar Laluni Street dental surgery was robbed by gun-toting bandits, Indian national Dr Soumi SenGupta told Stabroek Business that the experience will not deter him from pursuing his mission in Guyana.

A reflective Emancipation weekend to all.  The point has been pounded recently: that the physical, legal freeing of the BG Colony’s slaves necessitated the arrival of all the other immigrant–labourers here. 

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Relations between the Soviet Union and the West had become so tense 30 years ago that British officials drew up a speech for Queen Elizabeth to deliver to the nation in the event of a nuclear war, newly released archives showed yesterday.

Pigeon hotspot: This photo was taken in First Street, Alexander Village on Tuesday.

MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – Uruguay’s leftist President Jose Mujica said his country would not become a haven for pot smokers the day after its lower chamber of Congress narrowly voted to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Hydar Ally (SN, July 31) captioned ‘Being gay is not a crime.’

(Trinidad Express) The country’s largest insurance company is about to become potentially one of the State’s most lucrative and far-reaching assets.