Daily Archive: Monday, August 12, 2013

(Barbados Nation) Police have arrested and formally charged Dr Wayne Welch, 60, of Mount Wilton, St Thomas, for three counts of Indecent Assault allegedly committed towards three females.

Beach cricket: This family from Canal No.1, West Demerara  had a sweet game of beach cricket going along the Kingston seawall yesterday.

GRPA raffle: The Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association held the drawing of its fund raising raffle on August 2.

Big regatta winners:  Neil (left) and Clint Gonsalves were big winners at Sunday’s regatta at Lake Mainstay as evidenced by the number of trophies they picked up.

At about 0055h today, police say that Devon Cooper, 38 years, of Festival City, Georgetown, was on the seawall at Ogle, ECD, when he was confronted by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, and during which he was shot to his right hand.

Emancipation Day victors: Winners in the ACDA Emancipation Day festival after the prize-giving ceremony at ACDA headquarters. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government last night announced that it was in negotiations with a major Chinese corporation that wants to invest US$1.5 billion in Jamaica.

(Barbados Nation) Just weeks after its chief executive officer, captain Ian Brunton, promised that LIAT would improve its service, more than a dozen passengers travelling with the regional airline were stranded at the Grantley Adams International Airport.

In an address to the nation, President Donald Ramotar today again argued strongly for the Amaila hydropower project and said he will try to convince the investors to stay.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday made a renewed bid to win APNU’s support for the Amaila Hydropower project but party Leader David Granger maintains that the venture cannot be supported in its present form.

AFC chairman Nigel Hughes has acknowledged that his association with Sithe Global was a conflict of interest and made his most definitive statement yet that he has quit politics, a decision he appeared to have not yet communicated to the party’s leadership.

After suffering “immense loss” as a result of the new minimum wage, security firm RK Security has terminated 11 of its 15 government contracts.

Spots of blood still stain the Diamond, East Bank Deme-rara home where seventeen-year-old Angela McAllister was slaughtered last Thursday with a cutlass and spade by her boyfriend.

The recent PPP Congress has acknowledged that ethnic insecurities are real and says that any political solutions must address these insecurities.

A taxi driver was on Saturday night shot after a well-known gold and diamond dealer reportedly passed in a car and sprayed the Rockie’s business place on Light Street with bullets.

Martin GuptilPORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad  CMC – Mohammad Hafeez and Steven Jacobs ripped through the middle order of the Barbados Tridents to help the Guyana Amazon Warriors register a crucial 27 run win over the front runners after match 13 of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League at the Queen’s park oval here yesterday.

The perception that African Guyanese are not disposed to owning businesses is a myth and must be done away with, according to former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge, who says the flawed education system is partly responsible for the problem.

Score’s Even looked like just another horse at the third annual Digicel Horse Race Classic yesterday.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) will be hosting a security seminar tomorrow at the Pegasus Hotel from 9:00 to 12:00 hours. 

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Usain Bolt was made to look human by a combination of a Russian rainstorm and a fired-up Justin Gatlin  yesterday but the Jamaican superstar was still good enough to regain his world 100m title in a surging 9.77 seconds.

Former Region Ten Chairman Mortimer Mingo is the new Chairman of the Management Board of the Linden Hospital Complex.

Former Caribbean Junior Champion Guyanese Ryan Farnum defeated OECS player Jules Snagg seeded 9/16 three games to one winning  7-11,11-9,14-12,11-4, to score the first upset of the Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squash Championships powered by Powerade and Smalta which commenced yesterday at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts with the individual singles competition.

Dear Editor, Most of the reports on domestic violence describe it as prevalent.

Chairman of the Essequibo Paddy Farmers Association (EPFA), Naithram (only name)  and other rice farmers met with the GRDB and the RPA on Saturday and  the growers called for a water schedule and lamented the ongoing problem of getting payments from millers.

Trinidad and Tobago captured three of the four team titles when the team events of the eighth annual Pre-Cadet and Cadet Caribbean table tennis championships ended last night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, The opinions of concern or fear emanating from various quarters with regards to the withdrawal by Sithe Global from the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project (AFHP) and the consequences for foreign investment have to be examined in the context of what brought us here.

Dear Editor, Shoddy work: Prior to the general elections of 2011, communities, whose roads were neglected for decades, saw strange faces, vehicles, material and manpower converging on their villages.

CHESTER-LE-STREET, England, (Reuters) – England run-machine Ian Bell delivered another century from his Ashes series production line to engineer a spirited fightback on the third day of the fourth test against Australia yesterday.

The family of late New Amsterdam Hospital administrator Audrey Fields last week made donations to the facility and the National Psychiatric Hospital at Fort Canje, which they believe are doing exceptionally good jobs.

Well-known Guyanese musician and teacher Derry Etkins will be facilitating a music teachers’ workshop that is being launched by the Tina Insanally Foundation today.

BEAUSEJOUR, St.Lucia, CMC- Russell smashed an undefeated 47 from 19 balls with three fours and four sixes to pilot Jamaica Tallawahs to a six wicket win over St.Lucia

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) will soon begin research on mercury sources as well as its use in Guyana.

Dear Editor, While I strongly believe there is evidence of more tolerance and support for gays and lesbians  than at any other time in the history of the world, there is also a growing opposition out there.

Mainstay regatta: Patrons at yesterday’s annual Lake Mainstay Regatta had a relaxing time.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s plans to break a 75-year state monopoly on energy could boost flagging growth and double foreign investment, potentially providing the biggest leg-up to its economy since the North American Free Trade Agreement two decades ago.

Twenty five baseball coaches have been certified after participating in a Fundamentals of Coaching baseball course organized by USA Baseball through its partnership with the National Federation of State High School Associations.

Former three-time amateur and two-time professional boxing champion Jeff Roberts is no longer in the business of winning titles but is content on giving young amateur pugilist a fighting chance in the fistic sport of boxing.

Dear Editor, In April this year I entered an agreement with a supposed car dealer/importer [name given] in the city for the purchase of a vehicle.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s prime minister worked secretly as a taxi driver in central Oslo for a day in June, leaving his passengers wondering whether their elected leader had quit the day job.

Dear Editor, I almost always shy away from any sort of written praise for a particular erudite but contemptuous type of contributor to your publication, for the simple reason that in my judgement  they are often too full of themselves with their noses in the air, so that any form of endorsement coming from anyone they consider not in their category to be insulting.

A teenager was on Friday remanded to prison after being arraigned on larceny and narcotic-possession charges.

By Margaret Prescod Editor’s Note: This week’s column is being carried because of its subject matters.

Koker recreation: Girls fishing while the boys dive at a koker near Plantain Walk in Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.

Former World International Boxing Association (WIBA) bantamweight champion, Shondell ‘Mystery Lady’ Alfred said she is hoping to resume her career in another three or four months following the birth of her baby daughter.

ABUJA/MAIDUGURI,  (Reuters) – Nigerian ironworker Ba Kaka initially felt sympathy for Boko Haram’s violent uprising against a state he and many others saw as corrupt, un-Islamic and kowtowing to Western ideology.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Outraged by the release of an infamous Mexican drug boss jailed for ordering the brutal 1985 murder of a U.S.

Junior cyclists Akeem Arthur and Michael Anthony won silver and a bronze medal respectively at the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships (JCCC) in Aruba last month.

(Trinidad Express) Babies being switched at birth in a hospital is a scenario parents would expect only in a movie.

Oncidium orchids are native to the Caribbean, South and Central America and Florida. 

Politikles

Dear Editor, On Wednesday morning an incident occurred in Wortmanville just outside my mother-in-law’s house.

While it may appear to be a minor point, the way in which the ruling PPP treated reporters at the opening of its 30th Congress in Port Mourant two Fridays ago is reflective of some of its inner traumas: paranoia, the need for absolute control of information, distrust of the media and orchestration of events.

A container of worries: A man attaching a heavy-duty chain to a container to help pull this trailer out of a drain along Campbell Drive, Campbellville on Saturday.

A few weeks ago, this column ran three articles on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption to which Guyana acceded in 2008.

Interviews and photos by Rayon Harrinandan and Arian Browne Fazlo Rahim, Taxi Driver `We need a passport office, we have to spend a lot of money to go to Georgetown to get our passports and most times we don’t get the passport the same day.