Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Education Minister Priya Manickchand this morning announced that Zameena Rasheed, a student of Anna Regina Multilateral School is the country’s top student at this year’s sitting of the CSEC examinations.

Justice Navindra Singh this morning banned the foreman of the jury in the recently concluded Lusignan massacre trial because he did not disclose to the court that he had a lawyer-client relationship with one of the attorneys-at-law, Nigel Hughes, who had represented one of the two accused who were subsequently found not guilty.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian negotiators set a higher base price for the purchase of helicopters from AgustaWestland and frequently changed the bidding rules, the federal auditor said today, making it harder for the government to complete the 560 million euro ($744.43 million) deal.

As APNU stood its ground on its objections to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) in its current form, President Donald Ramotar yesterday pledged that he would try to persuade the investors to stay on, while warning that the country could lose US$80M meant to be used as Guyana’s equity in the scheme.

Alert ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch operating at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri yesterday found  a quantity of cocaine stuffed in hollowed-out ochroes which were being prepared for shipment to the United States.

APNU MP Dr Rupert Roopnaraine says that Sithe Global’s insistence on parliamentary consensus on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project was likely to ensure that the venture would proceed as agreed even if government changed hands.

Murder accused Lawrence Rambarran yesterday pleaded guilty to killing his wife Deborah Allen, who he hacked to death in 2009 after an argument.

Laparkan Financial Services has secured a  partnership agreement with the Jamaican remittance company, JN Money Services Limited (JNMS) which would enable the latter to expand to four more Caribbean countries.

Nigel Rodney, the husband of maternal death victim Luann Rodney, says he is yet to be officially updated and told what actions would be taken against the attending doctor reportedly found negligent in his wife’s death by an expert committee.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is scheduled to visit Guyana by month-end, President Donald Ramotar confirmed over the weekend, according to the Government Information Agency.

(Barbados Nation) Just weeks after its chief executive officer, captain Ian Brunton, promised that LIAT?would

Saddened at the recent loss of lives through domestic violence, the Ministry of  Human Services and Social Security yesterday called for the assistance of members of the public  and victims in reporting incidents so that they can be addressed.

Guyana is one of four countries that will benefit from a €2.7m ($735m) regional project aimed at supporting the reduction of greenhouse gases linked to deforestation and forest degradation.

Relatives of Joshua Alleyne, the teen who hacked his girlfriend to death at Diamond, East Bank Demerara on Thursday says that the life he led was not easy and accused his mother of pushing him over the brink.

A woman was yesterday placed in the prisoners’ holding cell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after she falsely accused her common-law husband of threatening to chop her.

A man was fined $5,000 for assaulting his wife after an argument over a text message she read on his phone.

The Ministry of Education last Tuesday opened bids for the

Just days after embarking on protest action to force the removal of acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba, Mayor Hamilton Green and City Councillors found themselves sitting with her at the council’s statutory meeting yesterday.

Junior Luther will spend the next two years in jail after he broke into a Rentokil pick-up and stole gear from inside the vehicle.

A man was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment after being found guilty of narcotics possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Keisha Persaud will be sitting in prison for the next 18 months after she stole her friend’s phone.

Calvin Bailey burst into tears yesterday when, for the second time this year, he learnt he would have to face another trial for the murder of his toddler son after a jury failed to agree on a verdict.

By Jeff Trotman Dr. Stephen Carryl lives a purpose-driven life. “I don’t care how small or little, you cannot live life without a purpose,” he said at a social gathering last Friday at the LEN Building, in Linden, to wrap up his annual mission heading an Overseas Medical Assistance Team (OMAT) to Linden.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Move over Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stole your thunder.

The Guyana national U11 players are proving to be the success story of the eighth annual Pre-Cadet and Cadet table tennis championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Perennially cheerful American David Oliver finally had something to really smile about on Monday as a powerful run earned him the world 110 metres hurdles gold medal and the global title he so richly deserves.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 12 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to having cannabis, which was found in his house during a police search.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Valerie Adams became the first woman to win four successive world titles when she secured shot put gold yesterday.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Frank Anthony Sunday night said that he was hoping that the new GFF dispensation would work together to develop the sport as the football fraternity for far too long had been divided.

Defending senior Caribbean Area Squash (CASA) champions Chris Binnie of Jamaica and Nicolette Fernandes of Guyana continued their smooth sailing as action in the men’s and women’s singles divisions of the Digicel, PowerAde and Smalta-sponsored tournament continued yesterday at the Georgetown Club courts.

CHESTER-LE-STREET, England, (Reuters) – Australia, with victory in sight, collapsed from 120 for one to 224 all out in a crazy post-tea spell as England won the fourth test by 74 runs to go 3-0 up in the five-match Ashes series yesterday.

Dear Editor, As a member of the Alliance For Change’s National Executive Committee, I found your editorial of Sunday, August 11, 2013 difficult to read without being affected by its scathing indictment of the party.

Four of the six amateur boxers returned from Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday with trophies  following victories at last weekend’s Youth Invitational tournament at the Cosmic Gym in Marabella.

Dear Editor, I am amazed and disappointed at the negative responses from a lot of persons who seem to be crucifying AFC leader Mr Khemraj Ramjattan for his support of government in an attempt to save the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP).

MOSCOW, Russia, CMC – Another Caribbean athlete has tested positive for a banned substance and will not participate in the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics underway here in Moscow.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he will ask for decree powers last used by his predecessor Hugo Chavez to ramp up a fight against corruption that has begun to cost him politically with supporters.

Anand Ramchand notched his first win of the 2013 season when he drove his Mitsubishi Evolution to an E Class victory at Sunday’s drag race event at the South Dakota Circuit.

The development of motor sport and road safety, were the topics high on the agenda when the president of Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Jean Todt concluded his pit stop visit to Guyana on Friday.

Dear Editor, The inability to change the political arena that Georgetown and Region Four have been transformed into is a constant discourse.

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration unveiled steps yesterday to fix what it considers the longstanding unjust treatment of many nonviolent drug offenders, aiming to bypass tough mandatory prison terms while reducing America’s huge prison population and saving billions of dollars.

Dear Editor, I visited Guyana last August for the CADVA conference on youth violence, and then again in March, this for the heartrending task of burying my dad.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge ruled on Monday the New York Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” crime-fighting tactic was unconstitutional, dealing a stinging rebuke to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who vowed to appeal the ruling.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Fidel Castro turns 87 today, largely out of sight but not out of mind, as Cuba struggles to move on from his half-century rule and as many of his policies are reconsidered under the leadership of his younger brother Raul.

Dear Editor, Thank you for permitting me space in your newspaper to highlight a burning issue that occurred due to the incompetence of the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co.

After a one-year absence from the ring, Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and local super middleweight champion, Lennox ‘2 Sharpe’ Allen will make his return under new management tomorrow night.

CLERMONT, Fla., (Reuters) – Dozens of guests at a Florida resort near Walt Disney World were safely evacuated in the middle of the night yesterday when a large sinkhole opened on the property, swallowing a three-story building.

Dear Editor, For the first time in the entire Caribbean a African won an election against the traditional big parties in an overwhelmingly Indian constituency in Trinidad.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is appealing to livestock owners to ensure proper supervision of their animals during the grazing period as its stray catching units impounded a total of 338 animals last month from the Georgetown, East Bank Demerara, Berbice and West Bank and West Coast Demerara areas.

Once US President Barack Obama had announced that the planned September one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin had been removed from his itinerary, the announcement was bound to become the subject of immediate and intense interest among foreign policy analysts, keen to contemplate the implications of the announcement for longer-term relations between Washington and Moscow.

(This is the first part in a series of five on the traffic situation.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An impressive all-round performance from captain Dwayne Bravo steered the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel to a thrilling one-run victory over the Antigua Hawksbills in their rain-affected CPL T20 match on Sunday night at Queens Park Oval.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez may be a lame duck after her coalition was thumped in a mid-term primary election, but with two years left in power she can still impose more of the capital and currency controls that have cut confidence in Latin America’s No.

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Not much of a road: A road in Industry, East Coast Demerara which has come to be known as ‘Rat hole road’.

(Trinidad Express) The former owner of Island Club Casino in Grand Bazaar has been charged in the United States with three counts of tax evasion and three counts of wilfully failing to file personal tax returns.