Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 14, 2013

(Trinidad Express) The city of Port of Spain was the scene of four murders within eleven hours today, among the dead -16 year old Rashida Gomez who was shot and killed at an apartment at lower Duncan Street, Port of Spain.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces crushed the protest camps of thousands of supporters of the deposed Islamist president today, shooting almost 200 of them dead in the bloodiest day in decades and polarising the Arab world’s most populous nation.

(Barbados Nation) Emergency personnel are now on the scene at the Grantley Adams International Airport where a small six-seater private aircraft reportedly ran off the runway.

The World Bank last week approved US$340 million in financing for the US$468.6 million 80-megawatt Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project in Rwanda, Africa underlining the point that Guyana could have sought to win backing for the Amaila Project from this institution.

(Barbados Nation) From next year, Barbadian students at campuses of the University of the West Indies across the region will be digging into their pocket for their tuition fees.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Clifford Singh, 35 years, of Prince William Street, Plaisance, ECD.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people today when they moved in to clear a camp of Cairo protesters demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, his Muslim Brotherhood movement said.

With eighteen grade one and two grade two passes, 16-year-old Zimeena Rasheed of Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary in Essequibo has

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday placed a life ban from jury service on the foreman   in the recently-concluded Lusignan massacre trial for failing to disclose that he was once a client of attorney Nigel Hughes, who represented one of the two accused who were acquitted.

With Essequibo girl Zimeena Rasheed scoring an astounding 20 CSEC subjects, the Ministry of Education yesterday celebrated a marginal improvement in the number of Grades 1 to 3 passes but results for English A and Mathematics remain unsatisfactory.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has appealed the recent acquittals in the Lusignan massacre trial, saying that the lawyer for one of the two accused and the jury foreman both failed to disclose a six-year attorney-client relationship.

President’s College student Shalita Appadu, 18, of Corentyne, Berbice, has topped this year’s CAPE examinations.

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday assailed APNU’s reasons for not supporting the Amaila hydropower project, calling them factually wrong and saying that tariffs will come down 20 percent within two years of operation.

Joshua Baveghems who allegedly beat his teenaged girlfriend with a spade before chopping her to death yesterday made his first court appearance on a charge of murder.

Three of the five bills passed by the National Assembly last week will today be sent to the Attorney General’s Chambers to receive their assent certificates, according to National Assembly Clerk Sherlock Isaacs, who says the remaining two are to follow soon.

A third man was charged yesterday over the March 25th $4.3M robbery of gas station owner Cecil Gajadhar.

Private security firms believe businesspersons are partly to blame for the robberies and related crime perpetrated against them by being careless and taking unnecessary risks.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has reported an overall increase of 5% in serious crimes at the end of the January-July 2013 period compared to the same period in 2012.

The trial of Morris Roberts, accused of fatally beating another man to death at Wanakai, North West District, began in the High Court yesterday with him changing his plea from guilty to not guilty.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday defended the appointment of Patrick Mentore to the Strategic Management Department to oversee police reforms although his name was recently mentioned in relation to a US visa racket.

Top 2013 CSEC performers (As provided by the Ministry of Education)

Two men have been arrested in connection with Monday’s discovery of cocaine in a shipment of ochroes at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timheri, police said yesterday.

A couple was placed on a bond to keep the peace for the next 12 months after each party decided to drop charges against the other.

Guyanese table tennis players kept themselves in the hunt for singles glory with eight players advancing to today’s quarter-final rounds of the boys and girls Under-11 and Under-13 categories as the eighth annual Pre-Cadet and Cadet Caribbean Table Tennis Championship continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

“Give us some more time,” is all Radica Thakoor hears whenever she checks with authorities on the now three-year-long probe into the death of her daughter, bank employee Sheema Mangar.

CINCINNATI,  (Reuters) – Third seeded Spaniard David Ferrer was forced to work for his spot in the last 16 of the Western and Southern Open, grinding out a 7-6 (5) 3-6 6-4 win over plucky American wildcard Ryan Harrison yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts & Nevis, CMC – Jamaica, the Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago secured victories in the third round of matches in the Regional Under-19 One-Day Cricket Tournament here  yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African police have completed their murder investigation into global track and field star Oscar Pistorius, who will appear in court next week to receive detailed charges for the Valentine’s Day shooting of his girlfriend.

DUBAI, UAE, CMC – West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul regained the number two position in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) Test Batting Rankings after Australian captain Michael Clarke’s sub-par showing in the fourth Test against England at Chester-le-Street.

CINCINNATI,  (Reuters) – For many seasons Rafa Nadal has arrived at the tail end of the tennis schedule with his knees creaking like two rusty gates and nursing the aches and pains that are payment for his action-packed style.

Action in the Slingerz/National Association for Women Football (NAWF) Goal for Gold football tournament continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda with two slated fixtures.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The world championships finally caught fire yesterday as the fans turned up to say farewell to Yelena Isinbayeva, only for the Russian pole vault queen to roll back the years and win an emotional gold medal against all the odds.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – LaShawn Merritt satisfied his hunger for success by regaining the 400 metres title at the world championships yesterday with a tactically perfect run as defending champion Kirani James faded badly to finish seventh.

Dear Editor, So it seems that the construction of Amaila Falls Hydro will not start in January 2014 as planned, and it will not be generating electricity for the people of Guyana in 2017.

Dear Editor, Appearing in the Sunday Chronicle of August 4, 2013, was a Vacancy Notice for the position of Senior Communications Officer in the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

CHESTER-LE-STREET, England, (Reuters) – Captain Alastair Cook will not let England rest on their laurels after snatching victory from the jaws of defeat in the fourth test and he wants to end the Ashes series in style next week.

BARAMULLA/NEW DELHI, India,  (Reuters) – Pakistan-based militants are preparing to take on India across the subcontinent once Western troops leave Afghanistan next year, several sources say, raising the risk of a dramatic spike in tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Nine individuals face five-year to life bans from cricket after being charged with match-fixing and other offences during this year’s Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the International Cricket Council (ICC) said  yesterday.

Dear Editor, I did not shrink earlier from speaking out against two erring (I believe) AFC members. 

Dear Editor, The political aftermath of the November 2011 general elections has spawned protean views, some of which may be rooted in uninformed analyses of the constitutional architecture which governs the State of Guyana.

(Reuters) – England coach Andy Flower is not willing to experiment with his line-up too much for next week’s final Ashes test against Australia even though the hosts have already wrapped up the five-match series 3-0.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro unexpectedly named a new head of the country’s central bank yesterday, appointing Eudomar Tovar less than four months after installing a former commerce minister in the post.

(Reuters) – Australia’s batsmen are playing for their careers after another dramatic Ashes collapse, coach Darren Lehmann said.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – One Muslim Brotherhood member was shot dead and at least 11 people wounded in Egypt yesterday, security sources said, with the Islamist group accusing plain clothes police of firing on their march.

Dear Editor, I read Nigel Hughes’s apology in your Monday issue.

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 yesterday, making it harder for the government to complete the 560 million euro ($744.43 million) deal.

The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) has named a 20-member team including three officials to participate in the upcoming 19th Goodwill Swimming Championships in Barbados this weekend.

Dear Editor, I read Intikhab Sankar’s letter (‘The Parliamentary Select Committee on the cricket administration Bill has failed to fulfil its mandate,’SN, August 10) which is essentially an attempt to discredit the work of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the enactment of laws for the orderly administration of our cricket. 

Jamaican Dane Schwier defeated Jamal Callender in their men’s super plate fixture as action in the Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squash Championships powered by POWERADE and SMALTA concluded at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts yesterday.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesian media reported yesterday that the Southeast Asian country’s anti-graft agency had arrested the head of Indonesia’s energy regulator for alleged corruption.

Dear Editor, Just over a year ago the political opposition along with the Kaieteur News, Christopher Ram and Anand Goolsarran, just to name a few, were expounding to the public about conflict of interest. 

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MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A Russian surgeon has been arrested for taking a five-gramme bag of heroin he found in a patient’s stomach.

(Reuters) – A federal judge in Florida has thrown out a lawsuit accusing the U.S.

  Electrical jumble: This wiring disaster is on a pole in an alley between the Avon Video Club and Nanda’s Boutique on Camp Street.

The nature of the local government system of a country largely depends on the ideological orientation of those responsible for its establishment.

BK Western Tigers Football Club will hold its biannual general meeting on

Dear Editor, I support Frank Fyffe’s description of GHK Lall’s contribution, style of the written word and “excellent penmanship.”

It is little over fifty years since a sustained campaign, led by the then opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) under Alexander Bustamante, resulted in a referendum decision approving the country’s withdrawal from the West Indies Federation, and supporting national independence for Jamaica.