Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The police say that at about 2145h today, Kurt David of Eccles Housing Scheme, EBD, was found in his home with suspected gunshot injuries.

PARAMARIBO,  (Reuters) – Suriname’s president said today the arrest of his son in Panama on charges of smuggling cocaine into the United States was timed to embarrass him as he hosted a regional summit.

At about 0415h today, the police say they arrested ten men and four women who were involved in the blocking of the roadway at Ituni,(Upper Berbice/Upper Demerara) and with the support of the Ministry of Works the logs used to create the blockage were removed.

Qualfon’s Providence call centre will cater for 3,500 seats when built.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In the wake of recent news that Zurich, Switzerland, now has a secured compound for sex workers, prostitutes in western Jamaica have renewed their call for the legalisation of the trade locally and the establishment of red-light districts.

The Jury of the Guyana Prize for Literature today released the Shortlists for the 2012 Awards in the various categories of entries.

Well-known florist Jean Pollard has passed away at the age of 82.

(Trinidad Express) Bedlam was the order of the day with residents of the Beetham Gardens yesterday exchanging gunfire with police after they shot and killed resident, 23-year-old Christopher Greaves, on Sunday.

A 14-year-old boy died yesterday after he was shot by a stray bullet near his home at Vive la Force, West Bank Demerara and the community said his death may have been avoided if police had acted on numerous reports of reckless shooting into the area from boats on the Demerara River.

The University of Guyana (UG) Council has terminated the contracts of Bursar John Seeram and Senior Accountant Hazel Bentick as at the end of last month and the workers’ union says it plans to protest the decision.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the teen who died days after undergoing a C-section delivery at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) revealed that malaria and blood pressure complications caused her death, but still not satisfied her father says he will search for answers after he has buried her.

Frustrated residents of the East Bank Demerara community of Garden of Eden say that they are disgusted and fed up after making pleas to those in authority about the decrepit bridge only to have it collapse the day before school reopened.

The 21-day timeframe in which President Donald Ramotar is constitutionally required to  indicate his intention or lack thereof to assent to the four local government bills has not yet lapsed as he was still to receive any of the bills up to last Friday .

A man who was previously sentenced to serve six years in jail for possession of drugs and ammunition, will spend another 2 years incarcerated, this time for fracturing the arm of  his common-law wife.

The decomposing body of an African male was yesterday discovered floating in a canal at Long Pond on the West Bank Demerara and is still to be identified.

Guyana’s first ever U18 World Champion powerlifter Gumendra Shewdas and lifters who won medals at July’s Caribbean and PanAmerica powerlifting championships yesterday paid a courtesy call to president Donald Ramotar.

The two compactors that were donated to the Mayor and City Council (MCC) have still not been put into use and the locations where they are to be placed, is still to be decided.

A man and a woman were yesterday charged with assaulting each other and placed on bonds to keep the peace.

All Greys increased their lead at the top of the table when they crushed Airbenders 6-1 as action the John Fernandes Insurance Services Limited second division hockey tourney recommenced at the Providence National Stadium on Sunday.

Krishmar Santokie, the Jamaican left-arm seam bowler, has scoffed at suggestions that the team’s defeat against the Jamaica Tallwahs in the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL)  might have been because the team underperformed.

A man who claimed he was wrongfully accused of stealing $202,000 worth of clothing was yesterday granted bail, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

NEW YORK, Reuters) – Roger Federer suffered a shock loss to Tommy Robredo at the U.S.

The body of a 37-year-old man was early yesterday morning found lying on the roadway at Four Miles, Quarry Top, Port Kaituma with his throat slashed.

Human trafficking activist Simona Broomes yesterday filed an official complaint with the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) against her arrest last week.

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe captured nine Pakistan wickets for 249 runs on the opening day of the first test in Harare yesterday after a frustrating ninth-wicket partnership between Saeed Ajmal and Junaid Khan.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) yesterday named three squads to participate in trial matches on Thursday and Friday in an effort to select the Demerara team for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board one day Inter County tournament.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena Williams enters the second week of the U.S.

The cries for help from an abused woman in Berbice were heard by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security which has offered to provide her with a safe home.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago has drafted wicketkeeper batsman Nicholas Pooran into their Champions League T20 (CLT20) squad after his big hitting performance in the just concluded Limacol Caribbean Premier League T20.

Gilbert Bristol, the exporter who was accused in 2012 of trying to ship $2 billion in cocaine hidden in fish food bound for China, died at the Georgetown Hospital after a prolonged illness.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – David Ferrer battled his way into the quarter-finals of the U.S.

Dear Editor, Suppose your neighbour offers to marry your daughter. Assuming that your daughter doesn’t mind, would you only be concerned that your daughter could live in a fancy house and have access to half a dozen Prados? 

Two men were yesterday charged and remanded to prison when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court accused of robbing a man of a cell phone and $50,000.

High winds on Sunday wreaked havoc in the Garden of Eden community, blowing the roof off one house and sending a tree crashing onto a utility pole that left the area without electricity up to late yesterday afternoon.

Dear Editor, The Isseneru Village Council of Isseneru Amerindian Village in Middle Mazaruni kindly requests that you publish our reply to a letter written by one Peter Persaud which appeared in the Guyana Chronicle of Wednesday, August 14, 2013 captioned ‘APA demonstration had nothing to do with land titles,’ in which he made a number of unfounded allegations against the Isseneru Village Council and also included the usual nasty misrepresentations in a failed attempt to discredit our protest held on the International Day of Indigenous Peoples.

President of Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) Leon Belony spelt his way to the GASP Open title last Sunday at the Malteenoes Sports Club pavilion.

Familiar foes Fruta Conquerors will oppose Pele, Football Club when the inaugural Players Cup football tournament continues today at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

Dear Editor, As a former worker of the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary/Agricultural-Development-Authority (MMA/ADA) who worked from 1984 to 2008 for a period of 24 consecutive years, I am entitled to my gratuity and pension.

The PPP yesterday labelled APNU leader David Granger’s recent warning about the country’s youth unemployment levels “incredulous” after the coalition’s vote against the Amaila Falls Hydropower project, which it said could have led to more job opportunities.

MUMBAI, India,  CMC-West Indies will play a test series in India in November, according to media reports quoting a source at the Indian cricket board (BCCI).

A man who said he pulled out a knife because he was annoyed at having to travel in an overloaded minibus was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Court.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to persuade the US Congress to back his plan to attack Syria met with skepticism yesterday from lawmakers in his own Democratic Party who expressed concern the United States would be dragged into a new Middle East conflict.

Dear Editor, The recent appointment of Mr Clement Rohee to the position of General Secretary of the ruling PPP/C, demonstrates the confidence and trust that his comrades in the Executive Committee of that party have in him.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago, both the state and independent media reported that the shortlist of the Guyana Prize for Literature would be announced by August 19th, presumably of this year. 

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil assailed the United States yesterday after new allegations that Washington spied on President Dilma Rousseff, complaining that its sovereignty may have been violated and suggesting that it could call off Rousseff’s planned state visit to the White House next month.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- One of Jamaica’s most decorated athletes, Veronica Campbell-Brown, was expected to face a disciplinary panel  yesterday after she returned a positive drug test in May.

CAIRO (Reuters) – A judicial panel set up by Egypt’s military-backed government supported a legal challenge to the status of the Muslim Brotherhood yesterday, compounding a drive to crush the movement behind the elected president deposed by the army in July.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The government is yet to say whether it can authorise the use of the Goat Islands for any activity because of a lease agreement with the United States which was inherited from the British colonial authorities.

Dear Editor, The Muslim Community of Guyana, represented by the various Islamic organizations strongly condemns the bloodshed, destruction, violence and human rights atrocities that are taking place in several countries, such as Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Nigeria, Burma and Iraq, and calls on the international community, led by the United Nations and other powerful world bodies, to take definite and decisive action to put a quick end to this human suffering.

The PPP is standing by the President Donald Ramotar’s refusal to assent to two opposition bills, while questioning APNU’s failure to move to the courts if it believes he has acted illegally.

BERLIN, Germany, CMC- Jamaican sprinter Kemar Bailey-Cole captured the men’s 100 metres at the ISTAF Athletics Meeting here in Berlin, Germany on Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – A new research facility to study the scientific benefits of marijuana is to be established jointly in Jamaica by two local universities.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Sixteen members of Colombia’s Cabinet presented their resignations to President Juan Manuel Santos yesterday, a decision that paves the way for changes he may want to make after a protest in the farming sector turned violent last week.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands,  CMC- Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Keston Bledman and hurdler Mikel Thomas won their respective events at the Flame Games in Amsterdam, Netherlands over the weekend.

Oma Devi Nanku, a student of Bygeval Secondary School has topped Region Five at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations with passes in12 subjects, including six distinctions, one grade one and five grade twos.

(Written by Calvin Bernard, Lecturer of the University of Guyana and a director of TIGI) Transparency requires that relevant information be made easily accessible to stakeholders in a way that it is free from deceit, easily understood and time appropriate.

Dear Editor, I had stopped contributing to the letter columns of all the newspapers because I got the impression that the print media editors felt I was being too critical of the Black collective.

Last week, the likelihood of United States missile strikes in Syria appeared imminent after Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Washington was in possession of evidence that the Syrian government had, on August 21, used chemical weapons against its civilian population and that more than 1,000 people had been killed.

Their faces say it all: Schoolchildren looking tired and agonized as they await transportation at the Route 42 Minibus Park after their first day of the new school year yesterday.