Daily Archive: Saturday, September 14, 2013

Houses of Justice are multi-agency service centres that will be established in communities, and will be geared to address pressing social needs of citizens at the community level; thereby improving access to public services.

Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran and the out-going Board of Directors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and some members of the new board met last evening for a social interaction, during which he revealed that for the first time ever the National Blood Transfusion Service has received 10,000 units, the Government Information Agency said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Kanye West has been charged with battery and attempted grand theft for an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport, a city official said on Friday.

Contracts for $47m worth of works at the University of Guyana were cleared by Cabinet this week.

At about 0200h. today, Jevonne Sealey, 27 years, of Bachelor’s Adventure, ECD, was driving a motor cycle along the Access Road at Bachelor’s Adventure when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a utility pole.

(Jamaica Gleaner) AS THE cry for cheaper energy sources gets louder, the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) company has signed one of its first major agreements with the American company, WindStream Technologies, to bring some 1,000 SolarMills into the island by October.

(Jamaica Observer) TWO brothers were shot and killed by gunmen who invaded their family home in Portmore, St Catherine, on Thursday night.

GENEVA/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Russia and the United States put aside bitter differences over Syria to strike a deal today that by destroying President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical arsenal may avert U.S.

Georgetown was this morning raked with heavy rain, deafening thunder claps and blinding flashes of lightning.

Fly Jamaica will take off from Guyana on September 27, with its inaugural flight to New York via Kingston, as paperwork from the regulatory authorities in the United States is still being processed to enable direct flights.

FIFA will consider shelving Guyana’s Goal Project which $US120, 000 has already been expended on if progress is not made by next March.

Officers of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday morning destroyed almost $3 billion in cocaine and marijuana that made up evidence used in recently-concluded court cases and which head of the unit James Singh called proof of higher seizures.

Australian company Pharsalus Gold Inc has applied to the environmental authorities for an authorisation for large scale gold mining at Black Water Creek, Kaburi Area, in Region Seven, which will use cyanide in its recovery operations and an impact assessment now has to be done.

Government yesterday held firm to its position that there is a national shortage of stone that warrants importation to cushion both demand and price.

To say that national star rider, Alanzo Greaves is having a remarkable year would be a massive understatement.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) is assisting in the investigations into the discovery of 69 kilogrammes of cocaine in a rice shipment in the Dominican Republic last month, unit head James Singh said yesterday.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) MP Winston Felix says that the government and Home Affairs Clement Rohee are to be blamed for the national security breakdown that has led to the current increase in criminal activities.

In 111 raids by the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) and the Guyana Police Force from January to June this year, 3921 illegal connections were detected and removed.

Four of the five men held for questioning about the murder of elderly Corentyne rice miller Lallapersaud Juggerdeo have been released by police on station bail.

Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque is sounding an alarm over the health of the region’s young people, with current data pointing to increasing trends of obesity due to unhealthy diets, sedentary lifestyles, and consumption of tobacco and alcohol and at earlier ages.

Odel Percival, one of two policemen charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice by bribing a fellow lawman due to testify in the $7M Bel Air heist trial, was on Thursday found guilty and sentenced to one year in jail.

Tonight’s mega fight between unbeaten Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is expected to surpass viewership of any other televised bout in boxing history.

The Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is conducting an investigation into allegations that ranks of the Wales Police Station failed to respond to reports of gunshots prior to the shooting to death of 14-year-old Ryan Persaud.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Aubrey Hutson says that today’s Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) trials at the Eve Leary ground will be two-fold.

Several of the statutes governing the University of Guyana (UG) have been stealthily amended to give Vice Chancellor (VC) greater power, the University of Guyana Senior Staff Associa-tion (UGSSA) and the Uni-versity of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) both say.

Gold medallist at last year’s Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships Devon Davis and local bodybuilding Queen Alicia Fortune recently received assistance from Giftland OfficeMax to compete in this year’s championships.

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn met with more Timehri North residents on Wednesday to discuss their relocation to facilitate the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) expansion project, and he assured government’s interest in helping but said it would not include compensation.

Footballer Omalo Williams, along with three other men, was yesterday remanded to prison over harbouring items that were allegedly stolen from Golyn and Sons during a robbery.

Guyana’s Priyanna Ramdhani has reached two finals of the Caribbean Regional Badminton Confederation junior championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the girls U13 singles and the girls’ U13 mixed doubles.

West Indies U19 openers Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Shimron Hetemyer yesterday said that their main goals are to perform well and to score heavily for the West Indies during the upcoming series against Bangladesh.

Quincy Andrews, 29, who confessed to breaking into a West La Penitence home but said he was doing nothing, was yesterday sentenced to serve the next three years behind bars.

The Banks DIH Limited  2013 sports programme will climax today with  employees battling for supremacy at cricket, football, dominoes, pools, billiards, table tennis and darts at the company’s Sports Club at Thirst Park.

The Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters Basketball Club’s Mackeson sponsored inter-ward tourney continues today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue.

Over the years Maureen Marks-Mendonca has decorated her name in a number of fields in the professional world.

Berbice resident Dern Hunte is now a remanded prisoner after being allegedly found with a large quantity of marijuana during a police stop.

GENEVA/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – U.S.-Russian talks on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons program have reached a “pivotal point,” a U.S.

Two brothers were yesterday remanded to the prison on charges of armed robbery, after a court was told that they were positively identified by the victims.

The second leg of the annual Inter Guiana Games (IGG) will take place in neighbouring Suriname from October 17-21.

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A Port Kaituma resident was yesterday charged with two counts of fraudulent conversion, after allegedly failing to hand over the proceeds from clothes she agreed to sell for other people.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – A lawyer accused two of Turkey’s corporate dynasties yesterday of backing the 1997 military overthrow of its first Islamist-led government, sending their shares tumbling on fears of a deepening vendetta against the country’s secular business elite.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is expected to be represented at today’s opening of the Essequibo/Pomeroon Football Association (EPFA) football season at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground.

The 2013 Universal DVD Club first division T20 competition organised by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will resumes today with matches in various grounds in the Ancient County.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – All four Indian men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi were sentenced to death yesterday, a decision the judge said sent a message to society that there can be no tolerance for such a savage crime.

Hi Everyone, There are many things that the Atlantic hurricane season brings – the need to stock up on canned food, bottled water, batteries, candles, matches, portable radios and then there is the requisite construction work to ensure that roofs are intact, shutters are sturdy, trees trimmed and the yard free of debris.

Dear Editor, We assume the facts in the report ‘Accuser testifies at PI into molestation charges against Muslim scholar,’ (SN, Wed, Sept 11, 2013) are correct.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Former India fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth has been banned for life on spot-fixing charges, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.

She has lost the blue hair, for now at least, and has come out with an empowerment anthem that pulled the carpet out from under Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” to take the number one spot.

(Jamaica Observer) A prosecution witness on Thursday gave damning evidence that former Junior Energy Minister Kern Spencer tried to retrieve several copies of multimillion-dollar transactions he conducted after being tipped off about his pending arrest for fraud.

The driver killed in the crash on Thursday, in the vicinity of Yarrowkabra on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, has been identified as logger Wilford Lim.

Dear Editor, I continue to be dismayed by the monotonous outpourings of some letter writers to your newspaper who seem incapable of even looking at our Guyanese situation from any other perspective than their own narrow-minded, holier-than-thou positions.

(Jamaica Observer) Suppliers to foreign prisons are grabbing up jerk sauces to meet the demand from the high population of incarcerated Jamaicans abroad.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Jamaica’s under -19 cricket coach, Robert Samuels, says he is not surprised that six members of his team were selected to the West Indies Under-19 squad to play against Bangladesh in Guyana next month.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Well known cricket administrator Dinanath Ramnarine’s bid to become the next president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) has received a timely boost.

Police are seeking the public’s help to find four men who are wanted for questioning about fraud and related crimes.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region One on Wednesday handed over a 15- horsepower Yamaha engine to the St.

Dear Editor, Mr Ranwell Jordan’s unanimous election as acting Mayor of Georgetown has revealed the following: Firstly, freed of the presence of the two Greens ‒ Patricia and Hamilton ‒ the city council could do its business in the normal constructive way. 

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC- West Indies Head Coach Ottis Gibson says the spin bowling clinic being conducted by former Pakistan off-spin bowler Saqlain Mushtaq is crucial to the development of a number of players in the region.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Three-quarters of Americans support efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria through an international agreement to control chemical weapons, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows steady opposition to U.S.

If it wasn’t proven before, designer Nelsion Nurse last Sunday evening proved that his métier is fashion when he won the design competition at the ‘Still Waters Run Deep’ event at the Seven Ponds, Botanical Gardens.

Professors Sir Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd and famed Jamaican reggae artiste Bunny Wailer are among those who will make presentations at the three-day Regional Conference on Reparations beginning in St.

Dear Editor, We the concerned youths of Region 4 find that garbage disposal is a burning issue that plagues the Garden City and its surroundings.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A fire killed 37 people in a Russian psychiatric hospital yesterday, the second deadly blaze at such a facility this year, heightening concerns about Russia’s treatment of the mentally ill and other vulnerable wards of the state.

BANGALORE, India, CMC- The West Indies ‘A’ side for the limited-over series against India ‘A’ arrived here on Thursday.

Fresh off the Carifesta XI catwalk in Suriname, ‘green’ designer Carol Fraser is looking to ensure the lessons and experiences gained there are used to the maximum benefit of the local industry.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) has donated $150,000 towards the reconstruction of the D’Edward Vigneshwar Mandir, following a request for assistance.

Recently there was a discussion on Facebook about the Stabroek News columnists and their relevance to those who read the newspaper.

(Billboard) – Though it seemed like there was going to be a race for the No 1 album on the Billboard 200 this week, Ariana Grande’s ‘Yours Truly’ comes out on top by a sizable margin.

Tomorrow is closing date for entries to the 2013 Season of the National Drama Festival and preliminary competitions will begin in Linden, Berbice and Georgetown, beginning October 1.

While reconfirming their commitment towards combatting terrorism in all its forms, Caribbean Community (Caricom) foreign ministers have called on the US government to remove Cuba from the blacklist of states allegedly supporting and sponsoring terrorism.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC-Jason Mohammed, Adrian Barath and Denesh Ramdin were the top performers as the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force ended their preparations for the Champions League at the National Cricket Centre in Couva Thursday.

The diplomatic chess game that will settle what action, if any, is taken against Syria has produced almost as many surprises as earlier debates over Iraq.

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe were still in with a chance of an upset win but Pakistan looked to be in control at the close on the fourth day of the second test in Harare yesterday.

Dear Editor, I seek your indulgence to present to the public a response to the articles regarding the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), which appeared in the September 11 and 12 editions of the Kaieteur News, viz, ‘GEA handles US$350 million in fuel, submits questionable financial statements – Christopher Ram’; ‘AFC wants GEA thoroughly investigated ‒ Ram should be awarded the Order of Excellence -Khemraj Ramjattan’ These articles have little substance but much conjecture and suggestions, and seem intended to create (or perhaps, to suffer from) confusion and illusions of corruption.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. officials have warned energy companies to be on the alert for “potential terrorist activities” at fuel storage plants but there were no immediate threats, an oil industry group told members yesterday.