Daily Archive: Sunday, October 13, 2013

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – State security agents have arrested the mayor of Venezuela’s third-largest city for alleged corruption after President Nicolas Maduro asked lawmakers to grant him decree powers he says he needs to fight graft.

The disembarking and security screening at Trinidad’s Piarco International Airport of Guyanese passengers in-transit to the US will be something of the past effective November 1, 2013, according to a release today from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Former Justice Kenneth Barnwell has passed away at the age of 85.

(Barbados Nation) Two Bulgarians, Vladimir Lachezarof Momchilof, 42, and Krasimir Yanakiev Yanakiev, 37, appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with two counts each of money laundering and going equipped with intent to commit theft.

BHOPAL, India,  (Reuters) – At least 64 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a stampede after a bridge collapsed near a remote Hindu temple in India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official told Reuters today.

(Trinidad Express)  “Check sly fox for monies.” “My detail will collect this afternoon.

Two Albouystown youths were last evening shot dead and a third badly wounded after police opened fire on them on South Road in the vicinity of K&VC Hotel and relatives are disputing allegations that they were about to commit a robbery.

The friendly and helpful residents of Lichfield, West Coast Berbice are known for their independence with many of them being engaged in cattle and rice farming.

The foreign ministers of Guyana and Venezuela have agreed to meet this week on the Venezuelan navy’s arrest of the research vessel for a US company exploring for oil offshore Essequibo.

No steps have been taken by the judiciary to discipline attorney Nigel Hughes almost two months after it was brought to the attention of the High Court that he and the foreman of the jury in the trial of two Lusignan massacre accused once shared a lawyer-client relationship but the police are conducting their own investigations.

Just over a decade ago, Leslyn Joseph was warned that mercury in her body was at dangerous levels.

A 23-year-old cattle farmer of Number 40 Village, West Coast Berbice drowned when he fell off his horse while crossing the main canal around 1 pm on Friday.

“And the winner is Alanzo Greaves,” seems to be the recurring theme at the completion of local cycling events this season.

Tucville Primary defeated St. Sidwell’s 3-1 when the final group matches of the Petra Organization/Courts Guyana Incorporated in collaboration with Banks DIH Limited Pee Wee U11 football tourney continued at the Thirst Park ground yesterday.

PNC Leader David Granger, in celebrating the 56th anniversary of the founding of the PNC, declared on October 5, as reported in SN, that: “We have avoided the adoption of superficial solutions which do not involve the masses of our people and which do not resolve the deep-seated prejudices which impede national unity.”

Self-evaluation The specific ‘no objection’ role that cabinet plays currently has to do with evaluating how well and fair the procurement process itself has been working. 

HUBLI, India, CMC – The Zaheer Khan-led India A pace attack bowled the West Indies A out to register an innings and 54-run win in their last four-day game, and to level the series 1-1.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal failed to reach a final for only the second time during his incredible 2013 season after being blown off court by Argentine whirlwind Juan Martin Del Potro at the Shanghai Masters yesterday.

Over the course of the next four years, the Guyana Sugar Corporation will spend a total of $19.45 billion in an attempt to revive the struggling sugar industry. 

The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins – glancing and incandescent – is some of the most extraordinary to be found in English.

When I interviewed Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa last week, I was most surprised by his renewed optimism about Latin America, and by his confidence that Chavismo — the region’s authoritarian populist movement — is rapidly losing ground.

As passionate as we are, it is still impossible for West Indians to fully comprehend the intensity with which the people of the second most populous nation on earth are gripped by cricket, a game bequeathed to their widely diverse people by their one-time colonial overlords.

Introduction In the previous two columns the prevailing architecture of global anti money-laundering regulation under the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was introduced by way of the seven major groupings of the targeted areas within which this structure is organized.

In recent months, the voice of Caribbean civil society has been coming to the fore in ways that challenge or bypass politicians, the political class and traditional politics.

After a one year absence the Banks DIH Rugby Sevens Championships returns to the National Park rugby field today.

A Diamond/Grove resident is in shock after an unknown police officer made her sign an agreement yesterday stating she would be required to pay $15,000 to replace a cell phone part, after the owner of the cell phone accused her of theft.

The Breadfruit fern commonly called the Toyo fern originates in the tropical Americas and the Caribbean, and belongs to the Polypodiaceae family. 

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few; winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us – Kasparov Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has announced his candidacy for the presidency of the International Chess Federation, known by its French acronym, FIDE.

After weighing in at 134 pounds each, Jamaican, Glenroy ‘Bumpy’ Beckford and multiple division title holder, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell stood with their faces inches apart, their mouths moving at a rapid-fire pace as they shouted at one another.

Dear Editor, I have the opportunity to see the current government shut-down crisis in the United States of America on the international TV news networks, namely CNN, the BBC and Aljazeera America.

The Embassy of Mexico in Guyana continued its series of Mexican cultural events with a photographic exhibition outstanding for its show of images, colour and words as it was notorious for its under-representation and unexploited opportunity. 

Dear Editor, Venezuela has now detained an oil survey vessel in Guyana waters which has serious diplomatic implications and undertones.

Maybe it was the ‘rebel’ inside of young Williette Alleyne who wanted complete freedom to choose a career path, but she would prefer to tell you that she was inspired by a speech by the late President Forbes Burnham to move into the aviation field.

The cream of the nation’s wheelsmen will be vying to become an ounce of gold richer when the second annual 80-mile Kadir Mohamed Memorial Ounce of Gold road race pedals off today on Homestretch Avenue.

This week the Guyana Women Miners Organisa-tion (GWMO) is to begin collaboration with BK International on a training exercise.

Continued from last week Importance of weight gain Puppies should gain one to one and half grams of weight per day for each pound of anticipated adult weight and should double their birth weight in eight to the days. 

Musical bicycle: This bicycle turned music set was spotted at Ogle, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Park Rangers def. Floodlights by 9 wickets. Floodlights 80 all out; Wayne Jones 18.

On Thursday, a research vessel on contract to  US oil company Anadarko was undertaking a survey of the seabed in Guyana’s waters when it was arrested by a Venezuelan navy frigate and escorted to the island of Margarita. 

Sunday Cartoons

Dear Editor, In 1996, when I visited Vietnam, I was honoured to be in the presence of  General Vo Nguyen Giap. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional negotiations to end a US fiscal crisis gripping Washington and spooking financial markets hung by a thread yesterday after bipartisan talks broke down in the House of Representatives and shifted to Senate leaders.