Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 23, 2013

At about 1800h. today, police say that the body of Patrick Seepaul was found at Zorg, Essequibo Coast.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A former Ecuadorean judge testified yesterday that he ghost-wrote rulings for a judge who ordered Chevron Corp to pay $19 billion to villagers whose land had been polluted by oil exploration.

Amid all of its production and financial woes, the Guyana Sugar Corporation has been without a legally functioning Board of Directors since June of this year, according to an industry insider.

These couples posed for the SN lens man on Saturday night at the National Stadium

These stylish ladies were all having a good time on Saturday at the National Stadium.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis today banished a German Roman Catholic prelate known as the “luxury bishop” for spending 31 million euros ($42.70 million) of Church funds on his residence at a time when the pontiff is stressing austerity.

(Trinidad Express) The Mighty Sparrow, Slinger Francisco, has been released from hospital and he is now recovering in a special therapy facility.

(Trinidad Express) An American Airlines flight out of Piarco International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Turks and Caicos Islands yesterday, after the pilots detected smoke in the cockpit.

National table tennis player Christopher Franklin last weekend smashed his way to the men’s singles title at the French League team and individual tournaments in French Guiana.

Four of the five Guyanese participants who recently returned from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) sponsored Tutor/Assessor course held at the University of Technology (UTech) in Jamaica, said that once in effect the course will revamp, strengthen and standardize the foundation of cricket in Guyana and across the Caribbean.

New Thriving Restaurant is set for a major expansion with a new eatery and hotel to be opened in the early months of 2014 and to be located in the spanking new five-storey edifice located at the corner of Camp and Lamaha streets.

Reigning Guyana and Caribbean individual shooting champion Lennox Braithwaite was back to his winning ways when he won last weekend’s Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) second Recorded Shoot at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

Professor Clive Thomas is accusing the government of “crying wolf” over the anti-money laundering amendments after it has failed to apply almost three quarters of the provisions in the current law.

Two gunmen yesterday robbed an Annandale family who had just arrived from the Timehri airport and fired shots as they fled.

Truck driver Dev Harkishun was yesterday placed on $350,000 bail after he was charged with causing the death of Stanley Roach, 71, who was crushed on the Rupert Craig Highway last Saturday.

Two Albouystown men Tyron Paris and Nigel Yearwood were yesterday sentenced to 60 months imprisonment after they were found guilty of robbery with violence.

Seven persons were left homeless yesterday after a fire razed their Castello Housing Scheme house.

Ramesh ‘Toney’ Ramraj, 23, who faced a murder charge at the High Court in Berbice was on Monday sentenced to 20 years imprisonment – ten years after murdering his father at the age of 13.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has acquired sponsorship for their T20 cricket tournament to be held for clubs in the ancient county commencing on Sunday.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 1545h on Monday at Onderneeming Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and which resulted in the death of Felix Layne, 66 years, of Onderneeming.

The Court of Appeal will next month rule on an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to have two affidavits, including one from the Trial Judge,  included as part of the record in the appeal of the acquittals of the Lusignan Massacre accused.

Hikers edged the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) 3-2 in their Men’s first divisional matchup when the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB)/Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) National Indoor Hockey Championships opened at the National Gymnasium on Monday.

The Kashif and Shanghai Kings retained their Trophy Stall Regulation Open basketball title defeating Amelia’s Ward Jets 66-60 Sunday evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court in Linden.

The mother of Delon Hawker, the man who was shot dead by police during an alleged shootout at Mahaicony last week, is pleading for witnesses to come forward and settle questions about how he met his end.

Guyana is poised to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) but sustaining the strides made with less international funding is already being seen as a near challenge for the future.

Hikers Divas defeated the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Spartans 2-1 in their women’s divisional showdown when the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB)/Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) National Indoor Hockey Championships opened at the National Gymnasium on Monday.

Monedderlust crushed Mahaicony All-Stars 5-1 in their semi-final matchup when action in the Starlight Generation Entertainment in collaboration with Monedderlust FC knockout football tournament continued on Saturday evening at the No.5 ground, West Coast Berbice.

The Ministry of Agriculture has designed a project to engage students enrolled at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) in income-generating activities during the duration of their programme, in keeping with its goal of making them practising agriculturists by the time they graduate.

The Linden Amateur Basketball Association will hold a special meeting tomorrow at the Mackenzie Sports Club Lounge to address the recent standoff with the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation and the issues surrounding the suspension of Dwayne Roberts.

As the United Nations ups the momentum for reaching the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the government here says that policies pertaining to reaching these goals have been accelerated and the future seems bright.

Dear Editor, I write to bring to the attention of readers, the Transport and Harbours Department and the Ministry of Transport, the violation of speedboat transport operating norms and a violation of my rights at the Supenaam boarding.

Dear Editor, One would have expected that the Minister of Education, who was present at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of UG, to have apprehended the implications of the President’s remarks on embracing change for the practice of education in Guyana.  

Accountant Kalisha Vaughn, 19, was yesterday granted $50,000 bail after being charged with stealing clothes.

(Reuters) – Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan picked up all three New Zealand wickets to fall as the visitors reached 107 for three before rain returned to halt play on day two of the second and final test yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is in the best interest of the PPP to allow the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to be established the way it was designed by this said PPP Government;  in law. 

Several Region Nine Amerindian communities last weekend received cheques valued at least $1M via the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport’s Community Ground Improvement initiative to upgrade their community grounds and or facilities.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday stated that offers of assistance were made to farmers on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) reserve to no avail.

Dear Editor, Mr Bryn Pollard, SC, clearly an admirer of Mr Nigel Hughes, is concerned  that the police are  probing transgressions that Mr Hughes may have allegedly  committed. 

Dear Editor, Former PNC strongman Mayor Hamilton Green in his letter, `Proposed rotation of mayorship has to be seen in context of PPP obsession with political control of Georgetown,’ (SN 10-21-13), stated that he was expelled from the PNC because he had a serious disagreement with PNC leader Desmond Hoyte over “the political management of the party machinery.” 

ORLANDO, Florida, CMC- Members of the West Indies cricket team have arrived in Florida for a one week training camp as part of preparations for their upcoming tours of India and New Zealand.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba took the first step towards scrapping its two-tier currency yesterday in a move which could boost local workers’ income and remove a major hurdle for importers and exporters.

US Ambassador D Brent Hardt advised Volunteer Youth Corps (VYC) CEO Goldie Scott to build on the professional linkages she made while participating in the embassy-sponsored International Visitor Leadership (IVL) exchange programme in the United States to strengthen her organisation.

SPARKS, Nev.,  (Reuters) – A 12-year-old boy who shot dead a teacher and wounded two fellow students at his Nevada middle school likely brought the gun from home, raising questions about whether the parents could face liability, police said yesterday.

PNCR Assistant General Secretary Amna Ally and a team of party officials are calling on the PPP/C administration to improve basic services in the Pomeroon-Supenaam area as the IMC and RDC “do not seem to know what they are doing.”

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica and Dominican Republic have joined Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago in the semi-finals of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Women’s Under-20 Finals.

Guyana is a politically abnormal country and any attempt to analyse or administer it using only the normal tools/institutions of international political life is doomed to failure!

Dear Editor, In his letter `A deliberate misreading of letter’, (SN 10-21-13) in which Mr Abu Bakr addressed some claims made by Mr Annan Boodram, he posited, “As an aside, while it is true that Ravi Dev has never claimed to be the progenitor of the term “ethnic security dilemma”, neither has he, in his writings on the subject, ever bothered, as far as I can recall, to go beyond Horowitz to give us the benefit of its origins and of its occurrence in the literature of ethnic conflict.

Dear Editor, Last week, as Muslims worldwide, celebrated Eid ul Azha, we penned a letter to the media on an historical petition dating back to 1896 which was filed by a number of Muslim merchants to the Combined Court of British Guiana requesting financial assistance to construct a mosque and a school.

Privatization was seen as one of the “reform” measures for an economy transitioning from socialism to a marked-based capitalist economy.

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, CMC –Two Caribbean teams are down to participate in an International Netball Festival in Northern Ireland which runs from October 31 to November 3.

The Caricom Community Secretariat has recently reacted to the decision of the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court on September 23rd that annuls a standing rule that had granted citizenship to anyone born in that country after 1929.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians were told to evacuate their homes on Wednesday as dry winds created the conditions for a firestorm in mountainous bushland outside Sydney, where firefighters have battled for days to bring dozens of wildfires under control.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after denying that he stole articles amounting to $1.5M from a British national.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Overseers of Abu Dhabi’s Grand Mosque say they asked pop star Rihanna to leave the compound after she posed for photographs considered to be at odds with the “sanctity” of the site, according to the Associated Press.

(Barbados Nation) Next  month’s Test series in India will have new meaning for dashing West Indies opening batsman Christopher Henry Gayle.