Daily Archive: Thursday, October 31, 2013

Non-stop flights between Guyana and New York will again be a reality in December if all documentation and paperwork are submitted by TravelSpan and given the stamp of approval.

(Barbados Nation) Some Caribbean countries are near the brink of collapse but one wouldn’t get that impression from the way governments are behaving.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Family of late soul singer Marvin Gaye sued R&B recording artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement on Wednesday, accusing them of stealing from the Motown legend’s musical composition for the hit single “Blurred Lines.”

(Trinidad Express) There is a multi-million-dollar sex slave trade taking place between this country and South America where persons are being held against their will, forced into prostitution and threatened with death.

A fire in the Eccles Industrial Estate last night completely destroyed the factory of Comfort Sleep Mattress Company factory and a bond owned by Payless store and threatened to consume surrounding structures as firemen battled to douse the flames.

Water Street businessman Rondy Jagdeo was yesterday charged with the murder of close friend Kirk Davis, who was riddled to death with bullets in front of his home and left to die last month.

Eight months after a High Court jury found him not guilty of the 2010 murder of Charlestown resident Mark Caesar, Dexter Marshall mysteriously died on Tuesday night shortly after he began exhibiting very strange behaviour.

Twenty-three-year-old Rosinda Nicholson, who was deported from Trinidad with her autistic son, is appealing to the Trinidad and Tobago authorities to allow her back into the country so her son can continue the treatment he has been receiving from birth.

Two Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) staff members have been sent on administrative leave to facilitate an investigation of the $4M that could not accounted for during an audit last month.

Domestic air charter service, Air Services Limited (ASL) is to be licensed as a commercial fuel handling agent at the Ogle Airport, where it will start operating its state-of-the-art fuel farm after months of delays.

History was created yesterday when the International Federation de Association Football (FIFA) World Cup Trophy arrived on local shores for the penultimate stage of the Caribbean leg of the third ever Coca-Cola World Cup Trophy Tour.

A Corentyne man is still awaiting answers from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on compensation after one of the army’s vehicles crashed into his yard and damaged his property.

Justice Diane Insanally on Tuesday quashed the order committing Ralph Tyndall, Anthony DePaul Hope and Kevin O’Neil to be tried in the High Court for the 2008 murder of Colleen Forrester.

With the backing of the government and other stakeholders, Guyana’s football could one day be a permanent fixture on the world stage.

With heavy showers over the past two days, Albouystown residents are once again battling with floodwaters largely due to the damaged Sussex Street koker.

After some 23 years of staging its annual year-end football tournament, co-founders of the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Organization, Aubrey Shanghai Major and Kashif Muhammad have decided not to stage the tournament this year.

The chorus of calls from the private sector for the anti-money laundering bill to be approved was joined by the aircraft owners’ body yesterday but the AFC is maintaining it will not support the legislation unless the Public Procurement Commis-sion (PPC) is set up.

The Charity/Urasara NDC has said that residents are to blame for the overflow of garbage in the market area and their misuse of the garbage system currently in place is creating a health hazard.

The Government of St Maarten says that “due diligence was followed in the matter related to consular activities of Guyana” on the island in response to this country’s concern about allegations suggesting otherwise published on a news blog site.

(BBC) Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan starred as India once again successfully chased a massive target against Australia yesterday.

An employee of Lyken Funeral Home was yesterday charged with stealing an embalmment machine from her workplace.

(Cricinfo) Sachin Tendulkar will have to earn every single run when he plays his last two Tests against the visiting West Indies side, Richie Richardson, the West Indies team manager, has said.

KOLKATA, India, CMC- West Indies spin bowler Shane Shillingford says he is looking forward to the prospects of bowling at the Indian batsmen during the two-test series which begin next week Wednesday on the sub-continent.

A three-year-old girl on Monday died by drowning in the Pomeroon River area.

Two weeks have passed since local police have made a request through Interpol for information on the fatal shooting of a Guyanese-born father and son in Venezuela but to date nothing has been forthcoming, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands,  CMC– The Grenada Football Association (GFA) and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) have signed a cooperation agreement on the margins of the recent CONCACAF Sports Summit held here.

The first Argentine resident Plenipotentiary Represen-tative to the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Luis Alberto Martino, on Monday, expressed his country’s willingness to strengthen ties with Caricom.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer booked his place in the ATP World Tour Finals for a record-tying 12th consecutive year when he dismissed South African Kevin Anderson 6-4 6-4 to reach the third round of the Paris Masters  yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Miami Heat got their NBA championship rings, watched a video tribute to last season’s record-setting campaign and then went out and showed why they are still the team to beat.

Twenty Trinidadian youngsters were taught to use animation principles to create animated stories about their lives and how they perceive their futures, at a workshop staged under the Caricom Programme on Crime and Violence Prevention last Friday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Jamaica’s sports Minister, Natalie Neita-Headley, has described a visit by inspectors representing the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as “constructive”.

The Ministry of Health arranged for an electrician from Georgetown to the fix the electrical problems at the Wakenaam Cottage Hospital’s mortuary.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa will host India for tests in Johannesburg and Durban in December but there will be no lucrative New Year match in Cape Town, Cricket South Africa confirmed yesterday.

A second year student of the New Amsterdam Technical Institute is now a patient in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being struck on the head by a ball during a cricket game at the Goed Bananen Land Ground in East Canje.

(Reuters) – South Africa claimed six wickets for 17 runs in a dramatic finish to snatch an unlikely one-run victory over Pakistan in their first one-day international at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates yesterday.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) launched its inaugural radio programme ‘Change is the Key’ in Linden on Sunday featuring a panel of community and party leaders discussing issues of specific importance to Region Ten and the wider country.

Overnight showers forced the first round of the Raj Singh Insurance Brokers and Trophy Stall sponsored Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Over-40 20 overs-a-side competition to be abandoned because of water-logged venues.

With the new forensic laboratory of the Guyana Police Force at an advanced stage of completion, the Home Ministry has announced the procurement of over $60M worth of forensic and photographic equipment and supplies for the facility.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a former top editor, and Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief, oversaw a system of phone-hacking and illegal payments when they ran Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids, a London court heard at the start of their trial yesterday.

After crowning two-time CAC gold medalist, Devon Davis as its bodybuilding ambassador in the first leg of ‘The Quest’, Giftland Office Max has embarked on the second leg of the ‘The Quest’ called, ‘Mr.

A three-year-old girl was struck down by a minibus on the Lima Public Road, on the Essequibo Coast on Tuesday afternoon.

Khemraj Pooranmall emerged victorious in the Guyana Draughts Association’s (GDA) Annual 100 squares competition held at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue on Sunday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil will extradite former Turks and Caicos Prime Minister Michael Misick to answer corruption charges alleging he accepted millions of dollars in bribes to allow developers to build resort hotels on the Caribbean islands.

Magistrate Judy Latchman on Tuesday ordered a vendor to obtain a licence to sell liquor and imposed a $20,000 fine on her for using abusive language on Special Constable Peters as he was conducting his duty.

Dear Editor, In the Guyana Chronicle of the 26th October, 2013, at page 9, the Honourable Attorney General with the pretended reverence of being the “protector of the public’s legal interest and the defender of the Constitution of Guyana,” concluded that the Honourable Justice Roxanne George “fell into error by issuing the said gag order.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The exiled leader of China’s Uighur ethnic minority community called yesterday for an international investigation into an incident in which a car ploughed into pedestrians in Beijing, after Chinese authorities arrested five suspected Uighurs over the attack.

Dear Editor, The press stated that the joint Parliamentary opposition halted the Amaila Hydro Electricity Project.

The Guyana National Council on Public Policy (GNCPP) has launched another of its televised series on the rights and role of local civil society in the context and scope of human security and insecurity.

Former National U19 all-rounder Ramnarine Chattergoon slammed an unbeaten 59 while former Berbice Under-19 off-spinner Monilall Shivdyal grabbed 5 for 10 from 4 overs to steer Fyrish to an 8-wicket win over Mibicuri when the 2013 Raffik and Sons Construction Services second-division 20 overs-a-side knockout cricket competition for teams in the Central and Lower Corentyne, Berbice continued last weekend.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The New York City Council voted to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco to 21, the highest in the country, in hopes of reducing smoking among the city’s young adults.

Dear Editor, I prefer to discuss policies, theories and ideas rather than fall for personality politics.

(Jamaica Observer) Security Minister Peter Bunting on Tuesday confirmed that robberies being committed against Jamaicans who have returned home from overseas are being organised by some employees at the island’s two international airports in collaboration with criminals.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two 15-year-old schoolboys and a 20-year-old man appeared in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning, charged with murdering their 17-year-old friend Reno David.

A post-mortem examination performed on Fitzpatrick Blair revealed that he died from internal bleeding due to an accident, and the three men that were arrested in connection with his death have been released.

Dear Editor, The majority of our citizens in Georgetown are fed up with the sorry state of our Capital.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused the Maldives Supreme Court day of undermining democracy in the Indian Ocean republic by interfering in its presidential elections.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your editorial (Oct 30) on the by-election in Trinidad.

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(Barbados Nation) Sir Hilary Beckles lives his life according to the Buddhist philosophy which he embraces – a philosophy that says “you are no more than a packet of energy with an amount of spirit”.

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(Trinidad Express) A Sangre Grande mother of two was shot and chopped on Tuesday night in her home, by men pretending to be police officers.

Blaming others for our faults and shortcomings seems to be a favourite pastime in this country.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The National Security Agency, responsible for U.S. electronic eavesdropping, said yesterday that it does not target the Vatican, and called an Italian media report that it had done so “not true.”

Harry Ramsaroop, who for decades ran the Dharm Shala Home of Benevolence for all races died recently at the age of 97.

One of the fireballs from an explosion earlier in the evening.