Daily Archive: Saturday, November 9, 2013

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government “occupied” a chain of electronics stores on Saturday in a high-profile crackdown on what it views as price-gouging hobbling the country’s economy.

TACLOBAN, Philippines, (Reuters) – One of the most powerful storms ever recorded has killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines province of Leyte, a senior police official said on Sunday, with coastal towns and the regional capital devastated by huge waves.

The damaged Air Services Limited plane which was in a mishap this morning at the Kwakwani airstrip.

(India Times) Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler won the coveted Miss Universe 2013 crown on Saturday night, beating 85 other contenders from around the world at a glittering ceremony held in Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russia.

The police say that at about 1850h yesterday, Anil France, 16 years, of Waramuri Mission, NWD, was on the Parika Public Road when it is alleged that he attempted to cross the road and was struck down by a motor car.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into the murder of farmer Titus Sutton, 53 years, of Melanie Damishana, ECD, which occurred at about 1530h.

The police say they are conducting investigations into the murder of Mulchand Munilall, 16 years, of Patwah Scheme, Cane Grove, ECD, which occurred at about 2100h.

An Air Services Ltd aircraft suffered wing damage after swerving to avoid hitting someone as it was about to land at the Kwakwani Airstrip, Region 10.

A Guyana-born woman is now facing life in prison after a hospital visit led to the discovery of almost 50 packets of cocaine inside her stomach.

(Trinidad Express) Explosive revelations in a United States district court yesterday identified Trinidad and Tobago as a transhipment point in a plan to smuggle guns, drugs, and even terrorists into the US.

TACLOBAN, Philippines,  (Reuters) – One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west and devastated central provinces, killing at least 100 people in a surge of flood water, officials said today.

Minister of Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony saiud yesterday that he was pleased with the pace that the rubberized surface is being laid on the synthetic track at Leonora.

KOLKATA, India,  CMC- West Indies, undermined by high quality swing bowling from Mohammad Shami, tumbled to an innings and 51 runs defeat against India in the first test here  yesterday.

Raymond Harper’s half-century guided Regal Masters to a five-run victory over the New York President’s XI yesterday in the first set of preliminary matches of the Guyana Softball Cup 111 which bowled off at several venues across the city.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday announced a plan to make an appeal to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), following his administration’s inability to win the necessary opposition support to pass amendments to the anti-money laundering laws recommended by the body.

President Donald Ramotar says the decision to withhold assent from the local government bill intended to strip ministerial control over local authorities was taken because he felt the change was unconstitutional.

A container shipment that originated from Guyana was on Thursday intercepted with 57.5 kilogrammes (126 pounds) of cocaine at Kingston Free Zone, in Jamaica, and local sleuths have since launched an investigation.

Balkissoon ‘Boi’ Daichan, 42, a carpenter of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice, was found hanging in a cell at the Blairmont Police Station on Thursday evening, hours after he was arrested for threatening his wife.

Police ranks came under fire during a drug eradication operation at 15 Miles, Ituni Backdam on Thursday afternoon.

Stephan Gouveia and Clairmont Gibson’s lightweight bout delivered a knockout punch to patrons on the first night of the National Open Championships last night at the National Gymnasium.

Economist and bookshop owner Bholan Boodhoo, 65, died early yesterday morning after he was struck down by a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) minibus along the JB Singh Road.

Security guard Roy Harilall died of injuries he sustained in an accident along the Prospect Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara on Thursday night.

Abdur Kalib from West Coast Demerara Seals’ Abdur Kalib yesterday blasted a belligerent 93 to help his team defeat Lower East Coast Bulls at the Zeeburg Community Centre ground in a fourth round encounter of the Demerara Cricket Board/Raj Singh Insurance Brokers O40 limited overs tournament.

The third edition of the annual Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Cup was officially launched yesterday at the Princess Hotel Boardroom, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

At the age of ten Phillip Parasram picked up a guitar and began fiddling with the strings.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) will stage a two-day trial match on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

This year’s 24th edition of the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) year-end football tournament continues to acquire support.

PPP General Secretary and Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, who was hospitalised on Thursday night at the Woodlands Hospital, is currently in stable condition and being kept in a private room.

The executive is not in favour of making the salaries of all members of the judiciary tax-free, Attorney General Anil Nandlall says.

The annual Mayor’s Cup Inter Ward/Village seven-a-side football tournament in honour of Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green’s 79th birth anniversary is expected to get cracking tomorrow from 5pm at the Tucville Playfield with some 12 matches organiser Lennox Arthur said yesterday.

One of the pluses of being a young writer is that we tend to look at the world in a different way.

An unbeaten century from former Guyana U15 batsman Keino Gravesande led Rainbow Generation of Seafield Village, West Coast Berbice to victory over Bush Lot Challengers in their final Zone A (Upper West Coast Berbice) match of the 2013 New Building Society second division limited overs competition in Berbice.

GT&T has handed over a cheque for $1 million to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for the enhancement of the environment in front of the hospital’s main entrances on New Market Street.

Hi Everyone, Two Saturdays ago, the Guyana Cultural Association of New York, held its annual symposium, and this year the theme was: Who are we?

Dear Editor, Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the article captioned, `Snail mail put its express counterpart to shame’, and published on November 3, 2013.

Over 22 designers, hot off the catwalks of last month’s inaugural Guyana Fashion Week (GFW) have their goods on display at a fashion marketplace which opened yesterday and concludes tomorrow at the Pegasus.

Beeswax lip gloss and other byproducts of the apiculture industry were on display yesterday outside the New Guyana Marketing Corporation as part of the Guyana Apiculture Society’s (GAS) ‘Honey Day’, which sought to raise the profile of the fledging industry.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Carib Beer sponsored first division T20 competition will bowl off their second round today with two matches at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) Thomas Lands.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Typhoon Haiyan, possibly the strongest storm ever to hit land, was barrelling out of the Philippines today after it flattened houses, triggered landslides and floods and knocked out power and communications across a number of islands.

Courts Guyana Inc launched its big prize promotion for 2013, ‘Become a millionaire at Courts’, yesterday in grand style.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s government took to the courts yesterday to delay the release of an investigation into a $19 million taxpayer-funded upgrade of President Jacob Zuma’s private residence at Nkandla in rural KwaZulu-Natal province.

The Sports Xchange) – Miami guard Dwyane Wade scored 29 points to lead the Heat to a 102-97 win over the Los Angeles Clippers at AmericanAirlines Arena.

Dear Editor, With your indulgence I wish to return to your editorial of November 3, 2013 titled `Great Garbage Game’ as well as the shocking revelations of Mayor Hamilton Green in his letter published in your paper yesterday.

BELEK, Turkey, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods showed precisely why he is the world’s number one golfer yesterday, producing a swashbuckling tournament-best 63 to burst into title contention after the second round of the inaugural Turkish Airlines Open.

As trade ministers gathered for a meeting on the strategic direction of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said that the regional body cannot afford to do anything less than  reinvent itself and with maximum haste.

Dear Editor, The Bank of Guyana (BOG) has to properly monitor financial lending institutions to ensure that they always function within the guidelines of the FIA Act of 1995.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba rolled out a master plan this week to reform food production and sales that definitively ends the state’s monopoly on distribution and replaces many rules that hamper farmers and consumers.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A son of Suriname’s president invited people he thought were from the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah to set up a base in his country to attack Americans in exchange for millions of U.S.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers extended high-stakes talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme into an unscheduled third day today, as their top diplomats laboured to hammer out a long-sought deal to end a decade-old standoff.

Dear Editor, The government never wanted the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill (AML/CFT) passed.

Increasingly we are operating in a society where tyranny in the workplace has become a threat to both freedom and dignity of work.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – An exhumation and testing of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s body found no evidence he was poisoned, a forensic team said on Friday, despite accusations the poet was murdered 40 years ago by a military dictatorship.

(Billboard) Perhaps lost in the recent bevy of chart feats by Eminem, who this week becomes the first lead artist to land four concurrent top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 since the Beatles in 1964, is that Rihanna tallies her 25th top 10, matching the sum totaled by Elvis Presley.

The deal under which the Chinese forestry company Bai Shan Lin is building a car-park for the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) reeks of impropriety and should be terminated, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA).

BANI GALA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan accused the United States on Friday of deliberately destroying any chance of meaningful peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban by killing the insurgency’s leader in a drone strike a week ago.

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn has identified some shortcomings in some aspects of the response during the simulated plane crash emergency exercise staged by the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It took Mark Simmonds, the new British minister with responsibility for the Caribbean, mere seconds of his 24-hour visit to Jamaica to scorch the hope of local reparation agitators clamouring for compensation for slavery.

 Dear Editor, In response to my letter in Stabroek News on Oct 31, Mr Harry Hergash argues that a monument remembering the Lusignan massacre is more important than an official Commission of Inquiry into the East Coast crimes (SN Nov 2, 2013).

(Reuters) – Move over Black Widow and step aside She-Hulk: Marvel Comics is introducing a new superhero – a 16-year-old Muslim-American girl named Kamala Khan, to reflect the growing diversity of its readers.

(Jamaica Observer) Outgoing United States Ambassador to Jamaica Pamela Bridgewater on Thursday said farewell to members of the press at a luncheon held at her residence in St Andrew.

(Reuters) – Television musical series “Glee” on Tuesday led the nominees for the annual fan-voted People’s Choice Awards, while actress Sandra Bullock and pop singers Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake each scored five nominations.

A week after allegedly illegally imported meat was confiscated from her store, Jap’s Halaal Meat Market proprietor Marcelle Rahaman is denying that she sold tainted meat and says moves against her business seem “political” in nature.

Every West Indian who visits Toronto should make the time to observe the marvel of self-imposed order that emerges each afternoon among the GO train commuters at Union Station.

Dear Editor, The highly touted arrival of the FIFA World Cup for a historical first time in many Caribbean countries, with our own native land Guyana included, occurred on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at the CJ – International Airport, Timehri, around 09:00hrs.

RAMALLAH, West Bank,  (Reuters) – A Russian report quoted by Palestinian investigators yesterday said there was insufficient evidence to support the theory that Yasser Arafat died in 2004 by polonium poisoning.

(de Ware Tijd) CORRIVERTON-GUYANA – Local entrepreneurs have made good use of the opportunities neighbouring Guyana offers as a result of the economic growth.

(Trinidad Express) Finance Minister Larry Howai has sent the Caribbean Airlines board of directors back to the drawing board to tweak some of their propositions on how to restructure the debt-riddled State enterprise and make it commercially viable.