Daily Archive: Thursday, November 14, 2013

(Barbados Nation) The publisher and two editors of The Nation Publishing Co.

Police have come under heavy criticism for the way they handled Tuesday’s Middle Street shootout, which claimed five lives including that of the gunman, and according to retired Police Commissioner Winston Felix what was lacking was proper leadership.

Deryck Kanhai, the miner who on Tuesday shot four people dead before his own death, was granted two gun licences although he was known to have a violent temper, engaged in indiscriminate shooting displays and had previously shot himself in the chin with an illegal gun.

President of Panther Recycling Corporation of Canada, Michael Mosgrove has rubbished a memorandum of understanding that Guyanese-born Canadian citizen Mohammed Osman signed with the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development saying that he, not Osman, is the owner of the name Natural Globe Inc.

An Albouystown man was shot dead by a lone gunman on a motorcycle on Tuesday evening on the roadway at Walker Terrace, East La Penitence.

Three men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the $93 million gold heist at El Dorado Trading Company, at Port Kaituma last Friday.

Deryck Kanhai, the miner who took the lives of four persons on Tuesday before he was killed during a shoot-out with police was in the bottom flat of his building for the duration of the standoff and did not have access to his CCTV camera monitors as previously thought.

Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell has promised the family of Dellon Hawker, who was shot and killed by lawmen last month, an investigation would be launched into the circumstances surrounding his death.

“Let us be disciplined, ride well and break some records”. Some of the words mentioned by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr.

Mohamed’s Enterprise yesterday continued its 20-plus year tradition of supporting the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) year- end football tournament.

Rosignol Secondary was on Tuesday officially declared an `A’ List school with the unveiling of a plaque after more than $45M was spent to upgrade it.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding says he does not agree with the former Indian captain Rahul Dravid who has suggested that middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul be promoted in the order.

A traffic officer was last evening killed and a colleague seriously injured following an accident while they were on a motorcycle on the Zeelugt Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

What started out as a hobby for Cassia Alphonso has propelled her into the national spotlight as a prize-winning poet.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Senior Inter-County four-day trials was yet again postponed yesterday after recent showers rendered playing venues across the city unplayable, leaving a question mark surrounding the new playing dates.

(Reuters) – South Africa’s pace bowlers laid the foundation for a crushing nine-wicket victory over Pakistan in the first Twenty20 international at Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

President of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha Dr Vindhya Vasini Persaud has condemned the wanton use of squibs and firecrackers that attended the recent Diwali celebration.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC- The President of the Grenada Football Association (GFA), Cheney Joseph wants his organisation to revisit its current competition structure and make changes, possibly by 2015.

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday announced that Cabinet has offered no objections to four contracts including one valued over $176M for the rehabilitation of the Linden/Lethem road.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC– Officials in Antigua say, despite heavy showers and industrial action by LIAT pilots, the first ever Sir Vivian Richards Masters cricket tournament, has been a success.

The fifth round of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/Raj Singh Insurance Brokers and Trophy Stall Over-40 20 overs-a-side competition has been abandoned after all the playing venues were found to be water-logged from the recent showers.

An epileptic man accused of committing an armed robbery was yesterday released on his own recognisance.

NBA round up (The Sports Xchange) – —-Watched by Brazilian soccer star Neymar, LeBron James scored 33 points – two off his season Best – as the Miami Heat beat Milwaukee 118-95.

By Jeff Trotman Although the Ministry of Public Works has accepted the repairs that Bai Shan Lin has done on the $90M Inter-American Develop-ment Bank-funded Moblissa road, residents are displeased and have pledged to resume protest action to ensure that the road is fixed to their satisfaction.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Uruguay are all but assured of a place at the 2014 World Cup finals after Edinson Cavani led the twice champions to a 5-0 away rout of Jordan in the first leg of their qualifying playoff yesterday.

Charity cricket team defeated Lima by 90 runs in a match of the North Essequibo T20 competition last Sunday at the Lima ground.

BELGRADE,  (Reuters) – Winning a second Davis Cup title with Serbia would cap a fantastic end to the season for Novak Djokovic and provide a springboard for restoring his supremacy on the ATP Tour, the world number two said yesterday.

Political analyst Henry Jeffrey has rapped the Private Sector Commission (PSC) over its petition to Parliament on the anti-money laundering bill and argued that its tendency to support the government will continue until constitutional and other arrangements are in place to allow it independent action.

Dear Editor, There is a healthy discussion taking place regarding the need for constitutional reform.

Dear Editor, Is anyone else getting tired of press releases from the PSC lecturing the opposition on parliamentary matters be it the budget, money laundering or the Amaila Hydropower Project?

With over 28 years in business, A Ally & Sons General Store continues to expand with the recent addition of an Auto Depot at Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam.

Boxing superstars are not born into the role; they earn that title by paying their dues usually in the amateur ranks then onwards and upwards to the pay-per view arenas that holds the sport’s true riches.

Dear Editor, On October 22, 2013, I phoned the GWI to report the issue of sewage backing up into my yard, and I was given a reference number and was told that the information would be passed on to the relevant department. 

Residents of No 2 Village, Zee Zight, West Coast Berbice have suffered drainage problems for a number of years.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has arranged four goodwill matches scheduled to be played in Guyana with Ontario Cricket Association (OCA) commencing from November 17 to 20.

(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned yesterday that a “bad deal” with Iran on its nuclear programme could lead to war and his aides challenged U.S.

Dear Editor, I wish to once again send out a call to the Ministry of Home Affairs along with the Guyana Police Force to review the licences for firearm licence holders.

Coach of the defending Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Cup Champions, Camptown FC’s Joseph ‘Bill’ Wilson says that his side will be preparing arduously in an attempt to defend their coveted crown.

Secretary-General of the Carib-bean Community (Caricom) Irwin LaRocque, and Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Irina Bokova, on Monday committed to strengthening relations between the two organisations with the signing of a revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News front page photograph of Monday, November 11, showing the pile-up of garbage is instructive, but it represents only a part of the sad story; see the north and south of City Hall.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Congress on Tuesday stripped an opposition deputy of parliamentary immunity over corruption allegations, giving the ruling Socialist Party enough votes to approve President Nicolas Maduro’s request for decree powers.

A 10% blend of fossil fuel and bio-ethanol gases using sugar cane is being studied, according to Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who says cultivation for this purpose can be done without affecting sugar production.

The Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) is all set to host what is expected to be the biggest cricket event of the year in the Upper Corentyne area on November 30 at the No.

Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran has said while a community health worker is not stationed at El Paso, Region Eight, the community is being served by a health worker from the Micoby Health Post located about 20 minutes away from the village.

(Trinidad Guardian) North America’s booming shale oil and gas industry is affecting T&T’s main energy company.

Dear Editor, The Demerara Harbour Bridge Authority ‘s scrapping of the collection of tickets on the western side might not have been the best decision.

Henrietta United led by a Chris Gordon helmet trick crushed Devonshire Castle 6-0 when action in the Interim Management Committee of the Essequibo/Pomeroon Football Association’s (EPFA) Premier League continued at the NOC ground on Sunday.

TACLOBAN, Philippines, (Reuters) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure yesterday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a powerful typhoon and to get paralysed local governments functioning.

British Caribbean Bank Limited v. Attorney General of Belize [2013] CCJ 4 (AJ)  By Kiady Brown, Norman Manley Law School The case of British Caribbean Bank Limited v.

The selection committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) recently named a 24-man squad which will commence practicing and training ahead of the county’s preparation for the upcoming senior four-day Inter-County cricket competition.

Dear Editor, No one should have any problem whatsoever with any publication editing their letters; that’s a given, a prerogative and rightly so for various reasons ‒ some even at times being in the best interest of the contributor.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Toronto City Council asked embattled Mayor Rob Ford yesterday to take a break from his job to deal with “personal issues”, which he admits include both buying illegal drugs and smoking crack cocaine.

(Trinidad Guardian) Border Force security officers from the United Kingdom are doing spot checks at Piarco Airport and at Arthur NR Robinson Airport on passengers bound for that country as a preventative measure against drug trafficking. 

Jay Jordan, born and bred in Canada, embodies a Guyanese story that we could easily lose.

Cartoons

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States formally designated the Nigerian Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and Ansaru as foreign terrorist organizations yesterday, making it a crime to provide them with material support.

Politikles

Competitive Volleyball returned to Skeldon after an absence of 13 years when the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) held the Rollers Old Boys Champion of Champions Lien Trophy competition at the Skeldon Back Centre on November 9 and 10.

The report `Enmore man jailed for 18 months over death by dangerous driving,’ published in the November 13 edition of Stabroek News misquoted Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry as saying that she had revoked Derrick Da Silva’s licence for four years.

Dear Editor, I have served my adopted country for nearly 30 years of my life.

Tuesday afternoon’s shooting to death of four people by an unhinged man who subsequently also died by way of a bullet was not something that one ever imagined would have been associated with Guyana.

(Jamaica Observer) OCHO RIOS, St Ann — A 63-year-old woman, identified as Nathlee Hamilton, was Monday night stabbed to death at her home in Beecher Town and her six-week-old grandson snatched by her killers.