Daily Archive: Saturday, November 16, 2013

MUMBAI, India (CMC) – West Indies off-spinners Marlon Samuels and Shane Shillingford have been reported with suspected illegal bowling actions during the second Test against India, which ended in Mumbai on Saturday.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) today announced the retirement of long standing Chairman, Dr.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – A workman-like half-century from Denesh Ramdin failed to inspire West Indies and India gifted Sachin Tendulkar an innings and 126-run victory in the second Test on Saturday to mark his retirement from the international cricket.

An Alberttown man was gunned down early this morning as he left a Main Street night spot.

(BBC) India legend Sachin Tendulkar said it was “hard to believe a wonderful journey” had ended as he bowed out of international cricket in Mumbai.

NABI Oil and Gas Inc. a new entrant to the petroleum exploration industry, has commenced onshore  activities in Mahaica/ Mahaicony and is hopeful that given the evidence unearthed so far that it will be able to find commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.

Human Services Minister Jennifer Webster yesterday refuted claims that her daughter is investing US$15 million in the development of the planned US$30 million solid waste recycling plant and said that attempts to say otherwise are “inaccurate and malicious.”

Neville Chandrawattie, an employee of the El Dorado Trading Company accused of masterminding the theft of $93M in raw gold and cash from the company, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of larceny.

A Guyanese man was last Tuesday busted at the JFK International Airport after he attempted to smuggle in 6,589.1 grammes of cocaine, which was packaged into small balls and dunked into a bottle of pepper sauce.

Geoffrey Ward, 62, will spend the rest of his natural life in jail after he was found guilty yesterday of murdering his wife and sentenced to 71 years.

Even as the $5,000 note was yesterday launched Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh renewed a call on businesses to implement systems to move away from large cash transactions to plastic and cheques.

A man and a woman were each sentenced to three years in jail yesterday after being found guilty of drug trafficking at the end of their respective trials.

Robin Persaud prevailed over 37 other skilled wheelsmen to win yesterday’s third stage edging Team Coco’s Darren Matthews in a thrilling two-man sprint finish.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar fell short of a fairytale ton in his farewell test yesterday but the Indian batsman’s 74-run knock was embellished by a full repertoire of classy shots the ‘Little Master’ was renowned for during a sparkling 24-year career.

Patrick Forbes, the Jamaican businessman shot multiple times while standing with a group of friends at Orange Walk, Bourda on Wednesday morning, died while receiving treatment on Thursday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC– One newcomer has been named to the West Indies Under-19 team for next month’s tour of Bangladesh, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has announced.

Four of Guyana’s six municipalities yesterday presented their approved 2014 budgets to the Local Government Ministry in keeping with the November 15 deadline.

Guyanese will soon be the beneficiaries of improved drug standards and safer, more effective prescription drugs through the training of staff of the Government Analyst Food & Drug Department (GAFDD).

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England batsman Joe Root needed treatment for a blow to the hand but played on to make 75 on the third day of the tourists’ final warm-up match for the Ashes at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday.

A young clerk employed with the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office in Lethem was on Thursday arrested by the police after it is believed that she faked a robbery to hide the fact that she may have embezzled $2 million.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder moved a step closer to resurrecting his international career  yesterday when he was named in the New Zealand ‘A’ side for a three-day match against West Indies later this month.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian all-rounder Shane Watson hopes to resume bowling at the start of next week but does not want to push his hamstring too much in case it hinders his ability to bat in the first Ashes test.

Proprietor of the South Central Hotel Joseph Jagdeo, who was found underneath a bed bound and gagged, was strangled to death, according to a post-mortem examination conducted yesterday.

With the title of ‘Most Promising Young Designer’ for this year under his belt, Andy Cummings is well on his way to living his dream or at least a part of it.

A toddler died yesterday after falling through a construction hole in the floor of his grandparents’ home at Buxton, East Coast Demerara.

Footballer Kwadro Garnett was yesterday crowned ambassador of the second leg of the Giftland Officemax Sports Ambassador search dubbed “The Quest”, after being nominated by his club, Buxton United (FC).

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday inked an agreement for a four per cent wage/salary hike for workers, retroactive to January 1st, 2013.

The glitz and glamour of the commercialised Christmas sparkles everywhere; trees are going up, streets are filled with pedestrian traffic, shops and stalls are springing up all over and police officers are now on almost every city block downtown.

MUMBAI, India, CMC– A five wicket haul from spin bowler Shane Shillingford was overshadowed by centuries from Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma that have put India within sight of victory against West Indies on the second day of the second Test here yesterday.

Berbician Souvenir Ramdehol, a 2009 Hall of Fame Realtor of Queens New York, United States of America said yesterday that all systems are in place for what should be a successful second annual Berbice Open table tennis tournament.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The man President Nicolas Maduro named as public enemy No.

Dear Editor, As a frequent user of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, I suffer its inconveniences of crawling traffic at peak hours. 

Two underage boys were on Thursday found working at a grocery at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, and their parents later told Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) officers that they needed the money to support their families.

Hi Everyone, Have you seen the 2014 Cookbook Calendar put out by the National Milling Company (Guyana Inc)?

The Scene Cartoon

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC- United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) says it wants to help the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) recover from a doping scandal that has rocked the athletics world.

Dear Editor, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Norman Whittaker has become politically unreasonable and a hindrance to local democracy.

Courts last evening ushered in the Christmas season with the now traditional tree lighting along Main Street.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China unwrapped its boldest set of economic and social reforms in nearly three decades yesterday, relaxing its one-child policy and further freeing up markets in order to put the world’s second-largest economy on a more stable footing.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is collecting records of international money transfers under the same law that the National Security Agency uses to collect Americans’ phone and Internet records, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says it’s seeking to fill the position of Director of Commercial, Marketing and Communications.

Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony has urged more secondary schools to participate in the National Drama Festival, saying successful dramatizations of the literature being studied by students have given them a better understanding of the works.

Witness

(Jamaica Observer) HANOVER, Jamaica — Two brothers were shot dead Thursday in Sandy Bay, Hanover, while on their way from court.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – At least 32 people were killed and almost 400 wounded in gun battles between Libyan militiamen and armed residents in Tripoli yesterday in the worst street fighting for months to test the shaky central government.

Dear Editor, Does anyone ever remember the name Derek Hugh Goodrich, the Englishman who was the Anglican Dean of the St George’s Cathedral who retired in 1993 to Surrey, UK?

MARSAE by Guyanese Marcie De Santos was one of seven Cariforum fashion lines supported by the Caribbean Export Deve-lopment Agency (Carib-bean Export) to attend Dominicana Moda (DM2013) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from October 21-26.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – The European Union and the United States opposed yesterday a call by developing countries to measure each nation’s historical responsibility for global warming to guide a U.N.

Dear Editor, Been there!  Live that!  That was my reaction to the letter titled ‘Members of the diaspora are not welcome in Guyana’ from Anthony Pantlitz (SN, Nov 14). 

(The Sports Xchange) ——James Harden returned from a one-game absence because of a foot injury and poured in 36 points to lead the Houston Rockets to a 109-106 win over the New York Knicks.

Lusignan, East Coast Demerara residents served by one of the two Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) community well stations are receiving experiencing reduced levels of service due to voltage fluctuations affecting the facility.

All aglow: Courts ushered in the Christmas season last evening with its now traditional Christmas tree lighting along Main Street.

(Trinidad Express) SENIOR PRIMARY school teacher and guidance officer Swain David appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court on Thursday charged with committing an act of grievous sexual assault on a child.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – An Australian brewery has apologised for using images of Hindu deities on its alcoholic ginger beer bottles after the labels provoked outrage from Hindu devotees.

Dear Editor, A wide cross-section of people have expressed their repugnance for child sexual abuse, and understandably so since such trauma inflicted on unsuspecting children can have irreversible psychological, emotional, social, and physical consequences, often lasting into adulthood. 

The fifth game of the FIDE World Championship Match between India’s Viswanathan Anand and Sweden’s Magnus Carlsen sponsored by Tamil Nadu state and currently ongoing in Chennai, finished in Carlsen’s favour after 58 moves of play.

TACLOBAN, Philippines, (Reuters) – The death toll from one of the world’s most powerful typhoons surged to about 4,000 yesterday, but the aid effort was still so patchy bodies lay uncollected as rescuers tried to evacuate stricken communities across the central Philippines.

83 Million Gees, a stage play adapted into a film, will premiere on the big screen at the National Cultural Centre on November 23 and 24.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – Serbia’s world number two Novak Djokovic will face his toughest Davis Cup weekend after team mate Janko Tipsarevic was forced to pull out of the 2013 final against holders Czech Republic with a heel injury.

Politikles

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called on Norway’s $800 billion oil fund, one of the biggest investors in the world, to spend more in the poorest countries where little private money reaches.

A timely donation: The Parent Teacher-Association (PTA) of the Stella Maris Primary School yesterday handed over a brand new photocopying machine to the learning institution to assist with printing needs, particularly during test time.

Earlier this week NASA released a photograph taken from the Cassini probe as it completed an orbit around Saturn.

For too long indifference has plagued our criminal justice system—we are criminalising substance abusers, not rehabilitating them; we are expanding our prisons, not reducing their populations; and we are dismantling gangs across the country, not rebuilding lives and communities.

Dear Editor, In your response to my criticism of your marijuana article, you disputed my claims and made counter arguments (‘Sunday Stabroek was irresponsible in publishing article on teen drug use,’ November 13).

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Toronto city council voted to strip scandal-plagued Mayor Rob Ford of some of his powers yesterday but Ford, who admits he smoked crack cocaine while in office, promised to challenge the moves in court.

(Billboard) – Eminem makes a splash at No 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new album ‘The Marshall Mathers LP 2’ debuts atop the list with 792,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan.