Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Enmore resident Guy Matheson is facing a charge of possession of counterfeit currency after he was found with false $5,000 notes that he claimed he picked up on a road.

Guyana has recorded the highest ever gold declaration of 458,105 ounces as at December 16, 2013, a release from the Ministry of Natural Resources says.

(Jamaica Observer) TESSANNE Chin left viewers of The Voice in awe last night after an unbelievable performance of the Whitney Houston classic I Have Nothing that also had her coach, Adam Levine, declaring that she was the winner of the NBC TV talent show.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) narrowly averted having 11 of its aircraft seized by hurriedly securing a US$50 million (TT$320 million) loan from First Citizens bank to cover outstanding arrears owed to the International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC).

PERTH, (Reuters) – Australia faltered for pretty much the first time in the series trying to close the deal but rallied to blow away the last vestiges of English resistance and reclaim the Ashes with a third emphatic test victory today.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud had been strongly advised against issuing the controversial New River Triangle surveying permit to Muri Brasil Ventures Inc over the security concerns.

Investigations have found that the three teenage girls, who were charged and sentenced for wandering and kept in police custody for over three weeks awaiting transfer to the New Opportunity Corps, were in fact picked up by police at the Camal International Home for Children and Battered Women.

Local government ministers, since December of 2008, have held the power to call elections to select persons to the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor and their failure to do so is in part responsible for Mayor Hamilton Green’s extended tenure, says UG Registrar Vincent Alexander.

Three years after 197 items of furniture were destroyed or stolen because the Ministry of Agriculture failed to safeguard them after the reorganising of the Crops and Livestock Support Services Division, the ministry is still unable to properly account for the losses.

(Reuters) – West Indies spinner Shane Shillingford has been suspended from bowling in international cricket after his delivery action was found illegal, the game’s global governing body said yesterday.

A woman was yesterday placed on $2.6 million bail after she was arraigned at court on charges that she stole over $13 million through forgery.

The Legal Affairs Ministry is unable to say how around $10 million ended up in its accounts as of December of 2011.

A search team returned to Tortola empty-handed after combing several stretches of its northern shoreline for missing Guyanese, Roger Fraser aka ‘Scary’ on Sunday.

The Health Ministry saluted more 20 individuals and groups for their voluntary blood donations to the National Blood Trans-fusion Service (NBTS) which resulted in 10,014 units of blood being collected by August 31.

Friendship and Queenstown Secondary were booted out of the Chico/Kashif & Shanghai Elite Next Generation Football Tournament following five-nil and six-one defeats against New Silver City and Mackenzie High School on Sunday.

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday admitted into evidence the caution statements of the four accused on trial for the murder of Motilall Singh.

The quarterfinal and semi-final rounds of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown Zone will commence today at the National Cultural Centre tarmac on Hadfield Street and Mandela Avenue.

The Demerara Volleyball Association (DVA) on Saturday last elected  new executives who will serve the fraternity for the next two years with the aim of developing and promoting the sport throughout the country.

  A Buxton resident was yesterday granted $150,000 bail after he was charged with forging an agreement of sale.

The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) has shortlisted 36 local male players that will begin preparation for the Indoor Pan American Cup, which will run from April 7th-14th 2014, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

A landlady found herself before a city magistrate yesterday after being accused of threatening and verbally abusing her tenants.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Up to a quarter of the population of Central African Republic risks going hungry because of fighting between Christian and Muslim militia, and this number could increase, the chief of the UN World Food Programme said yesterday.

Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) is attributing the blackouts and fluctuations in power experienced this past weekend to inclement weather conditions.

A Diamond Housing Scheme mother and her two sons were arraigned on possession of 500 grammes of cannabis, for the purpose of trafficking yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Last week at the third annual Caribbean Science Foundation (CSF) workshop, enthusiastic professionals from the Region and the Diaspora, met for two days at the Grand Coastal Hotel along with teachers and students from Guyana, to discuss practical ways to promote diversification in Caribbean economies.

FLORIDA,  CMC- Olympic 100-metre silver medallist Sherone Simpson is said to be growing in confidence two months after relocating from Jamaica to a newtraining camp in Florida.

LONDON, England, CMC- Global T20 superstar and West Indies Cricket ODI Captain, Dwayne Bravo, has become the first international cricketer to partner with one of the largest Chinese corporate entities in the world.

Dear Editor, It has been with great consternation that I have been reading the past week’s Stabroek News and now the Kaieteur News in relation to the utterings over the award of a Permission of Geological and Geophysical Survey (PGSS) in the south of Guyana to the Guyanese company Muri Brasil Ventures Inc.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – India begin life without “Little Master”  tomorrow, taking on top ranked South Africa in the first of a two-test series in their first contest since Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement.

JUBA (Reuters) – Gunfire rang out again in South Sudan’s capital Juba late yesterday hours after President Salva Kiir said his forces had quelled an “attempted coup” by supporters of his sacked deputy.

The Public Utilities Commission has approved a promotion on outbound international calls to Canada and the USA (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) applicable to all GT&T and Digicel cell and landline customers.

Dear Editor, A clarification is necessary to a point made by Ralph Ramkarran in his exchanges with Eusi Kwayana on the PCD appointment of a prime ministerial candidate prior to the 1992 elections (‘The WPA needs to acknowledge its own role in events in 1991 and 1992…’ SN, December 15).

(Reuters) – Britain yesterday accused Argentina of “bullying tactics” over what it said were baseless attempts by Buenos Aires to outlaw oil and gas drilling in the waters around the Falkland Islands, a disputed British Overseas Territory.

Gordon Allen, who said he was a deportee and lives on the streets, was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with narcotics possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Guyanese now have the opportunity to make comments and have questions answered with regard to the impending Sheriff Street-Mandela Avenue Roadway design project with the open house viewings sessions being offered to the public.

Dear Editor, After the 2011 elections, and we learned that the opposition had succeeded in winning control of Parliament from the dictatorial clutches of the PPP, there was a euphoria of hope and expectation among the population in general, majority electors in particular.

  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Recently defeated M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have continued to recruit fighters in neighbouring Rwanda while the Congolese army has been involved in human rights abuses and corruption, according to a confidential UN report.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bahamas government says it will continue to pursue so-called spot checks and has denied claims that it is profiling specific immigrants.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Vitaly Klitschko has vacated his WBC belt but was named champion emeritus yesterday, leaving the door open for the leading Ukraine politician to one day return to the ring.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s main opposition party moved closer to selecting a presidential nominee yesterday, after its candidate in the last election backed Senator Aecio Neves, former governor of Minas Gerais, the country’s second-most populous state.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is calling on persons to clear all outstanding balances or face disconnection for the Christmas season.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The search for a Mexican drug lord wanted for the murder of a US federal agent expanded yesterday when Interpol issued a wanted persons alert for Rafael Caro Quintero, who disappeared in August.

Dear Editor, There seems to be some misconception as regards the way the Police Complaints Authority functions.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s president could secure loans from Russia today when he meets Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin – money that could help fend off economic crisis as anti-government protests continue in Kiev.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China is increasingly using extra-judicial “black jails” and drug rehabilitation centres to punish people who would formerly have been sent to forced labour camps, rights group Amnesty International said today.

(The Sports Xchange) – Point guard Damian Lillard’s spinning shot in the lane in the final second of overtime gave the Portland Trail Blazers a  111-109 overtime victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday.

Dear Editor,  I ask when will this charade end, when will the propaganda blitz be suspended?

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Defending champions Windward Islands and Jamaica will play the opening match of the Regional Super50 tournament to be played at venues in Trinidad and Tobago next month Matches will be staged at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain while two matches will be played at Shaw Park in Tobago.

PERTH, (Reuters) – A dominant Australia were five wickets away from reclaiming the Ashes after hammering England with the bat and reducing them to 251 for five with the ball at the end of the fourth day of the third test at the WACA yesterday.

Dear Editor, I read Mr Bisram’s letter titled, ‘The support of the two major parties in the US is largely ethnic in nature’ (SN, Dec 12), and wondered whether the average reader could make sense of it.

Dear Editor,   What PPP approach was realistically expected with the WPA’s uncompromising demand for half the cabinet ministries?

(Cricinfo) The Pakistan Cricket Board’s Interim Management Committee, led by Najam Sethi, has sought the help of the Pakistan government in an attempt to revive international cricket in the country.

There is simply no end to the succession of bizarre occurrences that characterize the political culture in North Korea.