Daily Archive: Saturday, March 15, 2014

Dear Editor, The crass and uncouth behaviour of our men and fathers today, I believe has led to the decay of society, thus resulting in widespread violence and abuse in the family.

President Donald Ramotar has responded to Yesu Persaud’s letter appealing for the anti-money laundering bill to be passed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister of Barbados Freundel Stuart says his country is committed to complying with the decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the Shanique Myrie ruling.

At about 2045h last night, police ranks responded to a report made by a twelve-year-old girl at the Port Kaituma Station that her father and mother were involved in an argument and he had threatened to burn down their house at Main Road, Port Kaituma, NWD.

PARAMARIBO – Sunil Oemrawsingh, chairman of 8 December 1982 Foundation, warns that Suriname should refrain from taking sides in the political conflict in Venezuela.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Investigators believe someone aboard a missing Malaysian airliner deliberately shut off its communications and tracking systems, turned the plane around and flew for nearly seven hours after it vanished, Prime Minister Najib Razak said today.

Former DDL Chairman Dr. Yesu Persaud yesterday wrote the President and the opposition warning of the consequences of further delays in passing the anti-money laundering bill and he also cautioned against tying passage of the legislation to other demands.

A mother and her four children are dead after a man set fire to his house at Port Kaituma, Region One last evening.

Auditor General Deodat Sharma has confirmed that he is conducting an investigation of an allegation that Town Clerk Carol Sooba improperly used monies from the city to hire a lawyer to look after her interests On January 10, 2014, Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green dispatched a letter to the Auditor General requesting

The Essequibo Paddy Farmers Association yesterday staged a protest to highlight the plight of rice farmers in Essequibo.

Students of the University of Guyana (UG) Law Faculty are still uncertain about future studies at the Hugh Wooding Law School despite Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall’s hopes that top graduates would continue to be allowed automatic entry.

The Anamayah Memorial Hospital, a private medical facility in Berbice, has filed a $100M libel suit against AFC Councillor Donna Mathoo over statements she made during a television broadcast about the safety of the hospital’s medication.

The tragedies of the mentally unstable wandering the country’s streets and the continuing domestic violence murders and suicides point to a mental health crisis that is largely being ignored by the government and private organisations, says the founder of the Guyana Foundation Supriya Bodden.

The search for oil by Nabi Oil and Gas Inc, a new entrant to the petroleum exploration industry, at Mahaica/Mahaicony appears to have come to a standstill.

Ganesh Narine, on trial for knifing his wife to death, was yesterday set free in the High Court by Justice Navindra Singh.

Despite a defiant 82 from Assad Fudadin, Guyana head into the third day today trailing their opponents Windward Islands who made 307 all out, by 120-runs in this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional 4-day tournament played at the Guyana National Stadium.

The Ministry of Public Works will be installing six geotextile tubes along the Kingston to Kitty sea defence to form a groyne field as part of its 2014 Sea Defence Programme.

Continental Group of Companies continued their sponsorship of ace table tennis player, Chelsea Edghill yesterday.

Buxton resident and PPP stalwart Edmund Forde, 93, is now the owner of a two-bedroom house constructed as one of three recently completed building projects by the First Lady’s Foundation.

By Kenesha Fraser The Region Two (Pomeroon/ Supenaam) yesterday held its Bi-Annual Math, Science and Technology Fair at the Anna Regina Secondary School.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Captain Darren Sammy believes the West Indies side that will defend their World Twenty20 title in Bangladesh later this month, is much better equipped than the one which lifted the trophy two years ago in Sri Lanka.

The organisers of the Reading and Explanation Competition, which concluded yesterday in Berbice, have dubbed the inaugural event a success.

Digicel on Thursday donated a quantity of Phagwah powder and an undisclosed sum of money to the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha as part of its annual contribution for the upcoming Phagwah events, the company said in a press release.

An allegation that a teacher from the Belladrum Secondary School had beaten a student last Friday and fractured his finger was found to be false, an investigation conducted by the Department of Education in Region Five has found.

A lone gunman, who attempted to rob a woman at gunpoint in ‘C’ Field, Sophia yesterday was shot in his shoulder and midsection by police after he opened fire on them.

The duo accused of the murder of Lakeram Bishundial, who was fatally shot during a robbery at Hope, East Coast Demerara in 2010, will have to face a retrial after the jury yesterday failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

On April 5, CABOFE flyweight champion, Dexter ‘De Kid’ Marques will make a most welcome return to the ring when he makes the first defence of his title against Jamaican, Rudolph ‘Cutting Edge’ Hedge.

Ex-convict Devon Rodney will spend another stint in prison after he admitted to breaking into an establishment and stealing over $150,000 worth of items.

Accused of stealing $400 from a fellow ex-convict during a mugging, Orlando Lawrence was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail.

Dear Editor, My husband Arjune Ramperaud NIS No. A-3057551 died at the age of 79 in November 2013.

Dear Editor, A very close female Amerindian friend of mine recently had a most humiliating experience at the hands of some employees of the business conglomerate, Banks DIH Ltd, which left her feeling utterly demoralized and wondering whether females in this country have any rights to protect them from such abuses.

A Linden businessman and Justice of the Peace has been charged with damaging the property of a tenant, who has accused him of throwing faeces into her home.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) became the latest affiliate of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) with the registration of a club on Wednesday at the Police Sports Club, Eve Leary.

Magistrate Clive Nurse sentenced a 30-year-old man to nine months jail after he admitted the charge of simple larceny when he appeared in the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.

Dear Editor, I listened to a recording of the speech made by President Donald Ramotar at Rose Hall, Canje to pay tribute to people who were killed by the colonialists at Rose Hall Estate over one hundred years ago.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC — Teenaged Vincentian pacer Ray Jordan combined with his West Indies Under-19 teammate Nicholas Pooran here Wednesday, to fire Clarke Road into the final of the Premier Division Sunday League 50-over tournament.

Pooran Seeraj knows about not giving up and has tasted the sweet reward that comes from staying the course.

Every now and again I call on all of us to support our local entertainment industry.

Four young men from the East Coast Demerara were further remanded to prison when they made their second appearance in the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, charged with several counts of burglary.

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC – A defiant stand between Kavem Hodge and Jomel Warrican followed half-centuries from Kyle Corbin, Chadwick Walton and Shacaya Thomas to prop up Combined Campuses & Colleges’ batting against Barbados in their grudge match here yesterday.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Philip Allsopp’s letter in SN dated March 13(‘It would be improper to challenge the integrity of the Marriott foundation…’) and would like to say that I did not ask him as a soil expert to challenge the foundation design for the Marriott Hotel, but only to comment as regards the type of foundation designed by the Chinese for the project.

DUBAI,  IANS/CMC – A record television audience is expected to watch the West Indies’ defence of their World Twenty20 title in Bangladesh starting this week.

Hi Everyone, It’s the season of Lent and, as usual, my inbox is full of requests for vegetarian and meat-free recipes.

A trader, who claimed he accepted a BlackBerry Torch smartphone as collateral from a man who owed him money, yesterday found himself answering a charge of receiving stolen property.

Guyana’s ‘Ride for Life’ Five-Stage Road Race is many months away but the Guyana Cycling Association of North America (GCANA) is already gearing up to send a Masters (Veterans) team to compete in the event.

Dear Editor, It is with great apprehension that I write about the exploitation faced by commuters when using the public transportation for the East Coast Demerara route after coming off work at 16:15hrs on a daily basis.

DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The new governor of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk yesterday said Russians were behind violent clashes between rival demonstrators in which one man was killed, and accused Moscow of distorting the truth in its account of what happened.

Dear Editor, The ideas we have proposed in the paper justifying Unity and Human Development (UHD), can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/18odYmG.

The body of Guyanese national Onicka Malicia Gulliver, who had been missing since Tuesday in Barbados, was found yesterday.

By Delvon Mc Ewan Georgetown registered its second victory on the back of a well-played century by Joshua Persaud in the latest round of the Demerara Cricket Board under 15 inter-zone 50 over competition, yesterday at Enmore ground, East Coast Demerara.

(Reuters) – Cricket will shed all pretensions of being a lazy, nuanced game and reward brute force when top teams brawl in Bangladesh over the next three weeks for the biggest crown of the game’s shortest and most unabashed format at the ICC World Twenty20.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Analysis of electronic pulses picked up from a missing Malaysian airliner shows it could have run out of fuel and crashed into the Indian Ocean after it flew hundreds of miles off course, a source familiar with official U.S.

Dear Editor, Among the issues residents living along the Potaro Road have been complaining of to the Bartica United Youth Development Group is the non-delivery of mail to their homes, and that sometimes when they go to the post office to uplift their mail they have to spend a lot of time searching through boxes for it.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Playing plenty of domestic Twenty20 matches in similar conditions hold the Indian bowlers in good stead for the ICC World T20 in Bangladesh, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said yesterday.

A Guyanese man fell to his death on Thursday while working on a house in California, Trinidad and Tobago.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro yesterday warned airlines not to limit flights in and out of Venezuela, a day after reports a Colombian airline was reducing services to Caracas amid industry complaints of billions of dollars in unpaid debts.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England all-rounder Ben Stokes has been ruled out of this month’s World Twenty20 in Bangladesh with a fractured hand, the England and Wales Cricket Board said yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – A consortium led by Spain’s Sacyr has signed a deal to complete work on widening the 100-year-old Panama Canal, it said yesterday, settling a long-running dispute over cost overruns that had put the multi-billion-dollar project in jeopardy.

Suriname has fallen in love with Sonia Noel all over again.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has said that the engine overhaul maintenance works at the Anna Regina Wartsila generating plant have been completed and it is working on realising longer term development plans to provide the best quality electricity supply in Essequibo.

A miner is now a remanded prisoner after being arraigned on seven charges yesterday, including assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

(The Sports Xchange) -The Chicago Bulls beat the Houston Rockets at their own game, knocking down 14 of 24 shots from three-point range to roll to a 111-87 victory at the United Center Thursday night.

Dear Editor, My telephone has been down since February22, 2014. I have reported it to the office in New Amsterdam as well as Head Office in Georgetown.

Jermaine Figueira, a well-known spoken-word poet from Linden and Travis Bowen a popular singer/professional dancer from Georgetown will headline this month’s Poetry and Jazz (P&J) night themed ‘Addicted’ at L&L Restaurant in Linden on March 20.

(Jamaica Observer) ST JAMES, Jamaica — Hospiten Group, a Spanish-based company, yesterday morning announc-ed that it will begin construction of a state-of- the- art medical facility at a cost of US$20 million in the upscale community of Cinnamon Hill in Rose Hall, St James.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The homicide rate in the Dominican Republic plunged to an 11-year low in 2013 as the government used the military to back up the National Police, bucking the trend in the Caribbean where increased drug trafficking has brought more violence.

Dear Editor, While it would be laudable for steps to be taken by the environmental authorities, City Hall and others to keep the city and other areas of Guyana clean, there are also some other filthy and distasteful problems that exist.

Although at 13 he was indicted for murders committed during massacres at Lusignan and Bartica, Dwane Williams was just a blip on the public’s radar until the recent High Court trial where he went from being a co-accused to a state witness.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan will host Australia in a month-long series that will be contested in the United Arab Emirates from Oct.

The final staging of Link Show 30 will be held at the National Cultural Centre tonight and tomorrow night from 8 pm.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Contractor general has found a number of breaches of procurement rules in a deal struck between NIF and hotel group Blue Diamond Hotels and Resorts but has recommended no punitive action, opting instead to use the case as a teaching moment for the public sector.

Dear Editor, I met someone who was a bit disturbed by the way in which his letter to a newspaper was edited: “Deh seh wha seh yes, but ah don’t like how deh put it,” he said a bit scornfully, obviously displeased.

(Billboard) – After their well-received live performances at the Academy Awards, Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” and Idina Menzel’s “Let It Go,” the latter of which won best original song honours, both shine on the Billboard Hot 100.

South Africa’s recent expulsion of three Rwandan diplomats for their involvement in the murder and attempted murder of political dissidents is yet another troubling instance of President Kagame’s willingness to use violence to silence his critics.

(Reuters) – Los Angeles Lakers point guard Steve Nash has been officially ruled out for the rest of the season, according to a report on the National Basketball Association’s website on Thursday.

The Region Five regional democratic council held a phagwah celebration yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Chairman of the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) Norbert Masson says democracy in Trinidad and Tobago is being undermined by political party financiers.