Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Selwyn Bess, 33 years, of Grove Housing Scheme, EBD, which occurred during last night.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo pleaded guilty to a charge of money-laundering conspiracy in a federal court in New York today.

Transport Minister Robeson Benn has confirmed that a privately-owned aircraft crashed at Arau in Region Seven this morning and four persons were injured.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin, defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, signed a treaty today making Crimea part of Russia but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of Ukraine.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – A Los Angeles judge on Monday ordered R&B singer Chris Brown to remain in jail at least until a probation violation hearing next month after the judge expressed concern about his ability to stay out of trouble.

(Trinidad Express)  The Daily Telegraph in London yesterday reported that former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner and his family were paid almost US$2 million from a Qatari firm linked to the country’s successful bid for the 2022 World Cup.

The building housing the Guyana Agency for Health Sciences Education, Environment and Food Policy (GAHEF) at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara was destroyed by fire early this morning.

A trip to the Guyana National Stadium, Provi-dence yesterday for Phagwah festivities was aborted after a driver lost control of his vehicle, which toppled leaving one person dead and several seriously injured.

A well-known Canada-based Guyanese businessman of Brampton, Ontario died early yesterday morning along with his wife and one of his two sons after reportedly inhaling carbon monoxide from propane heaters which they were using indoors after their furnace stopped working in frigid conditions.

Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon wrote to President Donald Ramotar on January 13, advising him of the region’s intention to pursue the terms of the August 2012 Agree-ment unilaterally, because of government’s failure to meet its obligations but this was countered by a February 20 reply  from Presidential Adviser Gail Teixeira rejecting the claims.

National coach Idi Lewis is a proud man. The former Caribbean boy’s singles champion and men’s singles bronze medallist yesterday returned from the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago where he saw two of his charges dominate the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association Silver Bowl tournament held last weekend.

Eight persons escaped without serious injury after two cars collided at Houston, East Bank Demerara last evening.

The Cricket Stake holders of Guyana group has come out swinging over the administration of the game locally and the recent performances on the field by the national senior team in the regional four-day competition and a team from West Demerara which participated in the Demerara Cricket Board’s (DCB) Inter-Association U15 competition.

After examining a letter by businessman Yesu Persaud to government and the political parties calling for compromise to pass the AML/CFT (Amendment) Bill, APNU says it sees nothing in the letter to convince it to amend its position.

Photos by Arian Browne    

Georgetown defeated East Coast by 16 runs to win the Demerara Cricket Board’s U15 Inter-Zone competition Friday at the Everest Cricket Club ground.

Photos by Arian Browne

Photos by Arian Browne

Guyana’s boxers and track and field athletes will return from the ongoing South American Games in Santiago, Chile without a medal.

President Donald Ramotar is already engaged in consultations with the opposition in respect to several of the service commissions whose lives have come to an end, according to Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall who says that this process should be completed shortly.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies Women’s captain Merissa Aguilleira says winning the Twenty20 World Cup would help her side put their miserable tour of New Zealand behind them.

Photos by Arian Browne

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine knows he is a marked man but has no plans on backing down from any challenge thrown at him in the Twenty20 World Cup For the last three years, he has tormented batsmen across the globe and he arrives here ranked as the number one bowler in the T20 format.

The junior selection committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) under the chairmanship of Leslie Solomon has named a strong 22-man squad for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-15 Inter-county tournament.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Captain Darren Sammy has reiterated West Indies are not a one-man team, and that it will take a team effort to successfully defend their title in the Twenty20 World Cup.

Photos by Arian Browne 

Some 25 to 30 glaucoma patients are seen on a daily basis at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Glaucoma Specialist Dr Shailendra Sugrim has said.

Members of the local magistracy as well as police prosecutors, persons in the social services and others with a stake in domestic violence issues are expected to benefit from a two-day workshop which begins today at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston.

President of the Guyana Bar Association, Ronald Burch-Smith says he is not aware of any special protocol which would allow for high ranking government officials to be given special treatment under the law.

Several youth organisations have come together to launch Guyana’s first Youth Coalition on Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights, as a follow-up to the UNFPA hosted Youth Forum on the International Conference on Population Development which was held in June, 2013.

The quarantine on the Lady Zai, a cargo vessel on which a Guyanese crew-member died has been lifted by the health officials in St Lucia, the Maritime Administration (MARAD) said yesterday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Their opponents’ conservative tactics and a defiant half-century from Kyle Corbin helped Combined Campuses and Colleges earn a draw against Barbados in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.

Construction is currently ongoing on two new schools in Region Seven, at 72 Miles and Itaballi, according to Regional Chairman, Gordon Bradford.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke batted with a broken shoulder on the recent tour of South Africa and has been advised to rest, ruling him out of the domestic first class final later this week, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

St. Stanislaus College defeated arch-rivals Queen’s College 3-0 to clinch the u-18 title when the Business School teams table tennis tournament continued Sunday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago predictably trounced the Leeward Islands, easily pulling off an innings and 107-run victory in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka stalwarts Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene have announced they will retire from international Twenty20 cricket after the World Twenty20 tournament in Bangladesh.

Dear Editor, There has been a lot of confusion and misrepresentation regarding remarks made at an APNU press briefing on Tuesday, March 11.

(Barbados Nation) Police have arrested and charged Andrew Pollard, 28, of Mahaica Gap, Green Hill, St Michael for the murder of Guyanese Onicka Gulliver.

(The Sports Xchange) -Ray Allen came off the bench to score 14 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter where Miami closed the game on a 15-2 run to beat Houston 113-104 and break out of their malaise.

Dear Editor, We refer to Mr Leon Suseran’s letter in the Stabroek News edition of March 17 captioned ‘No money at Republic Bank ATM at NA branch on Sunday.’

Dear Editor, Hearing about corruption and dishonest practices in Guyana today, one would think that it’s exaggeration or people are just tired of hearing about that, but we all fail to see what we are turning into or what we have to do in order to go about our daily lives.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pressed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday to help break the stalemate in US-brokered peace talks with Israel, saying leaders on both sides must take political risks before an April deadline.

Dear Editor, In our multi-ethnic society with its inevitable competition for resources and the insecurities that flow from that competition, it is a mistake to ignore inter-ethnic dynamics.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A National Guard captain who was shot in the head during a demonstration in Venezuela died yesterday, the military said, becoming the 29th fatality from weeks of clashes between protesters and the security forces.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Jonathan Trott’s assertion that mental and physical fatigue had forced him home from England’s Ashes tour of Australia rather than depression felt like a “con” and would only convince his team mates he had abandoned them, according to former England captain Michael Vaughan.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is laying plans to move to a single currency, a reform that many feel is one of the toughest challenges facing President Raul Castro as he tries to kick-start the Communist country’s moribund economy.

SIMFEROPOL/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United States and European Union imposed personal sanctions yesterday on Russian and Crimean officials involved in the seizure of Crimea from Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognising the region as a sovereign state.

Dear Editor,   It is now the case that a person who wants to renew their business registration will have to go on the same date as when they applied.

(Reuters) – Ireland survived an inspired spell of swing bowling from Zimbabwe’s Tinashe Panyangara to scrape through for a three-wicket win on the last ball of their Group B encounter in Sylhet yesterday.

Dear Editor, In the olden days before the Internet, those of us in the media were used to letters hand-written in green ink from the public.

(Reuters) – Netherlands cricketer Tim Gruijters has accused team management of cheating by forcing him out on medical grounds so they could bring in Tom Cooper as a last-minute replacement for the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The co-pilot of a missing Malaysian jetliner spoke the last words heard from the cockpit, the airline’s chief executive said, as investigators consider suicide by the captain or first officer as one posible explanation for the disappearance.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

(Trinidad Guardian) – If the government fails to begin prosecuting people under the money laundering laws, T&T runs the risk of being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Better known for producing third-world poverty and political mayhem – as well as a world-class rum – the Western Hemisphere’s least developed country has made a surprising entry into the high-tech world with its own Android tablet.

This year, political events in Egypt have had to yield most of the international media limelight to more pressing global occurrences like the conflict and the diplomacy attending the intractable power struggle in Syria and the more recent East-West face-off over the Crimea.

Dear Editor, On Sunday I attended the Ghana Day event held on the grounds of Congress Place, Sophia.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – England captain Stuart Broad is confident he will play a “full part” in his side’s World Twenty20 campaign in Bangladesh despite suffering from a knee injury.