Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 25, 2014

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s highest court called on the country’s cricket board (BCCI) chief N.

Public safety is being allocated $19.5B this year and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says that there will continue to be substantial emphasis on strategic planning and evidence-based interventions.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh,  (Reuters) – A dominant West Indies thumped a sorry Bangladesh by 73 runs in a lop-sided super 10 stage match to revive their World Twenty20 title defence today.

(Barbados Nation) A member of Cabinet is warning that Barbadians may have become too comfortable and it could be the basis of the country’s “destruction”.

Government yesterday unveiled a $220 billion budget with a whopping $6.9 billion in power subsidies, $6 billion for the troubled sugar corporation, $500 million to clean up Georgetown, bumped up concessions for the elderly and parents but no new income tax relief.

Just over a week short of his second birthday, a Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast boy was struck down and killed in front of his home when he pulled away from an older child who was holding him and darted in front of a minibus.

A joint venture between Guyana and Brazil will see the undertaking of studies beginning in early April to determine the possibility of developing two hydropower sites in the Middle and Upper Mazaruni, Region 7.

Picture an IFBB pro flexing and posing his 6’1 inch, 260-pound mass of striated muscle in red shorts to soulful music.

With the Government yesterday unveiling a $220 billion budget and a whopping $6B for the sugar industry, Leader of the main opposition APNU, David Granger said that unless the sugar industry is reformed his group will not be supporting such a large sum.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh is projecting current revenue of $149.6 billion this year compared to $135.7B last year.

Dynas Ravens were crowned Guyana Amateur Basketball Association (GABF) Road to Mecca National Club Champions, crushing Linden unit Retrieve Raiders 85-57 in the grand finale at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Sunday.

Guyana’s economy is projected to grow by 5.6% this year, according to Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh who proclaimed the eight consecutive years of growth up to 2013 as the longest streak in the country’s history.

Pele FC defeated Bakewell Topp XX 2-0 to seal a quarterfinal berth when the Fruta Conquerors Football Club Namilco sponsored knockout festival commenced on Sunday at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

Essequibo rice farmers are expressing concern after payments promised by the Agriculture Ministry to cover over $300 million in outstanding debts were made to some of them with post-dated cheques.

The man accused of the murder of popular Robb Street drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul was further remanded to prison, after the court was told that the prosecutor was not in possession of the case file.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday walked out of the National Assembly prior to the reading of the 2014 national budget, calling it a violation of Guyana’s Constitution because of the lack of consultation by the government.

In honour of its late executive member Deborah Backer, who will be buried on Friday, the PNCR has embarked on a number of initiatives including documentaries and the opening of books of condolence countrywide, in her honour.

Gladwin ‘The Tiger’ Dorway will be the second local pugilist to take the ring when the Wray and Nephew Caribbean Contender Boxing Series continues tomorrow night in Jamaica.

The establishment of a Community Policing Group to help tackle the crime wave in the Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme (East Canje, Berbice) is one of the major accomplishments of DAFO.

SYLHET, Bangladesh,  CMC – The mercurial Deandra Dottin produced one of her moments of brilliance, rocking England Women with an incisive spell to set up a nine-run victory, as West Indies Women made a winning start to their World Twenty20 campaign here yesterday.

The discovery of cocaine hidden in a kitchen ‘stump’ wall resulted in an Eccles, East Bank Demerara woman being placed on bail after she appeared in a city court yesterday.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K.Juman Yassin voiced his disappointment at the mediocre showing of the local athletes and pugilists that participated at the recently concluded South American Games in Santiago, Chile.

Two men are currently nursing gunshot wounds at the New Amsterdam Hospital, Berbice following a robbery.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Defending champions West Indies remained bullish ahead of today’s crucial World Twenty20 clash against hosts Bangladesh, refusing to be daunted by Sunday’s defeat to India that triggered criticism of their running between the wickets.

Godfrey Pereira of lot 58 Fifth Street, Alberttown appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in Court One on a simple larceny charge after it was alleged that he along with Dwayne Wallace and others choked and robbed Deodat Singh on Quamina Street relieving him of articles worth $16,240 on March 20.

Indian company, Fedders Lloyd says it believes that after New Delhi’s Parlia-ment reviews the controversial contract award for US$18 million Specialty Hospital at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, it will be retendered here.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday met a technical team from Norway comprising climate and development cooperation officials.

(Reuters) – Everton must put an end to their awayday blues at Newcastle United today to keep alive their outside hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League, said manager Roberto Martinez.

Three litterbugs earned themselves 30 hours of community service each, after they pleaded guilty in a city court yesterday.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) private Abiola Jacobs, accused of murdering her boyfriend’s mother in January, was yesterday ordered to stop all communications with the deceased’s family after the court gained information that she was in contact with them.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The mayor of Porto Alegre has warned the city may drop out of the World Cup unless it makes a crucial decision this week on financing for temporary structures at the Beira Rio stadium.

The Mayor’s All-Stars Football team completed their Surinamese Tour on winning note, defeating Suriname’s U-20 side by a 2-1 score line.

An East La Penitence man, who allegedly lashed his nephew several times with a cutlass for leaving a television on is now on bail, after he appeared in a city court yesterday.

President of the Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) Norma Semple says the GNA will work with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to ensure the recommendations made to help alleviate the high failure rate of nurses are institiuted.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says that government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme will see 17,948 laptops scheduled for distribution this year.

A man is currently hospitalized following accident late last night at Chapel and Victor streets, Lodge.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Speedster Fidel Edwards is anxious to make a comeback to the West Indies team but says that path is being frustrated by Barbados selectors.

Dear Editor, On March 24, the word observed International Day for the Right to the Truth Surrounding Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

(Reuters) – England captain Stuart Broad has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for criticising the officials after his side’s rain-affected World Twenty20 defeat to New Zealand, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Sunday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy said Sunday there was no need to press the panic button, in the wake of his side’s loss in their opening match of the World Twenty20 Championship.

Dear Editor, Professor Clive Thomas in his column titled ‘GuySuCo’s under-performance: The explosion of costs’ published in the March 16, 2014 Sunday Stabroek, among other things, spoke to the high employment costs in the sugar industry.

SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Bad weather and rough seas today forced the suspension of the search for any wreckage of a missing Malaysian jetliner that officials are now sure crashed in the remote Indian Ocean with the loss of all 239 people on board.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Leon Johnson and Tagenarine Chanderpaul staged a fight-back for Guyana, after Chadwick Walton collected his third first-class century to put the Combined Campuses in command in the Regional Four-Day Championship here Sunday.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter you printed by Mr Patrick Holder dated March 21, and captioned ‘Home owner has built concrete pavement over drain, parapet 15” high in some parts.’

CARACAS (Reuters) – A pregnant woman was shot dead near Caracas and a soldier was killed in the western state of Merida, officials said, as the death toll from weeks of anti-government protests in Venezuela rose to 36 yesterday.

Dear Editor, Unfortunately for all Guyanese, and particularly so for the next generation, our country’s politics continue to be dominated by divisive forces, personalities and rhetoric which hinder national development.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged cooperation between their countries and chatted about first lady Michelle Obama’s recent trip to Beijing when they met prior to a nuclear summit yesterday.

Dear Editor, Mr Abu Bakr responded to my letter which highlighted his trivialization of the Caricom reparations initiative with the same prism and circle of self-deception as did his first letter (‘Phillips’ narrative minimises the culture that made the deal possible’ Sunday Stabroek, March 23).

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – As he took off his helmet, tucked his bat under his arm and trudged back to the pavilion after a 19-ball struggle in the World Twenty20 on Sunday, Yuvraj Singh looked a shadow of the talismanic all-rounder who delivered two World Cups for India.

(ARLINGTON, Wash (Reuters) – The confirmed death toll from a devastating weekend mudslide in Washington state climbed to 14 people yesterday as six more bodies were found, while scores of people remained listed as missing two days after the tragedy, authorities said.

GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman (Jamaica Observer) — Contractor General Dirk Harrison is warning governments of the Caribbean, and in particular Jamaica, that failure to effectively squeeze corruption will lead to their ultimate demise.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro has confirmed he is to have an operation on his injured left wrist, which is likely to sideline him for most of the rest of the season.

  THE HAGUE/FEODOSIA, Crimea (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama and major industrialised allies warned Russia yesterday it faced damaging economic sanctions if President Vladimir Putin takes further action to destabilise Ukraine following the seizure of Crimea.

Dear Editor, The response by the Ministry of Education (MOE) Public Relations Officer (‘No major overcrowding at any level in the public education system,’ SN, March 24) to the comments made by the General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers Union in a KN article in the March 19 edition has once again affirmed the views of many teachers and members of the GTU, that there is a great need for new leadership in the union.

Dear Editor, I am appealing to the Guyana Learning Channel to refer to the Mathematics Curriculum Guides and the Interactive Radio Instruction Programme to gain insight into how times should be recorded in its programme schedule rather than its current am/pm system.

The University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) held its 2014 Caribbean Anti-Corruption Conference on 19-21 March 2014 under the theme “Towards a Corruption-Free Caribbean: Ethics, Values, Trust and Morality”.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A Russian billionaire said on Monday he planned to relocate his company that runs the Brooklyn Nets basketball team to Russia in keeping with the Kremlin’s call on Russian businessmen to repatriate their assets to help combat new U.S.

It was only after the minibus had made its third unexpected stop en route to Georgetown from the East Coast that one of its long-suffering passengers essayed a protest.

Dear Editor, There is an interesting story making the rounds in which former United States President Jimmy Carter is reported to have said that he believed that United States intelligence agencies are spying on him.

(The Sports Xchange) —The short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers, using just nine players, beat the Knicks 106-100 to end New York’s eight-game winning streak.

(Trinidad Express) VINDRA NAIPAUL-COOLMAN was possibly alive when her killers took an electric saw and dismembered her body by cutting off her legs, arms, head, abdomen and chest, before placing the body parts in four garbage bags and disposing of it.