Daily Archive: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

(Reuters) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) blasted Jamaican anti-doping officials today for the mishandling of a drug test by sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown that led to a successful appeal of the three-time Olympic gold medallist’s two year ban.

Sir Stephen Sedley, a former Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal of England recently paid a courtesy call on President Donald Ramotar at the Office of the President.

The Ministry of Agriculture via the Guyana School Agriculture (GSA), and with the University of the West Indies (UWI) has organised a three-day workshop for students of the GSA on biogas technology and its possible application. 

The revetment project at Cane Grove main access road, Mahaica, Region Four is progressing smoothly with the contractor completing around 40 percent of the task so far, according to the Ministry of Public Works.

The revetment project at Cane Grove main access road, Mahaica, Region Four is progressing smoothly with the contractor completing around 40 percent of the task so far, according to the Ministry of Public Works.

The revetment project at Cane Grove main access road, Mahaica, Region Four is progressing smoothly with the contractor completing around 40 percent of the task so far, according to the Ministry of Public Works.

Parliament’s  Committee of Supply this afternoon voted down the entire proposed expenditure ‎for administrative services under the Office of the President which also includes funds budgeted for GINA and the National Communications Network (NCN).

ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist insurgents abducted more than 100 female students in a night raid on a government secondary school in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, a teacher said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Civil aviation authorities have ramped up monitoring and safety checks on Caribbean Airlines’ fleet of 22 planes in direct response to the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran says the jury system needs to be abolished and not reformed as was recently proposed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall during the budget debate.

A Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officer was yesterday handed over to the police after admitting to collecting US$1000 to pack cocaine in mail bound for New York while being grilled by internal investigators.

(Jamaica Observer) IMPRISONED entertainer Vybz Kartel yesterday distanced himself from death threats made against journalists for their reporting on his case, calling the perpetrators “misguided individuals”.

City Councillors yesterday voted to send acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba on administrative leave after the recent finding by a court that her appointment was unlawful.

Over $300 million is projected to be spent this year on the completion of eight pump stations, a year after a contract for the supply of the pumps from India ended.

The Committee of Supply yesterday completed vetting allocations for the 10 administrative regions, which will stand as part as the budgetary estimates but not before opposition members continued to scrutinise multi-million dollar increases in allocations for security services.

All charges against the CEO of Strategic Action Security (SAS) Richard Kanhai in relation to the discovery of missing government equipment on his property have been dropped.

A man, accused of exposing explicit pictures of his ex-girlfriend, was granted bail yesterday but with the condition that he stay 50 feet away from the woman.

As Guyana continues to lag in upgrading its anti-money laundering legislation, regional analysts have added their voices to the call for its passage, while warning of the serious consequences of the failure to do so.

Leadercast, an international leadership event is set to be held at the International Conference Centre, Liliendaal come May 9.

Mosquitoes, ticks, flies and other insects can be far more than a nuisance.

Some residents of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice have been denying others access to an area called ‘First Dam’ for about one year, after farmers started planting cash crops on it.

Roughly 2,000 Amerindian youths will be out of work due to the voting down of the $1.1 billion Amerin-dian Development Fund, PPP/C Region 9 representative Bryan Allicock said yesterday.

A 44-year-old mechanic of Anna Regina who physically abused his reputed wife of five years after she asked him to turn down the music and later threatened to kill her was last week placed on $35,000 bail.

Under the theme “Rising to great heights through reading” the National Library hosted its second annual Easter Parade.

The six men being held in connection with the kidnap and murder of East Coast car dealer Rajendra Singh remain in custody, according to police public relations officer Ivelaw Whittaker.

Dean Hassan and investors of Tesouro Resourses yesterday donated $1million to the Guyana Police Force for the Impact Albouys-town Project that was launched last Friday.

A man who was accused of stealing a Blackberry Torch cellular phone valued $120,000 was yesterday set free after the court ruled that a case had not been made out against him.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has again returned the Colwyn Harding file to the police.

Remanded last week over cocaine-laced pastries, Nicholas Harinandan was once again refused bail yesterday when he appeared before the Providence Magistrate’s Court.

A Grove, East Bank Demerara man yesterday found himself before a city court accused of stealing over $100,000 from a parked car after police said his fingerprints were found at the crime scene.

Caught with two grammes of cannabis, an East La Penitence man was yesterday fined and ordered to perform community service at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

An Agricola man facing three counts of armed robbery was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before the Providence Magistrate’s Court.

Intermittent rainfall yesterday denied Guyana the opportunity to record their first win of West Indies Cricket Board’s the regional four day cricket tournament against Trinidad and Tobago at the Providence National Stadium, the match ending in a damp draw.

Kwanieze John, NACRA’s Get Into Rugby (GIR) Instructor assigned to Guyana and Curacao laid part of the foundation for making the sport a household one during her three-day visit which she wrapped up yesterday.

Dear Editor, The People`s Progressive Party General Secretary Clement Rohee is quoted in the media as describing the actions of the combined opposition of voting against the allocation of $1.1B for an “Amerindian Develop-ment Fund,” as callous and vindictive saying that it represents a brutal assault on our Amerindian citizens.

A mother charged with burning her nine-year-year old daughter was back in court yesterday as her trial continued before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond.

A Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) forum which was to be held today on the fallout from the non-passage of the anti-money laundering law has been postponed Earlier in April, PSC Chairman Ron Webster had told Stabroek News that fallout from the

Dear Editor,         I am seventeen years old and I live in Danielstown on the Essequibo Coast.

The management of world title hopeful Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell would neither confirm nor deny that he would be making less than GYD$3M for his scheduled fight in Mexico next month.

Guyana’s Chelsea Edghill teamed up with Belgium’s Lisa Lung (ranked 56 in the world) to win a bronze medal at the Butterfly Canadian Open junior and cadet championships.

Dear Editor, Many persons stopped me on the road this past week to get my take on the fact that the combined opposition in Parliament has disapproved of the $1.1B set aside in the 2014 Budget for Amerindian Development.

Two litter bugs were yesterday sentenced to serve 30 hours of community work each at the City Constabulary Headquarters.

A businessman accused of dangerous driving was on Tuesday last granted $40,000 bail at the Anna Regina Magistrates Court.

Dear Editor, Another Guyanese-born judge has delivered an important decision against a Belize minister of government which will be a blow to the Dean Barrow administration, since that administration has a razor-thin majority.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Double Olympic champion Mo Farah toiled on his highly-anticipated marathon debut with the Briton trailing in eighth as Kenyans Wilson Kipsang and Edna Kiplagat secured London titles on Sunday.

Court 10 yesterday saw the dismissal of 3 cases for want of prosecution.

Dear Editor, It has been nearly six months since Stabroek News has banned me from posting on their blog.

You can’t go to a Manny Pacquiao post-fight press conference and not ask what it’s going to take the powers that be to put together the only fight that matters in this day and age – Pacquiao vs.

ABUJA (Reuters) – A morning rush hour bomb killed at least 71 people at a Nigerian bus station on the outskirts of the capital yesterday, raising concerns about the spread of an Islamist insurgency after the deadliest ever attack on Abuja.

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers agreed yesterday to expand sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine by putting more people under asset freezes and visa bans, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.

AUGUSTA, Georgia, (Reuters) – The 78th Masters began as one of the most wide open in decades, but it will not go down as a classic after a surprisingly lacklustre finish on Sunday when Bubba Watson clinched his second green jacket.

Dear Editor, It is my understanding that this week the Ministry of Culture’s estimates are up for consideration before the Committee of Supply in the National Assembly. 

LONDON (Reuters) – China has called off talks with Britain on Beijing’s human rights record, the British government said yesterday, four days after Britain published a list of concerns.

The Anna Regina Magistrates Court was disrupted last Tuesday after a minor dispute involving a counsellor and the Court’s prosecutor.

SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – Boxer Felix “Tito” Trinidad, who grossed nearly $90 million during his championship career in the ring, is in economic ruin, just like his native Puerto Rico, according to court documents.

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial on Sunday, April 13 captioned, ‘Vulgarity.’

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The World Bank has voiced concern about what it described as the exorbitant cost of sending remittances to the Caribbean.

(Jamaica Observer) – Death threats have been made against the lives of two journalists for their reporting on the Vybz Kartel case.

A 23-year-old mason of Grant Paradise, Lower Pomeroon River was yesterday placed on bail after he was charged with assaulting his wife on two occasions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, John Boehner, is leading a delegation of Republican lawmakers on a trip to Afghanistan to underscore their call for US forces to remain there and also to review the country’s presidential election, Boehner’s office said yesterday.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – The prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial yesterday accused the track star of using emotional breakdowns under cross-examination to evade answering questions about the night he killed his girlfriend.

Dear Editor, I noted that in the Stabroek News of Saturday, April 12, 2014, in the article dealing with the Impact Albouystown Project on page 10, I have been misquoted as having said that the GPF has “at last” recognised the importance and necessity of forging… etc.

Albouystown, Georgetown was teeming with police ranks on Sunday as the Guyana Police Force’s ‘Albouystown Impact Project’ continued.

MILAN (Reuters) – An island in the Venice lagoon, a 15th century bastion against the Ottoman Turks and a former monastery on the southern coast are among prime properties Italy has put on an online auction for buyers from around the world.

(Trinidad Guardian) The gruesome discovery of the dead bodies of a man and his two toddlers at the side of a trace in Matura at 6 am on Sunday rocked the quiet east coast village.

(BBC) England batsmen Alastair Cook and Ian Bell, along with Test hopeful Sam Robson, all scored unbeaten hundreds for their counties yesterday.

Dear Editor, I have noted that many ministries of the government are still registering dates via the use of ordinals in advertisements.

Dear Editor, While in India to analyse the general elections underway, I learnt of the passing of the Caribbean luminary, Professor Norman Girvan.

A woman who assaulted her husband was yesterday fined $10,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Charity Magistrate’s Court.

We must wait and see just where Project Impact Albouystown takes community-police relations on the watch of Mr Seelall Persaud, the recently appointed acting Commissioner of Police.

Amerindians protesting outside Public Buildings yesterday used placards, slogans and even resorted to tribal chants to get their message across.

The Guyana Police Force’s inter-division cricket competiton sponsored by Commissioner of Police (COP) Selall Persaud in collaboration with C.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch police said yesterday they were questioning a 14-year-old girl in connection with an apparent threat she sent to American Airlines via Twitter over the weekend.

(Barbados Nation) – The rental of caskets has taken off in Barbados in a significant way.