Daily Archive: Sunday, April 27, 2014

(Trinidad Express) Winner of the 2014 One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Robert Antoni, said he will share the US$10,000 prize money with the other finalists.

(Reuters) – The Indian film “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” led winners of the “Bollywood Oscars” on Saturday night, nabbing five of the top honors including best picture and best director as the awards made their first-ever U.S.

BANGUI, (Reuters) – At least 22 people, including 15 local chiefs and three local members of staff of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, have been killed in an attack on a town in the Central African Republic, officials said today.

Several squatter farmers were advised to discontinue farming on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and state lands and failure to comply will see action taken to bring to an end this practice, according to a press release from the Ministry of Public Works today.

Several squatter farmers were advised to discontinue farming on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and state lands and failure to comply will see action taken to bring to an end this practice, according to a press release from the Ministry of Public Works today.

Several squatter farmers were advised to discontinue farming on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and state lands and failure to comply will see action taken to bring to an end this practice, according to a press release from the Ministry of Public Works today.

Several squatter farmers were advised to discontinue farming on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and state lands and failure to comply will see action taken to bring to an end this practice, according to a press release from the Ministry of Public Works today.

Several squatter farmers were advised to discontinue farming on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and state lands and failure to comply will see action taken to bring to an end this practice, according to a press release from the Ministry of Public Works today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After digging for almost four years, local investigators have found very few assets that can be traced to convicted drug dealer Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Colin McLean, 52 years, of Mabura, whose body was found in his home with suspected stab wounds at about 0820h.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0115h today on the No.

(Trinidad Express) MORE than 10,000 patrons came out to World Music Night of the 2014 Tobago Jazz Experience at Pigeon Point Heritage Park in Tobago on Friday, when Grammy Award winner John Legend was the headline act.

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ron Webster has passed away.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis proclaimed his predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in front of more than half a million pilgrims today, hailing both as courageous men who withstood the tragedies of the 20th century.

(Barbados Nation) Police launched a search yesterday for the killers of Charley Dume and Selwyn “Gubbs” Carter.

-APNU floats Caricom mediation to break impasse A team from the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) yesterday warned of harsh consequences should Guyana fail to pass anti-money laundering legislation before a May 29 conference but failed to sway the opposition, which maintained that the “crisis” requires a political solution.

Story and photos by Dacia Whaul Like many of its sister villages on the West Coast of Demerara, De Kinderen was “bare bush” when locals and foreigners began to cultivate the land.

-results due by June Three experts have been identified by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) and have begun the highly-anticipated evaluation of pre-qualification documents for the supply of $5 billion worth of medical supplies for Guyana’s health sector.

– stakeholders Stakeholders say bauxite-rich Block 37, which was recently withdrawn from Chinese company Bosai, should not be granted for exploitation until an investment plan affording maximum benefits for Guyanese is submitted.

Two major gold operations are set to come on stream within the next year with combined gold production by Guyana Goldfields Inc and Troy Resources Limited pegged to be about 341,000 ounces per year which would add to the 481,087 ounces declared by small and medium-scale miners last year.

With the passage of this year’s $7.4 billion budget for the Guyana Police Force, it is expected that some of the money will be used to purchase the equipment necessary to facilitate a live feed from the government installed CCTV cameras to the police, according to Acting Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud.

All is set for the commencement of public hearings into the circumstances surrounding the death of political activist, Dr Walter Rodney.

Three years after the Sexual Offences Act (2010) came into effect and over a year after amendments were made to the act, the National Task Force for the prevention of sexual offences and the sexual offences unit mandated under the law, are yet to become a reality.

Residents of Number 50 Village, Corentyne came out in full force and apprehended a bandit who along with an accomplice posed as policemen and attempted to rob a family on Friday night.

I think there must be a majority of Guyanese deeply worried that the festering animosity between the political parties and the incessant jockeying for position and narrow-spirited search for partisan advantage is greatly harming Guyana’s progress as a nation.

In a wide-ranging, courageous and innovative decision, the Indian Supreme Court ruled a few weeks ago that transgenders, a broad category of persons with varying gender situations, identities and issues, are entitled to the protection of the Indian Constitution.

Now that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has finished his first year in power, it’s time to take a dispassionate look at what has happened in oil-rich Venezuela since he took office on April 19, 2013, and what lies ahead.

This week I begin with a wrap-up discussion of factory performance measures as revealed at the level of the eight individual estates.

About to conclude a column for So it go I am aborting it to write, instead, on a sudden impulse, about Helen Bartlett, a mother in Point Fortin,Trinidad, who is big in the news this week over a video of her beating her 12-year-old wayward daughter.

Two weeks ago the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, made a one-day visit to Havana.

Lousy job Imagine seven years after Sithe Global showed an initial interest in the Amaila Falls hydroelectric project, companies in Guyana are still increasing their profits by as much as 30 per cent in one year.

We love our hats! Little beauties showing off their hats at the Inner Wheel Hat Show and Garden Party at the Promenade Gardens yesterday.

The $500 million allocation for the rice sector in this year’s national budget will not be disbursed as individual pay-outs to farmers, according to President of the Rice Producers Association (RPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj, who says that the funds will be used to assist the industry with sustainability projects.

Maira, a Makushi girl and her twin brother Mairun venture into the deep forest alone, something they know they should not do.

– Decides to reconvene Congress in 45 days to settle differences with disgruntled associations It was courage under fire as Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Christopher Matthias survived a no-confidence motion during the entity’s ordinary congress yesterday at the Regency Suites Hotel, resulting in the congress being scheduled to reconvene in 45 days.

The Gashimov Memorial tournament which is being held in Shakmir, Azerbaijan, from April 20 to 30, has attracted some elite players, including world champion Magnus Carlsen.

-WICB cannot allow Richard Pybus’s plans to professionalize the regional first-class season go the way of the Patterson report   ANOTHER unsatisfactory West Indies first-class season ends this weekend.

Going nowhere fast: A car and minibus crashed at the corner of Camp and Church streets yesterday.

Sections of the city were without power yesterday after there was a trip in the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) system, while engineers were conducting maintenance works in the city.

SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine offered yesterday to release eight captive international observers in a prisoner exchange, as Western governments prepared new sanctions against Moscow.

Police FC squeaked past Flamingo FC by a 2-1 score line when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) first division league continued at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground, Vlissengen Road on Friday.

This is not an everyday bread but more for special occasions, mainly due to its richness.

GROS ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Jermaine Blackwood and Nkrumah Bonner were both dismissed within sight of breakthrough hundreds to give Jamaica early control over Windward Islands in the Headley/Weekes Trophy Final yesterday here.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signalled yesterday that he remains committed to troubled US-backed peace talks, saying that any unity government agreed with the militant group Hamas would recognise Israel.

A new play by Janice Imhoff, The Eleventh Finger, was recently produced by SENOJ directed by Collette Jones-Chin and performed at the Impeccable Banquet Hall.

(Cricinfo) Glenn Maxwell and David Miller failed for the first time this season, but that didn’t prevent Kings XI Punjab from extending their winning streak to four this year, and seven overall. Sandeep

Despite the conclusion of the investigations into the death of four-year-old Jaden Mars, the mother of the young boy is yet to receive any official word from Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Shamdeo Persaud.

HARARE (Reuters) – A faction in Zimbabwe’s main opposition movement said yesterday it had suspended party leader Morgan Tsvangirai for “fascist” tendencies and failing to oust veteran President Robert Mugabe, deepening divisions in the opposition ranks.

Fuelling up: All that hat wearing, hat modelling and cheering must have been hard work so this smiling group had some tea and cakes to fuel up at the Inner Wheel Hat Show and Garden Party at the Promenade Gardens yesterday.

We have been spending what seems to be an inordinate amount of time on this subject. 

Stylish: A group of ladies model their stylish hats at the Inner Wheel Hat Show and Garden Party at the Promenade Gardens yesterday.

SEOUL (Reuters) – The frightened boy who first raised the alarm that a South Korean ferry with hundreds on board was sinking did not have time to call his parents, his father said, and was found dead not wearing a life jacket.

The Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) is a common sight on the coast and interior of Guyana.

“Time is longer than twine”—— so states one of the oldest English expressions used in times of distress.

The two persons who were in custody in connection with the murder of waitress Jagwandai Ramnauth were released yesterday morning.

Says Emmerson Campbell “Sport is 80 percent mental and 20 percent physical.”

KIEV (Reuters) – For weeks, Ukraine’s intelligence services have been tracking a mysterious man with a pencil moustache who, they say, is Russia’s chief agent provocateur tasked with stirring up armed revolt in Ukraine.

Alpha United and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will face off in the grand finale of the Namilco sponsored Fruta Conquerors One Love tourney today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

(Reuters) – US-grown apples are widely coated with a pesticide that has been newly banned in the European Union amid health concerns, and the United States is at least a year behind in a required scientific assessment of the pesticide, an environmental group said on Thursday.

Tea time: A large group having tea at the Inner Wheel Hat Show and Garden Party at the Promenade Gardens yesterday.

Caladiums commonly called Angel’s wings or Lucky originated from Brazil and Central America.

Family affair: It was clearly a family affair for this mom and her daughters at the Inner Wheel Hat Show and Garden Party at the Prome-nade Gardens yesterday.

Dear Editor, We condemn without reservation the attack perpetrated on members of the transgender community on the night of Monday, April 7.

Once in a while the government does something which no one can find fault with.

LONDON (Reuters) – A letter from a passenger on the Titanic, written just hours before the ship hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage, sold at auction yesterday for £119,000 ($200,000).

US-based promoter/manager Seon Bristol is scheduled to have dialogue with Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell’s management tomorrow to discuss how best he can assist with the boxer’s preparation ahead of his world title fight in Mexico next month.