Daily Archive: Tuesday, April 29, 2014

At about1030h today, police say that two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, confronted Marcel Fitzalbert, 34 years, as he was walking along a road in Festival City, South Ruimveldt, and demanded the jewellery he was wearing.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association today banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the game for life and fined him $2.5 million for racist comments that outraged everyone from players, to fans, coaches and the U.S.

At about 1230h. today police say that Joel Ross, who was armed with a cutlass, attacked a policeman who was in the process of arresting him at Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds over the weekend paid a visit to Barama Company Limited, at Buck Hall, Region Two, where he got a firsthand look at the overall operation.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (right) greeting employees of Barama Company Limited when he visited over the weekend.

Staff of the Ministry of Labour performing a dramatic piece, focusing on safety in the workplace at a symposium on Monday at the Regency Hotel, Hadfield Street, in observance of World Day for Occupational Safety and Health, observed under the theme “Safety and health in the use of chemicals at work”. 

Minister of Labour, Dr. Nanda Gopaul (left) on Monday handing over a prize to a teacher of the Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (standing third from right) over the weekend visited the Guyana Gold Fields project, the Aurora Gold Mines located in Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven where he was given an update on the progress of work for the soon to be established open pit and underground mining operation.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed Libya’s parliament today and opened fire, forcing lawmakers to abandon a vote on the next prime minister, witnesses said.

Two men accused of killing Patsan Trading salesman Bharrat Ramcharan were remanded to prison today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A London law firm confirmed the worst-kept secret in show business on Monday by sending congratulations to one of its lawyers and Hollywood leading man George Clooney on their engagement.

Vice-Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Ramesh Persaud today signing the Book of Condolence for the PSC’s late Chairman, Ronald Webster. 

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Gary Griffith yesterday said there has been a massive drop in the total serious crimes in Trinidad and Tobago.

By Desilon Daniels A Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara couple was Sunday evening discovered dead in an apparent murder-suicide.

A Parika, East Bank Essequibo man was one of two victims of fatal accidents that occurred between Sunday night and early yesterday morning; the second was a teenager of Diamond Housing Scheme.

An unnamed ex-policeman, described as a former member of a Guyana Police Force “death squad,” is slated to testify on his personal assignments to not only infiltrate the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) but to carry out acts of subterfuge and assassination, the legal counsel for the Commis-sion of Inquiry (CoI) into Dr Walter Rodney’s death announced yesterday.

– via audio/video link from USA weeping Eric Stoby, the father of Sade Stoby, who was raped and murdered when she was nine years old, testified via audio/ visual link from the Guyana Consulate in New York yesterday when the trial continued.

Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba yesterday walked out of what was to be a statutory meeting of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) after she was not allowed to recite prayers.

– still seeking  justice A family from Number 71 village, Corentyne is back in the home from which they were evicted last week, but their belongings remain on the road.

The Guyana Reparations Committee (GRC) will be holding its first reparations outreach conference at Linden on May 3 and the event will be a part of the Reparations Village that complements the Linden Town Week, according to a press release.

Files on the police’s investigation into the 1980 death of political activist Dr Walter Rodney and the operations of his party, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), were admitted into evidence when the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) held its first public hearing yesterday.

The Sophia resident who was shocked while attempting to retrieve a kite stuck on a utility pole on Wednesday last, is still an admitted patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing severe burns about his body.

Final-year law students of the University of Guyana (UG) remain worried about their prospects of entering the Hugh Wooding Law School for the 2014/2015 semester even as their final exams are slated to commence tomorrow.

Four persons are now the proud owners of GE washing machines after their names were drawn in the ninth Ariel Easy Wash promotion held by Ansa McAl Trading Limited.

A boxing coach was yesterday remanded to prison after she was allegedly busted by police with 15 grammes of marijuana at a gym.

-Trophy Stall Angels defeat Mike’s Wellwoman; Regal bites Wolf Warriors Skipper June Ogle-Thomas played a captain’s knock on Saturday to steer her side Trophy Stall Angels to an eight wicket win over Mike’s Wellwoman in the female final of the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association, Trophy Stall sponsored three category competition at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground, Queenstown.

A handyman was sentenced to 30 hours community service after he admitted in a city court yesterday, to dumping garbage at Stabroek Market.

At about 1030h yesterday, police say that two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, confronted Marcel Fitzalbert, 34 years, as he was walking along a road in Festival City, South Ruimveldt, and demanded the jewellery he was wearing.

A bar owner was fined yesterday after admitting that he initiated a fight with another man who he said had been haunting the exterior of his business for two years.

-Alpha United edges GDF 1-0 to retain Namilco title   Alpha United successfully defended their title, edging the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) 1-0 in the grand finale of the Namilco sponsored Fruta Conquerors One Love tourney at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda on Sunday.

– six months after set up Almost six months since the PPP established an internal integrity body, it is yet to receive a single complaint or conduct a single investigation, according to the party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) signed a four year kit deal on Saturday at the Regency Hotel Suite with manufacturers Forward Sports International Incorporated to outfit their respective male and female national teams.

BK Western Tigers defeated Sunburst Camptown by a 2-0 scoreline when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) u-17 football league continued at the Tucville Community ground yesterday.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) remembers Chair-man of the Private Sector Commission Ronald Webster as “a visionary businessman and leader” and it is shocked and saddened at his passing.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Rookie leg-spinner Damion Jacobs has hailed a “perfect” day in the field, after his astonishing eight-wicket haul turned the Headley/Weekes Trophy Final in Jamaica’s favour here yesterday.

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce is saddened at the passing of Ronald Webster and remembers him as a dynamic, articulate and committed member of the private sector.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) has noted with regret the passing of PSC Chairman Ronald Webster who provided his expertise to many public and private commissions and significant contributions to Guyana’s development.

Tournament hosts Fruta Conquerors overcame Riddim Squad 4-2 in their third place playoff when the Namilco sponsored One Love tourney concluded on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

-GFA U17 league Beacons FC defeated Santos FC by a 6-3 score line when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) u-17 football league continued yesterday at the Tucville Community ground.

 – McCormack tells annual officers conferenceHuman rights activist Mike McCormack says the Guyana Police Force (GPF) needs a democratic orientation which will transform its negative image and prise it away from the militaristic way it is viewed by society.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed fresh sanctions on Russian firms and government officials yesterday, a move that financial markets largely shrugged off and US Republican lawmakers dismissed as too little to deter Mos-cow from further action in Ukraine.

A labourer accused of stealing a Samsung Galaxy smartphone is now on $75,000 bail, after he denied the allegation during his arraignment before a city magistrate yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association faced mounting pressure on Monday to impose a harsh punishment on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for his alleged racist comments as several of the team’s sponsors pulled their backing.

Dear Editor,   Stabroek News report of April 17, 2014 that the United States Embassy had made a direct, and public, approach to the Government of Guyana to join with the United States in imposing targeted sanctions on the Russian leadership on the matter of Ukraine prompts this comment which should have been made immediately after the vote in the UN General Assembly on March 27.

Dear Editor,  There is need for concern over a public notice from the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security indicating that 212 cooperative societies are facing cancellation, since one cannot arbitrarily cancel legally constituted bodies registered under the Cooperative Societies Act Chapter 88:01.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Fifty people were killed yesterday as suicide bombers attacked a political rally and Iraqi police and soldiers cast their votes early for a national election in two days’ time, authorities and witnesses said.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A new advocacy group calling for the United States to change its policy toward Cuba launched an advertising campaign yesterday with posters on the Washington DC metro system showing President Barack Obama and urging him to “stop waiting.”

Natalie Caseley, the mother of the four-year-old who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) while undergoing treatment after biting his tongue, has been promised a meeting with the Health Minister.

(The Sports Xchange) – -All-Star guard Stephen Curry scored 17 of his game-high 33 points in the first quarter as the Golden State Warriors added on-court misery to the Los Angeles Clippers’ off-the-court issues, thumping them 118-97   to even the Western Conference first-round series at 2-2.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at under the auspices of Ministry of Health hosted its first blood drive in effort to raise 20 units of blood at its 198 Oronoque and Lance Gibbs Streets on Saturday.

MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brother-hood and 682 supporters to death yesterday, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests and political violence ahead of an election next month.

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association said it would make an announcement today about its investigation into Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling as the fallout over his alleged racist comments began to pick up.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Two main criminal gangs are responsible for the rash of killings, extortion and robberies across the country, says head of the Criminal Gang and Intelligence Unit Supt Kenrick Edwards.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has remained mum on the intermittent blackouts that have continued since the Easter weekend across parts of the East Coast, East Bank and Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I hope Mr Ian McDonald has recovered from the massive ‘patriotic’ attack which he experienced in the SN column of April 27 titled ‘A fateful and historic mistake.’

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, Apr 28, CMC – A slew of brilliant individual performances shook the Headley/Weekes Trophy Final to life on Monday here but a career-best spell from leg-spinner Damion Jacobs and Jermaine Blackwood’s second half-century of the match put Jamaica firmly in charge against Windward Islands.

Dear Editor, This is the party in waiting with the best chance to form the government and they haven’t shown the competence to find out where the money to make the Office of the Leader of the Opposition more effective to represent its constituents is coming from, and demand more for their agenda.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Prosecutors are holding the mayor of one of Mexico’s main port cities for questioning over allegations he took part in kidnapping and extortion, the latest step in a government crackdown on organized crime in the western region.

All decked out: Entrants at the Inner Wheel Club Hat Show and Garden Party on Saturday at the Promenade Gardens.

ST JAMES, Jamaica (Jamaica Observer) — Former Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding has warned that the Caribbean region will continue to experience “recession -type conditions” for a number of years, despite the official end of the global recession four years ago.

One Don, four Divas: A male entrant at the Inner Wheel Hat Show and Garden Party on Saturday flanked by four elderly ladies.

– work ongoing in other areas After Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) on April 13 issued full page advertisements in the newspapers to update citizens affected by the laying of sewerage pipes on the progress in resurfacing the roadways, some residents are calling the work substandard.

Politikles

BOGOTA (Reuters) – A Colombian rebel group stopped and set fire to 12 vehicles transporting contractors and equipment to repair a pipeline on behalf of state-owned oil company Ecopetrol, police officials said yesterday.

(Cricinfo) In a game crippled by poor batting, Royal Challengers Bangalore limped to 124 and Kings XI Punjab were in danger of failing to chase that middling total, before they hung on to win by five wickets and leave the UAE with their fifth win in as many games.

Dear Editor, As we suffer an almost daily dose of nonsense from the City Hall administration and its sponsors, citizens need ask when will it all end, and so stop this deterioration of our capital.

The extent of the Guyana economy’s dependence on the gold mining sector is set to grow significantly when two news investors, Guyana Goldfields Inc of Canada and Troy Resources Inc of Australia come on stream here in 2015.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Jordan has agreed to handover a Libyan Islamist to Tripoli to secure the release of its ambassador kidnapped in the North African country two weeks ago, Libya’s state news agency LANA said yesterday.