Daily Archive: Thursday, October 2, 2014

(Reuters) – A trio of films stepped beyond Bollywood song-and-dance to show South Asian women grappling with male-dominated sport, child marriage, and sexual desire of people with disability in their premieres at the Toronto Film Festival.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC – West Indies off spinner Sunil Narine has been banned from bowling in the finals of the Champions League T20 tournament on Saturday.

The police say they are investigating the death of Rocklyn Solomon, 32 years, a miner, of Paradise Village, WCB, which occurred at about 1230h.

The Moco Moco rice project, which was launched in 2009 to the tune of $128M, under the Ministry of Agriculture’s Hinterland Rice and Beans Project is continuing to yield rice and more acreage may be cultivated, GINA said.

Scores of Amerindians and non-Amerindians gathered at the Mainstay/Whyaka village, Region Two, on Tuesday, culminating one month of activities to celebrate Amerindian Heritage month under the theme “Traditional Embodiment for Amerindian Development.

Scores of Amerindians and non-Amerindians gathered at the Mainstay/Whyaka village, Region Two, on Tuesday, culminating one month of activities to celebrate Amerindian Heritage month under the theme “Traditional Embodiment for Amerindian Development.

Scores of Amerindians and non-Amerindians gathered at the Mainstay/Whyaka village, Region Two, on Tuesday, culminating one month of activities to celebrate Amerindian Heritage month under the theme “Traditional Embodiment for Amerindian Development.”

On September 27, 2014, the Guyana Shines: Keep Guyana Beautiful initiative hosted its first civil society workshop at the Georgetown Club, a release from the US Embassy said today.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) this afternoon said that the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recalled the file from the police pertaining to the case of rape alleged by a Mahdia hotel worker last month.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Antigua’s Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin has been freed of a fraud charge.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Caribbean Heart Institute today for a medical assessment after complaining of feeling unwell, a statement today from the Office of the President said.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – At 88, veteran crooner Tony Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living artist to land a No.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro has dispatched the first group of 165 Cuban doctors and nurses to West Africa to help combat an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, official media reported today.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Robert Serra, a “Chavista” ruling party lawmaker, and his partner were found dead in their home in Caracas late Wednesday, government officials said, in Venezuela’s latest high-profile violent crime.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Ben Affleck is not interested in playing nice guys and would choose an interesting, complicated character over a likeable one, which is what drew him to “Gone Girl,” a dark thriller about marriage, intimacy and the roles people play.

(Trinidad Express) Four police officers, with a combined total of 59 years of service, appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate yesterday on three charges of misbehaviour in public office following enquiries into the robbery of a Chinese couple of over TT$500,000 on September 17.

Plaisance residents joined hands and successfully blocked the newly-appointed community Overseer from entering the Plaisance/Industry Neighbourhood Dem-ocratic Council (NDC) building yesterday, while expressing concern over an attempt at what they say is a land grab by the government.

Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) President Scott Caldwell yesterday promised that there will be no cyanide spills after the company’s Aurora mine begins operations next year and that it will work with surrounding communities to foster sustainability and eliminate environmental hazards.

Guyanese women and men yesterday turned out in protest action in solidarity with the Mahdia woman who said she was gang-raped and they condemned the system’s failure in adequately aiding her.

A partially-paralysed Matthews Ridge woman, who is alleging that she was raped in her home in late September, is now hoping that her case will not slip through the cracks like so many others.

The National Accreditation Council had denied registration of the American Health Care Institute as an accredited institution, after the body ruled that the school had not met the required standards according to the Ministry of Education.

Courts Guyana yesterday contributed $2 million towards the Guyana Exhibition (GuyExpo).

Given the rapidly rising chikungunya figures, Environmental Commun-ity Health Organisation (ECHO) Executive Director Royston King is calling for action on the stagnant drains in the city, which he is blaming for outbreaks in depressed areas.

Alvin Barkley, who was accused of murdering barber Yohan Hunte in 2012 at the Route 40 minibus park during a row over electricity theft, was freed on Monday by Justice Diana Insanally in the High Court.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday endorsed the official launching of the Guyana Softball Cup 4 tournament, the brainchild of the Guyana Softball Floodlight Cricket Association (GSFCA), deeming the format as an introduction into the world of cricket for most Guyanese.

A three-member team of Guyana’s premier bodybuilders spearheaded by reigning Mr.

Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) yesterday said it notes with interest the continuing and sometimes defamatory attacks on Dr Anand Goolsarran which have been published through anonymous and other letters in the Guyana Chronicle and the Guyana Times with regard to his recent resignation as president of the institute.

Food for the Poor (Guyana) recently handed over a quantity of beds to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) to fill an ongoing need at the institution.

Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) President Phillip Fernandes said despite Guyana not being able to compete regularly on the international circuit, he expects the ladies team to be a medal contender at the upcoming Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Games.

The Department of Fisheries is highlighting the expansion of aquaculture initiatives in an effort to educate small-scale farmers.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Team manager Richie Richardson said here yesterday that West Indies were well prepared for their upcoming One-Day International series against India, and would use the tour to enhance their planning for next year’s World Cup.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Seasoned West Indies seamer Ravi Rampaul believes his Champions League Twenty20 campaign will serve him well in the One-Day International series against India starting next Wednesday.

After being told that he could spend at least the next three years of his life in prison, a Laing Avenue man charged with possession of marijuana yesterday recanted his guilty plea.

Small scale or family farms invest over $50 billion annually in Guyana, Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy said yesterday as he launched Agriculture Month.

United States of America-based Vallon Adams and Australia-based Kevin McKenzie are among 10 overseas players that will compete for places in the National Sevens team billed to participate in the North American and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) championships in Mexico in December.

The second suspect in the Parfaite Harmonie fire which claimed the life of Jason Munroe was not charged because the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not advise that a charge be laid against him.

Besham Ganpat, the businessman who was charged with the forgery of a $4 million Republic Bank cheque and with using it to purchase stationery was yesterday released on a total of $600,000 bail.

BANGALORE, India, CMC –Coach of Barbados Tridents Desmond Haynes is bemoaning his side’s string of narrow defeats in the main round of the Champions League T20 currently underway in India.

The first phase of the current dredging of the Essequibo River by the Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge Steve N is scheduled to be completed in another two weeks.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia have included elite players Ellyse Perry and Jess Cameron in a strong 12-member squad to face touring West Indies Women in two warm-up Twenty20 matches here later this month.

In two weeks police are expected to have the results of samples taken from the skeletal remains of a body found along the Turkeyen Road in July and from the parents of Nyozi Goodman, a school teacher who disappeared after a basketball game earlier in that month, Crime Chief Leslie James said.

LONDON, England, CMC – Kent head coach Jimmy Adams is upbeat about the future of the club after signing a contract extension at the south-east county.

The Palms Geriatric Institution yesterday held a church service to usher in ‘Month of the Elderly’ 2014.

Dear Editor, I wish to correct the misinformation stated in a letter appearing in the Sunday Stabroek of September 28 about the slaughtering of wild animals.

Seuranie Rampersaud, the sister and mother of Bel Air heist robbery convicts Chandraradha Rampersaud and Hardat Kumar, respectively, was yesterday fined $100,000 after being found guilty of obstructing justice by threatening to kill a witness’s family if he testified against her relatives.

A resolute half-century from Shivnarine Chanderpaul kept the Guyana Cricket Board Developmental XI afloat at the end of the second day’s play of the Inter-County competition at the Wales Community Development Centre ground.

Dear Editor, I am about to return to Guyana after spending a couple weeks with professional colleagues, family and friends in Toronto and Ottawa.

With only 137 runs ahead and four wickets remaining in their second innings Essequibo resume play this morning facing the prospect of an outright defeat in their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County four-day match against Demerara at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned under fire yesterday after a series of security lapses came to light that exposed gaping holes in the protective cocoon around President Barack Obama.

Ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch conducted a drug eradication exercise at Hauraruni, Upper Demerara River on Tuesday and unearthed fields of marijuana plants.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Reparations Committee is eternally grateful for the letter by Mr Cedric L Joseph titled ‘The region’s case for reparations has to be founded on law rather than morality’ (SN, September 29).

HYDERABAD, India, IANS/CMC – Kolkata Knight Riders coach Trevor Bayliss has expressed surprise over champion off-spinner Sunil Narine being reported for a suspected illegal bowling action.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s leader is willing to let pro-democracy demonstrations blocking large areas of the city go on for weeks if necessary, a source close to him said, while defiant protesters vowed they would not budge.

Dear Editor, Inside sources revealed that rice farmers in Region Two today only received 50% of their paddy payment for the last crop from millers, and there is a big decline in the prices for paddy.

Life happens, lots of time unpleasantly. The nature of the world we live in, and human nature itself being what it is, we face all sorts of challenges, problems, setbacks, upsets, frustrations, disappointments.

With local government elections (LGE) high on its agenda, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Sunday visited the East Berbice-Corentyne area as part of its country-wide outreach exercise.

A young man who agreed to courier ganja into the interior yesterday found himself begging for mercy before being told that he would imprisoned for three years.

Dear Editor, The citizens of this nation continue to be done a disservice by those allowed to bandy around terms because they make good soundbytes; by those who encourage them; and by those who realise they can get away with it.

Khemraj Pooranmall retained his ‘A’ division crown when the Guyana Draughts Association (GDA) held their Annual National Championship at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue September 21.

(Trinidad Express) If you have a noticeable tattoo and you are thinking of joining the Police Service, forget about it.

MURSITPINAR, Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey signalled it may send troops into Syria or Iraq and let allies use Turkish bases to fight Islamic State, as coalition jets launched air strikes yesterday on insurgents besieging a town on its southern border with Syria.

President Donald Ramotar’s charade in relation to discharging his constitutional obligation to hold local government elections (LGE) continues.

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Starlite Generation in collaboration with Monedderlust FC will officially kick off their 2nd annual Berbice Cup knockout football tourney with an exciting doubleheader on Saturday at the Monedderlust FC ground, West Coast Berbice.

Opposition coalition executive members met yesterday at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition to synchronize their position on the ‘No confidence’ motion and the demand for local government elections as they prepare to return to the National Assembly.

News surfaced recently regarding a young Amerindian woman who said she was drugged and raped by more than one man at the hotel where she worked in Mahdia, Region Eight.

No clean up? It seems the city clean-up campaign has missed this spot opposite Parliament near the fence of St Andrew’s Kirk.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s central bank chief resigned yesterday after a long tussle with the Economy Ministry and was replaced with a regulator considered sympathetic to the interventionist stance of a government battling one of the world’s highest inflation rates.

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DALLAS (Reuters) – Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your editorial ‘Travel Span woes’ (SN, Sep 29).

The Hebrew Family of Guyana joins Israelites around the world in celebrating their holy season in the month of Etanim, the 7th month of the Hebrew biblical year.