Daily Archive: Monday, February 23, 2009

A fourth man believed to be the accomplice of the three killed by Joint Services ranks on Saturday at Arimu backdam, Cuyuni was captured later that day.

Grammy-nominated singer T-Pain has pulled out of tonight’s Hits and Jams after-Mash concert because he reportedly received word that he would be kidnapped and killed should he travel to Guyana.

‘We just thank the lord that our lives were spared and we were not harmed’ Two masked gunmen terrorized an Enterprise family for approximately 30 minutes early yesterday morning before making off with over $1 million worth of booty.

It has been months since Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins was brought down in a hail of bullets by members of the Joint Services but many still wonder whether it was his reputed girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance that fuelled the murderous rampage at Lusignan.

Abary residents are calling again for the de-silting of the mouth of the creek to help improve drainage in the area.

Two boats collided in the Essequibo River on Saturday and one man is missing while another is nursing injuries at a city hospital.

As the February 28 deadline draws closer, the Lamaha Railway Embankment is almost desolate as most of the residents are now adjusting to living conditions at Westminster in the Parfait-Harmonie Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara where most of them have been provided with house lots by the government.

Residents of Glasgow, East Berbice are fearful that soon “the sea would wash away into the village” and force them to abandon their land and in response, the Region Six administration says that it would make a recommendation for the critical sea defence work to continue.

It’s now over one year since the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OCI) had undertaken the processing of an insurance licence application for Caricom General Insurance Company, formerly the Guyana Fire Life and General Insurance Company (GuyFlag), and the office is yet to announce its decision.

Twelve Berbice farmers recently participated in a tour of Greenfield Farms to see demonstrations of advanced technologies in farming and the benefits of using shade cloth, drip lines, plastic mulch and UV plastic.

-Trotman Leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman has described this year’s budget as “being a colossal hoax”, and a major “disappointment” since it failed to frontally address the real concerns of Guyanese, such as poverty, the high cost of living and unemployment.

-MP Kissoon tells budget debate Lindeners rarely see the effect of big budgets and are instead left every year wondering about jobs, access to good healthcare and clean water and a failing infrastructure, PNCR-1G parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon charged last week as the budget debate neared a close.

Relatives of 43-year-old Mineo Holder, who was stabbed to death at his work site at Demerara Timbers Limited’s Mabura location, have many questions as to the circumstances of the killing.

The PNCR held a leadership retreat over the weekend in the wake of what it said was threatening storm clouds nationally and globally and strategic goals identified are to be incorporated into a report.

Former Ontario, Canada Premier David Peterson on Friday  paid a courtesy call on President Bharrat Jagdeo at State House where they discussed such issues as strengthening of bilateral relations and investment promotion, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Antiguan Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer will today advise Governor General Dame Louise Lake-Tack to reconvene a sitting of the House of Representatives to discuss the crisis sparked by charges in the US against billionaire Allen Stanford, a statement from the PM’s office said on Friday.

CHRISTIANSTED, U.S Virgin Islands, (Reuters) – From  the top of Recovery Hill, thick brush gives way to views of St. 

Dear Editor, Last Sunday morning I was driving down Ave D here in Brooklyn.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A bomb killed a French teenager  and wounded at least 20 other people in a crowded square near a  popular tourist bazaar in the Egyptian capital Cairo yesterday,  officials said.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Islamist insurgents killed 11  Burundi soldiers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu yesterday in the  deadliest attack on an African Union peacekeeping force.

Dear Editor, Well done, Guyana Police Force (SN 12.2.09) for displaying the courage and fortitude in charging some of your colleagues for allegedly demanding bribes from members of the public.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – European leaders agreed yesterday  to push for a global crackdown on tax havens and strict new  regulation of hedge funds as part of a sweeping overhaul of  financial rules designed to prevent future market meltdowns.

Dear Editor, I have been reading with concern of the situation in North America and all the foreclosures and heartbreaks humans and animals are facing.

Dear Editor, Funny how the spoken or written word can trigger memories which may compel us to take excursions into history. 

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian state prosecutors  swooped on headquarters of the national intelligence agency yesterday to probe charges that rogue agents illegally wiretapped  politicians and judges as a paid favor to drug traffickers.

Dear Editor, I was recently in a discussion where I was told that if an insured vehicle gets into an accident on an ungazetted road (most of the roads in hinterland locations) that the insurance company is not liable for expenses incurred.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian metals businessman Oleg  Deripaska, trying to restructure billions of dollars in debts  owed to Western banks, said he does not need financial help from  the state.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s budget this week will  set out big goals: to rescue the economy from freefall, expand  U.S.

Dear Editor, A national integrity commission must be both respected and accepted by the public and the main political stakeholders.

Narsingh Deonarine’s fifth first-class century, a half century from opener Christopher Barnwell and useful scores of 40 from Assad Fudadin, 39 from Devendra Bishoo, 35 from Royston Crandon and 33 from Leon Johnson saw Guyana to their highest score this season of 402 all out.

Dear Editor, I saw the passion in his eyes as he explained his reasons for feeling the need to run forty miles along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway in an effort to bring awareness to the plight of young children who are infected by the HIV/AIDS virus.

Captain of the Roraima Bikers Club, Darren Allen, won his first road race this year when he blew away the field to win the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)/National Sports Commission (NSC) organized Forbes Burnham Memorial 35-mile cycle road race yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) The statutory fund of CLICO Holdings Barbados Ltd is in deficit to the tune of Bds$93 million, or possibly more, says Opposition Leader Mia Mottley.

Dear Editor, It is with profound sorrow that I learnt of the passing of Dr Josh Ramsammy. 

Sunburst Camptown stormed to victory over Flamingo Football Club in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Milo Under-21 Tournament at the Camptown Ground on Saturday.

(Jamaica Observer) Restrictions of varying degrees on the sale of US dollars do appear to be in effect at some of the major commercial banks in Kingston, despite a declaration by Bank of Jamaica governor, Derick Latibeaudiere, to the contrary.

The Caribbean, the Developing World and the Global CrisisBy Don RobothamDon Robotham is a Jamaican anthropologist who teaches in New York and works on West Africa and the Caribbean.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said yesterday it was  tightening curbs on foreign workers from outside the European  Union to increase the chances of British jobseekers at a time of  rising unemployment.

By Sara Bharrat with photos by Jules Gibson Sonia Nedd, Self-employed: ‘I am very disappointed in the budget because they were supposed to give the people back pay and they haven’t.

Dear Editor, It comes as no surprise that Mr Corlette’s letter in the Stabroek News (Friday, February 20) reflects a misrepresentation of what took place at the last statutory meeting.

News that Washington police have made a breakthrough in the 2001 murder of government intern Chandra Levy will bring a measure of relief to her long-suffering family and the community that she lived in.

Lennox `Pretty Boy’ Allen was born on July 1, 1985. His father died tragically when he was only 14 years old leaving him and his three siblings (one boy and two girls) with his mother, Hannah Allen and his foster father Olsen George kept things in place for the children.

GWI’s contingent in the children’s Mash road march on Saturday stressing an important message.