Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 24, 2009

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Mutual funds that are not held  in custodial Stanford Finan-cial Group accounts should be  released from a court-ordered asset freeze, an attorney  overseeing the company’s affairs and assets said in a  statement on Monday.

Commissioner of Police Henry Greene says he would “love to hear” what the man who said he witnessed the murder of the eight miners at Lindo Creek and who wants to meet President Bharrat Jagdeo has to say.

Police are still in pursuit of an accomplice of the trio of bandits killed during a shootout at the Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni, on Saturday.

It was loud and hot; there were crowds but the few bands that stood out were unable to save this year’s Mashramani parade from being a lacklustre affair.

The Ministry of Agriculture distributed seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other items to hundreds of Mahaica farmers during an outreach exercise held in the area on Friday.

Proprietor of the Rose Gas Station at Mackenzie, Linden is calling on the relevant authority to investigate what she calls unfair treatment being meted out to her by the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL).

The Pegasus Hotel has not been sold, though a local businessman had been making enquiries, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon has said.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud told the National Assembly last week that the Maduni Sluice was opened from December 27, 2008 until January 6, 2009.

2004 Soca/Chutney Monarch Rajesh Dubraj took this year’s 2009 chutney title on Saturday night after delivering a smooth rendition of his song “Zara Dheray Se”, which captured and held the crowd’s attention.

A 21-year-old self-employed man was remanded to prison after being charged with the abduction of and carnally knowing a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

The Alliance for Change election petition court file which had gone missing in the High Court has resurfaced a week after the party noted its frustration with the system and had registered deep concern over the lost file.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ordered a Suriname national to pay a fine of $30,000 or the alternative of 18 months jail after he pleaded guilty to entering Guyana without the consent of an immigration officer.

Efforts are being made to address the dust problem in Lethem, says Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall.

The Region Three administration said $281.5M has been approved based on estimates of expenditure for its 14 neighbourhood democratic councils (NDCs).

The Kaieteur National Park has been awarded a $45M grant to construct a visitor arrival centre near the Kaieteur Falls.

By Andil GosineOne of the best-kept secrets about feminism is this: women’s liberation is good for men.  

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Subregional Office for the Caribbean has launched CARIBLEX, a new database of labour legislation for members states of the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has launched a nationwide recruitment drive aimed at attracting youth between the ages of 18 and 30.

Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy told the National Assembly on Friday that the proposed HIV legislation will address the contentious issue of persons knowingly infecting others with HIV.

CHRISTIANSTED, US Virgin Islands (Reuters) – Allen Stanford has millions of dollars worth of assets on the Caribbean island of St Croix, but US regulators have not seized any in their probe of the Texas billionaire, a US Marshal said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A ragtag group of Indian orphans triumphed at the Academy Awards on Sunday as Slumdog Millionaire took top honors with an against-all-odds love story that resonated with recession-weary moviegoers.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will replace Israel’s lead envoy to Egyptian-brokered truce talks with Hamas after he publicly criticized the government’s negotiating strategy, officials said yesterday.

PARIS/NEW YORK – Citigroup Inc is in talks that could see the US government boost its stake, a source told Reuters yesterday, as governments and financial firms in Japan, France and elsewhere announced fresh capital raising.

SOFIA (Reuters) – A 28-year-old Bulgarian man, nicknamed ‘The Hacker’, was jailed for 4½ years yesterday for draining over a million dollars from bank cards, mostly owned by US citizens.

The Government Technical Institute (GTI) captured this year’s Ministry of Sport, Inter-school Mashramani basketball title after thrashing President’s College 85-53 in the final on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, The recent shenanigans that are being played out at the Berbice High School in New Amsterdam are most unfortunate to the students, their parents, the teachers, and the education officials in Region Six.

KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) – Packed with cocaine and grimly christened “coffins,” sleek jungle-built submarines are steaming their way north from Colombia through Pacific waters to deliver tons of illegal drugs headed for the US market.

Dear Editor, Robin Muneshwer (Sunday Stabroek Feb. 22) writes about the non-acceptance of Indians of the movie Slumdog Millionaire because of “its overly negative portrayal of India and Indians, embarrassed perhaps, that the world should discover that India, home to a million gods, has crime and corruption and poverty.” 

Led by an unbeaten 55 from Royston Crandon and a pugnacious 41 from Christopher Barnwell, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago played to a draw at the Providence National Stadium yesterday in their seventh round West Indies Cricket Board-sponsored regional four-day encounter.

This is the final instalment of the series on boxers born in Guyana who have fought for the Commonwealth boxing titles.

(Trinidad Express) Fay-Ann Lyons Alvarez created history in the dawn of Sunday when she became the first female International Power Soca Monarch ever, soundly beating her husband, defending monarch Bunji Garlin into second place.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A Trinidadian national, a naturalised American citizen, was shot dead in Port-of-Spain on Sunday morning, all because he wined on another man’s girlfriend.

This year’s National Sports Commission (NSC) annual Mashramani Table Tennis tournament is set to heat up this week after some intense battle in the “C” and “B” Class Open and the Men and Women’s doubles on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports hall.

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana is undaunted in its decision to discharge the relief structure & canal towards the Atlantic Ocean. 

(Jamaica Observer) – The weekly Sunday Herald newspaper has been taken over by a group of investors headed by the Rev Garnett Roper, who hope to salvage the latest journal headed for Jamaica’s fearsome newspaper graveyard.

Dear Editor I read Ian McDonald’s piece titled ‘Leaders and Language’ (Sunday Stabroek, Feb.

Former Guyana and West Indies youth batsman Richard Ramdeen slammed a magnificent 119 in the final round of the Carib Twenty20 Series last Wednesday in Trinidad.

Former Guyana youth batsman Vishal Singh continues to set Trinidad ablaze with his fine batting.

Dear Editor, Thank you for your explanatory note on Mr Kwayana’s letter captioned ‘SN should not have deleted paragraph in letter’ (13.2.09).

President Bharrat Jagdeo told the Guyana Defence Force annual officers conference last week:  “We have excellent security plans; the thing that we have suffered from in the past is, maybe, lack of coordination or lack of a clear establishment of the linkages between the different components.”

(Antigua Sun) – LIAT has cleared the air on its ownership, debunking suggestions that it is owned by Sir Allen Stanford.