Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 5, 2009

– after illegal connection row The Chief Security Officer of the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) was shot dead yesterday during an illegal connection raid at the Lamaha Park squatting area, in Georgetown.

With less than half of the workforce making contributions, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) with the Labour Ministry to partner in monitoring these payments, ensuring employee deductions are paid to the scheme.

-call for better security, more staff Following a brutal attack by a patient on five inmates at the National Psychiatric Hospital (NPH) at Fort Canje, Berbice on Saturday, nurses at the institution staged a sit-out for a second day, yesterday calling for better security and staffing.

The two survivors of Sunday morning’s accident on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway that claimed four lives are in a stable condition in the male open ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

With the walls of his house literally crumbling, Mohamed Kazim Hanif is upset.

Widow still to receive word on probe – disputes press reports on pilot error It has been two years since Captain Rohan Sharma was killed, along with two other people, in a plane crash and his wife is disappointed that so far she has not received a copy of the report on the incident.

In the light of the rapid development of Diamond/Grove and its growing population, government is contemplating township status for the area, President Bharrat Jagdeo said last Thursday during the opening of the newly-constructed masjid in the community.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development handed over four solar systems to Regions Two, Five, Nine and Ten in order to boost the delivery of education and health care.

Naiomi Singh, the 20-year-old Morasi resident found dead behind her house last Friday, died from shock and hemorrhage due to an incised wound on her neck, police said.

-body bore stab wounds, burn marks No one has been detained over the murder of taxi-driver Rolston Bernard Henry, who was found with his throat slashed at Onion Field, La Bonne Intention (LBI), on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Sunday.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) said Arrival Day gives Guyanese whose forebears arrived on these shores in bondage and in servitude a chance to pay homage to their sacrifice and contributions.

A curious fair-sized crowd gathered at the Christianburg Community Centre ground in Linden on Saturday last for the inaugural game of beach soccer when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) launched the sport in Guyana.

Demerara find themselves in a must-win situation going into their final preliminary round match in this year’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/GTM-sponsored Under-19 three-day Inter-county tournament when they face defending champions Berbice over the next three days at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

A horse cart operator charged with felonious wounding was yesterday remanded to prison.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted $20,000 bail to a 40-year-old man accused of stealing a length of hose from the Guyana Fire Service (GFS).

Defending Champs Guyana looking sharp for this weekend Guyana’s riflemen warmed up for next week’s West Indies Full-bore championships with a challenging total in last weekend’s Crown Mining sponsored Postal Shoot team competition held Sunday at the Timehri rifle ranges.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Fast bowler Ravi Rampaul, gearing up for the One-Day International (ODI) series against England later this month, grabbed four wickets on Sunday for PowerGen in their drawn Trinidad and Tobago Premier League sixth-round match.

Guyana has moved from ‘partly free’ in its press freedom status to ‘free’, the latest report of the world press freedom watchdog body, Freedom House has said.

A man was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail after pleading not guilty to a charge that he broke into the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and stole a bicycle.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers was named NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) yesterday, accepting the honour in the high school gym that was the launch pad for his career.

Guyana has moved from ‘partly free’ in its press freedom status to ‘free’, the latest report of the world press freedom watchdog body, Freedom House has said.

A labourer accused of stealing a gold chain was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A labourer yesterday blamed drinking when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a felonious wounding charge.

ROME (Reuters) – Serena Williams still rates herself as the best player in the world even though she has been toppled from the top spot by Russia’s Dinara Safina.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Thursday remanded to prison two teenagers and a man accused of two separate incidents of armed robbery.

ZÜRICH, Switzerland, CMC – Usain Bolt will hope to use this year’s International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) Golden League meet at the Letzigrund Stadium to celebrate another triumphant appearance at a global event.

A American woman, charged with trafficking in narcotics, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Three-time defending champions Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United recorded yet another overwhelming victory when action in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Cellink Plus 2009 Premier League continued at the Tucville Playfield on Sunday.

The Indian Commemoration Trust (ICT) is happy to celebrate this historic day not only with Indians but with all Guyanese because this is a part of our history as the indentured Indians made tremendous contributions in helping to build the nation, ICT Honorary President, Dr Yesu Persaud said in a statement on the commemoration of Indian Arrival.

The first semi-final in the second annual Bakewell Buxton Stars-organized Mackeson Stout/Digicel-sponsored Sweet 16 football tournament kicks off today at the Plaisance Community Centre ground from 20:00 hrs.

Guyana’s women’s football programme is set to kick-off in June with a national team scheduled to participate in a four-team tournament hosted by the Turks & Caicos Football Federation.

Hits and Jams Television (HJTV) in collaboration with the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Courts Pacesetters Basketball Club and Lens Craft Optical yesterday officially launched their Inter-Ward Basketball Tournament at the Windjammer International Hotel in Georgetown.

National Twenty20 club champions Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will leave these shores today for neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago, to compete in the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) club championships.

LONDON, England, CMC – Discarded West Indies batsman Wavell Hinds missed out on his second century in as many days as Derbyshire also lost for the second time in 48 hours in the Friends Provident Trophy yesterday.

The West Indies finally got their captain back yesterday. Two weeks into the team’s tour of England and a couple of days behind his originally scheduled date of arrival, Chris Gayle flew into Heathrow Airport after an overnight, 14-hour flight from South Africa where he was playing in the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Dear Editor, The time has come for the coaching fraternity to take its rightful place in the process of development of football in Guyana.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico will resume normal business activity this week after its swine flu emergency eased, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute yesterday over bans on Mexican, US and Canadian pork.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda resigned yesterday after a crisis sparked by his sacking of the country’s army chief, plunging the Himalayan republic into political turmoil.

Dear Editor, I would like the general public, the Guyana Boxing Board (GBB) and all the fans to know why I did not go ahead with the fight against Lennox Allen who was scheduled to fight Howard Eastman on Saturday.

Clifford Reis won his first major tournament for this season when he carted off last weekend’s keenly contested Members Golf Competition trophy at the Lusignan Golf Club.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Finalizing a free-trade deal with the United States is a major goal for Panamanian President-elect Ricardo Martinelli, but the supermarket tycoon rejects US accusations that the country is a tax haven.

AUSTIN, Texas, CMC – Antiguan Brendan Christian, Ryan Brathwaite, of Barbados, and the US Virgin Islands’ Tabarie Henry were among impressive Caribbean winners at the Texas Invitational track and field meeting this past weekend.

Dear Editor, Could NCN’s ‘Morning Show’ with the young Ms Holladar really be better?

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee told the National Assembly last week that there are two police stations along the Guyana/Venezuela border and two along the border with Brazil.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In his first 100 days as a former president, George W.

(Jamaica Observer) – Three men were shot dead as police and soldiers engaged in a stand-off with gunmen in the volatile Mountain View community in Kingston on Sunsay.

Dear Editor, ‘Screw’ Richmond was a celebrated household name in the Linden community (Mackenzie) during his reign in the ’60s and ’70s – an outstanding, flamboyant and inspirational sports personality.

The police are seeking the public’s assistance in indentifying the body of a man who was the victim of a fatal accident at Soesdyke Public Road, East Bank Demerara around 10.40 pm on April 26.

Dear Editor, I write this letter to once again highlight a problem that has evolved from an occasional inconvenience into an annoying and exasperating problem.

Dear Editor, It was interesting to learn from Henry Jeffrey that the initiative against domestic violence originated in his office when he was a minister of government in 1996.

Pay talks resume The St Lucian Prime Minister, Stephenson King, was to meet labour leaders yesterday to try to head off more unrest.

AUSTIN, Texas, CMC – Antiguan Brendan Christian, Ryan Brathwaite, of Barbados, and the US Virgin Islands’ Tabarie Henry were among impressive Caribbean winners at the Texas Invitational track and field meeting this past weekend.

Today is day for Guyanese to reflect and pray for their ancestors who made the journey to Guyana on May 5, 1838, according to the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG).

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – At least 41 people were killed when unidentified gunmen with automatic rifles attacked a wedding party in southeastern Turkey yesterday, the acting governor of Mardin province said.

(Barbados Nation) – Extra medical personnel and new systems have been implemented at the Grantley Adams International Airport and the Bridgetown Port in an attempt to keep the swine flu virus out of Barbados.

Dear Editor, Within recent times, the name of a personality keeps popping up as being associated with events and entities that are notoriously regarded as opposed to the Government of Guyana.

KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan named uncapped left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Aamir and hard-hitting opener Shahzaib Hasan in their squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in England yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A stunt man filming a car chase in Times Square for a new Nicolas Cage movie crashed his Ferrari into a store front and two pedestrians suffered minor injuries, police and the film’s producers said yesterday.

Entertaining: Mahua Shankar of India was one of the many dancers who entertained guests at  the Indian Commemoration Trust’s Pushpanjali – an evening of music, dance and stage play in observance of the 171st anni-versary of the arrival of East Indians in Guyana.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An illegal immigrant who uses false identification papers must know they belonged to another person to be convicted of identity theft, the US Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

Dear Editor, Today marks the 171st anniversary of Indians arriving in Guyana in the year 1838.

Reynold Samuels was elected Toshao of the Santa Aratak Village Council after capturing 50 votes in elections held last Saturday at the Santa Mission Primary School.

CARACAS (Reuters) – An earthquake sent residents running from their  homes and shook buildings across oil exporting Venezuela’s densely populated coastal region, including the capital Caracas, before dawn yesterday.

KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan named uncapped left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Aamir and hard-hitting opener Shahzaib Hasan in their squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in England yesterday.

Pitamber Persaud (right) had several books on sale at Pushpanjali,  the Indian Commemoration Trust’s  evening of music, dance and stage play in observance of the 171st anniversary of the arrival of East Indians in Guyana.

Digicel and the Lions Club of D’Urban Park have launched an anaemia project in order to curb the prevalence of the condition in the society.

– Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor emeritus of political economy at Warwick University, author of a prize-winning biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes, and a board member of the Moscow School of Political Studies.

Minister of Home Affairs Mr Clement Rohee and Alliance for Change party leader and public safety spokesman Mr Raphael Trotman have taken the debate on security sector reform out of the National Assembly and onto the pages of the Stabroek News.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The US recession will likely end this year and policymakers must be ready to act quickly to ensure inflation does not take hold when the economy recovers, two top Federal Reserve officials said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Many might believe that because Guyana lacks so much in terms of facilities, coaches, etc, in the sporting arena, we will always be at a disadvantage.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Seventeen people were killed when a Venezuelan military helicopter crashed on patrol in a mountainous region near the border with Colombia, The dead included an army general, several military officials and a civilian, the state news agency said.

EAST LONDON, South Africa(Reuters) – An unbeaten half-century from MS Dhoni and four-wickets for Shadab Jakati propelled Chennai Super Kings to the Indian Premier League (IPL) summit after a 78-run victory over Deccan Chargers.