Articles published on Tuesday, May 12, 2009
In a thinly-veiled critique of conditions under which members of the Guyana Police Force serve and those in which detainees are held, Caricom’s Assistant Secretary-General Dr Edward Greene yesterday called for security to move away from brute force tactics, while President Bharrat Jagdeo insisted that such methods were sometimes justified in the fight against violent crime.
The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has reportedly adjusted the requirements for the recruitment of Air Traffic Services personnel to work within the Air Navigation Services department at the Timehri Control Tower.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a 22-year-old West Ruimveldt resident charged with the murder of the power company’s security chief.
A Rupununi woman who was allegedly beaten to death last Friday is the latest addition to the growing list of fatal domestic violence cases.
The suspect wanted in connection with the early Friday morning murder of Gertrude Edwards at Ithaca, West Berbice, was captured yesterday in a cane field at Lochaber, West Canje.
A 54-year-old man, who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a female without her consent while she was under the age of 16 and who allegedly raped the same girl when she was over that age, was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
In the face of the continued and significant challenges posed by crime in the region, Caribbean police chiefs yesterday began a week-long meeting aimed at finding new strategies to combat the scourge.
Three members of the John family, who were allegedly assaulted by police ranks during a raid at their Agricola home last Saturday, have been charged with unlawfully assaulting a peace officer, behaving disorderly and obstructing a police officer.
For the tenth year, Ansa McAl presented mothers who gave birth to babies on Mothers Day with Cheekies Cloth Soft hampers.
The partially decomposed body of an Albouystown man was discovered yesterday afternoon in a trench at the northern end of Le Repentir Cemetery.
– GDF pay for technical blunders Berbice’s Cougars Football Club relegated last year’s runner-up, Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to the number two position yet again with a 2-0 victory in the final of the Bakewell Buxton Stars organised Mackeson Stout/Digicel Sweet 16 football tournament on Sunday night at the Plaisance Community Centre ground.
Three men, including a 15-year-old, appeared at the Wales Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the murder of a Canal Number Two grandmother, who asphyxiated when she was gagged during a robbery.
CHESTER-LE-STREET, England, CMC – Injury has cut short West Indies opening batsman Dale Richards’ tour of England.
Magistrate Chandra Sohan, sitting at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, yesterday committed a labourer of Alness, Corentyne to stand trial at the next sitting at the Berbice High Court for the 2005 rape of a 13-year-old female.
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will compete in a 150 meters street race in Manchester, England, on Sunday after recovering from a car accident, his agent said yesterday.
The Hydrometeorological Service and staff from the National Communications Network (NCN) will soon be providing modern weather forecast to the Guyanese public, through support from the UK’s Meteorological Office’s Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP).
The police early yesterday morning arrested a Jamaican woman at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport after 2.272 kilos of cocaine was found concealed in her suitcase.
For the third consecutive year Uprising Football Club lifted the Under-15 trophy after defeating their rival Fruta Conquerors on each occasion in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) organized tournament.
In a bid to improve mining practices, a $25M project is set to begin next month which will see miners in different districts exposed to dry-mining and tailings’ management methods.
Wortmanville and Kitty rack up wins Pre-tournament favourites lived up to expectations when the action in this year’s Inter-Ward basketball tournament continued on Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
An 18-year-old woman accused of causing the death of Walter Wilson by dangerous driving was yesterday not required to plead to the indictable charge when it was read to her by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Georgetown’s Knockout Kings Sunburst Camptown received their award for winning the Banks DIH sponsored Premium Beer Knockout Competition which was organized by the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) in a simple ceremony in the conference room of the Banks DIH building.
Dr Claude Denbow on Saturday launched the second edition of his book Life Insurance Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean at the Pegasus Hotel.
Howard Willis, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier, who allegedly accidentally shot himself earlier this month, is recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
By Tony Cozier In LONDON It may be the shortest of all the series between the West Indies and England, and only a fill-in at that.
Godfrey Pollydore will be in the saddle to defend his title at the National Sports Commission (NSC) 27th Annual three-stage cycle road race this year, thanks of the generosity of Director of Sport Neil Kumar.
The Environmental Com-munity Health Organisation (ECHO) in collaboration with PAHO/WHO and the Ministry of Education yesterday launched the ‘Schools in Action against Climate Change’ project at the St Margaret’s Primary School.
MADRID (Reuters) – World number two Serena Williams retired from her first-round match against Francesca Schiavone at the Madrid Open yesterday with a knee injury after losing the first set to the Italian.
LONDON, England, CMC – Discarded West Indies batsman Wavell Hinds stroked a half-century on Sunday to help Derbyshire beat Northamptonshire in the Friends Provident Trophy one-day tournament.
Three contracts were signed last Friday amounting to more than $167M by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and the respective contractors at the Ministry of Agriculture.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Houston Rockets shrugged off the loss of Yao Ming to stun the top-seeded Los Angeles Lakers 99-87 on Sunday and level their Western Conference semi-final series at 2-2.
– Persaud Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said government intends “to reallocate a part of the concession held by UNAMCO to community forestry organisations in Region Ten,” in an effort “to meet the socio-economic needs” of the region’s residents.
Dear Editor, I am an African person, a Guyanese African, and I know my history well.
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Champion filly Rachel Alexandra is poised to run in the Preakness Stakes after the owners of several horses set to run in the race changed their minds about entering additional colts.
Head of the Domestic Violence Policy Unit of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSSS) Geetanjali Geer has pleaded with female trades unionists not to turn a blind eye to domestic violence.
Dear Editor, Recently a SN writer wanted to know who could lead us in cooperating, uniting and sharing in the benefits of Guyana.
Dear Editor, I have taken to ignoring the many deceptive and deliberate attempts to dumb down the horror of the Atlantic Slave trade involving Africans to something that was common to all groups, and to all hemispheres in this world.
An 11-year-old boy of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam was picked up by the Department of Education in Region Six last Wednesday after he stayed home from school to care for his three-year-old brother.
CHESTER-LE-STREET, England, CMC – Brendan Nash says he is sure the Windies can bounce back from their emphatic loss to England, especially against the backdrop of their recent series win in the Caribbean last month.
COLOMBO (Reuters) — The United Nations yesterday said attacks in Sri Lanka that killed hundreds were the bloodbath it had long feared, while the Tamil Tigers and government traded blame ahead of UN Security Council talks about the war.
Dear Editor, Let us not get too excited about the Guyana Chronicle’s article about the IMF’s report on Guyana’s projected growth for 2009 and 2010.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A US soldier shot dead five fellow soldiers at a military clinic in Baghdad yesterday in an incident that the top US military officer suggested may have been triggered by stress.
Twenty-six women who lost their husbands to crime or disasters are being assisted by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in collaboration with Food for the Poor Guyana Incorporated to construct homes and relocate to new areas.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Manchester United’s Darren Fletcher and Barcelona pair Eric Abidal and Daniel Alves will miss the Champions League final after UEFA said yesterday there were no grounds for overturning their suspensions.
The final batch of patients who sought eye care in Cuba returned to Guyana last week as the Guyana/Cuba ‘Mission Miracle’ programme ended.
Dear Editor, The long overdue day of rescinding has finally arrived for GT&T and its parent, Atlantic Tele Network (ATN).
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Nearly 50 teenagers were admitted to hospital after a suspected mass poisoning at an Afghan girls’ school, a doctor said yesterday, in the second such incident in a month.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana’s Walter Moore scored an early goal for Caledonia AIA, but they went on to lose 2-3 to Joe Public as the Trinidad and Tobago Pro-League kicked off its 2009 season this past weekend.
Dear Editor, I write in connection with the article in Friday’s SN where it was reported that the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting had cited CN Sharma for two violations and requested him to take remedial action.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – US-born journalist Roxana Saberi walked free yesterday after an Iranian appeals court cut her eight-year jail sentence for spying to a suspended two-year term.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Officers of the Homicide Bureau are investigating five murders which took place between Friday and Sunday.
KIMBERLEY, South Africa (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma snared three wickets as the Deccan Chargers humbled the Rajasthan Royals by 53 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) yesterday.
In its annual demonstration of self-congratulation, the Guyana Police Force Officers’ Conference last March showered encomiums on the Traffic Department for its “success” in reducing the number of fatalities in 2008, compared with 2007.
POINTE-A-PIERRE, Trinidad, CMC – Barbadian club Maple suffered at the hands of Kieron Pollard’s all-round performance, losing by eight wickets to Queen’s Park in the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) Twenty20 Club Champions League on Sunday night.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised yesterday for politicians’ expenses, which included claims for dog food and light bulbs, in a bid to staunch a damaging parliamentary scandal.
Dear Editor, It is nothing less than disgraceful when Vishnu Bisram makes comments about the African experience when he knows nothing about it.
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) said patients have been relocated from the Surgical Block to facilitate ongoing construction on the new in-patient facility.
Cleaning up the Camp Street Avenue yesterday.
Crisis summit coming It was announced at the weekend that Caricom leaders will hold a special summit in Trinidad later this month devoted to the international economic downturn.
– Richard N. Haass, formerly Director of Policy Planning in the US State Department, is President of The Council on Foreign Relations.
