Articles published on Thursday, July 2, 2009
Amid stinging criticism of its new immigration policy, Barbados is prepared to consider the readmission of persons who have overstayed their time through a protocol or memorandum of understanding but will not swerve from its current policy to regularize undocumented Caricom nationals.
Four years later harmonization of policies seen as major hindrance Regional harmonization of policies is hampering the progress of the Jagdeo Initiative, which is moving slowly and more needs to be done to hasten the process, officials say.
Slow progress has been made in overcoming constraints to regional agriculture, Adviser to the Regional Transformation Programme for Agriculture in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat, Sam Lawrence recently said.
-market-led approach being cultivated As the government seeks to build a “new agriculture”, several projects underway will modernize local farming with the results expected to be seen in three to five years.
(Reprinted from the April 21 edition of SN) Using advanced agricultural technologies to cultivate non-traditional crops, Greenfield Farms is at the forefront of revolutionizing local farming practices to boost overseas exports.
Farmers of Number 30 Village and other areas were enthused to learn about an Integrated Farming System (IFS) technique that can help to improve their livelihood, reduce cost and at the same time produce biogas.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a 23-year-old crop farmer, who is accused of murdering the 10-year-old boy whose remains were discovered in a shallow grave at Maikwak, Upper Potaro two weeks ago.
Tony Marks, the 42-year-old man accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl at Parika, East Bank Essequibo back in 2007 was freed after the case against him was discharged at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
–officials urge health ministry to actFour deaths and several sick people have led to officials in Region One (Barima/Waini) calling for urgent assistance from the Ministry of Health and a team is to visit the area shortly.
PNCR leader Robert Corbin has threatened party executive Aubrey Norton with a libel suit over accusations made about the controversial Georgetown District Confer-ence voting last Sunday.
Eighty-five-year-old former radio broadcaster, Patricia Cameron, better known as ‘Aunty Pat’, will be cremated on Monday in the US following her death in a US hospital on Tuesday.
–Commonwealth Secretary General Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma says the Doha Development Round of trade talks has been disappointing because it is not very clear what the negotiations have offered to small and vulnerable states, and he called yesterday for the talks when renewed to spell out effectively what is there potentially for the developing world.
Guyana’s world class cricket venue the Providence National Stadium has been given the thumbs up sign by the International Cricket Council’s Venue Assessment Team.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British hope Andy Murray and five-times champion Roger Federer charged headlong towards a Wimbledon final showdown yesterday while two of the game’s wiliest campaigners were conspiring to gatecrash the party.
The Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference of Caricom Heads opens in Georgetown today with at least fourteen Heads of Government expected to be in attendance and the treatment of illegals likely to be a hot topic along with whether the integration movement was in a major crisis.
The U.S. Air Force medical team in collaboration with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Ministry of Health has embarked on a programme of health care for the public.
By Tiadi Blair Republic Bank has answered the call of the Guyana Blind Cricket Association (GUYBCA) to the corporate community for support in developing blind cricket in Guyana.
Former Guyana national coach Wayne Dover is settling down to business in neighbouring Trinidad.
A 29-year-old electrician yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of unlawful and malicious assault.
A hat-trick of goals from Delroy Fraser and a double from his brother Delwin helped Real Union to demolish Mondderlust while Rosignol United claimed two victories this past week in the Berbice Football Association’s (BFA) Coca Cola Senior League.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who is battling colon cancer, is badly ill in hospital, a spokeswoman said yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Former world champion Tom Boonen’s appeal to take part in the Tour de France will be examined today, the French Court of Arbitration for Sport said yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A vicar was charged yesterday with two offences related to helping arrange 180 “sham marriages” that helped illegal immigrants stay in Britain, the UK Border Agency and police said.
A 58-year-old woman died following an accident which occurred in the city last evening.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oscar winner Karl Malden, the character actor acclaimed for film roles in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “On the Waterfront” before gaining TV fame as a leading man in “The Streets of San Francisco,” died yesterday at age 97.
By Tiadi BlairIt was smooth sailing. All of the top seeds in this year’s GT&T-sponsored national squash championships moved easily into the second round of the tournament Tuesday night at the Georgetown Club’s squash courts.
A 53-year-old man who is alleged to have indecently assaulted a 16-year-old girl was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
ACUME, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics’ untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world’s second-biggest Catholic country.
Dear Editor, As one of those who dabbled in radical socialism in the 1970s, I viewed the overthrow of the democratically elected Marxist-orientated Chilean government of Salvador Allende by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973 as a huge historical setback for proletarian internationalism.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Roraima Group of Companies, Captain Gerald Gouveia was returned unopposed as Chairman of the Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) at the Commis-sion’s 17th Annual General Meeting held at Duke Lodge, Duke Street, Kingston on Tuesday.
Gros Islet, St Lucia: Newly designated West Indies opening batsman Runako Morton says that he is enjoying his cricket much more these days and as such is playing with a free mind and without the weight of expectation.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has put Ecuador on notice that it could lose valuable U.S.
Dear Editor,In response to the article published in your newspaper captioned ‘Cops want relatives to provide numbers used to call 911’ (SN, June 30), I wish to say that all the newspapers in Guyana, as well as the GPF, have contact information for myself and other relatives, should they wish to get accurate information.
National junior basketball player Akeem ‘The Dream’ Kanhai poured in a game high 32 points to propel the Mackenzie High School (MHS) to the quarter-finals of this year’s National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) last evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Dear Editor, The headline ‘Being a Minister has made me poorer – Dr Ramsammy’ in the Kaieteur News publication of Sunday, June 14, 2009 caught my attention.
The Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club will stage a one-day meet on July 12 at the Alness Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The Honduran interim government defied international pressure yesterday and vowed there was “no chance at all” of ousted President Manuel Zelaya returning to office.
Guyana’s first ever Agriculture Market Information Service (AMIS) was launched yesterday with the aim of allowing farmers, agro-processors, exporters, agri-business investors and Guyanese in general to access the market prices of commodities through the use of the Short Messaging Service (SMS) offered by Digicel.
Dear Editor, The SN article captioned ‘Volda trounced Norton…’ in the June 29 edition will no doubt stimulate speculation about Guyana’s future.
LOWER HELMAND RIVER VALLEY, AFGHANIS-TAN, (Reuters) – U.S. Marines launched a helicopter assault early yesterday in the lower Helmand river valley in southern Afghanistan, spokesman Capt.
Royston Waldron of Friendship, East Bank Demerara reappeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, when the preliminary inquiry (PI) into charges of robbery under arms and harbouring wanted man Rondel ‘Fineman’ Rawlins and others continued.
Guyanese race walkers are expected to battle for supremacy when the Cavaliers Sports and Tours Club stages its Caricom Day race walk event.
(Trinidad Express) – President of the Caribbean Court of Justice Michael de la Bastide issued a statement on Tuesday reprimanding one of his own judges.
(Antigua Sun) – A Jamaican woman was recently severely reprimanded before being ordered deported when she appeared in the St John’s Magistrates’ Court.
CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering four-day tests as part of a series of innovations to keep the oldest form of the sport exciting to spectators in the wake of Twenty20’s growing popularity.
Dear Editor, I have been trying to follow the illegal-Guyanese-in-Barbados brouhaha and I have come to this conclusion: It is a wake up call for Guyanese at home to change the government in Guyana so that instead of Guyanese running away, they will be running back home.
TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Two losing contenders in Iran’s presidential election denounced the result yesterday in clear defiance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s next cabinet would be illegitimate.
Contact the police A number of suspected stolen items are now in police custody.
Defending champion Ireland launches its campaign for an unprecedented fourth ICC Intercontinental Cup title when it takes on Kenya at Woodvale Road, Eglinton tomorrow.
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there/They have to take you in,” American poet Robert Frost writes in his poem The Death of the Hired Man.
– for sentencing July 16 A man who killed his girlfriend 11 years ago, survived a suicide attempt and fled to the interior will be sentenced on July 16, after a probation report is presented.
Dear Editor, In his interview on BBC Radio 4 on June 22, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai made several erroneous statements.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A will signed by Michael Jackson putting his multimillion-dollar estate in a trust for his children and mother was filed in court yesterday, as details of his highly-anticipated funeral remained sketchy.
Guyana’s delayed political independence By Estherine Adams On the 26th May 2009 Guyana celebrated its 43rd independence anniversary.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Accused hijacker Stephen Fray’s lawyer George Thomas wants the Supreme Court to grant his client privilege to be placed in an institution where he can be treated for paranoid schizophrenia.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a sixteen-year-old boy, who allegedly broke and entered a man’s home and stole a quantity of items valued over $170,000, be kept in police custody shortly after he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
The 19-year-old waitress who was stabbed at around 9:30 pm on Monday is said to be in a stable condition after undergoing surgery at the New Amsterdam Hospital yesterday; her attacker who was also chopped remains in police custody.
