Daily Archive: Saturday, July 25, 2009

-President releases 17 plots for range of enterprises Government has given the green light for land to be allocated in the Lethem commercial district even as increased traffic is expected in the Region Nine border community with the Takutu Bridge due to be provisionally opened within two weeks.

– prison service concerned over poison reports Murder accused David Leander called ‘Biscuit’ and ‘David Zammet’, died yesterday around 9.30 am in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where he was admitted last Thursday after he was suspected to have been poisoned.

A 22-year-old mini-bus conductor ap-peared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with the murder of Rajpattie Jagroop, who was stabbed to death on Tuesday night, and was remanded to prison.

Arshad Ali, who had been accused of setting fire to a One Mile, Parika home in May, 2006 which caused the deaths of three persons, was found not guilty by a jury last evening.

Thirty-three-year-old Ravindra Siew, of  Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the July 19 murder of his 55-year-old mother Ramrattie Deonauth.

A 23-year-old labourer of Abary Creek has been missing since June 3 and while the mother of his two children is still hopeful that he will turn up alive she fears that foul play has befallen him.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon on   Thursday told reporters that the likelihood of local government polls this year is now dim.

-shots exchanged with police By Cathy Richards Drama ensued after a gunman staged a daring daylight robbery at Digicel’s flag store at Republic Avenue, Linden yesterday afternoon making off with an undisclosed sum of cash and ‘Bimmer’ flex cards after firing at persons who attempted to pursue him.

Phone service at Bartica has been affected by a lightning strike that occurred on Wednesday.

A thirty-five-year-old Eccles resident died yesterday following an early morning accident.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Thursday remanded to prison a 31-year-old Brazilian national accused of stealing a quantity of clothing, DVDs and cosmetics from a man’s home.

Heston Bostwick, who was wanted, along with Archie Poole, by police for questioning in relation to “an investigation”, turned himself in to police yesterday.

Following the discovery of a sea defence breach at sections of Belladrum/Foulis and Plantation Brahan, West Berbice a few days ago, residents are calling for it to be fixed urgently as “the entire community is under threat.”

In light of the Stanford debacle, the Antiguan government has broadened the scope of the internal investigation of the island nation’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC).

-final to take place today Guyana’s Mahendra Persaud has made it into the Queen’s final at the 139th Annual Imperial Shooting championships currently in progress at Bisley rifle ranges in the United Kingdom.

National men’s singles champion and current general secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association Godfrey Munroe said yesterday he was thrilled with the performance of the national men’s and women’s teams to this year’s Caribbean championships where they earned silver medals.

A 13-year-old boy of Brushe Dam, Buxton was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after he was knocked down by a car on the Railway embankment near Company Path Road, Buxton yesterday morning.

– Chris Gayle and company still out in the cold BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Though the marquee players have ended their stand-off and made themselves available for selection, the West Indies Cricket Board have not budged on their original 30-man provisional squad for September’s ICC Champions Trophy.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) yesterday deployed one of its excavators as part of an emergency response to a breach at Strathspey, East Coast Demerara.

LONDON, England, CMC – Jamaica’s super sprinter Usain Bolt waltzed to another magnificent win yesterday when he crushed the 100-metre field in 9.91 seconds on the opening day of the two-day AVIVA London Grand Prix.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Thursday granted $30,000 bail to a 19-year-old security guard accused of stealing a case of beer and an electric drill from the Bowling Alley.

By Tiadi Blair Despite the presence of former West Indies player Roger Harper and his brother Mark in their lineup a Celebrity Team went under to a Blind Cricketers President’s XI by 22 runs in a specially arranged match yesterday at the Providence National Stadium.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHBC) will be closed to vehicular traffic for repairs tomorrow from 8.30 am to 10.30 am.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is urging the public to provide it with intelligence that will aid and promote compliance with the various tax laws and curb tax evasion.

AUBENAS, France, (Reuters) – Mark Cavendish became  the most successful Briton on the Tour de France when he  snatched his ninth win in the 19th stage yesterday.

A city vendor was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital in a serious condition last night following a gruesome cutlass attack.

The Fruta Conquerors Football club last Sunday celebrated 10 years of partnership with Guyana Beverage Inc.,

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) was late yesterday holding discussions with five athletes who tested positive for banned substances.

Twenty-six youths from Region Seven on Wednesday graduated from the state’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training programme.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela will at least double the number of tanks in its military as part of a broader effort to strengthen its defences, President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday.

Repairs to roads in Cummings Lodge and Agricola are set to begin next week and the Ministry of Public Works and the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be providing temporary employment to jobless persons in those areas.

The Guyana Japan Karate Association now renamed the International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF) – Guyana has been invited to participate in the this year’s eighth ISKF/Caribbean Karate College Championships at the Beausejour indoor sport facility in St.

Gordon Lashley is so passionate about music that he is likely to answer any question on the subject by insisting that it dwells in his blood, or rather he would offer up a response in song.

The ten finalists in GT&T’s fourth Cellink Jingle and Song Competition put on star-making performances on Thursday night at the National Cultural Centre, where they proved why they were the cream of the crop.

Two men who allegedly stole a water tank from a man’s yard  were on Wednesday remanded to prison when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

(Antigua Sun) – Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to Venezuela Joan Underwood believes that it would be a useful exercise for the principles of LIAT and the PetroCaribe initiative to discuss a possible solution to the airline’s high airfares.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – A heroic undefeated 130 from  captain Kumar Sangakkara helped Sri Lanka save the third test  against Pakistan yesterday with the draw giving them a 2-0  victory in the three-match series.

Two sisters in the service of the Ursuline religious order recently celebrated their golden jubilee with a mass at the Our Lady of Fatima Church.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Namibia’s Anti-Corruption  Commission has requested an interview with the son of Chinese  leader Hu Jintao to glean information about a deal involving a  Chinese scanner company, the head of the anti-graft body said yesterday.

Culture Box He spent a lot of his life just wanting to be a contender, wrote Michael Hirsch of Frank McCourt back in 2006.

Dear Editor, I am appealing to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Sexual Offences legislation to make provisions for deaf persons.

The second Kashif and Shanghai/Roraima Bikers cycling meet which is set for Amelia’s Ward, Linden on Sunday, August 9, has received a big boost from Bill Express; a subsidiary of Grace Kennedy Guyana Limited, when the company yesterday handed over a substantial amount of money to the organizers.

Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali says the Caribbean needs to consider programmes that teach water sustainability and management to its youth in order to secure its future.

NORWICH, England, (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition  Conservatives won a parliamentary seat from the ruling Labour  party yesterday, securing a big majority that would give them a  landslide if repeated at a national election due within a year.

Dear Editor, In the usual Guyanese debate over ‘who bun down de Ministry’ we are keeping our eyes open to see whether the security guards will be made scapegoats.

Hi Everyone, It peels just as easily, it cooks faster and it can be prepared very much the same way as you’d prepare the English potato – baked, boiled, mashed, sautéed and even be made into to chips and fries.

By Tiadi Blair The Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) concluded its annual tennis camp yesterday afternoon at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel courts with some 80 children of all levels participating in the two-week programme.

Georgetown Cricket Club and Hikers ‘A’ teams were set to contest the men’s  final when the curtains come down on the Noble House sponsored Goals Galore handicap indoor hockey tournament  this evening at the at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A state-of-the-art disposal system will soon be installed at the Georgetown hospital that will sterilize infectious waste generated at this and other healthcare facilities before disposal.

Dear Editor, On July 23, 2007, I paid the sum of one hundred and two thousand dollars ($102,000.00) for a house lot at Dochfour Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. 

ARE, Sweden, (Reuters) – European Union environment  chiefs warned against trying to impose “carbon tariffs” on  countries that do not join a global deal on tackling greenhouse  gases, but France said they could be used as a last resort.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  backed down yesterday from a statement that police had “acted  stupidly” in arresting a black scholar in a racially charged  case that was rapidly becoming a distraction for Obama.

Renowned educator Magda Pollard will receive the Guyana Cultural Association (GCA) Wordsworth McAndrew Lifetime Achievement Award when the GCA hosts its 2009 Folk Festival Awards ceremony in New York on September 2.

A lake? No, this is a portion of the Linden-Lethem trail at Annai, in the North Rupununi, Region Nine.

Dear Editor, I think most of our sociologists and economists would admit that the increase in single parenting has contributed significantly to many of the social ills in our society today.

PORTSMOUTH, Dominica, CMC – Fired by a ruthless half-century from Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladesh extended their winning streak on their tour of the Caribbean with a 16-win triumph over the UWI Vice Chancellor’s XI here yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Frank McCourt, the Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela’s Ashes that chronicled his impoverished upbringing, died on Sunday, The New York Times reported.

LAS MANOS, Nicaragua (Reuters) – Ousted President  Manuel Zelaya took a few symbolic steps inside Honduras yesterday but then backed away from a confrontation with Honduran  security forces waiting to arrest him.

By Tiadi Blair Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony is calling for the administrators of the sport of netball to effect changes which could result in new energy being brought to the sport.

Dear Editor, As if to save some grace through a delayed pang of journalistic conscience, the Kaieteur News of Thursday, July 23, 2009, carried an article captioned ‘Olympic size pool to cost $316M.’

By Cathy Richards Several Linden residents who participated last week at the final sub-regional consultation on the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) voiced concerns about its effect on logging and mining and whether bauxite companies would be accountable for environmental damage.

Recent heavy rains in the Rupununi have caused this section of road at Mora Point on the Linden-Lethem trail to collapse.

of higher education –Vice-Chancellor University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lawrence Carrington says that he des not envisage the local university becoming another campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) but believes that UG can become part of a “regional federation of higher education institutions” which could adequately meet the educational needs of the region.

Dear Editor, Within the last week, we have seen some of the most horrific acts of domestic violence resulting in murder.

The shell of the old GRDB facility on Water Street.

By Tiadi Blair Last year, Cleveland Rock announced himself to the sporting public in Guyana when he captured a silver medal at the inaugural junior Commonwealth Games in Pune, India.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – At Microsoft’s research  centre in a leafy lane in India’s tech capital, a new  generation of researchers are being groomed half a world away  from the software giant’s sprawling headquarters in Seattle.

LONDON (Reuters) – British singer Amy Winehouse was found not guilty yesterday of assaulting a dancer at a charity ball last year.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday announced a competition for $4 billion in federal grants  to improve academic achievement and reverse a decline in U.S. 

The Number 28/Bushlot/Adventure Concerned Citizens Development Group (CCDG) of Corentyne, Berbice has organized a series of activities to celebrate the 171st anniversary of emancipation this year, under the theme ‘Together We Believe, Together We Achieve’.

Garbage truck abandoned: This garbage truck belonging to the S.H. Disposal Service has been left abandoned at Liliendaal on the East Coast Embankment road.

Dear Editor, The story which follows is one, which as a Guyanese living abroad, I have heard too may times before.

A man, who was accused of stabbing his cousin to death in July, 2003 was given his freedom by Justice William Ramlal after no-case submissions were upheld on Thursday.

Rookie race car driver Vinu Sawh has received a well-timed boost from the Auto Toy Store on Sheriff Street ahead of Round Two of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) national Race of Champions meet tomorrow.

(Trinidad Express) – The Health Ministry on Thursday released figures giving the number of suspected dengue fever cases for 2009, but made no mention of the two known cases where the virus killed citizens.

– 15 beauties to vie for car Machel Montano is scheduled to headline the last of three concerts which have been added to the now expanded annual Jamzone fare.

Grenada AG resigns Grenada’s Attorney General James Bristol has resigned, following his acknowledgement of an “error in judgment” in writing to a United States Prosecutor for clemency for his stepson on the official letterhead of the Attorney General’s office.

Earlier this week, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested for ‘tumultuous’  behaviour by a police officer responding to a neighbour’s 911 call about a break and enter attempt that was allegedly in progress.

– Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

A 48-year-old contractor who allegedly raped a woman was granted bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Carlton Stevenson, more popularly known as `Cornman’ will stage the seventh annual Emancipation Day run next month.

Wrong turn: The driver of the partly submerged car PLL 8214 photographed here reportedly lost control of the vehicle after making a turn into Vlissengen Road yesterday and ended up in the canal in the vicinity of Survival Supermarket sometime close to 5 pm.

Dear Editor, In his letter to the press (‘Guyana needs a new group of thinkers,’ SN July 18), Mr Rakesh Rampertab, among other things, accuses me of being disrespectful and “imperial” for ignoring one of his previous letters.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – At least 17 people were killed  and 23 injured when a passenger aircraft veered off the runway  and hit a wall while landing at Mashhad airport in northeastern  Iran yesterday, media reports said.