Daily Archive: Monday, August 24, 2009

A post-mortem examination on 24-year-old Dweive Kant Ramdass who was dumped in the Essequibo River on Thursday showed that he died of asphyxiation – consistent with the confessions of members of the coast guard who robbed him of $17M.

PNCR stalwart Cammie Ramsaroop has been elected Chairman of the main opposition party.

(Barbados Nation) Editor of the Sunday Sun, Carol Martindale, on Saturday received the threat “to do the right thing” or have her reputation destroyed.

NASSAU (Reuters) – Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez, was crowned Miss Universe 2009 yesterday, giving her country its sixth title in the international beauty pageant.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last evening refuted a report in the Kaieteur News (KN) yesterday which said that one of the coast guard ranks implicated in the murder of Bartician Dweive Kant Ramdass, was stationed at Lindo Creek last year where eight miners were killed and their bodies burnt.

Police are not yet aware that someone reportedly witnessed the stabbing of RK’s security guard Lennox O’Dean, a senior police source said on Thursday, and are encouraging the person to come forward.

By Marlon Munroe Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) comprehensively defeated defending champions Jamaica by four wickets in the final to lift the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Senior Women’s Challenge 50-over tournament trophy at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground yesterday.

There was a moment just after midnight on Saturday when everyone in the National Park seemed to be in the air, shouting or singing.

Surinamese authorities have decided to reopen the illegal route across the Corentyne River from today following discussions between Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud and his counterpart in Nickerie yesterday.

– U.S. win both 4x400m relays to top medal table BERLIN, (Reuters) – On a frantic final day of  competition in the Olympic Stadium Kenenisa Bekele underlined  his place as one of the all-time greats of distance running when  he added the world 5,000 metres title yesterday to Monday’s 10,000 gold.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, (Reuters) – A victorious Roger Federer said an intensive training programme and a happy personal life have left him in the perfect frame of the mind for the defence of his U.S.

During a Cabinet outreach on Saturday at the International Convention Centre, President Bharrat Jagdeo called for the school’s curriculum to reflect a greater interest in entrepreneurial skills.

Hockey returns to Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) after decades as several matches in the 2009 John Fernandes Insurance sponsored second-division men’s hockey tournament will be played at the famous Queenstown venue.

-GPSU urges Jagdeo The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is expressing displeasure at what it calls the “procrastination” of the Government of Guyana in dealing with increases in remuneration for public sector workers, and the organization has written to President Bharrat Jagdeo to this effect.

A project to raise the height of the Dochfour Middle Walk Dam to prevent flooding is at a standstill and residents have expressed concern however Stabroek News has been told that the work is expected to re-start in two weeks’ time.

– as Bulls, Pistons advance to semis It was a fitting start to this year’s Brushches’ Basketball Classic in Linden as the two tournament favourite teams were sent packing when the event got underway on Friday at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hardcourt.

Sithe Global Power, the leading financial group for the Amaila Falls Hydropower project, has up to next month to state its categorical position about the possibilities of the project coming on stream.

A fine all round performance from Eon Gilkes piloted Dyna’s Bravados to victory over Hillfoot Strikers in the Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) sponsored 15-15 tapeball cricket final on Saturday at the GSWCA ground on Carifesta Avenue.

Dear Editor, “It is organization which gives birth to the domination of the elected over the electors, of the mandataries over the mandators, of the delegates over the delegators.

Dear Editor, I have been living in Agriculture Road now for the past eight years and residents here have been suffering a lot from a water shortage.

An ashes ceremony was held yesterday for the late Pandit Prakash Gossai at the De Hoop Mandir, Mahaica.

– England complete memorable victory LONDON, (Reuters) – England completed an emotional  victory over Australia in the fifth and final test yesterday to regain the Ashes they surrendered so abjectly in 2006-7.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s  main challenger said yesterday he had evidence last week’s  election had been widely rigged by the incumbent and that he had  lodged more than 100 complaints.

(Reuters) – Results of Ashes series since World War  Two after England defeated Australia by 197 runs in the fifth  and final test at the Oval yesterday to win the series 2-1.

Dear Editor, I refer to Dr Randy Persaud’s article titled ‘The PNCR Congress and a note to Mr L Lewis’ (GC, August 13).

The IMF Board of Governors approved a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) on August 7 equal to US$250B to provide liquidity to the global economic system by supplementing member countries’ foreign exchange reserves.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – The funeral yesterday of former  South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, whose efforts to reconcile  the divided peninsula won him the Nobel Peace Prize, was marked  by the rival Koreas’ first top level talks in nearly two years.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – An official Cuban newspaper yesterday published a photograph of 83-year-old former President  Fidel Castro apparently in good health and meeting visiting  Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa.

Dear Editor, With respect to Mr Freddie Kissoon’s comment about Mr Kwame McCoy, “Burnham would never have tolerated a Kwame McCoy as his spokesperson.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia were knocked off the  top of the ICC test rankings for the first time since 2003 after  losing the Ashes series to England yesterday, enabling South  Africa to take over the number one spot.

–PrashadThe Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce has declared the premiere Mahdia Expo a resounding success.

In The Diaspora Norman Girvan is Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies.

Seven people died in two house fires in Central Trinidad between Friday night and Saturday morning.

VALENCIA, Spain, (Reuters) – Brazilian Rubens  Barrichello ended five years of frustration yesterday with an  emotional victory for championship leaders Brawn GP in the  European Grand Prix.

SANAA, (Reuters) – Government forces reported more  than 100 rebels killed yesterday as battles intensified in north  Yemen two days after the government urged a ceasefire, although  a spokesman for the Muslim Shi’ite rebellion disputed the claim.

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.

Dear Editor, Enmore Day in Toronto reminds us that it’s time Enmore be included among the five towns of Guyana. While

-court hears A witness in the trial of two men accused of shooting to death a butcher of Liverpool Village, Corentyne admitted while being re-examined by State Counsel Fabayo Azore that he was scared about the incident and made a second statement naming the accused after they had threatened to kill him.

Independent media in democratic countries can choose to facilitate thought and discussion.

This week we asked the man/woman on the street what they thought about the conviction in a Brooklyn court of Robert Simels, former attorney of Roger Khan and whether they thought an investigation, given the revelations during the trial, should be conducted locally.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 30-year-old mother of three has been fatally stabbed by her common-law husband in Arima, two weeks after she fled from an abusive relationship.

Magistrate Priya Beharry on Wednesday remanded to prison Jerome Parkes when he appeared before her to answer to the charge of procuring the murder of Clint and Romeo De Agrella.

A Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) worker putting up a divisional/sub-divisional list of registrants in Charlestown last week. 

Dear Editor, Re: Ravi Dev’s article (KN, August 23), I have stated before that I (along with many others) also know that pollster Vishnu Bisram is a teacher (and where he teaches et al) but Freddie Kissoon chooses to conclude that Bisram is not a teacher based partly on his own ‘sources’ which he has never disclosed and partly on a logic that says that since Bisram refuses to tell Freddie where he teaches and what colleges he attended, Bisram cannot be a teacher.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Russian fourth seed Elena  Dementieva picked up her third title of the year and denied  compatriot Maria Sharapova a comeback win with a 6-4 6-3 victory  in the final of the Toronto Cup yesterday.

In their ruling in the case of Trinidad Cement Limited and TCL Guyana Incorporated versus the State of Guyana, the justices of the CCJ said it was important that a coercive order be issued against Georgetown for the re-imposition of the CET on cement in the interest of the rule of law in the single market.

LONDON – Scotland, unaccustomed to the hot spotlight of  international diplomacy, fought to justify its release of the  Lockerbie bomber yesterday, after a U.S.