Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 25, 2009

-relatives held as accessories Hours before Dweive Kant Ramdass was laid to rest yesterday, three Coast Guards who allegedly strangled him to death before robbing him of $17M, appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court charged with murder.

-criticize continued joint service harassmentWith a mixture of anger and sadness enveloping the atmosphere, hundreds of Barticians turned out in large numbers yesterday to bid their final farewell to the late Dweive Kant Ramdass, the young gold dealer who met his demise allegedly at the hands of three Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard ranks last week.

-collect $1.5M in attackIn a chilling attack, six masked bandits, armed with guns and a cutlass, took hostages on Sunday as they made their getaway after robbing a Corenytne family of over $1.5M in cash, jewellery and other articles.

Salimoon Rahaman is appealing to the joint services to “come clean” about whether rogue elements of the army could have been involved in the boat accident in the Essequibo River that killed her husband and a neighbour and  left her ten-year-old son missing.

Four men who allegedly conspired to steal over $6.5M from a bank account held at Republic Bank for the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) were all remanded to prison yesterday.

-Bar Association President of the Guyana Bar Association Teni Housty says the actions of Magistrate Yohannseh Cave in the David Leander trial reflect the legal system at work, while adding that the judiciary must continue to act fearlessly.

For Basdeo Narine, what may have been an unintentional bump landed him in a hospital bed.

Organisers of the just-concluded Guyana Fashion Weekend 2009 have denied a report of an “almost electrocution” at the event published in the Kaieteur News.

The Lions Club of West Berbice distributed clothing hampers to residents of Profitt/Belladrum last week.

The taxi driver, who allegedly struck down an elderly woman and then dropped her off at her house instead of a hospital, was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with causing her death.

-relatives demand answers Dwayne Archibald, one of the six inmates who attempted to escape from the Georgetown Prisons last December, died last Thursday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being stabbed by another prisoner in June.

Former Prime Minister Hamilton Green is among the new members of the recently elected Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR).

Two Guyanese operators of a Florida-based luxury charter jet company, responsible for a crash that prosecutors blame on fraud, have pleaded guilty.

Oil exploration company CGX Energy Incorporated says it will now cost an estimated US$20M less to drill the key offshore Corentyne Eagle Deep Well and it says it is encouraged by the time and depth images and its initial interpretation of the conventional processing of its 3D seismic survey.

(BBC) England captain Andrew Strauss has targeted leading his side to the top of the Test rankings following the 2-1 Ashes triumph over Australia.

-as road accidents pile up Doddy Latchman was the victim of a freak accident last Friday when he was hit in the head with a piece of lumber.

The John Fernandes Insurance sponsored second division men’s hockey tournament suffered a false start as both matches were aborted Monday because both Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) grounds were under-prepared for the fixtures.

Twelve-year-old Zimeena Rasheed expected to do well at the recently-concluded Champion Readers’ Competition.

– Linden/Georgetown finals in the making City side Dyna’s Ravens blew by the Amelia’s Ward Jets 64-58 on Sunday evening in Linden to book their spot in the semi-finals of this year’s Brusche’s Basketball Classic.

-cooperation pacts sealed Mayor of the Chongqing Municipality of China, Wang Hongju has donated $9M of equipment to the Ministry of Agriculture for distribution to local farmers.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – PGA Championship winner Yang Yong-eun will renew his rivalry with Tiger Woods on Asian soil in November after confirming his participation at the $7 million  HSBC Champions yesterday.

Sol Guyana Inc. has donated 30 branded garbage bins to the Young Leaders of Guyana youth group for its clean-up campaign.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sub-Lieutenant Coast Guard Johnny Talbot has been participating in shipboard training with the Brazilian navy.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Having been the cricket  world’s unremitting bully-boy for nearly two decades, Australia  was brought down to earth with an almighty thud on Sunday,  losing the Ashes to old enemy England, and their number one  status to boot.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Calls for Ricky Ponting to  relinquish his captaincy in the wake of Australia’s Ashes  series loss to England are “completely unfair”, Cricket  Australia chief James Sutherland said yesterday.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) have formalised a partnership to develop strategies for mitigating the physical and economic impacts of natural disasters.

-Guyana Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-I-Islam The Guyana Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-I-Islam says that the self-sacrifice, the acts of divine worship and the recommended practices of charity during Ramadhan will turn a shining light on man’s duty to his Creator and to his fellow humankind.

Leading from the front: Re-elected PNCR leader Robert Corbin as he led protesters in front of the Office of the President yesterday to continue to press for an international investigation into the alleged links between the Guyana government and confessed drug trafficker Roger Khan.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England all-rounder Andrew  Flintoff will undergo knee surgery yesterday, a day earlier than  planned, with the aim of getting fit in time for England’s three  one-day internationals in Bangladesh next March.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) says it is appropriate to reflect on the lessons “in constancy and sincerity” embodied in the observance of the blessed month of Ramadhan.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin will  return to Australia for checks on a fractured finger, Cricket  Australia (CA) said in a statement on Monday.

Dear Editor, I certainly had wondered if there was some mistake and I had been walking through Toronto’s Pearson Airport a few days ago, but realized that it was indeed a more improved Piarco Airport in Trinidad.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – When Usain Bolt blazed to glory  at the Beijing Olympics, he was feted as the hero his tainted  sport had been crying out for.

Dear Editor, I am a concerned resident of Bacchus Street in Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara.

-urges streets to be renamed to honour sporting heroes After tremendous sporting exploits by Guyanese athletes in the country’s colonial past, notable cricket broadcaster Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira is peeved that much has not been done to preserve and educate today’s generation about Guyana’s golden age of sporting glory.

The editors of the Guyana Annual magazine are currently accepting entries for the 2009-2010 edition.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric  Holder yesterday named a special prosecutor to probe CIA  prisoner abuse cases, a move that could distract President  Barack Obama from his drive to reform the healthcare system.

Dear Editor, I write in response to another letter by Mr KA Juman-Yassin published in Sunday Stabroek (August 16) under the caption, ‘Practice and custom become law,’ where Mr Juman-Yassin continues to pontificate that magistrates have a power to exclude confession statements at a preliminary inquiry.

The Mayor and City Council urges home-owners who are defaulting on their rates to contact the City Treasurer’s Department to discuss settling their accounts.

Local Group Three  champion driver Gavin Gayadin believes that he will transfer his winning ways from South Dakota to the Bushy Park race track in Barbados which will host the second round of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship this weekend.

Dear Editor, We the members and Executive of the AFC Caribbean wish to register our public denunciation of the staging of a picketing exercise in front of the offices of party leaders, Messrs Raphael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan, and the dishonest attempt to besmirch the character of these messengers of truth and avatars of the clarion call for long overdue change in the way political business is done in Guyana We strongly condemn this senseless picketing of our leaders and call on Guyanese to prepare to do the right thing at our next elections: vote for change, accountability and good governance.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Pop star Michael Jackson died  from a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol,  according to findings by the Los Angeles chief medical examiner  unsealed in court documents in Houston yesterday.

BERLIN, Germany, CMC – Trinidadian sprinter Richard Thompson says he is elated to have rebounded with a medal at the World Championships, after being sidelined with injuries sustained in a car crash last December.

(Barbados Nation) Unfair to politicians and unsupportive of its own people when they’re in trouble!

Dear Editor, I just returned from a trip to the Scandinavian countries of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. 

HOVE, England, CMC – Barbadian all-rounder Dwayne Smith has opted to play for Sussex, rather than Indian Premier League outfit Deccan Chargers in the Twenty20 Champions League in October.

Dear Editor, I am very thankful to the management of WRHM for the broadcast of the just concluded 12th IAAF Berlin 2009 World Championship games and hope that such an event serves as an inspiration to current and future Guyanese Olympians at future global meetings.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s government yesterday  protested against what it charged were the “expansionist” plans  of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in the latest exchange to  fuel diplomatic tensions between the Andean neighbors.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British gas producer BG Group Plc   said testing on a well it and partner Petrobras drilled  offshore Brazil did not confirm hydrocarbons despite an initial  examination suggesting gas could be present.

The Japan Karate Association/World Federation (JKA/WF Guyana) held its 2009 National Karate Championships on Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Tuesday’s Economic CornerBy Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Introduction: The new school year is about to begin; many have to find those extra dollars to buy new school uniforms and supplies. 

– Fidel Ramos is a former President of the Philippines.This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

Dear Editor, For many years citizens of Guyana have accused the military and police forces of acts of corruption and wanton dereliction of duty, requiring nothing but the full force of an independent enquiry into the affairs of all sections of the law enforcement agencies.

LONDON, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul made a return to the playing field on Sunday, but his half-century failed to save Durham from a 22-run defeat by Hampshire in their Pro40 Division 1 match.

Three events – the outbreak of the Black Sigatoka leaf spot disease allegedly affecting Guyanese banana plants, the contraband ‘backtrack’ trade in assorted commodities and the continuing controversy over jurisdiction of the Corentyne River – intersected last week.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – The head of Nigeria’s stock  exchange yesterday denied being among debtors owing banks  billions of dollars, the latest high-profile business figure to  join a showdown with the country’s new central bank governor.