Daily Archive: Thursday, October 8, 2009

-generator was on in sealed house By Gaulbert Sutherland Brenda Lewis, her daughter, Abiola Josiah and grandson Orette Garraway Jr.

-gutted bodies mystery continues By Zoisa Fraser The owner of the missing Island Princess, Errol Prince yesterday dismissed a report in the Guyana Times that his vessel was held in Venezuela in July with drugs as misleading and damaging to his character and good name.

A teenager accused of murdering dredge operator Regerton Simon called ‘Baba’, who was gunned down in an attack on Septem-ber 5 was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magis-trate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

-fake stamps placed in passports The lure of a two-week Canadian Tour with the promise of an opportunity to meet many of the country’s “important” people may have harvested as much as $7M for a `tour operator’ who has since vanished leaving 42 persons to rue their gullibility.

A number of top 2009 academic and vocational students were awarded yesterday for their outstanding performances when the Ministry of Education held its annual National Award Ceremony for Outstanding Performance.

TCL’s contempt of court matter… Attorney General Charles Ramson yesterday stressed that there has never been a disregard for the law within government, responding to TCL’s application to the CCJ charging Guyana with  contempt of court for failing to implement the CET on cement from non-CARICOM sources as ordered by the court.

By Mark McGowan The actions of the group calling itself the “Guyanese Coalition For Jagdeo Third Term” (GCFJTT) have been lambasted by the opposition parties, who have labelled the campaign as pointless.

An eight-year-old student of the Mahaicony Primary School was last evening in a critical but stable condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was struck down by a canter truck on the Mahaicony Public Road yesterday.

A 15-year-old Haslington North, East Coast Demerara teen is  recovering from a stab wound he sustained  late Tuesday  afternoon following an argument with another teen.

Some 17 persons have now been infected with the HINI influenza here and Guyana may soon draw down on some of the flu vaccines developed by a United Kingdom-based company through the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy.

The Canadian High Commis-sion says Caricom nationals can now earn Canadian credentials through the Canada-Caricom Virtual University Scholarship Programme (CCVUSP).

Tracy Andrews returned to her Hill Street, Albouystown home on Tuesday night, to what is every mother’s nightmare, and found her husband screaming and clutching their two-month-old daughter who later died after having difficulty breathing.

Trade unionist Lincoln Lewis was yesterday placed on self-bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s court on a charge of failing to pay wages as an employer.

Large numbers of persons from the city and neighbouring Suriname turned out for the premier regatta at heritage village Orealla, a press release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

Deonarine and Fudadin score half centuries Berbice teams Albion and Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) will clash in the finals of the Neal and Massy 40-over first division club tournament after they clinically disposed of Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) and North Essequibo respectively yesterday.

St. Roses High School swung into Inter-House sports mode when they ran off their field events yesterday on the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) lawns yesterday on Woolford Avenue.

Nicholas Ali wiped out opponent Stephan Greaves yesterday in the semi-final of the Queen’s College Annual Lower and Upper School Boys and Girls Singles Tournament.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s cricket authorities have confirmed West Indies batsman Chris Gayle as captain for the WICB President’s Cup limited overs tournament later this month.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The International Cricket  Council (ICC) announced the groupings yesterday for the 2011  one-day World Cup to be staged on the sub-continent.  

Weeks after renowned amputee William ‘The Conqueror’ France indicated that he wanted to see national race walk champion Rudolph Mitchell compete overseas, he reported yesterday that his training to realize this dream was proceeding smoothly.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Dope-testing on players will  carry on as the International Cricket Council (ICC) continues  negotiations with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) over the  controversial “whereabouts” clause, the ICC said yesterday.  

LONDON, (Reuters) – Poland’s Robert Kubica will replace Spain’s double Formula One world champion Fernando  Alonso at Renault next season, the team said in a statement yesterday.  

-to fight Kenichi Yamaguchi on November 14 By Rawle Toney It seems as though Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore’s career is moving apace as his nom de guerre indicates since just two weeks after winning the NABA, WBC Continental Americas and the WBA Fedelatin bantamweight titles he has now signed a two-year deal with International Boxing Promotions of Thailand.

Dear Editor, On May 12, 2009, I wrote a letter to the press about a vehicle that I had bought from the Ministry of Home Affairs at an auction sale in November of 2008.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italy’s top court ruled yesterday  that a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity  from prosecution violates the constitution, in a verdict that  will reopen trials against him and may undermine his government.  

Local super bike champion Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira says he is fully prepared to face the overseas challengers expected here in November for the third and final leg of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC).

Dear Editor, Each year, four times per year I have to sit in my chambers and be assaulted by the Police Force Band as they play and march to and from the High Court at the opening of the Criminal Session.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Three scientists who produced  atom-by-atom maps of the mysterious, life-giving ribosome won  the Nobel chemistry prize yesterday for a breakthrough that  has allowed researchers to develop powerful new antibiotics.  

LONDON, (Reuters) – Excited breeders across the globe  are jostling for the mega-dollars action that is Sea The Stars,  horse racing’s equivalent of champion sprinter Usain Bolt.  

Dear Editor, I am pleased to see some new names surfacing in the discussion of topical issues.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Senior G77 members walked out of  a meeting during climate talks in the Thai capital saying they  would not discuss a future without the Kyoto Protocol climate  pact, delegates said yesterday.  

LONDON, (Reuters) – England are in no danger of  allowing their euphoria at regaining the Ashes to obscure the  amount of work still ahead of them, captain Andrew Strauss said yesterday.  

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hugh Wildman, the liquidator of the unregulated investment firm Cash Plus Limited, and his team have discovered US$25 million (J$2.2 billion) that Carlos Hill and his brother Bertram are suspected to have tucked away in a Swiss bank in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Dear Editor, In his letter captioned ‘Contrary to what the newspapers report Guyana is on the move’ (SN, October 6) Dr Randy Persaud measures progress and development by the amount of fast-food outlets established in Guyana, and he proudly listed them.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s former police  chief warned a drug smuggler that British police were on his  tail and asked him to buy shoes as a gift for the president, a  court was told yesterday.  

(Barbados Nation) Educator and entertainer Mac Fingall has identified the minibus, dancehall and gang cultures as issues fostering disorder in Barbados In a fiery mood as he and other entertainers signed onto Crime Stoppers Barbados at the corporate offices of Guardian General, Collymore Rock, St Michael, on Tuesday, Fingall pointed to those subculture elements as signs of impending disaster in the society.

Khan’s Trading Enterprise & Auto Sales of 129, First Street, Herstelling, EBD.,

Dear Editor, Mr Francis Carryl’s letter captioned ‘Should the police shoot to kill or disable?’

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Poor nations demanding a slice  of rich countries’ GDP to fight climate change is a waste of  time, and the fairest method would be a global fund to which  all major emitting nations would contribute, Mexico said yesterday.  

Dear Editor, October 5, 2009 marked seventeen years since the return of democracy and free and fair elections in 1992.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Undersea earthquakes caused panic  in the South Pacific yesterday, sending islanders fleeing to  higher ground on fears of a second devastating tsunami in as  many weeks, but the wave proved to be tiny and harmless.  

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s head coach Russell Latapy has played down the vibes for his World Cup qualifying clash against former coach Rene Simoes when the Soca Warriors tackle Costa Rica in San Jose on Saturday night.

History this week –  No. 2009/35 (Part 2) Estherine AdamsThis is the second instalment in a series of articles which aims at explaining, briefly, why the grant of political independence, which was expected earlier, was not realised in British Guiana until May 1966. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Stunned by an alarming revelation that thousands of functionally illiterate children were promoted to high schools at the start of the new academic year in September, members of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday called the situation a crisis and demanded immediate remedial action from the Ministry of Education.

Some years ago, there used to be a blind man begging on Regent Street.

The Men Empowerment Network (MEN) is hosting a seminar on anger management and non-violent communication for men tomorrow at the Pegasus Hotel.