Daily Archive: Thursday, November 12, 2009

-general manager says Jagdeo’s assertions questionableBy Mark McGowan In Trinidad and Tobago General Manager of Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), Satnarine Bachew has refuted recent assertions by President Bharrat Jagdeo that the TCL Group wants to maintain a regional monopoly while it is unable to supply quality cement to meet the region’s markets.

-Jagdeo Government has set an August 2010 deadline for all taxis to have one colour with easily identifiable and appropriate logos, promising a two-year waiver of licensing and radio frequency fees for those who comply early.

Relatives of 20-year-old Charles Clarke, who the police issued a wanted bulletin for on Tuesday in connection with last Wednesday’s attacks in the city, say Clarke has been out of the country since May this year.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ordered that Jermaine Conway, a 33-year-old US deportee, be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of stabbing another deportee to death in March last year.

Thirty-one-year-old Quincy Rodney called `Yankee’ or `Que’ of Lot 530 West Ruimveldt was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of a man.

A 16–year-old girl last evening took her own life by pulling the trigger of her father’s licensed firearm close to her heart.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Monday began ID card distribution for persons registered during last year’s national registration exercise.

Residents of Lima Dam, Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara could expect work to be undertaken to the road passing through their community in five months.

A 42-year-old fish vendor, who admitted chopping his nephew in  his head with a cutlass, was yesterday sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Yarde says national response needed Several opposition parties have thrown their support behind the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), as the body contemplates its next move in a dispute with the administration over a parcel of land at the corner of Vlissengen Road and Thomas Lands.

A search team was yesterday unable to retrieve the body suspected to be that of 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan who leapt over the Kaieteur Falls on Saturday morning.

Refusing to take part in what they have dubbed a ‘Jim Crow’ court, three opposition members of Parliament (MPs) are distancing themselves from the parliamentary Committee of Privileges that is currently considering a complaint made by government members against MP Debra Backer.

-family believes he was thrown overboard by mutineersBy Shabna Ullah and Sara BharratThe battered, decomposed body of the captain of a fishing vessel, Savie II, was found at the Bush Lot, West Berbice foreshore around 9:45 am yesterday after he disappeared on Friday during a fracas at sea.

Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday aborted the murder trial of Joanna Danhai, accused of murdering her two children, after a Stabroek News (SN) report transgressed reporting rules pertaining to the voir dire that was being held.

Williamsburg, Corentyne resident Marlon Seetaram who confessed to unlawfully killing his teenage neighbour, who was trying to shield his stepfather from an attack by the convict, was yesterday sentenced to fifteen years by  Justice Winston Patterson.

-B/ce skipper blasts double century to put team in the driver’s seat By Marlon Munroe Berbice captain Assad Fudadin smashed a belligerent double century as the lethargic Essequibians continued to be unequivocally outclassed on the second day of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Senior Inter-County four-day tournament at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground yesterday.

By Rawle Toney at Albion North Georgetown District began its quest for glory at this year’s National Schools Championships when it carted off the swimming title at Albion, Berbice yesterday.

The Derwin Christian-led Rest XI team was on the verge of securing first innings points against Demerara after the second day’s play of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Inter-County four day encounter at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

The stage is set for two days of intense golf when Guyana’s leading mobile telecommunications provider Digicel’s   two-day Medal Play Golf Classic tournament takes place at the Lusignan Golf Club on Saturday and Sunday.

From Rawle Toney at Albion Day Two of the National Schools Championships at the Albion Community Development Centre ground, ended with defending track and field champions Upper Demerara/Kwakwani (District No.

Carol Humphrey and Phillip Squires claimed the female and male Open singles titles when the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel’s 40th anniversary Open lawn tennis tournament climaxed on Monday at the hotel’s courts.

Rajdai Persaud, whose body was discovered in a trench not far from her Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo home two days after she went missing, died as a result of compression to her neck and blunt trauma.

Injuries that have already eliminated Fidel Edwards from the imminent West Indies tour of Australia have now cost the fast bowler a retainer contract from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies team manager Pat Greenidge believes her side’s trouncing of England in both the one-day and Twenty20 series, has gotten the attention of other teams in women’s international cricket.

-cart off passports, cash Armed bandits confronted two men including a Surinamese in a yard at Enterprise on Tuesday night and after ordering them into the house escaped with their passports and cash.

After several weeks of no new confirmations, the number of H1N1 cases in Guyana has moved from 17 to 19 within the past few days, and results are pending for several other samples.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – David Williams acknowledges the enormity of the task, but he feels West Indies can spring a surprise, and topple Australia in their three-Test series, starting later this month.

In the Tuesday, November 10, 2009 edition of Stabroek News under the headline `‘Lonely’ man remanded on carnal knowledge charge’, attorney-at-law Sase Gunraj was incorrectly listed as the attorney for the accused.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Mohammad Yousuf will captain  Pakistan in New Zealand after Younus Khan asked for a break from  international cricket for the tour, the PCB said yesterday.

A shortage of ammunition has forced the postponement of the National Rifle-Shooting Championships which should have been held this month, according to officials of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA).

The Guyana Police Force yesterday mounted a specific intervention with a human rights focus in “D” Division (West Demerara/East Bank Essequibo) and this is to be done in all other policing divisions.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The final one-day international  between Australia and India was washed out without a ball being  bowled yesterday.

The lifeless body of a 73-year-old man was yesterday afternoon discovered in his bed and while the family believes that he died of natural causes, a post-mortem examination will be done later this week.

Dear Editor, We refer to a story in your edition of Monday, November 9, 2009 under the caption ‘Strike looms at Rusal’s Aroaima operations.’

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate the President of Guyana on inking his first deal to monetize Guyana’s rainforest.

Dear Editor, I write to relay the most frustrating morning spent at the Georgetown Post Office, attempting to post a box to the United States.

Dear Editor, I am very pleased to read (in SN reports over the last several days) that Norway has fulfilled its commitment to provide significant amounts of money (up to US $250 million by 2015) for the preservation of our forests as part of President Jagdeo’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

Parabara, an Amerindian community located in the Deep South Rupununi has received a capital grant of $500,000 from the Amerindian ministry to build a walkway and landing.

Police yesterday said that four suspicious men who were challenged in the compound of the Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL) bond at Providence, East Bank Demerara fled after a guard fired a shot in the air.

Dear Editor, I had to read the article over and over in the KN, captioned ‘Irate President lashes out at Kaieteur News’ of November 6, 2009, since I could not believe what I was reading.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government blamed a  severe storm for the power outage that put the country’s  economic heartland in the dark for more than five hours and  raised doubts about the reliability of its energy grid.

Dear Editor, With so much that is going on in the world today, our days are quite busy.

ear Editor, I am not one for writing ‘big up’ letters and long ramblings in your letter pages.

SINGAPORE – A naval skirmish between the two Koreas will not  derail the Obama administration’s plans to send its first envoy  to Pyongyang to revive dormant nuclear talks, U.S.

History This Week              No. 39/ 2009 By Dwayne Benjamin This article is the first of two instalments which seeks to examine the impact of the debt crisis of the 1980s on the education system in Guyana, specifically as it relates to nursery, primary and secondary sectors.

There are expressions of shock as it has emerged that 16-year-old Vivian Singh Balrup was quite likely beaten to death because he picked watermelon someone else had planted.