Daily Archive: Wednesday, December 2, 2009

A bag containing checkered pants and bones was discovered by a hunter in Wakenaam a few days ago and relatives believe that they are the remains of 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine, the boy missing since a boat collision in the Essequibo River almost four months ago.

-gunman exited vehicle and aimed at him A D’Urban Street man is nursing a gunshot wound to the elbow after he was attacked on Charlotte Street yesterday as he attempted to park his car.

Government is moving ahead with the controversial Kingston hotel project with some of the same persons who were linked to the first ill-fated bid for a Marriott-managed facility.

By Cathy Richards The two gun-toting bandits who carted off in excess of $7M from the Wismar Post Office on Monday eluded residents of Silvertown before making their escape in a white car which was in waiting in the vicinity of Half Mile.

Attempts to recalibrate the mandate of the Doha Development Round and the imminent conclusion of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute on EU tariffs on bananas constitute issues of serious Caribbean concern, CARICOM said in a statement to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo was recently nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts on behalf of climate change, this newspaper has confirmed.

Work is ongoing to have the Haag Bosch solid waste management facility on the East Bank of Demerara operational early next year even as residents living near the Mandela Landfill continue to feel the effects of a fire which erupted at the site two weeks ago.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad last week commissioned the Atta eco tourism lodge and a gas station at Lethem as steps move apace to boost tourism and open Region Nine for business.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr  Steve  Surujbally has given the assurance that the Commission recognizes the Alliance For Change  and the Guyana Action Party-Rise Organize and Rebuild Guyana “as legitimate components of the combined opposition political parties in parliament,” a media release stated.

A bill which “seeks to provide for mutual assistance in criminal matters between Guyana and Commonwealth countries or other countries with which Guyana has a treaty concerning such assistance” was on Thursday tabled in the National Assembly by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.

-rate of infections up in Caribbean Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says assessments of the region’s response to the AIDS-causing HIV show a mixed scorecard, with a 2009 update by UNAIDS and the WHO indicating that between 2001 and 2008, there was a 9% increase in the rate of HIV infections in the Caribbean.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has concluded that there is no evidence to charge a policeman in the death of Ramesh Sawh at the Enmore Police Station last January, prompting his relatives to consider private criminal charges.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai has disclosed that the doors to the new dormitory at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, are expected to be opened by April 2010 to facilitate students of the hinterland scholarship programme.

The Guyana Association of Bankers (GAB) says that the decision of the Guyana government to increase the ceiling for low income mortgage loans reinforces the administration’s commitment to affordable housing.

Six of the 10 persons who survived the horrific smash-up between a minibus and a SUV on a lonely stretch of road in the North Rupununi Savannahs, Region Nine are now recovering at the Georgetown Hospital.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Brian Lara has delivered a stinging rebuke of the current structure of West Indies cricket.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a nineteen-year-old when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

No one is more painfully aware of the rapid disintegration of West Indies cricket than West Indians themselves.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has established an organising committee in an effort to expand and improve career/knowledge fairs aimed at empowering youth.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – John Buchanan has urged the sport’s World governing body to make West Indies cricket a charity case.

– two weeks and still no word from gov’t By Rawle Toney It’s over two weeks since Guyana’s victorious and heroic men and women’s  rugby teams returned from Mexico where they both retained their North American & Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Sevens Title but  the Government of Guyana, more so the Ministry of Sport, has not yet even offered congratulations.

A 36-year-old  labourer was remanded to prison yesterday by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court after he pleaded not guilty to inflicting bodily harm on another man.

The stage is set for the start of the sixth Annual Diamond mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and Hikers veterans to square off in the curtain raiser at 15:00 hours.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday announced the posting of several senior officers to various command positions in Divisions countrywide.

The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation is continuing to receive financial support from one of its oldest sponsors Banks DIH Limited.

A 24-year-old man, who allegedly dealt another man several blows to his head with a glass bottle, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $30,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police ranks at the Demerara Harbour Bridge who responded promptly to a robbery report managed to capture two suspects, one of whom had a stolen cellular phone in his possession.

Fitness Paradise Gym after an absence of over three years has returned and this time, it was promised that they are here to stay and to shape the new you.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – Joel Garner plans to ask the West Indies Cricket Board to review the way West Indies teams are prepared for international tours.

Thirty-two-year-old Christopher Cozier of ‘D’ Field Sophia was granted bail in the sum of $100,000 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a quantity of cash and two cell phones from a man while he was asleep.

The updated version of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is yet to be released despite a commitment by the Office of Climate Change (OCC) on November 15 that this would be done within two weeks.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Disgraced Olympic sprinter  Marion Jones is hoping to make a sporting comeback in women’s  professional basketball, the New York Times reported on Monday.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Tim Nielsen believes West Indies can bounce back in the second Test against Australia, starting on Friday at Adelaide Oval.

The Benn Street man who was shot in the abdomen during a foiled robbery on Princes Street on Sunday night sustained damage to part of his lungs, kidney and liver.

WEST POINT, N.Y., (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  said last night he is sending 30,000 more U.S.

A security guard who suffered from a medical complication was yesterday morning found dead in a guard hut outside an East Street, South Cummingsburg house and the body bore no signs of violence.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia will join any consensus on  more sanctions against Iran, a senior Russian diplomatic source  said yesterday after Tehran declared it would expand nuclear  activity in defiance of a U.N.

Dear Editor, The Municipality of Georgetown wishes to apologize profusely for the inconvenience and potential health hazard faced by the residents who live in the area contiguous to the Le Repentir Landfill dumpsite.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Australian media continued to wage their psychological war with West Indies, when a former national captain called for the Caribbean side to be barred from playing Test matches.

The driver of the car which plunged into a trench at Gangaram Settlement, East Canje on November 23 resulting in the death of a passenger was on Monday charged with causing death by dangerous driving and released on bail.

ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – Tiger Woods, the world’s top golfer, was slapped with a traffic ticket for careless  driving yesterday, four days after driving his Cadillac SUV  into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home.

LONDON, (Reuters) – London’s High Court ruled against  the British government yesterday over the use of secret  evidence to deny terrorism suspects bail in what campaigners  called an “historic” judgment.

Dear Editor, This is truly the information tech age, and even corporate Guyana is meandering its way onto the information superhighway.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An unbeaten 61 from Gordon Greenidge was trumped by Graeme Hick’s 77 not out which helped England upset West Indies by seven wickets in the International Masters Cup Twenty20 competition on Monday.

Sergeant Narine Lall of the Leonora Police Station was on Monday read the charge of unlawfully and maliciously wounding the 15-year-old boy who was burnt in the genital area while in custody at that station.

Dear Editor, Ever since the Municipal and Districts Councils Act of 1969 was promulgated, the sugar industry had begun addressing the prospect of ‘estate communities’ (then described as extra-nuclear housing areas) cum annexis, being absorbed into local government jurisdictions.

SEATTLE, (Reuters) – A man accused of gunning down  four police officers was shot and killed by authorities yesterday in a case that could affect a potential 2012 U.S. 

Dear Editor, In Guyana, we have a unique system of land ownership, which by virtue of our historic colonial experience, is an admixture of Roman Dutch and English law along with the Australian Torrens system of land registration.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The top U.N. rights official said  yesterday Switzerland’s ban on building minarets was deeply  divisive and at odds with its international legal obligations.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – FIFA dashed any lingering Irish hopes of playing in next year’s World Cup finals  yesterday by declaring it would be impossible to add a 33rd team to the tournament.

Dear Editor, I know this issue has been ventilated on several occasions, but I do believe that those being affected by the unbelievably insensitive nature of animal owners (cows, donkeys,  goats, fierce dogs… you name it) in Diamond Housing Scheme should have their problems addressed.

A resident of Blygezeight Gardens was robbed of jewellery on Monday night when four men, one of whom was armed with a handgun attacked him on Stone Avenue, Campbellville.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Video showing a key opposition  party governor apparently taking a kickback has cast a fresh  spotlight on Brazil’s persistent political corruption and could  hurt the opposition in next year’s presidential race.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French scientists have found a way  to create human skin rapidly from stem cells, a discovery that  could save the lives of many burns victims who are vulnerable to  infection and now wait weeks for a skin graft.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India will reach the top of the ICC Test rankings for the first time if they win the third and final Test against Sri Lanka starting today.

The Police Report on investigations into the torture meted out to a 15-year-old boy at the Leonora Police Station, which was supposed to be made public yesterday, was not released up to press time last night.

Dear Editor, For decades now the situation as regards service to the public at the GPO during the Christmas season remains the same.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans living in Costa Rica are facing more visa restrictions as that country’s government responds to an upsurge in crime, allegedly linked to gangs from the island.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – Jason Terry sank a 17-foot jump  shot with a second remaining to lift the Dallas Mavericks to a  104-102 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday.

A 16-year-old was placed on $150,000 bail when he appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer to a carnal knowledge charge.

(Barbados Nation) A high-ranking Catholic cleric, Monsignor Vincent, has condemned young people’s wearing of skimpy clothing and low-hanging trousers, exposing their underwear in public.

Dear Editor, Six died over a week ago, and another three this week in more minibus related madness. 

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – Russia yesterday  published previously secret documents that shed light on a  notorious murder 75 years ago that historians say sparked the  purges of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn could miss the fifth and final One-dayer against England on Friday due to a hamstring injury.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A home movie showing a relaxed  Marilyn Monroe apparently smoking marijuana has surfaced,  retrieved from an attic some 50 years after it was filmed.

A five-year-old boy is nursing neck and abdomen injuries in the Paediatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital after he fell from an iron roller.

Dear Editor, My life is slowly returning to some level of normalcy following the loss of my daughter Aliya in tragic circumstances, one that attracted national coverage and concern.

(Trinidad Express) A secret list of those who received State grants totalling TT$46 million from the Ministry of Culture and Gender Affairs during the period 2003 to 2007 has finally been revealed.

Dear Editor, I have seen countless comments of a real political nature coming from the pen of Mr Vishnu Bisram in both newspapers (Stabroek and Kaieteur), comments so political that he takes it upon himself to actually criticize President Cheddi under the pretence of  ‘correcting’ Freddie  Kissoon.

It would not be an overstatement to say that in the view of the governments of these West Indian islands, the use of referenda or special majorities of their parliaments required to change particular articles of their countries’ constitutions, is faced with trepidation.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka are backing Muttiah  Muralitharan to return to form in the third and final Test  against India starting on Wednesday, the master spinner’s last  overseas Test.

(Trinidad Express) There were varying views on Monday from an environmentalist, physicist and geologist, on Prime Minister’s Patrick Manning’s controversial plan to capture and store carbon emissions to reduce global warming.

An eight-year-old girl is now a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was involved in an accident on Monday.

The National Commission on Disability yesterday kicked off its activities for National Disability Week with a special student symposium and Awards ceremony at the Critchlow Labour College.  

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning film  “Slumdog Millionaire” didn’t just garner rave reviews and  worldwide acclaim, it also triggered a change in the way Indian  movies are being distributed.