Daily Archive: Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has started the process to identify a presidential candidate for the 2011 general elections, according to General Secretary Donald Ramotar, who says the nominee could be revealed before the end of next year.

Two men, including a Police Constable stationed in Berbice, were each granted $300,000 bail yesterday after they appeared before the Springlands Magistrate’s Court charged with the December 23 Crabwood Creek robbery.

As a Yarowkabra businessman sat in his vehicle, parked on a trail which runs along his sand pit, two armed men attacked, shot him thrice and escaped with $100,000 cash, a revolver and other items.

The GWTV channel two, transmission tower came crashing down after a heavy downpour in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The Treaty of Basseterre, a new charter carved to establish an Economic Union within the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) was yesterday signed by the leaders from the sub-regional member states in St Kitts and Nevis.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the heavily pregnant Linden mother who succumbed along with her baby, at the Linden Hospital Complex revealed that the she died as a result of a ruptured blood vessel in the head.

The Practical Instruction Centre at Buxton will be in operation for the new school term, according to the Region Four administration.

Two miners, who had their mining permits rescinded by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission recently, had breached mining regulations by entering an area where Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML) had its operations close to the Omai River.

Police say that currently there is no information to suggest foul play was involved in the death of Bagotstown resident Inshan Ali and have denied reports which said that they obtained confessions from two of the man’s relatives.

The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is advising farming communities close to rivers and sea defence infrastructure to take necessary precautions to avoid water accumulation from the spring tide which started yesterday.

Another driver’s licence has been suspended pending the outcome of investigations into a causing death by dangerous driving charge.

-defending champs Pele, Sunburst Camptown ousted in penalty shoot-outs Super-League champions Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will clash with BK Western Tigers in the Kashif and Shanghai football final on Friday (New Year’s Day) following success in their semi-final encounters played Monday evening at the National Stadium at Providence.

By Rawle Toney “I think it was just their time to shine.”

Twenty-six-year-old Julius Samuels of Fourth Street, Alberttown, was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment when he appeared before acting chief magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for beating his ex-girlfriend on Christmas Day.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that a 21-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly robbing a woman at knife-point of a quantity of cash among other items.

By Rawle Toney The referees in this year’s Kashif and Shanghai football tournament are being criticised for poor decision-making.

Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir is optimistic that the ongoing impasse between the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) will be amicably solved even as his ministry continues its efforts to have representatives from the two entities meet.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The sex scandal that engulfed Tiger Woods may have cost shareholders of companies endorsed by the world’s No.

Canacol Energy Ltd has announced an update of its prospective oil-bearing resources in Guyana as efforts continue for likely second quarter 2010 drilling in the Takutu basin in the Rupununi.

PERTH, Australia,  CMC – West Indies captain Chris Gayle defied a side strain to smash a typical whirlwind 44 but his efforts proved in vain as Western Australia plunged to a 29-run loss to Trinidadian Kieron Pollard’s South Australia in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – A representative of Iran’s  Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday opposition  leaders were “enemies of God” who should be executed under the  country’s sharia law.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a construction worker be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder last year of a teenage boy.

KANEOHE, Hawaii, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  yesterday blamed a combination of “human and systemic  failures” in security for allowing the botched Christmas Day  attack aboard a U.S.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – Talismanic captain Chris Gayle was set to undergo scans on his injured left-side this morning, sparking doubts over his continued involvement in Twenty20 Big Bash and his availability for West Indies’ one-day tour here next month.

Dear Editor, Two points surfaced in your very comprehensive editorial ‘Guyana and the Copenhagen Accord’ (SN, December 28). 

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, (Reuters) – Russian Prime  Minister Vladimir Putin said  yesterday U.S.

The online newspaper Long Island Press.com yesterday reported that an 18-year-old man of Guyanese descent has gone missing in New York.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Out-of-favour Test batsman Daren Ganga missed out on a century but his younger brother Sherwin was closing in on one, at the close on the second day of the Gerry Gomez North/South Classic on Monday.

URUMQI, China, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister  Gordon Brown said he was appalled at China’s execution of a  Briton caught smuggling heroin yesterday, prompting China to  denounce British “accusations” and defend its court system.

-Broad, Swann leave homesters reeling on 76-6 DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Graeme Swann and  Stuart Broad ripped through South Africa’s top order to put  England on the brink of victory on the fourth day of the second  test yesterday.

Dear Editor, Your report (December 20) on the former national cricketer Colin Wiltshire who died in Trinidad recently, included a most meaningful recollection of his only son Garfield Wiltshire about his father’s admonition on the importance of education for a sportsman growing up.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company has decried a statement by Private Sector Commission Chair-man, Gerry Gouveia in yesterday’s edition of the Guyana Chronicle that the phone company needed to try harder to resolve problems with the 911 emergency service.

Dear Editor, I read with great elation that the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association is calling on miners to meet and exceed this year’s target of 300,000+ ounces of gold (it does not state what the target is for diamonds).

(BBC) Shane Watson yesterday hit his first Test century as Australia set Pakistan a daunting total of 422 to win the first Test.

PARIS, (Reuters Life!) – Europe, the most secularised  region on Earth, has decided to launch a regular dialogue with  the organised religions that many on the continent once thought  would wither away.

Self-confessed drug dealer Peter Morgan will have to wait until February to learn his sentence following a fourth postponement granted by a New York court.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Off-spinner Bevon Brown, who has made only sporadic national appearances in his career, gave selectors a reminder of his ability with a five-wicket haul Monday in Jamaica’s latest practice match for the forthcoming West Indies first-class season.

Dear Editor, The Bauxite Company Guyana Inc’s (BCGI) denial in its ‘Information Memorandum to the Public’ that it did not dismiss workers because they are members of the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) is far from the truth.

BOSTON, (Reuters Life!) – A 28-year-old college  dropout pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that he stole tens  of millions of payment card numbers by breaking into corporate  computer systems.

-in attack on drugs-for-guns syndicate (Jamaica Gleaner) Police in St Elizabeth are on the hunt for the sole survivor of a group of five gunmen who engaged lawmen in a shoot-out on Monday.

The Guyana Police Force in response to an article which appeared in yesterday’s issue of the Guyana Times under the caption, ’Mentally–ill aunt admits to murder’, says  that no evidence exists which suggest foul play was involved in the death of 4-year-old Thaddius Samuels.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh axed opening batsman  Zunaed Siddique and left-arm spinner Enamul Haque Jr.

Dear Editor, When someone who lived a reasonably long and productive life passes on we do not mourn, we rejoice and are glad that we had such a person among us.

(Trinidad Express) Crime has forced the Witco Desperadoes to flee their Laventille Hill home after more than 60 years and seek refuge in Belmont, officials of the panside said on Monday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s planned carbon tax cannot  be applied because it includes too many exemptions, a French  government body ensuring laws are constitutional ruled yesterday, in an embarrassing setback for the government.

(Trinidad Express) A message which was posted on Facebook was said to be the reason why three women allegedly beat another before stabbing her multiple times two weeks ago.

Dear Editor, I am in complete agreement with the findings of Mark Jewel as expressed in his letter captioned, ‘Freddie misunderstands Misir’s and Persaud’s motive’ (KN, December 29).

As we come to the end of the last year of the decade, it is probably not an overstatement to say that in many countries the sentiment of gloom and foreboding that has accompanied the eruption of a major global economic recession remains.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Young batsmen Kjorn Ottley, Nkrumah Bonner and Raymon Reifer stroked hundreds as the Omar Phillips XI assumed a dominant position against Simon Jackson’s XI in a Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) practice match for the upcoming West Indies first-class season.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Two young French women jailed in  the Dominican Republic for trafficking cocaine were freed yesterday having served 18 months of their eight-year sentence,  following pressure from President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife.