Daily Archive: Monday, February 15, 2010

A 44-year-old Guyanese who worked as a security guard in Manhattan was stabbed to death early Sunday morning behind a Brooklyn gas station as he walked home from a party.

-huge agri losses projected With El Nino now forecast to last until mid-April and the next rainy season, months away, the agricultural sector is facing a potential $3 billion in losses.

By Cathy Richards and Alva Solomon A mid-afternoon accident on the Linden/Soesdyke High-way yesterday left one person dead and several nursing injuries following a head-on collision between a car and a pick-up.

Hours after he was stabbed in the abdomen during a confrontation with three men Gregory `Micey’ Stuart died at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

An East Bank Demerara businessman yesterday denied burning tyres causing heavy black smoke which made breathing difficult for residents and clouded a section of the Friendship Public Road forcing motorists to proceed with caution.

By Shabna Ullah After living in dilapidated conditions for a number of years, Richard Fresco, 27, and his mother, Virginia Beatrice Giddings of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam have finally found comfort after moving into their new home.

Around 18,000 new registrations were recorded during the just concluded Claims and Objections (C&O) exercise.

Police are investigating an armed robbery which   occurred at about 11 pm on Saturday at Popeye’s Restaurant on  Vlissengen Road during which two bandits attacked and rob a supervisor of some $1.1M before making good their escape.

A 6-year-old girl is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after a concrete wall of a building under construction at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara collapsed yesterday, injuring her in the process.

By Rawle Toney David Patterson was elected president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) when the body held its Annual General Meeting (AGM)  yesterday at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) headquarters in Kingston.

Guyana in collaboration with India recently carried out a one-week feasibility study to determine a possible location for the construction of a deep water harbour here and the Berbice area has been identified as the most suitable.

Team Guyana bounced back from their two opening losses to Australia and New Zealand to earn an honourable 12-12 draw against France Friday night in the USA IRB Sevens World Series competition in Las Vegas.

–force seeks to boost community relations Roving police teams are to patrol border and interior locations and training of police ranks in Spanish and Portuguese will soon be resumed as the force works to improve police-community relations.

Rebel titillates with ‘All ah we know de man’ By Iana Seales The witty appeals of calypsos are back and judging from the flow of social commentary this year one thing is clear, the country needs to bounce back from the trauma it is in and from an image sullied by the torture of a teenager boy.

By Kizan Brumell The Leeward Islands need another six wickets to claim an outright victory against Windward Islands, who trail by 191 runs going into today’s final day of their WICB four-day, regional first-class match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda.

Importers and distributors of herbal supplements are required to ensure that  a label has been applied to the  product  and all  herbal ingredients must be declared by the scientific name  of the medicinal plant.

By Rawle Toney Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams returned to his winning ways when he coasted to victory in the inaugural Digicel/Cell Smart ‘Ride Smart’ Aids Awareness 20-lap cycle race yesterday around the outer circuit of the National Park.

Top Berbice juvenile cyclist Neil Reece was recently rewarded by a Berbice businessman for his performances in 2009.

Haiti has identified the town of Leogane and its environs as the preferred location for Caricom’s intervention for displaced persons in Port-au-Prince.

Twenty-year-old Kevin Wiltshire of Agricola, East Bank Demerara was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly using a gun to rob another man of a quantity of cash along with gold jewellery.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – West Indies were condemned to a series defeat after Australia’s captain Ricky Ponting stroked a fine hundred and led his troops to a fluent 50-run victory in the fourth One-day International (ODI) yesterday at the Gabba.

A 32-year-old man was placed on $100,000 bail on Thursday for allegedly stealing two gold rings and one gold and diamond ring from a woman he was reportedly having “an illicit connection” with when he made an appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

Dear Editor, The article captioned ‘Water shortage looms’ which appeared in SN of February 13 seems to be a misnomer, as a water shortage on coastal farms is already widespread and will seriously affect the economy.

MARJAH, (Reuters) – NATO rockets killed 12 Afghan  civilians yesterday, the second day of an offensive designed to  impose Afghan government authority on one of the last big  Taliban strongholds in the country’s most violent province.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Olympic and World sprint champion Usain Bolt opened his 2010 season with a smart meet record 400-metre victory at the Camperdown Classic on Saturday.

Two women were on Thursday charged with assaulting each other. Uelliee Ross was placed on $20,000 bail for unlawfully wounding Danita Junior while Junior was placed on $10,000 bail for unlawfully assaulting Ross.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A judicial crisis loomed in  Pakistan yesterday after the Supreme Court blocked an order  from unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari appointing two  judges.

PROVIDENCE, Guyana,  CMC – Tournament leaders Jamaica and Combined Campuses & Colleges were locked in a gripping battle for outright victory in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

Dear Editor, This morning I could not restrain myself from writing a letter after reading the one by D.

Canadian Vision Care is hosting a four-day outreach exercise at the Kumaka Hospital, Moruca.

KOLKATA, India, (Reuters) – South Africa’s bid for a  first test series victory in India in almost a decade suffered a setback when top-ranked India fashioned a dramatic turnaround on  the opening day of the final test.

Dear Editor, In any decent and civilized society, rights and the rule of law are paramount in the determination of any activity, be it social, economic or political.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s prime minister suspended  two ministers over corruption allegations yesterday after the  president took the same action against eight officials in moves  that will please donors but underline coalition divisions.

Adrian Sunish of South Sophia was remanded to prison on Friday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly fraudulently converting a gold chain to his own use that was given to him by another man to clean.

DOHA – The United States declared yesterday it saw few  alternatives to more sanctions on Iran, saying it sought a  peaceful end to a nuclear standoff but did not want to engage  diplomatically “while they are building their bomb”.

NEW AMSTERDAM, Guyana, CMC – Barbados were still holding most, if not all of the aces, despite a fight-back from Guyana in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

Dear Editor, Emile Mervin’s letter in SN on February 13 (‘If there are no reforms within the PPP and PNC…’) is not even worth replying to as he is obviously engaged in AFC propaganda.

By Gabrielle Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s selectors have dropped experienced left-arm spinner Dave Mohammed for their WICB Regional first class match against the Windward Islands next weekend.

Dear Editor, A letter writer in Saturday’s SN bemoans the tattered flags which adorn two government buildings in NA (‘Battered flags should be replaced,’ February 13).

Two young men were jointly charged with unlawful assault and a third man was accused of unlawful and malicious wounding on Wednesday.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Residents of this  border city caught in Mexico’s bloody drug war staged a protest  march on Saturday against President Felipe Calderon and an army  crackdown that has failed to curb rampant killings.

I truly regret that I never got to know Martin Carter.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Friday ordered that two teenagers and a 27-year-old man be remanded to prison when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly being found with two separate quantities of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Afghanistan whipped Ireland by eight wickets in the ICC World Twenty20 qualifying final Saturday and will head to the Caribbean as the No.1 team from the qualifiers.

Given the now customary absence of budgetary measures and announcements of new initiatives in the annual budget speech one could reasonably question the wisdom of having the Finance Minister use up the precious time of the legislature retracing developments during the year.

Dear Editor, I am responding to recent comments in the media relating to the late great historian, Dr Walter Rodney.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s international  airport, a key economic lifeline for the poorest country in the  Americas, will reopen to major commercial airlines on Friday  for the first time since a massive earthquake destroyed its  control tower, a U.S.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – As an increasingly violent  and costly drugs war clogs up prisons with small-time users,  some Latin American countries are abandoning hardline U.S. 

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week on What the People Say we asked Berbicians to comment on issues that are affecting them and got the following responses: Fazeela Bacchus, seamstress `I am concerned that we have a lot of school dropouts in Berbice.