Daily Archive: Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Region 4 Regional Executive Officer (REO) Shafdar Ali turned himself over to police yesterday morning, for questioning in relation to a multi-million dollar fraud on the state.

The boy who drowned in a “backwash lagoon” at Guyana Water Incorporat-ed’s (GWI), Central Ruimveldt Iron Removal treatment plant on Monday has been identified at ten-year-old Akeem Denny of Lamaha Street, Kitty.

Two persons died yesterday afternoon when a mining pit in the Mahdia area in Region 8 caved in during rainy weather.

-study The inability of students to pass the local nursing exams is a major cause of low completion rates and has resulted in a “sub-optimal quality of training,” a recent World Bank study on nursing shortage in the English-speaking Caribbean has found.

A Vincentian woman, who allegedly attempted to export a quantity of cocaine in several Soya Milk packets at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, was yesterday remanded to prison.

Joanna Danhai, who pleaded to manslaughter charges for killing her two children, was sentenced last week to 13 years imprisonment.

-grandmother The grandmother of a five-year-old Sophia boy, who was reportedly brutalised by his father, is worried that more than two weeks after she reported the matter to police, nothing has happened.

The US Embassy in Georgetown is using a new DS-160 visa application form that is entirely online and web-based, and is available at   http://georgetown.usembassy.gov/non-immigrant-visas.html.

Atma Rajaram returned to the stand for cross examination by the defence yesterday, when the New Building Society (NBS) multi million dollar fraud case continued.

By Marlon Munroe With a question mark constantly lingering over what the West Indies team will do next, the team’s coach Ottis Gibson is adamant that it is in no position to take any team for granted while Zimbabwe’s Captain Prosper Utseya has implored his players not to get ahead of themselves.

-court hears A young woman was yesterday charged with escaping from the Bartica Police Station, shortly after she had been held for allegedly being in possession of marijuana.

-to target rice sector An assessment to evaluate the risks faced by the local agriculture sector with emphasis on the rice supply chain and the feasibility of agriculture risk transfer and insurance solutions for the sector is to begin soon.

– Ali sweeps junior category Taffin Khan was Sunday crowned champion of the Topco Juice Mashramani Chess Tournament organized by the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF).

The Ming’s Products Veterans Lawn Tennis tournament will conclude this afternoon at Harry Panday’s residence, Bel Air Park.

-education officer unaware of shortage A month’s supply of food stuff was provided to the Port Kaituma Secondary School dormitory yesterday, three days after the children who occupy the facility were sent home because of the lack of food.

LONDON, England, CMC – Guyana’s international squash star Nicolette Fernandes jumped two places up the world rankings this month to 60th, her highest rating in almost 2-1/2 years.

A Crabwood Creek, Berbice woman, who was abused by her husband on Monday while they were consuming alcohol, died after she reportedly fell from her stairs later that evening.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington urged newly appointed chairman to the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) Karen Nunez-Tesheira to pursue the agenda for developing the CSME and joint initiatives to combat the effects that the global financial crisis continues to have on the Region.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Dirk  Nowitzki and Jason Terry led a second-half charge to help the  Dallas Mavericks continue their unbeaten run over the Charlotte  Bobcats with a 89-84 victory on Monday.

–symposium hears Panellists at the first seminar in the University of Guyana 40th Republic Anniversary Public Symposia Series focused on Science and Technology said there is need for change in the management of natural resources, so that when they are exploited for livelihood it is not at the expense of the physical environment.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Former Australia Prime  Minister John Howard has been nominated by the Australian and  New Zealand boards to serve as International Cricket Council  (ICC) president from 2012.

After seventy-five years of high-quality teaching and outstanding results at national examinations, St Margaret’s Primary School continues the tradition of improving the social and academic performance of its charges as reflected in its motto ‘To Be The Best I Can Be.’

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A landslide in eastern Uganda   has killed at least 80 people and villagers are digging with  bare hands and simple tools in the hope of finding survivors, a  government minister and Ugandan media said yesterday.

DITCHEAT, England,  (Reuters) – Kauto Star is a big  softie, Denman is a brute who would bite your hand off.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan promised yesterday to clarify restrictions on news coverage of Taliban strikes, and hinted it may row back from the most draconian measures, which amount to a total ban on filming during attacks.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Eoin Morgan became the first  player to hit centuries for two countries, guiding England to a  two-wicket win over Bangladesh in the second one-day  international yesterday.

The man who stabbed his 20-year-old reputed wife to death on Monday remained on the run up to press time last evening.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Naomi Campbell was wanted for questioned by New York police on Tuesday after her driver accused the British supermodel of assaulting him.

-Prof Dabydeen The establishment of the Caribbean Publishing House has created a much needed opening for emerging Guyanese writers to have their work published, its editor Professor David Dabydeen says.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Jamaica captain Tamar Lambert says his side never doubted they would win the 2010 WICB regional first class championship even though they faced a must-win scenario in the final round last weekend.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Muttiah Muralitharan has announced that he will torment West Indies one more time, and then pull stumps on his Test career.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Attorney General Jerry Brown formally announced on Tuesday his run for governor of the economically troubled state, becoming the only high-profile Democrat facing a Republican field led by former eBay Inc CEO Meg Whitman.

The Chinese Association is currently hosting the China Jing Zhen Art Porcelain Trade Fair at its Brickdam headquarters, offering the public a chance to obtain unique and decorative vases, wall paintings and Chinese handmade porcelain artefacts.

CONSTITUCION, Chile (Reuters) – Chile’s government  used helicopters and boats to speed up the delivery of food to  hungry survivors on Tuesday as the death toll rose to nearly  800 three days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The quality of processed foods distributed locally and products which are manufactured for export are the focus of a renewed health sector campaign aimed at promoting better standards.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Organisers of the 2012 Olympics  will be hoping to emulate the street-party atmosphere of  Vancouver now that the curtain has come down on the Winter Games  and all eyes turn to London.

PARIS (Reuters) – The widow of Rwanda’s former  President Juvenal Habyarimana, who is suspected of having  instigated the country’s 1994 genocide after her husband’s  death, was briefly arrested near Paris  yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan named former test  batsman Mohsin Khan as Iqbal Qasim’s successor as chief selector yesterday.

Dear Editor, I wish to draw your attention to an article dated February 27, and published on page 8 of SN under the caption ‘Arrest warrant out for Region Four REO,’ which stated that your paper was reliably informed that the Chairman of Region 4, Mr C Corlette was forced “to call in the Auditor General to conduct a probe after certain difficulties arose.”

A fisherman was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly having carnal knowledge of an 11-year-old girl.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – All-Star guard Allen  Iverson will miss the remainder of the season for personal  reasons, the Philadelphia 76ers said yesterday.

Dear Editor, My letter concerns the craziness of GPL. For the past 3-4 weeks when I dial Sophia 22-64016 I no longer can get directly to someone working there, which I have been able to do for the past 30 years.

Nothing like having fun on Phagwah day as the smiles of these Berbice residents show.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chief Justice John Roberts  of the US Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request from  opponents of gay marriage to put on hold a new law that allows  same-sex couples to wed in Washington, DC.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Mohamed Khan’s letter, ‘Dr Jagan was a working-class intellectual and agitator’ published in Stabroek News, on March 1.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Robinho made a productive return  to England ysterday, scoring one goal and setting up the other  to guide five-times world champions Brazil to a 2-0 win over  Ireland in a friendly at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Government has flayed the Bruce Golding administration over Jamaica’s handling of the extradition request for west Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Spanish police have shut down a  ring of computer hackers who infected more than 13 million PCs  with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other valuable  data in what may be the biggest cyber raid to date.

Cooling off:  These youngsters take a break from all the Phagwah fun in Berbice on Monday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton is looking for a  new manager after he and his father Anthony decided to call time  on one of the closest partnerships in Formula One.

A close call: The drivers of these two cars escaped unhurt following a collision on the Houston Public Road, East Bank Demerara around lunchtime yesterday.

Dear Editor, I would like to read the views of your writer, Mr GHK Lall on the performance of Mr Ralph Ramkarran in the interview with Mr Christopher Ram (Ram’s television programme, Plain Talk) against the background of Mr Lall’s view that Mr Ramkarran might be the PPP’s choice of presidential candidate for the general elections deadlined for 2011.

A Brazilian man, arrested for allegedly stealing a bicycle, was remanded after a court was told he was wanted in connection with the murder of a policeman in his native country.

…Ignores Jack, keeps Mark in Senate (Trinidad Express) Opposi-tion Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday appoin-ted six senators, acting independently of United National Congress (UNC) chairman, Jack Warner, who had opposed the decision to reappoint Wade Mark.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai’s police chief plans to  seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and  the head of Israel’s spy agency over the killing of a Hamas  leader in the emirate, Al Jazeera television reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US aerospace and  defence industry is urging House of Representatives lawmakers  to reject a measure that would call a World War One-era  massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces genocide, warning it  could jeopardize US exports to Turkey.

(Barbados Nation) That’s the group that will pull Barbados through the most crippling worldwide recession in the last half-century.

Dear Editor, A paragraph in Rev Seopaul Singh’s comment to my letter of February 6 ‘Partition or death does not ring a bell’ on the SN website reads as follows: “On the issue of ‘partition or death’ I know I saw the picture of EK chained to a Fence with the poster.

A minibus conductor will have to pay a $15,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to exposing his private parts to a 13-year-old girl.

The recent decision, taken on February 23 by most of the countries of Latin American and the Caribbean, to transform the Rio Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development (CALC) into a formal institution, the Community of Latin American States, is being advanced by them as another stage in a process of regional integration to which they have formally committed themselves at various times. 

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods is hitting golf  balls again and working out at his home in Florida, a source  close to his camp told Reuters yesterday.

The United States Southern Command’s Traditional Commander of Activities (TCA) program sponsored a three day Personnel Recovery subject matter exchange from February 16 to 18.