Articles published on Wednesday, April 7, 2010
– for Sardine Hill property Mariwa Mining Company Inc, in which Presidential Advisor Odinga Lumumba has interest, moved one step closer to sealing a mining deal with a Canadian mining exploration company following the passing of a definitive agreement between the two parties.
One month after a well-known Guyanese businessman was found not guilty of murder in a British Virgin Island (BVI) court he is now facing further legal troubles as the country’s Governor David Pearey has ordered that he be kicked out after he was convicted of “assisting fugitives and driving a motor vehicle with prohibited tint on the window”, according to the BVI Beacon.
Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday fined the Superintendent of Police (ASP) who was involved in the accident on Thomas Road, Thomas Lands last Saturday $15,000 after he entered a guilty plea to a drunken driving charge.
– lack of funds affects drainage works In an attempt to bridge the gap between its proposed expenditure and income for this year’s budget, the Georgetown Municipality will be moving to collect taxes from over 143 properties within the city, which owe the council over $1.5 billion in taxes since 1998.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is still awaiting the release of funds from the Finance Ministry to pay workers employed during the recent claims and objections exercise.
Traffic Chief Neil Semple said yesterday that the owner of the Diamond New Housing Scheme taxi, which struck down and killed Ramona Harris was driving the vehicle on Friday night and is in custody.
Thirty-six persons have been placed before the courts after they were arrested in `B’ Division (Berbice) over the Easter weekend for driving under the influence of alcohol.
– awaiting govt signature since March 2 A US$200,000 grant from the World Bank to support information sharing activities on forest preservation strategies has been available for more than a month but government has not moved to sign the document.
Mere hours after she went on trial in a New York court, a Guyanese woman, who was caught with five kilogrammes of cocaine in her Gotcha suitcases late last year, was found guilty by a jury that deliberated for a short period.
Guyana is experiencing a change in weather conditions, which could prevail over the next 15 days, according to the Timehri Met Office and Internet weather databases.
Persons visiting the community to be a part of the Easter Regatta activities on Bartica were forced to pay more than the regular fare to travel to the community via speed boat despite earlier assurance by chairman of the Regatta Committee that they would work to prevent that from happening.
It was three days of unadulterated excitement and entertainment at the 2010 Bartica Regatta and not even the rains stopped persons from enjoying themselves.
Twenty-year-old Ronald Evans of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday sentenced to 32 months imprisonment when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with indecently assaulting a three-year-old girl and an eight-year-old girl.
E-Networks announces that it is widening its information technology services with the recent acquisition of Broadband Inc and Freedom Online Wireless Internet Service Providers.
By Marlon Munroe The Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) hopes that its new concept of Twenty20 football will resound around Guyana and hopefully around the world the same way T20 cricket has enjoyed the groundswell of support from its followers and corporate sponsors.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) was yesterday presented with a cheque for $3.2 million as sponsorship for the 2010 Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company (GTM) Under-19 Inter-County Cricket Tournament.
Mayor’s Cup 2010 Knockout Tournament… By Kizan Brumell The Pele Football Squad will begin their journey of defending their Mayor’s Cup title tonight when they clash with Seawall FC in this year’s Tournament at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground from 8pm.
Close finishes, upsets, controversy and an electrifying crowd highlighted the Easter Sunday Horse race meet at the Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC).
Lower Corentyne crushes Central/Upper Corentyne to reach final Lower Corentyne advanced to the finals of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Diamond Fire and General Insurance Under-19 inter-zone tourney after giving a good all-round performance against Central/Upper Corentyne.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday refused bail for a 40-year-old welder when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of slashing his mother to her face with a broken glass bottle.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Caster Semenya, the 800 metres world champion at the centre of a gender verification row, will return to competitive athletics at an international meet in Zaragoza, Spain on June 24, she said yesterday.
Two-year-old heart patient, Udesh Ragubar of Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice may get an opportunity to have his surgery done at The Hospital for Sick Children in Canada much to the relief of his worried parents.
CHENNAI, India, CMC – West Indies all-rounders Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard continued their wretched run in the Indian Premier League, failing again with the bat as Mumbai Indians slipped to a surprise 24-run win over Chennai Super Kings yesterday.
– as antique, clothing stores gutted Quick action by the fire service averted tragedy in the wee hours of yesterday when a fire of unknown origin destroyed an antique store and a clothing store at the corner of Robb and King streets.
A Surinamese man and a Venezuelan woman were ordered to pay fines of $30,000 each and deported to their homelands when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for illegally entering Guyana.
Dear Editor, I see that President Jagdeo has announced the award of a US$15 million contract for preparatory infrastructural work re the Amalia Falls Hydroelectric power Project which is estimated to cost in excess of US$450 million.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Formula One continues to break new ground away from its traditional European base and as Asia expands its interest with the addition of the Korean Grand Prix this season, India is next in line to join the fray from 2011.
Dear Editor, We respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News of March, 30, written by Region 2 rice farmer, Heeralall Mohan (‘These drying floors will not really help Region Two rice farmers and need to be investigated’), and an article in the same newspaper of April 5, written by Sara Bharrat (‘Drying floors not needed now, too pricy – farmer, ex-PPP MP’).
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Landslides and floods set off by the heaviest rains in decades killed at least 95 people in Rio de Janeiro state, making hundreds homeless, flooding roads and paralyzing Brazil’s second city yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association (NBA) fined Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson $35,000 on Monday for publicly criticizing game officials, the league said on their website (www.nba.com).
A 39-year-old man of Number 28 Village, West Coast Berbice sustained a fractured skull following a blow to his head around 3 am yesterday and is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson said Tuesday batsman Wavell Hinds would bring maturity and leadership to the regional squad, as he offered a resolute defence of the 33-year-old’s surprise selection for the upcoming World Twenty20 Championship.
Dear Editor, Indian Arrival Day is a national holiday in Guyana, and that is a very well known fact.
Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington said disaster preparedness is critical for the Caribbean at the commissioning of a Doppler radar weather system in Trinidad and Tobago.
CHALA, Peru (Reuters) – Peruvian President Alan Garcia said yesterday new laws to curb wildcat mining may be amended but insisted miners must first remove a roadblock on a main highway where six people died in a clash with police.
Dear Editor, The man who performed the exorcism on 14-year-old Sangeeta Persaud thinks he did nothing wrong.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s Government has denied claims it has been dithering over reconstruction plans for the national track and field stadium, significantly damaged when the dangerous Hurricane Ivan ripped through the island six years ago.
– weep after sentence handed down Two unemployed young men of Hopetown, West Coast Berbice burst into tears after they were sentenced to seven years in jail for armed robbery and possession of arms and ammunition, at the Blairmont Court yesterday.
BEIJING/OTTAWA (Reuters) – A cyber-espionage group based in southwest China stole documents from the Indian Defence Ministry and emails from the Dalai Lama’s office, Canadian researchers said in a report yesterday.
Dear Editor, Vidyaratha Kissoon in your edition of Sunday, April 4 (‘While science has recognized intersex the law does not recognize it’), says that science recognises an ‘intersex’ and, without clearly saying what intersexuality really is from a scientific viewpoint, subtly implies that this recognition validates the claim of the effeminate homosexual to belonging in scientific terms, to a ‘third sex’ or ‘third gender.’
Less than one week after the United States Embassy in St Andrew indicated that Bounty Killer was among five Jamaican entertainers to have their visas revoked, the 38-year-old has found himself in more trouble with the law.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Injury-prone pacer Jerome Taylor has been included in a 13-man squad for the Jamaica Cricket Festival, a move aimed at getting the Jamaican match fit for the World Twenty20 Championship starting later this month.
Ituni families are benefiting from the non-timber resources of the forest as much as the logs they harvest with the implementation of a project that promotes an alternative livelihood using the seeds and vines.
SINABANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – A major earthquake of 7.7 magnitude struck off the coast of Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra today, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
An elderly woman is now nursing injuries in the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was struck down by a minibus on Saturday.
In what must be an unprecedented decision in our region, the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court system has, one year after the general elections in Antigua and Barbuda, declared the results in three seats held by the government party invalid, including that of the Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Three players who helped West Indies Under-19s to the semi-finals of the Youth World Cup earlier this year have been picked in a 13-man ‘A’ side to face Zimbabwe in a short series in Grenada later this month.
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Oil stake under study Venezuela is to reopen negotiations with the Dominican Republic to acquire 49% of a Dominican oil refinery.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested eight Colombians suspected of spying on the oil exporting nation’s electricity system, the interior minister said yesterday, amid power shortages that have dented the popularity of President Hugo Chavez.
