Articles published on Thursday, June 3, 2010
-questions raised over use, cost of cricket facility The contractor who built the under-utilised cricket hostel for the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) recently was once sanctioned by the Region Two administration for substandard work.
Linden police are now more convinced that 23-year-old Damion Lindore was the victim of murder and not a traffic accident and a cop has also been implicated in the matter.
Two men were remanded to prison yesterday after they were read charges relating to a gun, ammunition and cocaine found in a ‘checked-in’ suitcase at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on May 30.
The Guyana Defence Force yesterday received 10 Ford D150 trucks from the United States Southern Command (US South Com) as part of the US Force’s programme to train and equip partner nations in combatting terrorism.
The arrival of a mobile patrol thwarted an attempted break-in at Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Diamond, East Bank Demerara early yesterday morning but not before the bandits tied up security guards and relieved them of firearms and hand radios.
The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana is calling on the Guyana government to join with the international community in condemning Israel for its commando raid on an international flotilla to Gaza that led to the “killing of ten peaceful aid workers and injury to dozens of others.”
-placed on $75,000 bail Laverne Brummell, the mother who was charged with beating her 11-year old son, was placed on $75,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday after she pleaded guilty to inflicting the lashes with a piece of wood.
The two men who were charged with causing the death of 11-year-old Austin Lashley Jr.
Police in Berbice are on the hunt for a prisoner who escaped yesterday morning from the Reliance Station for the second time.
The city council has employed two additional excavators as it continues to work on clearing the Meadow Bank canal to bring relief to the residents who have been experiencing flooding for nearly two weeks.
Dear Editor, While the Government of Guyana leads the world in plans for low carbon development, the considerable carbon emissions’ benefits of improved forest management are not being sufficiently stressed.
By Gaulbert Sutherland With indigenous representatives raising the issue of free, prior and informed consent at last week’s Climate and Forest Conference in Oslo, Norway, President Bharrat Jagdeo says his administration has done enough consultation on the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
Dear Editor, Some time ago, my friend and colleague Mr Vidyanand Persaud, Attorney-at-law (Vish, as we all know him) wrote a poignant letter to the press calling for the abolition of this wholly and unnecessary relic of our colonial past, the ceremonial opening of the Criminal Assizes.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Tuesday granted $75,000 bail to Bronson Wiltshire, who allegedly stabbed a man with a knife in the Cuyuni River area.
–politician says will use experience to fight police harassment Chairman of Vision Guyana, Peter Ramsaroop who was accused of spying on a tenant says that when he is exonerated, he will use his experience to fight for the rights of innocent citizens who are being harassed by the police.
Dear Editor, The swearing in on May 26, 2010 of Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar as the first female Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago excited me at two levels.
-warns of sanctions Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) Chairman, Juan Edghill says some statements made by Fazia’s Collections owner, Terry Anderson are untrue and he warned of sanctions if Anderson does not attend a meeting to address reports that his store refuses entry to Chinese persons.
In a letter captioned ‘A litigant who files an action in Georgetown is electing to have the matter adjudicated in the Demerara High Court’ published in our edition yesterday, the designation ‘The Hon Chief Justice (ag)’ was inadvertently omitted from under the name of the signatory, ‘Ian N Chang, SC.’
WHITEHAVEN, England, (Reuters) – A gunman killed at least 12 people in a rampage through quiet towns in and around the scenic Lake District of northwest England yesterday in Britain’s worst shooting spree for 14 years.
– Puerto Rican arrives to keep ring date with Dalton By Marlon Munroe A 31-year-old Puerto Rican boxer by the name of Hector `Machito’ Camacho arrived in Georgetown yesterday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Avoiding their third straight one-day series whitewash to South Africa will be West Indies’ main aim when the fifth and final One-Day International bowls off here today.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian authorities have tried to crack down on portrayals of Sonia Gandhi in movies, books and cartoons, triggering criticism that the world’s largest democracy is too reverent towards its most powerful politician.
Dear Editor, Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to respond to your letter, dated Thursday May 27 and titled ‘GWI has not repaired four leaks at back of Atlantic Gardens.’
Guyana’s Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) for the Global Fund on TB and malaria suffered a setback yesterday when stakeholders failed to show up for a critical meeting to select new members for three seats on the coordinating body.
-Players’ body slams WICB chief executive remarks The West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) is calling on the West Indies cricket Board’s (WICB) chief executive Dr.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday voted to set up an independent fact-finding mission to look into what it called violations of international law in Israel’s raid on a Gaza aid flotilla.
Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana stopped paying the subvention to the Council of Legal Education which allowed Guyanese to attend the Caribbean law schools, notably the Hugh Wooding Law School at a cost of TT$12 500 per academic year.
Dear Editor, Having heard that there was to be a big celebration over the river at Joe Vieira Park in honour of Indian Arrival I decided to have a look.
A man was remanded to prison yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octive- Hamilton when he appeared before her accused of trafficking in narcotics at Port Kaituma.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) used its majority in Parliament to secure the position of Bruce Golding as prime minister despite the parliamentary opposition mobilising all its members to remove him.
PARIS, (Reuters) – After-shocks rumbled around Roland Garros as Serena Williams became the latest champion to topple but Rafael Nadal proved rock-solid by staying on course to regain his French Open title yesterday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – A Dutch citizen who was arrested twice over the disappearance of an American student in Aruba in 2005 is the prime suspect in a new homicide investigation in Peru, police said yesterday.
Dear Editor, I wish to compliment Mr Anthony Johnson and the officers from the Guyana Power and Light Inc compensation section, for the courteous and efficient way in which they accepted a report I made to them on Monday, May 31, concerning an electrical mishap in the Bel Air Promenade area, which resulted in my television being burnt due to the fluctuation of current.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – The growing scandal over sexual abuse by Catholic priests threatened Germany’s top bishop who was put under investigation yesterday on suspicion of aiding and abetting a known abuser by letting him get a new parish job.
A man was remanded to prison yesterday after he was read a charge of robbery under arms by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Faithful followers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez commonly defend any failures of his more than a decade in power by saying he must have been unknowingly misled by ministers and sycophants.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan will send a team to contest the Twenty20 competition at this year’s Asian Games in China to help raise the game’s profile in the region, the Pakistan Cricket Board said yesterday.
MIAMI (Reuters) – The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading US forecasters said yesterday as they predicted 10 hurricanes, five of them major, with a 76 percent likelihood that a major hurricane would hit the US coastline.
Dear Editor, We the cricket fans have to ‘sponsor’ cricket on the Bartica TV station, Channel 5 before we can see it.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday moved to freeze assets of three businesses linked to accused Mozambican drug kingpin Mohamed Bachir Suleman.
Justice William Ramlal yesterday sentenced Keron Lord to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Brazil gave a glimpse of the Latin American flair they will bring to the World Cup in South Africa with a 3-0 warm-up win over Zimbabwe yesterday, a victory tempered by an injury to goalkeeper Julio Cesar.
The lifeless body of a 36-year-old man was pulled out of a trench at Crane, West Coast Demerara and there are suspicions that he died by drowning.
Dear Editor: Reading your news item, ‘Synergy chosen for road building through public tender – Jagdeo stresses,’ (June 1), I felt an urgency to respond because the President continues to demonstrate that he either lacks tact in framing impromptu responses to questions or he just says whatever comes to his mind and hopes it sounds right or makes sense when the media report it.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Clashes between leftist guerrilla groups killed at least nine suspected rebels in northeast Colombia in a fight for control over a drug route, a government military commander said yesterday.
Attorney-at-law, international musician and pannist By A.A. Fenty I bet you know of many accomplished Sri Lankan Cricketers.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Elizabeth Taylor has made public for the first time her love letters from Richard Burton, giving new insight into a passionate, playful but turbulent romance that spanned 20 years and two marriages.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – A lack of maturity is keeping attacking batsman Dwayne Smith out of the West Indies side, chief West Indies selector Clyde Butts has said.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Throughout his All-Star career, Kobe Bryant has made a living by making the seemingly impossible possible for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Dear Editor, Trinidad’s oldest political party, the Peoples National Movement which was founded over 50 years ago by, among others, the late Dr Eric Williams, is expected to have a new interim political leader this week until a convention in June chooses a regular leader.
History This Week – No. 19/2010 By Hazel Woolford The policy of Guianisation was an important stage in the journey towards nationalism.
XINGU RIVER, Brazil, (Reuters) – Beptum Xikrin contemplates the Bacaja River from his village of thatched-roof huts, wondering how he will catch fish or take Brazil nuts to market if a planned dam on the Amazon’s mighty Xingu River will, as ecologists expect, all but dry up this tributary.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters Life!) – Paul McCartney said yesterday he was honoured to be receiving one of the United States’ most important music awards, the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama held talks with his Peruvian counterpart Alan Garcia on Tuesday and praised his stewardship of the Andean country’s economy during the global economic crisis.
The Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO) has saluted women and pledges to work harder for their advancement, in a message to mark their 57th anniversary.
Dear Editor, In this incident where the Israelis killed several peace activists that were on a ship taking domestic consumer goods to Gaza, one thing is quite clear: the Israelis went purposely to kill.
Late last month, as preparations for the observance of World No Tobacco Day heightened, the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper ran a feature—complete with photographs—on a two-year-old Indonesian boy, who smokes 40 cigarettes a day.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
US ends relief operations The US military has ended major relief operations in Haiti, five months after the devastating earthquake struck, the Southern Command announced on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Hollywood director Brett Ratner has “remixed” the Bollywood romance film “Kites” by shortening it, changing its music and adding sound effects.
DUBLIN, Ireland, CMC – Ireland coach Phil Simmons is bracing for a strong challenge from West Indies A when the teams clash in two one-day matches here later this month.
