Daily Archive: Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Guyana Police Force and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have launched an investigation into the 40-pound cocaine bust in New York which originated in Guyana and some suspects have been identified but no arrests have been made, sources said yesterday.

Leaving home late at night with a newly-bought motorcycle for which he was not licensed and speeding around a turn on the Craig Public Road has left 17-year-old Mike Anthony Beepat dead.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday said that all water leaving the Shelter-Belt Treatment Plant is “safe and free of all contaminants” following extensive tests on water samples, almost three weeks after dead fish were first discovered floating in the Lamaha Conservancy.

The ex-headmaster of an Arau school and three others appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday charged separately with having carnal knowledge of underage girls, and  were all remanded to prison.

…as state unable to produce witnesses Prisoner Justin John, who was detained since 2003 and awaiting his High Court trial, was freed yesterday by Justice William Ramlal after the state was unable to produce witnesses in support of its case.

Retiring Assistant Commis-sioner of Police Paul Slowe said he was shocked and is still hurting over the dismissal of Superintendent Simon Mc Bean last year, an officer he described as young and intelligent with a lot to offer the force.

The police report on the investigations into the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kelvin Fraser appears not to have been completed as the force remains silent on the matter.

In continued efforts to improve service to the public, the Immigration and Passport Office will be issuing machine readable passports within five working days of the date of application, the Guyana Police Force announced last evening.

A Guyanese man living legally in the US who was ordered to leave the country by an immigration court following three convictions has won a reprieve following a decision by a US Appeals Court.

Vendors who were selling along the street leading to the Skeldon Market looked on in anguish as the Ministry of Public Works and constables from the Corriverton Town Council dismantled and burnt their stalls yesterday.

Jimol Selby, 18, has been missing from his Kuru Kuru home on the Linden/Soesdyke highway since Sunday.

The post-mortem examination (PME) on the remains of Wilberforce Kendall who was found floating in the Mazaruni River has been postponed and during a viewing yesterday relatives noticed what appeared to be several suspicious wounds on the upper body.

A man who reportedly claimed he was in a position to obtain a contract for three persons to be part of a band to perform in Europe was granted  a total of $180,000 bail yesterday when he appeared in Court One charged with obtaining money by false pretence.

–before it’s too late Within days of being beaten and chopped in front of her young children, a 25-year-old woman has returned to her abusive, reputed husband even as her mother pleads with her to leave the relationship before it is too late.

– South African keeper sees red in 3-0 loss to Uruguay JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Switzerland scored this  World Cup’s biggest upset yesterday with a win over fancied  Spain but hosts South Africa sent their hordes of  vuvuzela-blowing fans home dejected after defeat to Uruguay.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers  concentrated on dominating the backboards against the Boston Celtics on Tuesday to stave off an NBA Finals defeat and seize the momentum in the series by forcing a deciding Game Seven.

The Lions Club of Bel Air has donated a number of bed sets to the St Joseph Mercy Hospital in the wake of the fire that destroyed a large section of the hospital.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies selectors have kept faith with the same side for the second Test against South Africa starting Friday, despite the first Test mauling at the Queen’s Park Oval last week.

Today’s World Cup fixtures France vs. Mexico 7.30am Greece vs. Nigeria 10.00am Argentina vs DPR Korea 2.30pm

The Region Three Department of Education has acquired a new 15-seater bus which will ease its transportation woes and will be a boost to its truancy campaign.

By Marlon Munroe The management of the Guyana team is hoping to get the players above the required fitness level for the two-tier regional Under-19 competition scheduled for St.

Ransford Goodluck, the Caribbean’s top sharpshooter returned to local competition with similar enthusiasm in winning last Sunday’s Recorded Shoot at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

Two senior officers in the joint services and two permanent secretaries were recently reassigned after these matters were discussed and approved by Cabinet, Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) will be hosting a Validation Workshop today at the Guyana International Conference Centre at Liliendaal, following its  conclusion of strategic assessments involving stakeholders countrywide.

The  “De Gold Striders” athletic event is still on despite having to share the limelight with the Guyana Olympic Association’s (GOA) Olympic Day Run, Walk and Jog event says event organiser Derill Gittens.

— Judoka Bruce Fraser disappointed at having to miss CAC Games By Marlon Munroe Judoka Bruce Fraser has expressed his disappointment at not being able to represent Guyana at the upcoming Central American Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

The Ministry of Labour says 12 of its Labour, Occupational Safety and Health officers recently completed a Master Training Programme aimed at “equipping them with the knowledge and skills to plan, support, monitor and  evaluate HIV/AIDS workplace programmes.”

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter titled, ‘How can a radio listener pick up 102.5FM?’

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Under intense pressure from  President Barack Obama, BP Plc agreed yesterday to set up a  $20 billion fund for damage claims from its huge Gulf of Mexico  oil spill and suspended dividend payments to its shareholders.

By Tamica Garnett Number one seed Philip Squires lived up to his billing in his first appearance in the Guyana Bank For Trade and Industry lawn tennis tournament when he handed Gairy Myers a `double bagel’ defeat Tuesday night at the GBTI Sports Club courts, Bel Air Park.

Dear Editor, I read with interest an article in the Guyana Chronicle titled, ‘President Jagdeo reiterates need for accountability in service sectors.’

Five days after the Lethem Power Plant was repaired following prolonged blackouts, it is down again.

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has selected two junior players and a coach to attend a one week youth programme in Turkey in September.

Dear Editor, I want to raise my concern as a poor farmer residing in the community of Bush Lot on the Corentyne Coast.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – It was an unusual moment in  television news broadcasting: a worried journalist grilling his fugitive boss about whether Globovision’s 400 staff would still  be paid after the latest crackdown in Venezuela.

A man, who was charged with using threatening language to his reputed wife, was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson after allegations of domestic abuse were levelled against him.

Dear Editor, It must be a really good season of sports TV in Guyana, with World Cup football, the NBA playoffs, the recently concluded Montreal Grand Prix and of course the West Indies first Test against South Africa.

–residents concerned Several lampposts which are being put down in Lethem under a $20.5 million contract for the standardisation of its power grid, have been observed to be leaning and residents have expressed concerns.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Muslim states said yesterday  that what they call “islamophobia” is sweeping the West and its  media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action  against it.

Skipper Ricky Deonaraine struck a brilliant, unbeaten 104 to spur Georgetown Floodlights to a comfortable 75-run win over Industry Super Kings XI in the final of the two-best-in-three Andrew Arts 25-over softball match Friday evening at the National Park Tarmac.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The United Nations’ culture and  education body (UNESCO) is delaying the award of a prize for  life sciences named after the leader of Equatorial Guinea, whose  government is widely accused of corruption and rights abuses.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud met with Abary/Mahaicony/Champagne farmers on Wednesday to discuss interventions being made for farmers affected by heavy rainfall and to listen to concerns affecting their livelihoods.

Dear Editor, Traffic signs greatly assist careful drivers. It grieves me to see traffic lights that are damaged by errant drivers.

Cultural Centre Tarmac XI, winners of the recent Banks Light Beer 10/10 tapeball cricket competition received their prizes at a simple ceremony at Banks DIH head office at Thirst Park yesterday.

The Labour, Human Services and Social Security and Education ministries and the European Union last week launched TACKLE, a public education programme aimed at boosting school attendance in observance of World Day Against Child Labour.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board yesterday announced a deal with US-based global sports network ESPN to broadcast the inaugural Caribbean Twenty20 Tournament scheduled to bowl off next month.

Dear Editor, I write in condemnation of the killing of schoolboy, Kelvin Fraser by a police officer. 

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – Police in  Vladimir Putin’s hometown seized pamphlets criticising the prime  minister on the eve of a high-profile business forum showcasing Russia, opposition leaders said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States has  presented evidence to Pakistan about the growing threat and  reach of a militant faction which Washington suspects has ties  to Pakistani intelligence, U.S.

(BVI Platinum News) After being without a substantive Director of Public Prosecu-tions (DPP) for five months, the BVI Government has appointed a new DPP.

-more benefits expected President Bharrat Jagdeo says he is looking forward to a more rounded partnership with Russia when he joined Russian Ambassador to Guyana Pavel Sergiev to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Russia Day.’

Dear Editor, Maybe before the President demits office in 2011 he will realize that his one-man struggle to get his hands on hundreds of millions of dollars to finance his ailing LCDS is not going to happen, and that while his ’Champion of the Earth’ award from the UNEP may have boosted his personal resumé, it did ‘diddly squat’ for the economy, which is where awards and rewards ought to have mattered more.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Regional football mogul Jack Warner returned from the FIFA World Cup in South Africa on Tuesday, insisting he had broken no law by accepting a ministerial portfolio in the new Trinidad and Tobago government, while still serving as a FIFA vice-president.

Unity/Lancaster residents last week urged a ministerial team to look into complaints of truancy, ill-equipped schools and drainage problems at a community meeting hosted at the Gibson Primary School at Unity, ECD.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies A will look for an improved performance when they face India A in the second four-day “Test” starting today in England.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Former US President Bill Clinton returns to Haiti this week in a bid to jump-start the quake-ravaged nation’s reconstruction as the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season looms over the Caribbean.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Felipe  Calderon is launching a global public relations campaign to try  to improve his country’s image and neutralize coverage of the  violent drug war scaring away tourists and foreign investors.

Dear Editor, US human trafficking policy, is a product of religious leaders, neo-conservatives, and abolitionist feminists.

Skerrit says no change in whaling policy Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has said that Dominica won’t change its stance on commercial whaling at the International Whaling Commission conference in Morocco next week.

Dear Editor, The brutal slaying of Kelvin Fraser highlights the fact that the police force needs urgent reform.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sidelined West Indies opener Adrian Barath is eyeing a comeback in the final match of the three-Test series against South Africa later this month.

The findings of recently concluded research in the United States revealed that a murder in the neighbourhood significantly lowered a child’s score on an IQ test and that the effects lasted for about a week to nine days.

The GPSU says it is renewing its commitment given 87 years ago to remain steadfast and unremitting in its efforts to eradicate poverty and inequality.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s government said yesterday it would raise the retirement age and increase taxes  in a reform aimed at salvaging the nation’s indebted pensions  system and safeguarding its sovereign debt rating.

History This Week – No.21/2010 By Dr. Christopher CarricoWe know that Guyana is a land of ‘six races’ – Amerindian, African, Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, and European.