Daily Archive: Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Articles published on Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Jagdeo, T&T PM for smelter talks

President Bharrat Jagdeo and Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar are expected to meet today in the Twin-Island republic to discuss several issues including the possibility of an aluminium smelter originally proposed for the southwestern Trinidad town of La Brea being built here.

Oswald Bourne

Shoot-out at Mousie Landing leaves two dead

-dredge owner, alleged assailant die from bullet wounds By Sara Bharrat and Cathy Richards Miner Clifford Andrews ran for cover after his employer and one of two reported assailants started exchanging gunfire during a deadly ambush at Mousie Landing on Monday.

‘Dudus’ captured

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Alleged drug kingpin  Christopher “Dudus” Coke was arrested by police on the  outskirts of Kingston  yesterday, peacefully ending a manhunt  for the fugitive at the centre of last month’s deadly raids in  the Jamaican capital.

Priya Manickchand

US stands by trafficking in persons report

The US State Department yesterday stood firmly behind its 2010 trafficking in persons (TIP) report on Guyana even as the government here has indicated its intention to take its protest against the report to the US Congress in an effort to “correct these misleading reports.”

Four kiss Cup goodbye

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa went out with  heads high yesterday, despite being the only hosts ever to exit  the World Cup’s first round, but France headed home in shame and  Latin American giants Argentina cruised into the second round.

 Guyana’s Shivnarine Chanderpaul recives his man of the match award.

Windies, Proteas play to dreary draw

Chanderpaul named Man-of-the-Match Basseterre, St Kitts – South Africa retained their 1-0 lead in the three Test Digicel Series against  West Indies after the Second Digicel Test, which was contested on a excruciatingly placid Warner Park pitch, pettered out into a dreary draw.

CARICOM, OAS tackling youth agenda

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organization of American States (OAS) recently met at the OAS headquarters in Washington, DC to explore ways of collaborating to address the challenges and opportunities of youth in the Americas.

There needs to be an Engineering Licensing Bill

Dear Editor, In a Sunday Stabroek article of June 20, captioned ‘Government looking seriously at ethanol from molasses project,’ President Jagdeo delivering the feature address at the Low Carbon Conference was reported as expressing the need for the planning and standardization of projects executed in Guyana and implied that in their absence engineers seemed to be performing their work in a helter-skelter fashion.

Noel Adonis

Sport bodies grappling with financial woes to get to CAC Games

– Football, table tennis could join judo, weightlifting on the sidelines  unless govt intervenes By Marlon Munroe With the judo and weightlifting associations already opting out of the upcoming Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Puerto Rico, some of the other sporting bodies are hard pressed to garner funds to participate at the July 22-31 championships.

Relocating Caricom

Earlier this month the new British Secretary of State responsible for international development laid out the new coalition government’s policies on that issue.