Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday rejected a Norwegian government report that Barama Company Limited (BCL) has contributed to illegal logging and severe environmental damage here.

Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani yesterday remanded an Alexander Village man charged with the murder of Lakeram Bishundial during a robbery last Friday in East Demerara.

-magistrate says other defendants will be tried “These guys they didn’t do anything…I am the guilty one,” a 19-year-old, who pleaded guilty to robbing two Saj Rice Group employees earlier this month, told Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani yesterday afternoon.

Mark Ifill, the 49-year-old husband of Bibi Ifill, whose body was discovered at the bottom of a well Monday morning, was last night charged with murdering his wife, according to the Barbados Nation.

-sources Synergy Holdings Inc., the company constructing the Amaila Falls hydropower project access road, benefited from a government-approved waiver on taxes on its recent shipment of equipment, a well-placed source said.

-had been burnt the day before in field A day after he was burnt while working in the cane fields, Rajpaul Jhagroo was fatally struck by a minibus yesterday on the Bath Public Road, West Coast Berbice.

—missed free throws cost President’s XII game two By Floyd Christie The National President’s XII basketball team literally had a free shot at defeating the visiting Washington DC Jammers but missed the game-winning opportunity, Monday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, in game two of the International Basketball Series for the Godwin McPherson Memorial trophy.

By Marlon Munroe Local law enforcers took a commanding lead over the lawmen and women of Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago on the first day of competition at the Eve Leary ground yesterday in the 56th edition of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Track & Field Championships yesterday.

The People’s Progressive Party says it is deeply concerned at the vehemence of the opposition’s reaction to President Bharrat Jagdeo’s visit and meeting in Buxton.

The move by four national chess associations which resulted in plans for the formation of a regional chess federation must be commended.

Weak evidence resulted in Justice Roxanne George yesterday ordering a jury to return a unanimous verdict of not guilty in favour of Nigel Forrestor who’d been accused of killing Mahadeo Boodhai at Providence in 2005.

Police are investigating the death of David Smartt who was electrocuted while working at a sawmill on  Monday while the manager is saying that the sawmill  cannot say how Smartt got electrocuted since he was not operating any machinery at the time.

By Kizan Brumell The third annual Inter Guiana Club Football Championship Cup kicks off today at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda after the official launching of the tourney yesterday in the office of the Guyana Football Federation.

Opening on the best of notes all three of Guyana’s budding tennis stars – Aretta Dey, Nicola Ramdyhan and Daniel Lopes –  recorded wins in the opening events of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) 13-and-Under Caribbean Development Championships that began on Monday in Curacao.

Guyana’s two-time CARIFTA Games gold medalist Jevina Straker on Monday finished fourth in her ‘B’ finals of the girls 1000m at the World Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Members of the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce (RCCI) have proposed the closure of the Linden-Lethem trail for a week-long period so that repairs could be affected to the roadway without traffic.

PARAMUS, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – Tiger Woods begins a  new chapter at the Barclays tournament tomorrow, competing  for the first time since his divorce and scrambling to qualify  for the remainder of the FedExCup playoff series.

-slams Jagdeo visit to Buxton as `electoral opportunism’ The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA), labelling President Bharrat Jagdeo’s visit to Buxton last week as “electoral opportunism”, is advocating mass action to gain constitutional reforms before elections in order to bring about “meaningful changes” to the structure of governance.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Veteran West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul missed out yet another hundred for Lancashire on the opening day of their County Championship clash with Nottinghamshire yesterday.

“I feel like I just born again. No more dialysis. No more pain,” Satish Gobin said of a kidney transplant operation he has just undergone in India.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Boston Celtics guard Rajon  Rondo has withdrawn from the U.S.

The Police Marine Section, Ruimveldt, on Monday received a $16M fibre glass boat to boost river patrols.

—says WICB St John’s, Antigua – The WICB notes WIPA’s response of August 23rd, to its release of August 21st which exposed WIPA’s rejection of the joint ICC/FICA proposal to intervene in an attempt to bring final settlement to years of acrimonious relations.

Farmers of the Buxton/ Friendship Grantee Co-op on Monday  secured their first market of 4000 lbs of pumpkin to a purchaser at Bourda Market, the Government Information Agency (GINA reported.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Pro League champions Joe Public left here Monday for Guatemala City, intent on rescuing their fading fortunes in the CONCACAF Champions League.

A teenager accused of two counts of robbery under arms  committed the same day against two different persons was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Insurgents in army uniforms  stormed a hotel in Mogadishu frequented by Somali government  officials yesterday, killing at least 31 people including  members of parliament.

Dear Editor, I am taking this opportunity afforded by the columns of your newspaper to comment on The Time Limit for Judicial Decisions Act 2009 enacted recently by the Parliament of Guyana.

-chainsaw milling project ‘making progress’ Guyana is one of several countries within the Guiana Shield expected to benefit from a Euro $1.5M agreement recently signed between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt on Tuesday signed a lucrative multi-million endorsement deal with sportswear giants PUMA, positioning the World and Olympic champion as one of the highest earners in world sport.

UPATA, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – A collapsed tunnel at  a wildcat gold pit in south Venezuela has killed six people and  injured another two, authorities said, in South America’s  latest mining accident this year.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh has disclosed that the ministry plans to examine parents’ role in their children’s education.

Dear Editor, Francis Carryl’s letter in last Friday’s Stabroek News brought out many worthy points (‘Where have all the church bells gone?’

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia will retain coach Tim Nielsen until the end of the next Ashes series in England  in 2013, the national cricket board said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Pressure mounted on Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Monday as an umbrella group representing a wide cross-section of Church leaders requested a meeting with him to discuss Sunday’s bombshell email revelations in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Stunned and disappointed  Obama administration officials said yesterday they would  appeal a federal court ruling that temporarily barred federal  funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs has donated $1M to Waramuri, Region One, as it makes preparations for Amerindian Heritage Month in September.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – A passenger plane overshot a  runway on landing at a new airport in northeast China late yesterday, bursting into flames and killing 43 people in the  nation’s worst air disaster in years.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Contractor General Greg Christie is recommending that criminal charges be laid against former People’s National Party (PNP) government minister Colin Campbell, in what could be a major setback in his desire to return to representational politics.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Windward Islands Under-19 all-rounder Kavem Hodge, finished with a10-wicket match haul failed to prevent Cavaliers from going down to the six-time defending champions Desiderata Tremors by 26 runs in the Augustus Gregoire First Division championship.

Dear Editor, As 2011 nears and election-related activities pick up steam, various scenarios are engaging the attention of analysts interested in Guyana’s future. 

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo invited a few esteemed villagers to a fancy dinner party, compliments of the Guyanese taxpayers, and then last week visited Buxton and met with a section of the community. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – More Americans now  disapprove of President Barack Obama than approve of him as  high unemployment and government spending scare voters ahead of  November’s congressional elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed  yesterday.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt could compete in the long jump or over 400 metres at the 2013 Moscow world championships, the sprinter told Reuters yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Two teenagers, one a 14-year-old school dropout, and the other, an 18-year-old, were shot dead at a pre-school in St Joseph early Monday morning.

As President Obama approaches the mid-point of his term of office at the end of this year, he finds himself confronted by a mix of challenges, many of which have not been of his own making but became part of his inheritance.

By Tarron Khemraj Introduction In past columns in this series on elected oligarchy, I argued that the primary channel through which the Jagdeo elected oligarchy retards progress is through the stifling of independent private investors and the pursuit of sub-optimal government investment projects.

Dear Editor, Letters in the press should be brief and to the point.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Defending champions Barbados won their second straight game and Antigua and Nevis joined them in winners’ row in the third round of the St Kitts Under-13 tournament played on Monday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Manhattan-sized plume of  oil spewed deep into the Gulf of Mexico by BP’s broken Macondo  well has been consumed by a newly discovered, fast-eating  species of microbes, scientists reported yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A municipal police officer was shot and killed by three men who attempted to carjack him along the Uriah Butler Highway near the Grand Bazaar traffic lights on Monday night.