Daily Archive: Thursday, August 26, 2010

In the face of increased flooding, a project to open up 4,500 acres of land for farming was yesterday unveiled to Pomeroon farmers at Siriki, Pomeroon River.

A miner who allegedly murdered another along the Tabuka Trail, Kurupung, was remanded to prison after the capital charge was read to him yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Mark Ifill, the 49-year-old husband of Bibi Ifill, whose body was discovered at the bottom of a well on Monday morning, appeared in a Barbadian court yesterday and was remanded on a wounding with intent charge which is likely to be upgraded next week to murder.

Four men, alleged to be members of a gang who carried out a number of robberies on mining camps in the Aranka, Cuyuni area, appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday, charged with five counts of robbery under arms and were remanded to prison.

Barama Company Limited (BCL) yesterday said that the characterization of the company by the Norwegian Government Pension Fund is inaccurate and not based on complete information.

By Tiffny Rhodius All seats on outgoing flights to Trinidad and Tobago are booked solid until the middle of next month and in-transit passengers are being forced to seek alternative flights to Suriname and pay higher fares.

…in Fulton Court raid For the second time in less than a year, gunmen barged into the Fulton Court apartment of a Brazilian family and robbed them of almost a million worth in cash, electronics and jewellery.

The suspect in last Sunday’s stabbing of  Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara mother of two Trishwari Ramdhary has turned himself in to the authorities.

By Marlon Munroe Trevor Scotland rolled back the years to win the men’s 800m final at the Eve Leary ground on the second day of the 56th edition of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Track & Field Championships yesterday.

-USAID-funded survey Terrorism has recently emerged as another key security issue to Guyanese, with an estimated 40% saying they have concerns.

-Norwegian Finance Ministry Norway’s Ministry of Finance yesterday admitted that recently highlighted concerns about Barama’s activities in Guyana relate primarily to past events.

—GDF and Inter Moengotapoe battle to draw By Kizan Brumell The opening day of the third annual Inter Guiana Club Football Championship Cup wrapped up with Alpha United on top after recording a comfortable victory over French Guiana’s Geldar FC at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCe) Ground, Bourda yesterday.

—DC Jammers sweep international series By Floyd Christie The Washington DC Jammers  team swept the three-game international basketball series and claimed the Godwin McPherson Memorial Trophy when they defeated the national President’s XII 68-77 in the final game, Tuesday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The PPP’s claim that it has done more for Buxton than the PNC ever did during its time in office drew an indirect response yesterday from PNCR leader Robert Corbin, who said Buxtonians best know what had been done.

By Tamica Garnett Charged with the paramount task of ensuring the grooming of Guyana’s national cricket team to top notch standard for the Airtel Champions League in South Africa next month, the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) was yesterday extended some financial assistance from US-based Guyanese businessman, Dave Narine.

The security guard who was allegedly caught on camera stealing from his employers, Gizmos and Gadgets, was remanded when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday charged with simple larceny.

Guyana’s Adielle Rosheuvel and her partner Rodrigo Tapia of Ecuador  were defeated 0 – 2 by the Europe6 team of Alex Galic and Stefan Leitgeb in the final preliminary round  matches of the World Youth Olympic Games in Singapore yesterday.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) says it cannot take the PPP’s comments about racial unity and power sharing seriously as every observant Guyanese knows that it is the ruling party which has been the lone obstacle to power sharing and genuine racial reconciliation in Guyana.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says national security is not under threat even as the business community grows uneasy over the seeming upsurge in crime recently.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Roger Federer already has it  all. The Swiss master has nothing left to prove and hardly  anything to lose.

PARAMUS, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – American Jim Furyk  was disqualified from the first of four lucrative FedExCup  playoff events after sleeping late and missing his tee at the  Barclays Pro-Am  yesterday.

A badly written police statement delayed the charge of causing death by dangerous driving from being read yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to Christopher Rogers whose driving allegedly resulted in the death of Christopher Crawford.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s evolution as a country venue for entertainment and tourism in the Caribbean region particularly during the months of June, July and August must be commended.

St John’s Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board offers its support to the people of Pakistan as the country battles to recover from floods which have caused death, destruction to homes and property, and have left millions of people without shelter and other basic needs.

The main opposition PNCR last Friday warned the government against withholding funds from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for the commencement of continuous registration.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Regional players union WIPA has maintained that the proposed International Cricket Council’s mediation in their impasse with the West Indies Cricket Board, lacked the power to broker a solution.

Dear Editor, A now retired GuySuCo manager called up to opine that the ‘fired’ workers of the Skeldon Factory were bound to be returned to work.

As the supervisor at an Anna Catherina gas station was making his way to his car after work on Tuesday night two armed men attacked and robbed him of more than half a million in cash.

BERNE,  (Reuters) – Peter Crouch struck a hat-trick yesterday to  help Tottenham Hotspur complete a great comeback against Young  Boys and reach the Champions League for the first time while  Luis Suarez led Ajax Amsterdam back to the elite in a 2-1 win  over Dynamo Kiev.

Residents of ‘B’ Field Sophia are benefiting from drainage enhancement intervention  being  carried out and five hundred and fifty-four rods are being cleared at a cost of $20M, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit us space to express our heartfelt gratitude to the Phoenix Recovery Project (PRP), for in the first instance, embarking on the noble mission of saving the lives of us men and women who suffer from substance abuse disorders (SUDS), inclusive of those of us with double and triple diagnoses.

MONTERREY, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexican marines found  72 corpses at a remote ranch near the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A foreign spy agency led a  2008 cyber attack on U.S.

PARAMUS, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods said yesterday the break-up of his marriage was far more difficult  for him than he had let on and that the fallout from his string  of infidelities had poisoned his golf game.

Dear Editor, I am a teacher at Hope Secondary School, formerly Swami Purnananda Secondary School at Hope, East Coast Demerara.

Effective Monday, a new mini-bus zone will be operating in Berbice, the Guyana Police Force’s Traffic Department announced on Tuesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England will undergo another  searching examination at the hands of an increasingly potent  Pakistan attack in the final test starting at Lord’s today.

A 26-year-old man from West Bank Demerara was yesterday admitted to $15,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to a narcotics charge.

Dear Editor, For a period of nineteen months I have been subjected to all types of allegations and innuendo, and paraded through the so-called independent media, the Government of Guyana printed and online media, obnoxious blogsites and other corridors of influence without these allegations being tested.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A power struggle threatens  to throw the International Monetary Fund into disarray unless a  compromise is reached soon between the United States and Europe  over how to give more say to emerging powers.

DAMBULLA, (Reuters) – Virender Sehwag smashed 110 off  93 balls to carry India to the final of the one-day tri-nation  final with a comprehensive 105-run win over New Zealand yesterday.

Thirty-year-old Nohar Seenjan, the motorist who was hospitalized following an accident on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road early Sunday morning, is recovering slowly from the incident.

ABIDJAN,  (Reuters) – Distributing new varieties of  drought tolerant maize to African farmers could save more than  $1.5 billion dollars, boost yields by up to a quarter and lift  some of the world’s poorest out of poverty, a study found.

Dear Editor, From all reports, the Jamzone week-long extravaganza of music and fashion was a highly successful project, enthusiastically received by the Guyanese public.

(Jamaica Gleaner) More than 36 hours after a Sunday Gleaner exposé on emails involving officials of the United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Solicitor General Douglas Leys and local attorney Harold Brady, the Government has dismissed the report as old news.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Google Inc said  users of Gmail will now be able to call telephones directly  from their email, putting it in direct competition with Web  calling service Skype and more traditional operators such as  AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications.

A Richmond, Essequibo Coast family of five is homeless after a fire destroyed their home on Tuesday morning.

Dear Editor, This has happened before. Specifically from 1964 to 1992.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Out-of-favour Test batsman Devon Smith has been included in a High Performance Centre squad for next month’s tour of Canada.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Barbados continued their march towards a successful defence of their title when they reeled off their third successive win in the St Kitts Under-13 tournament here Tuesday.

Where the highways are made of water: It’s boats to school, boats to church and boats to the village shop in the Pomeroon River.

On Monday last, BBC news reported that a massive traffic jam in China, which extended some 100 km and lasted for nine days had basically ended.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – “Godfather” director  Francis Ford Coppola is to get a lifetime achievement Oscar to  add to his stack of five Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences said yesterday.

History this week – No. 28 /2010 By Estherine Adams This article will deal with the early developments of Penal Settlement Mazaruni in British Guiana.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rela-tives of an A-Level student, who died from dengue haemorrhagic fever have accused the two medical institutions that treated him of negligence.

Dear Editor, The West Indies cricket team under the captaincies of Rohan Kanhai and subsequently Clive Lloyd and even Viv Richards and Richie Richardson consisted of quality players who when appointed rose to the occasion and remained competitive until they bowed out.