Daily Archive: Friday, September 17, 2010

* Jagdeo announces probe * to include Globe Trust A total of $3.6 billion has already been earmarked to fully repay 11,290 policyholders of Clico (Guyana), President Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday, saying the process should begin within three weeks.

Omo Caesar, described as a career thief, was fatally shot during a confrontation with security guards in the Bakewell Factory compound at Triumph, East Coast Demerara, late Wednesday night.

Six men, including a police officer, have been taken into custody in connection with the murders of gold dealers Ramdeo Deonarine and Jainarine Raghubar.

Officials from the Labour and Amerindian Affairs ministries accompanied by the police yesterday swooped down on the Alberttown, Georgetown home of a city businessman and rescued a worker who was being held in the man’s home against her will.

(Crifinfo) Kieron Pollard played the sort of innings that has made him a multi-millionaire and the game’s foremost Twenty20 freelancer to muscle Mumbai Indians to a victory that kept them alive in the Champions League.

Media coverage of women and children’s issues has been the focus of a recent study and based on the findings there has been an expansion of negative stereotypical and harmful portrayal of women and children as victims and victimizers in the local press.

– organisers Many seasoned basketball players have been reluctant to embrace basketball’s flashy ‘Streetball’ format that has been perfected and modified by the world-renowned AND 1 basketball team.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon said Cabinet green-lighted four contracts in the health, security and state media sectors when it met on Tuesday.

Ransford Goodluck and Mahendra Persaud, top rifle shooters in Guyana and the Caribbean, will be looking to be third time lucky when they compete in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in India.

– specialist urges holistic approach US domestic violence prevention specialist, Dr Ruth Feder says survivors in any country need concrete help in moving forward; help which she identified as expanding beyond services to include shelter, education, employment and financial assistance among other things.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic is ready to overcome his exhaustion after his loss in the U.S.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sport nutrition, injury prevention, and anti-doping are just a few of the topics to be discussed, when the West Indies Players Association holds a medical and health workshop today.

A lawyer begged the magistrate to admit a man to reasonable bail yesterday since he was recently married and would want to be with his wife but the bid was denied and he was remanded to prison on an unlicensed ammunition possession charge.

At the Springlands Court yesterday a former police officer attached to the Springlands Police Station was sentenced to two months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting a minor.

President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Steve Ninvalle has expressed optimism that local boxers will be successful at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India despite the standard being higher than that of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) championships.

– Griffith The Guyana national senior netball team yesterday took on the United Athletic Club in their fourth match of the International Commercial Tournament currently being held in Barbados, and according to Secretary of the Guyana Netball Association (GNA) Lawrence Griffith the Guyanese have been showing incremental improvements.

Stabroek Business talks with Mohindra Persaud, General Manager of Nand Persaud and Company One of the best-known enterprises in Guyana’s all-important rice industry, Nand Persaud and Company appears driven by the vision of maximizing continually emerging international markets for the product in a global environment that has placed food security at the very top of its agenda.

CARLSTADT, United States, CMC – Vivian Harris is hoping to ignite his comeback, when he faces Victor Ortiz in a non-title, light-welterweight fight tomorrow night at the Staples Centre.

…school facing serious problems, CSEC not offered For over four hours on Wednesday, Lorna Baptiste waited with her baby and two other children for the once monthly medical service provided at the Laluni Health Centre.

The unusual high tide that savaged Guyana’s coast and riverain areas last week has brought to light–at least for one group of business people– the urgent need to remodel the structure of their business places, and time may not be on their side as more high tides loom.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council is committed to maintaining the sanctity of the game and will strive to root out corruption, ICC President Sharad Pawar said yesterday.

A 21-year-old man was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday afternoon after he was stabbed about the body following an argument on Albert Street.

A Linden man miraculously survived after falling some 30 feet from a ladder as he was attempting to remove a bee hive from the three-storey Linden Fire Station building.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to the frequent baseless attacks on the Guyana Revenue Authority published by a particular section of the media.

If, as has recently been reported in the media, the Ministry of Education is involved in the copying and distributing to state schools of textbooks published by overseas publishers without the knowledge and, by extension the consent of the Minister of Education, that in itself would be an unflattering comment on the manner in which the ministry is administered.

The Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) has shortlisted an eight-member squad for the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding championships in Aruba from September 22-26.

PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) – A convoy of South Korean trucks carrying the first rice aid to North Korea in three years crossed the peninsula’s heavily armed border today in the latest of a series of conciliatory moves between the rivals.

The Ravens have been on top of their game in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Division Three and Open leagues which are currently in their final stages at the Burnham Court.

Size and Visibility Now that the work of the small business financing organizations is captured in a single report of the Bank of Guyana, it is possible to gain a better understanding of the impact of their work on the life of their customers and the contribution they make to the Guyana economy as a whole. 

A woman afraid of losing her daughter to a brain tumour is seeking financial aid from the public to cover costs for a surgery in the United States.

Dear Editor, The GPSU observes with amazement the variety of reports and commentaries in the press on the decision recently made by Chief Justice (ag) Mr Ian Chang in the case of the GPSU v Nanda Gopaul, No 584 of 2000, Misfeasance in Public Office, and we wish firstly to clarify what was before Justice Chang.

Relatives of a New Amster-dam man, who was buried by police on Wednesday before he could be identified, are seeking to have his body exhumed so that an autopsy could be performed to determine his cause of death.

Dear Editor, The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) notes that Minister Kellawan Lall, who has been accused of acting in clear violation of the Laws of Guyana in relation to an accident which took place on the East Coast public road on September 4, 2010, has finally found his voice.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Usain Bolt has two goals over the next two years, which he believes will lead to him to leaving the sport as a legend.

(Barbados Nation) – Prime Minister David Thompson’s personal physician, Dr Richard Ishmael announced to the nation yesterday that the leader has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Many Stabroek Market stallholders believe the last week’s spring tide assault is a sign of things to come.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US poverty rate rose to 14.3 per cent in 2009 from 13.2 per cent the year before, bringing the percentage of the population living in poverty to the highest level since 1994, as the economic downturn took its toll on jobs, the government said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistani politician Imran Farooq, a leader of the MQM party influential in Pakistan’s biggest city, was stabbed to death in London yesterday but it was not clear if his killing was a result of political rivalry.

Dear Editor, I am a son of the relative that employed Wayne Benjamin who died in a mining pit cave-in near Mahdia, and just for the record he was never employed to work as a mechanic in the interior.

The truck driver who died after he careened off a section of the Ituni/Kwakwani trail on Tuesday has been identified as 21-year old Jason Peters of the Essequibo Coast.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Detectives attached to the Organized Crime Investigation Division (OCID), yesterday morning cracked what is believed to be a major human trafficking ring operating in Jamaica.

The main feature in the activities crown of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) for 2009 was the continued construction of a US$5 million bio-methanisation plant that when fully operational this year promises to revolutionize the way the company obtains and uses energy.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Umpires felt that Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir had delivered a deliberate no-ball during the fourth test against England, but had put it down to tactics rather than spot-fixing at the time, local media reported.

-affected publishers gearing for court action Education Minister Shaik Baksh is yet to make public the outcome of his promise to “find out” whether his Ministry may be complicit in supporting the multi-million dollar textbook piracy industry.

A man accused of having a firearm and a quantity of ammunition in his possession without licence was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry-Sewnarine at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Dear Editor, Mr Mike Persaud in his letter ‘The two main parties should elect a leader from outside their ethnic base,’ SN, September 13, has failed to answer my question that having an Indian leader for the PNC and an African Leader for the PPP can translate into meaningful change.

LONDON (Reuters) – Spain’s Rafael Nadal is guaranteed finishing the year on top of the rankings after winning the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, the ATP said yesterday.

Those poor Gecom chairmen Just before I offer you brief comments on the (vexed) issue of National Registration, I allow myself an observation about our census.

(Jamaica Observer) – Buju Banton is facing further woes after James Mack, the second co-defendant in the drug case against him signed a plea deal with the United States District Attorney on Wednesday, agreeing to testify against the Jamaican reggae singer.

LONDON (Reuters) – The number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday has fallen by a third since 1990, the United Nations said today, but the decline is still way off a globally agreed target to be met by 2015.

Pallbearers lifting the coffin bearing the body of Sheema Mangar out of her Mon Repos home yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Aurora Police informed me that it is not a criminal offence to remove or tamper with a surveyor’s paal, which I consider to be misleading.

Following Pope John Paul II’s visit to Cuba in January 1998, there was a joke that summed up the issue of different perspectives vis-à-vis Fidel Castro.

Witness protection With murders up in Belize by almost a third and the opposition howling for decisive action, the Dean Barrow administration says it is putting in place what it hopes will be effective anti-crime measures.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers killed 22 suspected drug gunmen in a two-hour firefight on Wednesday night, local media reported yesterday.

The Stratsphey man who stabbed Dionne Stephens to death days after she ended their relationship and moved from his home is yet to be apprehended by police.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 373’s trading results showed consideration of $605,763 from 53,377 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 372 which showed consideration of $721,399 from 20,900 shares traded in 11 transactions. 

LONDON (Reuters) – All-rounder Andrew Flintoff called time on one of the most colourful and inspirational careers in English cricket yesterday after years of battling a succession of injuries.

Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under- Secretary General, is a member of India’s parliament and the author of several books, most recently Nehru: the Invention of India (in German).

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil is likely to tone down its brash foreign policy of recent years after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva steps down, raising the prospect of a thaw in relations with the United States but keeping progress on trade deals slow.