Daily Archive: Monday, October 18, 2010

(Barbados Nation) The vote to return Owen Arthur as leader of the Barbados Labour Party was a unanimous one.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – U.S. Olympic  400 metres champion LaShawn Merritt has been suspended through  July 2011 after testing positive for a banned substance found  in a male enhancement product, the U.S.

All three of the boxers who left Guyana to participate in the recent Commonwealth Games held in India have absconded in the US on their return trip to Guyana.

The General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, Seepaul Narine this morning said that sugar workers across the country have proceeded on strike.

The Office of the President is inviting bids for the building of Tipperary Hall at Buxton.

-questions raised about hospital care A 28-year-old teacher of No. 64 Village, Corentyne died at the Skeldon Hospital sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning after giving birth to her third child.

-probe underway in Berbice A retreat hosted by the ‘B’ Division Community Policing Group in Berbice turned out disastrously yesterday after nearly 100 guests were hospitalized soon after lunch was served at the event.

Bandits early yesterday shot a young couple during a robbery at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara and also terrorized other members of the family, assaulting them and later in the day, in phone calls, threatened to return.

-seen as boon to island-hopping REDjet, the Caribbean’s first low fare airline, was formally launched in Barbados over the weekend and promises to build “air bridges” throughout the region by offering consumers rock-bottom prices.

– B/dos win by 151 runs despite Bishoo’s 6-36 KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Tino Best lived-up to his surname and upstaged Davendra Bishoo to all but put Barbados into the semi-finals of the WICB Regional One-day competition, following a convincing 151-run victory over Guyana yesterday.

Two United Kingdom-based Guyanese, here on holiday, were robbed on Saturday as they were relaxing at home in Georgetown.

A prominent Belizean lawyer, who was trained in Guyana, and his wife were murdered yesterday morning in Belize as they were about to enter their home.

– replaces Gayle as new West Indies test captain; Nash named test vice captain ST.

The Multiracial Patriotic Movement (MPM) has been launched with the intent of transforming the socioeconomic processes of the country by changing the “backward thinking” of entrenched racism, according to its leader Lin-Jay Harry-Voglezon.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Neither the West Indies High Performance Centre nor Leeward Islands may have complained, when Jamaica’s recent dodgy weather forced a no-decision yesterday in their bizarre WICB Regional One-day match.

A policeman was early yesterday morning stabbed and robbed by two bandits.

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Kit Nascimento said yesterday he will brief the media on Wednesday on the performance of the national rugby Sevens team at the just concluded Commonwealth Games in India.

Discarded national wicketkeeper/batsman Derwin Christian was in fine form with bat and  ball on the second day of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Heroes Cup first division competition at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground, Queenstown, yesterday.

One man is dead and two others are in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following three separate accidents yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter  appealed to his executive committee members to stay silent as he  launched an immediate investigation into alleged vote-selling  ahead of the decision on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Jonathan Foo and Krishmar Santokie head the list of young, untried players, which the West Indies selection panel have named in a 13-member A-Team squad for two Twenty20 matches against Pakistan-A on November 5 and 6 at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has expressed alarm at a reported threat by the Guyana Agricultural and General Worker’s Union (GAWU) to have workers embark on a nationwide strike today over an across-the-board increase in wages and salaries.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French truck drivers said they  would block key roads from last evening and rail unions  announced new strikes from today, putting fresh pressure on  President Nicolas Sarkozy over his unpopular pension reform.

-sees plan to postpone polls to 2013 Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan says the administration’s order to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to submit ads and notices for publication through government’s procurement website is ultimately part of moves to postpone general elections to 2013.

Guyana’s girls’ number one junior player Shawna Gentle yesterday picked up where she left off on Saturday as the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) Nigel’s Supermarket Junior Classic Tennis Tournament continued at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel’s courts.

Dear Editor, The recent newspaper reports about damage to the boilers at Guysuco and Barama are a matter for concern.

A search party formed by residents of Port Kaituma in an effort to recover the booty stolen by three men last Friday on the community’s waterfront came up empty-handed yesterday.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Green Party opted yesterday to remain neutral in the country’s Oct.

Dear Editor, For many the rescue of 33 Chilean miners was nothing short of a miracle.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG), in the wake of the gruesome murder of teenager   Neesa Gopaul,  is urging that every community be made “vividly aware”  of the agencies and officials responsible for investigating real or alleged child abuse.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) with 78 games ran out winners of the Ministry of Home Affairs domino competition last Wednesday at the Police Sports Club.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – At least 12 people died when  gunmen swooped on a row of goldsmiths’ shops in a brazen robbery  in the Iraqi capital on Sunday and ended up in a gunfight with  security forces, police and military sources said.

Two persons are in police custody following the  murder of a woman whose body was found in a pool of blood in her Columbia, Essequibo Coast home on Saturday afternoon.

Dear Editor, During the last two weeks a lot was said about food security around the world and in our country, and this being agriculture month a lot more will be said and written on this topic.

David Khan, Suhai Feng and Frankie Farley are on the maximum two points after two rounds of the Guyana Chess Federation Topco Juice sponsored Senior Chess qualifiers at the Keishar’s Sports Club yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Gunmen shot to death at least 29  people in Pakistan’s commercial hub Karachi over the weekend,  deepening tensions as a by-election was held to replace a  lawmaker who was murdered in August.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Golding’s agreement to a commission of enquiry into the Christopher “Dudus” Coke/Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair signals an imminent change of leadership, political commentators say.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, (Reuters) – A second  successive century from Hashim Amla took South Africa to a  resounding eight wicket victory over Zimbabwe yesterday and  secured the three-match series with a game to spare.

Dear Editor, Finally, there emerges from the PNCR, someone whom most Guyanese would support in his quest to become our next executive president.

Most of the time, people appear in your life almost as in a passing parade, they come and they go. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Pentagon said yesterday  it had a 120-member team prepared to review a massive leak of  as many as 500,000 Iraq war documents, which are expected to be  released by the WikiLeaks website sometime this month.

Dear Editor, Mr Winston Murray has announced that he is interested in being the PNC’s presidential candidate for the 2011 elections. 

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Paceman Rubel Hossain stunned New  Zealand with four wickets to help Bangladesh beat the tourists  by three runs yesterday and complete a 4-0 series sweep.

Two men who appeared at the New Amsterdam Court before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo on Monday, charged with larceny of sheep were granted their pre-trial liberty in the sum of $25,000 each.

The Lima water treatment plant in Region Two, constructed at a cost of $400M,  is providing potable water to residents from Queenstown to Walton Hall with a five million litre production capacity per day,  the Government Information Agency said in a press release.

(Barbados Nation) The die appears cast on Mia Mottley’s leadership of the Barbados Labour Party [BLP].

This week on What the People Say we asked persons: If the president gave you a laptop what would you and your household use it for?

Three men were on Friday charged with using a gun to rob a woman of a smart phone and cash when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

KUWAIT, (Reuters) – A crowd angry about a programme  they deemed insulting to some members of Kuwait’s ruling family  stormed a Kuwaiti private television station yesterday,  ransacking its offices, station officials said.

Dear Editor, A couple whose son was recently slain held placards in Georgetown.

(Trinidad Express) United National Congress financiers Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson were on Saturday granted a conservatory order blocking their extradition to the US to face charges of money laundering and fraud.

By Savitri Persaud Savitri Persaud was born in Guyana. She is pursuing her Masters degree in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

KOCHI, India, (Reuters) – Steady overnight rain and an early morning shower washed out the first one-day international between India and Australia yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux  said yesterday that French had been warned by Saudi Arabia that  al Qaeda was targeting Europe and especially France.

–alleges ex-boyfriend’s  relative behind it Months after severing her relationship with a man, Stephanie Broomes says she is being harassed by police as they act on trumped up allegations against her made by the man and his current girlfriend.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Food production, Land and Marine Affairs has developed a national plan for the cassava industry.

Dear Editor, In your newspaper of the 16th and 17th October on Mr.

On October 8th, the Guyana Police Force began issuing a series of bulletins for persons it said were wanted for questioning in connection with murder.