Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) this afternoon said that West Indies Head Coach Ottis Gibson and newly appointed Captain and Vice Captain Darren Sammy and Brendan Nash will host a media briefing tomorrow in Kingston, Jamaica.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A gunman using what  investigators believe was a high-velocity rifle fired up to  seven shots at the Pentagon early today, shattering two  windows but injuring no one.

Justice William Ramlal today quashed the indictment against a man who had been accused of murdering a woman in December 2005.

A former employee of murdered Guyana-trained Belizean lawyer Richard Stuart and his wife,  Maria  has been held in Belize connection with the investigation, newsbelize.com

GROZNY, Russia, (Reuters) – Islamist rebels killed at  least four people today as they tried to seize Chechnya’s  parliament in a brazen suicide attack that showed Russia has  failed to quell insurgency on its southern flank.

(Jamaica Observer) A number of Jamaican women facing deportation from Britain have refused that country’s offer of £5,000 to assist them to re-settle in their homeland before their prison sentences end, fearing that accepting this money will jeopardise the chances of winning their deportation appeal.

– below target production threatens cash flow, GuySuCo warns Workers across the sugar belt went on strike to press for higher wages yesterday with the Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion (GuySuCo) warning that unless production is upped, it would be unable to offer a “reasonable” increase.

Mother, stepfather further remanded over Neesa’s murder The mother and stepfather of slain teenager Neesa Lalita Gopaul yesterday made their second appearance before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with her murder and were further remanded to prison.

– spoilt meat suspected to be source Five persons are in custody as police continue to probe the reason why over 100 members of the ‘B’ Division Community Policing Group suffered food poisoning after having lunch at a retreat on Sunday.

-cannot account for Commonwealth Games boxers As if the no returns by the Guyana boxing contingent to the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in India were not enough the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) yesterday said they could not give an account of the whereabouts of the three-member team.

A push-cart operator is alleging that PPP’s Freedom House guards assaulted him on Friday and an official said that an investigation has been launched into the claims.

The EducationUSA Advising Center at the US Embassy in Georgetown will hold its first college fair on Monday, October 25 at School of the Nations, New Market Street, the embassy said in a press release yesterday.

Four Continuing Promise 2010 (CP10) members of the US Marine Service with Guyanese roots will meet their relatives here on Friday.

Asks Orin Davidson According to chairman of the West Indies selectors Clyde Butts, a new phase of West indies cricket is about to begin.

– after farmer attacked chopped The body of 21-year-old Leroy Colin Cornelius of 2834 Central Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie, Linden was found on a farm at Moblissa along the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway bearing a single gunshot wound.

The three men accused of robbing pregnant Port Kaituma woman Jacqueline James of $7 million in cash and raw gold were yesterday remanded to prison when they made their appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

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 Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

– admits she is unable to care for them No suitable accommodation has been found for the three children hospitalized after their release from state care but Human Services Ministry Permanent Secretary Trevor Thomas said they will not be returned to their mother, who has indicated that she is unable to adequately care for them.

– despite focus on stepped up farming, exports (This is the eighth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign)Many days the Parika Pack House is silent with little activity inside the vast building.

About 600 more house lots were distributed on Saturday when the Ministry of Housing held its third ‘One Stop Shop’ exercise in Region Three, where it issued lots for the Schoonord housing establishment.

Synergy Holdings has commenced phase one of the Amaila Falls roads project and has started clearing the area in preparation for the construction of the road, Senior Government Engineer Walter Willis says.

Doodnauth Sookraj, 40, and Nigel Wright, 33, who were hospitalized on Sunday evening following separate accidents, succumbed to their injuries early yesterday morning.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club in collaboration with Zara Apartments recently honoured outstanding Grade Six students, teachers and head teachers at the club’s 20th anniversary celebration.

The two-day Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) First Division Heroes Cup match between Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) and Police ended in a draw at the Eve Leary ground on Sunday.

– Justice Singh Chancellor (ag) Justice Carl Singh says judicial training is an “absolute requirement” in the fight to end violence against women and according to him, judges and magistrates need to understand the social underpinnings that inform the promulgation of legislation on the issue.

Incongruity: This ‘Keep the City Clean Carifesta X 2008’ sign is clearly at odds with the surroundings and is more than two years old.

The Kaneville family that was on Sunday brutalized and robbed by armed bandits yesterday received another threatening telephone call and was subjected to verbal abuse by a resident.

Following the recent damage to a boiler at the Barama Company’s Land of Canaan complex, there are concerns over whether protective systems were in place to prevent the machine from exploding.

Newcomer Deoram Dinanauth emerged winner of the annual MACORP sponsored Medal Play golf tournament Sunday beating the largest field of players to turn out this season Lusignan golf Club.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Former chairman of CARICOM’S Prime Ministerial Sub Committee on Cricket, Keith Mitchell has labelled Darren Sammy’s appointment as West Indies captain a positive move for regional cricket.

Chris International Movados (CIM) comfortably lifted the Guyana Tapeball Association (GTA) Super Sixes trophy and carted off $500,000 when they walked all over Lima United (LU) at the Everest Cricket Club ground on Sunday night.

Startled fowl thieves shot a Nouvelle Flanders man in the groin yesterday morning, minutes after he entered the yard where he rents an apartment.

Minister of Legal Affairs Charles Ramson has tabled a bill in the National Assembly which creates offences relating to contempt of court and also defines the powers of certain courts to punish for contempt.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Powerhouses Jamaica pulled off a spectacular 207-run victory over Combined Campuses and Colleges to romp into the semi-finals of the WICB One-Day Championship yesterday, days after they seemed poised to be dumped from the competition.

The body of a man was yesterday picked up from the Charity Public Road and taken to the Charity Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

– promoter calls for gov’t support The world-renowned Enter-tainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) is the latest in the list of companies to get involved with the much anticipated Caribbean Fury 2 boxing card slated for November 6 at the Princess International Hotel.

Bandits reportedly made off with millions of dollars in cash and jewellery after assaulting a 75-year-old resident of Kersaint Park, La Bonne Intention on Sunday night.

Dear Editor, The table at the end of this letter shows that Barama Company Ltd has been running its plywood plant at lower and lower levels from its installed mill capacity of 108,000 m3 of plywood per year — in the last decade to 17 per cent of the installed capacity.

Police have arrested the driver who allegedly struck down and killed Skeldon Market vendor Rudolph February on Sunday night.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago were dumped from the WICB One-Day Championship yesterday as the Windward Islands impressively marched to their third straight win with an eight-wicket victory at Sabina Park.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a US street value of more than $340 million yesterday in Mexico’s biggest-ever pot haul, the army said.

Dear Editor, When I said a year ago that Darren Sammy should lead the West Indies cricket team, I based my conclusion primarily on the need to entrust the leadership of the region’s most important cultural institution to someone who understands that cricket for us in the Caribbean goes beyond the boundary.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – FIFA vice-president Reynald Temarii welcomes a “full and thorough investigation” into newspaper claims he offered to sell his vote in the contest to host the 2018 soccer World Cup, his confederation said yesterday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Saxo Bank promised on Sunday to stay on as title sponsors of Bjarne Riis’s cycling team even if three-times Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is banned after failing a dope test.

Dear Editor, Firstly, I am a proud Guyanese, a senior secondary school leader in the UK and fortunate enough to have witnessed first hand and read numerous reports on the benefits of study support on educational outcomes in the UK and Europe.

ROME (Reuters) – The United States recognises that Iran has a role to play in resolving the Afghan conflict, US envoy Richard Holbrooke said yesterday, as Tehran joined talks with a high-level group on Afghanistan for the first time.

Dear Editor, I write to authenticate the claims made by Mr Lionel Peters, in letter captioned ‘Guyanese are entitled to know the truth about their sordid past’ (SN, October 9), about his role in the struggle against the dictatorship since the 1970s, as well as in uplifting the lives of people in various communities on the Corentyne. 

(Barbados Nation) – Owen Arthur has been sworn in as Leader of the Opposition.

MANILA (Reuters) – Typhoon Megi cleared the Philippines’ main island and headed towards China today, and authorities said initial estimates showed around 105,000 tonnes of the region’s unmilled rice crop had been damaged.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board has introduced a revised code of conduct for its players in line with recommendations made by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for stricter implementation of anti-corruption laws.

– cops intercept getaway car after Princes Town bar robbery (Trinidad Express) – Just over a day after a woman police constable shot and killed two women, said to be robbery suspects in Tunapuna, police killed two men minutes after they had allegedly robbed a Princes Town bar on Saturday night. 

By Naomi WolfNEW YORK – Can furry puppets in Day-Glo colors provide the lessons we need to calm the fires of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Dear Editor, Ever since the 1997 elections that ended with the president-to-be Janet Jagan throwing a legal court document over her shoulder, and the haste with which the then GECOM Chairman and soon-to-be Attorney General Mr Doodnauth Singh, rushed to have that inauguration ceremony, it began to highlight the fact that GECOM was being compromised.

COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) – Most of Chile’s 33 rescued miners are honouring a pact of silence about the worst of their ordeal, but one indicated on Sunday he would talk if paid and another set the record straight about what didn’t happen.

YAOUNDE, (Reuters) – Cameroon coach Javier Clemente will meet with the country’s Football Federation President Iya Mohamed after receiving stinging criticism from the team’s technical department.

Dear Editor, For centuries the Gypsy or Romany people have been persecuted and murdered with impunity.

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.

Haiti prison crisis ends Order has now been restored at the largest prison in Haiti after a hostage crisis.

The Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon last week purported to instruct the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on the manner in which advertisements and notices connected with election activities should be placed.

MILAN (Reuters) – A mafia informant who disappeared nearly a year ago was tortured and her body dissolved in acid by her former partner and other family members angry that she had cooperated with authorities, Italian police said yesterday.

By Bernd Debusmann On June 2, 2005, more than 500 economists, including three Nobel prize winners, issued an open letter that called attention to a report on the economic benefits of treating marijuana like alcohol and tobacco – billions and billions in budgetary savings and gains in new tax revenue.