Daily Archive: Friday, November 19, 2010

Articles published on Friday, November 19, 2010

Hair test could free Canadian convicted of murdering Guyanese

A man, who is serving life for the murder of a prominent member of the Guyanese community in Canada, may have his conviction overturned as a few strands of hair that could prove key his bid to overturn his first-degree murder conviction must be released for forensic testing, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today, the Toronto National Post has reported.

UK urged to cut migration

(BBC)  The British Government’s migration advisers have recommended cutting the number of skilled workers allowed into the UK from outside the European Economic Area by up to a quarter.

Grandma incensed at maternity death

The grandmother of 25-year-old Monica Carmichael, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday afternoon after a still-birth, last evening blamed negligence for her granddaughter’s death and called on the authorities to launch a full-fledged investigation.

Robert Persaud

Guyana could benefit from regional crop insurance facility by year end

Guyana could clear a critical hurdle to major commercial bank lending and large scale private sector investment in the country’s agriculture sector if proposals submitted by the government to the Caribbean Catastro-phe Risk Management Facility (CCRIF) for endorsement of a countrywide excess rainfall crop insurance model for Guyana secure the facility’s promised year-end approval, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week.

Urban cattle-rearing should no longer be tolerated

Dear Editor, The incongruity of man, his arrogance and total disrespect for the law are aptly demonstrated every morning by a small band of cattle minders who take their herds to graze in a highly residential area where home-owners have spent huge sums to improve and preserve the aesthetics of their properties but where animals are allowed to freely roam and destroy, not only beautiful and healthy plants and manicured parapets and lawns, but the spirit of humanity and human dignity.

Rain puts the brakes on Powell, Brathwaite

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Kieran Powell and Kraigg Brathwaite were stopped in their tracks, when heavy afternoon rain condemned a day that promised much for West Indies-A to very little in the opening four-day “Test” against Pakistan-A yesterday.

Incorrect caption

Dear Editor, The caption to the letter which appeared in your edition of November18 should have read as follows: ‘The former Bureau of Statistics building now being torn down was once the        terminal at Mackenzie airport.”

Spurs go 9-1 with win over Bulls

SAN ANTONIO, Texas,  (Reuters) – Tim Duncan   rebounded from his recent slump and the San Antonio Spurs tied   their best 10-game start to a season with a 103-94 victory   over the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka without loss after following on

GALLE,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka were 89 without loss  when rain ended play early on the fourth day of the first test  after being made to bat again by the West Indies having fallen  three runs short of the follow-on total of 381.

Winston Murray

Family still to decide on Murray

A definitive decision is yet to be made by family members concerning the fate of PNCR executive member Winston Murray who remains on a respirator in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), his son Mark said yesterday.

‘Unfortunate statements’

Major General Henry Rangel, Chief of the Strategic Operational Command of the Venezuelan army, declared last week in an interview with the daily newspaper, Ultimas Noticias, that the army was “married” to President Hugo Chávez’s political project and that if the opposition won the 2012 elections, the army would not accept such a result.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 382’s trading results showed consideration of $1,633,200 from 18,200 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 381 which showed consideration of $1,043,699 from 36,643 shares traded in 13 transactions. 

Grethel Lewis

Former cop dies after hit and run

-had retired recently and was ironing out NIS records After spending over a week in the Intensive Care Unit, hit and run victim Grethel Lewis succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday night at the Georgetown Public Hospital.