Daily Archive: Monday, January 3, 2011

A Linden man was robbed and shot in his store this afternoon by a lone gunman.

Former PNC Minister Carl Greenidge today accepted the nomination to be considered for the party’s presidential candidacy.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – A grimly determined Gautam  Gambhir and a serene Sachin Tendulkar took India to 142 for two  at stumps on the second day of the deciding third test against  South Africa today.

On the heels of an arson attack on the Enterprise school early yesterday morning, arsonists last evening failed in their attempts to set fire to the Annandale Secondary School also on the ECD.

Following a break and enter, the Guyana Post Office Corporation’s Mahaica location was unable to make pension payments or conduct normal operations today, a statement from the corporation said.

New York police have confirmed that a Jamaican dancehall artiste who tried to break up a fight outside a Queens banquet hall was the city’s first 2011 murder victim, the Caribbean Media Corporation says.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Debutant Usman Khawaja briefly   lit up a gloomy first day of the fifth Ashes test today   but Australia’s batting frailties and rain returned later in   the day to leave the hosts wobbling on 134-4 at the close of   play.

The Antiguan police have reported that a 60-year-old Guyanese man died in a crash in Antigua early on New Year’s morning.

(De Ware Tijd) — In order to deal with the finance deficit of the State, the government will have to take unpopular measures.

(De Ware Tijd) — In his New Year’s Address, President Desi Bouterse said that in the course of this year, the government will close a gold deal with Surgold, the joint venture between Suralco/Alcoa and Newmont.

Quick action by two security guards at the Enterprise Primary School on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) yesterday morning saved the building from being burnt by arsonists.

Goedverwagting resident Paul Samaroo, who was shot by bandits on December 16, succumbed to his injuries this morning while undergoing treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A 74-year-old miner was last evening being treated for severe burns to his upper torso and face following a brazen attack by bandits in the Mahdia area in Region 8 on Friday.

The new year began tragically for a Lusignan, East Coast Demerara (ECD) family following the death of a 30-year-old mason who was struck down while cycling along the roadway close to his home yesterday.

The future of the East Bank Demerara highway at Craig, where the Demerara River is undercutting sections of the road, will be determined when a feasibility study for the proposed four-lane highway is completed.

The large amount of garbage and waste dumped by residents into the canals led to the wrecking of the drainage filter at the Annandale Pump Station, a Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) spokesman says.

The police have held one person in relation to the New Year’s

The absence of Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond forced the adjournment of the matter involving missing mother of one, Babita Sarjou and her former husband, Anand Narine last week.

On Christmas Eve morning investigators discovered the car of murdered taxi driver Leyton Garraway on Mandela Avenue just outside the National Cultural Centre.

Police on the West Demerara yesterday caught a man with a large quantity of marijuana following a high-speed chase during which shots were fired-one of which grazed a teenaged girl.

A 14-year-old girl died on Old Year’s night at a family friend’s home in Mocha and relatives believe she died as result of a prolonged heart problem but police have since launched an investigation.

President Bharrat Jagdeo

Mass at the All Saints’ Anglican Church

Danced in 2011

A toast to 2011

Despite the controversy that surrounded the Alpha United squad’s participation in the 2010/2011 Kashif and Shanghai tournament, Alpha became the last team standing at the conclusion of the 21st annual tournament which ended on New Year’s Day at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence.

– LumumbaFollowing his team’s victory in the 2010/2011 Kashif and Shanghai football tournament Saturday night at the Guyana National Stadium , Providence, president of the Alpha United club, Odinga Lumumba, has raied the bar as it pertains

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – There was no starring role for West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo but Victoria still brushed aside Queensland by 33 runs to launch their Twenty20 Big Bash title defence in style yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Boston Celtics All-Star forward  Paul Pierce and Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy were fined by  the NBA for separate incidents that occurred earlier this week,  the league said on Saturday.

There is a certain, satisfying poetic justice in the fact that Ricky Ponting will not, after all, be able to play in the final Test of the Ashes series that started last night at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – An assured unbeaten 81 by  Jacques Kallis put South Africa in command on the first day of the deciding third test against India at Newlands yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The second largest party in  Pakistan’s coalition said yesterday it would go into opposition,  depriving the government, a strategic U.S,

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The fate of the Ashes was   decided last week in Melbourne but with the series and a huge   amount of pride still on the line, neither Australia or  England are calling this week’s fifth test in Sydney a dead  rubber.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Inexperienced all-rounder Diana David has been named to captain an Indian Board President’s XI against the touring West Indies women later this month.

ABIDJAN – Ivory Coast’s incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo has  said he will reject a demand by African heads of state today  that he cede power to his rival Alassane Ouattara or face force.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A strong 7.1 magnitude  earthquake hit central Chile yesterday, driving panicked  residents from their homes due to fears of a tsunami but  causing no injuries or damage, officials said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Dilma Rousseff became Brazil’s  first female president on Saturday and promised to build on an  unprecedented run of economic success achieved by her popular  predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Dear Editor, Some of the many things that immediately come to mind about this government are the combination of its ignoring or ignorance of basic laws, its neutralising or neutering of the opposition and its tendency to pass the buck at every opportunity.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An upbeat 14-member West Indies squad left here Saturday for a tough tour of India, where they will contest five One-Day Internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals against the hosts.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The South American trade bloc  Mercosur and South Korea are considering launching talks to  create a free trade area, Brazil’s foreign minister Antonio  Patriota said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. private employers have  recorded 11 consecutive months of job gains, yet the number of  people who are so discouraged that they have given up searching  for work stands at an all-time high.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Iran has shot down two unmanned  western reconnaissance drone aircraft in the Gulf, a senior  Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying by the  semi-official Fars news agency yesterday.

Dear Editor, The dispute between GB@GWU and RUSAL was allowed to drag on for over a year and the Ministry of Labour should take some responsibility since the issues fall within the grievance procedure under the Collective Labour Agreement and should be treated as such.

By way of a letter in the SN dated December 30, 2010, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Mr Dindyal Permaul disclosed that veterinarian and Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr Steve Surujbally had been appointed as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).

(Barbados Nation) Mara Thompson, widow of late Prime Minister David Thompson, has confirmed that she is ready to contest the St John by-election on a Democratic Labour Party (DLP) ticket.

Politikles

Scenes from various events on Old Year’s Night in Georgetown.  Login to view all.

Interviews by Tiffny Rhodius and photos by Jules GibsonIt’s a New Year and this week we asked the man and the woman in the street what their expectations were for the New Year.

When I first went to live in a big city in North America, my almost immediate impression was the astonishing level of order in the place.

By Cary Fraser Cary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.