Daily Archive: Tuesday, January 4, 2011

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – Republican state legislatures  are ramping up a crackdown on illegal immigrants this year, in  a concerted drive that risks alienating potential business  allies and Latino voters.

LONDON,  (Reuters Life!) – Scottish singer-songwriter  Gerry Rafferty, whose 1970s hits include “Baker Street” and  “Stuck in the Middle With You,” has died at age 63, his agent  said today.

Melroy Jeffrey, 36 years of Annandale, ECD, was today charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Herman Daniels, 61,  of Sheet Anchor, East Canje, Berbice, whose decomposed body was found in the Berbice River at about 10 15 am today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The last suspect in a 1968  hijacking of a Pan American airliner to Cuba was sentenced to  15 years in prison today after apologizing in a U.S.

Holland is formulating a detailed response to the bombshell announcement in November last year that it had planned to invade Suriname in 1986 to arrest military leader and current President Desi Bouterse.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan have left out former  captain Shoaib Malik and leg-spinner Danish Kaneria but recalled  wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal to their World Cup 30-man preliminary  squad.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar effectively  countered an inspired new ball spell from Dale Steyn to take  India closer to South Africa’s first innings total on the third  day of the third and deciding test today.

Armed bandits broke into the home of a 58-year-old woman at Number Five Village, West Coast Berbice around 3:45 am on Monday and carted off $250,000 in cash and jewellery, a laptop computer and two cellular phones.

A 21-year-old woman was last night murdered by her former reputed husband who was later found hanging from a mango tree at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A gunman assassinated the   governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, a senior member of the   ruling party, in Islamabad today, an aide said, as a new   political crisis gripped the strategic U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – England rode their luck through   a rocky afternoon spell to reach 167-3 in their first innings   at the close of play on the second day of a well-balanced   fifth Ashes test today after dismissing Australia for 280.

Drilling for oil in Guyana for the first time in a decade commenced last Friday at the Takutu Basin in Region Nine.

Laing Avenue residents are crying out for police protection in a section of the area where a bicycle gang has been carrying out robberies over the last year.

On New Year’s Eve, a Grove man chased his younger sister and daughter from the street corner where they had been drinking and smoking.

A Guyanese man who said he is a guard at Yankee Stadium in New York was caught with cocaine at the JFK International Airport on December 29 after telling inspectors he had “cooked rabbit” in his luggage.

Former senior director in the Caricom Secretariat’s Office of Trade Negotiations Carl Greenidge has demanded an explanation for the non-renewal of his contract.

Former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge has formally accepted the nomination to contest to be the PNCR’s presidential candidate at this year’s general elections.

A prominent Linden businessman was robbed and shot in his store yesterday afternoon by a lone gunman.

Dr Dindyal Permaul has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) with effect from January 1.

Over the weekend, robbers ripped open the flooring of the Mahaica Post Office, torched the safe and carted off  over  half a million dollars in cash.

A $220 million facility to assist small, rural farmer groups to improve their farming systems and processing activities was unveiled yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture.

The technical advisor within the Ministry of Education has been appointed Chief Education Officer, five years after the post was made vacant and became controversial after Genevieve Whyte-Nedd acted in the position until her retirement but was never appointed.

A man accused of robbing another was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A truck driver was yesterday charged with collecting $200,000 from another man by pretending to him that he was in a position to sell him a truck.

Police on the East Coast Demerara are working to establish a motive behind two arson attempts on schools in the area on Sunday; the most recent being a failed attempt on the Annandale Secondary School.

Mysterious hit-men with high powered rifles, gun-slinging robbers and blade wielding attackers left a trail of bodies throughout 2010 taking the murder count to 139 by year end.

Gold miner Kevin Bennette was yesterday remanded to prison for the attempted murder of a Bartica shop owner, who he stabbed during an argument on Boxing Day.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and a team recently inspected a number of possible sites for the construction of a new market at Mahaica.

Representatives from Teddies Diapers and the Teddies mascot delivered over 50 hampers to mothers of babies born on New Year’s Day, at hospitals in Georgetown.

Alpha United and Pele put on a good show to bring the curtain down on the 21st tournament of the Kashif & Shanghai (K&S) tournament but I left the Guyana National Stadium, Providence with my emotions in a turmoil ranging from anger to  fear and disappointment which had absolutely nothing to do with the match.

In hindsight the 2010 cycling year was a challenging, but rewarding ride for Guyana’s cyclists.

Avinash Persaud once again proved to be a player in a class by himself locally but his younger sibling Avinda Kishore is fast catching up as golf made positive strides in 2010.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Debutant Usman Khawaja briefly  lit up a gloomy first day of the fifth Ashes test yesterday  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.

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 yesterday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa all-rounder  Jacques Kallis battled through the pain barrier to stroke a  century yesterday but his heroics mean he is unlikely to play  any further part in the third and final test against India.

(BBC) Australia captain Ricky Ponting will undergo surgery today to repair his fractured finger.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Regional cricket chief Julian Hunte has reiterated his board’s financial support for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship and says every attempt will be made to ensure the tournament becomes a lucrative enterprise.

Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab have moved a step closer to participation in the upcoming IPL player auction by fulfilling the Bombay High Court’s condition of filing affidavits in connection with bank guarantees.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari expressed full confidence yesterday in the country’s beleaguered prime minister, who is scrambling to prevent his government from falling after a key coalition partner quit.

Dear Editor, Could the Ministry of Housing and Water state clearly for the general public its policy or position on house-lots that were repossessed in the various housing schemes?

It will cost the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) US$1M to host two English clubs for the upcoming regional T20 cricket series. A

Dear Editor, Ralph Ramkarran stated in his letter in the SN online edition dated Sunday, January 2, 2011, `The Central Committee is the only constitutionally constituted body authorized to decide on the presidential candidate.’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former Sports Minister Manohar Ramsaran says he hopes to bring a renewed energy to the national programme after taking up a key post in the local cricket board here yesterday.

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) – Almost 4 million southern Sudanese, or roughly half the south’s population, have registered to take part in an independence referendum next week that is likely to split Africa’s largest country in two, officials said yesterday.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – African leaders ended meetings in Ivory Coast yesterday without persuading Laurent Gbagbo to cede power to his rival Alassane Ouattara, but the talks will go on, one of the envoys said.

Dear Editor, I don’t have a problem with criticism ( see `Ralph Ramkarran is the best PPP/C candidate for the presidency’ SN Jan 1, 2011).

The Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Senior cricket team will meet the T&T ‘A’ team in a revenge clash Thursday night at Guaracara Park in Pointe-a-Pierre.

A New Zealand Cricket XI yesterday reduced the touring Pakistan cricketers to  234-8 in a warm-up match in Whangarei before the first Test.

Dear Editor, Ever since declaring his interest in being the PPP’s presidential candidate for the constitutionally due general elections  in 2011 Mr Ralph Ramkarran has written several letters extolling the democratic virtues of the PPP.

GRACEMERE, Australia (Reuters) – Military aircraft ferried supplies to an Australian town slowly sinking beneath swollen rivers yesterday, as record flooding in the country’s northeast severed roads and ports, curtailing coal exports and devastating farmland.

Dear Editor, At the end of last year I wrote the following: “As Guyanese engage in the usual old year stock-taking, reflection will also invariably focus on what lies ahead.

STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, CMC – Stoke City’s Trinidadian marksman Kenwyne Jones says he has put a difficult last few weeks behind him and is ready to press on with the job of scoring goals to ensure the club continues flourishing in the English Premiership.

Towards the end of last year the Commissioner of Police publicly declared that the extent of the attendance at the annual Police Gymkhana could be taken to mean that the Police Force still had many friends among the Guyanese people.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A would-be suicide jumper in New York was alive on Monday after leaping from a ninth-floor window but landing in a giant heap of garbage uncollected since the city’s massive snowstorm a week ago.