Daily Archive: Thursday, January 6, 2011

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England won the fifth Ashes test   by an innings and 83 runs today to claim a first series   triumph in Australia in nearly a quarter of a century.

(ctvtoronto.ca) York police have released the description of two suspects in a recent home invasion where a woman was allegedly held in her home at knife-point.

A Kaneville shop owner was shot at least three times in the chest by bandits earlier this evening and is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Two first-year students from the Department of Geology, Faculty of Technology,  Turkeyen campus, are assisting police with their investigation into the loud explosion that occurred around 1 pm today on the campus, the University of Guyana said this afternoon.

Hareshnarine Sugrim called ‘Chiney’Hareshnarine Sugrim called ‘Chiney’is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to Causing Death by Dangerous Driving following an accident which occurred at No.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two packages detonated in the  mailrooms of two Maryland state government buildings today, but no one was seriously injured, officials said.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford is not competent to  prepare for his criminal trial because he suffers from depression  and is addicted to a powerful anti-anxiety drug that has left him  mentally foggy, psychiatrists told a U.S.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa and India drew the  third and final test at Newlands on Thursday to also share the  spoils 1-1 in an enthralling series between the world’s  top-ranked test teams.

Over fifty vendors this morning took to the streets protesting the dismantling of their stalls around the Stabroek Market area following the explosion outside the market yesterday morning which left one man dead and 19 injured.

(De Ware Tijd)  – Suriname and Guyana remain the main suppliers of rice to Jamaica and the other CARICOM member states.

(De Ware Tijd)  – The small-scale gold sector has an estimated turnover of US$ 1 billion a year.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England stood on the brink of a   first Ashes series triumph in Australia for 24 years after   dominating the fourth day of the fifth test with both bat and   ball today.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board has  ruled out using the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and  also rejected an offer to travel to Australia and watch its  Ashes application.

A Fire Service official looks at the storage container damaged by the grenade blast at the Stabroek Market.

Hard hit: The section of the storage container close to where the grenade exploded.

Law enforcement officials including Police Chief, Henry Greene and Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee rushed to the scene following the explosion.

Georgetowners and passer-bys also flocked to the scene of the explosion.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday said that investigators are probing the theory that the man killed in yesterday’s Stabroek Market grenade explosion was a courier of illegal arms and other substances.

Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee speaks with reporters on the scene.

Fragments of a grenade were discovered at the scene of an explosion at the Stabroek Market Square yesterday, which killed one man and injured 18 other persons, according to the police.

The storage container damaged by the explosion is pulled out of the stall.

A section of the stall roof was ripped open by the blast.

Delroy James, one of the suspects in the New Year’s morning gas station robbery that left Seon Craig dead, was yesterday charged with murder.

The Hydrometeorological Service last evening forecast flash flooding for coastal, near inland areas and some areas in regions Seven and Ten and increased rainfall is expected for the first months of this year.

Dismantling begins, The stall where the grenade exploded was the first to be dismantled and trucked to the police station.

Following the January 5 blast at the Stabroek Market square, the authorities clamped down and began to dismantle stalls.

Two gunmen held up a woman at the Tuschen Nursery School yesterday and robbed her of a gold band.

Vendors pack up their goods after being given the order to move.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Legendary West Indies captain Sir Vivian Richards and prodigious left-hander Brian Lara are the only two West Indians voted to an all-time One-Day International dream team to commemorate the 40th anniversary of ODIs.

Stallholders operating in the vicinity of yesterday’s explosion outside the Stabroek Market were ordered to dismantle their stalls and did so under the supervision of City Constabulary officers who later removed the wood and other material in a vehicle.

Surrounded by police another vendor makes her point as she protests the order to move.

A vendor protests the order to move from the Stabroek Market.

Over the past year lawn tennis has slowly been moving into the limelight with the GLTA taking steps to broaden junior players’ experience through participation in international tournaments and by introducing the sport in schools to scout up and coming talent.

Aggrieved vendors picketed the Ministry of Home Affairs.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis defied medical  advice to score a magnificent century which put South Africa in  position to win the deciding third test against India yesterday.

A driver attached to Stabroek News died yesterday morning after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving along the Diamond Public Road on the East Bank Demerara (EBD).

A Bobcat clears the debris from the decades-old Fuggies Beer Garden as authorities clamp down on vending following the explosion.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 9.15 on Tuesday night at Canje, Berbice, which resulted in the death of Julian Mohabir, 23 years of Sheet Anchor, East Canje.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Kieron Pollard smashed a typically explosive half-century but it was not enough to save South Australia from a 21-run loss to New South Wales in their opening game of the Twenty20 Big Bash on Tuesday.

The Government Informa-tion Agency (GINA) yesterday said that efforts have once again been made by unknown individuals to hack its website.

Demolished stalls in the days following the explosion.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – A dominant Alastair Cook scored   189 and Ian Bell his first century against Australia as   England took a commanding first innings lead of 208 at the   close of play on the third day of the fifth Ashes test yesterday.

(BBC) Australia captain Michael Clarke has rejected claims that team-mate Phillip Hughes attempted to cheat Alastair Cook in the final Ashes Test in Sydney.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – State lawmakers launched a  drive today to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born 

A Guyanese man beat his estranged Guyanese wife in Bom Fin, Brazil, early Tuesday, resulting in her being hospitalised.

Dear Editor, In what appears to be a forced awakening, an election year publicity stunt or a cheap gimmick, Minister Manzoor Nadir chooses to now publicly admit what the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU), enlightened Guyanese and all trade unionists worth their stripes knew all along, that “The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union is the certified bargaining agent for a large section of [BCGI] workforce and [the company is] legally bound to treat with them.”

A police mobile outpost is brought to the Stabroek Market Square.

Farmers in the Alness/ Liverpool area in East Berbice can expect some relief from flooding with the construction of a new sluice valued some $46M in their community.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Windward Islands manager Lockhart Sebastien has warned rivals that his side is fit and focussed, and will be difficult to beat in the upcoming Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s government is still   trying to thrash out the details of a two-year moratorium on   forest clearing under a $1 billion climate deal with Norway,   leading it to miss a planned January 1 start and continued   uncertainty for plantation firms.

Proprietors of the Lyken/Newburg Funeral Home are crying foul after city workers at Le Repentir Cemetery reportedly demanded money from customers to bury their dead.

In the days following the explosion, demolitions continued, including the lone remaining public sanitary facility.

Dear Editor, I wish to comment on a few key points that were raised in the article by Cary Fraser, captioned ‘Power, Politics, and Poverty – The PPP after Jagan,’ in the In the Diaspora column of Stabroek News of January 3, 2011.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies A batsman Danza Hyatt hinted at a full recovery from injury with a cracking half-century, as he tuned up for next week’s start of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Following a meeting with President Bharrat Jagdeo, some vendors were allowed to return under an agreement that requires them to close at 6pm.

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to a letter under the caption ‘How was Toshao Xavier chosen to serve on the UN forum?’

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A politician gunned down over  his opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws was buried yesterday after a murder likely to cow further those pushing for  a more liberal and secular vision of Pakistani society.

At the launching of the Computer Training Centre at Albion, Corentyne yesterday, sugar workers and their children were urged to keep up-to-date with information technology.

A man accused of turning up at his ex-girlfriend’s workplace and threatening to kill her was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $10,000, after denying a threatening language charge.

Dear Editor, I began my critique of Mr M Maxwell’s ‘Truth has no political party’ (SN, December 26, 2010) with the following statement: “Every so often one comes upon a letter that is so ill-conceived and littered with misconceptions that one can only ascribe untoward designs to its author.

Sean’s fish shop and the K&VC restaurant are the only two buildings left standing at the Stabroek Market Square.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea’s hopes of retaining the  Premier League title looked forlorn and Carlo Ancelotti’s future  equally bleak yesterday as the champions’ fall from grace  continued with a 1-0 defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China is still years away  from being able to field a stealth aircraft, despite the  disclosure of images indicating that it appears to have a  working prototype, Pentagon officials said yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Reconstruction has barely  begun in Haiti a year after its catastrophic earthquake, a  leading international charity said yesterday in a report  sharply critical of a recovery commission led by former U.S. 

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Tuesday handed over a cheque to a Paradise fisherman and his crew who were attacked by pirates on December 20, even as he called on law enforcement to up their efforts to curb this type of crime.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters Life!) – Top-selling rapper Waka  Flocka Flame will spend at least one more night in a county  jail in Georgia after turning himself in on drug and weapons  charges earlier this week, police said yesterday.

A few days after demolition begins, some of the old stalls still remain standing at the Stabroek Market Square.

Dear Editor, Part of your report in SN January 4, 2011, said “Drilling for oil in Guyana for the first time in a decade commenced last Friday at the Takutu Basin in Region Nine.”

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The New York Knicks had too   much firepower for San Antonio on Tuesday and continued their   high-scoring antics with a crushing 128-115 victory over the   NBA-leading Spurs.

Several days later, most of the stalls have been cleared and carted away.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – An employee of Michael  Jackson testified  yesterday that the singer’s doctor  ordered him to carry away medical vials and an intravenous bag  before calling paramedics the day Jackson died.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Supporters and opponents of  Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez traded taunts and held dueling  rallies yesterday at the start of a new parliament shorn of  power by the socialist leader’s assumption of rule by decree.

A man who knocked out his sister’s tooth during an argument over the use of a blender was yesterday placed on $40,000 bail and ordered to report to the probation department.

Dear Editor, After reading Roland Thorne’s letter ‘All PNCR members should be allowed to vote for the presidential candidate’ (SN, December 31, 2010) a couple of things need to be said.

Mrs Mara Thompson, the widow of the prime minister of Barbados David Thompson, announced last week that she was contesting the January 20, 2011 by-election for the St John parish seat which became vacant on the death of her husband in October last year.

Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) president Trevor Rose said elections are the first priority on the agenda at the AGM set for this week.

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