Daily Archive: Thursday, January 13, 2011

Guyana has formally recognized Palestine as a free, independent, and sovereign state, based on its 1967 borders, a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has commenced its first crop for 2011 to cash-in on early revenue, but sugar workers at the Uitvlugt Estate called a strike today demanding a customary one-week sickness benefit.

Guyanese Abdel Nur, who last year pleaded guilty to aiding a plot to blow up New York’s John F.

Managing Director of Bounty Farm Limited Patrick De Groot has been appointed the new Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados government says merchants are ripping off consumers with food prices and has vowed to increase the number of inspectors monitoring price movements.

Days after President Bharrat Jagdeo instructed GECOM’s Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally to resign as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority, the AFC has added its voice to the issue stating that the latter appointment was unconstitutional.

Guyanese Yashoda Ramlal last week told a Connecticut, US court that she heard a “pop” and saw her ex-fiance and murder accused Parasurama `Andrew’ Rabindranauth stuffing a gun into his sweatshirt.

Police officers at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court contemplating their next move after the toilets used by prisoners began overflowing on Tuesday.

(BBC) Jamaica has named a new international airport for private jets and small commercial aircraft after the British thriller writer who invented James Bond, the literary and cinematic super spy.

(De Ware Tijd)  – Since the registration of those involved in the small-scale gold sector started on Monday, more than 2700 people have registered at the different posts.

(De Ware Tijd)  – Suriname will soon recognize the Palestinian state.

Following a strike by some mini-bus operators yesterday, hundreds of stranded commuters were last evening taken to their destinations free of cost by the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics.

City Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday referred to the claims of the government hijacking the plans for the Year of African-descended people as “a bit exaggerated,” and he insists that a lack of trust is fuelling the disagreement.

A Guyanese man was last week sentenced to two years in prison by a Canadian judge for a motor vehicle accident that left a four-year-old boy disabled.

More than 30 vendors recently placed outside Demico House were ordered to move again yesterday as police said they were operating illegally.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Four wickets – two to Esuan Crandon and two run outs – in a dramatic final over handed reigning champions Guyana a miraculous, come-from-behind, one-run victory over Somerset in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Presidential hopeful Bissondial Singh believes that he has the wherewithal to restore a positive image to the embattled institution.

Three months after vendors of the La Penitence Market submitted a proposal for potential sites for their relocation, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is now moving to settle the issue.

Businessman Hareshnarine Sugrim, who turned himself in days after police issued a wanted bulletin for him, has been released on station bail and he is still to be charged.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Lonwabo Tsotsobe  received the man of the match award after his four wickets led  South Africa to a crushing 135-run win over India in the first  one-day international at Kingsmead yesterday.

The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved a new interconnection agreement between telecommunications providers, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph and Digicel.

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United Football club has been invited to participate in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championships and President Odinga Lumumba has made a fervent appeal for more corporate support

A woman was yesterday charged with trying to sell a house illegally.

Paul Smith, accused of resisting arrest as well as insulting and assaulting two police officers, was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) was fraught by setbacks for last year with the association finding it difficult to garner any meaningful sponsorship to host tournaments and send its teams abroad

Lennox Cush found himself wedged between a rock and a hard place prior to the Caribbean T20 cricket Championship last month.

Two men accused of robbing a man of a cellular phone and a quantity of cash were on Monday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been approved as the delivery partner through which Guyana will access grants from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fidel Edwards continued his comeback from injury when bowled in a Barbados national trial on Tuesday.

Rugby will return to the Providence National Stadium on Saturday for the first time since July last year when the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) stages their practice games there.

The Lions Club of Bel Air started off its annual project-per-day exercise held in honour of its anniversary, with breakfast for 17 residents of the Vincent de Paul Home.

ADELAIDE, Australia, (Reuters) – Chris Woakes struck  the winning runs off the last ball to lift England to a dramatic  one-wicket victory over Australia in a Twenty20 international yesterday.

Many CARICOM countries have not implemented programmes in the regional agricultural strategy, the Jagdeo Initiative, and with rising prices for food globally they will face a problem with food prices and inflation, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said.

Dear Editor, The designation of 2011 as the Year of People of African Descent is a significant reminder of both the tremendous contributions of Africans to world civilization and the challenges African communities across the world continue to face in the socio-economic political and cultural spheres.

A Kwakwani man accused by the police of having a quantity of cannabis in his possession was on Tuesday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Alcindo Holder curbed his natural attacking instincts to stroke 44 not out, and steer Barbados to a tense, four-wicket victory against Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship on Tuesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Floods and landslides  devastated several mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro yesterday, killing at least 257 people as torrents of water and  mud swept through the region, burying many families as they  slept.

Dear Editor, I refer to SN story of January 12, ‘Secret balloting poses danger – Jagdeo,’ where it was reported, “President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday warned that using a secret balloting process to decide on the PPP’s next presidential candidate could be dangerous as candidate hopefuls could promise persons things in order to get their votes.”

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh began yesterday investigating allegations that Nobel Prize winning   microlender Grameen bank had illegally diverted aid funds   after a Norwegian television documentary cast doubts about its   tax records.

Dear Editor, Well, well, well, Forbes Burnham and the Jagans would be immensely proud.

Technician Bransley Kissoon was on Monday placed on bail in the sum of $35,000, after denying charges of driving without a licence and insurance.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – Chris Gayle plans to continue playing for West Indies in the immediate future, instead of chasing big bucks in lucrative Twenty20 leagues around the World.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S.-Cuban cooperation has  significantly reduced the number of Cuban migrants making  dangerous and illegal voyages to the United States, Havana’s  delegation to bilateral migration talks said yesterday.

Dear Editor, In spite of him being unfairly caricaturized as a demolition man, I have to admire Minister Robeson Benn’s proceeding in his conviction of doing the right things.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Brian Lara has been confirmed as a technical advisor for Zimbabwe ahead of the 2011 World Cup, which is to be staged in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh next month.

A man who admitted to hitting another out of a fit of anger is now awaiting sentencing, pending a probation report.

Participants attending the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Afterschool programme at the National Gymnasium try out a novel way of improving their dribbling skills yesterday.

Caricom Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government  Tillman Thomas has pledged the Caribbean Community’s continued to support of the rebuilding of Haiti and the revival of its economy one year after a disastrous earthquake

Dear Editor, This campaign excites me, but I should declare my bias up front; that is, I am a supporter of Dr Harding to become the PNCR presidential candidate.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti mourned more than  300,000 victims of its devastating 2010 earthquake yesterday  in a sombre one-year anniversary clouded by pessimism over slow  reconstruction and political uncertainty.

HOBART, Australia, CMC – Dwayne Bravo made small, but vital contribution to Victoria, but they still lost their latest Twenty20 Big Bash match, when Tasmania crushed them by nine wickets on Tuesday.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Ministers from Hezbollah and its  allies resigned yesterday, toppling the Lebanese government  of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri before expected indictments  against the Shi’ite group over the killing of Hariri’s father.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The U.S. and Haitian  governments signed a deal on Tuesday with a South Korean  garment manufacturer to develop an industrial park in  quake-hit Haiti in one of the largest investment projects in  the poor Caribbean country.

BRISBANE, Australia, (Reuters) – Flood water in   Australia’s third-biggest city peaked below    feared catastrophic levels yesterday but Brisbane and other   devastated regions faced years of rebuilding and even the   threat of fresh floods in the weeks ahead.

In September 2003, two years after they began surveillance of a cocaine operation, officers of the United Kingdom’s Scotland Yard swept through some 20-odd residences in various sections of London and made several arrests.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan have recalled  wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal to their squad for the six-match  one-day series in New Zealand.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday granted $125,000 bail to a former employee of the Guyana Lands and Survey (GL&S) Department arraigned on three charges of forgery.

Politikles

Who inspires this nation? Men and women proclaim themselves leaders – in business, politics, civic organizations and even religion.

Thursday’s Cartoon

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter ‘The Leader of the Opposition does not have a special retirement package,’ (SN, January 11) by B Beniprashad Rayman, PNCR Executive Member, please permit me to put this ostensibly contentious issue in proper perspective.

By Achim Steiner NAIROBI – The last two years have been a roller coaster ride in respect to securing a new global treaty to combat climate change.