Articles published on Monday, January 24, 2011
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport today, state TV said, in an attack on the capital that bore the hallmarks of militants fighting for an Islamist state in the North Caucasus region.
A boast of murder led to the arrest of a man at Moco Moco on Saturday and then the gruesome discovery of the body of a Brazilian in a shallow grave in the mountainous village.
The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 8.30 pm yesterday at Long Creek, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Eddie Williams, 18 years of Long Creek.
Police today charged Desiree Jeffers with murdering her reputed husband, ex-policeman Igriss Bobb-Blackman and she was remanded to prison at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court until January 31st.
Dear Editor, Mr. Manzoor Nadir’s letter on the 2011 budget (S/N Jan.
A man was last night run over by a speeding car on the Ruimzigt, West Coast Demerara Public Road after he fell on the roadway in a drunken stupor.
(Barbados Nation) Caribbean T20 might be cricket, lovely cricket, but regional administrators do not expect to see any profits just yet – even with Entertainment & Sports Programming Network (ESPN) on board.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq says Pakistan’s World Cup chances have been hampered by the board’s delay in naming a skipper for the tournament.
Contenders to be the PNCR presidential candidate yesterday promised Buxton that it will have answers on what happened to its sons and daughters who died during the crime spree.
An afternoon of fun at the Madewini Creek ended in tragedy for two parents when their son jumped from a bridge and never resurfaced.
In a dramatic scene this morning, ranks from the New Amsterdam and Fort Wellington police stations visited a West Coast Berbice secondary school and arrested a male teacher accused of sexually molesting female students.
(De Ware Tijd) – SPA chairman Guno Castelen says he is paying no attention to revelations by whistleblower site Wikileaks about past drug connections of President Desi Bouterse.
Banks DIH will spend $1.3 billion on a state-of-the-art soft drink bottling plant as the company seeks to adopt modern technology to enhance its business operations, Chairman Clifford Reis says.
Is it the end of the torture teen case now that the two policemen involved have had the charge against them of wounding the 15-year-old dismissed by the court?
The part of the landfill bordering Le Repentir Cemetery was yesterday afternoon the scene of another fire and residents in the area continued to express disgust at the situation.
South Sophia resident Michael ‘Junior’ Halley alleges that he was sent station-hopping during the wee hours of yesterday morning after police refused to take his report about four men damaging his property and stealing a quantity of cash.
On January 1, while most people would have been looking with anticipation at the new year and what it held in store for them, life for Melissa Robinson took a most unfortunate turn with the death of her reputed husband of eight years.
In a statement on Saturday the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), on behalf of about 400 rice farmers, expressed displeasure at the inaction of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) with regards to the Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) debt.
The labour ministry has managed to place some 48 of the more than 2,000 graduates from its National Training Project for Youth Empower-ment (NTYPE) with Minister Manzoor Nadir on Saturday acknowledging that they could not guarantee jobs for all of the trainees.
There is every likelihood that Guyana will develop an oil and gas industry in the near future, Finance Minister Dr.
A post-mortem examination performed on the remains of United States-based resident Roopnarine Ramodit, 59, who was killed at Clifton Settlement, Corentyne on Wednesday, found that he died from shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot injuries.
“Meh don’t feel safe because of what happen here,” says Philomena Lancaster, four months after she watched her husband being hacked to death by an itinerant man they had offered a cup of tea.
Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud told farmers of Hubu and Parika Back that $9.1 billion has been budgeted for the agriculture sector and $375.5M for Region Three which it envisions as a major agriculture hub in ten years.
Bel Air Springs resident Ronald McGarrell won the $1 million first prize in the MoneyGram International Money Transfer ‘Be a Millionaire in the New Year’ promotion at the final drawing Friday at Neal and Massy staff facilities at Ruimveldt, East Bank Demerara.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago overcame their inspirational captain Daren Ganga being sidelined with a hand injury to be crowned the new Caribbean Twenty20 champions, following a resounding, 36-run victory over Hampshire yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Purposeful bowling followed solid batting led by Danza Hyatt to lead Jamaica to a third place finish in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, following a 10-run victory over Windwards Islands yesterday.
By Marlon Munroe Organisers of the year’s first Pro-Am card boxing card want the event to pack a punch and have added two bonus fights at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on January 28.
President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Errol Tiwari says that for chess to develop and spread across Guyana the GCF must transform the game into a culture locally.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Roger Federer made hard work of reaching his 27th consecutive grand slam quarter-final at the Australian Open yesterday but it looked like a short shift after Francesca Schiavone’s titanic tussle with Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Dear Editor, The vacancies advertised by the Teaching Service Commission in the Sunday papers of January 16, 2011 total 620, identified as follows: a) Nursery – 85 b) Primary – 237 c) Secondary – 77 d) Heads of Department (Primary and Secondary) – 203 e) Practical Instruction Centres – 18 Examination of the various texts reveal some interesting, if not wholly disturbing, indicators of the extent to which some regions are bereft of relevant qualified human resources.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Palestinian negotiators secretly told Israel it could keep swathes of occupied East Jerusalem, according to leaked documents that show Palestinians offering much bigger peace concessions than previously revealed.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will return to the lucrative Airtel Champions League Twenty20 this year, after trouncing a docile Jamaica in the semi-finals of the Caribbean T20 Championship on Saturday.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – An Israeli inquiry cleared the government and military yesterday of wrongdoing in the bloody seizure of a Turkish aid ship that tried to breach the Gaza blockade, saying passengers were to blame for the violence.
AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – Steady bowling spell from Tremayne Smartt and Anisa Mohammed helped West Indies Women level their three-match Twenty20 International series with India Women, following a tense, three-run victory yesterday.
Dear Editor, The letter by my old friend and comrade Navin Chandarpal, ‘A voter has the right to secrecy,’ (SN, Jan 21), and the response of President Bharat Jagdeo as reported by Demerarawaves.com,
OSLO, (Reuters) – World efforts to slow deforestation should do more to address underlying causes such as rising demand for crops or biofuels, widening from a U.N.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – David Hussey halted a middle-order collapse and guided Australia to a four-wicket victory over England in the third one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has won a court ruling placing independent bodies like the central bank and the electoral agency under the cabinet, a centralisation of power that critics are calling a “coup”.
Dear Editor, During this week I had the pleasure of being involved in two events which really made me feel proud to be Guyanese.
Melanie Newton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, CanadaBy Melanie Newton … he governed as if he felt predestined to never die… Gabriel García Marquéz, The Autumn of the Patriarch, 1975A week ago, Haitians the world over were stunned when former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti after 25 years of comfortable political asylum in France.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has blamed his team’s fragile batting for the one-day series defeat in South Africa.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Lenin may be turned out of his tomb if a campaign launched by members of Russia’s ruling party succeeds in closing down his mausoleum on Red Square.
Dear Editor, What more can I say? When it’s the weather, it’s pricing and when it’s not that, and then it’s us farmers being put under pressure due to non-payment from the Mahaicony Rice Mill (MRL).
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When the case against two policemen accused in the torturing of a 15-year-old collapsed ignominiously in court last week it didn’t erase the stain from the country of this heinous act.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Yusuf Pathan’s blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs yesterday to take the series 3-2.
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Interviews by Tiffny Rhodius and photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man and woman in the street whether they listen to the radio drama Merundoi and what are their thoughts on the show.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The death toll from floods and landslides that devastated a mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro has reached 806, state authorities said yesterday, as rescue teams scoured the mud for the hundreds still missing.
