Daily Archive: Thursday, February 17, 2011

(Go-Jamaica) Rudolph Hayden Singh, the managing director of Courts Jamaica has died.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Jailed financier Allen  Stanford, accused of running a massive Ponzi scheme, filed a  $7.2 billion lawsuit accusing federal prosecutors and  regulators of depriving him of his constitutional rights.

Police this afternoon said that Hubert Pilgrim is wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Nathalie Loncke on Saturday at Norton Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown.

Guyanese Russell Defreitas was today sentenced to life imprisonment in a New York Court by Judge Dora Irizarry, who before sentencing him said his own words

Lawyers are boycotting the courts in St Lucia over deplorable working conditions, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation.

(Trinidad Express) Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender (GLBT) people in Trinidad and Tobago are calling on the Government to decriminalise homosexuality.

Thirty-one-year-old police officer Quamme Benn was today admitted to bail of $40,000 on a charge of obtaining $5,000 from Mark Julius for the latter’s wife to avoid prosecution for a traffic violation.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon today announced that the way has been cleared for the recruitment of graduate teachers from overseas particularly for Mathematics and the science subjects but not solely those areas.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladeshis cast aside their  usual docile and reserved image today and proudly  displayed their sporting passion at the gala opening ceremony of  the Cricket World Cup later in the capital.

(BBC) Impressive leadership – that’s how an article in the leading medical journal, The Lancet, has termed the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) campaign against so-called non-communicable diseases.

(BBC) A workshop on combating terrorism for maritime security officials in seven Caribbean nations has ended in Grenada.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Batting powerplay can be a  double-edged sword and the popular perception is that the  captains will need to handle it with care in the World Cup.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s startling first-round  exit at the last World Cup is still regarded as one of the  greatest shocks in cricket and a fired-up Virender Sehwag wants  to make Bangladesh pay for eliminating them four years ago.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Cricket World Cup hits the  subcontinent on Saturday with an unabashedly biased format  favouring marquee teams like India which seeks to salvage the  country’s reputation as a capable host of major sporting events.

MANAMA, (Reuters) – Bahraini police stormed a protest  camp in central Manama today, killing three people in a  swift move to prevent protesters from emulating Egyptians whose  Tahrir Square protests helped topple Hosni Mubarak.

There is no backlog of applications for birth certificates at the General Register Office (GRO), the Registrar General, Greta McDonald has said.

Three armed bandits early this morning robbed the Linden Regional Democratic Office of million of dollars in what officials believe is an inside job.

Vanessa Francis left her reputed husband five months ago but he has been stalking her and yesterday he attempted to kill her, dealing her several stab wounds about the body before fleeing.

Leroy DeAgrella, the husband of Nalini DeAgrella, who leapt to her death from the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) on Tuesday, remained in custody at the Providence Police Station up to press time last night.

The Alliance For Change launched its election campaign during its North American tour last Friday, underlining a National Diaspora Policy and it pledged to root out crime by inviting the US DEA among others.

From every nook and cranny they came. From down river they paddled their canoes, some came on horseback, others walked long distances and yet more came by bus as they congregated on Arvida Road, later known as Republic Avenue.

The first draft of the MOU for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme, had proposed that the netbooks being distributed be jointly owned by the government and the user with the latter paying a US$400 replacement cost or doing community service should the computer be lost due to negligence.

Investigators have arrested an associate of the man who allegedly murdered Natalie Loncke, at Norton Street, Georgetown on Saturday, a source said.

Two contracts valued $70.8M were signed for road works at Parfait Harmonie Housing Scheme in Region Three last week at a meeting that Housing Minister Irfaan Ali was present at.

The Ministry of Housing on Monday commissioned the last of four multi-purpose buildings erected under the EU/LIHP programme, at Westminster, West Bank Demerara.

Some sugar workers at Blairmont estate are on strike protesting the treatment meted out to a young sugar worker by GuySuCo following an accident on the estate on Tuesday, according to the Alliance For Change.

Commander of `C’ Division, Assistant Commissioner Gavin Primo has said that police are yet to make an arrest in the murder of Enmore woman Rhampattie Ramsundar and are actively pursuing the lead provided by the sniffer dog at the scene on Tuesday.

Former PNC finance minister and economist Carl Greenidge says he is willing to pit his record in government against that of President Bharrat Jagdeo, who previously held the portfolio.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry set the PI into the matter against Dexter Marshall who stands accused of murdering Mark ‘Lil Mark’ Caesar, for March 28 after it had twice been postponed.

An ambulance which was long needed at the Fort Wellington Hospital has been  approved as part of this year’s $243M budget for Region Five.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a vendor accused of robbing a man of items valued over $1M, when he on Friday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport says 18 contestants are vying for the Chutney Monarch 2011 crown in the finals of the National Mashramani Chutney Competition set for Saturday.

Gladstone Williamson, who admitted that he slashed the throat of Gertrude Benn, resulting in her death at Ithaca Village, West Bank Berbice will be sentenced on February 22, following a probation report.

A new university operating out of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) is offering courses in medicine, dentistry and nursing and says that students can complete their “clinical training in Guyana, the USA or the Philippines”.

After more than a decade table tennis  returned to an old stopming ground in the form of the GuySuCo Training Centre at Port Mourant as the Guyana Table Tennis Association under dynamic president Henry Greene, continued its countrywide expansion programme.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies have suffered two setbacks in their preparation for the World Cup.

Former president of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Trevor Rose said yesterday that he was neither prepared nor willing to run for the presidential post at GABA’s AGM and elections held last Sunday.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – The Finals of the 2012 Digicel Caribbean Cup will be contested between June and July.

Last week’s launch of the Scotia/Pepsi Schools Football Academy and plans for a grassroots countrywide football programme in April are encouraging signs and have the potential to tap in on the embryonic stage of sport locally.

Colombo, Sri Lanka – West Indies captain Darren Sammy shares the view that spin bowling will play a major role in the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup.

Lance Armstrong formally announces retirement NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lance Armstrong, who recovered from  cancer to win the Tour de France a record seven times, formally  announced his retirement from cycling yesterday, a month  after his last race.

St John’s, Antigua – Two players were fined as a result of breaches following the first round of the ongoing WICB Regional 4 Day Tournament.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – Indian batting, led by captain  Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s power hitting, forced New Zealand into  submission by piling on a massive total and earned the co-hosts  an easy 117-run win in the warm-up game yesterday.

FATULLAH, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Stuart Broad’s  return to the England attack three days before the start of the Cricket World Cup has come none too soon for a side which still looks battle-worn and uninspired after its long Australian tour.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Fourteen captains will lead their  teams into the World Cup with the governing body’s assurance  that they are more protected against umpiring howlers than any  of their predecessors.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Anti-government protests inspired  by popular revolts that toppled rulers in Tunisia and Egypt are  gaining pace around the Middle East and North Africa despite  political and economic concessions by nervous governments.

Dear Editor, Allow me to vary a well-known biblical injunction and assert that, “dissensions will always arise, but woe to those who fan the flames of dissension.” 

The tender document for the construction of the sluices, bridge and outfall in connection with the Hope Canal project will be launched on Saturday, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said yesterday.

The third annual Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Under-18 Schools football championship for teams in Linden will be launched today FROM  2:30pm.

Youman Nabi observances

Three men robbed the On the Go Service Station at Nismes, West Coast Demerara on Tuesday night

Dear Editor, The debate around the use of the secret ballot to select the presidential candidate for the People’s Progressive Party, of which I am a long-standing member and activist, is heating up.

ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Long queues formed outside banks  in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, yesterday as Ivorians  rushed to withdraw their cash from a banking system that has  been paralysed by the country’s post-election power struggle.

(Barbados Nation) Dame Olga Lopes-Seale brought hope in deeds and words to thousands of Barbadians over six decades.

Even without West Indies captain Darren Sammy and opener Devon Smith the Windward Islands are looming large.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan  Singh vowed yesterday to stay in office to press ahead with  reforms, denying a series of massive corruption scandals had  made him a lame duck leader.

The Municipal Daycare Centres, in collaboration with the Mayor and City Council,  on Tuesday launched their mash camp at the Mayor and City Council Daycare Centre at Industrial Site, Georgetown.

Dear Editor,Everyone knows that we should make purchases using the metric system such as metre, litre and gram, but this does not happen with the general populace.

Overload

The True Vision Foundation is inviting donors with an interest in community-building to partner with it as it embarks on forestry in a timber concession recently granted to it and organic farming for unemployed youths from Albouystown.

SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexican drug  gang hitmen were behind the shooting of two U.S.

Barbados v Jamaica at Kensington Oval in Barbados (Umpires: Vincent Bullen & Richard Illingworth.

Installment One Hundred and Seven When documentary evidence is insufficient to support a family-based claim to citizenship or visa eligibility, DNA testing, also known as genetic testing, is an option.

(Trinidad Express) For the first time since the 1990 coup attempt, a heavily armed contingent of soldiers were on Tuesday called upon to defend the Parliament.

Dear Editor, The rift between the two Demerara Cricket Boards seems to be ultimately based on the disagreement about the number of delegates/votes from Georgetown, West Coast, West Bank, East Bank, and East Coast Demerara.

Mommy and Daddy love you

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge sentenced a  Somali pirate to 33 years and nine months in prison yesterday for his role in the 2009 seizure of the Maersk        Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean.

Thirty-five health care workers have started training in information technology (IT) through a Ministry of Health initiative, to ensure that they are computer literate.

Politikles

“Where shall wisdom be found?” This question forms the title to a probing book by literary critic Harold Bloom that seeks to investigate where humankind may find the fundamental answers to life’s fundamental challenges.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica achieved another milestone in its telecommunications industry with the landing in St Ann on Monday of a 240-km undersea fibre-optic cable between the island and Cuba.

A group of students 

On Monday, a nine-year-old boy was found dead on his parents’ poultry farm in a remote Berbice village.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Points standings in the WICB Regional first-class championship after the second round of matches ended yesterday.