Daily Archive: Monday, March 28, 2011

A licensed firearm holder shot and wounded a knife-welding burglar in his yard at Lot 25 Bagotstown early this morning.

The large quantity of cocaine which was busted by Jamaican officials  recently on a ship out of Guyana may have been headed for China, investigators have revealed.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm over Japan’s lengthy battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled nuclear complex, the plant’s operator said today, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

(Go Jamaica) The Government has indicated that it will be raising with Caricom the issue of the alleged mistreatment of a Jamaican woman by Barbados customs and immigration officials.

An alleged thief who was killed early Saturday morning at a house on Mandela Avenue has been identified as 48-year old Colin Clement Davis, and relatives have disputed reports that he was a thief.

As Norwegian Environment Minister Erik Solheim heads to Guyana this week, several members of civil society have charged that the government here has “substantially failed” to implement the forest saving agreement with the Scandinavian state, an assertion rejected by the Office of Climate Change (OCC).

A 36-year-old US-based Guyanese was on Sunday arrested by police in St Maarten after one of the two teenagers he was joy riding with on a jet ski fell off and died, the St Maarten News Network (SMN) has reported.

Fifteen years after an ex-captain of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) had an idea for a home to be built for former military men who had fallen on hard times in their twilight years, the Guyana Veterans Foundation Rest Home is finally nearing completion.

Justice Rishi Persaud has granted an interim injunction against the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and Presidential Advisor Odinga Lumumba, prohibiting them from interfering with the operations of miner Ignatius Timmerman.

Civil society’s involvement in the areas of governance and peace has yielded limited successes, a recent study argues, while noting that stakeholder confidence is low and participation has declined.

The trial for the fourth man involved in a foiled plot to blow up New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport will start on May 2, even if the defendant, Kareem Ibrahim, is too weak to participate, US District Judge Dora Irizarry said in a Brooklyn, New York court on Friday.

Police have arrested a Garnett Street, Kitty man who allegedly had an unlicensed firearm among other illegal items in his possession on Saturday evening.

Police are investigating a robbery committed on a service station at Long Pond, West Bank Demerara, during which staff were robbed of a quantity of

McNeil Powley grew up in Bel Air Village, across from Dr Cheddi and Janet Jagan, and neighbour to Ralph Ramkarran.

A 43-year-old man was found dead yesterday morning in a trench which runs parallel to the Enmore Estate Road.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – As Britney Spears prepares to launch her seventh studio album ‘Femme Fatale’ on Tuesday, the pop star faces keen competition from Lady Gaga, Katie Perry and Rihanna, who reign atop Billboard’s Hot 100 singles ranking.

(Trinidad Express) Assistant Commissioner of Police Fitzroy Fredericks on Saturday night called for the immediate removal of chairman of the Police Service Commission Nizam Mohammed over racial statements Mohammed made on Friday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A tiny north Indian city has overnight become a hottest tourist destination, drawing Prime Ministers, corporate czars, showbiz celebrities and passionate fans for what is touted as the “mother of all cricket contests”.

-Guyana beaten outright in three days by Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago cricket team yesterday completed an outright win against Guyana on the third day of their WICB Regional Four-Day match at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

St John’s, Antigua – Dr. Julian Hunte has been re-elected unopposed to the presidency of the WICB.

The Ravens Basketball Club paid tribute to its former teammate and comrade, Kevin Lawrence in winning fashion Saturday night after they toppled a strong Georgetown All-Star team during the Kevin Lawrence Memorial Extravaganza at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

By Treiston Joseph The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will most likely send six athletes along with two officials to the 40th edition of the Junior Carifta Games to be held in Jamaica this month end.

Alonzo Greaves rode to victory in the final race of the Dr Cheddi Jagan Memorial series of 50-mile cycle road races held yesterday at Essequibo.

Jessica Stephenson produced another personal best time on Friday which helped her finish fourth overall in the 200m breaststroke final at the CONSANAT Youth Championships in Lima, Peru.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad, facing the gravest crisis in his 11-year rule, deployed the army in Syria’s main port of Latakia for the first time after nearly two weeks of protests spread across the country.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh rang the changes in a  14-man squad named yesterday for next month’s one-day series  against Australia following their disappointing World Cup  campaign.

BIN JAWAD, Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s ramshackle rebel army pushed west yesterday to retake a series of towns from the forces of Muammar Gaddafi as they pulled back under pressure from Western air strikes.

Businessman Shiv Nandalall was yesterday elected president of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) when the body held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue.

Dear Editor, I totally agree with your editorial that the current WIndies cricket team is “not ready” (caption of Mar 25). 

Dear Editor, The sacking of Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton sends an unfortunate message to young professionals in Guyana.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan appeared resigned today to a long fight to contain the world’s most dangerous atomic crisis in 25 years after high radiation levels complicated work at its crippled nuclear plant.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Defiant batting, led by Chadwick Walton and Brendan Nash, helped three-time defending champions Jamaica earn a draw with the England

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Lewis Hamilton had to settle for the runner-up spot, after reigning World champion Sebastien Vettel opened the Formula 1 season with a resounding victory yesterday.

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A Libyan woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel to show journalists injuries she blamed on Muammar Gaddafi’s militia was first targeted by the authorities after a protest, her cousin said yesterday.

Dear Editor,It was recently exposed that President Chávez of Venezuela purchased US$15B worth of armaments for his army, making that army much more powerful.

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC – An unbeaten 78 from their captain Omar Phillips propelled Combined Campuses & Colleges to a five-wicket victory over Barbados yesterday, and first place as the preliminary competition in the WICB Regional first-class championship draws to a close.

By Cary Fraser Cary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.

Dear Editor, Charging different commuters different fares for the same journey is illegal, but minibus operators do this.

(Jamaica Observer) SHANIQUE Myrie, the Jamaican woman who complained of being finger-raped and humiliated by Barbadian immigration authorities earlier this month, has hit back at claims by the Barbadian Government that she was not subjected to a body cavity search.

At a recent meeting of the Linden Foundation Secondary School’s Parent-Teacher Association, it was proposed that students should be subjected to searches by police officers prior to entering the compound, as a measure to stem violence in the school.

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives lost power in a regional stronghold yesterday, with early poll results showing the Greens, buoyed by Japan’s nuclear crisis, surging to their first state premiership.

One of the most interesting things President Obama told me in a wide-ranging interview last week was something he mentioned almost in passing — that Latin America “is a key to US success.”

Dear Editor, Guyanese-born attorney-at-law Colin Moore, and long-time supporter and admirer of Cheddi Jagan told a New York audience of two hundred: “If Jagan only knew what is happening in Guyana, he would be turning in his ashes.”

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – A maiden hundred from Gavin Williams led the Leeward Islands back from the doldrums against Windward Islands in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

No more: Stripped and leaning, the traffic lights at

There has been much parsing of President Jagdeo’s Babu John address this month as in the past his presentations at this hallowed site have set the scene for what is to follow both politically and in terms of policies at the national level.