Daily Archive: Friday, April 22, 2011

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Syrian security forces killed almost 90 protesters today, rights activists said, the bloodiest day in a month of escalating pro-democracy demonstrations against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Chris Gayle hit an unbeaten 102 in 55 balls on his arrival in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to power the Royal Challengers Bangalore to a nine-wicket win over the Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian security forces shot dead dozens of protesters today, rights activists said, the bloodiest day in a month of escalating demonstrations against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old Laventille schoolboy was shot dead after gunmen pumped seven bullets into him during an incident along Plaisance Road, John John, Laventille, on Wednesday night.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith  Malinga, whose unique slinging round-arm action brought him 101  wickets in 30 tests, retired from test cricket today in  order to prolong his limited overs career.

(Trinidad Express) If the race talk continues in this country, there will be trouble, Makandal Daaga, leader of the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC), has warned.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s No. 1 television station, Television Jamaica Limited (TVJ), signed a historic agreement yesterday with CNN to be its exclusive broadcast partner in Jamaica.

Embroiled in a heated dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board, opening batsman Christopher Gayle today smashed 102 not out in the Indian Premier League as the Royal Challengers Bangalore thrashed the Kolkata Knight Riders.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Parliamentarians traded bitter insults in Gordon House yesterday during a heated debate on the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), which later triggered a walkout by the parliamentary Opposition.

The Government of Guyana yesterday announced that it will be making a monetary donation of $20M (US$100,000) to support disaster relief efforts following the devastating Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan on March 11, 2011.

(West Indies Players Association) After speaking open and honestly in an interview yesterday with KLAS FM in Jamaica, West Indies Cricketer Chris Gayle felt extremely relieved to share with the people of the Caribbean what he has been through with the WICB and the ways he has been treated unfairly by them.

(Barbados Nation) Tragedy has struck the home of a St George family, claiming two lives, including that of a three-month-old baby.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat tore past the Philadelphia 76ers with an explosive fourth-quarter surge for a 100-94 road win yesterday.

(ICC) The West Indies team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its seven-run victory over Pakistan in the Twenty20 International (T20I) in St Lucia on Thursday.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Devendra Bishoo bowled memorably on his debut to follow-up a purposeful 65 from Lendl Simmons, and propel West Indies to a seven-run victory in their first-ever Twenty20 International against Pakistan yesterday.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – West Indies leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo is focussed on carving out a long and successful international career.

A solid half century from Khemraj Rupee of the Demerara Cricket Club A Team combined with the disciplined bowling from his teammates were not enough to secure a win over the DCC B Team yesterday in round three of the GCA/Brainstreet Under-15 One-day tournament.

The soldier accused of fatally shooting Colombian Jose Arturo Castillo Balcazar was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

The Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP) talks have not moved as swiftly as expected and as the main opposition PNCR approaches its General Council next month, it is pressing for something definitive to emerge from the discussions.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Kyle Mayers stroked 98 from 100 balls to set West Indies Under-19s up for a series-clinching, 18-run victory over Australia in the final match of the Dubai Youth Series yesterday.

A tug of war between ancient traditions and modern regulations continues as Hindus in New York – many of them Guyanese – embrace their religious rituals leading to a rise in debris in Jamaica Bay to the dismay of park rangers.

Police ranks on Tuesday discovered and destroyed a cannabis farm at Millie’s Hide Out, Linden Soesdyke Highway with some 2,000 plants most of which were around seven feet high.

The Stag Beer & El Dorado Rum Softball Cricket Tournament continued last weekend across the country at various venues.

Andre Lopes upstaged Rudy Grant in the Men’s Over-35 Singles as the Macorp Tennis Open continued last Wednesday at  Le Meridien  Pegasus Hotel tennis courts.

A man, who declined to make an application for bail, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton after he was charged with attempting to poison his employer.

Fisherman, Gansran Ramdat has suffered a string of robberies over the years and on Wednesday night an armed gang robbed one of his boats at the Montrose foreshore.

The troubled Good Hope Stelling was back in operation on Wednesday afternoon and Senior Government Engineer Walter Willis is confident that the fault will not recur.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has launched a programme to educate cricketers and officials on how to avoid corruption and be on their best behaviour in the sport.

Former Linden swimming champion Onan Orlando Thom who was wanted by police turned himself in to law enforcement agents yesterday afternoon.

The parents of the 12-year-old boy of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, who attempted to hang himself, have been taken into custody.

(Jamaica Gleaner) ‘I was forced to make this decision based on what was happening around me.”

Sukhdai Ramkilaum who was found murdered in her home was buried yesterday even as the police continue their search for the perpetrator/s of this gruesome crime.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Often criticised by Los  Angeles Lakers fans for being a ‘ball hog’, Kobe Bryant played  the role of facilitator to perfection on Wednesday as the NBA  champions levelled their playoff series with New Orleans.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s smooth-running 800  metres world record holder David Rudisha has ruled out competing  in either the 400 or 1500 events in the near future.

Returns from the first edition of a planned quarterly Survey of Consumer Sentiment across ten Caribbean Community (Caricom) member states indicate that an average of only 14 per cent of consumers in those countries – Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and St Kitts think highly of their governments’ economic policies.

A man was killed yesterday when the wheels of a vehicle he was travelling in crushed his legs while on the Puruni trail, Middle Mazaruni.

Contracts were signed by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday  to have work started on 10 projects that form part of the 2011 programme in which a total of $489,916,429 is being invested.

“No airline has really ever really focused on the Caribbean as we have.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to your article in the Stabroek News dated 21st April 2011 captioned, `Canada refugee couple should have reported threats to police’.

For much of this year the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) has sought to maintain a high profile and this newspaper has been engaging the association at the level of its President, Mr Clinton Williams, in an effort to secure information on its activities.

Dear Editor, I learnt from last week’s Business Page on the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport that there is a fund called the Arts and Sports Development Fund.

A 42-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton after he appeared on three different charges, one of which was obtaining money by false pretence.

MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – The United States has started using armed drones against Muammar Gaddafi’s troops, who battled rebels at close quarters on the streets of Misrata, despite Western threats to step up a month-old air war.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach sounded an ominous warning for Shane Mosley on Wednesday, saying his fighter had never prepared better for a bout ahead of their May 7 showdown in Las Vegas.

An 18-year-old female was yesterday placed on $80,000 bail after she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton for allegedly forging a CXC certificate in order to obtain employment.

MOHALI, India,  (Reuters) – Shaun Marsh struck a  stroke-filled half century as Kings XI Punjab trounced a sloppy  Rajasthan Royals by 48 runs for their third successive victory  in the Indian Premier League yesterday.

Dear Editor, As the polls in the USA show Donald Trump in first place among the Republican candidates and as he has started to attack President Barack Obama, the next presidential elections in 2012 is looming as a great showdown between those who want to carry America back to the past and those who support Obama.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The left-leaning New Democratic Party has exploded from an also-ran in Canada’s election campaign to a potential spoiler that could change the Canadian balance of power.

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Dear Editor, It is with extreme disgust that I am writing to lament the callous and blatant disregard for privacy and the environment by the Taxi drivers of the Green Ice Taxi service located in South Ruimveldt Gardens.

Economic Independence No fireworks have been set off.  No carnival parties are taking place. 

A 20-year-old Guyanese remand prisoner was yesterday jailed for three months wounding a fellow female inmate who caught her having sex with a male prisoner.

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Barely audible above the chants of “traitor”, an Israeli actress who lost a leg in a Palestinian attack read out yesterday a declaration by Israeli intellectuals endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state.

OK…so who is going to help us get these things up in the air?

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s President-elect Michel Martelly has a popular mandate and U.S.

A pastry vendor was on Tuesday placed on $35,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accused of stealing a woman’s gold chain.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – World number one Rafa Nadal cruised into the Barcelona Open quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-1 victory over unseeded Colombian Santiago Giraldo yesterday to set up a last-eight clash against Gael Monfils.

Five Guyanese agro processors will get an opportunity to showcase their products on the international stage at the May 8 – 14 SIAL 11 Agricultural Trade Show in Toronto Canada.

Dear Editor, It is heartening to hear about the recent agreement between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) about higher pay and greater benefits for present-day teachers.

NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – Go ahead. Have that second cup of coffee — or maybe even a third.

With transactions in foreign currency, particularly US Dollars having long become commonplace in the Guyanese business culture , local business houses including cambios continue to face the threat of counterfeit currency.

With transactions in foreign currency, particularly US Dollars having long become commonplace in the Guyanese business culture , local business houses including cambios continue to face the threat of counterfeit currency.

Dear Editor, Permit me space in your column to share my view on a sport topic, i.e.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka Cricket will allow  its IPL contracted cricketers to play in the Indian Premier  League until May 19 before joining the rest of the team in  England, the board said yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters Life!) – A Malaysian state’s move to send 57 schoolboys with “effeminate tendencies” to a boot camp aimed at counselling them on masculine behaviour has angered rights groups in the Southeast Asian country.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – President Raul Castro’s admission at a Communist Party congress that Cuba lacks successors for its aging leaders underlined the old guard’s inability to give up power and its struggle to preserve the Revolution.

Beginning with this issue the Stabroek Business will be publishing a Caribbean Stock Report which is being made available to the newspaper by the Department of Management Studies of UWI’s Cave Hill Campus.

Dear Editor, Unfortunately the concept of shared governance has often taken on such a vague, indeterminate, and clichéd meaning that the connotation attached to it is molded solely by whatever significance a particular speaker gives it at the moment.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Jimmy Kamande has been sacked as Kenya’s captain after their dismal performance at the recent World Cup.

In my lead caption and “story”, it’s former Police Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe I mean.

STUTTGART, Germany,  (Reuters) – World number one Caroline Wozniacki survived an early scare to win 10 straight games and crush German Andrea Petkovic 6-4 6-1 yesterday for a spot in the last four of the Stuttgart Grand Prix.

Cuba’s Communist Party inaugurated its first Congress in 14 years on April 16, exactly 50 years since Fidel Castro confirmed his embrace of socialism, the adoption of a centralised Soviet-style economy and one-party rule.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – The United States violated global trade law by shutting down Internet gambling sites based in Antigua and elsewhere and prosecuting their owners, according to Antigua and Barbuda officials considering action in the World Trade Organization.

Look, I can even look away and do this: Joshua Charles of the

Dear Editor, SN’s 2011-04-06 edition carried in its insert, The Guyana Review, April – June 2011 Volume 18, Issue No 2, an article by Shaun Michael Samaroo captioned, `Healing the Burnham/Jagan Schism’ on the Alliance For Change Presidential Candidate Mr.

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In light of Easter kite flying activities on Monday, certain roads in Georgetown will be closed to vehicular traffic.

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