Daily Archive: Saturday, April 23, 2011

A policeman was shot in his face and thigh today when he went to the rescue of a businesswoman who was being attacked by three men.

GROS ISLET, St. Lucia, (Reuters) – Misbah-ul-Haq struck an unbeaten 73 to lead Pakistan to a crushing eight-wicket victory over a new-look West Indies side in the opening one-day international today.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Captain Virender Sehwag and Australian David Warner blazed half-centuries to lift bottom team Delhi Daredevils to a 29-run victory over Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier league on Saturday.

MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan troops captured by rebels in Misrata said today the army had been ordered to retreat from the western port, and a rebel spokesman said soldiers had booby-trapped bodies and buildings as they fled.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States launched its first Predator drone strike in Libya today, the Defense Department said in a statement.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office has busted a dozen smugglers who imported more than 4,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes into New York from Guyana among other places the New York Post reported yesterday.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – A second Syrian lawmaker told  al-Jazeera television today he was resigning from  parliament in protest at the killing of demonstrators.

Guyanese Poeran Maikel Gopi (32) and his associate Ricky Sardjoe (33) are on the top 10 list of the Police Corps of Suriname as the most wanted and dangerous criminals, according to the Star Nieuws of Suriname.

Travellers to the Lethem rodeo yesterday reported that the road  is in a terrible state and an accident on a bridge near Kurupukari  stopped heavy vehicles for many hours.

An Enterprise Primary School student went missing on Wednesday and his relatives fear that he might have been the victim of a kidnapping.

(Trinidad Guardian) The executive team of REDjet is appealing to governments of both Barbados and T&T for a speedy resolution regarding the necessary approvals for the airline to operate in T&T. The

(Trinidad Express) National Security Ministers from the Caricom Council of National Security and Law Enforcement (Consle) will meet next week to discuss and determine the appropriate actions in relation to corruption and misconduct allegations levelled against Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs) and its executive director Lynne Anne Williams.

Kurt Bess and Cleveland Fraser will clash for the vacant Cruiserweight title of Guyana when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) carries the Fight Night card to Linden for the Easter Monday bout at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground from 20:00hrs.

The St Kitts Netball Association (SKNA) has expressed condolences to the Guyana Netball Association as they mourn the passing of their  recently-appointed secretary and former vice-president Shondel Samaroo, whose life was abruptly cut short on Monday last as a result of a vehicular accident.

The second edition of the President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic which is set for May 22 at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground, Linden, starting from 14:00hrs will be headlined by two-time Commonwealth medalist and 400 metres specialist, Aliann Pompey.

GAWU President Komal Chand says the sugar corporation could close the first crop with a shortfall of around 38,000 tonnes of sugar based on current production numbers and the threat of approaching May/June rains.

The container, in which $700M in cocaine was found among logs when it arrived in Jamaica, was loaded and sealed the day before it left these shores.

President of  Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United team, Odinga Lumumba, who is also a Presidential Advisor, has emerged  as a challenger to GFF President Colin Klass for the Elections and Congress on May 27.

President of Synergy Holdings Inc. Fip Motilall has only been paid for the work he has completed so far on the Amaila Falls access road project, senior government engineer Walter Willis has said.

(Jamaica Observer) The country’s fight against crime is set to be bolstered with the arrival of two top North American crime fighters next week.

When completed later this year, Demerara Distillers Limited’s US$5 million state-of-the-art bio-methanization plant will become the company’s flagship of its green initiative.

Erik Helland-Hansen, the Head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)’s expert panel commissioned to evaluate the Amaila Falls Hydropower project in Guyana, has reportedly withdrawn a statement where he expressed concerns that the project’s developer Sithe Global LLC had not as yet taken adequate environmental considerations into their plans.

Bakery giants Bakewell renewed its sponsorship of one of Guyana’s most successful NGOs, Rose Hall Town, Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) yesterday with the company recommitting to the Under-17 and second division teams.

SN: How do you respond to the view that your selection was undemocratic, seeing that everybody withdrew and then you were the only candidate left?

Written submissions were not laid over to the court on Wednesday as expected in the matter against Ravi Mangar and Mark Reid for which they have been arraigned on witness tampering charges.

The trial in the armed robbery which Tyrone Rowe called “Cobra” is accused of committing on Mark Hunt and the matter in which he is accused of breaking a one-way mirror belonging to the Guyana Police Force did not continue on Wednesday as scheduled because of the absence of witnesses.

Seven-year-old Christine Melville would like nothing more than to be outside flying her kite on Easter Monday.

Richardo Dinzey was remanded by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton after he appeared before her on a simple larceny charge on Thursday.