Daily Archive: Thursday, April 28, 2011

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.S. envoy to the  United Nations told the Security Council today that  troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were increasingly  engaging in sexual violence and some had been issued the  impotency drug Viagra, diplomats said.

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Pakistan took an unassailable 3-0 lead in their five match  one-day international against West Indies after winning y three wickets at the Kensington Oval  today.

The Guyana Prison Service says that three prisoners were injured during separate incidents in the Male Block and Remands Dining Hall respectively, at the New Amsterdam Prison yesterday.

The police say they are investigating a shooting incident that occurred at about 2235h yesterday during which Kevin La Fleur, 24 years of Fyrish, Corentyne, was shot and injured at Chesney Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala., (Reuters) – Tornadoes and  violent storms ripped through seven southern U.S.

(Barbados Nation) Plenty of empty seats! That’s what may confront die-hard cricket lovers who have purchased tickets for today’s third Digicel One-Day International between West Indies and Pakistan at Kensington Oval.

Large shipments of alcohol and cigarettes believed smuggled from Guyana were seized in Nickerie, Suriname supermarkets over the weekend.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Police Commissioner Krishna Hussainali-Mathoera of the Surinamese police Force cannot yet say whether they will be victorious in the fight against drug related crime but she is certain that they have hit them where it hurts this year.

(De Ware Tijd)  THE HAGUE — From 2007 till 2010, the Surinamese Embassy in Beijing has issued a visa to “only” 3,299 Chinese.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain has withdrawn the royal  wedding invitation to Syria, with the support of Buckingham  Palace, after a violent crackdown against pro-democracy  supporters, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.

Businessman and avid softball cricketer Bedi Ramjeiwan was brutally beaten and then fatally shot at the head of his street during a brazen morning attack shortly after conducting business at a city bank.

Political leadership has failed the business community presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan said yesterday, pledging that new policies under an AFC-led government will see an end to the suffocating of the entrepreneur class.

An argument between two miners ended tragically on Saturday when one man chopped the other to death at Moruka, North West District (NWD).

Former Police Corporal Diana Chichester yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where charges of negligently permitting persons

Three persons who allegedly broke and entered the XU-QUIN store and stole more than $11.2M worth of goods were yesterday granted bail when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Captain Darren Sammy says an improved performance from his batsmen and bowlers will be needed if West Indies are to arrest their losing slide against Pakistan when the third One-Day International bowls off here today.

Like hundreds of overseas-based Guyanese, Egerton David planned his vacation to Guyana to coincide with Linden Town Week activities, to celebrate the town’s 42nd anniversary and to participate in a forum aimed at generating ideas to boost livelihoods.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officials have reneged on a promise they reportedly made to assist with transporting the body of Colombian businessman Jose Arturo Castillo Balcazar back to his home base, a relative said yesterday.

Pele Football Club which is celebrating its 40th anniversary had another reason to celebrate when the club’s Under-15 team made a clean sweep of the inaugural Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst Orange Juice Under-15 tournament.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies Under-19s coach Roddy Estwick has praised the character of his side after they beat Australia’s Under-19s in their one-off three-day “Test” here Tuesday.

Some sections of Port Kaituma in Region One, including the community’s only hospital, have been without water for almost two weeks.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Players union WIPA has joined in the praise for the West Indies Under-19s following their successful tour of Dubai.

Police late Tuesday released those persons held following the Monday night Windsor Forest melee during which three villagers were shot and they have charged no one as yet.

A number of measures are to be implemented to discourage the presence of birds in the Timehri/Soesdyke areas, following Tuesday’s bird strike at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) which affected an outgoing Caribbean Airlines flight.

Ian Bagot and Luen David created a giant  upset Easter Monday at the No.63 Beach when they played unbeaten to win the First Beach Classic 2 vs.

PPP Presidential Candidate Donald Ramotar says he will not consider parliamentary representation for the Diaspora “No.

By Treiston Joseph The week-long celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of Pele Football Club hosted by the Pele Alumni past greats continued yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground with a coaches seminar/tutorial along with a mini-camp for kids 12 years old and under.

When AFC presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan told residents of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice to stop fearing African Guyanese, he did not intend to incite racial hostility but was rather urging the gathering to pursue racial harmony, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has ruled.

Guyana Women in Development (Guywid) is  the latest beneficiary of a monetary donation from the Floodlights softball cricket team of Georgetown.

Despite seeing its overall export sales decline by $35.4 million (16%), Sterling Productions Inc recorded an after-tax profit of $94.4 million in 2010, a decrease of 2 per cent from the $96.4 million recorded in 2009.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies speedster Kemar Roach has labelled today’s third One-Day International against Pakistan as a must-win match in the series. 

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Derrick Rose showed no effects  of his injured left ankle as the Chicago Bulls pushed their way  past the Indiana Pacers with a 116-89 first round playoff series-ending rout on Tuesday.

While assistance continued to trickle in, the victims of the Easter Monday fire have set up a makeshift shelter at the front of the burnt out Barrack Street, Kingston building that they once called their home.

Former swimming champion Onan Orlando Thom was arraigned on charges of armed robbery, abduction and the use of threatening behaviour, when he appeared on Tuesday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana Amateur Karate Association (GAKA) said Sheldon Aaron, Nicholas Samuels and Aquell Lindey emerged champions in its Easter tournament held on Monday in Kwakwani.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – The United States took steps  to throw a financial lifeline to rebels controlling eastern  Libya while forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi focused their  firepower on pockets of resistance in the west.  

Another intriguing day of golf is anticipated this weekend when local telecommunications giant GT&T sponsors Saturday’s Medal Play Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara.

Canada-based Guyana Goldfields Inc has agreed to sell two of its mining properties here as well as its interest in another property for over US$6M as it focuses on its flagship Aurora Gold Project.

Dear Editor, Without an explanatory article in the Press, the Guyana Forestry Commission has recently posted documents which appear to relate to the illegal and improper issue of two forest concessions to the Vaitarna (VHPI) subsidiary of the Indian coffee retailer, Coffee Day. 

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Orlando Bosch, a militant  anti-communist Cuban exile who spent 11 years in jail in  Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner but was  later acquitted, died in Miami yesterday.

LONDON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Loyal PlayStation  gamers are threatening to ditch Sony Corp after it disclosed  that personal information for some 77 million user accounts was  stolen from its computer systems in one of the biggest-ever  data breaches.  

Dear Editor, They have pounced on Tacuma Ogunseye because he called on African Guyanese  to join marches in the villages to press for their inclusion in official decision making in a country they have inhabited for centuries.

During 2010, the Hand-in-Hand Mutual Life Assurance Company Ltd recorded a net increase in funds of $45,654,953, more than 12 times the $3,595,052 recorded the previous year.

Queen’s College defeated Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) by four wickets recently in a match of the Georgetown Cricket Association under-15 Cricket Tournament.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Director of the West Indies High Performance Centre, Toby Radford has suddenly parted ways with the academy less than a year following its unveiling.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  will today name CIA Director Leon Panetta to become U.S. 

Two of three persons were each sentenced to three years imprisonment on Tuesday by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton who found them guilty of trafficking 102 grammes of cannabis.

Dear Editor, When Agriculture Minister Mr. Robert Persaud held his press conference on April 12, 2011 to defend the permit/agreement over 1.82 million acres granted to the Indian company Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc.,

Social activist Mark Benschop and columnist Freddie Kissoon on Tuesday cross-examined another witness who took the stand to give evidence in the obstruction case against them.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Paceman Ishant Sharma bagged  five wickets in a spirited bowling display as Deccan Chargers   skittled Kochi Tuskers Kerala for 74 in a 55-run win in the  Indian Premier League yesterday.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – More than 200 members of Syria’s  ruling Baath Party quit yesterday over President Bashar  al-Assad’s violent repression of pro-democracy protests, the  first public sign of serious dissent within the governing ranks.  

Dear Editor, The Honourable Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has given us, in a rare intervention of its kind, the benefit of his views on the call for shared governance and the Afro-Guyanese situation (SN letter of April 27 “So long as rigged elections ….by

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has ordered an immediate halt to the bulldozing of farmlands throughout Trinidad and Tobago.

Taxi diver Ramesh Pattiram was last evening rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after being struck down by a speeding car at the Coldingen turn, on the East Coast Demerara.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Is Pope John Paul II  approaching his halo too fast? 

Dear Editor, A letter on, among other things the PNC rigging (SN April 27), signed by Prime Minister Sam Hinds, was published by your newspaper on the same day as one written by myself on the same subject.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Duncan Fletcher will take over  as India’s new cricket coach from South African Gary Kirsten,  the Indian board (BCCI) said yesterday, and his first  assignment could be to lead the team on their tour of England in  July.

No milk

The man who was struck down at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice around 10:30 am on Easter Monday succumbed to his injuries and was identified the following day as Sukhnandan Ragunandan, 25.

(Trinidad Express) Murdered businessman Anthony Chen was identified by police as the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Chinese businesswoman Xue Hua Shan.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Weight loss surgery appears  to change the body’s metabolism in a way that dieting alone  cannot, helping to explain why diabetes often disappears after  the surgery even before much weight is lost, U.S.

Dear Editor, The letter by Dominic Gaskin is the usual nonsense which the AFC letter writers, and there’s a batch of them, are trying to peddle to the citizens of Guyana; they might complain that I write many letters but every day, one of them is peddling AFC nonsense in the letter writing section of KN and SN.

Brazilian cowboy

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistani police have busted a  gang of bookmakers who were behind death threats to wicketkeeper  Zulqarnain Haider, they said yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters Life!) – The producers of a new  Broadway musical about the 1960s girl group The Shirelles have  been hit with a lawsuit charging them of pilfering the names  and likenesses of the original members.

The Stretch D Dollar Supermarket  in collaboration with the Flying Ace Cycling Club of Berbice will stage its first cycling event this year on Sunday on the West Coast of Berbice.

(Barbados Nation) Shanique Myrie is free to return to Barbados and point a finger at who she alleges assaulted her at the Grantley Adams International Airport last month.

GPL is conducting a major overhaul of its No 2 Unit at the new 207MW Kingston plant over the next 18 days and as such expects some amount of load shedding.

Dear Editor, I was blown away to read in last Sunday’s newspaper that one Guyanese-owned airline has more than 15 aircraft, operates four hangars and that there are as many as five pilots in one family!

Frequently Asked Questions This Ask the Consul article addresses questions that have been asked during recent interviews at the U.S.

A group of University of Guyana (UG) freshmen yesterday donated a number of books to promote literacy at several orphanages in the city.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Despite losing their second straight One Day International against Pakistan here Sunday, West Indies captain Darren Sammy remained upbeat his new look side could stage a fightback, though he conceded the task would be difficult heading into the third match today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dirty money can be laundered in T&T through real estate, jewelry stores,  money transfers, on-line lottery games, plus other business lines, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday. Ramlogan

Thursday Cartoon

Dear Editor, Please allow me space to thank Mr. Yog Mahadeo and the management of GT&T for reducing the none “E-magine” 256kbs DSL from $ 9,980 to $7,000.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday accepted the credentials of Smirnov Nikolay, approving him as the Russian Ambassador to Guyana.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – From Israel to Iran, Syria’s  neighbours are starting to contemplate the possibility of a  future without the Assad family as Lords of Damascus, and,  whether friends or foes, some don’t like what they see.

Got to improve

Innovation stands as the new buzz word of the world’s top business leaders.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Eight troops and a civilian  contractor killed in a Kabul airport shooting yesterday were  all Americans, a Pentagon spokesman said.  

According to World Bank estimates more than $1 trillion are paid in bribes each year out of an annual world economy of $30 trillion.