Articles published on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed on a suicide watch at the New York jail where he is being held on charges of sexual assault and attempted rape of a hotel maid, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case said on Tuesday.
President Bharrat Jagdeo announced today that government will pay out $300M in severance to sugar workers from Diamond who had taken legal action against the state for withholding the monies.
An unidentified man was this morning shot in the abdomen after he was reportedly caught breaking into a car parked at Premniranjan Place, Prashad Nagar.
(Trinidad Guardian) For the past decade, intelligence units have been gathering information on the expansion of the Chinese Triad, a highly organised criminal unit which has spread its tentacles throughout the Caribbean.
(Trinidad Express) Low fares airline REDjet said yesterday it will pursue legal action against the Trinidad and Tobago Government if the State does not honour agreements between Caricom countries over aviation rights.
(Trinidad Express) West Indies coach Ottis Gibson has had his say to star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul and has left the ball in his crease.
(Trinidad Express) “Mr Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning is accordingly suspended from the service of this House with immediate effect,” declared House Speaker Wade Mark last night.
The government yesterday announced that 600 house lots are to be developed for Bartica.
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child more than ten years ago with a member of his household staff, the Los Angeles Times reported today.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados Defence Force Sports Programme’s Jason Lovell and Stephen “Shakes Man” Griffith are the two newcomers in the new-look Barbados senior football team selected last weekend for two friendly internationals against Guyana in Georgetown on Friday and Sunday.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Bill Gates called today for strengthened immunisation programmes against infectious diseases to save 4 million lives by 2015 and 10 million lives by 2020 during a “decade of vaccines”.
(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Due to a lack of a vision for development and leadership, Suriname could not take full advantage of the 3.5 billion Dutch guilders in development aid it was given by the Netherlands in 1975.
CNN anchor Don Lemon comes out as a gay man in his new book, a disclosure he knows comes at a risk, the Associated Press reported today.
(Barbados Nation) Against a growing chorus of disgust in Jamaica, Sir Hilary Beckles, principal of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, has apologized to former West Indies captain Chris Gayle for statements he made during a recent lecture in St Kitts.
Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is a logical and reasonable set of proposals but it does not consider in detail the balance of obligations and rewards to different groups and sectors of society, a report on the impact of Norwegian support here, has said.
Murdered former boxer Linden Mortley was on the police radar for more than a decade for ties to organised crime, including narcotics and firearm trafficking, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.
A team of senior RUSAL officials is in Guyana to investigate a complaint by the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on behalf of Aroaima workers against the General Manager of Operations of the local subsidiary and will meet the Labour Ministry and the union on Friday.
With some $6.5 million in advances still outstanding for the period 1997- 2009, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament yesterday ripped into the regional administration of Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) for its lackadaisical approach in addressing the issue.
Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc last year recorded an after-tax profit of $14,521,654, after recovering from a challenging 2009, when it registered a loss of $904,490,277 on the back of the writing off of impaired Allen Stanford investments.
Sections of the trail linking Region Nine to the coastland have started to deteriorate after recent heavy rains, leaving both residents of the Lethem border community and motorists on edge.
An infamous car-parts thieving ring called the ‘Salt Fish Gang’ has struck again, this time at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara and one of its teenage members, who has a matter in court, was caught while police are seeking his accomplices.
A 45-year-old Anna Regina machine operator was on Sunday afternoon admitted to the Suddie Hospital following an industrial accident at his worksite during which he lost part of his right hand.
Hit-and-run survivor Cedric Clement said yesterday he was still undecided about agreeing to a settlement with the driver of the vehicle who caused the death of his daughter Althea Clement and left him nursing injuries in hospital.
Some 100 breeding animals were distributed to livestock farmers from across the country at the Guyana Livestock Development Authority, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara last Friday.
A man accused of narcotics trafficking, possession of stolen property and firearm and ammunition offences, was yesterday refused bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Captain Darren Sammy and pacer Ravi Rampaul have made significant jumps in the latest International Cricket Council bowlers’ rankings, following outstanding performances in the first Test against Pakistan which West Indies won by 40 runs on Sunday.
The prosecution yesterday made oral submissions to the court in the matter in which social activist Mark Benschop and columnist Freddie Kissoon have been accused of obstruction of municipal works at the Cemetery Road dumpsite.
Mackenzie High School student Jamal Adams accumulated four points from seven rounds to win the junior category while Malcolm Archer played unbeaten to win the senior category of the Kei-Shar’s sponsored One-Day Rapid Chess tournament held at the Linden Constabulary Recreational Hall on Sunday.
The 16-year-old pregnant teenager, who was beaten last Friday by a male relative, was on Sunday night readmitted to the hospital in a weakened state and doctors are now monitoring her condition.
A bowling attack having four Test bowlers bowled to its world-class potential for once and Deccan Chargers’ batting did not stumble chasing a middling total to end Pune Warriors’ slim hopes of making the play-offs.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies cricket chief Julian Hunte has joined in applauding the regional side’s surprise 40-run win over Pakistan in the first Test which ended Sunday in Guyana.
NYAHURURU, Kenya, (Reuters) – Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru plunged to his death from the first-floor balcony of his home after the athlete’s wife found him in bed with another woman, police told Reuters.
A Community Policing Group member and his wife were refused bail when they appeared at the Springlands Court before Magistrate Krishndat Persaud, charged with possession of an unlicensed fiearm.
Georgetown, Guyana – West Indies Team Manager Richie Richardson has praised the team for its fantastic showing in the First Digicel Test, which they won by 40 runs on Sunday.
Ranwattie Rabindranauth, known as “Shirley,” was yesterday fined $25,000 by Magistrate Fabayo Azore for making a false report to police that her neighbour assaulted her.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Players union WIPA said yesterday West Indies’ first Test win over Pakistan emphasised the need for experience and youth in the team selection policy.
THE HAGUE/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The world’s top war crimes prosecutor sought an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of killing protesters who want an end to end his four-decade rule.
Chief Instructor of the Guyana Wado Ryu Karate Association Sensei Winston Dunbar said he was pleased with the performances of the participants at last Sunday’s Junior Karate championships held at Banks DIH Sports Club at Thirst Park.
As the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the treason matter against Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Major Bruce Munroe, his wife Carol Ann Munroe and ex-soldier Leonard Wharton continued yesterday, Quincy Critchlow once again continued his testimony in the witness box.
Road repairs: Ministry of Public Works workers patching a section of Carmichael Street yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The IMF executive board was briefed on criminal charges against Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday and will monitor developments in the case, the fund said in a statement.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester City captain Carlos Tevez has repeated his threat to leave the club to be closer to his family in Argentina.
Dear Editor, In making his case for an increased financial contribution to the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation President Jagdeo is quoted as saying that “government’s commitment to sugar has nothing to do with the workers being ‘a party support base,’ but rather with the development of the sector which contributes some 16 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product.”
Social activist Mark Benschop yesterday cross-examined Assistant Superintendent Rishi Das, when his trial over obstructing the use of the road with his vehicle commenced before Magistrate Chandra Sohan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Dear Editor,Upon the release of Cuban scholarship application forms in 2005, more than 300 persons applied for the field of medicine in which there were only 20 openings.
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori has hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as an adviser, trying to bolster her law-and-order credentials without relying on the image of her divisive father, jailed former President Alberto Fujimori.
Two men yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where one was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $30,000 for cocaine trafficking, while the other will appear in Court 5 today after he was refused bail in the same matter.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Chicago’s defence stifled LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to set-up an easy 103-82 victory over the Miami Heat in the opening game of their Eastern Conference Finals series on Sunday.
Dear Editor, The GRA has issued a directive to the authorities responsible for the issuing of shop licences, both new and those which have been renewed.
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities interrogated a teenager yesterday wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, local intelligence officials said.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A young Oklahoma City team take on the wily Texas sharp-shooters of Dallas in a Western showdown between the Mavericks and Thunder starting today with the survivor heading on to the NBA Finals.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene’s condition has improved, as he is now speaking, this newspaper was told yesterday.
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth arrives in Dublin today for a state visit steeped in symbolism and gestures designed to underline how warm neighbourly relations have replaced centuries of animosity.
Dear Editor, Both the organizers and workers of the Linden Hospital Complex must be commended for turning out on May 1, 2011, to demonstrate and celebrate the historical and noble cause – workers solidarity.
A post-mortem examination (PME) performed yesterday on the body of Port Kaituma miner George Persaud revealed that he died from heart failure.
The Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) in collaboration with the Guyana Tennis Coaches Association (GTCA) last weekend held an International Tennis Federation (ITF) Play and Stay course for coaches.
A man who confessed to stealing two crocheted hats and assaulting a woman at the Port Mourant Market was yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment Jerry Joseph pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Magistrate Fabayo Azore to a year each on charges of larceny and unlawful assault.
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) third annual cricket academy for 60 young cricketers was officially launched last Thursday at the BCB’s office in Cheddi Jagan Street, New Amsterdam.
Dear Editor, Our cricket team’s victory over Pakistan is cause for much celebration, but more importantly the mode of victory calls for kudos to be given to the captain, coach and management of this team.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A visiting senior United States senator warned Pakistanis yesterday that members of Congress were asking “tough questions” about economic aid to Islamabad after Osama bin Laden was killed on Pakistani soil.
By Jillian Johnson Hot Momma’s advice: Ask your children specific questions after giving them time to lime, and don’t forget to share your day too!
The 2011 Ramcharitar Associated Construction Service 40-overs first division knockout cricket tournament was launched last Friday at the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) office in New Amsterdam.
Last week’s undertaking by Mayor Hamilton Green to exhaust “all avenues” to find a solution to the city council’s never-ending financial dilemma would probably have gone unnoticed among a sizeable portion of city dwellers.
Claims and objections: A registrant having his photo taken yesterday at the Guyana Elections Commission office at
(Jamaica Observer) – A minor earthquake was felt in several areas of Jamaica minutes after 10 yesterday morning.
Dear Editor, Now that we have accepted capitalism as our development paradigm, it is sometimes tragic to watch how private sector interests seem to triumph over matters related to social and human development.
