Daily Archive: Monday, July 11, 2011

Dr. Kenrick Semple recently graduated from the University of South Florida (Tampa) with a Ph.D.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Nankishore Phuljaria, 61 years, of Annandale, ECD, whose body was found in a trench at Good Hope, ECD, at about 0630h.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0830h today at the “One Love”  Pawnshop at Vigilance, ECD, during which two female sales clerks were attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

Police Constable Cleon Moriah was today charged with manslaughter following investigations into the death of Terry Wayne Jack of Orealla, who was shot while at the Orealla Police Outpost on July 04, 2011.

A fire this afternoon destroyed the top storey of a Cummings Street, Albertown house.

The police say they are investigating an accident that occurred at about1500h yesterday at Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, and which resulted in the death of Rubena Hutson, 56, years, of Independence Boulevard, Georgetown.

Natasha Johnson, who was severely burnt when her Plaisance home went up in flames on July 4, succumbed to her injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former FIFA vice-president and president of CONCACAF, Jack Warner, was warned by the CONCACAF general secretary that the payment of the expenses for the special meeting of regional football delegates at the Hyatt by Mohammed Bin Hammam “would raise ethical issues.”

(Trinidad Express) The daughter of burn victim Nowmattie Ramnat-Ramphal said she will not rest until she finds out exactly what happened to her mother the night she died.

(Jamaica Observer) At near 3:30 am on Sunday morning a weary audience inside Kingston’s National Indoor Sports Centre applauded the newly-crowned beauty queen, Shakira Martin as she made her first walk as Miss Jamaica Universe 2011.

(Jamaica Observer) FARM, Westmoreland — Angry residents yesterday hacked, then set ablaze the body of 25-year-old security guard Roche Tomlinson which was found in a banana field a day after he shot dead the mother of his two-week-old daughter and his mother-in-law.

(Barbados Nation) Two Caribbean prime ministers and this country’s Minister of Health are at odds with president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP), Dr Carlos Chase, over last week’s criticism of doctors trained in Cuba.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – If he gets the required permit from the Surinamese government, entrepreneur Bidjaikoemar Ori wants to start this year with the construction of a facility for so-called ‘green coals’.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists have found a  “superbug” strain of gonorrhoea in Japan that is resistant to  all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once  easily treatable infection into a global public health threat.

After serving for nearly 12 years as the country’s executive president, President Bharrat Jagdeo says that there are no “major” changes he would recommend to the post since the powers currently afforded allow whoever holds the position to be effective in office.

-delegates who snubbed election deemed to have abstainedRamsey Ali became the new president of the Guyana Cricket Board yesterday at the GCC pavilion amidst controversy and an unprecedented media shutout.

The Guyana Defence Force yesterday published the names and photographs of some 156 of its members as being Absent Without Leave (AWOL) and is seeking the public’s assistance in locating them.

A 17-year-old boy was yesterday afternoon crushed to death by a skidder while the machine was pulling logs along the UNAMCO trail at Kwakwani in Region 10.

Twenty-three-year-old Kara Lord sashayed and answered her way to the Miss Guyana Universe crown yesterday morning.

A 42-year old Port Kaituma resident was severely burnt about the body on Wednesday evening following an altercation with another man.

At age 12, Sateshwar Raghanandan of D’ Edward Ketting, West Bank Berbice behaves as though he is much younger and can barely walk on his own although he was born a normal child.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s typically defiant 23rd Test hundred, and two crucial wickets for Ravi Rampaul helped West Indies escape with a draw in the third and final Test against India yesterday.

A man accused of having in his possession an unlicensed gun and ammunition at a mining camp was on Friday remanded to prison after making his appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A taxi driver accused of robbing his passenger at gunpoint was on Friday remanded to prison after making his appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Ashley Khalil is in seemingly good form as she downed her Guyanese counterpart Mary Fung-A-Fat in the girl’s under-19 category on Saturday at the Georgetown Club Courts to advance to the final of the Digicel Caribbean Junior Squash Championships.

Defending Champions, Kwakwani Secondary held off McKenzie High School on Saturday to make it into the finals of the 2011 National Schools’ Basketball Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Fifteen youths from Rasville, Roxanne Burnham Gardens  will be employed under the Ministry of Agriculture’s Community Enhancement Programme to clear their community’s drains and canals that have been neglected by the Mayor and City Council.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Asafa Powell led  home a Jamaican 1-2-3 in the 100 metres at the Diamond League event in Birmingham yesterday although the damp conditions meant  the former world record holder had to be content with a time of 9.91 seconds.

The recently-formed Linden Civic Society (LCS) has identified its shadow ministers for the main government sectors and has revealed that it intends to employ round-table discussions in dealing with issues, as its membership begins to grow.

The man who allegedly stabbed his wife after an argument on July 7 is to appear in the Leonora Magistrates’ Court today and his wife remains a patient at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday opined that the existing problems within the Guyana Cricket Board have in some way contributed to the inefficient manner in which the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has been managing regional cricket.

CORDOBA, (Reuters) – Substitute Fred struck in the  final minute as Brazil came from behind to draw 2-2 with  Paraguay in Group B at the Copa America on Saturday.

Dear Editor, Trinidad’s refusal to allow REDjet to fly aims to monopolize Guyana market.

A man accused of stealing his cousin’s car was on Friday admitted to bail in the sum of $250,000 after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Ministry of Education says 156,000 school uniform vouchers have been distributed to coastland students and the remaining 9,000 will be handed out when the second phase of the initiative starts today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British government lawyers are  drawing up plans to block Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy out the  broadcaster BSkyB, the Independent newspaper said on Monday — a  move that could spare Prime Minister David Cameron a potentially  damaging parliamentary vote.

Dear Editor,The contenders list for the coming elections is now, with the creation of APNU, complete.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Andre Agassi was inducted into  the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, almost five  years after he retired from the game.

CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia unveiled its most  sweeping economic reform in decades on Sunday with a plan to tax  carbon emissions from the nation’s worst polluters, reviving  hopes of stronger global climate action with the largest  emissions trade scheme outside Europe.

Dear Editor, In reference to Mike Persaud’s letter in SN (‘Coalition government and shared governance are different concepts,’ July 5), he accuses me of not understanding the difference between coalition government and shared governance, and Editor, I have to suppress a chuckle which breaks into a wide laugh when he pontificates from his Queens, New York safe perch with his nonsense.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – An Istanbul court jailed the  chairman of league champions Fenerbahce yesterday pending trial  on charges of match-fixing, in an investigation which could  result in the club being stripped of their title.

IMPACS (the CARICOM Implementation Agency  for Crime and Security) says that Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was misquoted in the Trinidad Express on July 5, 2011 in  its article that attributed the following statement to her: “CARICOM Heads ….have

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso  won the British Grand Prix yesterday for Ferrari’s first victory  of the season at the same circuit where 60 years ago they had  enjoyed their first success in Formula One.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Interpol has circulated arrest  warrants for four suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese  statesman Rafik al-Hariri, U.N.-backed

Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Been has called on stakeholders in the aviation sector to maintain high levels of safety and security at the country’s airports.

Dear Editor, In a bid to ‘develop’ the Guyanese film industry, President Bharrat Jagdeo has pledged $30 million to a project entitled ‘President Film Endowment Project 2011.’

Dear Editor, The ‘open hands’ symbol chosen by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) represents a powerful call to all Guyanese to ‘unclench your fists.’

Alissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora Column In her column last Saturday in the Stabroek News, Stella Ramsaroop shared with readers some of the text from her interviews with three Presidential candidates – David Granger (APNU), Donald Ramotar (PPP), Khemraj Ramjattan (AFC) – on the question of how each of them would address domestic violence.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper  reported yesterday that News of the World journalists had  offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private  phone records of victims of the Sept.

APNU Presidential Candidate, Brigadier (ret’d) David Granger and Campaign Director, Joseph Harmon on Thursday met with the Rastafarian Council to determine if there was opportunity for them to work together.

CORDOBA, Argentina, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi’s  Argentina put their Copa America fortunes on the line today  (0045 GMT Tuesday) against a Costa Rica side assembled at the  last minute.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is  withholding some $800 million in military assistance to  Pakistan in a show of displeasure over its cutback on U.S. 

Dear Editor, If our police can’t catch the thieves on land what about the pirates who have the open sea as well as harbours to run to?

APNU and PNCR Presidential Candidate David Granger presented Region 10’s top three performers with book vouchers that would be extended throughout their secondary school years at a simple ceremony hosted at the Egbert Benjamin Conference Centre in Linden.

In our previous column on June 27, 2011 we summarized the principles, recommended by the international NGO known as ARTICLE 19, which should be embodied in Freedom of Information legislation.

ST FLOUR, France,  (Reuters) – France’s Thomas  Voeckler seized the Tour de France reins in a crash-ridden ninth  stage yesterday with more favourites caught up in the carnage.

(Trinidad Express) A Guyanese woman was burnt to death on Friday night after she was trapped in her house.

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When the definitive analysis of Mr Rupert Murdoch’s torpedoing of his 1969 acquisition News of the World is written it will undoubtedly conclude that the ever ruthless media baron wasn’t really concerned with the ethical transgressions of the tabloid but rather with self-preservation.

Father Linus Wall, 92, is gravely ill in a Scarborough,

INVERNESS, Scotland, (Reuters) – Luke  Donald tightened his grip on the world number one position  going into the British Open when the Briton swept to a Scottish  Open victory yesterday.

Dear Editor, Editor I have resisted calling the President of Guyana a dictator but after listening to his remarks at his last press conference, there is no doubt that the title is deserved.

Miss Guyana Universe 2011

This week we asked the man and woman in the street whether they thought deportees should be given a second chance on their return to Guyana and whether some form of public assistance should be provided for them by the government or other institution to help them get back on their feet.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Nearly 100 people were missing  after a tourist boat sank in Russia’s Volga river yesterday,  killing at least one person, emergency services officials said.