Articles published on Thursday, July 28, 2011
The newest regional airline, low fare REDjet, finally touched down at Piarco International Airport this afternoon following weeks of back and forth talks between the airline and the Trinidad authorities who had initially denied the airline permission to land in the twin island.
At about 02:00h today, police ranks responded to a report of burglary in a house at Narine Street, Better Hope North, East Coast Demerara.
The PNCR this afternoon walked out of the National Assembly as the Broadcast Bill was about to be debated with the party’s leader, Robert Corbin, saying that the process “contravened every level of consultation.”
NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England paceman Chris Tremlett is a fitness doubt for the second test which starts on Friday while opponents India will be without their number one swing bowler Zaheer Khan.
A Guyanese has been appointed the new Chief Justice of Belize.
(Trinidad Guardian) A ministerial team, on its way to bring aid to Moruga residents, had to abort the trip yesterday as hundreds of angry villagers intensified their protest over last weekend’s incident in which three people were shot dead by police officers.
A farmer was yesterday shot and killed and his brother seriously wounded by persons who relatives said were “envious” of the fact that they were in possession of a rice field at Hogstye, Corentyne, Berbice.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Accusing the People’s National Party (PNP) of carrying out a campaign to derail Chinese investments amounting to more than US$1 billion in Jamaica, the Bruce Golding-led administration says thousands of jobs are now under threat as a result of “spurious aspersions” by the Opposition.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Education permanent secretary Robert Soentik has until tomorrow to finish ongoing matters.
(Barbados Nation) Thirty-five-year-old Shawn Anderson Sealy of Fairfield Black Rock, St Michael was shot dead by police in the area of Waterhall Land Bank Hall yesterday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) International dancehall artiste Mavado is scheduled to appear in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate Court on August 8 to answer criminal charges laid against him, following an incident in which two men were assaulted.
Colin Klass, president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), said yesterday that the GFF will not be responding to FIFA over the next 48 hours since they have not been informed of such a directive.
For all his well-known capacity to ‘soak up’ and brush aside criticism of the administration of football in Guyana during his twenty-odd year tenure as President of the Guyana Football Federation, Colin Klass must surely be more than a little bit ‘jittery’ about what could lie ahead as FIFA takes unerring aim at the role which they now appear to believe that affiliates of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) played in the so-called cash-for-votes scandal that has already seen the resignation of former FIFA Vice President Austin “Jack” Warner from football and the disgracing and booting out of football of the Quatari official Mohamed bin Hanman.
Presidential guards and others who acted as enforcers are to be charged following a bewildering attack on an East Bank sand business on Tuesday, sources say.
Guyanese Test and One Day International (ODI) umpire Clyde Duncan passed away yesterday in Trinidad & Tobago at the age of 57 while seeking medical attention for cancer.
After criticism that it has contributed to deaths by neglecting road safety, the Home Ministry has said that the police force has managed to reduce the road death rate, which is lower than the average in both low-income and middle-income countries.
By Colin Benjamin Guyana 103 (Hemraj 49, Davis 4-30, Mohammed 2-25, Hosein 2-3) and 6/1 (Surujnarine 6*, Khan 0*) need 147 to beat Trinidad 191 and 64 (Adams 5-16, Motie-Kanhai 3-0, Beaton 2-23) On a day in which spin exposed the faltering techniques and temperaments of both batting sides, which caused the pendulum to swing from one team to the other, 22 wickets fell, 18 to the spinners for a total of 198 runs, and, at the close of play, Guyana were 6-1 chasing 153 for an outright win.
The national women’s hockey team preparing for an upcoming international engagement on Tuesday received sponsorship from Digicel.
The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of security guard Ramsarran Persaud, of Good Hope, Mahaica, whose decomposing body was found in the East Demerara Conservancy, at Cane Grove, Easy Coast Demerara.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan test spinner Danish Kaneria will not be considered for national selection until the Pakistan Cricket Board have no remaining doubts about his integrity, the PCB told a High Court hearing Tuesday.
The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is moving to put measures in place to protect its employees in light of last week’s alleged attack on an inspection team by businessman Omprakash Shivraj and his workers, Chairman of the Scheme, Dr.
The Youth Basketball Guyana organization bounced off its youth basketball summer camp on Monday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
The Ministry of Agriculture has appointed a team to enquire into the issues involved in the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Cooperative Society and to make recommendations for their solution.
Office of the President (OP) Press and Publicity Officer Kwame Mc Coy called in a security officer during yesterday’s weekly post-cabinet press briefing, after an intense verbal exchange between a reporter and members of the head table.
By Treiston Joseph Edmond Declou and Joel McRae will do battle for the Interim Middleweight Title of Guyana when the 17th edition of the Fight Night card punches off tomorrow night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) from 20:00hrs.
Kuntia Dey Singh, who the prosecution said had the right-of-way when she allegedly hit a nurse with her vehicle, resulting in his death, was yesterday admitted to self bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
By Treiston Joseph The 2012 London Olympic Games countdown began yesterday with a press conference organised by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the British High Commission at the Umana Yana.
Technicians from the Hinter-land Electrification Unit will soon be dispatched to several Amerindian communities to start training Toshaos to install and maintain solar home systems currently being distributed there.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia included three uncapped bowlers in their 15-man squad named on Tuesday for three tests against Sri Lanka in an overhaul of the unit which was hammered by England in the Ashes debacle.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president Julian Hunte has described the death of umpire Clyde Duncan as an “immense loss” to the regional cricket fraternity.
Three Amerindian communities received their land titles at the opening of the National Toshaos Conference on Monday.
Police are investigating Tuesday’s night hit-and-run accident at Crane, West Coast Demerara that left a mother of three dead and a teen girl hospitalised.
Dear Editor, To all who have lost a loved one(s) on our roads, on behalf of the Alicea Foundation/Mothers In Black please accept our sincere condolences.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Kavem Hodge played a truly superb captain’s knock, stroking the first century of the WICB Regional Under-19 Championship, as Windward Islands dominated the Leeward Islands on the second day of their third round clash yesterday.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Barbados narrowly grabbed first innings lead over Jamaica yesterday, to take the advantage in their third round WICB Regional Under-19 match at Enmore.
Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ recent “assessment” of the Government of Guyana’s Access to Information Bill 2011, published in its editorial column on July 18, 2011 entitled ‘A deeply flawed Access to Information Bill,’ unpersuasively and unproductively seeks to cast doubt on the meritorious, sincere, good-faith efforts of our government to secure for our nation, the globally recognized fundamental right of access to information.
A Jamaican national died last Thursday after he reportedly fell out of the boat he was travelling in along the Berbice River, hitting his head in the process.
The in-form Demerara Cricket Club (GCC) and the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will clash today in the Tropical Mist Pee Wee cricket final at Thirst Park ground starting at 14:00 hours.
(Trinidad Express) This country will not be shut down by the labour movement and Government will survive whatever action it takes, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
Dear Editor The statement by the PPP/C contained in the welcome to Amerindian leaders featured in KN, that “From its inception, the PPP/C government has committed itself to improving the quality of life of the Amerindian people.”
Residents of Oronoque, Albert and Light streets in Queenstown are weary with the piles of mud outside their homes as a result of sewage line replacement being undertaken by a contractor on behalf of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) and which is expected to last a month.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Top Republicans and Democrats worked behind the scenes yesterday on a compromise to avert a crippling U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Trimming U.S. funding to the World Bank and other global lenders would reduce American influence in developing countries and give China a competitive edge, lawmakers were told yesterday.
Nealon Fernandes is the winner of the Nintendo Wii Showdown, hosted by Courts Guyana Inc last Friday.
Dear Editor, Despite their ideological and other shortcomings, Cheddi and Janet Jagan did not stand for certain things.
Amy Taxi Service will bowl off their male Tapeball cricket competition and a female Softball competition on Saturday at the Better Hope Centre Ground, East Coast from 13:00hrs.
(Jamaica Observer) The Government on Tuesday banned the scrap metal trade in a desperate move to save the country’s infrastructure by putting a new breed of brazen scavengers out of business.
LUSAKA, (Reuters) – At least 33 people were killed in Zambia yesterday when a bus smashed into a truck about 300 km (180 miles) east of the capital Lusaka, police said.
A fire early yesterday morning completely gutted Willo’s Grocery which was located at the back of the old Mackenzie Market at Linden.
Winston George and Quince Clarke found themselves medalling for Guyana in Track and Field at the ongoing Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) Games in Venezuela yesterday.
Dear Editor, There continues to be discussion surrounding the worthiness and operations of the now defunct Guyana National Service (GNS).
(Jamaica Observer) More than four months after Jamai-can Shanique Myrie was finger-raped, verbally abused, locked up and kicked out of Barbados, the Barbadian Government is yet to respond to correspondence from her lawyers.
Over the years, judges and magistrates have railed at police prosecutors and the police in general over poor prosecution, insufficient evidence, illegally obtained evidence and a host of other missteps that have caused cases to collapse and be thrown out because guilt could not be proven.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – An Indonesian family stopped a wedding after discovering the groom was a woman, only for an ex-boyfriend to save their blushes by stepping in to marry the bride.
Politikles
Dear Editor, As aptly said by Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
People coming into this country travel along the shocking eyesore that is the East Bank Demerara corridor.
The Able/Disable Athletic Club headed by William France will stage a fund-raising walk-a-thon tomorrow in Essequibo from 07:15hrs in the morning.
The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) yesterday said that the crew of a boat which capsized in the Essequibo River on Sunday with 17 passengers aboard had been suspended while an investigation of the incident is done.
TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – The Cuban government has given the green light to air service between Tampa and Havana and charter flights could begin as early as September 10, the chief executive of the Tampa airport said yesterday.
