Daily Archive: Thursday, August 4, 2011

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chris Gayle’s exile from West Indies is likely to continue for the two Twenty20 Internationals against England next month in London.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Brazilian national Jose Virginia Souza, 58 years, which occurred at about 1300hrs yesterday at Rockstone, Essequibo River.

A government motion seeking the suspension of the Parliamentary recess to “complete important business” was passed in the National Assembly this evening without the support of the PNC and the AFC.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Investors fled Wall Street in  the worst stock-market selloff since the depths of the Great  Recession in early 2009 in what has turned into a full-fledged  correction.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Steve Peneux, deputy-director of service at the Ministry of Public Works (OW) has received a letter from permanent secretary Roland King informing him of his dismissal on orders of President Desi Bouterse.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath continues his mandate to make food security a priority for T&T, he has pledged his continued support for a collective initiative with Caricom to encourage regional food production and to push agriculture as a sustainable business.

(Trinidad Express) Contrary to her statements last week, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has not been cleared by the Integrity Commission of all wrongdoing in the award of a $40 million contract by State-owned National Petroleum (NP) to a company owned by her friends, Ralph and Maureen Gopaul, at whose Tunapuna home the Prime Minister stayed for three months.

(Trinidad Express) Preliminary investigations into the crash of a Caribbean Airlines plane in Guyana indicate that the aircraft split in almost separate pieces after its front landing gear broke off on impact.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Sonia Gandhi, India’s ruling  Congress party chief and the country’s most powerful politician,  will undergo surgery abroad, possibly in the United States, for  an undisclosed medical condition and could be out for two to  three weeks.

The claims process that was restarted to facilitate registration for the upcoming elections ended yesterday, with an estimated 5,000 persons being processed.

A Trans Guyana Airways Cessna Caravan narrowly escaped a collision with a cow while landing at the Port Kaituma airstrip yesterday morning, prompting  local aircraft operators to cease flights into the area indefinitely.

By Treiston Joseph Headquarters extended their lead on the points table when the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Inter Unit Championships continued yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Francois Montour said he was overjoyed by the response of golfers who took part  in the specially arranged farewell tournament in his honour  yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC).

Armed bandits escaped with a grey Toyota Premio motorcar, PNN 4184 worth $3M after robbing an Ithaca, West Bank Berbice contractor of $4M in cash and jewellery around 1:30 am yesterday.

Guyana women’s team soared into the lead with a 6-0 drubbing of Bermuda in their penultimate match of the round robin competition at the Pan American hockey Challenge Cup in neighbouring Brazil.

An investigator from Guyana and another from Jamaica arrived in Washington yesterday to assist with interpreting data from the flight recorders of Caribbean Airlines Flight 523, which crash-landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Saturday.

BRIDGTOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire says the two-match Twenty20 International series against England next month is a welcome engagement for the regional side.

An out-of-control car yesterday slammed into a group of children along the Ruimzigt Public Road, at West Coast Demerara, killing an eight-year-old boy on the spot while leaving his companions traumatised.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan Persid-Edmond yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Ravi Mangar who did not appear in court and hindered her handing down a ruling in the witness tampering matter for which he and Mark Reid are charged.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Former Olympic  and world 400 metres champion Jeremy Wariner will miss this  month’s world championships with a foot injury, his agent said on Tuesday.

Two men were on Tuesday remanded over the murder of a Hogstye, Corentyne farmer and a third suspect was found dead from a bullet wound.

By Colin Benjamin The fifth and final round of the rain affected 2011 West Indies Cricket Board’s regional under-19 three-day tournament gets underway today with three matches.

Kenneth Somerset became the hero to a family last Saturday, when he helped a little boy escape from the Caribbean Airlines plane that crash landed at the Cheddi International Airport, Timehri.

Negligence by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guy-SuCo) and its agent Surendra Engineering Corporation Ltd (SECL) contributed to the accident at the Corporation’s Enmore factory, which resulted in the death of dryer operator Jainarine Singh, the Commission of Inquiry (COI) set up to investigate the accident has found.

A Guyana team last Sunday whipped an Antigua and Barbuda team 5-0 at the Thomas Jefferson High School Playfield in Brooklyn New York, as the Digicel Caribbean Cup football tournament continued.

A 37-year-old man died yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was beaten the night before at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies will play England in two Twenty20 Internationals next month, as the England and Wales Cricket Board moves to fulfill their television obligations to Sky, following the collapse of the Stanford Super Series deal.

LONDON, (Reuters) –     Tiffany Ofili-Porter heads for  the world championships in South Korea this month as a realistic  medal contender in the 100 metres hurdles yet any success is  unlikely to appease those critics who have branded her a  “Plastic Brit”.

Parents, guardians and students yesterday protested outside the offices of the Education Ministry to highlight non-placement at President’s College as well as the “deplorable” state of the school.

Rozena Razack, who was struck down on July 21 on Lamaha Street, yesterday succumbed to her injuries at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Brazilian police are looking for a Guyanese man wanted in connection with drug trafficking, according to the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) website.

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United is heading into tonight’s match still confident that they can beat their challengers Costa Rica’s Herediano, despite their 0-8 drubbing by that team last week.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Once a word used to deride  England’s cricketers, “predictable” is fast becoming a badge of  honour that captain Andrew Strauss and his squad can wear with  pride.

Dear Editor, Few other issues expose the shortcomings of governance and politics in Guyana than that of public procurement.

Nominees for the Guyana Prize for Literature will be shortlisted soon and President Bharrat Jagdeo will confer prizes on the winners at a convocation ceremony planned for August 31.

The Ministry of Education has committed over $179 million for repairs and maintenance to 49 city schools, in order to make them habitable in time for the September term.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Security experts have discovered  an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on the networks of 72  organizations globally, including the United Nations,  governments and corporations, over a five-year period.

Dear Editor, Further to your observations in the SN editorial of August 2, I am writing to agree totally with your statement:  “Indeed, it is doubtful that a single day goes by without someone having to face claim-related problems associated with employer non-remittance of contributions.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India spinner Harbhajan Singh and  batsman Yuvraj Singh have been ruled out of the rest of the test  series against England with injuries, the Indian Cricket Board  (BCCI) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The increasing number of women in the workforce is a good indicator that women have more freedom and liberties as compared to the past, where women were negatively stereotyped and deprived of their rights and freedoms due to a malecentric line of thinking.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – West Indies Cricket Board cricket operations officer Rawl Lewis has praised the development seminar held here recently for players in the ongoing WICB Under-19 Championship.

A former houseparent at President’s College is angry about what she has termed “an unfair and politically motivated dismissal.”

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, accused of  corruption and involvement in killing protesters, went on trial  yesterday, delighting those who overthrew him and ringing an  alarm bell for other autocrats around the Arab world.

Disability awareness groups in several regions will benefit from new communication equipment to boost an ongoing awareness programme.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton on Tuesday remanded a man accused of having an unlicensed gun and ammunition and attempting to commit a felony with the said objects, when he appeared in court to answer the charges.

Dear Editor, I write to highlight, I hope, an oversight by a number of institutions.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – International umpire Clyde Duncan, who lost his battle with cancer last Thursday, will be laid to rest on Sunday.

 SYDNEY, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A young Australian woman was  freed from a suspected bomb collared around her neck early on  Thursday after 10 hours of drama that lasted past midnight and  captivated the nation with police saying they were still  investigating the incident.

Dear Editor, The PPP has spent over $1.45 trillion (US$7.257 billion) in the last 19 years.

A mechanic was yesterday shot to his left leg after being robbed of his gold chain at his Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty home.

(Trinidad Express) Ancil “Smokey” Richards, the man accused of murdering Vonetta Haynes-Reyes, 31, and her sons, Malik, eight, and Makasi, four, at their La Horquetta home on July 21, on Tuesday appeared before an Arima magistrate, charged with the murders.

CARICOM is concerned about the distress and damage wrought by flooding in Layou, Dominica last week Thursday, following the overtopping of the Layou River and breach of the Mathieu Dam.

Despite rain over the weekend, Cotton Field Wild Oats, Rising Star and Pomeroon Oil Mill still advanced to the next round of the countrywide Kares Tapeball competition of the Essequibo leg of the tournament.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – After a painstaking, six-day  search of a million-pound luxury yacht, the UK Border Agency has  seized its largest ever haul of cocaine — enough to satisfy  around a third of Britain’s annual demand for the drug.

The body of farmer Hemchand Manram, who went missing on Monday when a tour boat capsized in the Mazaruni River, was recovered yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, Karl Marx wrote over one-and-a-half centuries ago that the history of all hitherto existing society is a history of class struggle.

(Barbados Nation) An elderly man and his son-in-law were killed on Tuesday night in St George by two masked gunmen.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – In its first substantive  action on Syria’s five-month-old uprising, the U.N.

Popular promoter Lyall Gittens and FairFox Productions will stage a five-a-side football competition along with a 20/20 dominoes tournament on Saturday from 10am  at the Strikers Headquarters, Meadowbrook Drive.

It is estimated that today more than 1.5 billion of the world’s 7 billion people still live without electricity and are basically denied access to the 21st century with all its new and evolving technology.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica Ethanol Processing has shut down its ethanol plant and terminated 31 jobs after 26 years in the business.

On Monday, Emancipation day, I stood on a relative’s veranda in Hopetown watching a group of young and not so young people making their way home, through the rain, after a night of frolic at the annual ‘swari’.

Installment One Hundred and Sixteen This edition of Ask the Consul addresses several myths concerning the non-immigrant visa application process.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters Life!) –  Actor James Earl  Jones will receive an honorary Oscar this year and Oprah  Winfrey will be presented with a humanitarian award, the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.

Politikles

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton remanded a man accused of an armed robbery when he appeared on Tuesday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A nine-year-old boy was struck down by a car on Agricola Public Road, East Bank Demerara, while he was chasing after a cow.

Mark `Jumbie” Wiltshire has teamed up with TNT Promotions to stage a dominoes competition in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Berbice exudes the kind of charming calm that countryside living offers.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your news item ‘Meeting between T&T PM, unions fails to resolve issues’ (SN, Jul 28). 

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