Daily Archive: Saturday, August 6, 2011

Three persons have been confirmed dead in an accident at Arimu Road, Region Seven after a truck overturned while climbing up a steep hill.

NEW YORK/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China bluntly  criticised the United States today one day after the  superpower’s credit rating was downgraded, saying the “good old  days” of borrowing were over.

A small morning blaze left an apartment partially damaged after neighbours noticed thick smoke escaping through the window of a bedroom and formed a bucket brigade, managing to contain the fire until the Fire Service arrived on the scene.

The People’s Progressive Party is alerting the public to the creation of fake sites attempting to attribute themselves to the party and its activities.

The New York Daily News says that two hard-partying Guyanese men have been hit with attempted murder charges after being accused of setting a fire in a Queens, New York building that nearly killed two elderly residents.

A bipartisan ethics committee of the US Congress is to probe Queens, New York Representative, Gregory Meeks over a `loan’ he received from Guyanese businessman, Edul Ahmad.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Rahul Dravid received a surprise  recall to India’s one-day squad after a two-year absence while  selectors left out the injured Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh  for the limited-overs series against England.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A NATO helicopter crashed during a  battle with the Taliban in  Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. 

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar says that his party has been vindicated in calling for a reopening of the Claims and Objections process, since it resulted in more than 7,000 persons being processed for registration.

Flights to Port Kaituma have again been suspended after residents cut a newly repaired fence and cows were back on the airstrip.

Noel Elliot, who was injured in last Saturday’s Caribbean Airlines Flight 523 crash-landing, has been flown to the United States to save his leg, which local doctors recommended be amputated.

Abdul Asif Akbar, the driver who allegedly struck and killed eight-year-old Joshua Daniels, was released on $2M bail after he was charged yesterday.

A jaguar that had been preying on poultry and pets in the Campbellville neighbourhood of the city was killed by residents on Thursday evening.

A family of four persons was left without a home when a fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed two houses at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara.

In the August 3rd edition of Stabroek News under the headline `EAB launches elections monitoring programme’ it was

At 62, Lilowtie Deephia knows the daily struggle to care for the nine children of her son, Budram ‘David’ Persaud who is in jail after he killed the children’s mother, Rubeena Sammy, five years ago.

The new Telecommunications bill proposes the establishment of a Telecom-munications Agency which will receive and review applications for licences, but GT&T, Digicel, E-Networks Inc, Quark Communications Inc. 

Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATN), GT&T’s parent company has recorded total revenues for the second quarter of US$193.8 M, 18 percent more than the US$164.7 million it recorded for the same period last year.

Headquarters yesterday ran out champions at the 57th edition of the Guyana Police Force Inter Unit Championships at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Barbados 297/8 dec. (Kraigg Braithwaite 146 not out, Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai 4/76, Loyydel Lewis 2-47) lead Guyana 87 (Kwame Crosse 42, Justin Greaves 4-17) and 143 for 9 (Amir Khan 36, Ronsford Beaton 21, Shai Parris 2-13, Kyle Mayers 2-16, Greaves 2-15, Jones 2-31) by 67 runs with one wicket remaining.

A bill plugged by the government as necessary to help secure convictions of fuel smugglers was passed unanimously by the National Assembly on Thursday evening.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) honoured West Indian players Devendra Bishoo and Shemaine Campbelle through its Tribute to Heroes programme last Wednesday which was sponsored by the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) in Berbice.

GuySuCo’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Bhim on Wednesday said that the corporation is being hobbled by the failure of international suppliers to meet deadlines, which affects sugar production.

A “new component of safety” will be added to the country’s roads with the approval of legislation that will see the appointments of traffic wardens to police areas in Georgetown and dangerous stretches of country roads, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says.

Guyana’s women are almost assured of a place in the final of the Pan American hockey Challenge Cup even if they lose to current leaders Uruguay in their final preliminary match to be played later today at the Deodoro Hockey Complex in neighbouring Brazil.

Jamaica became this year’s WICB three-day champions when they crushed defending champions Windward Islands inside two days by an innings and 77 runs at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground yesterday.

The Environmental Community Health Organisation (ECHO) has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Private Sector and the Consumers’ Association of Guyana to support its campaign to ban free plastic bags given at shopping centres countrywide.

Over 50 young, aspiring cricketers, yesterday graduated from the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) 10th Cricket Academy held at the Lusignan Community Centre ground.

With boys accounting for higher drop out rates and lower attendance records in classrooms countrywide, teachers are being schooled on more effective ways to increase male academic engagement.

AKRON, Ohio, (Reuters) – While Tiger Woods failed to build on his solid start to the  WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in yesterday’s second round, fellow American Rickie Fowler rocketed  into a four-way tie for the lead.

By Zoisa Fraser in Barbados Regional journalists attending a two-day workshop in Barbados were yesterday urged to form partnerships to find ways to urgently address the epidemic of killer Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) has provided training in its Real-Time Forecasting System (RTFS) to Caribbean nations to help them to prepare for tropical cyclones that are expected to affect the region as the hurricane season gets underway.

Newly crowned Miss Guyana World queen, 22-year-old Arti Cameron, has dismissed suggestions that pageants impact negatively on young women, arguing that they are empowering tools which help women improve their skills.

The rescheduled Amy Taxi Service male tape ball cricket and female softball cricket competitions will bowl off today at the Better Hope Centre Ground, East Coast from 13:00hrs.

Improving the conditions for children admitted at the Georgetown Hospital is among the first projects for Grant-a-Dream, a newly-formed local humanitarian organisation with an ambitious goal—making Guyana a better place to live.

Dear Editor, Guyana is a difficult country economically, and when persons in the legal profession become indistinguishable from the common confidence trickster it invokes the worse considerations about how such matters should be dealt with.

I like Amy Winehouse.  I’ve always liked her even on the days when she was the most talked about singer hooked on a crack pipe.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies fast bowling legend Joel Garner has been re-elected for a third successive term as Barbados Cricket Association president.

Hi Everyone, last August when I was in Guyana and on the hunt for Chinese food, pastries, etc, you know, a taste of home, everyone kept telling me that I must try the Yangzhou fried rice.

Dear Editor, We need to compliment the parents and students of President College who protested outside the Ministry of Education.

Eleven persons were murdered in July, four more than in the month before.

The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) launched its second Balls of Fire charity event at the Queen’s Park Oval  yesterday and sports fans can look forward to extreme excitement from a number of regional cricketers on September 3.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States lost its  top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s yesterday  in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s  largest economy.

Jamaican reggage star, Sizzla Kalonji, who is proclaimed as one of the most commercially and critically successful contemporary reggae artists,

Richard Cragan, charged with stealing four rings and a shoulder bag, was yesterday denied bail, shortly after he fired his lawyer in court and opted to represent himself.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed out their  worst week in more than two years yesterday in a volatile  session that saw the major indexes whip back and forth before  the S&P 500 ended down less than a point.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester United  striker Javier Hernandez is one of three injured players who  will miss tomorrow’s English season curtain-raiser against Manchester City, manager Alex Ferguson said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Toshao of Arau, Region Seven, Devroy Thomas, was very clear in his submission that the just concluded National Toshaos Conference achieved or offered very little or nothing to his community (‘Toshaos say land issues being ignored’ SN, July 30).

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is not currently under probe by the Integrity Commission for any matter.

Dear Editor, The Management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation wishes to issue the following statement in response to the article published in the August 4 edition of the Kaieteur News captioned, ‘Distraught mother cites negligence in toddler’s death.’

Shawn Archibald, 10 and Renisha Benjamin, 8, were earlier this week discharged from the George-town Public Hospital (GPH), after spending more than two weeks after the Homestretch Avenue accident that claimed five lives.

The  annual five stage cycling road race organized by the National Sports Commission will take place early next month Director of sport Neil Kumar said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Carbon offsets neared all-time  lows yesterday, confirming their status as the world’s worst  performing commodity, as slumping demand meets rising supply of  the U.N.

This week we introduce our readers to the Miss Jamzone 2011 lineup for the international leg of the pageant with sneak previews into the lives of seven and the beautiful faces of the remaining four.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Emily killed four  people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, authorities said yesterday, as remnants of the storm drifted over the Caribbean  with a “high chance” of restrengthening into a tropical  cyclone.

Dear Editor, Mr Malcolm Harripaul’s missive (‘The taxi drivers cannot be blamed for charging US$20… SN, Aug 5) contains inaccuracies and value judgments different from mine and those of most Guyanese.

A man arraigned on two counts of armed robbery was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

(Jamaica Observer) Private sugar manufacturers have negotiated to supply 80,000 tonnes of sugar to a United Kingdom-based entity in the 2011-2012 crop year for more than twice the price of the current deal, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Robert Montague announced on Thursday.

(The Sun) The tragic singer’s loved ones believe it “makes sense” for the £2.5million property in Camden, North London, to be the focal point of the new Amy Winehouse Foundation.

(Reuters) – Rapper Lil Wayne has been slapped with a $15 million lawsuit by a Georgia company that claims he stole the song “BedRock,” according to a lawsuit filed in New York.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has freed more than  2,000 inmates to improve conditions in its violent and  overcrowded prisons, state media said yesterday.

New Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will assume duties on August 15th.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The illness of Sonia Gandhi,  India’s most powerful political leader, may have set off a risky  succession that could propel her inexperienced son Rahul to  government just as the ruling Congress party battles corruption  scandals and high inflation.

Unionists Norris Witter, Lincoln Lewis and social activist Mark Benschop were on Friday last found not guilty of unlawful assembly after an almost two-year-trial.

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A superb century from rookie Emmanuel Lett has put Trinidad and Tobago in an excellent position to secure victory over Leeward Islands after two days of their WICB Regional Championship, fifth round match at Bourda yesterday.

Six months into the Arab Spring, the ongoing carnage in Syria is a tragic reminder of how far parts of the Middle East have yet to travel on their putative journey to democracy.

In interacting with domestic violence victims around the country, one issue that consistently rears its head is that victims with no education and no means of financial independence feel trapped in abusive relationships because they cannot support themselves or their children.

Dear Editor, Does a certain segment of this nation suffer from debilitating moral sickness?

(Barbados Nation) Supermarket owner Charles Chaderton says Tuesday’s double murder indicates it’s time to resume hanging in Barbados.

(Trinidad Guardian) The low-cost carrier REDjet has now been given the all clear to operate in territories beyond T&T and the territories it received licences for.