Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Police today issued a bulletin for Kwame Crosse saying he is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to trafficking in narcotics.

(Jamaica Observer) Joel Chin of VP Records was shot and killed Tuesday night at his home in Stony Hill.

Several members of the police force hierarchy are under investigation as a result of allegations of ties between them and the drug trade and police this afternoon confirmed that a junior officer has tendered his resignation after being transferred following questioning.

A prisoner was early this morning stabbed by another inmate at the Camp Street jail and had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) where he was admitted.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – Florida police today  said they had thwarted a plot by a 17-year-old to attack his  former school in Tampa after arresting him and discovering  bomb-making material at his home.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez said today he plans to nationalize the gold  sector, including extraction and processing, and use the  production to boost the country’s international reserves.

The battered body of a 64-year-old security guard was this morning found at his work site located opposite Mines Services Limited at Providence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines’ chairman George Nicholas has tendered his resignation from the state-owned national carrier. Minister

(Jamaica Observer) Students throughout the Caribbean region continue to perform dismally in mathematics with a mere 32 per cent of entries achieved acceptable grades in the June 2011 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

(Jamaica Observer) The quietness of Frankfield, a community in the central parish of Clarendon, was shaken yesterday morning when men armed with machetes invaded a house and attacked its three male occupants as they slept, hacking them to death.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean Cement Company Limited made a loss of J$608 million in the second quarter, even while cement sales appeared to have stabilised in the period.

(Barbados Nation) Government will construct a centre for the performing arts, and has called on radio stations to play no less than 60 per cent of local music, while it pledged Bds$50 million to promote, market and distribute local entertainers’ products and services from next year.

A fire this morning razed several homes on Lombard Street leaving many homeless.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In Jamaica, 65 kilos of cocaine were intercepted that were allegedly from Suriname.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officers yesterday afternoon swooped on a house at the Haslington New Scheme, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), where they discovered more than 100 kilos (200 lbs) of cocaine stashed in Hindu religious items being prepared for shipment to Canada.

The once busy town of New Amsterdam (NA) which used to be a draw for persons travelling from West Berbice and Corentyne has not been the same businesswise following the opening of the Berbice River Bridge in 2008.

A man, who was told by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) in April of last year that he was dead after a mix-up, is still waiting to receive his pension payments.

A self-employed chef/caterer arraigned on three forgery charges pertaining to a $153.8M cheque was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $5M when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Schools are still demanding exorbitant registration fees to enroll students, according to some parents.

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United is threatening legal action against the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation after they failed to deliver on their promise of the $5M Plus One kit, eight months after the completion of the tournament.

Loud music from the boom boxes at the Police Sports Club Ground have seen persons living in the area and patients of the nearby St Joseph Mercy Hospital complaining bitterly about the discomfort caused.

Guyana’s Desiree Lancaster turned it up a notch to win the female veteran title while the Dominican Republic proved their superiority yet again when they claimed both the male and female double titles as the 53rd edition of the Caribbean Table Tennis Championships continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Two Dominican Republic women accused of uttering forged passports to an immigration officer were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Young West Indies stroke-maker Darren Bravo failed but Nottinghamshire still did enough to beat Somerset by three wickets with a ball to spare in the Clydesdale Bank 40 Championship here yesterday.

The city’s contracted garbage collectors are expected to resume work in all communities today, after receiving outstanding payments in full, according to Mayor and City Council (M&CC) spokesman Royston King.

Drilling for oil offshore Guyana is unlikely to begin this month, with the contracted rig still operating in Suriname.

A mother of three, accused of narcotics possession when she reportedly had cannabis in the food she was taking to an inmate at the Brickdam lock-ups, was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $60,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The first leg of the Miss Jamzone International Pageant is going to be a good competition, says CEO of Hits and Jams Kerwin Bollers.

Work has restarted at the site for the FIFA Goal Project at Orangestein, East Bank Essequibo, according to acting president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Franklin Wilson yesterday.

Brazilian diamond dealer Sergio Mattos was early yesterday morning abducted in front of his girlfriend’s home in Georgetown, but his captors later released him without a ransom payment after learning that police had been notified.

HAMBANTOTA, (Reuters) – A brilliant 13th one-day  international century from opener Upul Tharanga took Sri Lanka  to a 78-run win over Australia in the third one-day  international at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is a well established view that that politics is, among other things, about the use of state power to achieve the objectives of those who govern society.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Arsenal’s hopes of qualifying for  the Champions League for the 14th time in a row were in the  balance after a 1-0 win at home to Udinese in the first leg of  the playoffs yesterday.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – An angry and frustrated Andy  Roddick lost his cool as he crashed out of the Cincinnati Open  in the first round on Monday, suffering a three-set loss to  47th-ranked German Philipp Kohlschreiber.

Dear Editor, I am quite appalled at the news from  the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) that some students who accessed the results of the CSEC and CAPE examinations online tampered with their grades.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to news item on Mr CN Sharma’s advocacy for the photo of each of the presidential candidates to accompany the logo (symbol) and name of each of the parties. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – World sprint champion Usain Bolt leads an array of stars in a Jamaica 50-member contingent named Monday for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea starting month end.

A week has passed since the National Communication Network (NCN) pulled the radio serial Merundoi from its airwaves and there has been no official word from the state-run station on the reason for the decision or whether the drama would resume broadcast.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Many senior executives at Rupert  Murdoch’s News of the World knew about phone hacking at the  British tabloid, according to a 2007 letter written by a  reporter which contradicts James Murdoch’s denials and drags  Britain’s prime minister back into the scandal.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Police ordered the release of  India’s leading anti-corruption campaigner from jail yesterday  after mounting nationwide protests against his arrest for  planning a hunger strike forced a U-turn by beleaguered Prime  Minister Manmohan Singh.

Police have identified the man shot and killed at Five Star, in the North West District on Monday as Emanuel Evans, of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News of August 15, there was a report on the Trey Songz show at the Stadium.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Guatemalan giant-killer Kevin  Cordon marched into the third round of the badminton world  championships yesterday with an impressive 21-19 21-17  victory over Sweden’s Henri Hurskainen.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China yesterday  dismissed a report that Pakistan gave it access to an advanced  U.S.

(Trinidad Express) The Government on Monday claimed victory after planned sick-out action by police officers to stay at home for a day of “rest and reflection” crumbled with more than 80 per cent of the officers turning up for duty.

Dear Editor, Former military leader, and now democratically elected President of Suriname, Desi Bouterse, is keen to bring a positive international spotlight to his country.

A 24-year-old man accused of stealing his mother’s teddy bear was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $20,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Ethiopian  Olympic and world champion Kenenisa Bekele will defend his  10,000 metres world title later this month despite not having  raced since early 2010, his manager said yesterday.

Dear Editor, In Guyana, when those in charge of our economy talk in monetary terms, they talk in millions and billions of dollars which are spent to run our dear country.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Bruce Golding handed over the remaining state-owned assets in the sugar industry to the China-based company COMPLANT International at Jamaica House on Monday, signalling what both parties say will be a new era of development for the sugar industry in Jamaica.

The dismembered body of missing man Bernard Matheson has been positively identified by his father Charles Matheson, and his severed head and legs were recovered yesterday.

Patrick Prashad continues to show top form as play intensified in the local golfing calendar leading up to the prestigious Guyana Open later this year.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The famine in the Horn of Africa  is manmade — the result of artificially high prices for food  and civil conflict, the World Bank’s lead economist for Kenya  Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters yesterday.

Police found and destroyed a four-acre field of cultivated marijuana plants at Breath Water, Upper Berbice River,

Dear Editor, We have to question the activity and responsibility of some of our leaders in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the MPs in our respective regions where drugs are being transported by some members of the Force.

(Trinidad Guardian) Both Minister of Communication Dr Suruj Rambachan and Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh on Monday declined to comment on recent reports that the National Security Council, headed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, had met with Digicel to get assistance in tapping cellphones.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Fifteen-year-old Barbadian Shaquana Quintyne has been named in a 14-member West Indies women’s squad to face Pakistan on the upcoming tour of the Caribbean.

BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels fighting to  topple Muammar Gaddafi scorned reports of secret talks with the  Libyan leader on Monday as their forces fought to secure gains  and the United States said Gaddafi’s days were numbered.

A man is in police custody after he was reportedly found with one kilogramme of marijuana at Mabura on Monday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – In preparation for a new  triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers  for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling  to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate  Web addresses.

Jamaica celebrated its 49th anniversary of independence on August 6 with much public, and generally critical, comment on the state of the society and economy as the country approaches a half century of sovereign independence.

Dear Editor, During the launching of APNU in Linden, Rupert Roopnaraine made mention of an earlier movement for national unity (1953) but said that this APNU formation is one with a difference in that it remains open to one and all – excluding none.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The first group of Americans to  tour Cuba under new, more liberal U.S.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) hosted a press conference yesterday to brief the media about Guyana’s participation in upcoming matches in the 2011 Women’s Under-17 CONCACAF  tournament that kicks off here today.

Mr Lall

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has contracted the dreaded dengue disease.