Daily Archive: Saturday, August 20, 2011

A Trans Guyana Airways Britten Norman Islander skid off the runway at Port Kaituma late this morning while attempting to land during rainy weather.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kuti Ra of Greater Portmore, St Catherine, passed six subjects in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams at the age of 12.

(Barbados Nation) Deputy Opposition  Leader Dale Marshall thinks that Barbados has changed from a prosperous nation to one where there “is an overpowering sense of poverty and helplessness”.

(Barbados Nation) A comprehensive review of the Barbados sugar industry has been conducted for the Barbados Government by Landell Mills Ltd, one of the world’s leading international development consulting firms.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt withdrew its ambassador from  Israel today, saying that the killing of five Egyptian  security personnel as Israeli forces pursued cross-border  raiders was a breach of its 1979 peace treaty with the Jewish  state.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Waqar Younis will quit  as Pakistan coach for medical reasons after next month’s tour of  Zimbabwe, he said today.

Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud yesterday said that GuySuCo does not have the competence to run the troubled US$100M Skeldon factory and he urged the corporation to speed up consideration of proposals by Indian and Chinese companies to run it.

Harold Rachpaul, 84, owner of the Rachpaul’s Drugstore on Robb Street, Georgetown, was found dead, gagged and bound in his home early yesterday morning.

Three persons, including a woman, are in police custody at Linden in connection with the murders of Daniel ‘Danny’ Higgins, 48, and Daniel ‘Biggie’ Higgins, 22, at a Konawaruk mining camp in Mahdia.

Anguilla moved to the top of Group C with their victory over Curacao yesterday as the first round of the CONCACAF Under-17 World Cup Qualifiers continued at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground The Anguillans gained three points with the eventual 2-1 scoreline leaving Guyana in a virtual must-win position for tomorrow’s match

Police were yesterday granted three more days to detain the Enmore couple and their two teenaged children following the discovery on Tuesday of cocaine in metal receptacles used in Hindu functions.

The main opposition PNCR yesterday accused the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) of “reluctance” in releasing full particulars of registration applications coming out of the recently-conducted Claims and Objections (C&O) exercise.

Drama and tension defined the ladies singles final as Trinidad’s Rheann Chung played a masterful game to win the  title of the Caribbean Table Tennis Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.

Although that there is a limited supply of lumber available on the local market, the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion (GFC) says no decision has been taken to ban the export of logs/lumber.

MIAMI, Florida, CMC – Jamaican Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson will meet super middleweight champion Lucian Bute in Canada this November and says he is looking forward to the clash.

NICE, (Reuters) –  Former French pole-vaulter Pierre Quinon, who won the gold  medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, has died in an  apparent suicide, the French Athletics Federation said on  Thursday.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday held the sod turning ceremony for a US$ US$38,963,861 substation on Mandela Avenue.

GuySuCo and GAWU yesterday formally signed on to an agreement which would see sugar workers getting a 5% pay raise, which the Agricul-ture Minister hoped would lay the basis for production of 300,000 tonnes of sugar next year.

A solid all round performance by Guyana Under-19 player Clinton Pestano inspired defending champions Lower Corentyne to successfully defend their Diamond Fire & General Insurance Under-19 Inter-zone title at the Port Mourant Cricket Ground recently.

Although Karen Kerr has refused to give investigators a statement about the ordeal during which she was allegedly shot twice by her partner, two lawyers say that options available to the police include asking a court to force her to give evidence.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – The once dominant top two in  men’s tennis, Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, head into the U.S. 

A mother of four, who said that she could have been killed on Thursday night, continues to live in constant fear while charging that the police remain reluctant to heed her cries for safety.

A Linden taxi driver was killed late Thursday night in an accident along the Rockstone road, which left him pinned under the vehicle.

SPLIT, Croatia, (Reuters) – World high jump champion  Blanka Vlasic will defend her title despite a hamstring injury  which nearly forced her to pull out of the upcoming world  championships in the South Korean city of Daegu, she said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. sprinter Michael Rodgers,  who tested positive for a prohibited stimulant last month, has  accepted a provisional suspension yesterday and withdrew from  this month’s world championships in South Korea.

Devon Semple, who stole bicycles from his neighbour on two separate occasions, was yesterday ordered to serve a total of five years in jail.

Dear Editor, Lethem and its environs have been receiving glorious sunshine for almost a month now.

Dear Editor, For a while now commuters have been facing all sorts of inhuman acts from minibus operators without any hope of travelling without fear.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – World champion Steve Mullings  has confirmed he has tested positive for the banned diuretic  furosemide and could now face a life ban from athletics.

A man is now facing the possible amputation of his left leg, after being involved in a head on collision on Thursday morning at Barrack Street, Kingston.

The Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) will soon take on an improved look with the signing of a $5M agreement with Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday.

Dear Editor, There has now been an official announcement from FIFA’s Ethics Committee that Mr Colin Klass, President of the Guyana Football Federation has been provisionally suspended from all football related activities, pending an investigation into alleged financial impropriety in the cash for votes scandal.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic bronze medallist George Bovell III was moved to a private hospital  ysterday after receiving stitches and suffering “moderate head injuries” following a vehicular accident.

Dear Editor, It really speaks volumes when our Gecom CHairman Steve Surujbally can find the time in this busy election season not to educate the Guyanese voter, but rather to respond to Mr T King’s letter in the Guyana Chronicle about some one-line inaccuracy (‘Not linked to any political party’ SN, August 18).

Jamaican entertainer Vybz Kartel left the Hits and Jams (HJ) Entertainment promoters, his team and fans confused after he walked off a Caribbean Airlines plane, moments before take-off with no explanation for his actions.

The Universal DVD Berbice Titans, without any overseas internationals and urged on by a sellout crowd,  recently defeated the Gizmos & Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls in the final to maintain their supremacy of local T20 cricket.

ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels fought  fierce battles in two coastal cities on either side of the  capital Tripoli yesterday in a drive to topple Muammar Gaddafi,  but met stiff resistance from forces loyal to the long-time  leader.

Shilpa Shetty will be the headlining act of the Jamzone Summer Break’s first ever Bollywood Night, slated for this evening at the Providence Stadium.

Recently crowned Miss Guyana Princess of the World Soyini Fraser admitted that she was once unenthusiastic when it came to pageantry, but said that this changed after a friend of hers, a previous beauty queen herself, challenged her to enter into a pageant.

Dear Editor, As the President and most of the senior ministers of the government frolicked at taxpayers‘ expense in New York City, the Police Force has hit a critical low in its 172-year history.

Local beverage giant Banks DIH is on board for Sunday’s 5th Annual Guyana Cup Horse Race Meet at the Port Mourant Turf Club Course on the Corentyne.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/Scotia Bank Cricket Academy will commence its 3rd annual cricket academy on  August 29 at the Area ‘H’ Ground.

The proceedings in the $10 million libel suit filed by President Bharrat Jagdeo against Kaieteur News and its columnist Freddie Kissoon got underway yesterday, with Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Association has duly noted the flash gun that has momentarily illuminated, albeit in the media, perceptions and assumptions in a cynical exercise to haemorrhage public confidence in the Force by the supposed animated and reckless ramblings and orations allegedly by a senior functionary of the Guyana Police Force.

Damion Carter, who is accused of the July 29, 2008 murder of Keith Josiah, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

By Bobby Walker with photos by Aubrey James The delegates from Dominica, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago quite literally got a leg up on the competition when contestants took to the National Culture Centre stage on Wednesday evening, in the first round of this year’s Miss Jamzone International Pageant.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling  African National Congress yesterday charged controversial youth  leader Julius Malema with “sowing divisions” in its ranks and  bringing the party into disrepute.

Two Venezuelans who pleaded guilty to entering Guyana illegally were yesterday each sentenced to a six-month jail term and fined $30,000.

GAZA, (Reuters) – The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip  announced last night they were no longer committed to a  more than two-year de facto truce with Israel since the end of a  war in early 2009.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen  shared a record partnership of 350 yesterday as England  ruthlessly dissected an inadequate India attack on the second  day of the fourth and final test at the Oval.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Executives at Rupert  Murdoch’s UK-based News International are concerned that emails  discussing questionable payments made to police by the News of  the World may prove more problematic than those that discuss  phone hacking, sources familiar with investigations into the  shuttered tabloid’s reporting practices said.

Dear Editor, A famous American once said that our greatest responsibility is to be good to our ancestors.  

Our word of the day is ‘quirk.’ Today we shall examine particularly the quirks couples share.

Dear Editor, A famous American once said that our greatest responsibility is to be good to our ancestors.  

Hi Everyone, I love peppers – of all varieties, shapes and heat level.

KHYBER, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A teenage suicide  bomber blew himself up among worshippers offering Friday prayers  at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 47 people  and wounding more than 70, a top government official said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Nearly eight years after McDonald’s closed its stores in Trinidad due to low sales, the world’s largest chain of fast food restaurants is due to restore its famous golden arches signage and its world famous Big Mac to T&T.

Faizul Razac’s morning devotion was yesterday disrupted when a speeding car jumped his fence and landed in the living room of the upper floor of his building.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Wall Street ended a fourth  week of losses on a down note yesterday as most buyers left  the market before the weekend on growing fears of another U.S. 

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – As India cries out for a pace  bowler to add some much-needed bite to its depleted attack, one  man in the frame to become a future new ball spearhead believes  speed alone cannot guarantee success.

Dear Editor, I write to in relation to Frederick Kissoon’s missive that ‘SN should make a decision on Bisram’ (SN, August 18) and advocate that you publish the man’s polls as regular news items in the same way you published the polls of Dick Morris and Peter Wickham (Cadres). 

A US federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York yesterday returned an indictment charging Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme in which he and others fraudulently obtained more than US$50 million in loans.

Couples

(Barbados Nation) The hierarchy of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) on Thursday apologized for comments made  by one of its members Wednesday night in the House of Assembly.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Shoaib  Malik has been cleared of wrongdoing in an integrity  investigation and can be considered for international selection  again, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.

Residents of Leguan have asked that their Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) be dissolved saying that they are not satisfied with the performance of the “super four” group of officials that run local government affairs on the island.

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Dear Editor, It is not enough for Stabroek News to accept a letter from Mr Bisram that he formed a sample of 780 persons of which he created various percentages of Indians, Africans, Amerindians and Mixed Races, attributed a sampling error and did a poll.

Question 10:  How do you feel about the current age of consent being 16?

(Trinidad Express) George Nicholas will stay as chairman of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) after Transport Minister Devant Maharaj did not accept his resignation.

Preparations for the 5th Guyana Fashion Week-end (GFW) which will be hosted from September 23  to 25 are heating up.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded a man accused of making a false statement to secure a passport.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The FBI is examining  documents charting more than $500,000 in payments made by a  Caribbean soccer group to a top U.S.

Eighteen months ago, the Port-au-Prince earthquake claimed nearly ten thousand lives for each second of its half-minute apocalypse.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Lawyers for the woman who  accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual  assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the  criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the  civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, A quick question. If Bisram‘s poll had been showing the opposite

(Trinidad Express) Five thousand acres across the country will be used for rice cultivation during the next six months.

(Trinidad Express) A 19-year-old employee with Servisair was yesterday denied bail when he appeared before an Arima magistrate charged with being in possession of close to $22 million in cocaine.

(Trinidad Guardian) The murder toll jumped to 263 yesterday with seven people, among them a woman, murdered in four separate incidents in Arima, Point Lisas and Port-of-Spain.