Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 8.10 pm yesterday at Shivrattan Molding Establishment, LBI, ECD, during which manager Haymant Singh, 30 years, of Triumph, ECD and two other employees were attacked and robbed by four men, three of whom were armed with handguns.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian Cricket Board  (BCCI) has thrown its weight behind a protest against sweeping  government reforms intended to make the country’s sports  federations more transparent.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Katia formed over  the open Atlantic Ocean today, becoming the 11th named  storm of the 2011 hurricane season, U.S.

Many described it as “customary Guyanese treatment” by Caribbean Airlines when close to a hundred passengers bound for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri were left stranded at JFK airport, New York today with little word from the regional carrier.

DAEGU, South Korea,  (Reuters) – Teenager Kirani James  chased down defending champion LaShawn Merritt on the home  straight to win 400 metres gold and Grenada’s first medal at the  world championships today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday revealed Government would seek to extend the state of emergency but reduce curfew hours when the matter comes up for debate in Parliament on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) Regional airline REDjet has said that passengers who were displaced because of recent flight cancellations will be refunded for the one-way part of their journey which was affected.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The giant timber investor Sino-Forest, which has between 150,000 and 300,000 hectares of concessions in Suriname via its subsidiary Greenheart Resources Holding (GRH), is losing more and more of its value on the international market.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday faced scrutiny over President Bharrat Jagdeo’s apparent snub of two Afro-Guyanese for appointment as Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and his unwillingness to confirm another Afro-Guyanese as a Judge.

Regional airline REDjet is set to resume flights here tomorrow. REDjet’s communications executive Nyssa Pierre told Stabroek News via email yesterday that the airline has chartered several flights

A farmer was on Sunday night killed at Canal No. 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara, after he was  run over by a motor vehicle.

A fish cleaner was killed yesterday, after a derelict concrete wall crashed down on him in Albouystown, in the city.

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Cuban hurdler Dayron  Robles was stripped of gold and glory at the world athletics  championships yesterday in a twist every bit as dramatic as  Usain Bolt’s disqualification from the blue riband 100 metres  sprint the night before.

Donna Lakeram died as a result of strangulation and multi trauma, according to the findings of Pathologist Dr.

Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a Lusignan, East Coast Demerara businessman in connection with the Block 20 Enmore/Haslington New Scheme multi-million dollar cocaine bust.

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Pole vault queen  Yelena Isinbayeva and 800m world record holder David Rudisha  take centre stage at the world athletics championships today — and both could be forgiven for hoping they do not  appear on the cover of the official programme for the Daegu  event.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A member of Cuban Dayron Robles’  coaching team said barging into rivals was a regular occurrence  in hurdles after the Olympic gold medallist was disqualified at  the world athletics championships yesterday.

A $22.5M Magistrate’s court at Charity, Region Two was commissioned by President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s move to sidestep senior officers in favour of Commodore Gary Best to head the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) back in 2007 was viewed positively by the US Embassy in Georgetown, which expected that it would strengthen relations.

Cyril Potter College of Education top student Villon Parris recently sat down for an interview with Stabroek News and admitted that he is still stunned at his success, adding that he owes it all to God.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) recovered from their 1- 0 defeat on the opening night to score  a 2-1 win over Sunburst Camptown in the Fruta Conquerors-organised Milo Under-23 football competition, Sunday night, at the Tucville Playfield.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday met with the grieving families of the missing fishermen at No.64 Village Corentyne, Berbice, where he reiterated the administration’s commitment to ensuring that the men are found.

Former Mae’s Secondary School student Rashad Hussain  relegated  Government Technical Institute’s Anthony Drayton to second place in the junior category of the Texaco Bel Air Rapid Chess Tournament held  Sunday last at the West Demerara Secondary School .

Champtress won another major horse race meet, pushing her feature wins to four out of six when the People’s Progressive Party President’s Cup was held on Sunday at the Rising Sun Turf Club, West Coast Berbice.

A $268M contract was inked on Wednesday under the Community Road Improvement Project (CRIP) which will see in Region Six the complete rehabilitation of 27 roads to double bituminous surface treatment or asphaltic concrete, the rehabilitation of four culverts and the reshaping, re-grading and realigning of road side drains.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – The wife of Muammar Gaddafi and  three of his children took refuge in Algeria yesterday but the  whereabouts of the former strongman himself remained a mystery a  week after rebels drove him from power.

Dear Editor, It bears repeating:  ‘You can fool some of the people all the time; all the people some of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time,‘ except, of course, your own selves.

Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets and Port Mourant Karibee Rice registered wins in the only two matches played in the opening of the 2011 Ramcharitar Construction Service First Division 50-Over Knock-out Cricket Competition in Berbice last Saturday.

Then US Ambassador to Guyana, David Robinson cabled Washington on the government’s termination of state advertising in Stabroek News in 2007 saying it was at best a public relations fiasco and at worst a misguided attack on press freedom.

Dear Editor, The residents of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, have had a long battle over noise nuisance against the owners of a restaurant and bar (name given), situated on the public road.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena Williams will make her  long-awaited return to the Arthur Ashe center court yesterday  when she opens her latest U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The historic earthquake that  shut Dominion Resources Inc’s North Anna nuclear plant in  Virginia last week may have shaken the facility more than it  was designed to withstand, the U.S.

The New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) says that only a part of the $89M Parika pack house has been leased to an investor.

Four years after its launch, the local stock market was “handicapped” by low trading volume and regulatory problems, US Ambassador David Robinson told his bosses in Washington in 2007, saying that Guyanese preferred to lose their money in traditional investments, real estate or to leave altogether.

By Emmerson Campbell The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF), inspired by gold medal performances at the Caribbean and North American Regional levels, has declared its  confidence that two of Guyana’s most decorated senior powerlifters are ready for the world stage.

Dear Editor, I have been reading with great interest the litany of articles appearing in all sections of the media regarding the nationalization of cricket by the President of Guyana.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – His cartoons are edgy,  bold, and a thorn in the side of the Arab world’s tottering  authoritarians — a gift to protesters from the unlikely  setting of an apartment in beach-side Rio de Janeiro.

Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh on Friday handed over a cheque valued at $5 million to the Salvation Army for its Drug Rehabilitation Programme.

Dear Editor, Donald Ramotar, much like, Bharrat Jagdeo, has to be one of the luckiest persons in the world.

FAIRFIELD, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vt., (Reuters) – New  Jersey and Vermont struggled with their worst flooding in  decades yesterday, a day after Hurricane Irene slammed an  already soaked region with torrential rain, dragging away homes  and submerging neighborhoods underwater.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Unbeaten Barbados were poised to formally clinch the St Kitts Under-13 Festival title yesterday after chalking up their fifth straight win in the sixth round of the tournament on Sunday.

Eid and the days to follow are opportunities to demonstrate the moral upliftment and spiritual evaluation gained through fasting by showing compassion, mercy and kindness towards the creation of Allah, President of the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG), Fazeel Ferouz said in his Eid-ul-Fitr message. 

The Guyana Police Force’s (GPF), ‘B’ Division has organized a late night patrol programme aimed at intercepting persons who drive under the influence of alcohol.

Dear Editor, A pensioner related to me that just about a year after he retired he became ill and was hospitalized at a considerable cost – some $150,000.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will bank on  its spinners in the first test match against Australia starting tomorrow in Galle, a pitch historically favouring turn, but the visitors’ debutant bowlers may cause trouble to the host  nation’s batsmen.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Chocolate may be good for the  heart but cardiologists are not giving you a licence to indulge.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. government researchers  must have known they were violating ethical standards by  deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental  patients with syphilis for an experiment in the 1940’s,  according to a U.S.

(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Henceforward, relations between Suriname and the Netherlands are based on only a few themes: rule of law and security, trade and economy, culture and education, public health and sports, and environment, water and climate.

Dear Editor, I have observed total indiscipline by lawyers and John Public in courtrooms.

A 21-year old Kwatata resident who was yesterday accused of stealing a horse was placed on $30,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Beverage giants, Demerara Distillers Limited, under its international brand Pepsi, has renewed cricket sponsorship of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Pepsi Under-19 team for this year.

Keon Joseph’s five wicket haul led West Berbice to victory over Blairmont Community Centre last Sunday as the 2011 Tenelec Inc.

A man who told the court that he has no knowledge of breaking and entering  the dwelling place of another and allegedly stealing items valued $278,000 was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before  Magistrate Hazel Octave–Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

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In his address to Cuba’s National Assembly on August 1, Communist Party Secretary Raoul Castro struck a note of even greater urgency than he has in the past about the need for Cuba to embrace economic reforms.

A 30-year-old man who was yesterday charged for malicious damage to property was placed on $20,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – If the optimists are to be  believed, India’s huge anti-corruption protests may give impetus  to a beleaguered government to push its reform process and help  ailing economic growth and plummeting business confidence.

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Dear Editor, I refer to two letters in relation to the government’s decision to dissolve the Guyana Cricket Board and to set up an IMC to run Guyana’s cricket.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Website asadeso.com provides a forum for victims of bad contractors and real estate agents.

(Trinidad Express) The two alleged gangsters captured last week at the Hyatt Regency hotel, Port of Spain, along with 21 other suspected gang members, appeared in court yesterday, all claiming innocence of the charges levelled against them.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar does not think that the 14-year-old girl who posted a verbally obscene video about her on two social networking sites should be punished.