Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 13, 2011

ZAGREB, (Reuters) – World record holder Usain Bolt  won the 100 metres dash at an IAAF World Challenge event today in a personal season’s best time of 9.85 seconds on a  hot and humid evening in Croatia’s capital.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Rapper Gucci Mane will spend  the next six months in jail in Georgia after admitting today to pushing a woman out of his car earlier this year.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Tyler Perry, who has  his own film and TV studio in Atlanta, ranks atop the list of  Hollywood’s highest paid men, in a new ranking from Forbes.com 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The number of Americans  living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last  year, the U.S.

Guyana and China yesterday signed a 30 million RMB ($920M) grant agreement that would see funding for several projects here that are still to be determined.

A mother of seven was this morning brutally chopped by her husband at Rasta Country, Laluni Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As anger boils in Jamaica over reports of colour prejudice in the job market, a livid labour and social security minister, Pearnel Charles, has likened the skin-tone discrimination to apartheid South Africa and has vowed to drag bigoted employers before the courts.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Important oil finds in the deep sea area of French Guiana give Staatsolie new hope that considerable reserves are to be found in the sea bottom in front of Suriname’s coast.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The number of people living with  diabetes has soared to 366 million, and the disease kills one  person every seven seconds, posing a “massive challenge” to  healthcare systems worldwide, experts said today.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-one men who were arrested and charged under the Anti-Gang legislation yesterday celebrated and showered their attorneys with praises following their release.

(Trinidad Express) Ties between Trinidad and Tobago and China will soon be stronger as Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that a Trade and Investment Office will be established in China as part of a proposed Trinidad and Tobago Embassy in the People’s Republic of China.

(Trinidad Express) Laura Asbjornsen, vice president communications Caribbean Airlines (CAL), has been terminated from her position at the State carrier.

Following the capture of Roger Khan, US Ambassador Roland Bullen told Washing-ton that the now convicted drug lord had been protected by two senior government officials and he also said that persons had related to the embassy that they had seen Khan leaving the Office of the President.

US Ambassador David Robinson told Washington in 2007 that international observers were increasingly uneasy about the “autocratic” tendencies of President Bharrat Jagdeo and his willingness to hit critics – like Stabroek News – where it hurts.

A Brazilian woman was on Saturday afternoon found with her throat slit in an internet café at Takutu Backdam, Region Eight and three men are in police custody assisting with investigations.

A 17-year-old boy lost his life on Sunday night when the car he was driving crashed into a utility pole on the Number 19 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

A man and a woman who were passengers aboard a steamer travelling to Port Kaituma when they were allegedly found trafficking in 600 grammes of cannabis were yesterday remanded to prison by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The discovery by external consultants that the original specifications for the Amaila Falls access road were poorly designed could provide an escape route for the contractor Fip Motilall not to fulfil his contract, consumer activist Ramon Gaskin fears.

One Grade 5 pupil, out of 1,000 entered for a national Spelling Bee competition, will win the opportunity to represent Guyana at the Caribbean Spelling Bee in St Kitts.

Parents and students of the Golden Grove Secondary School, aggrieved at the failure by authorities to address the deplorable conditions at the school, are today taking their protest in front of Office of the President.

The Department of Education in New Amsterdam is investigating an incident at the Central Corentyne Secondary School involving a teacher and a student, in which a student sustained a head injury that required three stitches.

Hundreds of Guyanese joined the rest of their brothers and sisters across the region in observing Caribbean Wellness Day last Saturday when they gave themselves a check-up or got a massage at a health awareness fair.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted a man $100,000 bail when he on Friday appeared in court charged with stealing a chain of similar value.

The body of an unidentified elderly male was yesterday discovered floating in the Lamaha Canal aback of D’Urban Backlands Squatting Area.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer accused of the June 19 assault on female DJ Nerissa Pearson was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $20,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

A 90-year-old security guard was found dead yesterday morning aback the consumers’ goods complex at Linden where he had been on night duty.

LONDON,  CMC – Devendra Bishoo and Stafanie Taylor kept the West Indies flag flying high, and have both been recognised for their outstanding form inside the last year, when they scooped honours yesterday at the International Cricket Council Awards.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded to prison a Norton Street man accused of larceny, when he on Friday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Luck was definitely a part of the West Indies women team’s Twenty/20 super over victory over Pakistan last Sunday night at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport yesterday extended congratulations to West Indian leg spinner Devendra Bishoo who has won the 2011 International Cricket Council (ICC) Emerging Player-of-the-Year award.

Victoria Kings hammered Golden Stars 9-0 on Saturday afternoon at BV Community Centre Ground as the Mackeson Premier League resumed after a one-week break for the World Cup Qualifiers.

Mahaica Princesses outclassed Regal Mahaica Queens to claim a spot in the final of the Regal Stationery and Computer Centre Female 10/10 and Over-35 Male 20/20 competition at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground on Sunday.

LONDON,  CMC – Curtly Ambrose was recognised as one of the giants of the game, when he was inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame yesterday.

Dear Editor, I have followed Ms Stella Ramsaroop’s column over the past few months, but having read her conclusion in your 10th September edition, I can hold my tongue no longer.

LONDON, CMC – Three players from the Caribbean featured on the opening day of key final round matches in the English County Championship yesterday.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies will face a slightly weakened England in their two Twenty20 Internationals later this month.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The NATO bombing campaign which fatally weakened Muammar Gaddafi’s rule had a secret asset: a 24-year-old Libyan woman who spent months spying on military facilities and passing on the details to the alliance.

A copy of the Revised List of Electors (RLE) for the General and Regional Elections – 2011 posted at City Hall yesterday.

Dear Editor, I bring a rather troubling issue to light and hope the relevant authorities can do something about the matter.

PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – Lengthy rain interruptions put paid to Australia’s hopes of wrapping up a series-clinching victory over Sri Lanka on the final day of the second test yesterday.

Dear Editor, Farmers do many things unbeknownst to the MMA-ADA.  When farmers do land preparation and throw paddy during the August month when will they reap their crop? 

PARIS (Reuters) – Former French president Jacques Chirac and his prime minister Dominique de Villepin have denied  accusations by a one-time aide that they took millions of  dollars in illicit cash handouts from African leaders.

By Emmerson Campbell Guyana’s current national road race champion Walter Grant Stewart, whose right arm is amputated, and members of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) met last Friday at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) building on Main Street to deal with the issue of his non-eligibility to compete overseas with non-disabled cyclists.

Dear Editor, The many I have spoken to recently have intimated to me that the factors of fear, threats and bribery may be responsible for such an unfortunate outcome.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sent his jobs bill to Congress yesterday and proposed paying for it by eliminating $467 billion in tax breaks for richer Americans and companies, meeting immediate resistance from Republicans.

(Reuters) – Serena Williams escaped with a $2,000 fine yesterday when tennis officials ruled that her verbal abuse of an umpire during Sunday’s U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It appears that there is a major problem at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (Petrojam).

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s banks face some of the world’s toughest regulations under reforms outlined yesterday, which require them to insulate their retail lending activities and store up billions in extra capital at a cost of up to 7 billion pounds ($11 billion).

Dear Editor, Every day on my way to school, I look at the minibuses passing; they are always speeding.

Politikles

NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least 75 bodies have been recovered after petrol that had spilled into an open sewer caught fire and sent a wave of flame through a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital, police said yesterday.

It has become customary, at the start of the academic year, for the commencement of classes in some state-run schools to be delayed either on account of defective schoolhouses or a shortage of furniture.

Dear Editor, It is given to young men to dream dreams and the old to see visions.

A new school year has just begun. If your child’s planned sessions of reading, playing, learning how to make nutritious snacks and spending time with family and friends were successful you want this success to continue into this new school year.

Flying Object was unstoppable on Sunday when Bush Lot United Turf Club came alive for its one-day horse meet at the club’s track at Bush Lot, West Coast, Berbice.