A Miami-based American Eagle Airlines flight attendant accused of working under a fake name and passport was sentenced today to eight months in prison less time served and three years probation, according to NBC Miami.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The judge in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor issued a gag order for attorneys today after a defense counselor appeared on a television show telling details about the case.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba plans to close some ministries, create new ones and eliminate some of their business activities by year end in reforms spearheaded by President Raul Castro to modernize the communist island’s economy, government sources said.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse’s statement in his annual address yesterday that something must be done about the debt ceiling because it frustrates the plans he wants to carry out, did not go down well with the New Front (NF).
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ruth Wijdenbosch says that the drop in unemployment as recently reported by the General Bureau for Statistics (ABS) is a positive development, but she believes that the announcement by President Desi Bouterse that 5000 new jobs will be created every year is a “pipe dream”, as it has no foundation and the President did not mention how he reached that figure and did not indicate in which sector.
(Jamaica Observer) Police sources have indicated that Deejay Vybz Kartel is being questioned in relation to a body that was found in a house reportedly owned by him in Havendale, St Andrew.
A Guyanese vessel was held in St Lucia’s waters last week with weapons, drugs and six Guyanese aboard and the ensuing probe led to a gun and ammo charge against a well-known boxing promoter on the island who was born in Linden.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse began his annual address yesterday with a warning that the new looming economic crisis in Europe could have a hard-hitting effect on Suriname.
(Barbados Nation) Police are planning to tackle “pirate” vans activity which legal operators say is worsening and killing their route taxi (ZR) business.
By Frances Abraham with
photos by Anjuli Persaud
Between Foulis and Golden Grove on the East Coast of Demerara, lies the hospitable community of Enmore.
The annual showcasing of Guyana’s business and entrepreneurship sectors was opened last evening with neighbouring Suriname introducing over twenty companies to Guyana as part of a delegation to the expo, headed by its Vice President Robert Ameerali.
Chairman of Region 10 Mortimer Mingo yesterday denied that he had a house lot at the Pradoville 2 housing scheme as stated in court testimony on Wednesday by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon.
Murder accused Klaus Daniels was yesterday sentenced to 17 years imprisonment by Justice Winston Patterson after he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.
The local religious television programme which was pulled from the air in Linden following complaints that the content of a recent broadcast was perceived as attacking the government of Guyana will be back from Sunday after the decision was revisited by senior management of National Communications Network (NCN).
A man, who was on trial in the High Court for the rape of a 12-year-old girl eight years ago, was yesterday freed after he was found not guilty by a mixed Demerara Assizes jury.
Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday ruled the 2008 McDougall Report inadmissible as evidence, but the defence later signalled its intention to have the author, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues, Gay Mc Dougall, testify via audio videoing.
Venezuelan daily El Universal yesterday reported President Hugo Chávez as saying that the Governments of Venezuela and Guyana had agreed to handle their border controversy at the highest level and in a very responsible manner.
A fire yesterday engulfed a two-storey house at Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, and completely destroyed its upper flat, leaving seven persons homeless.
Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and her Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro will meet in Port of Spain today, a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday urged the private sector to be open to “capital” and “expertise” from abroad emphasising that these are integral to Guyana fulfilling its potential.
A 20-year-old man who pleaded guilty to robbing a pregnant woman of her gold chain valued $45,000 was yesterday sentenced to twelve months imprisonment after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
A 28-year-old man who allegedly wounded another man was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
A miner who allegedly had in his possession 2,041 grams of cannabis for the purposes of trafficking at Mango Landing was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) Secretariat has verified 11,000 persons so far with close to 2,000 persons being reached per week, particularly since the secretariat now has a full force of verification officers in Region Four, according to Verification and Customer Relations Manager, Shanelle Ferguson.
The suspect in the murder of the Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara father of two, will be committed to a mental institution while her evaluation by a psychiatrist continues, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.
An 18-year-old who allegedly snatched a gold chain valued $150,000 from a woman appeared yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and he was placed on $100,000 bail.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is accusing the PPP/C administration of “turning its back” on the people of Mahdia saying that the government has failed to address critical infrastructural needs in the country.
As Guyana gets ready to usher in Senior Citizens Month beginning Saturday October 1, the opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) promises to increase old age pension by 100% among other benefits, if it wins the upcoming general and regional elections.
The Caricom Secretariat lauds the appointment of Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy as chairman of the Executive Board of the new Caribbean Public Health Agency (Carpha) and expressed confidence in his ability to chart the course of the agency to safeguard public health.
Effective from October 1, 2011 Assistant Commissioner Balram Persaud, who is currently in command of the Police ‘D’ Division (West Demerara/East Bank Essequibo), has been posted
A row between a labourer and his wife last evening ended tragically when their two-storey Enterprise, East Coast Demerara home went up in flames leading neighbours to believe that the fire was a deliberate act.
Motor vehicle PGG 6981 last night collided with a 12-wheeler DAF truck, licence plate GNN 7633, at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, in front of the Two Brothers Gas Station.
Pushcart music vendors agreed to reduce the size of their music amplifiers and to ‘tone down’, during a meeting with President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Kevin McClean cruelly exposed the batting limitations of the current West Indies team, jolting them with an inspiring spell of fast-medium bowling to lead the West Indies High Performance Centre to a six-wicket victory in a One-day practice match yesterday.
VISAKHAPATNAM, India, CMC – A half-century from their captain Kraigg Brathwaite was insufficient to take West Indies Under-19s to victory yesterday, when Australia Under-19s slammed them by 137 runs in the quadrangular Youth One-day International series.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC-IANS – International matches are set to witness a slew of changes in all three formats with amendments to rules coming into effect from tomorrow.
Concerns over the possibility of hacking could be among the reasons for the limited number of stand-alone Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) installed by commercial banks even in the face of complaints by customers over the lengthy queues, a banking source has said.
Say the name Twins and Guyanese who are old enough will take you back at least 60 years to a time when remedies for common maladies—pains and sprains—were to be found at the village drug store; when concerned parents choose the pharmacist as their first resort to diagnose and heal their children’s sudden and discomfiting ailments, the doctor being pressed into service only if and when the ailment persisted.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar spent a second night at St Clair Medical Centre in Port of Spain due to an allergic reaction to a dye administered during her medical evaluation.
Roti Hut, a part of the Bakewell group of companies, yesterday handed over a $500,000 cheque to the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) at the company’s main branch on Albert Street.
Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud’s disclosure that the skills that are necessary to run the Skeldon Sugar Factory properly simply do not exist within the company or, for that matter, within the country is probably not all that surprising when one considers that despite the much-touted view that the skills base with the sugar industry is sufficiently adequate, the performance of the industry, particularly its field performance, has been, in large measure, a function of the continuous flow of skilled managers out of GuySuCo.
By Iva Wharton
Coaches and heads of associations have agreed that the survival of many sporting disciplines in Guyana depends on an organisation’s ability to attract young people from the school system and at Marian Academy it is also seen as enhancing academic performance.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ever-theatrical socialist leader Hugo Chavez sought to display his vigour yesterday by playing ball on his palace grounds after mocking a U.S.
Jamaican farmers are working with the Ministry of Agriculture’s export division in an effort to ‘tame’ the country’s turmeric cultivation and transform it into an export money-earner.
Dear Editor,
As chairman of Pacesetters Basketball Club I feel compelled to represent our club because of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA).
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala will seek to make amends to former president Jacobo Arbenz, ousted in a violent coup nearly 60 years ago, as the Central America nation tries to emerge from generations of violence and political unrest.
Export of greenheart logs from Guyana continues to be ‘on hold’ in the face of the sustained high demand for the species on the local market to meet the needs of the domestic building programme.
DUNEDIN, (Reuters) – The rugby World Cup paused for breath yesterday with a rare rest day as attention turned to the preparations of the 13 teams hoping this weekend’s final round of pool games will send them into the quarter-finals.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India axed spinner Harbhajan Singh yesterday and drafted in the uncapped Sreenath Aravind and Rahul Sharma for the first two one-day internationals against England next month.
BERLIN – Following a now-familiar script, Europe again averted disaster in its debt crisis when German lawmakers rallied behind Chancellor Angela Merkel to approve a stronger euro zone bailout fund yesterday.
The John Fernandes Ltd subsidiary, JP Santos & Company Ltd, has declared a sharp reduction in its gross profits for the half year ended June 2011 compared with the previous half year ended December 31, last year.
(Trinidad Express) A national of Trinidad and Tobago convicted of manslaughter and for selling drugs has been named among the almost 3,000 illegal immigrants arrested by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Dear Editor,
I am appealing to the Ministry of Education to give an explanation to the parents of students who were not allowed to write Mathematics at the last CSEC (school name provided).
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A former bodyguard for Michael Jackson testified yesterday that the pop star’s doctor asked him to grab vials of medicine and an IV bag before an ambulance was called for Jackson the day he died.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 427’s trading results showed consideration of $2,941,143 from 201,830 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 426 which showed consideration of $205,000
Gizmos and Gadgets will donate an estimated $800,000, which it raised at a charity cake sale organized by the company and held at its Wellington Street store, to the Beacon Foundation.
In a European Champions League football match on Tuesday, Manchester City’s Argentine forward, Carlos Tévez, refused manager Roberto Mancini’s call to come on as a substitute in the second half, with City 2-0 down to Bayern Munich.
Dr Luncheon – And my Grandchild
Believe me, I had decided to explore, yet again, this issue, before I fell upon the editorial in this Tuesday’s Stabroek News.