Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 11, 2011

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities  broke up a plot by two men linked to the Iranian government to  assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States, U.S. 

Several dredge operations, blamed for polluting the Kaituma Creek, in the North West District, were operating in a “prohibited” zone, according to Region One Chairman Fermin Singh.

It appears that the choice of Dr. Roger Luncheon as the star witness in the legal matter of His Excellency the President and Freddie Kissoon – the King Kong case, as it has come to be known – may not have been a wise one after all.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Disruptions to BlackBerry  services spread to Latin America today, more than a day  after users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India  suffered extended outages.

DHAKA, (Reuters)- Mushfiqur Rahim led Bangladesh from  the front with 41 not out as the home side ended their 12-match  losing streak in Twenty20 internationals with a three-wicket win  over West Indies today.

Police say that at about 1130h yesterday they received a report of an armed robbery that had occurred on Sunday at Haimara Creek, Mowasie Backdam, Mahdia, during which mining dredge operator Chandradat Bahadur was attacked and robbed by a man armed with a firearm.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – At the end of June of this year, the total national debt, including guarantees and non-drawn loans amounted to some US$1.17 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine is describing the illegal bunkering of diesel fuel valued at over TT$1.5 billion as economic genocide.

(Jamaica Observer) A female St Andrew minister of religion who was recently caught trying to leave the island with 113 pellets of ganja in her stomach was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison when she appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.

(Jamaica Observer) Andrew Holness yesterday issued a strong rejection of donmanship and garrison politics, saying he has never embraced either, and will not veer from that position regardless of which constituency he will seek to represent in the next general election.

(Barbados Nation) Rihanna has been named The Sexiest Woman Alive 2011 by Esquire Magazine.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Formal recognition of the rights of gays, lesbians and others of a different sexual orientation is no priority of the government’s, which would rather deal with “serious” development issues.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Kaloti Jewellery Group, which is headquartered in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, will assist Suriname in setting up an own mint house.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet was not originally intended to be a carrier into the smaller islands of the Caribbean, says Minister of International Transport George Hutson.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Cricket’s controversial decision  review system (DRS) will no longer be mandatory and its use will  be left to bilateral agreements between participating boards,  the International Cricket Council (ICC) said today.

(Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) has hit back at  allegations Australian players are involved in match-fixing,  saying the claims made by a sports agent were “baseless and  outlandish”.

Constructing the Amaila Falls hydropower plant at a cost of US$835 million will not reduce the cost consumers have to pay for electricity and may not be the answer to the country’s energy needs, the AFC’s economic advisor Dr Tarron Khemraj says.

A privately owned airstrip is being developed in the village of Yakishuru, in Region One, in order to protect gold and diamond miners travelling in and out of the region.

There is only one functioning computer system in the city’s treasury department, resulting in bottlenecks in tax collection.

One of the men captured last week by police in connection with the Piari Landing robbery, has been identified as the mastermind in a previous robbery that occurred in the same area a few weeks prior.

A 24-year-old woman is now in critical condition after she was struck off her bicycle by a pickup last evening on the East Bank highway.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Dr Steve Surujbally on Thursday briefed newly-accredited British High Commissioner to Guyana Andrew Ayre on preparations for the upcoming general elections.

Approximately one month after students and parents protested the shoddy condition of the Golden Grove Secondary School at least 80 per cent of renovation works have been completed.

The owner of the local cargo vessel, which was intercepted in St Lucian waters laden with drugs and weapons, has surrendered to police, who are still checking out “the story” he has given.

Satrohan Mannaru, 21, of Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, was yesterday charged over the stabbing to death of his ex-girlfriend Indranie ‘Cynthia’ Basdeo, 14, at a school playground.

CNS Channel 6 resumed operations just after noon yesterday on receipt of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s formal letter stating that the ban had been temporarily lifted until December 1, but the candlelight vigils in protest will continue.

(Cricinfo) It’s been a tough year for Bangladesh. After convincing home one-day series wins against New Zealand and Zimbabwe last year, which helped them go above West Indies in the ICC one-day international rankings, many expected 2011 to be the year Bangladesh would permanently shed the “minnow” tag.

A British national is in police custody after a spliff of ganja was found in his suitcase at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri yesterday afternoon.

A Critchlow Labour College student and an alleged accomplice who are accused of robbing another man at gunpoint of a quantity of gold valued in excess of $2 million  were yesterday remanded to prison after they appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The final day of the two matches on display, Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup, two-day, first-division club cricket competition, ended in draws at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground and Police Sports Club, Eve Leary, on Sunday.

A post-mortem examination performed yesterday on the body of Foulis businessman Purushotam Nauth revealed the cause of death as gunshot injury.

By Emmerson Campbell The Guyana government will be giving financial support to the tune of US$10,000 towards the participation of the national men’s rugby team at the Pan American championships in Guadalajara, Mexico and the NACRA championships in Barbados.

David Granger APNU The quality of life for the majority of Guyanese has deteriorated under the People’s Progressive Party Civic’s 19-year administration.

A 29-year-old man who allegedly stole two cell phones valued a total of $215,000 from another man in a Main Street restaurant was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Resurgent stroke-maker Marlon Samuels is anxiously looking forward to the limited overs and Test series against Bangladesh after his superb, unbeaten century in a Twenty20 tour match on Sunday.

A 30-year-old man who allegedly assaulted his wife because she accused him of having an affair with another woman was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Up to the time that this issue of the Guyana Review was published, Raphael Trotman was still the only named Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2011 General Elections A friend Raphael Trotman’s remarked recently that he felt that while the law was his profession politics was his “real calling.”

Kelvin Poonsammy, the gunman who invaded the Dutch Bottle Café last Friday, died as a result of perforation of the lungs and blunt trauma to the head, a post-mortem examination has found.

An Opinion From the Jamaica Observer, July 24, 2011 A 56-year-old civil servant from Dominica where he served in several ministries.

Two persons were yesterday discharged from hospital, while two remain in a critical condition, following Friday’s vehicular collision in the vicinity of Middlesex, Pomeroon and the subsequent hospitalization of the eight persons involved.

The Emanie Netball Club on Sunday bagged its second win of the Digicel/Guyana Netball Association senior league tournament on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

To many people’s surprise The United Force (TUF) announced earlier this year that it would contest the 2011 general elections.

Defending Schools National Champions, North Georgetown (District 11) began their stringent selection process yesterday with their inter-zone field events for the upcoming Schools National Championship slated for next month.

A 31-year-old man who is charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and threatening behaviour was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail and put on a bond to keep the peace until his trial is over by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

(Reuters) Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has left for Dubai to attend the ICC’s executive board meeting even as a decision on his extension is expected to be taken in the next 48 hours.

By Leyland Lucas, PhD, Donald Ainsworth, MA, Rawle Lucas, MA, CPA, Sheranne Doorgasingh Wickham, M.

By Iva Wharton Last Saturday softball players from Suriname lost thousands of dollars in cash and other valuables in a larceny incident while they were on the field at the Everest Cricket Club, Carifesta Avenue, in a match against their Guyanese counterparts.

A Charlestown man facing charges of assault and using abusive language to the mother of his three children appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Table-topping Guyana will bank on the experience of Leon Cort and Ricky Shakes when they take on resurgent Bermuda in a CONCACAF Group B qualifier at the National Sports Centre (NSC) tonight.

Dear Editor, Dr. Steve Surujbally, in his role as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, recently called on the media to practise their art in a fair way.

 … Last Sunday, I advised my party’s central executive that I would not seek re-election at the annual general conference to be held next month and I would step down as prime minister as soon as a new leader had been elected.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Coptic Christians turned their fury against the army yesterday after at least 25 people were killed when troops broke up a protest, deepening public doubts about the military’s ability to steer the country peacefully towards democracy.

Reigning Guyana Open ladies golf champion Christine Sukhram is blazing a trail of glory ahead of the local premier event which is expected to get underway in two weeks time but she  has expressed  concerned over the lack of female players locally.

Dear Editor, There is an article on Yarrowkabra in the last Sunday Stabroek that causes me much heartache.

An edited address in the National Assembly 24th July 2008 by K Ramjattan (AFC Chairman) re Debate on the Court of Appeal Amendment Bill 2008 Sometime ago in this Assembly, I had argued the case that there must be in place a Law Reform Commission.

Guyana’s golfers performed creditably at the recently held RBC/RBTT Suriname Open tournament played at the Paramaribo Golf Club.

Media freedom is by no means the first issue that would have arisen in the minds of Guyanese with the advent of the WikkiLeaks phenomenon.

Dear Editor, Being a Karaoke singer, singing as much as 170 Indian and over 30 English songs, I decided to have a try at GT&T’s Bollywood competition held at the Little Rock Hotel in New Amsterdam but was skeptical of the fairness of the judging, seeing so many Chutney singers were involved as judges.

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the United States are adamant that there will be no food relief for crisis-hit North Korea until it guarantees that all aid will reach the most needy and there is an improvement in ties between the two Koreas.

(Reuters) The possibility of converting the 2013 Champions Trophy to a Test Championship and its Presidential nomination and election process is on top of agenda at International Cricket Council ICC Executive Board’s fourth and final meeting of the year which began here yesterday.

Recognising that it is a public health issue, the Ministry of Health said it will now take a lead role in addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and violence on the whole.

My search for reflections on the life and work of Dag Hammarskjold emanating from Caribbean thinkers and institutions concerned with International Relations may well have been less than vigorous, though, even if it was, I doubt that a great deal was written in the region about the man who is still thought of by many as the best Secretary General the United Nations ever had.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US government obtained secret court orders to force Google Inc and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, Regarding your news item `UN figures  contradicting (T&T) Govt claim’ (http://www.stabroeknews.com/

Dear Editor, What Business are you in? Is it hotel/Guest House?

(BVI Platinum News) – Police are conducting investigations after the body of a male Guyanese native was discovered on Thursday morning, under a guinep tree on a vacant property alongside Fine Foods Supermarket on the eastern end of Tortola.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Growing protests targeting Wall Street and US economic inequality spawned heated rhetoric among politicians on Sunday as organizers planned more demonstrations this week.

(Reuters) A Pakistani court has released on bail Muhammad Ebrahim, a suspect charged with involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March 2009.

Lennox J Hernandez Broken and spartan, the Anglican Church of St Barnabas, located at Regent Street & Orange Walk, Bourda, Georgetown, opened as a relatively small building in 1884 in a north-south orientation with the main altar at the northern end, and, after a series of grand additions and alterations, consecrated in 1938 with an east-west orientation and the main altar at the east end, is no more.

Dear Editor, In a normal constitutional democracy the courts will adjudicate and pronounce on whether a particular TV broadcast violated the bye-laws laid down by a constitutional body.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top companies will face more pressure to increase the number of women on their boards from next year under a new code published today that stopped short of quotas seen in other European countries.

Daniel Flores guided Work Force to the pole position in the feature G Class race on Sunday when the Bush Lot United Turf Club held its one-day horse race meet at the club’s facility, Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice.

Executive Director and Chief Distiller at Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), George Leslie Robinson, 63, has died.

LASANA LIBURD says despite the recent damage done to the CFU, Caribbean Football is moving forward on a stronger footing.

Happy Birthday Oasis

The Rotary Club

President Bharrat Jagdeo still appears far from ready to have the lights turned out on his tenure as the country’s Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces.

(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old Guyanese woman was raped by a lone intruder who forced his way into her Cunupia home during the early hours of Sunday morning.

Dear Editor, Now that President Jagdeo has bowed to the pressure of the combined opposition and civil society (and Sharma will hopefully be back on the air), I urge the organizers to keep agitating for change.

Football of yesteryear flourished in the urban working-class communities that border Georgetown to the east and to the south.

Loop-hole

Police are yet to receive a lead that could result in the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Jahave Browne who was found with a bullet wound to the chest at Bonehead, Omai on September 26.

CARACAS (Reuters) – An unexpected phone call interrupts a Venezuelan government ceremony for local athletes broadcast live on state TV.