Daily Archive: Monday, October 24, 2011

The police say they are probing a fatal accident that occurred at about 0700h.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1930h.

Police say that at about 1915h. last night vendor Nazeema Amoolayan, 35 years, and her reputed husband Oliver Permaul, 30 years, were in the verandah of their home at Tain, Corentyne, when five men, one of whom was armed with a shotgun and the others with cutlasses, entered the premises and held them up.

Former minister of information in the PPP/C administration Moses Nagamootoo this afternoon announced that he has resigned from the Central Committee and as a member of the PPP with immediate effect.

  Ryan Kissoon, called “Dhal Belly,” is being sought in connection with the murder of elderly Robb Street, Lacytown pharmacist Harold Rachpaul.

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) seized 30 kilogrammes of cocaine in three buckets on Saturday night in an operation that saw the exchange of gunfire with drug traffickers, who then managed to escape in a boat at the Number 73 beach.

CN Sharma has stepped down as the presidential candidate for the Justice For All Party (JFAP) and has now declared his support for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).

(Trinidad Express) Outgoing Roman Catholic Archbishop Edward Gilbert yesterday warned of further division among citizens in the face of growing cries of racism and discrimination by politicians.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro  denounced NATO today for its role in the overthrow of  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the “brutal military  alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of  repression the history of humanity has known.”

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – At a press conference yesterday, President Desi Bouterse expressed anger at the Association of Indigenous Village Heads (VIDS) and its representative Carlo Lewis.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Yesterday afternoon and evening, the situation at Maripaston got completely out of hand.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday vowed to continue his “carrion crow” attack against sections of the media while presidential candidate of the party Donald Ramotar says he plans to work closely with the labour movement if elected.

A Mabura, Upper Demerara man is believed to have been murdered on the interior location’s public road sometime during the early morning hours of yesterday.

By Shaun Michael Samaroo in Toronto Noting that he “still does not know why my wife was killed in Guyana”, Bob Persaud, brother-in-law of slain government Minister Sash Sawh, made an impassioned plea for a change in government as he    declared his support for the Alliance For Change in Canada on Friday.

The body of a Linden vendor was pulled out of the Demerara River yesterday after he drowned.

Since November 2006, there have been at least seven discoveries of grenades outside of state security agencies but police and some security experts believe that the presence of these explosive devices in the public domain is not a cause for concern.

From Marlon Munroe at Blairmont Guyana topped Group A and booked a semi-final place in the Regional Super50 tournament after defeating Barbados by 48 runs at the Blairmont Estate Community Development ground yesterday.

Representatives of APNU and the AFC on Friday said they favour a ‘closed’ list system to select their representatives for the National Assembly so that the electorate would know for whom they are voting.

Not a day passes that Nadira and Nandkissoon do not think about their son, Constable Vickram Singh who was gunned down under “questionable circumstances” while manning the entrance to the joint services scheme on July 2, 2010.

From Treiston Joseph in Suriname Guyana finished on top of the points table when the final day of the 2011 Track and Field Championships of the Inter Guiana Games concluded yesterday at the Andre Kampervene Stadium in Suriname.

Savvy death overs bowling from Jason Holder, inspired the Sagicor High Performance Center (HPC) to a tense seven-run victory over the Windward Islands in the final round Group A match of the 2011 Regional Super50 tournament, at the Everest Cricket Club, yesterday.

Residents of the Good Samaritan home in Berbice received 13 Care Packages compliments of New Amsterdamers International Inc (NAII) last Saturday.

By Iva Wharton Caribbean Netball associations will soon be petitioning the Caribbean Netball Association (CBA) and the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA) to stage an alternative tournament to the world championships.

School of the Nations and Mae’s Secondary School won the first round when the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) hosted its Impromptu Speech Competition 2011.

Three weeks after being injured in a two-vehicle collision in Essequibo, vendor Bassmattie Bissoon is still a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) awaiting another surgery to fix her dislocated jaw, while the 18-year-old driver who caused the accident is still to be charged.

By Emmerson Campbell The Oxford dictionary defines the word explosion as a violent release of confined energy, usually accompanied by a loud sound and shock waves.

Dear Editor, Now that GECOM too has added its voice to the unfairness of the five-minute weekly air time offered to the opposition parties by the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) it is hoped that NCN management will let justice prevail.

A Unity, East Coast Demerara farmer was brutally chopped about his body last evening at his home and is likely to lose his left hand which was left hanging from the wrist following the incident.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Varun Aaron picked up three wickets on his debut as India stayed on course to whitewash England in the one-day international series by cruising to a six-wicket victory in the fourth match yesterday.

Dear Editor, Since Dr Roger Luncheon, the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, made his revelation that the regime has for some time been considering charging me for sedition and my file has being sent to the DPP for consideration, many Guyanese, locally and from abroad, have called me to express their concerns for my physical security.

Dear Editor,   In the gallery of the Stabroek News website October 20, is a picture of one of our country’s top performers at the recent CSEC examinations- a beaming, neatly attired young lady, collecting an equally gleaming trophy from Minister of Education, Mr.

Breast cancer walk: Hundreds turned out for

AUCKLAND, (Reuters) – Hosts New Zealand just about held their collective nerve to edge France 8-7 and win the World Cup for the second time after a gap of 24 years at Eden Park yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force is fully cognizant of the stipulated period for detention in the Constitution of 72 hours and Divisional and Branch Commanders are fully abreast of the requirements in this respect; as such detention beyond this period has a Constitutional provision of approach to the High Court for an extension.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has called for a national stance against crime, corruption and injustice.

New Jamaica PM: Andrew Holness taking the oath of

 From Treiston Joseph  in Suriname Guyana fell to Suriname Saturday evening when the male basketball competition of the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) continued at the Anthony Nesty Hall in Suriname.

AN, Turkey, (Reuters) – More than 100 people were  confirmed killed and hundreds more feared dead yesterday when a  powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey, flattening buildings  and leaving survivors crying for help from under the rubble.

A $113.05M contract for the construction of a synthetic track and field facility at the Leonora Community Centre Ground, in Region Three, is among five cleared by Cabinet on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, Why the silence of Mr. Freddie Kissoon on the Presidential candidate, Mr.

In its weekly update, the Guyana Elections Commission yesterday said that it will settle debts connected with the aborted preparations for local government elections last year.

Dear Editor, On Friday evening the National Coordi-nating Committee for the International Year of Volunteers +10 hosted a lecture on volunteerism and Corporate Social Respon-sibility (CSR) in Guyana.

TUNIS,  (Reuters) – Tunisian election officials  counted the votes today after the country’s first free  election, 10 months on from the moment Mohamed Bouazizi set  himself on fire in a protest that started the Arab Spring  uprisings.

Guyana’s male volleyball team rallied to win a tough encounter at the Inter Guiana Games Saturday evening at the Anthony Nesty Hall in Suriname.

Dear Editor, I thought that when the Chief Justice, Mr. Ian Chang brought up President Jagdeo’s libel suit against me and the Kaieteur News exactly one year after the writs were filed, it gave enormous latitude to lawyers to request the speedy moving up of matters involving the Constitution and human rights issues that have been part of the gargantuan backlog in the High Court.

MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – Even as a corpse, Muammar  Gaddafi is casting a shadow over Libya.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – South Africa produced a dominant performance yesterday to beat Australia by 80 runs in the second one-day international to level the three-match series 1-1.

Digicel presented three cheques to the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS), the Avon Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation and the Guyana Legion last week to help them fulfil their missions.

In the trench: The driver of this vehicle, PMM 6839 lost control yesterday as he was turning out of Garnet Street, Kitty onto

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s fiery centre-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, swept to a  landslide re-election victory  yesterday, crowning a comeback  that seemed unthinkable for much of her turbulent first term.

 MIAMI, (Reuters) – A weather disturbance in the  western Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical depression  off the Central American coast in the next couple of days, the  U.S.

Procurement of Sensitive Election Materials (Ballot Paper) GECOM is in the process of procuring sensitive election materials, including Ballot Paper, Statements of Poll Forms, Tally Sheets and indelible ink from Code Inc.

Day three (Saturday) seemed to be the best day for Guyana since the start of the Inter Guiana Games last Thursday as Guyana did well in the cycling aspect of the 2011 edition of the games currently underway in Suriname.

Following a conference in Beirut earlier this year the International Freedom of Expression Exchange – a network of human rights and free speech groups with representatives on all five continents  —  declared November 23 the International Day to End Impunity.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I am an AFC supporter—the decision to join the AFC was taken after I carefully looked at the performances of the ruling dictatorship of the PPP/C and decided that I will do my utmost to end the dominance of the masses, of which I am a part, by just a few very self-elevating persons.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street their opinion of  President Bharrat Jagdeo’s description of some media workers as carrion crows and vultures.

Alissa Trotz is the editor of the In the Diaspora column.

Go-karting at the Annual Orphans and Vulnerable Children Fun Day put on

(Trinidad Guardian) Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath says adopting a “Buy Local” approach will significantly reduce the T&T food import bill currently put at TT$4 billion.