Daily Archive: Monday, November 14, 2011

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – Four matches in the West Indies Cricket Board Regional 4 Day Tournament will be played with pink balls and as day/night fixtures in the 2012 season.

(Barbados Nation) United States Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Barbados on Wednesday to meet with local officials to discuss the fight against transnational crime.

The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, says the signing of a Code of Conduct by all political parties participating in Guyana’s general elections is a sign of responsibility and commitment that must be applauded.

At about 10.30 this morning police ranks stopped motor car PMM 9535 at Molsen Creek, Corentyne, and subsequently unearthed a total of 10 kgs of cocaine.

The police today said they are probing two shooting deaths including one at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice where a rice farmer was confronted by a man on horseback.

Police today said that there has been a decrease of 2% in murders when figures of 115 for the same period last year and 113 at the end of October this year are compared.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago, the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas to the US, said exports to that country have fallen “sharply” because of rising US shale gas production.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Cricket’s world test  championship will not begin until 2017, International Cricket  Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat announced today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Males outnumbered females in new cases of cancer and cancer deaths in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Winston Dookeran says French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s naming of T&T as a tax haven was premature and improper.

(Jamaica Observer) Six policemen who were assigned to the Gun Court Remand Centre have been transferred and are facing certain corruption charges after they were allegedly caught on camera taking money from a close relative of jailed popular entertainer Vybz Kartel.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – There is a shortage of 400 beef cattle a month.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says tertiary education in Barbados will remain free across the board, dismissing suggestions that only the “less well off” should receive state subsidies.

KOLKATA, (Reuters) – Rahul Dravid made the most  of superb batting conditions at Eden Gardens to post his 36th  test hundred and put India in charge after the first day of the  second test against West Indies today.

Dear Editor, Could the Guyana Elections Commission tell us what new constraints or insights caused them to change the voting times on polling day from the tried and tested 6 am-6 pm to 7 am-7 pm?

Drama unfolded at the South Dakota racing circuit yesterday as the 2011 GT&T/Seaboard Marine Caribbean Race of Championships ended with spills, thrills and an unlikely winner in Barbadian Roger Mayers.

Pacesetters ‘A’ were crowned the inaugural champions of the Mackeson smooth moves 3-on-3 basketball tournament on Saturday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall tarmac.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Bangladesh A secured a slim first innings lead but rain wrecked the second day of the second four-day “Test” against West Indies A at the Beausejour Cricket Ground here yesterday.

KOLKATA, (Reuters) – Ishant Sharma is relishing  the task of leading India’s pace attack against West Indies in  the absence of the injured Zaheer Khan, the 23-year-old paceman  said yesterday.

Kolkata, India — West Indies captain Darren Sammy offered condolences to the families and loved ones of those who died in the tragic accident in his native St Lucia last Thursday.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) secured an outright victory over Malteenoes, while the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) drew with the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC), in the latest round of the Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket/Heroes Cup, two-day first division competition, which was played over the weekend.

PPP/C officials yesterday warned supporters not to trust the AFC and APNU saying that the two parties are conspiring to deny the ruling party another term and if the PPP/C fails to get over 50% of the votes, “cat eat the dinner of all of us.”

In front of a reasonable-sized crowd at Burnham Court on Saturday night, all teams made strong cases for the top prize in the Guinness Greatest of the Street football competition with eight exciting match-ups.

A 36-year-old man died yesterday under suspicious circumstances following a collision on Wellington Street in the city.

St. Roses High and Queen’s College ‘B’ will contest the final of Under-13 category in the Digicel Sponsored schools Table Tennis tournament.

After at least 15 years of planning and various obstacles including funding and a proper location, the National Veterans Home, is finally complete and will soon open its doors to impoverished veterans.

Guyanese lightweight champion Patrick Forde passed away at 6.45 am yesterday in a New York hospital according to his brother Reginald.

Seven persons were left homeless after a late morning fire engulfed their home at Lot 66, Block 8, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, The defenders of the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act 2009 including Prime Minister Sam Hinds, Dr.

KOLKATA, India, IANS/CMC – West Indies fast bowler Fidel Edwards says getting Indian openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag out early would be the key to taking control in the second Test against India at Eden Gardens, starting today.

The Guyana Energy Agency, through Special Prosecutor, Attorney-at-Law, Gino Persaud, secured two more convictions at the Leguan

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Perennial Trinidad and Tobago captain Daren Ganga has quit the post, two weeks after his side’s failed campaign in the Super50 series in Guyana.

Dear Editor, The political discourse between the presidential candidates at the University of Guyana on Thursday November 10, was great theatre; there were wild accusations, great promises, a lively young boisterous crowd and one very interesting boast.

Bartica police yesterday received unconfirmed reports about a minibus without a licence plate being spotted at one of the Essequibo River crossings and this sparked heightened security watches.

Dear Editor, I write in solidarity with the University of Guyana students who have become the latest victims of the PPP’s campaign of profiling.

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao was tested to  the full before retaining his WBO welterweight title with a  controversial majority decision over Juan Manuel Marquez at the  MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday.

Road safety practices have been a missing component from schools in Linden for a number of years but thanks to the coordinators of the National Road Safety Council, that void has been filled with a number of students being trained especially when it comes to the use of the pedestrian crossing.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Three thousand troops  backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles occupied Rio de  Janeiro’s largest slum without firing a shot yesterday, the  biggest step in the Brazilian city’s bid to improve security  and end the reign of drug gangs.

Dear Editor, I write to make corrections in the letter from Mr Albert Khan (SN, Nov 10) captioned ‘Played a central part in exposing rigged elections in  Guyana, but Bisram omitted name.‘ 

Residents of the Parfait Harmonie Housing Scheme, on the West Bank of Demerara, want authorities to repair their deplorable roads and clear the weed-infested canals and drains that cause flooding whenever it rains When Stabroek News visited the area and spoke to some of the residents, they complained that ever since they moved into the area,

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton  won the floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix yesterday after Red Bull’s  double Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel suffered his first  race retirement in more than a year.

(Trinidad Express) Anger coursed through the Gasparillo Road, Santa Cruz, community yesterday after three residents were shot dead and three others injured during an incident with police in Chaguanas earlier in the day.

HONOLULU, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack  Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao presented duelling trade  agendas at a Pacific summit on Saturday that underscored growing  tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

Dear Editor, Many promises were made willy-nilly by the presidential candidates.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Just a week before the ATP  World Tour finals, Roger Federer signalled his return to the top  in timely fashion with a sensational run to the Paris Masters  title.

HONOLULU, (Reuters) – Canada will try to sell more  of its energy products to Asia after Washington delayed a  decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas  oil pipeline project, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

Janette Bulkan is a Social Anthropologist who was Coordinator of the Amerindian Research Unit, University of Guyana from 1985 to 1999 and Senior Social Scientist at the Iwokrama International Centre from 2000 to 2003.

St Lucia observed three days of national mourning following the Thursday evening accident in which a bus coming from a funeral went over a cliff and plunged into the sea killing 17 people including an infant and a pregnant woman.

Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member Cathy Hughes said on Saturday evening that Guyana would have been more developed had there not been the level of corruption there is and promised that under an AFC-led government jobs will be created and VAT would be reduced.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italy’s president appointed  former European Commissioner Mario Monti yesterday to head a new  government charged with implementing urgent reforms to end a  crisis that has endangered the whole euro zone.

Hello friend, long time no see!

As campaigning for the upcoming national and regional elections continues countrywide, we asked residents of Linden how they felt about the process thus far.

Former judge of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Guyanese Odel Adams has passed away.

(Reuters) – David Warner will replace the  injured Shaun Marsh in the Australian squad for the second and  final test against South Africa, Cricket Australia (CA) said yesterday.

For various reasons governments in this part of the world tend to escape rigorous scrutiny of the judiciousness of their expenditure on behalf of the public.

(Barbados Nation) France’s president Nicholas Sarkozy has named Barbados among 11 so-called tax havens which he says will be shunned by the international community.

Dear Editor, Lincoln Lewis’s letter expressing justifiable reservations relating to government’s recent acquisition of water cannon is timely and a serious matter.

(Barbados Nation) It’s safe to say that Guyana have mastered regional rugby.

(Trinidad Express) “Are you insinuating for one minute that if the police are attacked they should turn their back and run?”

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse has criticized the Ministry of Zonal Planning, Land and Forest Management (RGB) harshly.