Articles published on Saturday, January 21, 2012
COLUMBIA, S.C., (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich scrapped his way to victory in South Carolina today as voters in the conservative state rejected frontrunner Mitt Romney’s pitch that he is the best bet to fix a broken economy and defeat Democratic President Barack Obama.
Police say that investigations are being conducted into a fire that occurred at the Immigration Office in the Multipurpose Complex at Lethem at about 0400h today.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore.
KANO, Nigeria, (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed in bomb attacks and gunbattles in the Nigerian city Kano late yesterday, a local government security source said, in the deadliest strike claimed by Islamist sect Boko Haram to date.
The police say they are investigating the murder of Rojen Basdeo, 39 years of No.0 Village, Corentyne, which occurred at about 2330h last night on a cattle ranch in the backdam at No.56 Village, Corentyne.
(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine yesterday told a news conference that he is now prepared to meet with the Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) to discuss its opposition to any plan to include private equity in Petrotrin.
(Jamaica Observer) Reggae artiste Errol Scorcher passed away in the Spanish Town Hospital, St Catherine on Thursday.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Edward Belfort, deputy director of the Delinquents Care department has submitted a US$ 1.2 million project proposal with the government to fight corruption in prisons.
PARAMARIBO – “I won’t be standing here with you next year”, chairman Ronald Venetiaan of the National Party Suriname (NPS) said yesterday as he laid a wreath at the statue of the late Johan Adolf Pengel to mark what would have been this former chairman’s 96th birthday.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The influx of Chinese immigrants in the past years was politically and strategically motivated.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has asked why State-owned and subsidised Caribbean Airlines made a donation to the Children’s Life Fund, which was basically Government paying itself.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Jamaica reached the semi-finals of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament, after a devastating spell from Krishmar Santokie set them up for an eight-wicket victory over the Netherlands in the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament yesterday.
Guyana’s national Sevens rugby team has been seeded among the top four teams competing in the Las Vegas Invitational Sevens Tournament from February 9 to 11.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday denied that she made attempts to have a Muslim scholar accused of sexually assaulting four boys released from police custody.
President Donald Ramotar yesterday issued a notice proclaiming January 25, 2012 as the date for the election of members of the 10 Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) to be held.
Attorney and politician Goumattie Singh was yesterday robbed of over $1M in foreign currency outside her home, shortly after returning to the country from Trinidad, where she underwent reconstructive surgery.
Pirates terrorized and robbed a fishing crew from the No. 66 Fish Port Complex, in the Corentyne of more than $500,000 in articles before leaving them adrift in Suriname early Wednesday morning.
Dear Editor, Thank you once again for keeping tabs on the possible pollution of the Haieka River.
Billy Glasgow, Steve Reddy and Robin Singh, the three persons nabbed after cocaine and ganja was found aboard fishing boat MV Bismarck 2, were yesterday remanded to prison after being arraigned on drug trafficking charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Dear Editor, Your article with accompanying photo of excavation work in progress on the Hope Canal which appeared in SN of Jan 19 has revealed some serious impending problems facing this project.
Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Khemraj Ramjattan says that he believes the AFC’s performance in the last elections placated a potentially explosive situation which may have occurred had the PPP/C won a majority.
The Guyana Olympic Association is looking to ensure that locally-based 400 metres sprinter Winston George has the best opportunity to prepare for the 2012 London Olympics and plans are also in place to set up the best all-round team for the summer games.
Opposition leader David Granger yesterday called for an investigation into the administration of hinterland schools after recent protests, but Education Minister Priya Manickchand said a detailed examination is already underway, focusing on the provision of services and the expansion of dormitories.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Islamic Trust is appalled by the news carried in the media, alleging that an Imam/ Muslim scholar molested young boys from his madrasah.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An unbroken, second-wicket stand of 74 between their captain Kirk Edwards and Kevin Stoute followed another ruthless performance in the field to catapult Barbados to an emphatic nine-wicket victory over the Combined Campuses & Colleges in the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Darren Sammy said commitment to Windward Islands and West Indies have forced him to opt out of the Bangladesh Twenty20 Premier League next month.
Dear Editor, I have been reading with interest the government’s decision to implement the gardasil vaccine for HPV.
Direct flights between Guyana and Miami will again be a reality when Surinam Airways launches its Paramaribo-Timehri-Miami return flight in April this year.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on Thursday announced that Cabinet has given its no-objection to a contract valued €419,000 (GYD$110M) for consultancy services for technical assistance in mangrove rehabilitation.
Dear Editor, It is with some trepidation that I pen these few words on the ongoing exchanges regarding the management of the affairs of Georgetown, our capital city.
By Emmerson Campbell Guyana’s welterweight champion, Iwan ‘Pure Gold’ Azore is brimming with confidence ahead of his bout with Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy for the vacant World Boxing Council’s (WBC) CABOFE welterweight title on January 27.
Dear Editor, Despite numerous complaints to the various police stations in the Region Five area for years, nothing has been done to quell the blatant and lawless noise nuisance in the village of Hopetown, West Coast Berbice.
Godfrey Chin, considered Guyana’s “memory man,” was laid to rest yesterday.
Guyanese and Caribbean fashion designer and entrepreneur Sonia Noel on Thursday evening launched the Sonia Noel Foundation for Creative Arts (SNFCA), through which she will foster and promote youth empowerment and sustainable development initiatives within the creative arts industry.
By Emmerson Campbell National rider Alonzo Greaves has underscored the importance of local cyclists getting opportunities to race against elite competitors overseas in order to raise their performance level for the London Olympics.
The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce in collaboration with General Executive Management Services (GEMS) Inc yesterday launched its fifth edition of “Guyana Where and What” tourist guide.
Dear Editor, It was instructive to learn from SN’s January 17 report, of the GRA’s increasing success in collecting tax from ‘various’ categories of taxpayers, including the ‘self-employed.’
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers stopped anti-piracy legislation in its tracks yesterday, delivering a stunning win for Internet companies that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to kill the previously fast-moving bills.
These days, the National Assembly is one of the places where one can have the most laughs and not only from the repartee that comes from the few quick-witted parliamentarians still remaining, but also from the gestures and mannerisms of members of that esteemed House.
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia has indefinitely banned 35 athletes – including Olympic men’s 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Kenenisa Bekele – from competition in a row over training, the technical director of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation said yesterday.
MUMBAI, India, CMC/IANS – Estranged West Indies batsman Chris Gayle inked a new deal yesterday with Bangalore Royal Challengers for the next two seasons of the Indian Premier League.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of the bird flu virus have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab.
Some roads in the Diamond/Grove, East Bank Demerara area are to be rebuilt under the Community Roads Improvement Programme (CRIP), which is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Junior Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker told residents there on Thursday.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Kobe Bryant confessed he was finding life after Phil Jackson “strange” after the Los Angeles Lakers fell to another road defeat at the Miami Heat on Thursday.
Hi Everyone, We’ve all been there – trying to make dough for breads, roti(s) or bakes and being frustrated by not knowing exactly how much water to use, or, following the suggested amount of water stipulated in a recipe only to end up with an overly sticky mass or with loose dry bits of something far removed from dough.
Dear Editor, I am concerned about the lack of internet policing by Guyana’s law enforcement.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Major powers are divided over what to put on the table should Iran resume talks on curbing its nuclear programme and whether to allow it to continue enriching uranium to some degree, diplomats said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) There was nothing wrong with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar touching the feet of India President Pratibha Devisingh Patil because it was in keeping with religious tradition.
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Dear Editor, SN of January 18 reported that the MV Torani ran aground between Hog Island and Wakenaam in the Essequibo River on January 17 after engine failure.
(Reuters) – The time has come to clean up soccer’s governing body FIFA “from top to bottom”, three-times world champion Pele said yesterday.
Berbicians are concerned over dead fish that have been floating up in the Corentyne River, from No.
Dear Editor, I am very perturbed as a disabled person with the One Laptop Per Family programme on the Essequibo Coast.
(Jamaica Observer) Former Jamaican Cabinet Minister Dudley Thompson died this morning in New York, USA, one day after he celebrated his 95th birthday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A 31-year-old jailed dissident, Wilmar Villar Mendoza, died on Thursday in eastern Cuba from the effects of a 56-day hunger strike and what fellow opposition activists believe was mistreatment by the Cuban government, a Cuban human rights activist said.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Former Australian batsmen Dean Jones and Michael Bevan have taken up coaching roles with the Chittagong Kings franchise in the forthcoming Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Twenty20 competition, officials said yesterday.
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Dozens of Occupy protesters chained themselves to doors at Wells Fargo bank headquarters in San Francisco yesterday, while hundreds more demonstrators across the United States rallied against corporate campaign donations.
Two men were yesterday charged with a $1.5M break and enter and larceny, after they were allegedly caught red handed inside the Super Songs CD and Electronics Store, at Cornhill Street, in Georgetown.
Makantali, a Guyanese play written by renowned playwright Harold Bascom took top honours last Sunday evening when the Theatre Guild of Guyana held the 2012 Theatre Guild Awards.
Dear Editor, On January 7, a letter appeared in the Stabroek News, by Mohamed Khan (‘Vishnu Samaroo should have been Chairman of Region Two’), in which he made reference to the appointment of the Regional Chairman of Region Two by the leadership of the People’s Progressive Party.
Yesterday, Courts Guyana Inc launched a “Get Fit for Mash
MIAMI, (Reuters) – LeBron James shrugged off flu-like symptoms to deliver a game-winning 31 points as the Miami Heat beat Kobe Bryant and the L.A.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Etta James, the influential 1950s rhythm-and-blues singer best known for her show-stopping hit “At Last,” died yesterday from complications of leukemia in a California hospital surrounded by her family.
Come February 11, some of Guyana’s top designers will face off in Simpli Royal’s second annual National Dress Competition at the National Cultural Centre from 8 pm sharp.
Orpheus Johnson, who is accused of the murder of Kaneville resident Brendon Charles, who was beaten and shot, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.
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Two inmates of the Georgetown Prisons accused of narcotic possession while in prison were yesterday remanded by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
PARIS, (Reuters) – France threatened yesterday to pull out early from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan after four a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on French soldiers, killing four and wounding about 15 others.
ITEN, Kenya, (Reuters) – Double world marathon champion Abel Kirui, world record holder Patrick Makau and three-time winner Martin Lel are among the six Kenyans named for the London Marathon on April 22, race director Dave Bedford said yesterday.
Everything was going swimmingly. I had done my research, knew exactly what type of car I wanted and was taking that car for a test drive.
Dear Editor, What is all the ranting by the government about the Speaker of the House?
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently before the US Congress, and the related Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate, have provoked a lively debate over the possible consequences of regulating the internet.
By Timothy Austin It is no surprise that some of the most anticipated films of the new year are sequels with built-in audiences eagerly awaiting the exploits of their favourite characters. While
(Jamaica Observer) Producer and songwriter Winston Riley is dead. Riley died in hospital on Thursday from the effects of a gunshot wound he received last year.
(Trinidad Express) Finally. This was the word used by former Caroni workers to state how they felt about receiving their leases for residential lots yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Riot Squad police had to be called in at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday after prisoners staged a near-riot at the courthouse in protest of body searches by Court and Process Branch officers.
(Trinidad Express) Police are probing the death of a six-year-old Laventille boy who was reportedly beaten to death by a male relative for not doing his homework.
(Trinidad Express) CLICO agent Solomon Hem-Lee, who said he had received death threats as a result of the collapse of the insurance company, was found murdered in Enterprise, Chaguanas, just after midnight yesterday.
