Daily Archive: Thursday, February 2, 2012

Citizens are advised that the La Nina phenomenon still persists over Guyana.

Two men died this afternoon when their vehicle collided with a truck along the Mahaicony Public Road sometime around 5 pm.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Celebrated boxing trainer Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali’s cornerman in his greatest fights, died on Wednesday at the age of 90.

The Muslim scholar at the centre of the sexual molestation allegations was this morning remanded to prison on three counts of sexual activity with a child by abusing a position of trust.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The driving licence system will be digitized.

(Barbados Nation) Two powerful explosions could be heard as far away as the Garrison Savannah as a raging fire at 7th Avenue, Harts Gap, Christ Church, destroyed a house and the longstanding trucking business of David Husbands.

(Barbados Nation) A man was shot at point blank range on a minibus in full view of several stunned passengers in Pine/Wildey, St Michael, last night.

(Reuters) – Scores of people were missing off Papua New Guinea today after a ferry carrying about 350 passengers sank, Australian rescue authorities said, with many feared dead.

(Barbados Nation) Technology for a more transparent system of interviews and identification of crime suspects by the Royal Barbados Police Force will soon be in use in Barbados.

The International Cricket Council’s board has condemned the Guyanese government’s interference in the functioning of cricket in Guyana.

The Guyana Government yesterday stated that despite the protestations of the International Cricket Council (ICC) the Interim Management Committee (IMC) it set up late last year was going ahead with its work.

The ICC Board held the first of its scheduled 2012 meetings in Dubai on 31 January 2012 and 1 February 2012. 

Attorney General (AG) and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall has slammed the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for intransigence and  turning a blind eye to the serious issues facing Guyana’s cricket administration.

A woman was yesterday afternoon found dead in her ransacked home with her throat slashed and stab wounds about her body and police suspect she was the victim of a robbery.

The electricity supply in Berbice and Demerara, including in Georgetown, will be more reliable later this year with the construction of several substations and other system upgrades, Guyana Power and Light (GPL) CEO Bharat Dindyal said yesterday.

Farmers living along the banks of the Mahaica Creek were yesterday counting numerous losses as water being released from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) flooded several farms in the area.

UG lecturers were back on the picket line yesterday and plan to ramp up their protest over conditions at the Turkeyen campus and the sacking of lecturer Freddie Kissoon with a sit-in beginning Tuesday.

President Donald Ramotar and Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman met yesterday at the Office of the President where they discussed the composition of parliamentary committees and preparations for the President’s address to the House next week Friday.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded to jail a 39-year-old taxi driver  charged with Wednesday’s gunpoint attack on an Albouystown man who was robbed of more than $400,000 in cash and a cell phone.

After settling out of court with the man he injured when he slammed into a parked car late Sunday night, Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani has accused police of wickedness for continuing to pursue the matter.

Police yesterday further questioned one of the boys identified as a victim in the Turkeyen Masjid child abuse case.

The families who were affected by the Tuesday night blaze that gutted their Range House at Lot 334 Timehri Hill Top are now appealing for help as they seek to bring normalcy back to their lives.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Windward Islands will be without West Indies captain Darren Sammy for their opening round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship against Jamaica starting Friday but coach Ian Allen says his absence will be a chance for other players in the unit to shine.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday granted $300,000 bail to a 34-year-old father of three charged with driving a motor lorry in a dangerous manner that resulted in the death of Balwant Mangroo.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Off-spinner Ryan Austin is hoping that another successful season in the Regional Four-Day Championship earns him a West Indies call up.

Dear Editor, The report ‘Kissoon didn’t qualify for contract‘ in SN of Feb 1 raises some new questions while leaving old ones unanswered.

A Court Order granted by Justice William Ramlall on Tuesday which stated that the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Alfred King, had 24 hours to remove the locks placed on the office of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) was yesterday served on King and Interim Management Committee Chairman, Clive Lloyd.

Two men yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charges of felonious wounding and threatening language respectively.

Dear Editor, We wish to thank Mr George N Cave, Former Commissioner, Teaching Service Commission, for pointing out the error regarding the closing date for original application forms to reach the Ministry of Education. 

APNU Leader David Granger has identified the lower than anticipated voter turnout and the PPP/C’s abuse of state resources during the campaign as the main reasons why his party did not secure the presidency at November’s elections.

Dear Editor, I refer to the ex-President’s contract award to Sithe Global to construct the Amaila Hydropower Plant and Transmission Line.

A special security monitoring committee is being set up for the Ogle Airport to identify and neutralise possible threats.

Dear Editor, The seawall at Aurora village on the Essequibo Coast is in such a condition, that residents living within that vulnerable area are expecting the total collapse of the remains of the structure to happen any time soon.

Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has announced that a consortium of local and international entrepreneurs will soon invest in a biofuel project that will take up more than 100,000 acres of land in the Canje Basin.

By Emmerson Campbell Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) bantamweight champion, Guyanese Shondell ‘Mystery Lady’ Alfred’s bout with Mexican Yazmin Rivas for her International Boxing Federation (IBF) female bantamweight title has been called off.

A 24-year-old minibus conductor of Linden will be spending more than two years behind bars after he was found guilty of trafficking in cannabis.

Dear Editor, I respond to a statement put out by four PPP/C members on the UG Council.

The Commissioner of Police and Police Divisional Commanders will be meeting with members of the public at their respective offices to address their issues and concerns, a press release from the Police Public Relations Office said yesterday.

Dear Editor, This year marks three years and December last three Christmases since the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) has without reason dismissed a number of workers and refused to negotiate with their union consistent with the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Law.

Twelve coaches successfully completed the three-day Scotia Bank/Pepsi Schools Football Coaches course conducted by United States-based Instructor Stanley Harmon.

Benita Fredericks, the 13-year-old Essequibo girl taken from her parents’ home last week, yesterday contacted her mother and disclosed that plans are being made for her to be taken to Venezuela with the man keeping her.

Dear Editor, At elections the people vote for leaders to run the affairs of the nation in the interest of every citizen.

Amidst a gloomy cricketing climate in Guyana, Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) continues to be a shining example, securing sponsorship from Ansa Mc Al for a new 20/20 tournament and renewing their relationship with Scotia Bank for the fourth year.

A Canadian group has donated an ultrasound machine with a handheld scanner and a laptop computer to store the data, to the Georgetown hospital on Monday.

Retrieve Raiders and Victory Valley Royals basketball clubs defeated Block 22 Flames and Half Mile Bulls when the  2012 Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) basketball season commenced Monday night at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt.

PORT SAID, Egypt, (Reuters) – Seventy-four people were killed and at least 1,000 injured yesterday when Egyptian soccer fans staged a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said, the deadliest incident since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak from power.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is advising residents along the coast to take steps to ensure that they have safe water for domestic use.

Dear Editor, On Saturday, January 28, I attended a GHRA/Face the Future sponsored conference at the Marion Academy on electoral reform, where I participated in two workshops.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy after a costly war.

The eroded Timehri main road has now been filled, after Minister of Transport Robeson Benn intervened and measures are being put in place

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – An extraordinary switch-hit six from David Warner and a Matt Wade half century fired Australia to a 31-run victory over India in the first of two Twenty20 matches  yesterday.

Dear Editor, I refer to the current imbroglio surrounding the Guyana Cricket Board and in particular the formation of the IMC.

Dear Editor, A landmark ruling on Tuesday by the Supreme Court of India has relevance and application to the rest of the world facing corruption problems. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Goddard Enterprises Limited has written off a BDS$9.7 million (J$420m) investment in Jamaica which it linked to deposits in suspended cambio and trader Intertrade Finance.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Teenaged Australian pace sensation Pat Cummins has targeted the tour of West Indies starting in March as his comeback from injury.

FREETOWN, (Reuters) – A vessel seized by Sierra Leone authorities for illegally fishing off the West African nation’s coast received funds from a British government development agency through an investment fund, officials said.

The Ministry of Health is urging the public to avoid contact with floodwater and to seek medical care for any injuries sustained or diarrhoeal-type reactions that are common in flood situations.

With 2012 just a month old, there have already been at least four reports of serious crimes committed against children in Guyana.

Junior students at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) Mabaruma Sub-region recently presented a number of literacy and numeracy aids to the children’s ward at the Mabaruma hospital According to a Government Information Agency press release, the gift included a television set, DVD player,

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford funneled $2 billion of investor money from his offshore bank to pay operating expenses at his other companies, including money-losing airlines and his cricket concerns, a former Stanford Financial Group accountant said yesterday.

Nine boys and their families, maybe more, live today as victims of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of someone they trusted and emulated.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted an 18-year-old man $125,000 bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with stealing a gold chain valued $400,000.

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DUBAI, (Reuters) – Future International Cricket Council (ICC) presidents are likely to have reduced powers after the governing body’s board recommended turning the job into an ambassadorial role and creating a new position of chairman.

Dear Editor, A critic of one of my letters raised an issue that is of paramount importance to this nation. The

(Trinidad Express) United States law enforcement is on the hunt for a violent fugitive believed to be hiding in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Works Minister Jack Warner yesterday launched a death penalty campaign that will see his supporters in every part of the country collecting signatures for a petition calling for the enforcement of hanging.

(Trinidad Express) There was outrage in Cedros yesterday after cattle “posing a life and death threat”, were killed by soldiers with rifles as part of a Ministry of Agriculture plan to rid the peninsular of stray cattle.

(Trinidad Express) United States law enforcement is on the hunt for a violent fugitive believed to be hiding in Trinidad and Tobago.