Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 7, 2012

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government says it is not aware of any plans by alumina company, UC Rusal to close its Ewarton operations in St.

At about 0200h today, police say that miner Aaron Hunter, 38 years, of Jawalla Village, Upper Mazaruni River, was shot to his left knee during an argument with another man at Jawalla Village.

Two armed bandits posing as customers this morning escaped with an estimated $15 million worth of gold and diamond jewellery from the Ram’s jewellery store at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice (WBB).

A 19-year-old man was stabbed to death this morning at his Lot 619 ‘A’ Field, Sophia home and his brother is in custody.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The death toll from the weekend capsizing of a boat ferrying migrants from the Dominican Republic to the neighboring island of Puerto Rico climbed to at least 21 and about 30 still are missing, authorities said today.

(Trinidad Express) BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) is set to invest close to US$1 billion in Trinidad and Tobago over the next year.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The government of Suriname wants to join the regional trade block ALBA, the Miami Herald and the Jamaica Gleaner report in their Monday issue.

Lawyers for Commissioner of Police Henry Greene have secured an order barring the police from instituting a rape charge against him, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said this afternoon.

More cocaine from Guyana has been seized by Canada in another shipment of fruit – this time in star apples.

(Barbados Nation) PORT OF SPAIN – Former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Patrick Manning was airlifted to the Walter Reed Memorial Hospital in the United States yesterday as his family questioned the quality of health care he had been receiving here even before he suffered the mild stroke that left him partly paralysed two weeks ago.

MALE, (Reuters) – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the hideaway resort islands, resigned today after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Saeed Ajmal, who tortured England’s batsmen in Pakistan’s clean sweep of their three-test series, believes no one has yet been able to pick his mystery “teesra” ball.

Three men who were on a mission to render assistance to the Pomeroon piracy victims were up to press time last night still missing despite hours of searching with a helicopter and boats.

The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) said yesterday it welcomed many crucial aspects of the ICC Independent Governance Review Report conducted by former Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Woolf.

Reports of sexual abuse of children have increased significantly over the last year, according to the head of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA), Ann Greene, who says more has to be done to empower children and to protect them from sexual predators.

The Bayridge Taxi Service will sponsors the most outstanding goalkeeper prize when the NAMILCO  Football Festival which organised by the Fruta Conquerors Football Club takes place.

Parents are seeking redress over the expulsion of 26 students from the Paramakatoi Secondary School, after a quantity of marijuana was found under a bed at the school’s dormitory.

The government will face scrutiny over a possible breach of the Fiscal Manage-ment and Accountability Act (FMAA) as Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh prepares to seek parliamentary approval for $5.6 billion in supplementary budget funds to cover spending that took place towards the end of last year.

By Emmerson Campbell The tournament might be of a much higher standard than those often played in the Caribbean but skipper Ryan Gonsalves says that the National Sevens Rugby team was looking forward to the challenge.

By Iva Wharton Ahead of the most testing period in this nation’s football history, the Golden Jaguars as the national soccer team is known, is not so much under the weather but at the mercies of it.

INDIANAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – Eli Manning may have been voted most valuable player of the Super Bowl but it was a relentless New York Giants defense that earned much of the credit for a heart-stopping 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in the NFL championship game on Sunday.

Residents of Sand Pit and Red Village in Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast are calling on the relevant authorities to listen to their cries for help with the deplorable conditions they are enduring, including the lack of potable water.

(Reuters) – LeBron James put his fourth-quarter uncertainties behind him with critical late plays that helped the Miami Heat survive a late scare from Toronto in a nervous 95-89 home win over the Raptors on Sunday.

With a view to ensuring that farmers’ losses are minimized, Government through the agriculture ministry is ensuring that there is dam maintenance and construction, and is deploying pumps and excavators to flood affected areas, GINA has said.

(BBC) The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has banned Alberto Contador for two years for doping.

Floodwaters in the Pomeroon River have started receding but residents are expecting to be flooded again as the sluices close, leaving the water without another escape point—a situation that has been recurring over the past two weeks.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago all-rounder Kevon Cooper says he will not be overawed when he campaigns in the Bangladesh Premier League later this month.

Dear Editor, Your editorial, ‘Flood cycle’ of February 5, 2012 despairingly reiterated the lack, and dire consequences, of a publicly available and convincingly argued plan for water management on Guyana’s increasingly waterlogged coastal plain.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh’s cancer is curable and the hard-hitting Indian batsman is likely to be back in training in May, a New Delhi oncologist said yesterday.

The indigenous Wapichan people of Guyana will today unveil a locally–made digital map of their traditional territory along with a proposal to save 1.4 million hectares of pristine rainforest, to protect their land and to develop their communities.

Rajeiv Badry, from Grant Gulgoria, Pomeroon pulls out

Dear Editor, Among the myriad functions of the trade union movement, which consists of workers and union leaders united as one force, is the right, as per recognized trade union language to “militancy” and to “fight” in pursuit of common interest which includes the settlement of industrial disputes.

A British consultancy company has won the tender to provide the necessary services to carry out certain reforms within the Guyana Police Force, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has said.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday denounced Syrian forces’ bombardment of the city of Homs in a statement that said it was “unacceptable before humanity” and eroded the legitimacy of the Damascus government.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Outspoken Minister of Sport Anil Roberts and two senior officials in his ministry are under investigation by the country’s integrity commission.

Opposition Leader David Granger yesterday called on President Donald Ramotar to halt the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration’s plan to re-deploy overseers of several Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC).

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Following are the points standings after the first round of the Regional 4-Day Tournament on Sunday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Three decades ago, an Israeli prime minister faced his cabinet and invoked the Holocaust in an emotional appeal to approve an air strike against an Arab atomic reactor.

Dear Editor, I have been following the saga over a parcel of land in Santa Rosa, Moruka, from which a resident of over 25 years was evicted to facilitate the construction of a guest house by the stepson of the Minister of Amerindian Affairs.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Saeed Ajmal and Umar Gul were the chief destroyers as Pakistan won the third and final test by 71 runs on the fourth day yesterday, recording their first clean sweep in a series against England.

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LONDON (Reuters) – Sixty years after she ascended to the throne in an austere Britain still facing post-war rationing, Queen Elizabeth marked the milestone yesterday with a new website that showed just how much the world has changed during her reign.

Dear Editor, For over three decades I had the good fortune of interacting with the late Robert Williams to the extent of observing some philosophical underpinnings he adapted in response to many of life’s cruel tests and challenges.

Nandanie Singh, the woman whose baby died in a boat accident in the Cuyuni River on Sunday morning, was up to last night still in the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Dear Editor, With regard to your international news item, ‘Scandal blow puts Indian government in danger’ (SN, Feb 6), it is hardly likely that the Congress government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Gandhi clan will fall as a result of corruption scandals.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal in Qatar yesterday to form a unity government of independent technocrats for the West Bank and Gaza, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

(Reuters) – Rob Nicol stroked his second one-day international century in anchoring New Zealand to a series-winning 141-run victory over Zimbabwe at Cobham Oval in Whangarei yesterday.

Seawall clean up: Youths for Guyana launched a “Clean up your act.

About a week ago, Labour Minister Dr Nanda Kishore Gopaul made an eye-catching comment in a section of the print media about what he described as “brazen disrespect for the country’s labour laws by some local and foreign companies.”

MANILA (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Negros yesterday, triggering landslides that toppled houses and killing at least 12 people, including two children, officials said.

Dear Editor, The letter from Mr Alfred King, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, was well received (‘Ministry of Sport disturbed by procedure used to sensationalize apparent sloth in progress of synthetic track’ SN, February 4).

Politikles

By Jeffrey D Sachs ADDIS ABABA – Sustainable development means achieving economic growth that is widely shared and that protects the earth’s vital resources.

By Emmerson Campbell There was no `Magic’ involved and the outcome was not a knockout or a point’s decision but a tie.

The Rupununi Miners Association was formed on Sunday after 47 miners from the area attended a meeting held at