Guyanese Cecil Fitt, wife die within three hours in Barbados
(Barbados Nation) Not even death could separate Cecil and Joan Fitt.
Articles published on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
(Barbados Nation) Not even death could separate Cecil and Joan Fitt.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Less than four years after playing their first tournament against teams including Japan and Norway, Afghanistan will write a new chapter in their remarkable rise with a one-day international against Pakistan on Friday.
(WICB) Roseau, Dominica – Devendra Bishoo had a successful start to the 2012 Regional 4 Day competition with a brilliant eight-wicket match haul for Guyana as they beat Leewards Islands last weekend at Windsor Park in Dominica.
Police say that at 0630h today the body of Richard Harvey Smith called “Maga”, 38 years, of Da Silva Street, Newtown, Kitty was found at Devonshire Castle Foreshore, Essequibo Coast.
The future of the University of Guyana now hangs in a precarious balance.
The Maduni sluice which has been used to drain water from the swollen East Demerara Water Conservancy into the Mahaica Creek is to be closed.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Health Minister Celcius Waterberg accused Surinamese medical specialists of obstruction towards their Cuban colleagues, quoting his Justice and Police colleague ‘even among the white collars there are criminals’.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – A UN survey of seven Caribbean countries shows that the fear of becoming a crime victim is highest among Surinamese.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Limited plans to raise US$250 million (J$21b) from a private placement of an eight-year bond.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Unicomer Jamaica, operators of the Courts furniture chain, has transferred the operations of the Constant Spring Road store temporarily to Washington Boulevard to facilitate its expansion.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The government has confirmed reports that bauxite mining firm, UC Rusal, has been taking some of its equipment out of the island and sending it to Guyana.
DENVER, (Reuters) – Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum rejuvenated his presidential hopes yesterday with a shocking sweep of the three nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, dealing a blow to wounded front-runner Mitt Romney.
MALE, (Reuters) – The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean island resort, said today he was forced out of power at gunpoint and urged his successor to step down.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene’s lawyers yesterday secured a High Court order temporarily barring the Guyana Police Force from instituting a rape charge against him, after almost two months of investigations.
A 19-year-old man was knifed to death yesterday morning at his Lot 619 ‘A’ Field, Sophia home after a minor altercation with his younger brother.
Despite millions spent on rehabilitation, main roads in several Linden communities are deteriorating and residents want government to examine the situation, saying that the recent frequent heavy rainfall due to La Nina phenomenon is making things worse.
As the water level in the Mahaicony Creek keeps rising so are the losses for rice and cash crop farmers and they are wondering how they will be assisted during this disaster.
The decomposing body of a man, suspected to be one of four missing fishermen who were on a rescue mission, washed up on the Hampton Court foreshore, Essequibo Coast yesterday morning.
Two armed bandits posing as customers yesterday carted off an estimated $15 million worth of gold and diamond jewellery from the Ram’s jewellery store at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice (WBB) but one of them was later held under the Berbice Bridge with a gun and some of the loot.
University of Guyana (UG) lecturers yesterday began a sit-in to protest the recent dismissal of lecturers, including Freddie Kissoon, and the conditions at the Turkeyen campus.
A 28-year old motorcyclist of Hosororo Hill, North West District (NWD) died on the spot last night after crashing into a parked truck on the public road in the area.
A Crabwood Creek woman was last evening in a critical condition at the New Amsterdam hospital, after she was brutally attacked by a lone intruder at a Corentyne rice depot.
An 18-year-old man who damaged his grandmother’s utensils and threatened to burn her house down because she warned him about the type of music he was playing was yesterday sentenced to serve time in jail after he pleaded guilty when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Benita Fredericks, the 13-year-old Essequibo girl taken from her parents’ home two weeks ago, was found yesterday after being seen boarding a boat at the Alfro Alphonso Wharf at Charity with the man that had been holding her captive.
The Ministry of Public works has submitted a budgetary requisition for another dredge to aid the work now being done by vessel Steve N, which has been in operation since the early 1980s.
Seven children and one adult will be leaving Guyana on Friday for Max Hospital in India where they will be undergoing medical treatment.
The British High Commission is inviting young professionals to apply for the Chevening Scholarship for the 2012/2013 period.
Stabroek News in yesterday’s edition incorrectly reported that the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) received over 3000 reports of sexual abuse last year.
The Caricom Council on Human and Social Development (COHSOD) at its 22nd Meeting in Georgetown last week agreed to establish a Regional Task Force on Sports Tourism to develop a strategy for harnessing the region’s potential in sports for development.
Ex-PNCR parliamentarian and broadcast veteran Anthony Vieira is calling on the opposition to use its majority to pass a motion immediately rescinding radio licences that former President Bharrat Jagdeo granted in his last days in office.
By Carwyn Holland When Trinidad and Tobago’s National football team, nicknamed “The Soca Warriors”, qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany, they became the smallest nation (both in size and population) to ever qualify for a World Cup Finals.
The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) on Friday handed over kitchen utensils, groceries and other items to seven families who suffered losses due to fire at Timehri and a Buxton family whose home was demolished when a tree fell on it.
The price for Banks DIH shares traded on the local stock exchange has increased and Chairman Clifford Reis has said it is an indication of the confidence of investors in the company’s performance, a Banks DIH press release stated.
The 2012 Scotiabank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy opened yesterday with key stakeholders stating that they anticipate greater benefits for the participants in a much larger progamme this year.
(Reuters) – England dropped struggling batsman Ian Bell from their one-day and Twenty20 squads yesterday while drafting in Danny Briggs and Jos Buttler for the limited over series against Pakistan.
The Canadian High Commission formally presented the newly upgraded food processing facilities to the Helping Hand Women’s Group in St Ignatius, Region Nine on Thursday.
Residents of Lusignan East ‘Double Road’ are blaming Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited (CBCSL) for the rapid deterioration of their road, due to the amount of heavy-duty vehicles traversing the area on a daily basis.
Lausanne, (Reuters) – WADA president John Fahey labelled Alberto Contador a “doping cheat” yesterday and said the Spanish rider might have escaped with half of his two-year doping ban had it not been for remarks by a Spanish politician during the case.
Now that he has been given given the green light by the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation (TTFF)to start working with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Jamaal Shabazz, head coach of the Golden Jaguars football team, has decided on a two-tiered approach to developing the Guyana national team programme for the future.
Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs says the task of preparing the Order Paper for sittings of the National Assembly is his and not the Parliamentary Management Committee, as posited by former Minister of Finance in the PNC administration Carl Greenidge.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Sunil Narine continued to weave his web around leaden-footed, unsure batsmen, almost singlehandedly bowling Trinidad & Tobago to an emphatic, 172-run victory over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the Regional 4-Day Tournament on Sunday.
President Donald Ramotar and leaders of the two Opposition parties in Parliament met at the Office of the President yesterday and those engagements have been described as devoid of roadblocks and non-contentious as they continued to speak on a range of issues just days hours before Friday’s sitting of Parliament Up to last night, this newspaper was awaiting the release of an official joint statement from Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira, who said that she had been awaiting clearance from all the parties for the statement’s release.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and rebels said his forces killed over 100 in the city of Homs.
APNU is calling on the government to implement a national strategy to break the cycle of flooding that has been repeatedly plaguing all the regions of the country in recent years.
MALE, (Reuters) – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean archipelago, resigned yesterday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny and what an aide said amounted to a coup.
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.
Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud met with Lethem and St.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Russia’s U.N. Ambassador yesterday denounced as lies a report that he had threatened Qatar with annihilation during an argument with the Gulf state’s prime minister over a draft Security Council resolution on Syria that was vetoed by Moscow.
By Iva Wharton The Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF) yesterday handed over a cheque valued at $200,000 to the University of Guyana to assist the university’s relay team to travel to Barbados for the annual relay fair.
(Reuters) – Kobe Bryant moved past Shaquille O’Neal to become the NBA’s fifth highest scorer on Monday but it was a bitter-sweet moment for the Los Angeles guard as the Lakers lost 95-90 to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Guyana’s delegation at the 18th Meeting of Latin America and Caribbean Environmental Ministers, in Quito, Ecuador from January 31 to February 3, has been engaged in intense discussions, focusing particularly on crafting a joint Latin American and Caribbean vision for the upcoming Rio+20 follow-up conference scheduled for June 2012.
Dear Editor, It is true that the purpose stated in the Act establishing the University of Guyana (UG), reads: “…To provide a place of education, learning and research of a standard required and expected of a university of the highest standard…” But, to date not all the stated expectations have been realized.
SALVADOR, Brazil, (Reuters) – A toll of 115 murders and widespread looting, assaults and vandalism in the past week are roiling Brazil’s third-biggest city, casting doubts over upcoming carnival celebrations and raising questions about security ahead of the 2014 World Cup.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former captain Shoaib Malik was dropped from the limited overs squad for the series against England only to be drafted back into the setup hours later after a request from captain Misbah-ul-Haq yesterday.
Scotiabank is now offering a line of credit called ScotiaLine to customers in Guyana at what it described as a low introductory rate at 9.99%.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Two Ecuadorean journalists have been sentenced to pay $1 million each in damages for libeling socialist President Rafael Correa, who faces mounting criticism he uses courts to muzzle media.
(Reuters) – Farmers in developing nations will sow more biotech crops than those in the industrialized world for the first time this year, with Brazil leading the charge, according to a report issued yesterday that showed steady growth in the use of genetically modified seeds.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dr Petronella Manning-Alleyne, sister of former prime minister Patrick Manning, claims drugs being used by cardiac patients in T&T could be putting them at risk.
Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) will soon benefit from implementation support following a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Guyana and The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) headed by Dr.
Dear Editor, Over the past fifteen years I have been on record as calling for a police outpost at the Pomeroon River.
Ramona Devi Persaud of Water Dog Creek walking in
By Emmerson Campbell Executive members of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) yesterday launched the GABA Basketball League for 2012 and also presented trophies to the top three teams in the Banks DIH Limited 2011 tournament.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Grace Kennedy Group CEO Don Wehby said the conglomerate intends to earn a half of its profit from outside of Jamaica as it moves to become a global consumer group within the next eight years.
Dear Editor, You might be aware that the University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS), the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) have decided on strike action in the form of a ‘sit in’ at the University of Guyana.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are building a steel and concrete barrier 300 feet (90 meters) out into the Pacific Ocean south of San Diego to curb dangerous attempts by illegal immigrants and smugglers to slip through the breakers to California.
At about 0200h yesterday, 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, Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni).
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has donated half a million dollars to veteran cricket journalist and international cricket commentator Sean Devers to assist him to undergo an operation overseas.
By Iva Wharton Despite losing to junior player Roberto Neto National senior chess champion Taffin Khan was still able to triumph in the senior category of the annual Trophy Stall sponsored tournament which ended on Monday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, Hadfield Street.
Dear Editor, A few nights ago I saw the publication on NCN TV of some thirteen proposed one-way streets.
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 yesterday.
A website was launched last Thursday to provide detailed and updated monthly information on how much it costs to send money from the United States to six Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said in a news release.
(Trinidad Express) BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) is set to invest close to US$1 billion in Trinidad and Tobago over the next year.
The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) and Wilderness Explorers joined members of the media to welcome internationally-known cruise liner the Vista Mar to Guyana on Sunday morning.
Dear Editor, I stand in solidarity with Mr Freddie Kissoon, as he and many Guyanese react with justifiable revulsion against his unwarranted dismissal as a lecturer at the University of Guyana.
ACCRA, (Reuters) – Four members of Ghana’s political elite were charged with corruption on Monday, threatening to further tarnish the ruling party’s reputation in election year following the departure of two senior ministers last month.
It would not be odd if, in various capitals of the smaller states and economies of the world, both officials and citizens are beginning to be somewhat fearful of the continuing economic crisis among many countries in the Eurozone, and of what has appeared to be a gridlock between the centres of government and Congressional decision-making in the United States.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The government says it is not aware of any plans by alumina company, UC Rusal to close its Ewarton operations in St.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Batsman Danza Hyatt and left-arm fast bowler Sheldon Cotterell have been called up to Jamaica’s squad for their second round clash with Barbados starting this weekend at Sabina Park.
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BOGOTA, (Reuters) – One of Colombia’s most-wanted former paramilitary commanders with suspected links to the cocaine trade has been captured in neighbouring Venezuela, both nations said on Monday.
Some of the works on display at recent ‘Vision of Freedom’ that wrapped at the African Heritage Museum last Tuesday.
Two weeks ago (“PPP/C has an historic opportunity …..:” SN 25/01/12) I promised to address what it is that politicians can mean when they claim that their policy or actions are based on ‘principle.’
(Trinidad Guardian) The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) came to the aid of former T&T captain and fast bowler Prince Bartholomew yesterday by giving him $30,000 to assist with obtaining a prosthetic leg.
(Trinidad Express) Sporting red, black and white garments and beaming smiles, the brother and sister team of Tim and Winnette McIntosh celebrated their victory on popular Food Network programme, Cupcake Wars last Sunday.
(Trinidad Express) Southex promoter George Singh is threatening legal action against the promoters of an alternative competition to his Chutney Soca Monarch competition—citing copyright infringement.
(Trinidad Express) A day after the attempted murder of a man at Ste Madeleine, a witness to the crime who helped police identify suspects was shot dead on Monday night.