Articles published on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Delivering its final verdict on the November 28 general elections, the OAS has confirmed its original finding of a mostly smooth process and has recommended reforms to the electoral system but there was nothing in the report that backed up recent claims by President Donald Ramotar that the APNU and the AFC had manipulated the poll results.
(Jamaica Observer) Police Commissioner Owen Ellington yesterday reported that there are currently 42 gang conflicts raging across the island.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, says the ongoing dispute between his island and Taiwan should never have reached the courts.
(Trinidad Express) Machel Montano’s “Pump Yuh Flag” was played 233 times to make him a runaway winner of the 2012 Road March, adding to his Digicel International Power Soca Monarch and Play Whe Groovy Soca Monarch triumphs.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during this morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina’s worst rail accident in more than 30 years, officials said.
The police say they are investigating the murder of Clive Cornelius, 23 years of Imbaimadai, which occurred at about 0840h.
Further to press release made yesterday, in relation to the murder of “Tall Man” which occurred at Konawaruk Backdam, the police say that he has been identified as Troy Anthony Burkett, 41 years, of Bissessar Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.
(Barbados Nation) Late Prime Minister David Thompson’s law firm received a whopping Bds$3.3 million in legal and retainer fees from CLICO International Life Insurance Limited (CIL), but the fees were actually destined for former CLICO executive chairman Leroy Parris.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation today said that a strike at its bagging and packaging location at Blairmont has delayed its ability to meet marketing commitments to sister Caricom states.
(Jamaica Observer) A National Security Policy to tackle the country’s ballooning crime rate with an intent to reduce murders from the current three per day to less than one over the next five years is to be made public next month, National Security Minister Peter Bunting announced yesterday.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, today killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has caused an international outcry for intervention to end the bloodshed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has come out in strong support of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who on Monday was chastised by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for allegedly making ill-advised statements regarding the ongoing impasse involving star batsman, Chris Gayle.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has signalled his intention to swing a J$21.6-billion axe into the national Budget.
(Jamaica Gleaner) More than 5,000 Jamaicans are set to receive short-term employment under the much-touted Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), which yesterday received J$4.2-billion worth of fuel to get the vehicle on the road by early March.
The Ministry of Public Works made payments totalling $156.5 million for sea defences at Abary/Profitt but when a team from the Auditor General’s office visited the site only $20.6 million worth of work had been done.
GuySuCo and government yesterday moved to get striking sugar workers back on the job as current production remains crucial to prop up the corporation’s shaky finances.
Police in E and F Division are investigating two murders that occurred on Monday, the suspects of which are still at large.
A dredge owner is missing and feared drowned after the boat he and two others were travelling in along the Mazaruni River yesterday capsized near a waterfall.
Well-known caterer and historian of the Chinese movement in Guyana, Margery Kirkpatrick, yesterday launched her second book, which is an autobiographical account of growing up in British Guiana.
A man who was hit down and killed on Monday night by the ambulance taking Bartica boat racing champion Brandon Belle to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), remained unidentified up to press time last night.
The 2012 IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest for the Caribbean was yesterday launched in Guyana at the Pegasus Hotel.
We apologise that the photograph of the Children’s Mashramani and Costume and Float Parade on page 18 of our Sunday, February 19 edition was incorrectly captioned.
Lecturers at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus, after being advised by the administration that they will not earn salaries and allowances if the industrial action continues, decided to hold a ‘sickout’ yesterday.
A policeman is under close arrest after the car he was driving along the Charity public road on Monday ran over a man who was lying on the roadway and killed him.
Nearly 200 youth came together at the Carifesta Sports Complex yesterday to demonstrate their Guyanese pride as the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports held its annual Youth Ethnic Day activity.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) met stakeholders on Monday for consultations on the Guyana National Quality Infrastructure (GNQI) which aims to ensure that local products comply with regional and international guidelines.
Garbage lines the streets at Silvertown, Wismar, Linden, where fed-up residents yesterday called on members of the newly-elected Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) to take immediate action.
City schools won the most awards at the Children’s Costume Parade on Saturday last.
By Iva Wharton For Dexter Marques talk is cheap it is action that matters.
The parents of an East Coast Demerara (ECD) primary school pupil who was flogged severely by a teacher at the school last month are mulling taking legal action as they expressed dissatisfaction at the manner in which the issue is being handled.
A 38-year-old welder accused of telling a woman he will ‘chop her up’ and ‘put a bullet in her head’ was yesterday fined $30,000 after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
By Carwyn Holland The first leg of the inaugural National Grasstrack Racing Club championship got underway last Sunday at the Goed Fortuin Ground with entertaining Dirt Bike racing from the leading riders in Guyana.
Guyana’s Golden Jaguars four-game Caribbean tour which forms part of the training and developmental plan ahead of stage-three of the CONCACAF FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 qualifier, which begins on June 8th with a clash against Mexico, has been bearing fruit despite the hat-trick of defeats so far.
A group of forestry experts from the African nation of Ghana last week benefited from a public seminar on chainsaw milling among other aspects of Guyana’s forest sector.
(Reuters) – South Korea has declared a “state of emergency” against match-fixing allegations tarnishing a number of domestic sports leagues and has issued a package of measures aimed at tackling sports-related corruption.
Dear Editor, A policeman at the Sans Souci Police station in Wakenaam bluntly refused to take a report from me concerning my 18-year-old daughter who was the victim of domestic violence.
A man accused of stealing a $65,000 gold chain from a woman was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of larceny from the person.
Getting the essentials
Dear Editor, About three weeks ago, in the Sunday Times, there was a story about the establishment of the Santa Rosa Secondary School in Moruka.
Nets Basketball Club outmuscled Macabees Basketball Club to clinch the league opener of the 2012 Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) league when the competition tipped off last Saturday at the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court.
A man who pleaded guilty to using threatening and abusive language to his girlfriend was yesterday fined $30,000, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Dear Editor, In an SN letter of Feb 20, it was noted that Minister of Agriculture Ramsammy in his claims of misrepresentation by SN attempted to refute the paper’s critical reporting on the poor drainage of coastal areas over the past several years.
Five of Guyana’s junior tennis players will be selected by the Guyana Tennis Association to compete at the internationally renowned annual 16-and-under Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup tennis tournaments to be held in the Dominican Republic next month.
This leaning electricity pole at Spaendaam Public Road caused traffic to divert
Dear Editor, On January 26 I travelled to Guyana and when my black ink pen malfunctioned, I used the only other available pen – red ink – to fill the immigration entry form.
A new recreational park—the Double Day Fun Park—was on Sunday declared open at Tuschen by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds.
DURBAN, South Africa, CMC – West Indies batting star Chris Gayle has been diagnosed with a grade two groin injury, leaving his campaign in the domestic Twenty20 Challenge in doubt.
Drummer girl
Glorious peacock
Dear Editor, Having read the comments in a letter to your newspaper dated Saturday February 18 (‘Too big an increase in bread price’), we would like to first thank our patrons, and in particular Ms J Braithwaite, for their support over the years. Over
Children’s Mashramani Float Parade
(Reuters) – India once again wilted against quality pace bowling as Sri Lanka defeated them by 51 runs in the eighth match of the one-day Tri-series at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday.
The Health Ministry’s national eye care programme which targets mostly adults is now being expanded to accommodate school-aged children, in collaboration with Eye Care Guyana and the Ministry of Education, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.
Dear Editor, I wish to respond quickly to a letter by Mr Imtiaz Baccus that appeared in your publication of Monday February 20 captioned ‘Why did NCN in Berbice not show cricket?’
Through the kind courtesy of AON Inter-national Inc, Miami, USA, the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) received more than 5,000 copies of the Holy Quran in English in both large and pocket-size editions, during 2011 and at the beginning of this year.
(Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen’s second successive century led England to a four-wicket victory over Pakistan and a series whitewash after the fourth and final one-day international in Dubai yesterday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying yesterday.
Children’s Mashramani Float Parade
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados have left out pacer Fidel Edwards from their 13-man squad for their fourth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championships against Combined Campuses and Colleges starting here Friday.
The Traffic Department is intensifying its campaign against drivers whose vehicles have heavily tinted windows and slogans and those who breach other road rules, in order to curb recklessness on the roadways.
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) – Separatist violence in the south loomed over a presidential election in Yemen that had just a single candidate, but Washington praised the vote ending three decades of rule by its ally Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Dear Editor, Certain things are more evident than others, since we can see them clearly, but there are those things which we cannot see, eg, expensive contracts to do work below water such as at Nos 1&2 Canals Polder and the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).
Kicking it
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government forces killed at least 100 people yesterday in assaults on villages and an artillery barrage in the restive city of Homs, activists said, and the Red Cross called for daily ceasefires to allow in urgently needed aid.
Dear Editor, We must admit that dealing with the elderly either within the family or in an institution is quite a task.
The winger Ricky Shakes and mid-fielder Howard Newton were the Golden Jaguars players to score over the weekend, as they aided their clubs Ebbsfleet United and St.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez will undergo another operation in the coming days after doctors in Cuba found a lesion in his pelvis where surgeons removed a large cancerous tumour last year, he said yesterday.
The Community Action Component (CAC) of the Citizen Security Programme (CSP) hosted a planning workshop for making communities safer, on Saturday.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – David Rudisha is proud to be a 800 metres world champion, proud to be a world record holder but as much as anything is proud of being a Maasai and desperate to secure a first Olympic gold medal for his tribe later this year.
LILLE, France (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by police yesterday over his dealings with an alleged prostitution ring that was run from the northern French city of Lille and organized sex parties in Paris, Brussels and Washington.
The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s annual Phagwah Mela and Bazaar will be held at a new venue this year and for the first time the event will feature an Indian Folk Dance festival.
Tattered
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A Guatemalan court decided yesterday to extradite a 40-year-old suspected drug trafficker to the United States because of his alleged ties to Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel.
Dear Editor, In all my years of sitting on boards and committees in the private sector and local government in the United Kingdom with responsibility for spending millions of pounds sterling, I have never heard such nonsense coming from a Finance Minister.
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has started discussions with Cuba on advancing disaster risk reduction cooperation agreements, particularly on streamlining Cuba’s response and relief support within the Regional Response System.
Since the visit of President Richard Nixon and his then National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger to Beijing in February 1972 and the subsequent re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States, both sides have seemed careful not to act in any manner that would lead to the possibility of a breach in those relations and the extensive network of economic ties that they have established over the years.
Politikles
Blood drive
Dear Editor, One of the greatest insults to the present rule of the PPP has to be the fact that that pariah of 24 years of dictatorship, hardship, corruption and economic destitution known as the PNC and now APNU can legitimately and rightly attack the PPP for all its shameful shenanigans.
On January 14, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan made a presentation in Trinidad and Tobago to the Congress of the People (COP) convention entitled “The Relevance of Third Parties in race based politics: Case of Guyana”, which, to me, was more telling in what it did not say rather than what it did.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A devastating prison fire that killed 360 inmates in a Honduran penitentiary was likely caused by a candle or cigarette that set a mattress alight, investigators said yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The battle against discrimination in soccer moves to Downing Street today when British Prime Minister David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt, the sports minister, meet senior soccer officials and representatives from anti-discrimination groups.
Five people, three Bahamians, ages 56, 45 and 32 along with two Guyanese ages 28 and 26 years, are in police custody after they were found in possession of a large quantity of suspected cocaine, according to a report in the bahamasweekly.com.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez will undergo another operation in the coming days after doctors in Cuba found a lesion in his pelvis where surgeons removed a large cancerous tumor last year, he said on Tuesday.
(Barbados Nation) The price tag for the visit by the Earl and Countess of Wessex now stands at Bds$800 000.
(Barbados Nation) The building contractor who allegedly bilked people of thousands of dollars, leaving a trail of bounced cheques at building supply companies, is now in police custody.
(Barbados Nation) Criminal charges have been filed in the magistrates’ court against former executive chairman of CLICO Holdings (Barbados) Limited, Leroy Parris, and current president Terrence Thornhill.
(Trinidad Guardian) The WICB has asked Chris Gayle to make up his mind about his future with the West Indies team.
(Trinidad Express) Popular Carnival band Tribe was yesterday disqualified from crossing the Queen’s Park Savannah stage for going off-route and later declined to parade across the major judging point when it was invited to.
