Daily Archive: Friday, February 24, 2012

Open confession – so the saying goes – is good for the soul.

Police say that at about 1245h yesterday, Naronatie, 49 years, and her son Rovindra Prashad, 29 years, were at their home at Better Hope, ECD, when they were confronted by two men armed with handguns, who held them up and took away two cell phones and $17,500 and escaped on foot.

Computer hard drives belonging to the outside auditor of Texas billionaire R.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille resigned today after just four months in office, plunging the country into political paralysis in the midst of rebuilding efforts two years after a devastating earthquake.

Police say that Joseph Nathaniel Britton is wanted for questioning in relation to Trafficking in Narcotics.

Police say that four of the men who were arrested at 4th Field, Cummings Lodge, ECD, following a police response to two armed robberies in the Cummings Lodge area on February 20, 2012, appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore at the Sparendaam Magistrate Court today where they were remanded to prison until April 04, 2012.

Shawn Rodney is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to murder.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Westmoreland police last night made a major dent in the drug trade when they seized compressed ganja weighing 1600 pounds with an estimated value of $20 million.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The New York Times is reporting that federal prosecutors in Manhattan have asked a judge to impose a 23-year prison sentence on confessed Jamaican crime lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

(Barbados Nation) A top executive of a regional insurance company has cried shame on the former management of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) for its collapse.

(Jamaica Observer) Two of Jamaica’s high-profile family-run companies announced Thursday that they would be backing a small new financial firm that is just being set up in New Kingston, called BCW Capital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says she intends to report the leadership of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to CARICOM at next month’s regional heads of government meeting in Suriname.

(Barbados Nation) The integrity of the Clico International Life judicial management team has been called into question days after the damning results of a forensic audit by Deloitte Canada were made public.

HOBART, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka chased down 280 with four balls to spare to clinch a confidence-boosting three-wicket win over Australia in their one-day match in Hobart today and take top spot in the tri-series tournament.

The youthful Golden Jaguars outfit ended their 4-game Caribbean tour on a positive note as they clawed their way back from a goal down to earn a hard fought 2-1 victory, over Grenada at the National Stadium in St George’s Grenada on Wednesday night.

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.

A 57-year-old mother of eight died after she was attacked by African bees while picking mangoes at the Cane Grove Backdam, East Coast Demerara (ECD) yesterday around 12:30 hrs.

A stray bullet shot by a fleeing bandit hit a woman in the abdomen yesterday, putting an end to her first trimester pregnancy as doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) were forced to abort the baby to avoid life-threatening complications.

Guyana-based Ansa McAL Trading Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Guyana government for the establishment of an ethanol production project on September 30 last year, the Trinidad Guardian reported yesterday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – Jamaica are looking to continue their dominance, when they face Guyana in a top-of-the-table clash in the fourth round of the Regional 4-Day Tournament, starting today.

The most recent audit for the Guyana Post Office Corporation – for the years 2003-4 – showed that liabilities exceeded assets by $575M.

(WICB) Roseau, Dominica — Stafanie Taylor produced another match-winning performance for West Indies Women as they beat India Women by six wickets to win the fourth T20 International yesterday at Windsor Park.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Chinese basketball icon Yao Ming has been taken aback by Jeremy Lin’s rise at the New York Knicks and thinks his style and size could make China’s state sports system rethink how it selects and grooms its athletes.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Michael Schumacher can be a winner with Mercedes this season but ideally he would be alongside double world champion Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Chris Paul poured salt into the wounds of the ailing Denver Nuggets with 36 points and nine assists to carry the Los Angeles Clippers to a much-needed 103-95 home win on Wednesday.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva showed she was back to her best with an indoor world record of 5.01 metres to win the event at the XL Galan indoor meeting in Stockholm by 29 centimetres yesterday.

President Donald Ramotar

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – It is too early to call it a Motor City revival but like the auto industry the Detroit Pistons are showing signs of life as the National Basketball Association (NBA) heads into the All Star break.

The Regional Nine council studying a proposal for the establishment of a permanent disaster preparedness committee for the region, after last year’s devastating floods.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

MIAMI, (Reuters) – In a small chapel at the Miami Heat’s arena, New York Knicks sensation Jeremey Lin offered a simple prayer three weeks ago.

(Barbados Nation) Charwin Jermaine Estwick,  30, a contractor from Guyana, was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds on Wednesday after appearing in court charged with stealing Bds$164 819 from two of his clients.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Basketball legend Michael Jordan has filed a lawsuit in China against a Chinese sportswear company, accusing the firm of unauthorised use of his name.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Formula One teams and sponsors have no concerns about racing in Bahrain this year and the grand prix is definitely on despite continuing unrest, the sport’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said yesterday.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

Several of the country’s leading private sector enterprises will participate in a one-day Job Fair organized by the Rotary Clubs of Georgetown and Demerara on Sunday March 3 in an initiative that seeks to respond to the challenge of scarce skills afflicting affecting the business community.

(Reuters) – Australian captain Michael Clarke has said he was partly responsible for the sacking of former skipper Ricky Ponting from the one-day squad.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai on Wednesday handed over a 15-seater minibus worth $3 million to Toshao Doreen Jacobis of St Deny’s Mission Tapakuma, Region Two for the transportation of produce from the village to Anna Regina Market and villagers including school children.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

Digicel’s King of the Band float

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Cuba’s Dayron Robles powered to victory after rival Liu Xiang was disqualified for a false start in the 60 metres hurdles at the XL Galan meeting in Stockholm yesterday.

Several of the country’s leading private sector enterprises will participate in a one-day Job Fair organized by the Rotary Clubs of Georgetown and Demerara on Sunday March 3 in an initiative that seeks to respond to the challenge of scarce skills afflicting affecting the business community.

Ministry of Education’s King costume

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

A reveller with the Region 4 band

Banks DIH was a hit at yesterday’s Mashramai

The autopsy performed on Ganesh Dharie, the man who was fatally struck down on Monday night by an ambulance on the Meten-Meer-Zorg road, revealed that he died of multiple injuries, which included broken ribs, a punctured lung and a fractured skull.

Dear Editor, With respect to the remarks made by President Donald Ramotar, in the February 12 edition of the Sunday Chronicle, it is not that I cannot appreciate the hurt which the President feels at not having the majority in Parliament, however, there certainly was no need for the President to make such ill-advised and inflammatory remarks.

The manner in which the state does business with the private sector is one of the recurring themes in the annual reports of the Auditor General.

(Reuters) – French cycling prospect Yoann Offredo has been banned for a year after three “no shows” for doping controls.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

Dear Editor, There are times when you see the obvious staring you in the face, and you wonder if it is just you or are there others, too, who might be seeing and thinking the same.

A reveller in the semi costume

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai’s office said yesterday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident.

(Reuters) – Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal bowled superbly at the death to inspire Pakistan to an eight-run victory over England in the first Twenty20 international in Dubai yesterday.

Music pounded and jubilant revellers filled the streets of Georgetown and later poured into the National Park as part of the celebration of Guyana’s 42nd Republic Anniversary, which was hosted this year under the theme ‘Mashin’ with Pride, Keepin’ we Traditions Alive’.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

This reveller from the Ministry of Tourism

Dear Editor, With erosion by the sea in many parts of West Coast Berbice, the sea dam will have to be rebuilt.

Excuse me sir

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Western and Arab nations will demand that Syrian forces implement an immediate ceasefire to allow relief supplies to reach desperate civilians in bombarded cities such as Homs when they meet in Tunis today.

Expansion The expansion of the construction sector has provided impetus to the mortgage market.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Manchester United scraped into the last 16 of the Europa League yesterday, narrowly avoiding a humiliating elimination after being outplayed and losing 2-1 at home to Ajax Amsterdam.

Dear Editor, When life hands you lemons, you sometimes have no choice but to make lemonade.

Region 4’s King costume

The 2010 Report of the Auditor General has cited what it says are more than 3,000 cases of business houses in Regions 2, 3, 4 and 10, which are registered to sell alcohol, failing to renew their liquor licences for that year.

Dear Editor, There seems to be an aggressive and deceptive campaign on the part of the PPP/C and their agents to hoodwink the people into supporting their call for fresh elections.

All four of the victims of the Hassar curry poisoning have been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital, but they voluntarily remain on a ‘soft diet’ and will not be eating their favourite spicy dishes anytime soon; while the person charged with the attack on them will be back in court today.

FORT MEADE (Reuters) – US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified documents in US history, deferred a plea in a military court arraignment yesterday, marking the first step in a court-martial that could land him in prison for life.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

MARANA, Arizona, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods’ bid for a first PGA Tour victory in over two years ended prematurely yesterday when he lost one-down to fellow American Nick Watney at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Besides the urgings of boxing fans around the world eager for Manny Pacquiao to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.,

LONDON (Reuters) – The new Sunday edition of Rupert Murdoch’s British Sun tabloid, to be launched with a huge advertising campaign and a print run of around 3 million this week, is expected to be more family-friendly and less salacious than its predecessor, The News of the World.

Dear Editor, I would like the new Minister of Labour to look into the modus operandi of those privately owned businesses where gross advantage is taken of employees.

Bartica Regatta champion, Conan Belle is showing superb post-surgery vital signs, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Intensive Care Unit, where he is recuperating from major surgery following a horrific motorbike accident in the gold mining township.

The ‘King’ reveller of the RUSAL band

Professor Dr Bourne served as President of the Caribbean Development Bank from May 1, 2001 to April 2011.

University update

Less than a decade after an over $100 million reconstruction, the Wismar Municipal Market still isn’t seeing much activity and its remaining stallholders are hoping for an intervention to keep them in business.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ailing socialist leader, Hugo Chavez, was authorized by parliament yesterday to fly to Cuba for as long as needed to have more cancer surgery that has shaken the country ahead of a presidential election.

Dear Editor, I listen to myself and so often I hear a record, a repetition of sounds – rather than cogent ideas.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Valerie Amos, who is heading to Syria on a UN humanitarian mission, is an expert in the delicate art of international diplomacy.

Scenes from the Costume and Float Parade

Even though many persons behind the promotional scene and the production of the music are matured, very adult individuals, many of us past sixty/seventy cannot keep up with today’s version of soca – once dubbed Soul Calypso.

The vituperative, smear campaign against Henrique Capriles, following his landslide triumph in Venezuela’s Democratic Unity primary, on February 12, might have had more to do with concerns regarding President Hugo Chávez’s health than the wellbeing of democracy in Venezuela.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will miss his second consecutive scheduled meeting of the season on Saturday so he can concentrate on training, his agent said.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 448’s trading results showed consideration of $1,922,391 from 89,948 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 447 which showed consideration of $804,492 from 73,001 shares traded in 4  transactions. 

(Barbados Nation) Where is Leroy Parris? Court marshals were up to late last night still searching for the former CLICO executive chairman to serve him with a summons to appear in court.

(Trinidad Express) Insurance giant CLICO never failed. This according to former corporate secretary of the company Geoffrey Leid as he took the witness stand in the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial and the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) at the Winsure Building, Richmond Street in Port of Spain yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Krishna Rampersad, nephew of murdered millionaire Mahase Rampersad, appeared in court yesterday charged with killing his uncle and his uncle’s wife, Darling.