Daily Archive: Monday, March 12, 2012

Police say that at about 1330h today, acting on information received, they conducted a search on a building under construction at Eteringbang during which an unlicensed 16 gauge shotgun and fifteen 16 gauge cartridges were found.

(Trinidad Guardian) Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of Operations Jack Ewatski has refused to sign his performance appraisal conducted by Police Service Commission, citing that the process was “seriously flawed.”

(Barbados Nation) Barbados crashed to a record low total to hand Guyana a comprehensive innings victory on the final day of their fifth round WICB regional four-day cricket match Kensington Oval today.

Guyana Power and Light says that around 8.19 am today an out-of-control minibus struck one of its transformer structures on Main and New Market streets causing a system shutdown.

REDjet today announced the launch of ticket sales for its newest route between Barbados and Antigua. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of two neighbouring communities in Kingston Gardens have been left dumbstruck and wondering what hit them after an explosive device described as having an “earthquake effect” erupted in the community in the wee hours of yesterday morning.

Minister Frank has upped and added some fuel to the fire of that long-simmering  Mashramani saga.

Police say that yesterday, ranks of a roving mobile patrol conducted searches on two mining camps at Triangle Backdam, Baramita, NWD.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The man holds up two pictures of his friend, which tell the story of what it now means to be gay in Iraq.

A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted this morning at Victoria, East Coast Demerara after he came into contact with a live electrical wire while trying to pull down his kite.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he will be home from Cuba in a week and start radiation therapy for cancer that could leave him weakened ahead of his re-election bid on Oct.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has confirmed that he visited Cuban Raul Garcia last week at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds.

(Barbados Nation) CARICOM governments seem to be in a bind over what to do with their Implementation Agency for Crime And Security (IMPACS).

(Barbados Nation) Local law enforcement officials have told the American authorities that Barbados is seeing an increasing number of drug mules ingesting their illegal contraband to get it into the country.

A Caribbean Airlines employee is in police custody following the discovery of two bags containing 10 kilos of cocaine which were dumped over the perimeter fence at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri on Saturday night.

As one of two men shot during a weekend execution-style attempt battles for his life hooked up to a life support machine, his family is refuting claims that he is involved in shady deals and said the incident raises many unanswered questions.

Women of Itaballi – a small mining and logging community on the Essequibo River – are calling on the authorities to take urgent measures to save the young girls of the village who they say are being sexually exploited by men including law enforcers.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday said that former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge tabled dated audited accounts while he was minister and none for the actual years that he presided in the ministry.

Close to US$180M will be spent in the near term by Canadian companies holding licences to mine gold here, according to Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud.

The ferries plying the Georgetown-North West route will be replaced with the government examining a number of options, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn says.

Oil company, CGX Energy has passed the 5000 feet mark in drilling its exploration well off the Corentyne coast.

A city businessman is threatening legal action following what he described as a frightening ordeal at the Kitsingh Dental Clinic and Lab located at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara where he went on Saturday to extract a tooth.

The University of Guyana has advertised for a new Vice-Chancellor and Principal.

The ‘Operation Rescue UG’ grouping has issued a petition calling on the authorities to appoint a new University of Guyana Council.

Proposals submitted early last year by a committee under the chairmanship of the President of the Caribbean Develop-ment Bank will shortly be considered for adoption with a view to providing early relief to the many policyholders adversely affected by the financial collapse of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) and its subsidiary British American Insurance Company (BAICO).

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee yesterday lauded all those who have contributed to keeping community policing alive in Guyana.

Who should foot the bill? The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) or the offending state?

A midnight collision between two vehicles on the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Saturday saw traffic backed up for some time.

Leader of the Opposition David Granger says that while the Opposition does not want gridlock in Parliament, the prospects for the passage of the national budget look grim since one month after a commitment for budget talks was given by the Government it is yet to be honoured.

In honour of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security joined with the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Venezuelan Institute for Culture and Cooperation in a Health Walk yesterday morning from Parliament Buildings and culminating at the Umana Yana.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar, CMC – Skipper Shivnarine Chanderpaul skilfully hit his 61st first-class century as Guyana took a solid 124-run first innings lead over Barbados on the third day of their fifth round Regional Four-Day match at Kensington Oval here  yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell Joint Junior Sportsman-of-the-Year and potential London Olympian, boxer Imran ‘Magic’ Khan returned to Guyana Saturday night from  his three-week International Boxing Association (AIBA) training camp stint in Cardiff, Wales fully cognizant of what it takes to get to the next level.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) is to investigate allegations that Indian bookmakers, with the help of a Bollywood actress, have been fixing the results of English County Championship matches and international games, the Sunday Times reported.

By Emmerson Campbell Junior cyclist Paul DeNobrega yesterday sprinted his way to victory to cop the fourth annual Cheddi Jagan Memorial Claybrick Factory-sponsored 50-mile road race.

George Bulkan started the 2012 golf season on a high note when he carted off the Stag Beer Mashramani Golf Saturday at Lugignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, I would appreciate if you could publish the following response to Mr.

Guyana and West Indies Cricketer Devendra Bishoo won two awards during the fifth annual Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) awards and presentation ceremony, at the New Amsterdam State House, on Saturday evening.

Eagle’s Wing is this week’s Classic Tuesdays film at the National Gallery, Castellani House.

St Vincent students on visit

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago have been set 305 on the final day today to win their fifth round Regional Four-Day clash against Jamaica.

Dear Editor, This is in reference to your EZ Jet news item (SN Mar 10) on the press conference called to respond to several unfair, unsubstantiated commentaries (attacks) in another newspaper in recent days on the air charter’s owner Mr.

rank Thomasson, a founding member of the Theatre Guild passed away in England on March 5.

Dear Editor, I hope the proposed meeting between the CARICOM cricket committee and the West Indies Cricket Board would not simply be another talk shop and that the board would be told in no uncertain terms that West Indies cricket does not belong to their old boys’ network but to all West Indians.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Ten wickets fell on the second day as the day/night fifth round Regional Four-Day affair between Windward Islands and Leeward Islands continued to meander here Saturday.

Veteran Bollywood actor-filmmaker Joy Mukherjee was cremated in Mumbai on Saturday morning, the Indian Express reported.

(Reuters) – Heavy rain ended any chance of a result in the first test between South Africa and New Zealand  yesterday but Ross Taylor’s team may have come away with a hint more confidence than when they first set foot on University Oval in Dunedin.

Dear Editor, Today many Guyanese may not appreciate the significance of the independence day of Ghana formerly known as the ‘Gold Coast’.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal bowled Pakistan to a 21-run victory over Bangladesh in the opening match of the Asia Cup yesterday after the hosts lost their last five wickets for 17 runs.

Dear Editor, We take this opportunity to salute Karen de Souza on her nomination for the International Woman of Courage award.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan,  (Reuters) – Sixteen Afghan civilians, including nine children, were shot dead in what witnesses described as a nighttime massacre yesterday near a U.S.

NY Phagwah

Phagwah in Richmond Hill

Dear Editor, President Donald Ramotar would soon have to decide what kind of legacy he will leave so that he is not seen just as an extension of his predecessors.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has ended talks with President Bashar al-Assad and left Syria with little sign of progress on halting the country’s growing political bloodshed.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Bangladesh government are expected to rule this week whether it is safe for their national cricket team to become the first side to tour Pakistan in three years.

Distance athlete Cleveland Thomas yesterday produced a stellar performance to win the Embassy of Mexico in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports and the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) 20-kilometre race in honour of Mexican athlete Jose Macias Luna.

TORONTO/MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Indonesia’s decision to shut the door on foreign control of its mines has gone down badly with global miners but none are yet threatening to quit the country: the truth is, they no longer have any easy investment destinations to turn to.

(Trinidad Guardian) By the end of July 2012, T&T will have harvested its first batch of commercialised carrots.

An unfortunate encounter

Dear Editor, Allow me to belatedly congratulate you on the weekly Sunday Feature “The World beyond Georgetown” which I do find very informative and interesting.

Politikles

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin has been ruled out of the first three One-Day Internationals against Australia, after sustaining a fractured finger during a practice game at 3Ws Oval here Saturday.

PALANPUR, India,  (Reuters) – A village in western India hosted a mass wedding and engagement ceremony of 21 girls yesterday aimed at breaking a tradition of prostitution which has for centuries exploited women of a poor, marginalised and once nomadic community in the region.

CARICOM Heads have accepted the invitation from the Chief Minister of Anguilla to send a delegation of Heads of Government to Anguilla at the earliest opportunity to play a role in the abatement of ongoing tensions between him and the Governor.

With over three months of his administration having elapsed, there will be ever growing interest in where President Ramotar stands on issues and what he stands for.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States government is refusing to comment on reports that extradition requests are coming for several Jamaicans involved in organised crime.

By Rory Fraser Rory Fraser is Professor of Forest Economics and Policy at Alabama A & M University.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation has failed to deliver on its promises.

Photos and interviews by Shabna Ullah This week on ‘What the People Say’ persons in Berbice commented on some of the changes they would like to see

(Trinidad Express) Election confusion has already begun. The names of the founding father of the United National Congress (UNC), Basdeo Panday, and majority of the Panday family have vanished from the party’s official voting list in the lead-up to its internal election.