Articles published on Thursday, May 3, 2012
MAIDUGURI/ABUJA, (Reuters) – Gunmen threw bombs and opened fire on a cattle market in remote northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 60 people, a spokesman for Yobe state governor said, an attack whose motives remain unknown.
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, (Reuters) – A diplomatic spat in the normally tranquil Cayman Islands has put the ruling party and the British government at loggerheads after the locally elected premier accused London of conspiring with opposition politicians to “ruin this country.”
EDINBURG, Texas, (Reuters) – Two men face immigrant harboring charges after authorities found 115 undocumented people inside three small South Texas houses, some of whom did not have access to food or water for days, according to federal court records published today.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt could have an unexpected challenger when the Jamaican world record holder runs his first 100 metres on Saturday.
Government today expressed its unhappiness with the ruling of Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang which saw its challenge of the numerical make-up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection being thrown out and said it will be studying the implications of the ruling.
A Guyanese man has pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud on Canadian phone company, Telus and has been slapped with house arrest for 12 months and will have to make restitution.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A joint police probe is now underway into the shooting deaths of four people including two elderly men in Rejoin district in Hanover last night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) One of the founding members of The Skatalites Band, Lloyd Brevett is dead.
A 43 year old miner was this afternoon found dead with chop wounds about the body in his East Street home.
In a notice in today’s Guyana Chronicle, the Ministry of Public Works is advising REDjet customers who were unable to travel because of the suspension of service by the airline to submit requests for refunds.
Ravendra Pooran, a taxi driver of Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara was today found murdered at Logwood, Enmore.
Two Guyanese men were among a number of others remanded in Antigua over a stolen car and drugs, according to today’s Antigua Observer.
(Trinidad Express) The Integrity Commission will be examining the procedure and practices at ministries, State agencies, regional corporations and all public bodies in a bid to fight corruption and improve ethical conduct.
(Trinidad Express) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine and his Grenadian counterpart, Nazim Burke, have met and discussed maritime boundary issues between Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.
(Trinidad Express) Congress of the People (COP) Leader Prakash Ramadhar has apparently yielded to the principle of collective Cabinet responsibility.
(Reuters) – Flamboyant opener Chris Gayle has scrapped his deal with English county Somerset to make himself available for West Indies after ending his year-long dispute with the cricket board.
US Ambassador to Guyana Dr. Brent Hardt says while it is encouraging that government has taken steps to free the airwaves and end the model of limited, state-influenced radio, it is important that the process going forward comes under the purview of an impartial and transparent National Broadcasting Authority.
Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday threw out the action brought by government to challenge the numerical make up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection, saying that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter since there was no evidence of a constitutional breach.
Sandra V. Jones, a human resources and organisational specialist, has been confirmed as the new Commissioner on the Guyana Elections Commission.
The Ministry of Health, with assistance from the George-town Public Hospital Corpo-ration (GPHC) and Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), is investigating how two pregnant women died during labour, with Minister Dr.
A man was yesterday sent to prison after he pleaded guilty to three charges put to him by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accusing him of unlawful assault, threatening language and disorderly behaviour after clashes with his son, his daughter-in-law and the police.
Former Police Commissioner Henry Greene was up to press time last evening a patient at a city hospital after he took ill earlier in the day.
Amid speculation that snap elections might be on the horizon, PPP/C leaders last evening told supporters of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice that the parliamentary arrangement is becoming untenable and urged them to use their votes to ensure it does not find itself again in its current situation.
Director of the Government Information Agency (GINA), Neaz Subhan, says that the actions of the combined opposition to reduce the budget of the agency to one dollar have put the staff at risk of losing their jobs and he described this “as a wanton attack on press freedom.”
General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) Rawlston Adams says that rehabilitation works on the eastern hydraulic ramp have been completed and the bridge is ready.
Eon Andrews, President of the United Minibus Association (UMA), has said that neither the Ministry of Commerce nor the Guyana Police Force has the authority to set fares that have been increased by private minibus operators.
The Guyana Press Associa-tion (GPA) supports the view that universal access to information must be pursued as Guyana continues to be challenged by the government monopoly over the granting of radio licences.
President of the Guyana Public Service Union, Patrick Yarde, says a dark cloud is looming following what he said is the government’s obvious lack of conscience shown through its political spin regarding the $21 billion in cuts by the joint majority opposition to the national budget.
LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies touched down here yesterday for their three-Test tour against the World’s number one side, with English newspapers already launching their usual assault on the tourists.
Mahendra Dharma, the man who was shot three times on Tuesday when he gave chase behind a gang that had moments earlier robbed his family, has been discharged from the New Amsterdam Hospital though the pellets remain lodged in his legs.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson says he is staying out of the Chris Gayle dispute and will wait on the West Indies Cricket Board to sort out the player’s availability for the limited overs aspect of the England tour.
Following the gruelling budget tussle, Parliament is to reconvene on Thursday May 10th when a series of opposition motions will come up for debate including one in the name of APNU MP Carl Greenidge to have the Former President’s (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act 2009 repealed.
A man appearing in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on four charges lost his chance at being granted bail when Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton found out that he was in violation of a previous bond.
BANGALORE, India, CMC – Chris Gayle smashed his fourth half-century in five innings but it was not enough to save Royal Challengers Bangalore from their second straight loss in the Indian Premier League yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Captain Stafanie Taylor produced an excellent all-round performance to fire West Indies Women to a seven-run win over Sri Lanka in their five-match series here yesterday.
The decomposing body of eight-year-old Devon ‘Luke’ Gibson, who disappeared last Saturday following a swimming expedition at the Kingston Seawall, washed up at the Hampton Court foreshore, Essequibo Coast early yesterday morning.
Overseas-based sprinter and 2008 Olympic representative Adam Harris has his sights locked on the 2012 London Olympics as he aims to redeem himself for his performances four years ago in Beijing, China.
A CDN$250 million Canadian Climate Fund which will be managed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will finance private sector climate mitigation and adaptation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean that need concessional financing to become viable, the IDB said yesterday in a news release.
(Las Vegas Sun) Ask Floyd Mayweather Jr. a question at your own risk, because you can never be sure where the answer will take you.
Police are still searching for the minibus operators that evicted a sickly Kelroy Kazer, of Paramakatoi, who died on the Versailles Public Road afterward.
Jerome Piggott of 18 Mile, Rockstone, Essequibo was yesterday brought before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on an indictable charge of attempted murder.
(New Zealand Herald) Brendon McCullum won’t play in the one-dayers and Twenty20 internationals on New Zealand’s upcoming tour of the West Indies, which begins in June.
One of Sunday’s women’s semi-finals of the lucrative Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited/National Sports Commission/Guyana Softball League nationwide 10/10 could turn out to be a battle of rival captains June Ogle and Abena Parker.
The condition of the 12-year-old, who was on Tuesday struck down by a minibus on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara public road, has worsened.
Dear Editor, I find the earlier pronouncements of Drs Roger Luncheon and Ashni Singh and now Mr Winston Brassington that National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) is a private company with the legal right to withhold public moneys annoying, self-serving, misinformed and mischievous.
(Las Vegas Review Journal) He had been beaten and battered for almost 12 rounds by Manny Pacquiao in 2009.
A Partnership for National Unity has scheduled a series of meetings in Georgetown.
Dear Editor, The Constitution of Guyana contains the following provision in Article 149.
Leader of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GBGWU) Leslie Gonsalves said over the last two decades Region 10 has borne the wrath of the PPP government because of its political choices, but like all Guyanese, they have a right to chart their own course He was speaking on Tuesday to a sizeable crowd assembled at the Linden/Georgetown minibus park for the annual May Day rally.
David Khan and his son Taffin are in the lead after three rounds of the nine-round Caribbean Containers-sponsored Junior FIDE rated tournament which commenced last week-end.
Dear Editor, There is something awry with regard to the recent social efforts of certain Hindu organizations in Guyana.
The curtains came down on the Linden Town Week celebrations on Monday after the an-nual programme of workshops, concerts, which this year coincided with observances for the town’s 42nd anniversary.
MUMBAI, India, IANS/CMC – Mumbai Indians have signed up West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith as cover for left-arm Australian seamer Mitchell Johnson, who has been ruled out with an injury.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he wants to leave for the United States rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S.
(Jamaica Observer) Parliament on Tuesday sanctioned amendments to the 11-year-old Telecoms Act, signalling the end to any possibility of monopoly in the telecoms market and paving the way for “a massive decline in rates locally and internationally”, according to Technology Minister Phillip Paulwell.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria will protest his innocence when he appears before an England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) disciplinary hearing investigating corruption charges this month, his brother Vicky said on Tuesday.
Dear Editor, On April 30, 2012, I arrived home around midnight from my second job.
The Campbellville, Kitty, Industry and Enmore Polyclinic health centres which fall under the management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation will become child-friendly centres, with designated child–friendly spaces.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 38 points as the Los Angeles Lakers held off a late fightback by the Denver Nuggets to win 104-100 on Tuesday and take a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference quarter-final series.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The Global Fund, an organisation that has received millions of dollars from Bill Gates but found grant money was being misused, is cutting its workforce and tightening its focus on 20 countries hardest hit by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Dear Editor, I agree with GRA Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur (SN, May 1) that he has done a good job in improving the public administration of taxes.
A male and a female contractor yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accused of assaulting each other and were put on bail.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream,” one of the world’s most recognizable works of art, sold for $120 million at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.
(Reuters) The Boston Celtics held firm while Eastern Conference rivals the Chicago Bulls collapsed as the NBA title contenders handled the absence of their All-Star point guards in different ways on Tuesday.
(Jamaica Observer) Opposition spokesperson on foreign affairs, foreign trade and investment, Senator Christopher Tufton says the Government must justify its reasons for recalling several foreign mission heads in the four months since it took office in January this year, some of them ahead of their contracts expiring.
Dear Editor, As I browsed your columnist Henry Jeffrey’s article ‘Unwillingness to negotiate is a fatal flaw‘ (April 25)” my eyes caught the line, “The Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund (SILWF), created in 1947 to provide subsidized services for sugar workers, survived the Burnham regime and is still very much alive.
Since political Independence, this nation built a society on the pillars of peace.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secret Service personnel implicated in a prostitution scandal in Colombia paid 9 of the 12 women they were involved with and none of the women were found to be connected to terrorism or drug cartels, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
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GILBERT, Ariz., (Reuters) – A gunman, identified by local media as a prominent border militia leader and a reputed neo-Nazi, shot dead four people including a toddler girl in Arizona today before apparently committing suicide, police said.
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Just over a week ago, four girls all below the age of 18, and two under the age of 16, were rescued from a gold mining location in the interior, where it was reported they were being forced into prostitution.
Dear Editor, I wish to draw attention to the age factor in employment relationships.
The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) Hadi’s World Inc/City Mall nationwide male/female softball tournament concludes this weekend, with both the semi-finals and finals starting at 10 am at the Cyril Potter College ground.
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(Trinidad Express) There are still elements in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) who do not want Chris Gayle to return to the regional team.
