Articles published on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
(Trinidad Guardian) Three of the four men—including two media workers—charged with a slew of offences arising from a robbery in Arouca one week ago were granted bail yesterday during their third court appearance.
(Jamaica Observer) Air Jamaica’s J$131-billion mountain of debt is not to blame for Caribbean Airlines’ (CAL’s) current troubles.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Complant, the Chinese firm which last year bought the Frome, Bernard Lodge and Monymusk sugar estates from the Government, has been the beneficiary of massive tax waivers.
About 01:30 hrs today, police say that Nankishore Arjune was robbed of his AT 192 motor car, jewellery, a cell phone and $15,000 by three men one of whom was armed with a gun at Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice.
(WICB) Leicester, England – The selection committee of the West Indies Cricket Board advised today that off-spinner Sunil Narine will replace injured fast bowler Kemar Roach in the West Indies’ Test squad on their tour of the United Kingdom.
V G Siddhartha, owner of the Coffee Day group which controls 1.82 million acres of forest in Guyana through one of its subsidiaries has said that a processing centre for logs will be set up here but the main facility will be in India.
(WICB) Leicester, England – Fast bowler Kemar Roach has been ruled out of the remainder of the West Indies’ tour of the United Kingdom.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court ruled today WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, leaving the Australian with few legal options after an 18-month legal battle.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was jailed for 50 years today for helping Sierra Leonean rebels commit what a court in The Hague called some of the worst war crimes in history.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Judges in the December murder trial have been pressured from several sides, including the government, to declare the Public Prosecutor’s Office ineligible to rule on the validity of the Amnesty Act.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Estranged West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has not ruled out making himself available for the third Test of West Indies’ ill-fated tour of England but says a meeting with the West Indies Cricket Board on Sunday will take priority.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Ministry of Transport (TCT) has stricter rules in the pipeline for public transport.
Former Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) and now Minister in the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill says the cutting by the opposition of $99.4 million for the entity in this year’s budget has effectively shut it down as it cannot pay salaries nor meet its operating expenses like electricity, water and internet bills.
An armed gang stormed a mining camp at 23 Miles Issano on Sunday and escaped with raw gold and an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) after tying up miners, in the latest attack highlighting security concerns in the country’s gold fields.
APNU MP Ronald Bulkan has condemned the installation of an interim management council at the Bartica NDC and the man who headed the body for 17 years said that the change was made stealthily by the government.
The driver of a pick-up truck is on the run after he struck down a motorcyclist, United States citizen, Micaiah Young, 21, along the Bath Settlement Public Road around 9 am yesterday.
Two rifles including one fitted with a telescopic lens were yesterday afternoon discovered in a Kitty house and up to press time last evening two brothers were in police custody in connection with the find.
Four armed men last evening stormed into the No. 58 Village, Corentyne home of market vendors Mohabir Dhanraj and his wife, shooting the man in his leg and beating the woman before escaping with cash and jewellery.
The UK Royal Society of Literature stated in a press release on Monday that Rahul Bhattacharya has won the 2012 Ondaatje Prize worth £10,000 for his first novel ‘The Sly Company of People Who Care’ based on his year-long sojourn Guyana.
On May 9th, when Nathan Samuel James’ unmanned boat was found drifting in the Pomeroon River, the visible damage on the vessel led his family to believe that it had been hit by another vessel and he fell overboard and drowned.
A pensioner of El Dorado, West Coast Berbice was badly beaten on Monday afternoon with a broom by a teenager who had snatched his walking stick and thrown it away.
Grant-a-Dream on May 28 donated items valued over $1M to the Paediatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
The Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) has expressed concern over the lack of any consultation on the increase announced in the minimum wage, considering that the group is a major stakeholder in the security sector.
Shawn Hopkinson and Coretta Hopkinson were yesterday advised to seek counselling when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court accused of assaulting each other.
The businessman who fled the scene after crashing the car in which his employee lost his life on Saturday night has turned himself in to police and negotiated a compensation agreement with the dead man’s family.
Workers at Enmore Sugar Estate yesterday began a planned three-day strike to sound their dissatisfaction over the terms of an agreement for salary increases for years they were underpaid by GuySuCo.
NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Head coach Ottis Gibson says West Indies are losing the mental battle, after crashing to a nine-wicket loss in the second Test inside four days here Monday.
The family of the contractor wanted over the month-old murder of a Trinidadian teen is still receiving threatening calls from a person claiming to be a relative of the dead girl and who has said both suspects have been captured and are being tortured.
The Government Analyst/Food and Drug Department says that foreign language food and drug labels are proliferating in the country and it warned again that English labels are required on all imported commodities and it will be seizing products that don’t comply.
(Trinidad Guardian) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has ordered the termination of investigations into an alleged bribery scandal involving Works Minister Jack Warner in his former capacity as president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) during a meeting at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, on May 10-11, 2011.
A hat-trick off the boot of former Alpha United player Orlando Fredericks gave Bank of Guyana a 3-1 victory over the Ministry of Sport as the Inter-Ministry/Corporations Seven-a-side
Approximately six weeks after 24-year-old GR taxi driver Balram Jadoonauth was gunned down execution-style in front of his Dennis Street, Campbellville home the police are yet to crack the case.
Masters Category Two (74kgs) powerlifter, Winston Stoby’s dead-lift of 265.5kgs/585.4 pounds at the 2012 Caribbean Championships in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, in April was officially confirmed as a world record by the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF).
The fire that claimed the home of Yasin Hamid, of Felicity, East Coast Demerara is suspected to be a result of a kerosene stove left alight by his wife earlier during the day.
Nazeema Persaud, the granddaughter of murdered Kaneville businessman Barbot Paul, yesterday took the stand at the trial of the man accused of murdering him.
(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – West Indies A Team Manager, Colin Borde, is looking forward to the upcoming visit by India A.
A Sophia man landed in the hospital last evening after an assailant hit him to the head with a piece of wood and there is fear that his condition may deteriorate since he has previously undergone a series of surgeries to the head.
Berbice High School is in the Digicel Schools Football Tournament to win it, says Manager and Physical Education Teacher, Zahir Moakan.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Former champion Serena Williams shocked the French Open crowd, and herself, by losing to Virginie Razzano in the first round on Tuesday, her earliest exit from a grand slam in the 47 appearances she has made in an outstanding career.
The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) says that based on reports from its representatives and supporters in communities, the organisation was being “constantly maligned and blamed by government representatives during their recent outreach to Amerindian communities for the budget cuts and its future negative impacts on Amerindians.”
Members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Air Corps have concluded a specialist training programme in the operation and maintenance of its Chinese Y-12 aircraft, which is expected to boost the unit’s previously-hampered operational capacity.
ROME, – The real Usain Bolt will make a return appearance at Rome’s Diamond League meeting tomorrow, according to the Jamaican sprinter who got tongues wagging last week when he failed to break 10 seconds over 100 metres in Ostrava.
Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News editorial of May 28 you highlighted the destruction of the riverain communities‘ livelihood by the passage of shipping too close to the banks of the rivers, as well as the death of persons in the Berbice River probably caused by shipping.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Advances in technology will allow sports fans on both sides of the Atlantic to see more Olympic action than ever this summer without being chained to the television screen.
A drinks vendor was yesterday fined $10,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court when he pleaded guilty to possession of a dangerous weapon, an ice pick, after he had failed to offer a reasonable explanation to the police.
Ivelaw Duke who was arrested last Friday at Aranka, Essequibo River and charged with possession of a firearm without a licence was on Monday jailed for three years and fined $75,000 after pleading guilty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Dear Editor, On more than one occasion it has been drawn to my attention that letters have been written to the Guyana Times in particular commenting on controversial topics and signed by one ‘Raymond Trotz.‘
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Led by LeBron James’ 32 points, the Miami Heat enjoyed a convincing 93-79 win over the Boston Celtics on Monday to grab a 1-0 lead in their Eastern Conference championship series.
The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) says it has engaged a loggers association of Upper Berbice operating in Region Ten to find a mutually agreeable solution to the problem of the illegal offloading of logs and loggers trucks crossing at its Kwakwani waterfront facility.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers demanded improvements across the floor from his team after they fell to a 93-79 defeat to the Miami Heat in the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday.
Dear Editor, I was about to write a letter on a totally different subject matter when a letter penned by Lurlene Nestor in the Stabroek News of May 28 caught my eye (‘We should do research on teen violence’).
The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) on Saturday welcomed 30 hikers from Trinidad and Tobago ahead of their four-day trek to Kaieteur Falls.
New national swimming records were achieved in 11 different events in the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association’s (GASA) Annual Independence Swim Meet which came to a close last Sunday at the National Aquatic Centre.
Dear Editor, I went to the Sonu Nigam live stage show at the National Stadium, Providence, and while the show was an enjoyable and entertaining one, with Sonu singing for three hours non-stop, Guyanese Indians see Sonu Nigam as a reincarnation of the late Indian playback singer, Padma Shri Mohammed Rafi, so we Guyanese were expecting him to sing the old (golden) hits made popular by Rafi.
Dear Editor, As dancehall music continues to strive for international recognition among the mainstream genres, it apparently remains blemished by crime, homophobia, and violence.
The Golden Jaguars second string team completed their participation in the Parbo Bier Cup tournament on Friday evening, with a 2-1 victory over Suriname side Suripros at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium following their 4-2 loss to Vitesse on Wednesday last.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Latin America’s economy will grow at least 3.7 percent this year, but the region has not recovered fiscally from the Lehman Brothers crisis and should prepare contingency plans that bolster credit and help lower interest rates, the United Nations said on Monday.
Thirty persons from CARICOM member states were recently trained in renewable energy technologies and utilization when they participated in four technical sessions at a workshop that focused on solar cooling and heating systems, photovoltaics and wind energy.
Dear Editor, Undoubtedly most nations are proud to celebrate their independence at the appropriate time.
Four goals in the first half and three in the second half saw Guyana go down 7-1 to a superior Colombia side ranked 23rd in the world in a closed door practice match at Estadio El Campin, on Monday evening.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Thousands of Peruvians marched in support of the country’s biggest-ever mining project yesterday, a day after the government implemented emergency powers to control an anti-mining protest in the South that turned deadly.
CARACAS/MIAMI, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge who fled the country last month is cooperating with an elite special operations unit of the U.S.
A mechanic of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $65,000 when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton accused of damage to property and larceny.
The mangled bike
LISBON, (Reuters) – Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo believes the pressure is off his country as they prepare for a daunting group at Euro 2012.
(Barbados Nation) Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler showed yesterday that not only had the Value Added Tax (VAT) outperformed all projections but that the country’s high fiscal deficit of nearly nine per cent of Gross Domestic Product in 2010 had been dramatically lowered to 4.5 per cent.
Dear Editor, I refer to your article ‘Ramkarran calls for decriminalizing of same sex lifestyles‘ (May 28).
BOSTON, (Reuters) – A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus that was recently discovered in Iran and other parts of the Middle East.
The intensity of what can now be called a civil war in Syria continues unabated.
Dear Editor, Those of us who have been following developments in Burma cannot but breathe a sigh of relief now that the military junta has freed Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and granted permission for her to travel out of the country after over two decades in confinement.
Politikles
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities said a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden turned down an opportunity to leave his country and resettle overseas with his family, two U.S.
(Jamaica Observer) Consumers of patties, the popular Jamaican delicacy, are hopping mad about the new tax to be imposed on the product come Friday.
Last week I completed my article with the contention that the budget cannot be properly scrutinized by the Committee of Supply of our National Assembly.
