Articles published on Saturday, June 9, 2012
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Liberia closed its border with Ivory Coast today but did not confirm the claim by Abidjan that gunmen who killed seven United Nations peacekeepers, eight civilians and a soldier had come from its territory.
BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers agreed today to lend Spain up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) to shore up its teetering banks and Madrid said it would specify precisely how much it needs once independent audits report in just over a week.
The liabilities of Guyana Stores Ltd (GSL) at the time of its sale by the state and whether its assets had been stripped were among issues that arose as NICIL’s head Winston Brassington was cross-examined on Friday in a case where NICIL is seeking to recover an outstanding sum of US$2M which formed part of the purchase price.
PARIS (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova was crowned the new queen of Roland Garros after she kept her poise to outwit and outpower diminutive Italian Sara Errani 6-3 6-2 to complete her collection of grand slam trophies today.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Convicted gangster, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke’s lawyer, Stephen Rosen says his client will not appeal the 23 year sentence he was handed in a United States Federal court yesterday.
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo has urged a review of the contract awarded to China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Limited to rebuild the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri according to a report by the state-owned NCN.
Mexico City, Mexico – A spirited second half performance could not prevent the Golden Jaguars from going down 1-3 to CONCACAF champions Mexico on the opening day of Group B action in the third round, 2014 World Cup Qualifiers at the Estadio Azteca Stadium here yesterday.
The cook for a cargo ship is missing and feared dead after the vessel capsized in the Demerara River yesterday afternoon.
A Charlestown man was critically wounded after gunmen opened fire on him, injuring two others in the process at a football match at the National Cultural Centre tarmac in the city last night.
Mexico City, Mexico – An enthusiastic Golden Jaguars contingent suffered a slight disappointment in preparation for their clash versus Mexico, as they were denied the chance to train at the Estadio Azteca Thursday evening.
Fisherman Vishwanauth Narine was stabbed to death by another man in front his Plastic City home yesterday morning, as a result of a dispute over a missing gas cylinder.
In the wake of a mother blaming negligence and procrastination by doctors and nurses as the cause of her 12-pound newborn’s death, the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday denied culpability.
By Iva Wharton Avid chess player and Coach Roy Sharma may have discovered the next set of chess champions in Orealla.
Low cost regional carrier REDjet, which attracted many passengers in Guyana and other parts of the Caribbean, yesterday formally signalled its closure and applied for bankruptcy protection.
Georgetown, particularly its central district, was inundated yesterday, with water rising to as high as two feet in some areas.
By Emmerson Campbell Guyana’s national rugby 15s team was treated to dinner at the New Thriving Restaurant on Main Street by Ming’s Products and Services Limited Thursday night.
Attorney-at-law Deborah Backer yesterday described as a diversion, the imminent move by Prime Minister Sam Hinds to re-table a motion to have the National Assembly ensure that Members of Parliament submit annual declarations, in keeping with the requirements of the Integrity Commission Act.
Jason Abdulla, the witness for former president Bharrat Jagdeo in his $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon, yesterday testified that he was unable to recall the contents of most of the articles he compiled to support the case, after an accident left him with lapses in his memory.
By Iva Wharton A Region Two school football team is encountering difficulties as it prepares for the second Digicel Schools football tournament.
By Jairo Rodrigues Jamzone Summer Break is just around the corner and Jovan Krystal Wilson, who appeared as the observing judge on GT&T’s Feel the Beat Dance Competition, and is the reigning Ms Guyana-Jamzone is just about ready to give up her crown.
WROCLAW, (Reuters) – Russia produced the sort of football purists dream of and gave the Czech Republic a lesson in moving the ball quickly, effectively and beautifully yesterday as they announced themselves as potential Euro 2012 challengers.
Land access to sections of Kumaka, in the Mabaruma Sub-Region has been cut off after the nearby Aruka River severely eroded parts of the waterfront in recent weeks.
The beleaguered $300M Amelia’s Ward road works have been halted for more than a week now due to inclement weather, even as regional leaders prepare for a new inspection.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – I’ll Have Another was retired from racing after suffering a freak injury on the eve of today’s $1 million Belmont Stakes, ending his bid to win the elusive Triple Crown of American thoroughbred racing.
Trophy Stall XI demolished Herstelling Raiders by 67 runs to reach the Georgetown zone final of the Guyana Softball League T10 tournament.
Boys have swagger, men have class, or so they say, but it seems today some men are boys and their male children are doomed to the same fate.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – A red-hot night from LeBron James fired the Miami Heat to a crushing 98-79 victory over the Boston Celtics on Thursday, sending the NBA Eastern Conference Final series to a decisive seventh game.
The Linden Utility Services Co-op Society Limited (LUSCSL) yesterday commissioned a $3.8 million Wood-Mizer sawmill to begin work on its concession at 28 Miles, Mabura Road, following warnings by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) that it would be repossessed for lack of utilisation.
Hi Everyone, Often we grow up following and maintaining traditions without knowing or fully understanding why we do so.
BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – Another day of rain in the West Midlands forced the abandonment of play for the second straight day in the final Test between England and West Indies here yesterday.
Over 60 amateur pugilists from nine gyms across the country will vie for medals and trophies when Pepsi and the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) boxes off the Under-16 Development Programme tonight.
The second National Drama Festival (NDF) was launched yesterday with new incentives for budding actors and playwrights.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge sentenced Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke yesterday to 23 years in prison, ending a long struggle by U.S.
Painting the Spectrum 8, SASOD’s LBGT annual film festival continues this week with Pariah, Difficult Love, I am, and Tomboy at the Sidewalk Café tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday from 7 pm each day.
By Carwyn Holland Canada-based Guyanese Troy Ross (25-2) is getting ready for another shot at the World Cruiserweight title later this year.
Chairman of Region Seven Gordon Bradford has denied that he offered support to the newly-installed Bartica Interim Management Com-mittee (IMC).
Horizon Arts Production (HAP) will stage its fourth Annual Fathers’ Night cultural programme on Father’s Day, June 17, at 8 pm at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston.
McDoom/Diamond fell to Western Union Central Mackenzie 69-66 in overtime when the National Community Basketball League (NCBL) continued last Thursday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The smell of burnt flesh hung in the air and body parts lay scattered around the deserted Syrian hamlet of Mazraat al-Qubeir yesterday, U.N.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran failed at talks yesterday to unblock a probe into suspected atom bomb research by the Islamic state, a setback dimming any chances for success in higher-level negotiations between Tehran and major powers later this month.
The body of Collin Sealey, the prisoner who jumped into the Mahaicony River after escaping custody, was found along the foreshore of Mahaicony yesterday morning.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron and his finance minister George Osborne will face accusations they bent government policy to support media baron Rupert Murdoch when they appear at a high-profile inquiry into press ethics next week.
Apsara returns to the National Cultural Centre next Saturday, with its show dubbed ‘An Exotic Era of Dance’.
A man was arrested yesterday in connection with an unlicensed weapon found by a police patrol at a mining camp at Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Outgoing World Bank chief Robert Zoellick yesterday called for a new partnership in the Americas, criticizing the United States for insufficient leadership on trade and saying that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s political influence is waning.
Guyana Model Search (GMS)/Designers’ Portfolio (DP) hits the streets of Georgetown today and tomorrow with two public events geared at bringing attention to the scourge of domestic violence and other societal issues as well as publicizing the July 1 event at Isika.
Two of the three men accused in a 2004 murder at Hampshire Village, Corentyne were acquitted earlier this week after Magistrate Fabio Azore ruled that a prima facie case had not been made out against them.
Dear Editor, I would like to respond to the article in last week‘s Sunday Stabroek dated June 3, 2012, on page 19, under the caption ‘Regional Chairman breaks ranks with support for Bartica IMC.’
Dear Editor, I am a teacher at a Corentyne primary school (name given) and it is with much disappointment and pain that I am bringing this letter to your attention.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine was honored with the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award on T hursday night for roles in movies including “Terms of Endearment,” “Steel Magnolias” and “Postcards from the Edge.”
Five St Kitts men charged in connection with robbing cruise ship passengers on the road to Brimstone Hill in November 2010 pleaded guilty when they re-appeared in Court on Wednesday in a case that shocked the Caribbean island and roiled its tourist industry.
A man, who stole four hats from his former employer and in a separate incident stole money from a woman, was sentenced to 12 months in jail when he appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Top Guyanese actress Mariatha Causway aka Jennifer Thomas will launch a spoken word CD next Wednesday at the Water Chris Hotel, Waterloo Street.
As her “Where Have You Been” bounds 11-9 on the Billboard Hot 100, Rihanna returns to a place where she has been 21 times before: the chart’s top 10.
A man who assaulted a woman living in the same house with him was yesterday remanded to prison, after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer another charge of common assault.
(Reuters) – The Miss Universe Organization yesterday launched a legal action for defamation against a beauty queen who said recent Miss USA pageant results were rigged.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says her administration has no intention of severing ties with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Dear Editor, It was with genuine relief that one learnt that certain derogatory remarks attributed to a former Minister of Human Services and Social Security to her new constituency of long-serving (and suffering) teachers were misreported.
(Trinidad Express) Hours after Government announced its new anti-crime campaign on Wednesday, four thieves smashed their way into the Port of Spain branch of the Bank of Baroda, and demanded the keys opening the vault to millions of dollars.
Dear Editor, There was a story carried on Fox News (June 6) that really caught my attention.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris was “really confused” by having to wear a veil or a mask when she was a young girl in public with the late pop star, but says she now understands why her father insisted on the disguise.
Days after his car was stolen from his garage, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice resident Pooran Sewkaran managed to recover the vehicle on Wednesday abandoned at Mahaica.
(Barbados Nation) Government on Thursday started a comprehensive programme to at least halve the rat population, which is estimated to be in the region of one million, in the capital city of Bridgetown and its environs over the next 12 months.
Dear Editor, Any medium, print or otherwise, which exposes malfeasance, particularly that which impacts on the public purse, must be commended and supported.
(EUR) A year after the Grammy Awards dropped 31 categories (from 109 to 78), sparking protests and a lawsuit by Latin jazz musicians, the music organization has switched things up again by adding three awards, including the reinstatement of best Latin jazz album.
George Orwell famously described sport as “war minus the shooting,“ since it activated passions that pandered to the baser forms of nationalism, racism and xenophobia.
All 16 member governments of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) have pledged to renew their hurricane and earthquake insurance for the 2012-2013 policy year.
I attended a meeting earlier this year that included a good number of women who are devoted activists and advocates for Guyana’s female population.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Civil rights groups filed a legal challenge yesterday to Florida’s controversial effort to purge its voter lists prior to the November presidential election.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chris Gayle’s ability to draw a crowd has been demonstrated once again with Hampshire bringing in an extra 2000 seats for the one-day international on June 16 at West End.
(Trinidad Express) Government’s intervention in the collapsed CL Financial conglomerate (CLF) will not end anytime soon.
