Daily Archive: Sunday, June 24, 2012

(Reuters) – Alex Hales fell one short of beoming the first England player to score a century in a Twenty20 international on Sunday as England beat West Indies by seven wickets on his home ground of Trent Bridge in Nottingham.

This year is shaping up to be the deadliest ever for journalists with 72 killed so far for 2012, the opening of the International Press Institute (IPI) Congress was told today in Trinidad.

Two men died on Saturday afternoon at a mining camp in the Waiamu Backdam, Region 7 after they were crushed by a falling tree even as they attempted to run to safety.

Senior member of the PNCR Lance Carberry says nominations for the position of leader of the party are in and are being processed and the party will make an announcement in one week as to the persons nominated.

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Uruguay’s government plans to start growing marijuana soon after a law legalizing sales of the drug passes Congress, but a ban on selling to foreigners will stop the country becoming a drug tourism hot-spot, officials say.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamist Mohamed Morsy was declared Egypt’s first freely elected president on Sunday, sparking joy among his Muslim Brotherhood supporters on the streets who vowed to continue a struggle to take power from the generals who retain ultimate control.

(Trinidad Guardian)Former prime minister Basdeo Panday says Trinidad and Tobago now has “the biggest Cabinet in the world, per capita.”

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Jack Warner has promised to crack down on crime and return Trinidad and Tobago to a level of normalcy, even if it means bringing back the flying squad and other measures that worked in the past.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s tough-talking Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has urged non-performing public school teachers to leave the education system.

(Barbados Nation) It will take more than an apology and a promise of change from Trinidad and Tobago to appease Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) and other local manufacturers which have been victim to the twin-island republic’s stonewalling of Barbadian goods.

(Trinidad Express) A bar in Cunupia, central Trinidad, was shut down last Friday night after violating the Noise Pollution Control Rules (NPCR) set by the Environmental Management Authority (EMA).

(Trinidad Express) Multi-award winning CNN anchor/correspondent Jim Clancy has covered many armed conflicts in his four decades of journalism.

(Trinidad Express) The creation of four new ministries following the Prime Minister’s Cabinet shake-up last Friday is sending ripples through the Public Service.

(Jamaica Observer) Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams has dubbed imprisoned gangster Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke a coward, adding that he got away with a ‘chicken feed’ sentence recently.

Randy Morris, a suspect in numerous armed robberies, was yesterday shot dead following a daring gunpoint attempted robbery in Regent Street and a dramatic chase through several streets.

A week after PPP executive and former speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran, wrote that corruption is pervasive in Guyana, the ruling party is yet to make a public pronouncement on the matter raising questions as to who runs the show at Freedom House.

An early morning accident along the Mabura Road has left one dead and eight persons injured, three of them seriously when a Route 72 minibus and a pick-up collided head on.

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) have sounded their “profound disappointment” at the re-appointment of Professor Compton Bourne as University Chancellor, saying he has not demonstrated the qualities needed to lead the institution.

HAMILTON, Bermuda,  CMC – Ian Henderson scored 13 of Bermuda’s points, despite being sin-binned, as they maintained their regional supremacy by beating Guyana 18-0 in  yesterday’s Caribbean Rugby Championship final at the National Sports Centre.

Story and photos by David Pappanah Of Guyana’s six towns Rose Hall is the smallest.

The driver of a truck laden with logs that crashed into a sign painter, who was designing a wall at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) two weeks ago, remains on the run, while his victim is in the midst of a painful recovery.

VALENCIA, Spain,  CMC – Championship leader Lewis Hamilton has never won the European Grand Prix but will look to change all this when he starts from second in the grid on Valencia’s street circuit here today.

Almost a year after the physically-challenged Abdul Azeem Haniff was found stuffed  in his septic tank, at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, his family has lost hope that police will find his killers even as they live with constant reminders.

Introduction I will start with a simple but stark statistic. My list shows that nought-point-nought one per cent (0.01%) of the Guyana population owns between 70 and 80 per cent of the private wealth of the country.

There is a paradox at the heart of European policy towards the Caribbean.

Autopsies performed on the bodies of the two men recovered after the mishap in the Puruni River on Monday revealed that they died as a result of asphyxiation due to drowning.

A FIESTY debate has broken out in English cricket over the past few weeks.

Jude Bentley was the winner of the senior category of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Time Trials held yesterday.

DONETSK, (Reuters) – Holders Spain set up a European Championship semi-final with Iberian rivals Portugal after an uninspiring 2-0 win over France yesterday which featured yet another headed goal but prompted boos from a sometimes bored crowd.

(BBC) Ireland’s one-day international against Australia at Stormont was abandoned yesterday  after only 10.4 overs of play because of bad weather.

Three children were reunited with their mother recently, just over two years after they were removed from her mother’s custody because of abuse.

Introduction In my two previous SN columns I have endeavoured to present to readers a basic, but relatively robust macroeconomic accounting framework, from which one could demonstrate how economists would seek, in principle, to account for, or decompose the slippage that has occurred in the government debt to GDP ratio for Guyana over the past five years.

Six years after she had the horrific experience of being doused with a corrosive substance that has left her facially disfigured, 31-year-old Jo-Ann Lynch may soon get justice as the woman behind the attack is believed to have been nabbed in neighbouring Trinidad.

(Reuters) – One of the jurors who convicted Jerry Sandusky on 45 child sex abuse charges said on Saturday that the former Penn State assistant football coach seemed to accept the verdict as a confirmation.

GALLE, (Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara missed out on a double hundred by one run but his team ended the second day of the first test on a high with Pakistan reeling at 48 for five at the close yesterday.

The Speaker and Members of Parliament will next Thursday begin a two-day visit to schools in Regions Five and Six (Berbice) in an effort to “bring Parliament to life for our young people”.

When are two bodies and a hand equal to 45? For Anglican priest, John Peter Bennett the answer was simple.

The National Community Basketball League (NCBL) will shift to Linden this evening once again as the final quarterfinal game between Western Union Central Mackenzie and Kwakwani tips off at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Courts from 19:00hrs.

The 120 heads of state and some 50,000 environmentalists, social activists, and business leaders gathered this week in Brazil for the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development deserve credit for trying to save the planet, but they may be missing the point about the best way to do it.

Trinidad Express Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Friday night described Jack Warner as a man of action and expressed confidence that as the new National Security minister, he would be the best crime-buster.

ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguay’s new president said he believes South American leaders will come to see the legitimacy of a fast impeachment trial that ousted his predecessor from office in two days and prompted criticism in the region and beyond.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Temperamental left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn says his 15 months on the sidelines has not dented his hunger for competitive cricket.

Capsized cargo vessel, Miss Elissa, was shifted some 100 feet further up the Demerara River from its original anchored position during the spring tides early yesterday morning.

It comes with the territory; when you achieve some sort of prominence in the arts, people are naturally curious about the process. 

The PPP has several bills in draft and its Chief Whip in the National Assembly, Gail Teixeira, says that government has always consulted with the opposition on legislation before it is passed.

Dear Editor, The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) members should rethink their position on the call to boycott targeted businesses and rescind such calls.

In his great book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, in writing about the reign of Titus Pius, commented in passing that history was “little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams has good news for women’s tennis – she has no plans to quit the sport and neither, as far as she knows, does sister Venus.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Fourteen mutilated corpses and a threatening message aimed at a drug cartel were found inside a truck in the parking lot of a supermarket in a northern Mexico city, local media reported yesterday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican, stung by communications blunders and mired in a leaks scandal, has hired an American journalist from Fox News and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Barbadian Jonathan Carter says he feels under no pressure to live up to expectations of being an all-rounder, after producing some golden spells during the just concluded unofficial three-Test series against India A.

Continued Problems with the passing of urine You know, there is a bigger and less used word for urination.

Police say that on June 20, 2012, Dwayne McIntosh, 27, and Sylvester Alpin, 20, both

CAIRO (Reuters) – Five hundred days after they overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians will finally have a new president today, the first they have chosen freely and who may well be from the Muslim Brotherhood, which Mubarak and fellow generals spent a lifetime fighting.

Dear Editor, Having followed the ongoing discussions regarding President Ramotar’s threat that he will not assent to any bill that the opposition carries unless it is with the “full agreement of the executive and the full involvement of the executive,” I’d like to state the following as per the Guyana Constitution: a) Article 50 outlines, “The supreme organs of democratic power in Guyana shall be – i) the Parliament; ii) the President; and iii) the Cabinet.”

The police conducted a search on a building at Brutus Street, Agricola, on

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (SKNVibes) – Three young men, including a Guyanese, were Friday charged with the murder of 17-year-old Jakeel Alford whose burnt and dismembered remains were discovered within a 180-foot well in the White Gate area on Thursday, June 14, 2012.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  CMC – Embattled West Indies will wrap up a strife-filled two-month tour of England here today, hoping they can finally break out of their wretched slump with a win in the lone Twenty20 International at Trent Bridge.

Apart from ER Braithwaite, June is also the month in which another Guyanese writer was born. 

ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu phoned world powers yesterday to brief them about the downing of one of Ankara’s planes by Syria as a joint search for the airmen, who were shot down over the Mediterranean, tried to locate them.

Easter Monday last year was a day that changed 31-year-old Niveta Deen’s life when a family outing at a creek on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway turned ugly when she was hit by a car as she attempted to cross the road.

Dear Editor, I would like to assure Mr Lincoln Lewis and all who might read his letter in SN of June 22 captioned ‘The PM has not given the Linden communities and interest groups an opportunity to discuss the electricity issue’ that there is nothing vindictive in electricity reform in Linden.

Last week Mr Ralph Ramkarran caused something of a minor ferment – at least among the political pundits – with his column in the Weekend Mirror, where he called for the government to take action against “pervasive” corruption.

Who will pick this up? Mounds of garbage are almost daily dumped in front of the Indian Monument Garden at Camp Street and North Road.

The police say they conducted a search on a house at

By Iva Wharton Hosororo Secondary School,  despite their 11-0 defeat  to Region One defending champions Port Kaituma yesterday,  are through to today’s fional where they will face Santa Rosa Secondary  at the Settlement Ground, Mabaruma.

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(Jamaica Gleaner) Guyanese  Ivan Noel who has pleaded guilty to importing 21 pounds of cocaine into the island is to be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on June 28.

Less than a year ago thirty-six-year-old Andrea Murray was dumped by the father of her two youngest children via a phone call, and with a view to making herself financially independent she decided to travel into the interior to work as a cook.

Warm, moist air, which is heated by solar radiation, rises vertically near the equator.