Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 10, 2012

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Reggae immortal Bob Marley has joined Barack Obama and Elvis Presley in the elite club of those who have biological species named in their honour.

Miners at a special meeting this afternoon declared no confidence in Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud following intense exchanges on the ministry’s decision to halt the processing of river claims.

The police say that at about 1015h today the body of Khemraj Dass, 47 years of Bella Dam, Pouderoyen, WBD, was found in the vicinity of the koker at Wales, WBD.

The police are investigating the murder of Wendell Freso called `Country’, 35 years of Yarrow Dam, Ruimveldt, which occurred at about 0400h today at Alexander Street, Lacytown, Georgetown.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Secretary Anand Sanasie was today formally charged with perjury, for allegedly falsifying an affidavit that was part of a High Court case.

Repeated requests from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment for a status update on the drilling campaign of Repsol’s exploratory operation at Jaguar have been futile.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc today said that as a precautionary measure, the Onverwagt Power Station was shut down at 09:10 hours yesterday due to unsafe water levels resulting from heavy and persistent rainfall along with the high tide.  

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A cholera outbreak in Cuba blamed for at least three deaths has been mostly contained so far to the eastern city of Manzanillo and surrounding towns, with just a few scattered cases confirmed elsewhere in the country, a public health official told Reuters today.

(de Ware Tijd) SIPALIWINI – Police commander Soenieldath Sanchit of Apoera concludes that crime is worsening in Washabo, Section and Apoera.

(de Ware Tijd) SIPALIWINI – “We will never accept garimpeiros (illegal Brazilian gold miners) polluting our river with mercury.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley says the independence of the office of the Commissioner of Police is now under threat.

(Trinidad Express) Environmental Management Authority CEO, Dr Joth Singh, said yesterday only a few hundred sea turtle eggs and hatchlings were lost during remedial works to halt massive erosion of the beach front by the Grande Riviere River.

(Trinidad Express) A pilot project aimed at providing an opportunity for non-violent drug dependent offenders to be rehabilitated, as an alternative to immediate incarceration when convicted, is expected to be rolled out in September.

(Trinidad Express) The State has been ordered to pay more than TT$10 million in compensation to persons who, between September 16, 2005 and May 31, 2012, took legal action against the State after being assaulted and battered by police or prisons officers.

(Trinidad Express) Government did not tell the truth when Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced the proposal for a phased withdrawal from the Privy Council earlier this year.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s Ehud Olmert was acquitted of major corruption charges yesterday but convicted of breach of trust, a lesser offence, in what was widely seen as a stunning victory for the former prime minister.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Delivering its first sentence, the International Criminal Court jailed Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for 14 years today for recruiting child soldiers.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs said yesterday the failure of key stakeholders to work together had an impact on the escalating crime rate.

(Trinidad Express) A man known among members of the local entertainment fraternity has defrauded hip-hop artiste Trinidad-born Nicki Minaj and the producers of her music video “Pound the Alarm” which was filmed here last week.

There is growing concern about the alarming levels of violence, particularly sexual violence, against the region’s children and youth and the vexing issue will be addressed here today and tomorrow at the meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD).

The Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA) is being called upon to give its opinion on the recent appointment of Gitanjali Singh, wife of Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh to the position of Audit Director.

Some garbage collectors have been demanding money from residents for collection and city councillors yesterday urged swift action to clamp down on the situation.

A Police Constable is now under close arrest after he was found yesterday in the bedroom of a 13-year-old girl.

Government and opposition have made little headway in the resumption of tripartite talks, over a month since the last engagement.

In the midst of a crackdown by police on the use of mag rims on minibuses, operators say the accessory is about stability, not style.

Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie was yesterday arrested and charged with perjury by the Guyana Police Force.

President Donald Ramotar has not yet met former PPP executive, Ralph Ramkarran on his resignation from the party but plans to do so soon.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) secretary Anand Sanasie, who was yesterday charged by the Guyana Police Force with perjury,   last night told Stabroek Sport that he was being harassed.

THE VALLEY, Anguilla, CMC – Edwige Belair, a 19-year-old Marie-Galante representing the VGC Cycling Club of St Maarten, won the 13th regional John Thomas Memorial Classic race here Sunday.

(ESPNcricinfo) Tatenda Taibu, the Zimbabwe wicketkeeper-batsman, has announced his retirement, stating that he wants to focus on working for the church.

The body of Kemraj Dass, suspected to have been brutally killed by a mate aboard a tug and dumped into the river, is yet to be recovered but his relatives are not giving up hope.

The Guyana Police Force has recorded a drop in serious crimes up to the end of June.

BESANCON, France, (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins rode “”probably my best ever time trial” in the ninth stage of the Tour de France yesterday but said it was too early to consider the race as won.

KANDY, (Reuters) – Persistent rain washed out the second day’s play in the third and final test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Pallekele Stadium yesterday.

No arrests have been made in the murder of Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) farmer Bhim Narine Ramanand, whose lifeless body was discovered at his home on Sunday morning.

A Guyanese businessman is among three persons who were injured during a vehicular accident in Nickerie, Suriname yesterday morning.

Marian Academy lost the wrong game to end their undefeated streak in the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) when they fell to the much superior Kwakwani team last Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) 46-66.

Dear Editor, One week ago, I visited the cemetery for a close relative’s interment.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – The West Indies team has declared  tomorrow “Runako Morton Day”, as they pay tribute to the late West Indies batsman who died in a car accident last March.

Andre Huntley, a 23-year-old seasonal labourer,  of Bent Street, Wortmanville, was yesterday brought before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, and charged with possession of narcotics.

Considerable progress has been made in the Guyana-Norway forest partnership but the sloth of the funding mechanism is now the bigger challenge, according to a report prepared by the Office of Climate Change (OCC).

Dear Editor, In the late ’70s as Coroner in the twin island state of St Kitts-Nevis an inquest was held by me into the shooting death of a civilian by two members of the police force.

By Emmerson Campbell After capturing the local featherweight title in destructive fashion last month, Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell will return to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to headline this month’s 25th edition of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Fight Night Pro Am card.

Guyana’s lone qualifier for the Latin American junior table tennis championships Chelsea Edghill along with her coach Idi Lewis will depart Guyana today for Mexico where Edghill will participate in the July 10-15 championships.

A diaspora unit has been established in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President Donald Ramotar has urged Guyana’s diplomats to tap into the resources, skills and influence of Guyanese overseas to assist in the development of the country.

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent KN Sunday editorial, titled ‘Higher education at UG?’

Dear Editor, In the midst of the ongoing debate or discussion over the appointment of the Finance Minister’s wife, Mrs Gitanjali Singh, as Audit Director in the Auditor General’s office, we have HPS, Dr Roger Luncheon, saying there is “no conflict of interest in [the] appointment of Audit Director” (SN, July 8), even though the fact stares him in the face the same way pervasive corruption does, yet he is in denial about it.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – UN peace envoy Kofi Annan said he and President Bashar al-Assad agreed yesterday on an approach to Syria’s conflict that he would now take to the opposition, and flew on to Iran for talks with the main regional ally of Damascus.

A number of social and political activists yesterday gathered at the Square of the Revolution and burned several copies of the Guyana Chronicle in protest at an editorial the newspaper published on July 2, which has been deemed dangerous and racist, captioned ‘Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country’.

When Brianna Rodrigues, 11, was preparing to sit this year’s National Grade Six assessment, she knew that “success comes with hard work.”

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – As expected, Test batsman Kraigg Brathwaite has been appointed captain of an experienced 15-man Under-19 West Indies squad for the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup scheduled for Australia next month.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Mexico’s western state of Sinaloa yesterday, sparking a shoot-out in which seven officers and four assailants were killed, officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sudan and South Sudan are playing a dangerous economic version of Russian roulette that threatens the success of both countries, the top US official for the region said on the first anniversary of South Sudan’s independence.

 By Emmerson Campbell     The 36th annual ‘Teach Them Young’ Cycling Summer Programme which is sponsored by the National Sports Commission (NSC) and conducted by National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed commenced yesterday at the National Park.

There has been a 30% reduction in road fatalities for the year up to June month end, compared with the same period last year, police reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, As I congratulate your Sunday leader-writer on yesterday’s wise and necessary editorial, I have to add a meditation on the issue, personal and sentimental, maybe, but from our shared patriotism.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared himself fully recovered from cancer yesterday, three months before an election in which he is seeking another six-year term.

Dear Editor, Recently I was made aware of a decision by the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) that baffles me on many fronts, and is a terrible precedent in terms of Olympic coach selection.

A 56-year-old woman accused of assaulting her niece was yesterday placed on $10,000 bail after appearing before Magistrate Hazel-Octive Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

This mound of dirt, which has been sitting on Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge for a while now, is a traffic hazard to those using the busy road.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of hardline religious groups gathered in the Pakistani capital yesterday to protest their government’s decision to re-open supply lines for US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan.

By Iva Wharton And then there were eight. From a whopping 154 four teams that entered this year’s Digicel Schools football  championships only eight teams are left standing and will be battling for the four coveted semi-final spots when the quarter-finals takes place tomorrow at various venues.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril took an early lead in Libya’s national assembly election, according to partial tallies released yesterday that pointed to a weaker than expected showing for Islamist parties.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle editorial (July 2) characterizes the racial enmity which has been destroying the cohesion of our diverse nation and it recklessly analyses our ethnic differences in irreconcilable terms.

Holding the fastest junior female 400 metres time ever recorded on American soil by a high school runner, overseas-based sprinter Kadecia Baird will don Guyana colors in an attempt to capture this country’s first World Junior medal.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – India has completed the 2009 order to deliver three Dhruv helicopters for Suriname’s army.

Three scholarship students from Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN), the Hindu Secondary School at Cornelia, West Coast Demerara, have returned home after graduating with degrees from colleges in the United States.

Guyana’s representative, Soyini Fraser, on Saturday evening won the Miss United Nations 2012 pageant which was hosted in Miami, Florida, USA.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column Today’s column, written in response to the dangerous and hateful editorial (the Roman Catholic Church was right to call it reckless) that appeared in the July 2nd edition of the Guyana Chronicle with the title “Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country,” and which sought to portray African-Guyanese as pathologically violent with an ingrained hatred of Indian-Guyanese and mindlessly manipulated by opposition politicians (cannon fodder was the term used), has been one of the more difficult columns I have had to write in recent years.

Politikles

KRYMSK, Russia (Reuters) – The Russian government accused local authorities yesterday of mishandling floods that killed 171 people near the Black Sea, hoping to deflect public anger over the high death toll and devastation from President Vladimir Putin.

It took the Egyptian military establishment just over sixteen months to restore itself at the apex of the country’s political ladder.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board said  yesterday it hoped to have a new chief executive in place before current CEO Ernest Hilaire vacated his post in September.

Dear Editor, An editorial in the Guyana Chronicle, dated July 3, 2012, elicited a fierce public reaction.

Today’s Classic Tuesdays film, Anne Frank: The Whole Story will be aired from 6 pm at Castellani House, Vlissengen Road to mark the 65th anniversary of the first publication of Anne Frank’s diaries.

Residents of Versailles on the West Coast Demerara were plunged into darkness after a vehicle crashed into this utility pole on the Public Road around 3 am on Sunday.

(Trinidad Newsday) The fraud which affected Auto-mated Banking Machines (ABM) at commercial banks across the country is believed to have regional and international involvement.