Daily Archive: Saturday, July 14, 2012

(Reuters) – Kieron Pollard struck 56 from 70 deliveries to propel West Indies to a 24-run win over New Zealand in the fourth one-day international which clinched the five-match series 3-1.

The high level policemen implicated in the $16M boat scam should be subject to criminal sanctions and not just be allowed to repay the stolen sum, member of the AFC Nigel Hughes says while concluding that the Ministry of Home Affairs has made a mockery of all efforts to stamp out corruption.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Police detectives have now widened their search for Howard Williams, the man alleged to have murdered his common-law wife in Potsdam near Malvern, St.

(WICB) St. John’s, Antigua – The Selection Committee of the West Indies Cricket Board today announced a 12-member WICB President’s XI squad for the three-day, tour match against New Zealand, starting this coming Friday at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground.

Police say investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Marcelio Gladstone, 11 years, of Westminster, Parfait Harmonie, WBD.

(Reuters) Mumbai, Dara Singh, the wrestler-turned-actor best known for his role as Hanuman in the television series ‘Ramayan’, died on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Justice Ivor Archie yesterday challenged judges of the Supreme Court to be bolder when delivering judgments.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government’s draft estimates for 2012 showed that the cost of the building which now houses the Trinidad and Tobago Embassy in Washington DC was US$11million.

(Barbados Nation) ANSA McAL’s top management in Trinidad and Tobago is dissatisfied with the performance of its Barbados companies and has brought down the axe on several of its senior managers.

(Trinidad Express) Former prime minister Patrick Manning is on the road to recovery and it is hoped that he will be well enough to return home by September, says Government Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal.

(Trinidad Express) Three multi-million contracts awarded by the National Maintenance Training and Security Company (MTS) has come under legal scrutiny by Opposition Senator Faris al-Rawi.

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed a prominent anti-Taliban politician and 22 other guests at a wedding reception in the northern Afghan province of Samangan today, officials said.

(Trinidad Express) Local film producer Ellis Briggs has claimed he was made a fall guy by the US based company responsible for Nicki Minaj’s video shoot in Trinidad and Tobago on July 4.

(Trinidad Express) A Chinese businesswoman was shot and killed by bandits who robbed her restaurant and bar in Cunupia on Thursday night.

The provision of school lunches has driven up attendance rates as well as raised performance and attentiveness in the hinterland, where an improvement in the overall nutritional diet of the more than 16,000 children benefiting has also been noticed, according to a recent World Bank assisted study.

Team Guyana, which reported to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) last week in New York, was unhappy at the manner in which questions were posed by committee members and their reliance on “alternative sources” and the country will shortly lodge an official complaint.

Main opposition APNU yesterday accused the government of failing to lay the groundwork for the holding of long overdue local government elections, while calling the administration to halt its continuing campaign to impose partisan Interim Management Committees (IMCs) on communities.

The Ireng/Sawariwau Neigh-bourhood Democratic Coun-cil (NDC) was dissolved yesterday morning and an Interim Management Com-mittee (IMC) will be installed, just over a month after Lethem residents pro-tested against the move.

Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc created history in Linden yesterday when the Dust Collector System for Kiln #14 was put into full operation, the first for a bauxite company there and after years of complaints by residents of the town about medical problems caused by the emissions.

By Mandy Thompson The Long Creek sorrel project received an additional boost yesterday when Dr Faith Harding received over 5,000 plants from the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) to be planted on the 30-acre farm.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for the man alleged to have shot and killed McDoom, East Bank Demerara resident Abiola Eddie-Barker last month, after she intervened in a row he had with her son over a game bird.

A woman is claiming that four armed police officers attached to the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam beat her up in her home and left her with a broken left hand.

A popular Linden technician met a tragic end yesterday afternoon when he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding and crashed into several poles along a roadway at Amelia’s Ward, in the mining town.

A police stop and search netted 37 kilograms of compressed marijuana at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice.

Five gunmen attacked and robbed a Saman Street, Guyhoc Park resident last evening and police later launched a search for the getaway car.

Omesh Chaitram was yesterday charged with the murder of fellow vagrant Wendell Freso, whom he is accused of stabbing to death in a row over money.

Saying that the Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc is partly responsible for the government’s decision to rollback the electricity subsidy in Linden, resulting in higher tariffs, the AFC has said that the company must be held accountable.

The ‘Closer’ has done it again. With an unprecedented silver medal run, Guyanese sprint phenom Kadecia Baird lived up to her uncanny nickname and shut the  curtains on her country’s foray  at the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships with aplomb.

Timehri Neighbourhood Market vendors are still at loggerheads with the government’s decision to have them relocated to facilitate the road expansion project and they have pointed to impending danger and serious health violations at the new site.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment plans to implement a ticket system to deal with delinquent garbage disposers and wants to establish an “environmental court,” according to Minister Robert Persaud.

It might not be gold but overseas-based sprinter’s Kadecia Baird silver medal run at the World Junior Championships yesterday in Barcelona, Spain was the next best thing.

Part 3 As indicated in my column last Sunday, this week I will consider the third item listed under the second of the four groupings that I have proposed for categorizing the challenges and threats facing near to medium term macroeconomic stability in Guyana (this item is termed big government).

Two University of Guyana lecturers will pursue advanced studies in the United Kingdom from September this year as part of the package they were awarded under the 2012 Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan.

After weeks of competition from 154 teams, Waramadong Secondary, Region Seven Champions and Wismar-Christianburg are through to the final of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition.

Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated (FFTP) donated two electronic wheelchairs to Simone Poole and Stacy Johnson, of the National Commission on Disability and the Ptomely Reid Rehabilitation Centre, respectively, on Thursday.

By Jairo Rodrigues If you like the theatre, then Randolph Critchlow wouldn’t be an unfamiliar name to you.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – For the second time in four days, West Indies will try to steady their nerves as they chase a series-clinching lead in the fourth game of the five-match One-Day International series against New Zealand here today.

A man who was reported to police for allegedly threatening his sister was yesterday arraigned on weapons charges after police accused him of having an unlicensed gun and ammunition in his possession when they found him.

If you look out a window now, chances are that you will notice someone’s head looking a little like a cockatoo bird.

Mark McLean, who said he was framed on a narcotic-trafficking charge, was yesterday remanded to prison after a court heard that the drugs were found in the crotch of his pants.

Andre Lopes was among the winners on Thusrday’s opening night of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Open lawn tennis tournament Thursday evening at the GBTI Recreational Centre Bel Air.

Hi Everyone, I remember a time when dessert was a very simple affair – right out of a box and sometimes a can or tub.

The year was 1984, the ground –  Albion Sports Complex and the Guyana opening batting pair ended up pulverizing the Leeward Islands bowling attack for a mammoth 202-run first innings partnership.

The Scene Cartoon

The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday warned that serious action will be taken against anyone caught vandalizing telephone cables.

By Iva Wharton Guyana’s netball team left yesterday for Trinidad and Tobago to compete in the Americas Federation of Netball Association (AFNA) tournament with Coach Lavern Fraser–Thomas stating that she was not satisfied with their preparation.

Soca icon Machel Montano will perform live at the Guyana National Stadium on July 28 when Pulse Entertainers will host the much anticipated ‘Pulse Summer Fete’ concert.

Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn has said that although his ministry had last year engaged itself in some restoration work at Le Repentir Cemetery, maintenance is not its responsibility.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Works Robeson Benn has claimed that the design/build tender by the Chinese contractor for the new Timehri Airport was above board, and that the final price was arrived at after serious negotiations between the contractor and himself ably supported by the ministry’s engineers.

As part of her 15th anniversary in fashion celebration, Sonia Noel hosts an ‘open house’ at her Barr Street, Kitty establishment during which time she will be on hand for one-on-one sessions with clients.

Dear Editor, Both SN and KN reported in their July 13 editions that senior police officers were involved in the boat scam. 

An employee of the Mabaruma Power Station sustained injuries to his left leg and shoulder, when an electric post he was working on fell on him on Thursday evening at Brooms Hill, Mabaruma.

Jumbo Jets Auto Sales sixth annual Guyana Horse Race Meet is set for August 26th at the Port Mourant Race track, Corentyne, Berbice and over 30 horses are set to compete for the first prize of $3 million.

Furniture fashion returns to Courts Main Street next Friday, July 20, at 5 pm.

Dear Editor, I wish to respectfully submit that the notion that the leadership of APNU, however derived, should not be dissolved into the leadership of the PNCR.

Caribbean U-15 silver medalist, Chelsea Edghill, began her quest for regional honours at the Latin American Cadet Junior Table Tennis Championships on a strong note by reaching the last 16.

(EUR) Not that he’s biased or anything, but producer Swizz Beatz says that just two years into motherhood, his wife Alicia Keys is already a pro, and doesn’t really need any advice about how to be a great mother to their son, 21-month-old Egypt Daoud.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa/ CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Russell Wasendorf Sr, arrested yesterday, confessed to a 20-year fraud at his now-bankrupt Iowa brokerage, saying business troubles and his “big” ego left him no choice: “So I cheated.”

The Twenty-Third Meeting of the CARICOM Council on Human and Social Development (COHSOD XXIII) this week in Georgetown decided that it will focus on plugging the gaps in existing legislation, to guarantee mandatory reporting of sexual abuse and enforce full protection for the region’s children.

The semi-finals of the Inter-Ministry/ Corporation seven-a-side football competition will take place from 6pm today at the Banks DIH Thirst Park Ground along with two exhibition games.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to echo the sentiments of my cousin Nicholas Fraser in his letter titled ‘Swimming coaches should be selected on the basis of established criteria’ which was printed in the Stabroek News dated July 10.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – U.N. observers in Syria described an attack on a village in the Hama region in which about 220 people were reported killed as part of a continuing Syrian air force operation, the U.N.

(Billboard) – After giving fans a taste of his fifth studio album, ‘R.E.D.’,

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has announced the names of the players for the National Sevens Squad which will commence practice matches from today in preparation for the International Rugby Board 2013 Rugby World Cup Regional Qualifier and NACRA 2012 Caribbean Championships.

Four men accused of trafficking ganja were each released on $75,000 bail at the New Amsterdam Court yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez denied yesterday that Venezuela was a threat to anyone, after U.S.

Dear Editor, The grim reports of alleged irregularities in relation to major projects as well as procurement have cost these projects legitimacy with great sections of the populace.

A farmer was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, on a charge that he unlawfully and maliciously wounded another man.

Dear Editor, I read Anthea Spencer’s letter ‘GWI needs to do more to stop the wastage of water’ yesterday in your letters to the editor section, and thought of letting Guyana Water Inc know through this medium that information was given several times to its officials at Melanie on the East Coast of Demerara that there is water wastage from a burst or broken water main on the East Coast, at LBI.

(EUR) The bank accounts of Rihanna and Lil Wayne have earned them plum spots on the newest Forbes list, which tracks the highest-paid stars under age 30.

(Reuters) – A former U.S. federal immigration intelligence director who lured four subordinates into fraudulently claiming more than $500,000 in fake expense and pay claims was sentenced to 20 months in prison yesterday, authorities said.

National squash coach Carl Ince and the Guyana Squash Association will have the services of 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games squash gold medalist Nicolette Fernandes to assist with the association’s Summer Camp and the After School programme.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says it views as “unprofessional, very unfortunate and grossly unfair” a claim by head of the Traffic Division, Senior Superintendent of Police Radcliffe Lewis, that corruption appears to be a way of life within the organisation.

Carly Rae Jepsen tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth week with “Call Me Maybe,” while Nicki Minaj’s “Starships” has logged its first 21 weeks in the top 10, establishing a new record.

The National Community Basketball League (NCBL) continues this weekend after a short break from the tournament to accommodate the international all-star weekend.

Dear Editor, WPA wishes to record its strong disappointment at Kaieteur News’ report on the picketing exercise held in solidarity with the people of Linden in front of the Office of the President on Thursday July 12, 2012.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The biggest U.S. civil rights group’s two-month-old decision to support same-sex marriage has opened rifts at its convention in Houston this week, pitting religious conservatives against political progressives.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The state will invest an extra US$ 70 million in expanding and modernizing the J.A.

Politikles

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell has welcomed news that Russian aluminium giant UC Rusal has not made a decision to close its Ewarton bauxite plant in St Catherine.

The somewhat underwhelming return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party  (PRI), with less than 40% of the vote in Mexico’s recent elections, is one measure of the jostling and competitive political culture that has emerged since the party lost its seventy-year lock on government in the 2000 elections.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle should reprimand the person(s) responsible for the offensive editorial ‘Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country’ which appeared in that newspaper  on July 2.

Recently, a friend posted on Facebook that she loved her life.

(Billboard) – Less than a day after it was announced that Steven Tyler would be leaving his gig as a judge on “American Idol” — to focus on his music and his band, Aerosmith — People.com

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) has postponed today’s scheduled matches of the Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup first division and NBS limited overs due to the heavy rainfall being experienced presently.

Twenty-four children, between the ages of five and 18, from the Wismar Visually Impaired Unit, were yesterday tested and prescribed with eyeglasses at Dr.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A small cargo ship sailed into Havana Bay yesterday with the first maritime shipment from Miami to Cuba in 50 years.