Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 1, 2012

(WICB) Kingston, Jamaica – Darren Sammy is confident his team can defeat New Zealand in the second Digicel Test match and win the two-match Digicel Test Series.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A technology breakdown at a major trading firm roiled the prices of 140 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange today, undermining fragile investor confidence in the stability of U.S.

Police say that at about 1830h yesterday, Brazilian miner Paulo Carvalho Silva, 55 years, of Boa Vista, Brazil, was driving an ATV along the trail at Puruni Backdam, Mazaruni, when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Four years ago, Yohan Blake was just out of school and watched at home in Jamaica as Usain Bolt set the sporting world alight at the Beijing Olympics.

HAMPTON COURT, England, (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins basked in glory, and a bit of sun, as Britain’s most decorated Olympian after he hammered the field in awe-inspiring fashion to claim the London Games cycling time trial on Wednesday.

A moving funeral service and viewing took place at the Square of the Revolution today for Shemroy Bouyea, Allan Lewis and Ron Somerset – the three shooting victims of the Linden electricity uprising as about 2,000 persons paid their respects and called for justice.

(Barbados Nation) LONDON – It’s all over for Bradley Ally at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Senior citizens who receive their old-age pension from the Central Old-Age Pension Fund (AOV) no longer have to go through the annual registration and requirement to submit a Proof of Life document now that the Fund and the Central Bureau for Population Registry (CBB) have matched their data banks.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — The revenue service has sent tax assessment forms en masse to entrepreneurs in the gold mining industry, especially those that have put up a lucrative business.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Scrap-metal dealers, who have been in limbo for the last several months, were left fuming on Monday as the Government unveiled tough new regulations for the trade, but left the partial ban in place.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Matthews Lane strongman Donald ‘Zeeks’ Phipps has won his suit against the Government to recover more than J$24 million which went missing after it was seized by the police from his home in Havendale, St Andrew, in May 2005.

(Jamaica Gleaner) LONDON, England World 100m champion Yohan Blake says he is confident of his chances to win both the 100m and 200m here at the Olympic Games in London.

ALEPPO, Syria,  (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad told his troops today that their battle against rebels would determine Syria’s fate but his written message gave no clues to his whereabouts two weeks after a bomb attack hit his inner circle.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – American swimmer Michael Phelps is “probably not” the greatest Olympic champion of all time, despite winning a record total of 19 medals, London 2012 Games chief Sebastian Coe said today.

(Reuters) – New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori will miss the second test against West Indies starting on Thursday in Kingston with a groin strain, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday.

A Bel Air Village businessman was murdered last night by three men who turned up at his home posing as Customs officers.

Following a meeting with President Donald Ramotar yesterday, Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon reported that there has been some progress towards resolving the unrest in Linden, where protests have been ongoing over the last two weeks.

The AFC yesterday said its efforts to have a UK-based ballistics expert flown to Guyana to observe the tests of fragments extracted from the bodies of the three slain Linden protestors is in limbo as officials are now asking that he get a work permit.

The three Linden protestors who were shot dead by police two Wednesdays ago will be buried today at Bamia, Linden/Soesdyke Highway but not before their bodies are taken to the Square of the Revolution in Georgetown and the Wismar/Mackenzie bridge in Linden.

From Orin Gordon in London Britany  van Lange, 15, the baby of the Guyana team, takes to the pool today (Wednesday) to try to reverse a couple of early defeats for Team Guyana at the 2012 Olympics in London.

Four stores in three buildings on the northern side of Regent Street between Camp and Alexander streets were gutted by fire yesterday morning leaving millions of dollars in damage and the owner of one them collapsed at the scene and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

The senior division final of the Noble House Goals Galore indoor hockey tournament could be described as munity as the Hikers Cadets upstaged the Hikers Generals in a highly charged match at the National Gymnasium Sunday evening.

The AFC will hold its biennial congress this Saturday while the PPP has not yet decided on a date for its own which was postponed from last year.

The UN committee dealing with women’s matters has expressed concern about the “high prevalence“ of violence against women here, the disadvantaged state of those in the hinterland and rural areas and the general lack of data which prevents the assessing of trends.

A man accused of gun-butting and placing a gun in the mouth of a  woman with whom he shares a relationship was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

By Emmerson Campbell The recent Hugh Ross Classic Bodybuilding and Fitness Show at the National Cultural Centre “was very successful” and it was particularly encouraging to see females are coming out again, says internationally acclaimed bodybuilder, US-based Guyanese Hugh Ross.

A La Penitence resident, who allegedly slapped his reputed wife in the presence of their four-year-old child, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Even as the opposition condemns the government’s removal of some Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC), the ministry of local government and regional development has gone ahead and replaced personnel and last week advertised for more overseers.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – From Thomas Burke’s 12-second run to win the first race in 1896 to Usain Bolt’s stunning 9.69 dance in 2008, the men’s 100 metres final has always been the jewel in the crown – not just of athletics but of the entire Olympic Games.

The German government on Friday presented a $6M grant to the St Francis Community Developers for a guest house at the Corentyne, Berbice community.

A 24-year-old Pomeroon man was tied up and chopped to death on Sunday last after he was at a home consuming alcohol with a group of men and decided to leave with his generator that was supplying the house with electricity.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-Veteran Shriv Chanderpaul says he is anxious to improve his game when West Indies face New Zealand in the second and final cricket test at Sabina Park Jamaica tomorrow.

Anthony Downes retained his men’s singles title while Carol Humphrey was crowned women’s champ as the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) lawn tennis tournament ended Sunday at the GBTI Recreational Centre courts.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – China are guaranteed to win their seventh successive women’s table tennis gold medal after their top two players shrugged off the pressure of expectation back home to win their semi-finals, before warning the world this is the start of a new generation.

In a return friendly encounter between Guyana and Suriname, a Suriname junior draughts team is set to arrive  tomorrow while their senior team arrives Saturday for a Goodwill series against their local counterparts.

Twenty-three-year-old  Mervin Benjamin who was reportedly speared on Saturday night by his uncle remains in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud is assuring that there are plans for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set up an air quality monitoring protocol in Linden that will utilise officers from the agency.

The Paramakatoi, Region Eight community has welcomed the construction of a primary school as work moves apace on the $80.5M structure.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Michael Phelps won the right to call himself the greatest Olympian of all time when the U.S.

The Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana (AOAG) elected a new Board of Directors at its AGM held on Sunday.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is promising to invest more in the Sagicor High Performance Centre (SHPC) after one of its first graduates performed impressively during the just ended first test match between West Indies and New Zealand in Antigua.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – The head of the rebel Free Syrian Army attacked yesterday the formation of a new political coalition outside Syria that plans to establish a transitional government, calling its leaders opportunists who seek to divide the opposition and benefit from the rebels’ gains.

LONDON, CMC – Olympic silver medallist Kerron Stewart has been nowhere close to her best for the last two years but the determined Jamaican says she will not let that discourage her from going for gold when the track and field segment opens later this week.

Ulric Michael, one of the Linden protestors shot and wounded by the police during protest action, has been transferred from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital to the High Dependency Unit (HDU) and is said to be in a better condition.

Kishan Nanand, 15, who almost drowned at the Splashmin’s Resort on July 22, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday and is said to be improving quickly.

Dear Editor, I have noted in the local media and social networks, reference being made to my employment and salary at the Office of the President.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – On his first foreign trip since undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba earlier this year, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hailed his country’s welcome by fellow South American leaders into a troubled regional trade bloc yesterday.

PANAMA CITY, Panama, CMC-England and Liverpool legend, John Barnes, says the number of Caribbean footballers playing on the world stage is increasing.

Dear Editor, I wish to share a recent experience that shocked and saddened. 

The Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana (AOAG) says that Liat Airlines Line Engineer Dorian Nicholas has been announced as the 2012 scholarship winner to the Airworthiness course conducted by the International Federation of Airworthiness (IFA) in London.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Grids supplying electricity to half of India’s 1.2 billion people collapsed yesterday, trapping coal miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout in as many days.

Dear Editor, The Linden killings came on the heel of the following actions by the PPP since the November 2011 election: (1) the PPP accused the PNC of rigging the election when the PPP controlled the election machinery; (2) the PPP’s mouthpiece, the Guyana Chronicle, published a racist editorial which enraged Africans throughout Guyana; (3) the PPP bigwigs never apologized for the editorial; (4) some PPP persons sought to defend it as factual; (4) the PPP did not have heavily armed forces at a sugar workers’ protest in Albion that started before Linden, but it did so for Linden; (5) a top PPP leader stated before the election that no Africans were qualified for ambassadorial posts; (6) the PPP failed to listen to Lindeners on the tariff issue; (7) the PPP’s press release shortly after the Linden killings was boorish, inappropriate and uncaring; and (8) the PPP knew the protests were planned for only five days and that a restrained approach was preferable.

MINSK,  (Reuters) – Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko yesterday sacked his air defence chief and the head of the border guards for failing to stop a Swedish plane drop hundreds of teddy bears over the hardline state in a pro-democracy stunt.

One hundred and sixty five students have graduated from this year’s Republic Bank RightStart Pan Minors Literacy Programme, which is part of the bank’s continued efforts to keep steel pan music in Guyana alive.

(Trinidad Express) Com-missioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs and Deputy Commis-sioner of Police Jack Ewatski have tendered their resignations which will take effect on August 7, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced on Monday night.

Dear Editor, The Linden killings came on the heel of the following actions by the PPP since the November 2011 election: (1) the PPP accused the PNC of rigging the election when the PPP controlled the election machinery; (2) the PPP’s mouthpiece, the Guyana Chronicle, published a racist editorial which enraged Africans throughout Guyana; (3) the PPP bigwigs never apologized for the editorial; (4) some PPP persons sought to defend it as factual; (4) the PPP did not have heavily armed forces at a sugar workers’ protest in Albion that started before Linden, but it did so for Linden; (5) a top PPP leader stated before the election that no Africans were qualified for ambassadorial posts; (6) the PPP failed to listen to Lindeners on the tariff issue; (7) the PPP’s press release shortly after the Linden killings was boorish, inappropriate and uncaring; and (8) the PPP knew the protests were planned for only five days and that a restrained approach was preferable.

A New Amsterdam Prison inmate found with a quantity of unlawful drugs on Monday was on Monday fined $6,000 with an alternative of serving two extra weeks in prison.

Dear Editor, At the end of his inglorious and disastrous period as leader of the People’s National Congress Robert Corbin needs to cover up and camouflage his failed leadership of the party by scape-goating me and others.

(Barbados Nation) LIAT Airline has a new chief executive officer. He is Captain Ian Arthur Brunton.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica said yesterday it had dismissed a junior-level minister after she appeared in a video posted online wearing only her underwear and delivering flirtatious messages.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-Former Prime Minister Dr.Keith Mitchell is calling on the West Indies Cricket Board to introduce a multiple captain system for the various formats of the game.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top diplomat in Nairobi was killed at her home by three intruders and Kenyan police believe a struggle for power at the embassy was the motive, they said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I endorse the view expressed in letter by Quado Vancooten ‘We need a new bridge across the Demerara River‘ (SN Jul 26).

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Barbados wrapped up the Regional Under-15 title in anticlimactic circumstances after the final day of the Championship was washed out without a ball bowled here yesterday.

The Berbice Male Action Network (BeMan) is advocating that persons “Stand Up, Speak Out and Keep Violence Out of our Society” at its public march and rally set for August 11.

Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo on Monday sentenced a Stanleytown man to six months imprisonment, after he was found guilty of snatching a gold chain from a lad.

In his defence to demands by the opposition that he should resign over the police action at Linden that killed three innocent protestors, the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr.

(Trinidad Express) Com-missioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs and Deputy Commissioner of Police Jack Ewatski have tendered their resignations which will take effect on August 7, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced on Monday night.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Brazil and Ecuador have agreed to help Haiti set up a new army that will eventually replace the U.N.

As seems to have become almost normal now, the approach of the American elections has produced a necessity for candidates to demonstrate their loyalty to the cause of Israel in the continuing encounters with which that country is faced, or has involved itself, in the Middle East.

(Trinidad Express) The tight-knit community of Fishing Pond, Sangre Grande was thrown into mourning yesterday when three men who lived mere metres away from each other were killed instantly when their car slammed into a lamp post along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, Wallerfield.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police (CoP) Dr Dwayne Gibbs yesterday said he was not pressured by National Security Minister Jack Warner or anyone to resign and has done it of his own volition.

A Bel Air Village businessman was murdered last evening by three men who turned up at his home posing as Customs officers.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The World Badminton Federation charged eight female players with misconduct on Wednesday after four Olympic doubles teams had attempted to “throw” matches to secure a more favourable draw later in the tournament.