Daily Archive: Friday, August 17, 2012

Articles published on Friday, August 17, 2012

Brian Tiwarie sues Walter Willis for $200M over letter

Brian Tiwarie, Managing Director of  BK International has lodged a lawsuit for libel against Walter Willis, Technical Advisor to the Minister of Public Works seeking damages in excess of $200M for a letter authored by Willis on July 18th, 2012 alleging “fraudulent” practices by Tiwarie.

Jamaica defends anti-doping programme

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-The Jamaica Anti Doping Commission (JADCO) has rejected claims by the former chief of the world anti doping agency (WADA), Dick pound, suggesting that the country’s athletes are not being properly tested for drugs.

NAACIE sugar workers strike over pay anomalies

Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) employees who are members of the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) have gone on strike over what they see as significant anomalies in relation to the wages and salaries they are receiving.

Russia’s Pussy Riot found guilty, await sentence

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Three members of a feminist punk band were found guilty today of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for staging an anti-Kremlin protest in a church, in a case that supporters say put President Vladimir Putin’s tolerance of dissent on trial.

Barbados celebrate the capture of the Regional Under-19 three-day title. (Photo courtesy WICB)

Barbados are new three-day champs

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC-Barbados were crowned new kings of the WICB regional under-19 three- day championship yesterday after their match with Guyana ended in draw at the Desmond Haynes Oval.

Ramnaresh Sarwan

Ramotar bats for Sarwan

President Donald Ramotar intends to raise the issue of the continued exclusion of Guyanese star batsman Ramnaresh “Ronnie” Sarwan from the West Indies team at the next session of the CARICOM subcommittee on cricket.

Eon Halls speaking to President Donald Ramotar at a meeting at the Watooka Guest House in Linden yesterday. (GINA photo)

Ramotar apologises to Linden over killings

President Donald Ramotar yesterday made an unannounced visit to Linden, where he offered his regret for the deaths of three men that escalated protests over a hike in the electricity tariffs over the last month into a major crisis for his fledgling administration.

Davenand Nauth

Amputee carpenter dies

Davenand Nauth, the carpenter whose leg was amputated as a result of poor medical care after a road accident, died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he was a patient of the Male Surgical Unit.

Brian Christmas sweeps en route to his century against Leeward Islands. (Photo courtesy WICB)

Powerful batting gives T&T points in stalemate

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Brian Christmas and opener Jeremy Solozano plundered hundreds while captain Vikash Mohan fell just short of three figures, as Trinidad and Tobago produced a fabulous batting effort to gain first innings points over Leeward Islands, in their drawn fifth round match Regional Under-19 three-day Championship.

Off-spinner Kenneth Dember sends down another delivery during his 14-wicket haul. (Photo courtesy WICB)

Gayles save Jamaica from embarrassing defeat

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – A defiant 50-run, seventh wicket stand between Delbert Gayle and Bryan Gayle, earned Jamaica a draw after they seemed headed for certain defeat yesterday, the last day of their clash with Windward Islands.

Region Three PPP councillors getting contracts – AFC

AFC Region Three councillor, Harry Narine Deokinanan says that a number of PPP councillors on the Regional Democratic Council have themselves or their children, been awarded contracts worth millions to construct minor roads and clean trenches and this is against the Code of Conduct but the Regional Chairman says that PPP councillors and/or their children have a right to be awarded contracts within the region.

Ramotar’s trip to Linden is PR stunt

Regional 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon yesterday dismissed President Donald Ramotar’s unannounced visit to Linden as a public relations stunt, saying that he hoped it would not provoke a situation that could derail negotiations to end unrest in the town.

Bolivia 2, Guyana 0

(Boxscore)  Canada scored twice in the second half on Wednesday and dominated Trinidad and Tobago for a 2-0 win in an all-CONCACAF friendly at Central Browards Regional Park in Lauderhill, Florida.

South Africa rally after early losses

LONDON, (Reuters) – A battling half-century from JP Duminy and a test best 46 not out from tailender Vernon Philander led South Africa’s fightback as they closed on 262 for seven on the first day of the third and final test yesterday.

A shocking display of disregard for the victims of rape, incest and other sexual offences

Dear Editor, Nearly 5 years after the launching of wide-ranging and well-attended regional consultations on the Stamp It Out document introduced by the previous Minister of Human Services followed by deliberations for over 9 months by a parliamentary select committee made up of representatives of governmental and opposition parties, the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) was tabled in Parliament and assented to by the then President in May of 2010.

Dumping, unfair competition and effective private sector representation

In a recent interview with this newspaper the new Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ronald Webster said that small local clothing manufacturers concerned over the importation of cheap clothing and what they consider to be the unfair competition that such imports present for local seamstresses and other manufacturers should make their views known to the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association.

‘Not about personal bitterness and negativity’

Dear Editor, I am not surprised at the silence coming from the Ministry of Culture, as well as the Head of the Literary Committee of the organizing body for the Inter-Guianas Cultural Festival, Alim Hosein, with regard to my letter accusing the ministry in general and the Minister in particular of perpetuating a campaign of discrimination.

The short-sightedness of our private sector umbrella organisations

A few days ago, the Executive Director of the Barbados Manufacturers Association (BMA) Bobbi McKay spoke with more than 250 Barbadians from the Diaspora who had returned to the island for a convention to support local manufacturers by acquiring their produce, using it and recommending those products to other friends and relatives residing abroad.

South African police shoot dead striking miners

MARIKANA, South Africa, (Reuters) – South African police opened fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine yesterday, killing at least a dozen men in scenes that evoked comparisons with apartheid-era brutality.

Militants attack major Pakistan air base; 9 killed

KAMRA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Islamist militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons fought their way into one of Pakistan’s largest air bases yesterday, the air force said, in a brazen challenge to the nuclear-armed country’s powerful military.

Legends

Jacques Rogge, the Belgian surgeon who is president of the International Olympic Committee, is probably a very charming man to those who know him well.

Jury fails to agree on sedition charges

(Trinidad Express) After listening to evidence for approximately two months and after deliberating yesterday for about five and a half hours, the jury in the sedition trial of Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr failed to arrive at a unanimous verdict.

New trial for Abu Bakr

(Trinidad Express) After listening to evidence for approximately two months and after deliberating yesterday for about five and a half hours, the jury in the sedition trial of Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr failed to arrive at a unanimous verdict.