Daily Archive: Monday, September 10, 2012

Articles published on Monday, September 10, 2012

Venezuela tribe denies Amazon massacre

SIERRA DE PARIMA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Indigenous Yanomami villagers at the center of an investigation into a possible massacre deep in the Amazon jungle have told visiting journalists and government officials that no killings took place.

Jamaica Gov’t rejects Mugabe attack

(Jamaica Gleaner) A diplomatic stand-off between Jamaica and Zimbabwe seems to be bubbling following recent comments attributed to the president of the African country, Robert Mugabe, who has been quoted as labelling Jamaican men “drunkards and perennially hooked on marijuana”.

The building showing the scorched section

Croal St fire was arson

Arson caused Saturday night’s fire at the Jainarine Singh Building on Croal Street according to Fire Chief Marlon Gentle who yesterday said that fire investigators found a burnt gasoline bottle which still had some gasoline inside and a broken glass bottle that is believed to have been used to start the fire.

Jagdeo declines comment on real estate controversy

By Johann Earle In Jeju, South Korea Former President Bharrat Jagdeo has declined to respond to the ongoing controversy surrounding his acquisition of two properties in a relatively short time and the uncapped nature of his benefits and other facilities which have been hot button topics for the opposition and other observers in recent days, saying that he will break his silence on the matter when he returns home.

Health workers get training on disease outbreaks

The Ministry of Health, Pan American Health Organisa-tion/World Health Organisa-tion (PAHO/WHO) and the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) last week hosted a three-day workshop with health care workers aimed at improving their skills in investigating and controlling disease outbreaks.

Tareq al-Hashemi

Iraq fugitive VP sentenced to hang for death squads

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Car bombs tore through mainly Shi’ite Baghdad districts yesterday after Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, as more than 100 people were killed across the country in one of the bloodiest days this year.

Leslie Black

Morgan disenfranchised by the AAG once again

The window of opportunity of Alika Morgan’s promising athletic career seemed to be closing at a faster pace after being once again disenfranchised by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) at the South American Under-23 Championship trials held a week ago.

The prize winners and other competitors after the event. (Orlando Charles photo)

Forde wins AINLIM’s 10K event

Guyana’s long distance king Cleveland Forde yesterday proved that he is far from relinquishing his crown by winning the AINLIM 10k road race comfortably the race ending in front of the company’s head office.

Simultaneous bombs hit army compounds in Aleppo

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Two bombs exploded simultaneously yesterday next to Syrian army compounds in the northern city of Aleppo, killing and wounding scores of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, residents and opposition activists said.

Kadecia Baird

School is Baird’s no.1 priority

School is the primary reason cited by Guyanese World Junior 400m Silver medallist Kadecia Baird for missing the South American Under 23 championships which will be held in Brazil September 28 -30.

Nandlall did not say under which conditions Jagdeo was allocated a second house lot having disposed of the first shortly before

Dear Editor, I seek to respond to a letter (‘Jagdeo observed the ten-year condition attached to the transport for Pradoville I land to the letter‘) written by the learned Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr Anil Nandlall, and published by the Stabroek News on September 7, in response to my missive titled ‘The evidence shows that former President Jagdeo got preferential treatment for Pradoville II land,’ published by the Stabroek News on September 4.

Carlos Brathwaite

Banglash tour will test HPC

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – High Performance Centre head coach, Graeme West believes conditions on the upcoming tour of Bangladesh will be a major test for his fledgling side.

REDjet offering 25 cents on every dollar of debt

(Barbados Nation) Grounded Barbadian-based airline REDjet owes well in excess of Bds$2 million in landing and other fees to the airports of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, but under a new company plan, just released to creditors, the airports will only get back Bds$580 000 collectively.

The Surendra contract

Shrouding the contretemps between the government and Fedders-Lloyd over the contract for the specialty hospital is the stark fact that the infrastructure for the most rigorous examination of complaints by bidders – the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) – is still not in existence, more than a decade after it was catered for in groundbreaking constitutional reform.