Daily Archive: Saturday, October 6, 2012

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Darren Sammy and his men put on a near-perfect show to beat Australia in the semi-final but the West Indies captain thinks they would have to play even better if they are to beat Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20 final on Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Canada’s Supreme Court has said people with a low HIV viral load and who use condoms need not reveal their condition to a sexual partner.

The police say that at about 0110h today, prisoner Terry Joseph who was a patient at the GPHC and under guard by prison officials managed to escape.

The police say that at about 2015h last night, police ranks at a roadblock at Palmyra, Corentyne, Berbice, stopped and searched motor car PPP 7192 during which 489 grams of cocaine were found.

Police today said that the three ranks who were in the mobile patrol when a bystander was fatally shot on Hadfield Street have been placed under close arrest as investigations continue.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka, beaten in each of their last three World Cup one-day finals, need to counter the muscular power of Chris Gayle and his big-hitting West Indies’ team mates if they are to win tomorrow’s world Twenty20 final.

(Jamaica Observer) Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has admitted that self-doubt plagued her early career.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene played down the Chris Gayle factor in tomorrow’s World Twenty20 final saying the West Indies team was not just about the swashbuckling opener from Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Finance minister Dr Peter Phillips says the Government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are now in discussion to craft a draft letter of intent.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turkey returned fire after a mortar bomb shot from Syria landed in a field in southern Turkey today, the day after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned Damascus Turkey would not shy away from war if provoked.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – A Vatican court today found Pope Benedict’s former butler guilty of stealing sensitive documents and sentenced him to a year and a half in prison.

By Mandy Thompson A young man was killed by a stray bullet last night at the White Castle Fish Shop on Hadfield Street, Werk-en-Rust, and the police that were chasing a car in the vicinity are being blamed.

-says blackout was followed by explosions Jermaine Tucker, a police photographer, yesterday told the inquiry into the Linden killings that he had not seen protestors hurling missiles at police on July 18 and that there was a blackout after 6pm during which he heard explosions.

The family members of more than a dozen recently-deceased persons were furious yesterday after turning up for scheduled post-mortem examinations at the Georgetown Hospital morgue, only to be told that they had been delayed until Monday because the pathologist was unavailable.

A man was killed yesterday when a lumber truck he was travelling in toppled after one of its wheels blew out on the Soesdyke Linden Highway.

-centre to cater to youth The APNU-affiliated Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) has established the Shaquille Grant Foundation, in honour of the 17-year-old from who was fatally shot by police on September 11 in Agricola.

-Australia crushed by 74 runs in awesome all-round display COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies stormed into the Final of the Twenty20 World Cup, when their bowlers followed up breezy batting from Chris Gayle, driving them to a 74-run victory over Australia in the second men’s semi-final yesterday.

-includes demands for living wage, local gov’t polls The People’s Parliament has launched a campaign to petition the National Assembly for the creation of a national living wage, the lowering of the VAT, and the holding of overdue local government polls, among other things.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud says there has been a 23% increase in gold production, and an increase in declaration and sales while exports are at 314,000 ounces.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC-The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has apologized for public statements made about the arbitrator of a dispute between the WICB and middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan.

Leader of the Opposition David Granger has said that the opposition parties are seeking external assistance in drafting legislation to bring to the National Assembly and that President Donald Ramotar cannot behave “like a dictator” and reject bills brought by them.

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday assured that the Enmore Packaging Plant has overcome start-up problems, although production at the facility is still well below capacity at 10,000 tonnes of sugar with just over two months remaining for the year.

In the light of new details emerging from the ongoing Linden Commission of Inquiry, the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) is calling on President Donald Ramotar to dismiss Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee.

-US House of Representatives committee Chinese company Huawei, which has been contracted by the Government of Guyana to build communications systems as part of the administration’s e-governance project, is being flagged by a United States House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee, which is warning US firms to avoid doing business with it because of spying concerns.

By Jairo Rodrigues Ayana Harris hopes to perform in regional pageants across the Caribbean to gain experience in the fashion world.

An autopsy performed on Tushana Cameron, the 21-year-old who died after delivering at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) on Wednesday, gave the cause of her death as haemorrhagic shock.

Since the 1970s Guyana’s population has been rapidly plummeting, both elites and the working class have been leaving in droves.

Seven Guyanese—five men and two women—have been remanded in St Vincent and the Grenadines until February 4, 2013, over conspiracy to commit burglary, The Vincentian newspaper reported in its online edition yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is with much amazement I witnessed that international copyright laws mean so little to certain elements of the Guyanese society who see pirating textbooks as the only solution to this shameless debacle.

By Gary Vyse Former World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Vivian Harris has announced his retirement after being stopped by Britain’s Brian Rose.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. companies should avoid doing business with China’s Huawei, the world’s No.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to Freddie Kissoon’s article `Lee and Taylor: Footnotes in the Shakespearean wind’ in the Features section of the Kaieteur News of October 3, 2012.

Ricky Lashley was yesterday accused of throwing a pot of rice at his common-law wife, rendering her unconscious.

Hi Everyone, Though I do not have a sweet-tooth, every now and then I like to have some sweet baked item with my tea in the afternoon or evening.

-2nd T20 DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Another purposeful bowling and fielding effort narrowly failed to save the Sagicor High Performance Centre team from a four-wicket defeat against Bangladesh-A in the final match of their Twenty20 series  yesterday.

Dear Editor, The bitter dispute between the WICB and WIPA, who represents the players, would have led to unresolved cricketing issues going to arbitration.

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COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka can kiss their title hopes goodbye if they fail to dismiss West Indies opener Chris Gayle cheaply in the World Twenty20 final tomorrow, Australia captain George Bailey said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said it would seek to extradite Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States as soon as possible after the one-eyed radical preacher failed in a last-ditch legal attempt to avoid deportation yesterday.

A Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice rice farmer was yesterday charged with assaulting a woman, who has accused him of punching her after she upbraided him about his persistent advances.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC Chris Gayle, whose powerful batting laid the foundation for a West Indies semi-final win against Australia yesterday, is predicting his side will emerge victorious when they meet Sri Lanka in the finals of the ICC World Twenty/20 tomorrow.

Eyecare Guyana, through a European Union project, yesterday donated over $7 million in equipment to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Ophthalmology Department to help stop blindness by 2020.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Amplats fired 12,000 wildcat strikers yesterday, a high-stakes attempt by the world’s biggest platinum producer to push back at a wave of illegal stoppages sweeping through the country’s mining sector and beyond.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — The two brothers accused of raping five females, including an eight-year-old, in the middle-class community of Irwin Point last week, were on Thursday charged with a range of offences.

Artist Mayya Lobova has been Inspired by Guyana and it shows in the tribute she has done to the country she lived in for some 4 years, now on display at the National Gallery, Castellani House.

Dear Editor, Why is there no more `VOA Music Mix Network’ on 98.1 (Hot) F.M.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 7.8 percent in September and reached its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office, providing a boost to his re-election bid.

Dear Editor, I have a relative by the name of Basmat Ramdeo who lives in Canada and she had applied to the NIS to receive her pension as a survival beneficiary since 2010. 

St. Helen University (SHU), based in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, has announced it will be offering two full tuition scholarships to qualifying students from Guyana.

Senior Superintendent of the Guyana Police Force Berbice Division Clifton Hicken presented national cyclist Neil Reece with his winning cheque

(Trinidad Guardian) A senior British Airways (BA) executive has complained that majority state-owned Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) is benefiting from an unfair advantage as a result of using subsidised fuel on its London–Caribbean route.

Surinamese filmmaker Ida Does’s documentary Peace, memories of Anton de Kom won the award for best short film at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival this year.

Dear Editor, The new Housing Scheme at Section D Non Pariel on the East Coast of Demerara has been completed since December 2010. 

–funeral set for Monday Dr Charles Validen, who was found dead at his home in August, will finally be laid to rest after family members recently travelled to Guyana to claim his remains.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff wants to regulate strikes by public workers after a series of walkouts by civil servants in recent months paralyzed public services across Brazil.

(Billboard) Bruno Mars previews the follow-up to his Grammy Award-winning ‘Doo-Wops & Hooligans’ and discusses the new album’s energetic first single, “Locked Out of Heaven,” which debuted digitally and on radio on October 1.

National cycling coach Hassan Mohamed and the Hand-in-Hand Insurance Company have teamed-up to host the eighth 11-race programme today at the inner circuit of the National Park.

(Trinidad Express) More babies are dying in Trinidad and Tobago despite this country’s economic progress and prosperity, according to statistics provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).

The PPP/C yesterday celebrated 20 years since it was voted into government at the October 5, 1992 elections, which had been hailed then as marking the return of democracy.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has applied to the Inter-American Development Bank for a BDS$66 million loan to shore up its finances.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – West Indies Women’s bid to reach the Final of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Tournament was undermined by an impressive spell from Julie Hunter that fired Australia to a 28-run victory in a low-scoring second semi-final yesterday.

Dear Editor, The proposed Linden electricity increase has given me cause to look back and reflect on so many things, more so that some seemed to think that wrongs of yesterday give them the prerogative and latitude for whatever wrongs are being done today.

(EUR) TMZ is reporting that it’s officially over between Chris Brown and his girlfriend Karrueche Tran.

BAYAMO, Cuba,  (Reuters) – Cuba arrested a dissident blogger and other activists one day before the start of a Spanish activist’s high-profile manslaughter trial, a rights advocate said today, in a move the U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A young model was insane when he killed and castrated a prominent Portuguese journalist in a New York hotel room, believing he could “harness the power” of the man’s severed testicles, a defense lawyer said at the start of the murder trial yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Central Division police officers were allegedly caught red-handed by their seniors receiving a bribe on Wednesday night.

After months of speculation, the fate of Bo Xilai, former Party Secretary of Chongqing and one of the country’s best known ‘princelings’ seems to have been settled.

GPHC joins the Good Samaritan Programme: The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday facilitated a voluntary blood drive, conducted through the Ministry of Health National Blood Bank’s Good Samaritan Programme.

Dear Editor, “Is water coming?” Is the first cry of the average Bartician, yet we contribute greatly to the 300,000 ounces  of gold, our top money earner .

(Billboard) With five studio albums under her belt, Kelly Clarkson will gather her smash singles on ‘Greatest Hits — Chapter 1’.

The Fortune/Forde Super Mile is set for National Park on November 13 a where prizes of up to $10,000 will be up for grabs.

A Nelsion Nurse design. Nelsion Nurse is one of five young designers whose designs are available at Sonia Noel’s new fashion zone, Makin’ Style starting today.

Politikles

If I had a wish for Domestic Violence Month, it would be that every female victim of this beastly crime would garner enough courage and foresight to testify against her offender.

(Trinidad Guardian) Director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) Gillian Lucky is proposing tough measures to boot out the rogue element from the service with no hope of their returning.