Daily Archive: Thursday, October 18, 2012

R&B superstar, Chris Brown is set to perform at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence on December 26, Minister of Tourism Irfaan Ali announced yesterday.

(Reuters) – Newsweek, one of the most internationally recognized magazine brands in the world, will cease publishing a print edition after nearly 80 years.

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER (CUOPM) – LIAT’s newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer, Captain Ian Brunton has described thirty-five percent of the airline’s 112 daily flights as “social (uneconomic) routes”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Public Utilities Minister Nizam Baksh was misinformed when he made statements in Parliament last Tuesday that the Cove Industrial Estate in Tobago was responsible for blackouts in Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) The People’s Partnership administration wants one free hour of media time to air government programmes to inform the public, Communications Minister Jamal Mohammed said on Monday night.

Fly Montserrat Airways – one of whose planes recently crashed killing a Guyanese and two others – has been grounded after one of its planes rolled off the runway at the Caribbean island’s international airport.

(Barbados Nation) A grieving family are rejecting a police theory that Clinton Norton broke and entered Liquidation Centre and bled to death after receiving a cut to his wrist by glass.

(Trinidad Express) PNM Senator Fitzgerald Hinds claimed yesterday that some state sector functionaries were practicing racism, taking the position it is “we time now”.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Five hundred Brazilian victims of human trafficking have been registered since 2005, with the Netherlands, Switzerland and Spain being the main destinations.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – “The pirates can expect us to come after them; not to make jokes, but to do a serious job,” says lieutenant colonel Jerry Slijngard of the National Army (NL), adding that this is a clear warning that appropriate action will be taken against these criminals.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan yesterday said someone deliberately sabotaged the TT$3 million brain surgery drill at the Port of Spain General Hospital by soaking it in water.

(Trinidad Express) A double murder in the Northern Division on Tuesday night is now engaging the attention of homicide detectives.

(Trinidad Express) One man has died and other lives are at risk because there is no drill to perform brain surgeries at the Port of Spain General Hospital.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud this morning confirmed that the two policemen who went missing after leaving the Kato Police Station, Region Eight were brutally murdered.

As expected, the autopsy performed on Ricardo Rodrigues, who was mowed down by gunmen at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) in Georgetown on Monday, said that he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Attorney-at-law Vickramaditya `Vic’ Puran who was discovered dead in his partially submerged vehicle early Tuesday morning died as a result of asphyxia due to drowning, a post-mortem examination conducted yesterday has revealed.

Linden boat captain Oscar Giles was yesterday committed to stand trial for three counts of manslaughter for causing the death of three persons two years ago.

After a recess that started on August 11, the National Assembly will sit on Monday and will see a flood of motions, bills and reports including a draft law to curtail controversial benefits for former presidents and the much-anticipated report of the Auditor General for 2011.

-Linden seamstress tells inquiry A seamstress who participated in the July 18 Linden protest testified yesterday that she helped to block a road to the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge and she was later shot with a live round to her left shoulder.

The People’s Parliament is planning to fight the move to remove participants from the public space they have been occupying at the Avenue of the Republic and Brickdam, since August 23.

-in inquiry testimony Linden cameraman Vladimir Glasgow yesterday maintained that he was shot and wounded by police on July 18.

-prosecutor says as trial resumes Prosecution witnesses resumed testimony against the accused in the July 12, 2011 $7M Bel Air robbery yesterday, even as the special prosecutor alerted the court that one of the defendants may have fled the jurisdiction.

By Emmerson Campbell The outer circuit of the National Park will be transformed into a speedway when Roraima Bikers Club and Digicel team up to pedal off the inaugural Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness Cycle race on October 28.

Alex Douglas who stabbed his partner to death on Sunday night and later attempted to commit suicide was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison.

Giftland OfficeMax and the Trophy Stall of Bourda Market have thrown their support behind the 2012 Guyana Bodybuilding Championships which is billed for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Saturday.

-in aftermath of Agricola unrest In the aftermath of the recent unrest at Agricola, the Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) says there has to be a “different and responsible way” for the citizenry to address disagreements and prevailing controversies.

By Tamica Garnett North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary yesterday ran out winners of the track events segment of Zone One of the annual Inter-schools  athletic championships at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

Government convened an eighth corruption “debate” aired on NCN Channel 11 last night, where Minister of Agriculture Dr.

Several passengers aboard a Route 47, East Ruimveldt- West Ruimveldt  minibus which was travelling outside the designated route escaped serious injury last evening when the vehicle slammed into a car in Charlestown and  turned turtle.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels says he has used anger as a source of motivation to help rekindle his international cricket career following a two year ban.

Ina Roberts, the mother of three who was set on fire by a man at Mahdia backdam, was discharged from the Georgetown Hospital yesterday her reputed husband, Lionel Fowler said.

Kolkata Knight Riders, the IPL champions, became the first side to be knocked out of the Champions League Twenty20 when their third game, against Perth Scorchers yesterday was washed out in Durban with only 14 overs having been bowled in the first innings.

The underdogs Auckland Aces’ three wins out of three in the Champions League T20 was one of the developing feel-good stories of a tournament which is widely seen as being overrun by the cash-rich teams from the IPL.

The Caricom Secretariat has embarked on a series of Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) entrepreneurship training for young people across Caribbean, in targeted member states that have some of the highest unemployment rates among youth.

-Digicel honours commitment to sponsor tourney The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) national schools championships will get underway tomorrow at the National Gymnasium following yesterday’s sealing of the sponsorship deal between the communications giants and the GTTA.

-says New GPC not fly-by-night company New GPC’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Ranjisinghi Ramroop has attacked  a report in  yesterday’s Stabroek News headlined `New GPC mum on quotation for malaria drugs supply’ charging that the article was malicious and aimed at destabilizing his company.

Dear Editor, Some four years ago, an earthen sea defence breach in my home village at Huis t’ Dieren in Region #2 was observed in its initial stage and it was promptly brought to the attention of the administration here for corrective measures to be taken But since then and on to this day even with the flood of complaints ever so often to the relevant authorities the breach continues to get bigger with the cost for remedial works mounting all the time.

By Iva Wharton Ketley Primary School will play its first match of the Courts Pee Wee championships on Saturday and according to Coach Philip Ferdinand they are in it to win it.

Richard Singh, the 20-year-old man who was involved in an accident at Plantation Hope, East Coast Demerara on Monday, remains a patient of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Hospital, his uncle, Imran Khan, said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Here in Guyana we love America. We want to emulate the American lifestyle, dress, musical selection and even diet.

Dear Editor, I noticed that our honourable president recently presented a large quantity of nets to the Lethem community.

Scrap metal labourer Leon Fredericks, who is alleged to have robbed a man of his BlackBerry phone using a knife, was remanded yesterday by Magistrate Faith McGusty.

(Reuters) – Tournament host Tiger Woods will be joined by two reigning major champions in what he regards as one of the deepest fields ever seen at the World Challenge, to be played from Nov.

A man was yesterday accused of wounding a 15-year-old boy and threatening to kill him.

Says Emmerson Campbell This year’s sixth annual ‘Ride for Life’ five-stage road race cycling event which concluded on Sunday was without a doubt the best one so far.

PNCR Leader Brigadier (Rtd) David Granger has urged party members in Bartica to mobilise in order to be prepared for the forthcoming local government elections and for a return of party pride.

Dear Editor, This era we dwell in and the difficult world economics facing us require a renewed perspective on almost every agenda we had constructed before, even in the face of the stagnant nature of the common enemy within and without.

Robert Hanoman rolled back the years in a tight race to triumph in the King’s Jewellery World sponsored Medal Play golf tournament as four players ended on net 68 recently at the Lusignan golf Club.

Dear Editor, PNCR/APNU MP Basil Williams seems oblivious to the reverberating sounds coming from the voices of the Guyanese populace.

Sacre-Coeur Minerals produced and sold almost 597 troy ounces of gold in September, yielding US$986,373 in gross sales from its alluvial gold operations in Guyana.

(Reuters) – Members of the British cycling team Sky will be sacked unless they sign a document saying they have never doped, the team said yesterday.

BOGOTA/OSLO,  (Reuters) – Historic closed-door talks between Colombia and Marxist rebels began yesterday in Norway after FARC rebel and government negotiators arrived in Oslo in a bid to end almost half a century of armed conflict, Norwegian officials said.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – A White House-ordered review of security risks posed by suppliers to U.S.

Dear Editor, On the evening of 2012-10-15, the Chief Statistical Officer on television gave the nation an update on the census exercise as it is being carried out.

WASHINGTON – Fresh off a feisty debate that re-energized Barack Obama’s bid for a second term, the Democratic president and Republican rival Mitt Romney headed back on the campaign trail on Wednesday to start their final appeals to undecided voters.

(Trinidad Guardian) The breast-enhancement business is busting out all over T&T and some people are “living it up Gangnam style,” says Independent Senator Rolph Balgobin.

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC-Three former West Indies cricketers have been included on a world X1 to play two Twenty/20 matches against a Pakistan all star team in Karachi, officials have announced.

The Ministry of Health (MOH), in observance of White Cane Safety Day, on Tuesday handed over 36 white canes to members of the Guyana Society for the Blind, according to a GINA press release.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The FBI yesterday arrested a Bangladeshi man in a sting operation on charges he attempted to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank with what he believed was a 1,000-pound (450-kg) bomb, federal authorities said.

(Jamaica Observer) The start date for the modernisation of Jamaica’s oil refinery, Petrojam, appears to have been brought to the front of the queue of Venezuelan expansion projects.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico has charged seven officials, including three members of the country’s organized-crime unit, with providing information on government raids and investigations to the country’s most powerful drug gang.

New admission to the bar: Twenty-five-year-old Onassis Granville was admitted to the local bar last Thursday, after her petition was presented to Justice Brassington Reynolds by attorney Emily Dodson.

Dear Editor, There was a time in the recent past when the West Indies selectors knew to dance well on musical chairs that saw the constant chopping and changing of players much to the displeasure of many learned Caribbean fans and which even led to the uncertainty of the future of some of the players.

– cites “seemingly insurmountable evidence” AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – Lance Armstrong  yesterday stepped down as chairman of the charity he founded to distance the cancer patient-support organization from the widening doping scandal that promises to cost him his seven Tour de France cycling titles.

It was Aristotle who called poverty “the parent of revolution and crime”; and he was not wrong.

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Best graduating student: Thandiwe Benn was on Monday admitted to the bar by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, following a petition by Senior Counsel Keith Massiah.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Eighteen days of international one-day cricket will provide an aperitif for next year’s Ashes series in England with the world governing body hoping to capitalise on West Indies’ success in the Twenty20 World Cup.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former chief executive officer of the National Works Agency (NWA), Patrick Wong, has apologised for his ‘role’ in a business arrangement between his son and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) which was the main contractor on the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP).

Dear Editor, Is it a crime for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to publish weekly press  releases?

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V. S. Naipaul’s insight, in identifying a sort of unconsciousness, a lack of feeling and seeing, in his native Trinidad and Tobago and India, comes home with force upon landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.