Articles published on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
BELIZE CITY, (Reuters) – Computer security industry pioneer John McAfee says he has gone into hiding in Belize because he believes authorities there are trying to frame him for the murder of a neighbor, a crime he says he did not commit, according to Wired magazine.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says there are signs that the black market for foreign exchange is re-emerging.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Flamboyant West Indies opener Chris Gayle became the first player to hit a six from the first ball of a test match when he launched his big-hit against Bangladesh today, the International Cricket Council said.
(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – Following reports of violence in Bangladesh on Tuesday, November 13, the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players’ Association wish to jointly assure the Caribbean public that the West Indies players and members of the Team Management Unit are all safe and that at no time was their security under threat.
At about 1120h. today, ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch at the Ogle Airport, ECD, stopped and searched a man who was on a local flight to Imbaimadai, Mazaruni, and found 1 kilogram 200 grams of marijuana concealed in the inner souls of three pairs of boots he had in his possession.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Repeating an annual ritual, the U.N. General Assembly called today for the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister said the blockade against the communist-run island was tantamount to “genocide.”
PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande said today that Paris would look at the question of arming the Syrian National Council once it had created a transitional government.
(WICB) DHAKA, Bangladesh – Kieran Powell appeared willing to take things in stride following his second Test hundred for West Indies.
Drug trafficking here distorts the local economy and has been responsible for 30% of the homicides here per annum.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The full cast of lawmakers in the U.S.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Kieran Powell and Shivnarine Chanderpaul struck centuries to push West Indies towards a big total in the first innings of the first test against Bangladesh today.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T will be completely devastated should a massive earthquake strike since 90 per cent of our buildings are structurally unsafe.
(Trinidad Guardian) The community of Ste Madeleine was in shock yesterday after the body of an eight-year-old boy was found hanging from his bedroom window.
(Trinidad Guardian) “Unbelievable” is how consultant and social commentator Afra Raymond yesterday described the statements of former CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey, reported in the last Sunday Guardian that he “doesn’t have one cent.”
(Jamaica Observer) Electricity theft continues to hit the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) hard, amounting to US$32 million so far this year.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) has applied the brake on the practice of lay preachers using the public transportation system as their platform to spread the Gospel.
AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virender Sehwag played down the notion of looking to get even but revenge is very much on India’s mind when they face England in a four-test series starting in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
BRISBANE, (Reuters) – South Africa were forced to scrap their way through an uncomfortable final day of the first test against a Michael Clarke-inspired Australia today to save a match they had once looked like winning.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The Syrian Arab Red Crescent estimates that 2.5 million people are internally displaced within Syria by civil war, doubling the previous figure of 1.2 million used by aid agencies, the United Nations refugee agency said today.
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, (Reuters) – The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, is under investigation for alleged inappropriate communication with a woman at the center of the scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, a senior U.S.
A 16-year-old miner was murdered in the Cuyuni Backdam early Saturday morning and his parents believe that his death is linked to his attempts to uplift wages due to him from his employer.
Passengers who were booked to travel on EZjet say it is “unfair and unreasonable” that while Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has agreed to accommodate them in wake of the charter’s suspension, they have to pay in some instances more than two times what they were initially paying.
The Housing Ministry’s Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Hardware Guyana Limited (NHL) that allows low, moderate, and middle income families to acquire building materials and home furnishings at wholesale prices, the Government Information Agency reported.
The confession by murder accused Cyon Collier, called ‘Picture Boy,’ that he killed two Victoria men in September of 2006, was yesterday admitted into evidence at his trial.
A taxi driver is presently nursing gunshot wounds at the New Amsterdam Hospital after he was attacked by “passengers” on Sunday evening before being robbed of his vehicle.
-operating with $1B deficit City Hall, which is currently operating with a deficit of over $1B, is scrambling to present its proposed budget for next year to the Ministry of Local Government.
The Guyana Revenue Authority is calling on the public to report squib smuggling and sales to its intelligence hotline.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh – Darren Sammy said West Indies were ready to chase more success, when they face hosts Bangladesh in the first Test, which opens today at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium here.
Twenty-year-old Avinash Sewlochan of Bath New Scheme, West Berbice courageously defended his home and family on Sunday night by chasing away four bandits with a garden fork when they tried to gain entry.
Guyana women hockey players went down to tournament favourites Canada 10-0 suffering their second defeat in as many days at round one in the World League at the Natonal Hockey Centre in Tarcarigua in Trinidad.
Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited last Thursday rewarded the top five RightStart Account Holders who excelled at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certifi-cate (CSEC) examinations.
By Neil Barry Jr., At the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground in Queenstown on Saturday, only 27 overs were possible on day one of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Noble House Seafoods second division competition between DCC and Malteenoes Sports Club.
By Iva Wharton Richard Williamson stands a good chance of putting up his hands in victory when he faces Randolph Fraser on the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am Card organized by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control, November 30th.
Waves reaching over nine feet in height disrupted seawall vendors who turned out early yesterday afternoon to set up their stalls along the route for the annual Diwali motorcade.
After working non-stop for over ten hours, workers from Guyana Water Inc.
Geddes Grant Limited, a subsidiary of Neal and Massy Group of companies will be sponsoring the Senior Chess Championship under its Dr.
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s 3-0 one-day international series win against New Zealand, despite being heavily affected by rain, has been the perfect antidote to their Twenty20 World Cup final defeat last month says captain Mahela Jayawardene.
-urges firm action against defaulting customers Prime Minister Samuel Hinds appointed a 10-member Board of Directors to the Mahdia Power and Light (MPL) at a meeting held on Friday in the boardroom of the Region Eight NDC.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The world’s top three players all scaled dizzy heights in 2012 but Novak Djokovic ended the year staring down at his rivals after grinding down Roger Federer to win the ATP World Tour Finals title in brutal fashion at London’s O2 Arena yesterday.
Dear Editor, The NIS Pensioners of Kwakwani would like to thank the authorities for the swift way in which they were able to rectify the problem they had encountered with their November pension vouchers.
The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) urges the nation to join Hindus as they participate in Deepavali, an act of worship to Laxmi Devi “for the fulfilment of their economic aspirations.”
CUL DE SAC- Anguilla, CMC-Anguilla dethroned defending champions Antigua and Barbuda with a stunning two wicket victory to win the NAGICO Leeward Islands one-day tournament for the first time on Sunday.
Dear Editor, What passes for the Guyana mind appears to have been moulded over the last several years, whether deliberately or unconsciously, into a state of mouldiness, which only reproduces stale unappetising materials and repetitive ideas that do not relate to current realities.
The East Coast Pandits and Mandir Leaders are urging devotees to focus on the deeper meaning of Deepavali, even as they join millions of Hindus across the globe in lighting diyas and other symbolic lights to usher in the occasion.
Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee assured devotees at the Alexander Village mandir that they will have the police’s full support during Diwali celebrations today.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Raymond Tim Kee says his first assignment as new president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) is to mend a broken relationship between the federation and the Ministry of Sports.
Dear Editor, I bought one of the two-bedroom houses through the Ministry of Housing in the new Herstelling Scheme.
The One Laptop per Family (OLPF) Secretariat on Friday distributed computers to the 28 teachers attached to the David Rose School for the Handicapped at Thomas Lands.
Dear Editor, Residents living on the Upper Corentyne are suffering more under the PPP/C than under the 28 years of PNC rule.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC– President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Captain Horace Burrell, has rejected reports from England that Jamaican international midfielder Rudolph Austin suffered a broken leg on Saturday while representing his club Leeds United against Watford.
Dear Editor, Last Saturday at the UG’s Convocation exercise a young lady, Ms Kumarie Kooseram, received the award for the best Graduating Student in the UG Medical School.
The fourth batch of orthopaedic students graduated with distinctions and credits from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion’s year-long Orthopaedic Technician Training Course.
Team Guyana got a jump on the competition at the inaugural table tennis competition at the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) last weekend in Suriname where they convincingly swept both male and female categories.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A chief of staff to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and fellow founder of Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party was sentenced yesterday to over 10 years in prison for running a congressional vote-buying scheme almost a decade ago.
Deepavali motorcade: A massive crowd gathered last evening along the East Coast seawall to witness the annual Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha Deepavali motorcade.
A responsible eight-wicket partnership between national player and coach Esuan Crandon and former national Under-19 all-rounder Loyydel Lewis led Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets (RHTG&G) to a hard fought two wicket win over arch rivals Albion in the final of the 2012 Busta Champion of Champions Tournament.
The country has four more dental surgeons with the recent graduation of Sulan Fung, Rehana Ali, Simone Brady and Zoe Perreira from the University of Guyana’s Dentistry Programme.
Dear Editor, I must write to express my thoughts on what I perceive to be a very poorly planned Diwali Motorcade in the East Canje/New Amsterdam/East Bank Berbice area on Sunday evening.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao’s opening speech at the ongoing 18th Party Congress was a disappointment to many listeners, offering no major signals that the leadership is willing to advance political reform.
The Dharmic Naujawaan and Digicel presentation last evening.
-Club raising funds to erect concrete facilty The Demerara Cricket Club’s Day of Sports will bowl off today at the club’s ground, Lance Gibbs and New Garden streets, Queenstown from 10:00am.
Dear Editor, There is appreciation for the chief as an individual, as there is potential for decency and the development of independent thought processes.
Anna Regina Secondary is the winner of this year’s Secondary Schools’ Hydroponics Competition.
The Balesa family from Better Hope’s motorcade last evening in the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha event.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The two most senior figures at BBC News stepped aside yesterday a day after the chairman of the broadcaster’s governing body said it needed a radical overhaul to survive a child sex abuse scandal, it said.
Robeson Benn Jnr. was stabbed on Saturday night after a fight with a young woman.
Dear Editor, The world commemorates November 11 as Remembrance Day. But what a way the students of Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) chose to mark this day!
The Edward B Beharry and Company Limited float last evening in the Deepavali motorcade.
BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke scored a brilliant unbeaten double century to give the hosts a remarkable 37-run first innings lead on the fourth day of the first test against South Africa yesterday.
BELIZE CITY, (Reuters) – Police in Belize want to question U.S.
The Inter-ward seven-a-side football tournament in honour of Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green’s 78 birth anniversary is expected to get underway from 5pm this evening at the Den Amstel ground.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Armed cattle raiders killed at least 32 Kenyan police officers in a military-style ambush, officials said yesterday, calling it the worst attack on police in Kenya’s history.
Bath Mandir from Region 5’s float as it proceeded along the seawall last evening
After the bodies of Police Constables Letlow and Aaron had been found at Kato in October rumours began to circulate to the effect that their deaths might have been reprisal killings associated with robberies that had been committed against miners operating in the area.
This article is premised on a belief that any act of corruption within any public or private institution should be exposed.
Dear Editor, Your analysis in the editorial, ‘Impasse’ is timely and spot on.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., (Reuters) – FBI agents searched the North Carolina house of Paula Broadwell yesterday, signaling renewed activity in the investigation that revealed her extramarital affair with CIA Director David Petraeus that led to his resignation.
