Daily Archive: Wednesday, February 20, 2013

(Reuters) – And the Oscar for best pickup line in a movie goes to – Audrey Hepburn in the romantic thriller, “Charade.”

PROGRESS PARK, St.Andrew’s,  CMC-Recalled West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan, seeking a return to form, stroked 90 but it was not enough as Zimbabwe posted a comfortable 77 run victory over a UWI Vice Chancellor’s X1 here today.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC-Ashley Nurse spun a web around Guyana to set up a comfortable five wicket victory for Barbados in their second round Super50 match at Kensington Oval here today.

The Guyana Revenue Authority today hailed the role of its officers in what is said was the largest ever drug bust in the country’s history – 792 lbs of cocaine secreted in timber at a Soesdyke lumberyard for export to Holland.

Caricom has rescinded the offer of the position of Deputy Secretary-General made to Guyanese Dr Naresh Singh, who is under investigation in Canada over a possible conflict of interest.

AMRITSAR, India,  (Reuters) – David Cameron today became the first serving British prime minister to voice regret about one of the bloodiest episodes in colonial India, a massacre of unarmed civilians in the city of Amritsar in 1919.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of a civil rights leader and a one-time rising star in Democratic politics, pleaded guilty today to misusing about $750,000 in campaign money.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica is not too far away from seeing money remitted from overseas being sent to mobile phones.

The US Coast Guard intercepted 1,400 pounds of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of more than US$17 million from a go-fast vessel in the southwest Caribbean Sea on Jan.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The government will neither nominate nor support Albert Ramdin for Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 2015.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – Witnesses heard “non-stop shouting” in the home of Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius shortly before his girlfriend was shot dead, the lead detective in the murder investigation said today.

Anti-narcotics agents yesterday intercepted approximately 314 kilos of cocaine hidden in a container of lumber at the Guyana Timber Products Inc.

Chief Co-operatives Develop-ment Officer Kareem Abdul-Jabar has been sent on indefinite administrative leave pending a disciplinary hearing before the Public Service Commission for his role in the sale of the Lamaha Gardens property now at the centre of a dispute, a Labour Ministry official confirmed yesterday.

In another stinging rebuke for the government, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has come out against the shutout of Guyanese workers from the construction of the Marriott Hotel.

Vice President of Suriname Airways (SLM), Clyde Cairo on Monday met with a Government delegation including President Donald Ramotar in Haiti and discussed the possibility of that airline servicing the Georgetown to New York route  to be vacated by Delta Airlines come May this year.

Based on police investigations, the right person was charged for the February 3 accident along the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara public road that claimed two lives, Police Commissioner (ag) Leroy Brumell said yesterday.

Amid an investigation in Canada over a possible conflict of interest, sources say the recently signed contract between Caricom and Guyanese Naresh Singh for the position of Deputy Caricom Secretary General is to be terminated.

The police have been advised by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to charge the suspect in the rape of a mentally challenged Berbice teen, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

Business owners in Region One  say that they have been given 72 hours to demolish their business structures and vacate areas in Big Creek, Masawini and Arakaka by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) even though they paid for and were granted permission by the body.

Kubert George, accused of murdering his former partner Patricia Rose four years ago, yesterday told a jury that police had fabricated a confession in the statement he gave to them about his last meeting with the woman.

5G Dialysis, Guyana’s first dialysis provider has partnered with Anamayah Memorial Hospital, Corentyne, Berbice to introduced haemodialysis services. 

Justice Minnet Hafiz-Bertram was yesterday sworn in as a Justice of the Belize Court of Appeal by the Governor General, Sir Colville Young, at Belize House, Belmopan.

A man was yesterday charged with assaulting a doctor and nurse and behaving disorderly at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre (DDC), after being refused access to see his mother in intensive care.

A security guard charged with tearing a woman’s top yesterday told a court that she did it herself after they had a row about money.

Justice Roxane George, a 12-member jury and others yesterday visited the spot where Mark Caesar was gunned down as the trial of murder accused Dexter Marshall continued in the High Court.

A man and a woman were yesterday charged with having shotgun ammunition that was allegedly found buried in their yard.

As part of a Guyana Power and Light Company upgrade, a multi-million dollar fuel wharf will be built on the West Bank of Demerara along with fuel lines to supply a generator at the location.

A man charged with threatening his wife was yesterday remanded to prison after a court heard that he had previously bitten off a piece of her ear and chopped her and that she was fearful of him.

HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Cricket captain Brendan Taylor finally left for the West Indies yesterday after passing a late fitness test.

The Slingerz Football Club organised Stag Beer West Side Mashramani Knock-out tournament got off to an exciting start on Sunday last at the Den Amstel Community Centre with Slingerz FC and Den Amstel FC scoring wins.

The suspect in the stabbing death of Clayton Jones, a Guyanese fisherman in Suriname, hails from an East Coast Demerara village and was reportedly in the trouble here before he fled to the Dutch-speaking country.

The PPP/C says it welcomes the 4th cycle of continuous registration by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which commenced countrywide on January 21 to conclude on May 19 and has urged all those eligible to get registered.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Out-of-touch West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has been included in the UWI Vice Chancellor’s XI for their one-day tour match against Zimbabwe which bowls off here yesterday.

A man was yesterday charged with assaulting his common-law wife after she became suspicious about a phone call he received.

Despite his losing record which stands at five wins, 15 losses and one no contest Orlando ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers is not giving up.

Former vice-president of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) David Fernandes was elected president of that association for the next calendar year following the GSA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers last week.

Gardener Roy Singh, who was recently released from prison, will return there after he admitted yesterday to stealing a phone from his employer, who he claimed did not pay him.

A miner was yesterday sentenced to serve a year in jail after he admitted to threatening and assaulting his brother.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies pinch-hitter Deandra Dottin has jumped five places in the latest International Cricket Council’s Women’s one-day batting rankings released on Monday.

A man accused of attempting to steal an electric crosscut saw was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $80,000 after denying the charge.

(Reuters) – Eight-time world champion Floyd Mayweather has left HBO in favor of a 30-month, six-fight deal with Showtime and its parent company CBS in what is being called the richest pact in boxing history.

Dear Editor, I refer to the comments by project head Mr Alexei Ramotar contained in a report on the Guyana Brazil fibre optic link captioned ‘Use of local work force delays gov’t-led fibre optic project’ in the Sunday Chronicle of February 17.

In a tense encounter highlighted by physical play first half strikes from  Manasseh Primo and Gregory “Jackie Chan” Richardson Sunday night powered Alpha United FC  to a 2-0 victory over Pele FC in the latest action of the Namilco One Love Football Classic at the Tucville Playfield.

Dear Editor, With his tongue in his cheek and his fingers and toes crossed and a broad smile on his face, Dave Martins has argued a case for reciprocity from the Chinese in turn for the gift of a television frequency to their government and the exemption for a Chinese contractor in Guyana having to employ Guyanese workers.

Dear Editor, A Reuters story caught my attention which I thought of sharing with readers.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies big hitter Kieron Pollard failed but his Dhaka Gladiators captured the Bangladesh Premier League here yesterday when they beat Chittagong Kings by 43 runs in the grand final at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff yesterday raised the monthly stipend of 2.5 million people living below the poverty line to make good on her promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil, a nation with enormous income gaps between rich and poor.

Dear Editor, On this matter of giving away our jobs the people are heavily relying on the media to hold the government accountable, because the government wishes it didn’t have to answer to us.

Region Ten Department of Education displaying its costume, ‘Tilapia’ during the finals of the Costume Parade of the Children’s Annual Mashramani Competition on Saturday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa have added uncapped swing bowler Kyle Abbott to their squad for the third and final test against Pakistan at Centurion starting on Friday.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has been ruled out of next month’s two-test home series against Bangladesh after dislocating the middle finger of his left hand in a domestic match on Sunday.

Rob Morrison, a news anchor for WCBS-TV, was arrested on Sunday on charges of choking his wife during a domestic dispute at their Connecticut home, the police said on Monday.

Dear Editor, The diligence of your reporter/interviewer Ms Oluatoyin Alleyne in approaching the Registrar of Deeds on the day following publication of my comments (Sunday Stabroek, February 10) was amply rewarded by what I consider a warm and courageous response from Ms Azeena Baksh, Registrar of Deeds, on pages 10 and 20 of your Sunday Stabroek newspaper of February 17.

BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – A secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks, a U.S.

Dear Editor, Once upon a time it was our character which defined us and later I would add our status in the world of work.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius put on his artificial legs and walked across his bedroom before firing four shots through a locked toilet door, killing his cowering girlfriend in cold blood, prosecutors said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British man infected with a new virus from the same family as SARS has died, health officials said yesterday, bringing the worldwide death toll from the previously unknown disease to six.

Dear Editor, In his letter ‘A PPP constitution not a PNC one’ (SN, Feb 17), Dr Henry Jeffrey is deceiving readers by insinuating the current constitution is a PPP one simply because the PPP has not taken measures to amend or replace it.

Nineteen-year-old South American 100m bronze medallist Chavez Ageday is focussed on stepping up his game as he prepares to compete as a senior competitor for the first time this year while hoping to qualify for world class competitions.

Last week I argued that a state’s constitution usually takes precedence over general notions of majority rule and I also indicated that the United States Federalist Papers were written to encourage the states to support the ratification of the Federal Constitution and that James Madison believed that one of the best arguments in favour of federalism was its capacity to keep both minority and majority factions in check.

  Against CCTV: Social and political activist Mark Benschop picketing the National Communications Network yesterday over the broadcasting facilities granted to China Central TV.

GENEVA – North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after a nuclear test last week.

Over the last few months Caricom states have been involved in a number of regional and international meetings, the most recent of which will have been the 24th Intersessional Meeting of Caricom itself, held earlier this week in Haiti.

Introduction A controversy has emerged on whether Guyana’s external debt is sustainable.

The newly assembled University of Guyana (UG) senior basketball team is training assiduously to compete at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Invitational Basketball Tournament which will take place in Barbados from March 27-April 3.

Dear Editor, For the three days on February 9, 10, 11 people have come to my home for help either for needy children, the church or the elderly.

(Trinidad Express) THE cutlass he used to chase two intruders out of his home was the weapon used to chop and kill farmer Soorace Sooklal yesterday.

( Trinidad Express) MOMENTS after attending the funeral service of murder victim Kerry Thomas, who was killed on Carnival Tuesday night, an Arouca man also lost his life after he was shot in D’Abadie yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) AS head of the National Security Council, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must clear the air on claims that there is a “New Flying Squad Investigation Unit” (NFSIU) in operation in the country, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has said.

The main opposition New National Party (NNP) was on the verge of repeating the results of the 1999 general election when it won all 15 seats, the Caribbean Media Corporation reported last night.