Daily Archive: Friday, March 1, 2013

(Trinidad Express) Two bodies were found in a burnt out car in the Heights of Guanapo, Arima just after midnight yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Seventh Day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin said his statements about Latin American assassins operating in T&T and schooling teenage students in their deadly trade were based on his own experience.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born rapper Nicki Minaj compared T&T to Liberia on television on Wednesday, saying she didn’t think she would get out alive.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – British actor Richard Burton finally received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to that of his two-time wife, Elizabeth Taylor, on Friday, nearly 30 years after his death.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil advanced today toward its target of joining the small club of nations that have nuclear-powered submarines with the opening of a naval shipyard installation that will build French-designed submarines.

“We believe that the police were responsible for the shooting to death of the three persons” at Linden on July 18, 2012 is the verdict of the Commission of Inquiry into the bloody events in the mining town sparked by a government plan to raise electricity tariffs.

Police say that at about 1940h today, the body of Lucian Agard, 30 years, was found on the roadway in front of his residence at No.59 Village, Corentyne, with a suspected bullet wound to the head.

The Guyana Defence Force today expressed regret at the attempts last month by its ranks to make an arrest in a University of Guyana classroom.

(Jamaica Gleaner) National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jamaica’s decision to shun dealings with foreign-exchange dealers has already began to affect the non-cambio operations of mainstream customers, among them persons doing business with Sterling Asset Management.

(Barbados Nation) Five months after the expiration of the last contract between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and its principal sponsor Digicel, the two parties are yet to agree terms on a new deal.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians are reported to be flocking to a private sex club on the island where they must have a costume, a mask and a password to gain admittance.

(Trinidad Express) Lawrence Duprey and Andre Monteil, the two main players in CL Financial, will both have to testify at the ongoing commission of enquiry into the conglomerate’s failure, Sir Anthony Colman ordered yesterday.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s prime minister accused his Turkish counterpart on Thursday of making a “dark and false” statement by calling Zionism a crime against humanity – a comment likely to hit efforts to repair ties between the two former allies.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s spinners undermined Leeward Islands as the visitors took control of their third round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.

(Reuters) – Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was banned nine months and fined $900,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission yesterday for failing a drug test after his loss to Sergio Martinez last September, Top Rank Boxing said.

Captain of the national football team, Christopher Nurse has signed with FC Edmonton, a Canadian professional football team based in Edmonton, Canada.

-findings handed over to president The report of the findings of the Linden Commission of Inquiry (COI) was yesterday handed over to President Donald Ramotar by former Jamaica Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe, who said justice was done.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) yesterday announced a long-anticipated US$5 million grant from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) Trust Fund to finance a small business project.

Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) workers continued protesting for higher wages and while their union and the company’s management remained at an impasse over the demand, Bartica, Wakenaam and Leguan were all without power up to last night.

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC-Captain Kirk Edwards reached his second century of the season to help lift Barbados to a commanding position against Combined Campuses and Colleges on the second day of their third round match in the Regional Four Day Championship yesterday.

Devon Thomas, 19, was yesterday arraigned on charges of murder and attempted murder stemming from the Mashramani Day mob attack that left a man dead and his brother wounded.

Mark Thompson, who was accused of stabbing his cousin to death, was acquitted yesterday by a twelve-member jury, which found him not guilty of both murder and manslaughter.

The Ministry of Agriculture has called on the contractor for the $45 million sluice being built to serve the Grove/Diamond area to expedite works as the May-June rainy season is imminent.

Though they boast the talent to ‘rule the roost’ on the West Demerara, Slingerz FC will have to tread cautiously when engaging a dangerous Uitvlugt United in the semi-finals of the Stag Beer West Side Mashramani

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC – Guyana were facing a tall order to save their third round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship, after conceding first innings points to Windward Islands and then losing two quick second innings wickets late on the second day here yesterday.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has directed the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to review the mining licence held by Romanex Guyana Exploration Ltd for land at Marudi Mountain, in Region Nine.

The Milo U-20 School Football Tournament restarts this weekend with the final round of group fixtures set for the Ministry of Education Ground, after having been rescheduled to facilitate Republic Day celebrations.

(Reuters) – Golden State guard Stephen Curry scored a NBA season-high 54 points but only earned praise and not a win as the New York Knicks prevailed 109-105 against the Warriors at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, Eighteen years ago, in the context of a health crisis in which septic and incomplete abortions accounted for the third and eighth largest causes respectively of admission to public hospitals in Guyana, a network of women’s groups, health professionals and human rights activists engaged in a wide-ranging debate advocating for legislation to address unsafe and unregulated abortions.

A man was yesterday sentenced to serve a nine-month prison term after he admitted to stealing tables and gas bottles from the Ministry of Education.

Dear Editor, I have noted the repeated claims by Stabroek News in its columns of Monday and Tuesday 25th and 26th February claiming that at my post Cabinet press briefing, I said the judges of the Mash Calypso competition breached the rules.

Canadian envoy David Devine spoke on the importance of clean environments and recycling opportunities available here in his address to St Angela’s Primary Schools students on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Kevin Durant landed a triple double as the Oklahoma City Thunder recorded a 119-74 blowout victory over the outclassed New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday.

LAHORE,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Hanif Mohammad believes the team’s Australian coach Dav Whatmore needs to learn Urdu if he is to succeed with the players.

A woman allegedly held with cocaine during a police raid was yesterday remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, This letter is about two cases of struggles in Guyana without racial conflict.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, , CMC- Captain Dwayne Bravo says he was delighted with the turn-out of supporters in Grenada to the three-match One-Day International series between West Indies and Zimbabwe.

Dear Editor, Now that the Linden Commission of Inquiry has handed in its report, there is wondering in some quarters as to what is contains and what happens next. 

A mason was yesterday remanded to prison after he was arraigned before Magistrate Leslie Sobers on a charge of having marijuana in his possession.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier faced corruption and human rights charges in a court yesterday for the first time since a popular revolt forced him into exile in 1986, and denied responsibility for abuses under his 15-year rule.

Dear Editor, It was some time during the early-mid 1970s that I enjoyed watching a movie titled The Sting, the thrust and cut of which was an elaborate scheme by some people to con, steal or rob others of their money.

(Reuters) – Hamish Rutherford put himself firmly in contention to make his test debut next week against England after he scored 90 for the New Zealand XI on the second day of their four day match against the tourists in Queenstown yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government is embarking on two major maritime projects as a cost of US$3 billion. This

Hours after being discharged, Sydney Kingston, the elderly man who was struck down by a speeding bus in East La Penitence, was yesterday re-admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) complaining of severe chest pain.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – With Pope Benedict XVI now officially in retirement, Catholic cardinals from around the world begin today the complex, cryptic and uncertain process of picking the next leader of the world’s largest church.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Defence Force notes the publication of a letter in the February 20 edition of Kaieteur News, purportedly written by one Kishan Ganesh who claims to have been rejected for admission to the Force’s Standard Officers’ Course (‘The Commodore’s mockery of Jagan’s education ideals’).

Yesterday would have been the 15th wedding anniversary of the Guyanese woman shot dead in Antigua on Tuesday, according to yesterday edition of the Antigua Observer.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With a crippling backlog of approximately 400,000 cases in the courts islandwide, a parliamentary oversight committee was in no mood on Wednesday for excuses as it sought answers from the justice ministry about plans to dramatically reduce the startling number.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Adrian Sutil sealed his Formula One comeback yesterday with Force India announcing they had given the 30-year-old German racer a second chance as team mate to Britain’s Paul Di Resta this season.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Michelle-Anne Richards-Dawson, senior medical officer at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC), could not contain her joy on Wednesday at the groundbreaking ceremony for the well-needed cardiac unit on the grounds of the hospital.

(Reuters) – Swimming great Dawn Fraser wants life bans imposed on members of the Australian men’s 4x100m freestyle relay squad who admitted using a banned sedative in a bonding session before last year’s London Olympics.

In Region Ten, 164 youths  are  better prepared to enter the work force.

FORT MEADE, Md.,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Army private accused of providing secret documents to the WikiLeaks website pleaded guilty yesterday to misusing classified material he felt “should become public,” but denied the top charge of aiding the enemy.

Dear Editor, Is GT&T the best value in Guyana? It certainly doesn’t appear that way for Berbicians.

Do you realize that it was a mere thirteen years after 1763 that the American colonists, (rather “rebelliously”), declared their break-away and independence from Britain?.

Succession in politics and the politics of succession can be rather thorny issues.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s Young Reggae Boyz are heading home from Mexico after failing to qualify for the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Turkey.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Barely a minute into a U.S. Supreme Court hearing, liberal justices began a strategic barrage of questions that came down to this: Why should a time-honored plank of the 1965 Voting Rights Act be invalidated in a case from Alabama with its history of racial discrimination?

(Trinidad Express) Though lacking a GPS system, the 767 aircraft used by Caribbean Airlines to fly to London/Gatwick are suitable because they fulfilled the requirement of having a flight route which ensures the aircraft is no more than 120 minutes away from a suitable airport, Finance Minister Larry Howai stated.

The Berbice Uprising 1763, a 135-page book was launched February 20, 2013.

Dear Editor, A recent statement by Mr Clinton Urling, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) which indicated that security expenditures had of late been a burden on the business community, has not gone down well with some members of the security industry.

United in anger: Professor Verene Shepherd of the University of the West Indies, Mona delivering her lecture titled ‘United in anger, united in war; Gender and anti-slavery in the Caribbean’ at the Umana Yana last evening.

(Trinidad Express) Plans announced recently by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and National Security Minister Jack Warner to give similar powers to the Defence Force as those of police officers are set to go a step further today.