Daily Archive: Saturday, March 16, 2013

BRUSSELS/NICOSIA,  (Reuters) – The euro zone agreed today to hand Cyprus a bailout worth 10 billion euros ($13 billion), but demanded depositors in its banks forfeit some money to stave off bankruptcy despite the risk of a wider run on savings.

Former PPP leading light Ralph Ramkarran has criticized the party’s leaders over abuse heaped on AFC executive Moses Nagamootoo at a remembrance for the Jagans two weeks ago at Port Mourant.

(Jamaica Observer) Reputed Tavern gang leader Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton and co-accused Micah Allen were yesterday sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in the High Court Division of the Gun Court.

(Jamaica Observer) SHREWSBURY, Westmoreland — The Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) was up late last evening probing the controversial police shooting death of three members of this community — a fireman, his brother and their cousin.

The West Indies Cricket Board today announced that the 7th round Regional Super50 match between Guyana and Jamaica will be played as a day/night encounter at the Guyana National Stadium in Providence on April 7th.

(WICB) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The West Indies Cricket Board’s Selection Panel today named the 13-man squad for the 2nd Test match against Zimbabwe at Windsor Park, Dominica.

The police say they are investigating the suspected murder of an unidentified male Amerindian, in his twenties, whose body was found at about 0600h.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1740h yesterday at Windsor Forest, WCD, and which resulted in the death of 3-year-old Salima Shakeel, of Windsor Forest.

(Barbados Nation) The Merrymen, one of Barbados’ best known groups internationally, are promising a night of surprises and nostalgia with their 50th anniversary show coming off at the Barbados Yacht Club on March 30.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s defeated presidential contender Raila Odinga filed a legal challenge to his election loss today in a major test of the country’s democratic system five years after a disputed vote triggered deadly tribal clashes.

The Environmental Assess-ment Board (EAB) will on Monday hold a hearing at Yarrowkabra on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway to determine whether a proposed sand mine project by BK International will affect the operations of Bulkan’s Timber Works and whether there is need for an Environmental Impact Assessment prior to giving the go ahead.

Up to December 31 last year, Norway had not deposited the US$45 million that Guyana had qualified for in 2012 under the two countries’ forests protection plan, according to the latest report from the World Bank.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday announced that it will hold its long-delayed 30th Congress in August at Port Mourant, Berbice, the birthplace of its founder, the late president Cheddi Jagan.

Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud has ordered an investigation into claims by several miners being evicted from the Romanex claim at Marudi Mountain, in Region Nine, that they were paid for gold they sold to the Guyana Gold Board.

A Barbados company is pushing ahead with a mega farm in Region Nine which will have rice as its centre piece.

A €8.6 million programme to boost the region’s agriculture sector, particularly small producers, was inked yesterday between the European Union (EU) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA).

Prime Minister Sam Hinds’ revelation in Parliament on Thursday that multiple radio frequencies were handed out shortly before the November, 2011 general election to several persons has deepened criticism of the process as it is being argued that frequencies were assigned to friends of the administration while others have been ignored.

The National Assembly after six hours of fiery debate on Thursday adopted an opposition-led motion to put measures in place to restore the capital to its former glory In the motion, which was brought before the House by APNU MP Volda Lawrence,

Cabinet has approved the renaming of the Guyana Prison Service, which will be called the Guyana Prison and Correctional Service, the Home Ministry announced yesterday.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is advising 60Hz customers in sections of Georgetown, lower East Coast and parts of East bank of Demerara that their power supply will be interrupted on Sunday.

A flower garden is to be created at the burial site of the 15 East Indian indentured labourers killed during the 1913 Rose Hall sugar workers strike in order to mark the centenary anniversary of their deaths.

The Ministry of Public Works has plans to upgrade and expand the East Bank Berbice Public Road under a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), according to Minister Robeson Benn, who said works will commence in the first quarter of 2014.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that they broke into offices of local wireless communications security service provider El Dorado Communications and stole $12M in local and foreign currency.

Lance Walters was on Thursday sentenced to serve a three-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of cocaine possession.

Nominations for the election of a new executive to manage the affairs of football in Guyana closed yesterday with three possible candidates vying for the presidency.

A clerk who was fingered in a multi-million-dollar theft at the Mahdia Post Office was on Thursday released on $650,000 bail, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Ansa McAl’s Marketing Manager Troy Cadogan’s run for the presidency of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) came to end on Thursday night.

The crème de la crème of Guyana’s first time and under-23 powerlifters are set to transform the New Amsterdam Multilateral School into a battle ground when this year’s annual juniors and novices powerlifting championships are staged today.

A Linden man was seriously wounded yesterday after he was repeatedly stabbed by the mother of his children, following several hours of quarrelling.

Former Bishops’ High School student Ashley Tasher hopes to soar ahead of the competition when she makes her debut at the XLII CARIFTA Games which will be held at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, The Bahamas from March 28- April 1.

“My favourite genres of music are dancehall and hip hop. They are almost mirrors of each other because they are voices for two cultures and they come from the streets; so the music relates to the common man.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s main oil-producing states asked their country’s Supreme Court on Friday to overturn a new law that strips them of billions of dollars in royalties levied on the output of rich offshore oil fields.

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) says the failure of the previous executive of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) to produce audited financial statements to the new executive has hampered its ability to determine its financial status.

As Guyana warms into the technological and digital age, more and more Guyanese are logging into and being part of the infinite world of possibilities – the internet.

Dear Editor, Although others have condemned the size of the compensation awarded by the Linden Commission of Enquiry (the Report uses the words “awarded” and “recommended” interchangeably),  the travesty of justice becomes clearer if we break the figures down.

Beverly McLean-Cutting the missing school teacher, who was last seen in the Tucville area on Monday last,

LONDON, (Reuters) – A donated human liver has been kept alive, warm and functioning outside a human being on a newly-developed machine and then successfully transplanted into patients in a medical world first.

Dear Editor, We, the residents of Berbice, have patiently suffered through a never-ending series of blackouts from GPL.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds asked for another deferment of the consideration of the Telecommunications Bill and the Public Utilities Commission (Amendment) Bill on Thursday, saying that that government is still locked in talks with Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T) and Digicel and hopes to conclude them in a timely manner.

(Jamaica Observer) ARC Systems Limited will use its new J$400- million lumber treatment plant as a platform to make a foray into the Caribbean export market as well as door manufacturing.

Coach of the Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC), Mark Scott has replaced Julian Edmonds as coach of the CARIFTA Games track and field team.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Matt Prior produced an exceptional counter-attacking innings then Stuart Broad captured two wickets in successive balls as England took control of the second test against New Zealand by the close of play of the second day yesterday.

The curtain will come down today to signal the end of the Farfan and Mendes first division hockey tournament and raise to herald the opening of the John Fernandes Insurance Service second division competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground.

Two of the five persons who were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Thursday after an accident near Buckhall, Essequibo River have been discharged.

Hi Everyone, One of the main reasons I like to cook roast pork is just so that I can make and eat the cracklings.

The Demerara Volleyball Association in collaboration with Kitana Travel Service will stage a one day tournament for third division teams in Demerara today at the National Gymnasium.

Dear Editor, Many years ago, during the People’s National Congress administration under the late President LFS Burnham, Lindentown supplied electrical energy via a 69KV transmission circuit to Georgetown which was generated from the Alumina Plant steam power station.

Dear Editor, Your commendable editorial of March 14 on `Guyana’s porous coastline’ alluded to the complete unexpectedness of the intensity of the tides at certain places.

Transport Sports Club will face a stern test from the Guyana Defence Force at the Malteenoes Sports Club ground today and tomorrow when the Hadi’s World Incorporated sponsored Georgetown Cricket Association first division, two-day cricket competition continues this weekend with three matches.

(BBC) Australia captain Michael Clarke was dismissed for a first-ball duck as his side finished day two of the third Test against India on 273-7 yesterday.

Minexco Petroleum, a private junior oil and gas exploration and production company, is seeking to become the latest addition to the group of companies searching for oil in the Guyana basin. 

The Shoe Source store has announced an annual scholarship valued $508,000 for one student to attend the University of Guyana for a four-year degree programme through a partnership with the US non-governmental organisation, Scholarship for Advanced Guyanese Education (SAGE).

(Reuters) – Misbah-ul-Haq played a captain’s innings with an unbeaten 57 as he steered Pakistan to a six-wicket victory over South Africa in the rain-affected second one-day international at Centurion  yesterday.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K Juman Yassin on Thursday resigned from the Electoral Commission set up to monitor the upcoming elections of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).

Dear Editor, I write in relation to the March 8th letter in Stabroek News entitled `The Sexual Offences Act must be fully implemented’.

Visual artist Tracy Douglas and Author of Legend of the Swan Children Maureen Marks-Mendonca will host an exhibition under the name ‘Wombmyan’ at Moray House on March 21 from 10:00 hrs to 18:00 hrs in recognition of International Women’s Month, 2013.

Former Technical Director of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and Trinidad & Tobago’s national football coach Jamaal Shabazz has called the upcoming April 12 GFF elections the most important in the history of Guyana’s football.

OXON HILL, Md.,  (Reuters) – An event aimed at helping Republicans reach out to black voters devolved into arguments over race yesterday at an influential gathering of conservative activists, according to media reports.

The under-construction state-of-the-art rice mill at the Santa Fe mega farm project in Region Nine.

(Billboard) – Vested in Culture chairman Silvia Rhone’s latest protege, 21-year-old Kat Dahlia, is making waves online and on-air with her debut single “Gangsta” (Epic).

The US Embassy in Georgetown has announced changes to the non-immigrant visa application and appointment process, effective from yesterday.

(Reuters) – Karim Wade, son of a former Senegalese president, has been accused by prosecutors of amassing assets worth $1.4 billion and given one month to prove they were lawfully acquired or face corruption charges, Wade’s lawyer said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British police are investigating an estimated 600 new allegations of phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World newspaper, Britain’s Guardian newspaper said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am responding to comments reportedly made by Prof.

(Billboard) –  The actress/singer’s almost acapella track “Cups” gets a musical makeover, spurring sudden programmer interest.

Dear Editor, The election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy is great news.

Some 13 games are expected to be contested this weekend when the Digital Technology/Chow Pow 10/10 Challenge Series continues today and tomorrow at the Wales Community Centre Ground.

A medical doctor was on Thursday fined $80,000 with an alternative of two months imprisonment for assaulting a man.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-National player Yannick Cariah delivered a dominant all round performance but failed to stop PowerGen from eclipsing Bamboo in a nail biting semi-final of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board 50 overs tournament Thursday.

Religion and politics have always been uneasy bedfellows, particularly within the three Abrahamic traditions that have dominated the Western world.

Dear Editor, Documentation of Guyana’s post-colonial history will undoubtedly highlight the contribution of our national leaders and policy-makers.

(Billboard) – When Snoop Dogg transformed himself into Snoop Lion last summer, many were surprised by the new sound from the rapper who’d once released hits like “Gin & Juice” and “Drop it Like it’s Hot.”

The medical establishment tells us that nearly 50% of women have Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).

Patricia Chase-Green was yesterday elected as the Deputy Mayor of Georgetown.

All the president’s maids! A scene from the GT&T Link Show 29, which will be heldover for the final time tonight and tomorrow night, starting at 8 o’ clock at the National Cultural Centre; Lucky Dollar’s giveaways are on both nights.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The first player from the Leeward Islands to have been selected on the West Indies cricket team, Elquemedo Willet, is to be honored at a gala ceremony in Antigua early next month.

Orlando Simpson has been sentenced to a six-month jail term after he pleaded guilty to a wounding another man with a spade.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans yesterday to bolster U.S.

The Environmental Assess-ment Board (EAB) will on Monday hold a hearing at Yarrowkabra on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway to determine whether a proposed sand mine project by BK International will affect the operations of Bulkan’s Timber Works and whether there is need for an Environmental Impact Assessment prior to giving the go ahead.