CAL fined for four-hour JFK tarmac delay
Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has been fined $20M (US$100,000) by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for a four-hour delay on the tarmac of the JFK Airport in New York last August.
Articles published on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has been fined $20M (US$100,000) by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for a four-hour delay on the tarmac of the JFK Airport in New York last August.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC- Sprint super star Usain Bolt today launched his season with a 150-metre win on a track set up at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
LAHORE, (Reuters) – Pakistan have dropped senior batsman Younus Khan from the list of 30 probable players announced for this year’s ICC Champions Trophy today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – With U.S. business and labor now in agreement, a bipartisan group of U.S.
The New Building Society has registered a surplus of $825M for 2012 compared to $771M in 2011.
At about 1030h yesterday, police say that Ryan Blackett, 39 years, of Crane Housing Scheme, WCD, was at a shop at Houston, EBD, when he was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.
(Barbados Nation) MOTHERS HAVE been accepting payments, some as high as B$10 000, to end court cases against men charged with raping their daughters.
(Trinidad Express) MINISTER of National Security Jack Warner, who was reported as being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States, says he will not be “crucified” by persons calling for his removal as minister.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis used his first Easter Sunday address to call for peace in the world and appealed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula.
(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is reportedly facing what amounts to more than TT$500 million in debt, but in response to an article printed in a weekly publication which alleged that CAL is bankrupt and its board has been attempting to borrow more than TT$100 million from the Government to pay its staff and suppliers, CAL’s corporate communications manager Clint Williams said he could not speak specifically to the article.
(Trinidad Express) The Government has admitted to not being successful in obtaining information from United States authorities, regarding alleged Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) probes into National Security Minister Jack Warner, through established diplomatic channels.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has raised an alarm over the police’s investigation of serious crimes, saying that case files show “poor and inadequate” work that has left several murders, including all that were committed in ‘D’ Division last year, unsolved.
The two opposition bills passed by the National Assembly were sent to President Donald Ramotar on February 25 and the 21-day deadline during which he can either assent to or reject the bills has passed with no word on the President’s decision.
The evidence in the deaths of Cuban national Dr Guillermo Martinez and Berbican Usawatie Persaud whose bodies were found in a Bel Air house in March, 2010 points to a double murder, according to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack who also said that the investigating ranks were not thorough and overlooked clues.
Representatives of the government and the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) met on Friday and came closer to finalising the chairpersons of two key committees established under the agreement signed over seven months ago to end the Linden protests, Chairman of the Region 10 RDC Sharma Solomon says.
After years of trying and many times being ignored, a Guyanese-born British artist finally gained commercial success after one of his ‘forgotten’ paintings sold for £185,000 in New York recently.
Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh during his budget presentation last Monday acknowledged that Guyana’s bauxite fortunes continue to be mixed with Bosai’s operations benefiting from strong prices of over $US400 per tonne while Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.
Up to eight persons were yesterday rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital after a pick-up truck ran into a minibus along the Crane Public Road, West Coast Demerara.
At the end of February, $4.4B had been paid out to 8,634 policyholders of the now liquidated CLICO (Guyana) Inc.
In order for businesswomen in Guyana to grow they need to see each other as partners and collaborate instead of just competitors and to “look at the bigger picture of things and not be small minded,” Lucia L Desir says.
Doctors were up to press time last night working to save the hands of a 20-year-old man who was badly chopped during a robbery at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara.
On a foggy Wednesday morning as she washed clothes in the cold, dark water of the Kako River, a woman related that she once took a young relative to the city and when it was time to bathe, the girl asked where the river was so that they take a bath.
Currently in the midst of its busiest time of the year, Lethem continues to experience power woes with businesses forced to rely on their back-up generators as the border town endures its fourth week of constant power outages.
Introduction: For decades, perhaps in some cases even close to a century, family businesses have formed the backbone of the Guyana economy.
Parishioners of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church are eagerly anticipating the likely completion in December of the newly constructed concrete building after the historical wooden church was completely destroyed by fire eight years ago.
Guyana’s leading middle distance athletes, Cassey George and Jevina Straker secured two gold medals for Guyana in the 1500 metres yesterday evening at the XLII CARIFTA Games at the Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, The Bahamas.
Sveinsson Knut, Canute the Great, King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018 and King of Norway from 1030 until he died in 1035, was perhaps the most successful and effective of the early rulers of England.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – West Indies batsman Assad Fudadin missed out on his third first class century as Guyana rallied against Combined Campuses and Colleges in their sixth round match here yesterday.
Newly installed Ambassador of Portugal to Guyana, Mario Alberto Lino da Silva, said his country is looking forward to a mutually beneficial partnership with Guyana, particularly in the area of information technology and renewable energy where it possesses a great deal of expertise.
What a pleasant surprise! Mexico, whose government routinely supports human rights violators throughout the region, played a key role in thwarting an effort by a group of countries to weaken the region’s most important human rights commission.
The ever improving ruggers from the University of Guyana (UG), bounced back from a humiliating loss last week against the Hornets to run away with a 19-17 victory against the rugged Guyana Defence Force (GDF) team yesterday despite Breon Walks’ theatrics.
Introduction In this week’s column I start with a wrap-up of the discussion on uncertainty and risk as applied to government projects and then go on to offer brief comments on the notion: time is money.
We have a number of folks with very perceptive eyes writing columns or letters to the press on a daily basis pointing out various traumas or irregularities in the country.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Veteran batsman Sylvester Joseph stroked an aggressive half-century but Barbados stole honours on the rain-ruined opening day of the sixth round Regional Four-Day Championship match here yesterday.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago knocked over five-time defending champions Jamaica cheaply to grab the advantage on the opening day of their sixth round clash in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.
By Roberto Guareschi BUENOS AIRES – Jorge Mario Bergoglio – not an Italian, not a European, but a Latin American from Argentina – has now been chosen as the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
The executive members of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) convened on Thursday and selected the best possible team to represent Guyana and return with a massive medal haul at the Pan American/ North American/ Caribbean Powerlifting Championships.
Peter Hakim is president emeritus and senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy organization tank on Western Hemisphere affairs.
Two former national football players Kayode McKinnon and Charles `Lily’ Pollard are throwing their support behind former Kashif and Shanghai Director Aubrey `Shanghai’ Major in the race to become president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).
Easter is all around, just look at the lovely flowers in bloom and you can tell it is that time of the year!
Something innovative is happening in chess at the FIDE World Chess Can-didates’ Tour-nament in London.
AS new president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, takes his place at the head of the table he finds a plate before him spilling over with urgent matters to attend to.
As the two-year death anniversary of former boxer Linden Mortley nears, his relatives say that they are still living in fear because they did not know who murdered him and why.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder has regained consciousness and is talking to friends and family as he recovers from an alleged assault in Christchurch earlier this week, his manager said yesterday.
Telcor & Cultural Broadcasting Inc has appealed the decision by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang to quash a decision by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) approving an application by the company to construct a building to house the company’s operations in Queenstown.
By Esther Dyson PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!,
Dear Editor, As Guyanese analyse the Budget for 2013 it is useful to compare some of the numbers with how they are presented and received.
Hours before inking a restructured contract to headline the ‘Firestorm’ card billed for April 20 at the Princess Hotel, three- division champion, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell held a press briefing at the Town To Country Real Estate Services yesterday to announce his partnership with the company.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s Supreme Court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential election victory yesterday and his defeated rival accepted the ruling, helping douse tensions after tribal violence blighted the election five years ago.
Last week, we confessed our inability to find a correct place to discuss the condition of ‘false pregnancy’.
Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud has said that the creation of the ministry will bring about a level of harmonisation, cohesion and better coordination in the management and utilisation of Guyana’s resources to achieve maximum benefits not only for today, but also for future generations.
While Anansi stories are dominant in the folk tales of the Caribbean, they were also a favourite in the storytelling tradition when it was a popular past-time in the region.
Dear Editor, As we end this month in which we observed Consumer Day, this consumer would like to highlight some concerns and hope someone will listen up and take some corrective action.
At about 0450h on Friday, police say that, a female security guard attached to a private security service was on duty at the Guyana Forestry Commission Building at Kara Kara, Linden, when she was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.
Den Amstel Porknockers compliments of a Jeffrey Perreira hat trick defeated Santos FC 3-2 to book their semi-final spot as quarterfinal action in the Mayor’s Cup football tourney continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground on Thursday.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said yesterday Russia will face unrest unless society is made more democratic despite President Vladimir Putin’s success in cracking down on dissent.
By Sami Mahroum ABU DHABI – In the 1949 British film The Third Man, the character Harry Lime observes that, during the Borgia family’s rule in Renaissance Italy, the country “had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed.
Fly Jamaica is presently working with Guyana’s authorities to ready itself for flights here even as the start-up airline has commenced its Kingston, Jamaica to New York route and is working on going to Toronto, Canada, said Captain Ronald Reece, one of the principals of the venture.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – The first commercial flight between Egypt and Iran in 34 years took off yesterday, the latest step towards normalising ties broken following the 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution.
Dear Editor, Reference is made to Elton McRae’s letter, `Labour leaders failed on the Marriott workers issue’ (SN March 19, 2013).
Coach of the Guyana team that is scheduled to depart tomorrow for Trinidad and Tobago to participate in the Caribbean Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships Idi Lewis is expecting great things from Chelsea and Kyle Edghill and Shemar Britton.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – A grand jury indicted 35 former Atlanta public school educators, including an award-winning former superintendent, on Friday for allegedly conspiring to cheat on standardized test scores to obtain cash bonuses.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Moravian Church in Guyana has said that the church will not provide documented proof that it is indeed the legal owner of land located in Graham’s Hall, Industry, East Coast Demerara that it is now selling to occupants.
Global Food Festival: The Guyana Karate College yesterday held a Global Food Festival at the Everest Cricket Club to raise money for its Dojo (a formal training place) at Liliendaal.
LAHORE, (Reuters) – Misbah-ul-Haq has identified Twenty20 cricket as the means by which Pakistan can bring international competition back to the country.
Dear Editor, I have been following the centennial celebration of aviation history in Guyana and I like many others think it is fitting that we pause and pay homage to, and remember the men and women who were and continue to be, a part of our rich aviation history.
In the last few days the Government of Cyprus has begun to implement the measures demanded of it by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
(Photos by Gaulbert Sutherland)An old photo from the Kramer family when the village of Kako startedThe weather-beaten Kako Primary SchoolThe Kako Seventh Day Adventist church with ‘The Angry One’, Karawuta Mountain, in the backgroundThe savannah at Kako with ‘The Angry One’, Karawuta Mountain, in the backgroundA home in KakoThe pristine, dark waters of the Kako River meet the silt-laden, discoloured waters of the Mazaruni River which was discoloured as a result of miningDrinking water being obtained from the Kako RiverThis resident heads to the farm with his bow and arrowsAfter a game of volleyball, these youngsters posed for a photo at Kako last weekMeals for the students of the Kako Primary SchoolHeadmistress of the Kako Primary School, Kathleen Andrews, examines the brand-new but non-functional solar power system which was installed in December but never worked
(Trinidad Express) Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago awoke to darkness early Friday morning after a major natural gas disruption shut down turbines at all three of the country’s power generation plants late Thursday night.
A month after concerns were raised about the state of the $28 million Kumaka-San Jose Bridge in Region One, residents have once again voiced their displeasure over the quality of the ongoing works.
Camptown FC will oppose Pele FC in the final of the third annual Camptown Football Classic hosted by Gordon Van Rossum on Wednesday at 20:00hrs at the Camptown Football Club ground, Campbellville.
There is one thing which doesn’t have a high profile in the Budget.
Dear Editor, An English friend of mine, who once served in Guyana on the VSO programme and would like to visit again, has asked me to find out whether there are any Quakers meeting in Guyana.