Daily Archive: Monday, April 22, 2013

(Barbados Nation) – Rihanna is first artist in the 20-year history of Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs radio airplay chart to tally ten Number Ones, as “Stay”, featuring Mikky Ekko, rises.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian police said today they had arrested and charged two men with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al Qaeda elements in Iran.

AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan believes local government elections are possible this year and has urged the fast-tracking of the examination of four crucial bills so that elections could be held by November.

(Trinidad Express) Jack Warner, who resigned as National Security Minister yesterday, today tendered his resignation as Chairman of the United National Congress.

At about 0045h today, police say that Troy Adams, 40 years, of Norton Street, Georgetown, was at Camp Street and North Road, Georgetown, when he was confronted by two men armed with handguns.

MARABELLA, Trinidad,  CMC-Police intervened to bring a premature end to an amateur boxing card featuring female boxers from Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados in the southern city of Marabella on Saturday night.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro replaced Venezuelan Finance Minister Jorge Giordani yesterday, appointing central bank chief Nelson Merentes in his place two days after being sworn in as the late Hugo Chavez’s successor.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Years after they smashed an international drug ring operating in Montego Bay, St James, with help from nationals of one South American country, the Jamaican police say they are seeing troubling signs of a re-emergence of the deadly cocaine trade here.

(Barbados Nation) Police have smashed what they believe is a human trafficking ring here, and for the first time have charged individuals with this crime.

The Grace Kennedy Group is looking to further expand into Guyana’s financial services sector with plans to establish mobile money services, a small business loan agency, a bank and insurance services.

Members of the Guyana Women’s Miners Organisation (GWMO) yesterday dramatically rescued four young girls who were being kept against their will in Tiger Creek, Puruni Backdam and the head of the group, Simona Broomes was later physically attacked by the owners of the shop where the quartet was being held.

Essequibo rice farmers yesterday vowed to continue protests over prices from mills even as the GRDB promised mechanisms following several meetings where bags of paddy were opened up to show the growers infestation and poor quality.

The body of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank was yesterday pulled from the Essequibo River at Makouria.

The US government has said that there was a lack of transparency in the granting of 10 radio licences which were issued in 2011 by former President Bharrat Jagdeo shortly before he demitted office.

A Kitty bus driver is nursing a gunshot wound in the abdomen at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was attacked yesterday morning.

About 100 residents of Haruru, Upper Berbice River, Region 10, yesterday blocked the main road used by Rusal Bauxite Company workers to get to the company’s Kwakwani mining site over a quarrel for land rental fees and a proposal to block them from accessing a logging area slated to be a mining site.

On Friday, former President Bharrat Jagdeo was conferred with the highest honour of the State of Roraima, Brazil, the Order of Merit ‘Forte Sao Joaquim’.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds has taken umbrage at two headlines appearing one day apart speaking of the issuing of cable licences in Guyana favouring friends of the administration and the methodology utilised in other countries for the allocation of such licences.

Main opposition APNU on Friday tabled a motion to cut a proposed allocation under the Ministry of Housing in the amount of $150 million to $20 million.

An alert caretaker at the ISA Islamic School at East Street, Georgetown helped to avert a robbery around 3 am yesterday and recovered a number of items that were already stashed in several bags.

Trucks parked at the sides of the road in BV may have once again led to an accident which this time left a man nursing injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

A suspect in the shooting to death of South Ruimveldt businessman Orin Joseph was arrested last week but was later released on station bail,

In a bruising, bloody battle between two of South America’s top featherweights, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell defeated a game Raphael ‘El Potro’ Hernandez to earn the vacant WBC CABOFE title in an exciting action-packed fight at the Princess Hotel.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president Christopher Matthias yesterday said that the emphasis of the recent CONCACAF congress in Panama City, Panama last week was to ascertain the developmental thrust of CFU, CONCACAF and FIFA while sharing a measure of the GFF’s concept.

By Clifton Ross Demerara’s U15 cricket team defeated Berbice by 91 runs yesterday to be the new champions of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Limacol U15 cricket competition.

Dear Editor, I welcome Mr. David Gopaul’s letter (`Ram is attributing additional costs to the Amaila hydro-project based on pure speculation’ SN April 18, 2013) for providing me with the opportunity to ask him to obtain and share vital information about Amaila which Guyanese have for years been seeking.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Windward Islands have been set a revised target of 134 off 29 overs to win the Regional Super50 final against Combined Campuses and Colleges, after persistent rain delayed their run chase by almost two hours here last night.

Last year’s most successful cyclist, Robin Persaud, powered to his second win of the season by outsprinting this year’s most outstanding cyclist, Alonzo Greaves to claim the second annual Powerade 50-mile road race at West Demerara yesterday.

Dear Editor, I refer to F Skinner’s letter in SN of April 8, `The African Guyanese Community has to find a way to develop strong financial independence.’

Dear Editor, How many more secret contracts would it take to offer better health care to the Guyanese people? 

By Juanita Hooper Tevin Garraway separated himself from CARIFTA Games bronze medalist Jason Yaw in the 200m of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) National Youth/Junior Championship yesterday afternoon at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Dear Editor, On the issue of farmers’ paddy being damaged, this can mean whole or broken kernels showing obvious deterioration due to pests or other causes, hence it is a non–issue  and farmers  should be allowed  proper sampling and  grading which is not being carried out by the millers or graders. 

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner resigned as Trinidad and Tobago’s national security minister yesterday, two days after an investigation accused him of “fraudulent” management of the CONCACAF soccer confederation, the prime minister’s office said.

Jai Signs and Designs were crowned the Hikers Hockey Club Inaugural Seven-A-Side mixed Hockey Festival champions after they defeated Antonio’s Grille 2-0 via penalty shootout when the one-day extravaganza concluded at the Saints Recreational Ground Carifesta Avenue yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers asked yesterday why the FBI had failed to spot the danger from one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and they complained it was one of a series of cases in which someone the agency had investigated had later taken part in attacks.

Dear Editor, I write to draw readers’ attention to the speed which the Boston police, with assistance from the FBI and the anti-terrorist network, were able to crack the marathon bombing case. 

Squash siblings Ashley and Jason Ray Khalil carted off both titles of the inaugural Ansa McAl-sponsored senior Easter Squash tournament which concluded yesterday afternoon at the Georgetown Club’s squash facility.

ABIDJAN,  (Reuters) – Africa-focused miner Randgold Resources sees any further fall in the price of gold as an opportunity to expand its exploration activities cheaply, the company’s chief executive said.

Debutant Kalyan Tiwari captured the EXEIM MINING SUPPLIES inaugural Medal Play golf tournament Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club.

Dear Editor, Apart from the Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall’s penchant for verbal explosions and irrational adjectives, and in this instance his descriptions of the National Assembly’s decision to make budgetary cuts, he needs to lay out, in respectful language and logically, drawing on excerpts from the Chief Justice’s (CJ) ruling, the PPP’s case that the National Assembly cannot cut the budget.

   20th anniversary for Grace Kennedy: Grace Kennedy Chief Executive Officer Don Wehby (third from left) with other company officials at its celebration of 20 years in Guyana at the Pegasus Hotel on Saturday.

Introduction For some time now, I have been considering writing on the subject of the Public Service.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian court sentenced 23 police officers yesterday to 156 years in jail each for killing 13 inmates in Brazil’s bloodiest prison revolt in which 111 inmates died more than 20 years ago.

By Harold Drayton Harold A. Drayton served as the First Deputy Vice-Chancellor (1963-1964) at the University of Guyana, and as Professor and Head of the Department of Biology.

During Thursday’s consideration in the National Assembly of the estimates of expenditure for the Ministry of Labour, the question of unemployment statistics arose. 

Dear Editor, I readily admit my ignorance on the finer points of political horse-trading and backroom deals so perhaps my friends in the Alliance For Change can help me in a certain regard. 

NEW DELHI,  IANS/CMC – Indian shotgun opener Virender Sewhag has hailed the influence of West Indies batting legend Sir Vivian Richards, after hammering an unbeaten 95 end a run of poor form and propel Delhi Daredevils to their first win of the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

Photos and interviews by Feona Morrison and Javone Vickerie   The 2013 budget proposes that pensioners receive an increase in old age pension from $10,000 to $12,500 in the 2013 Budget as well as an annual assistance of up to $20,000 to pay for electricity charges incurred.