Articles published on Thursday, July 4, 2013
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “The Lone Ranger,” Walt Disney Co’s big-budget western starring Johnny Depp, performed below expectations on Wednesday night, raising the possibility that the movie could saddle the media giant with a loss on the film.
A man accused of robbing a cashier at Woodlands Hospital of $1.1 million and a BlackBerry cellphone was today remanded to prison when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was arrested by Egyptian security forces today in a crackdown against the Islamist movement after the army ousted the country’s first democratically elected president.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday suggested a “regional think tank” be established to examine multiple security threats facing the region.
A United States consular officer is being investigated for allegedly selling visas while stationed in Guyana.
By Jeff Trotman The Linmine Secretariat has withdrawn, with immediate effect, a concession it had given to Chinese company Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc for the company’s trucks to transport materials across the Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge to fix the Moblissa Road.
Executive Director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington yesterday defended the lease of state lands to the Marriott Hotel developer, saying that the project will bring development and create jobs and he accused the Opposition and sections of the media of attempting to stymie it.
The power supply to residents of Lethem is expected to be back to normal from today, provided that the part needed to fix a malfunctioning generator is ready to be used on the engine.
Romario Shepherd-De Jonge’s 91 steered Berbice to a 99 run victory over opponents Demerara, while President’s XI defeated Essequibo by 31 runs as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/GTM Under-19 Inter-County 50 overs-a-side bowled off yesterday in Berbice and Georgetown.
A South Sophia mother of three and her mother were afraid to return home last evening after her child’s father beat her mercilessly and fled after the police arrived.
As Guyana prepares to welcome the return of international cricket after nearly a one-year absence, the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has spared no expense to ensure that ground preparations for the warm-up game and the facade of the GCB premises are of the highest standard.
Vendors of the Mon Repos market are now breathing a sigh of relief after they learned that they will not have to relocate to facilitate the expansion of the four-lane highway.
Guyana’s lone female powerlifter at the ongoing Caribbean and Pan American Powerlifting Championship in Orlando, Florida, USA, Kimberly Mars-Loncke lifted her way to the podium yesterday, securing a gold and a bronze medal.
Dexter Prass, who was remanded to prison on a charge of cocaine possession, has been cleared after another man appeared before the court yesterday to answer to the exact same charge.
In a battle of the Georgetown Conference heavyweights, Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) defeated Charlestown Secondary by a 4-2 score line as action in the Digicel National Secondary Schools U-18 Football Tournament continued at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary on Wednesday.
A man was yesterday accused of abusing his mother and threatening to kill her after he found her at home on Mother’s Day drinking with a male friend.
Three brothers lost their homes after a fire, suspected to have been deliberately set by one of them, ravaged their three apartments at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
Plaisance Secondary defeated the Georgetown Technical Institute (GTI) by a 42-33 score line in their U-20 encounter as action in the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Tuesday.
PARIS, France, CMC- Sprint icon Usain Bolt says he wants to dominate the tracks until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The professional segment of the 28th edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card which was knocked out by a rainstorm last Saturday at the Uitvlugt ground, will box off tomorrow night at the newly refurbished Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).
After wrapping up preparations yesterday for the North American and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) under-19 15s tournament which kicks off in Trinidad on Saturday, National Coach Laurie Adonis was confident of his charges excelling at the tournament.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Pacer Ravi Rampaul has been left out of the West Indies squad for the second half of the Celkon Mobile Cup tri-nation series which continues in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday after matches in Jamaica.
A Suriname-based Guyanese was slapped with three charges on Tuesday when he appeared in the Albion Magistrate’s Court before newly appointed Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh.
(Reuters) – New Zealand fast bowler Chris Martin, the third highest wicket taker for the country in tests, has retired from all forms of cricket at the age of 38.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The scoreline suggested Novak Djokovic had stormed to his fifth successive straight-sets win at this year’s Wimbledon yet the quarter-final tussle with Tomas Berdych yesterday was anything but straightforward.
Labourer Travis Anthony Payne yesterday admitted that he threatened to shoot a policeman but denied robbing him of his gold chain at gun point.
MARSEILLE, France, (Reuters) – Mark Cavendish claimed his 24th Tour de France victory when the Briton won the fifth stage with a perfect sprint as the end game was marred by a huge crash yesterday.
Residents of the residential area of Lamaha Gardens are crying out for help from a spate of thefts and robberies, while the Guyana Police Force is urging them and the public-at-large to be more vigilant.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan cricket has reached its lowest point due to a string of scandals involving players cheating, teams not touring the country and court cases, Pakistan Cricket Board interim chief Najam Sethi said.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday released the names of the female cricketers who are in contention for the upcoming 2013 Inter-County Female Cricket Competition.
An accident which occurred in Region One yesterday has left one man dead and several others injured.
LONDON, England, CMC- Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown, who tested positive for a banned substance in May, is unlikely to receive the standard two year ban, Times of London has reported.
An American citizen was yesterday afternoon nabbed with cocaine in her suitcase as she was preparing to leave Guyana on a flight bound for the JFK International Airport, New York, Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) head James Singh confirmed.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Andy Murray put the home fans through the wringer as he battled back from two sets down to book a place in the Wimbledon semi-finals with an edgy victory over unseeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco yesterday.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Latin American leaders slammed European governments yesterday for diverting Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane on rumors it was carrying a wanted former U.S.
Murdered Brazilian dredge owner Jose Francisco De Sousa Lema was robbed of raw gold by three masked men with guns and after the attack his body was left lying on the roadway for most of Tuesday because police at the nearest stations did not have any transportation to get them to the isolated area.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists have for the first time created a functional human liver from stem cells derived from skin and blood and say their success points to a future where much-needed livers and other transplant organs could be made in a laboratory.
The Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) yesterday confirmed the overseas trio of Australian Ben Rohrer, Pakistani Ahmed Shehzad and South African Davy Jacobs, as cover players drafted in as replacements for the forthcoming inaugural tournament.
Despite the cause of death for the Woodley Park murder victim being listed as fractured skull, the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution has advised against charges.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s army overthrew elected President Mohamed Mursi, delighting millions who hated Islamist rule but incensing his supporters, who saw a military coup that poses dilemmas for Western leaders who promote democracy.
Dear Editor, Time and again, efforts are continuously being made by British representatives through the written press to deceive Guyanese public opinion with arguments that the annals of history simply tell otherwise; in other words, an attempt to distort the facts as they actually happened and to conceal the real intentions of colonial occupation.
Dear Editor, Aspects of the pronouncement of the EU Delegation’s Ambassador, as reported in Stabroek News of June 21, invite careful examination, certainly by those who know more of the Guyana sugar industry than any senior official of the current administration, and who always wondered how the latter dealt with earlier EU disbursements.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Tickets have been sold out for the remaining matches of the Celkon Mobile Cup tri-nation series at Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad, officials of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have disclosed.
Jagdeo Thakurdeen, the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara electrician who was found dead on Sunday night at Good Hope, died as a result of head injuries, a post-mortem examination has found and the man’s widow yesterday said that his death may have been avoided if police had acted on a report she made to them.
Dear Editor, I have noticed a practice (though well intended) of alerting users of the road in different areas of impending danger by placing makeshift objects in craters.
APNU executive member Joe Harmon says that the main opposition wants a sit down with executives of the Guyana Power and Light Inc.
A Venezuelan national who entered Guyana illegally, and who also claimed he was here to purchase medication since he suffers from high blood pressure after which he would return to Venezuela, was yesterday fined $30,000 or the alternative of six months imprisonment Gloeny Enrique Mendez Gonzalez, 42, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore on a charge that on June 23,
Dear Editor, The aesthetic content created to be visually assessed by an onlooker can sometimes be exceedingly difficult, even to some who themselves create art.
Tattoo artist Nicholas Troy, who said cannabis found in his shop was planted there, was yesterday remanded to prison.
Dear Editor, I have applied for my old age pension benefit from NIS since May 2, 2012 and to date I have not received any benefits nor any good word from NIS.
Drama festival: West Demerara Secondary School students performing `The Lost Hope’ during the launching yesterday of the 8th Secondary Schools Drama Festival 2013 at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, where students from schools from Regions 2, 3 and 4 showed their talents through drama under the theme of Tackling Child Labour.
Dear Editor, I have a handful of simple, straightforward questions for those prominent citizens who participated in the recent investment seminar.
Sophia residents will now have access to free dental services in their area with the opening of a new clinic, a collaborative effort of the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central and the Ministry of Health.
Cultural and Caribbean identity: Dr Jeannette Allsopp co-editor of “Language, Cultural and Caribbean Identity” displays a copy of the book dedicated to the work of her late husband, renowned Caribbean Linguist Richard Allsopp.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Commissioner of Customs Major (retd) Richard Reese has expressed satisfaction with the combined efforts of the various law-enforcement agencies in patrolling the nation’s ports.
Scanning our society for the focal point, the cornerstone of our development potential, the foundation pillar on which we build everything else, the critical key that allows our people to develop into a world class society, we come to one answer: our people.
Dear Editor, It is clear that Dr Frank Anthony and Dr David Dabydeen have both reached some point of desperation when it comes to evading the public on the Caribbean Press.
A Foulis man is now the owner of an Apple iPhone 5 after his name was drawn during the first anniversary promotion for Apple products at Global Technology.
Guyana’s dismal record on maternal mortality would have contributed to the near-fail the region received on this target when the 2013 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report was released on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland.
