Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 6, 2013

(Trinidad Express) The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre has recorded a magnitude 4.1 earthquake off Trinidad’s north west peninsular.

The Alliance for Change this afternoon said it has rejected the offer of resignation by its Chairman Nigel Hughes and reposes full confidence in him.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight bound for Guyana out of Piarco International Airport was delayed for close to half-an-hour yesterday, after a New York-based Guyana national was escorted off the aircraft for abusive behaviour toward flight attendants. Mark

AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes today offered his resignation to the party after what he said was a clear attempt to tarnish the name of the AFC relative to its publicly stated positions on the Amaila Hydro project.

SANAA,  (Reuters) – The United States told its citizens in Yemen today to leave immediately and ordered the evacuation of non-essential U.S.

In a move described as “unconscionable” by Finance Minister Ashni Singh, the combined APNU/AFC opposition yesterday opted to adjourn to October, the Special Select Committee charged with considering the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment ) Bill.

Plans to build a hydro-electric project in this country took a step closer to reality with a key Opposition Parliamentarian saying he stands ready to support the Amaila Falls deal .

Despite the controversy over its siting, government last evening unveiled the 1823 Monument and President Donald Ramotar hailed it as a sign that the nation would not forget the struggles of its ancestors.

The family of watchman Darnley King, whose body was found in a mining camp at White Water, Konawaruk, last Tuesday, says there are a lot of inconsistencies in the accounts of his death, which an autopsy found was caused by multiple blunt trauma.

Despite calm emerging from the Corentyne congress of the ruling political party, a brewing storm raged on Saturday in secret voting for its leaders, former PPP stalwart, Moses Nagamootoo, says.

Delon Melville, whose partially-decomposed body was found last Friday in a trench at Barnwell North, Mocha, East Bank Demerara days after he went missing, sustained multiple stab wounds before his death.

Winston George, Kadecia Baird and Adam Harris are expected to participate at the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) World championships which get underway this weekend in Moscow, Russia.

An airport taxi driver died instantly yesterday morning when the car he was driving slammed into a sand truck in the vicinity of Land of Canaan on the East Bank of Demerara.

Frederick Minty, the elderly security guard beaten bloody by two robbers at Stanley-town, New Amsterdam, last Thursday night, has succumbed to his injuries.

Simone Benjamin, who admitted to throwing a liquid on a Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) security guard after a row at the company’s Main Street office, was yesterday spared sentencing after she agreed to compensate the victim.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Christopher Matthias has been officially selected to become a member of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Developmental Committee.

Four police officers were sentenced to 18 months imprisonment each last Friday after being found guilty of assaulting businessman Nizam Khan.

National cycling coach, Hassan Mohamed is optimistic of his charges out pedaling their Surinamese counterparts when the first leg of the 2013 Inter Guiana Games (IGG) rolls off on Friday.

From January to mid-July of this year there have been 20 incidents including accidents, murders and domestic violence, where alcohol consumption was a major contributing factor.

MOSCOW, Russia,  CMC- Sprint powerhouse Jamaica is anticipating a good showing at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow despite the presence of 16 new comers to an event of such nature on the squad.

GECOM Commissioner Dr Keshav Mangal yesterday released correspondence showing that Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally had not responded to a long list of concerns about the 2011 general elections that he raised on January 19th, 2012.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-Six-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt remains a beacon of hope in a sport rocked by elite athletes testing positive for banned substances, a leading sports medicine specialist in Jamaica has said.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC-Windwards Islands have clawed their way back to lead Trinidad and Tobago by 44 runs at stumps on the first day of their three-day fifth round match in the Regional Under 19 competition  yesterday.

Dear Editor, Reference is hereby made to a letter by Mr Boodoo which was printed in the Stabroek News of July 29, 2013.

A woman was yesterday charged with stealing $7.4M from her elderly uncle’s bank account.

A  bulletin was yesterday issued by police for Richard Lord who is wanted for questioning into the murder of two of his children and the wounding of his wife.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica’s 44-member contingent preparing to participate in the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, starting this weekend, has been tested for illegal drugs, the Observer reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, Mr Lincoln Lewis, in letters in KN of August 4 and SN of August 5 (‘The current constitution has not been tried and tested’), writes, with his usual admirable eloquence and insight, on the inadequacies of African leadership and, in particular, on its unwillingness to struggle for the glorious guarantees in the constitution.

Taxi driver Kurleigh Goodluck, who was on trial for the 2009 murder of fireman Patrick Daly, was yesterday set free after a jury returned a majority not guilty verdict.

The just concluded Guyana Bank for Trade  and Industry Open lawn tennis tournament has emerged as the premier tennis tournament that creates new standards for tennis performance in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Thank you for covering my talk at the forum on “The State of Black African Guyana: a time for renewal and empowerment,” held on Sunday, August  4, 2013 (‘Guyanese African women beset by economic violence,’ SN Aug 5). 

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC- Opener June Ogle smashed the first century to setup a convincing 209 run victory for Guyana against Dominica as the West Indies Women 50 overs tournament opened at four venues across Grenada  yesterday.

Dear Editor, In the age of technology I believe Guyana is lagging behind.

Two cousins accused of receiving the gun which police say was used in the Mandela Avenue murder of Elvis Fernandes were yesterday remanded to prison.

Region Two officials are concerned about the quality of rice to be produced this season as paddy bugs have re-appeared just as the new crop has started to mature.

President of the Pepsi Sonics basketball club Merle Chalmers says there has been an overwhelming response to the annual Pepsi Sonics Basketball Club’s boys and girls’ summer camp.

Dear Editor, What is the function of a Neighbourhood Democratic Council?

Dear Editor, I live in the Cummings Lodge area and was ecstatic when I read an article in the newspapers, over a month ago, which stated that there was an upgrade in the electricity supply which was to reduce blackouts and provide an improved service for over 35,000 customers.

Professor Daizal Samad’s announcement of his resignation from the post of director of the University of Guyana, Berbice Campus  (UGBC), has sparked a public outcry for him to remain and some civic groups have launched a petition to this effect.

The principal figure on the 1823 monument

Hikers Hockey Club were crowned U19 champions after they pummeled Saints U19 in the final by a 6-1 score line as action in the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) Caribbean Kids Hockey Festival concluded at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue on Sunday.

The Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP) provided 376  jobs while 18 critical research studies were conducted in collaboration with the University of Guyana from 2010 to 2013, the length of the project.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Old Trafford’s famously fickle weather helped shaky England retain the Ashes after rain ruined the last day of the drawn third test  yesterday, destroying Australia’s slim hopes of winning the series.

Dear Editor, In December 2012, observing my neighbour being hooked up for a television cable service from Atlantic Cable TV Network, I rushed off to their office at the Demerara Harbour Mall and immediately signed up and paid for two broadcast boxes.

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos will buy the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million in a surprise deal that ends the Graham family’s 80 years of ownership and hands one of the country’s most influential publications to the businessman whose Internet company has transformed retailing.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC- Captain Dwayne Bravo has lashed out at his players on the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel for ‘embarrassing’ their fans after crashing to their second successive defeat in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) on Saturday.

Horror show: Since the closure of the Astor Cinema it appears that the horror shows have moved across the street.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood on Monday rejected pleas from international envoys to “swallow the reality” that Mohamed Mursi will not return as Egypt’s president.

Dear Editor, Now that the groundbreaking, history making PPP Congress is over (thankfully), it is time for a slightly mischievous, somewhat satirical look at what happened.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaican Government appears to have been taken by surprise by reports on the weekend that Venezuela is contemplating a 100 per cent increase on interest payable on oil it exports to the region under the PetroCaribe agreement.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Durham pace bowler Graham Onions has been added to England’s squad as they bid to win the Ashes series outright in the fourth test at his Chester-le-Street home ground from Friday.

The two-month interregnum between the conclusion of one school year and the beginning of another usually finds the education sector trying to effect repairs and renovation to defective schoolhouses so that at the start of the new academic year we would at least have upgraded, however modestly, the quality of those spaces in which the state delivers education.

What precision! These oil drums were neatly stacked upon this horse-drawn cart at Agricola on July 29th.

Politikles

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan yesterday, with food tasters declaring it tasted “close to meat”.

Dear Editor, I believe that a person may write to provide a service to a particular population as I did for Jamaicans for five years in the course of my stay in Jamaica.

(Trinidad Express) Officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force on Sunday seized $2.67 million worth in marijuana.

(Trinidad Express)National Security Minister Emmanuel George and Communication Minister Jamal Mohammed are expected to lose their Cabinet portfolios when Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar reshuffles her deck of ministers.