Daily Archive: Thursday, August 22, 2013

Guyana exhibited literary works, craft and fashion at the Carifesta Grand Cultural Market and Trade Fair on Wednesday in Suriname and its food stalls were a hit.

MONTREAL, Canada,  CMC- The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has threatened to expel Jamaica from the next Olympics and other major competitions if it refuses to address shortcomings highlighted by a senior ex-employee.

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday announced that Cabinet has offered no objections to 14 contracts including one valued over $569M for East Coast road works and another for $33.9M for closed circuit television cameras for the airport.

Former Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Doodnauth Singh, SC, passed away last evening at the age of 80 at the Balwant Singh Hospital.

EU Ambassador to Guyana, Robert Kopecky has supported the view of union leader Komal Chand that if the sugar industry is to prosper, new ways of doing business have to be found.

Harold Davis, a former Chair-man of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), died early yesterday morning.

Tiger Creek shopkeeper Ann Marie Carter was back before the court yesterday to answer a charge that she assaulted Simona Broomes, the president of the Guyana Women Miners’ Association (GWMO).

They split the first two games of the preliminary rounds of the current Limacol Caribbean Premier League with Guyana winning the first match on July 31 by 19 runs at the Providence National Stadium before Trinidad earned some measure of revenge by winning the second played at the Queen’s Park Oval earlier this month by three runs.

After spending the last 35 years in the United States, including two tours of duty in the military, Mark Isaacs, 52, found himself on a plane back to Guyana.

The body of 19-year-old Shevone Anthony, who was involved in a boat accident along the Barima River on Tuesday, was recovered yesterday.

TORONTO, Canada,  CMC- Former Guyana and West Indies player Keith Semple has thrown his support behind the Guyana Amazon Warriors to emerge as the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League T20 champion.

Vendors who sell to lodgers at the Amerindian Residence on Princes Street yesterday turned up and were greeted with a locked gate.

Top junior player Afruica Gentle showed she is a force to be reckoned with when she stormed into the girls’ 14 years and under final of the International Tennis federation (ITF) Wilson Junior Open tournament in St Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday.

Hansel Andre Lewis, called ‘Smiley,’ has been committed to stand trial in the High Court in Berbice on a charge of attempted murder.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC-The region’s leading pan Caribbean News Agency, the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) has thrown its full support behind the first ever Limacol Caribbean Premier league (LCPL) set for an exciting climax in Port of Spain this weekend.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress yesterday said that the fallout from the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project brings forcefully to the nation, the disrespect harboured by individuals and groups in the private sector for the people.

(Reuters) – Doping violations have increased in China ahead of this year’s National Games with eight athletes testing positive in the second quarter of the year, the country’s anti-doping authorities said yesterday.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-Barbados and Jamaica will meet to decide the champions of the West Indies Women T20 tournament at the national stadium  today.

A five-year contract worth $185M was signed between the government and Television Guyana Inc (TVG) in 2010 to provide a satellite signal for the Learning Channel.

Spinal injuries caused the death of Shaune Bourne, who succumbed to injuries he sustained in a crash at Agricola on Sunday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC-, New Zealand batsman Martin Guptill says he hopes the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) can help sell the best of his country’s cricket to the rest of the world.

When the XVII edition of the hemisphere’s Junior Track and Championships kicks off tomorrow at the athletics stadium “Alfonso Galvis Dukue” in the city of Medellin, Colombia, Guyanese Technical Official Claude Blackmore will be serving on the Jury of Appeal.

Shopkeeper Jamie Myers was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment yesterday after being found guilty of having an unlicensed semi-automatic handgun.

Ex-policeman Elton Haynes, charged with the murder of Corentyne store owner Winston Ragnauth, has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for escaping from custody.

Police Progressive Youth Club’s Alita Moore and Running Brave Athletics Club’s, Stephan James, champion athletes of the Boyce/Jefford Classic IV have received Asics joggers from Giftland OfficeMax for their outstanding performances.

Some 50 overseas-based Guyanese on Tuesday donated over $1.5M in educational aids and playground equipment to help the differently-abled students of the New Amsterdam Special Needs School.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Banks DIH Malta Supreme Under-13 Cricket competition is set to finally bowl off tomorrow after it was postponed because of rain.

A fisherman was yesterday sentenced to one month in jail for threatening to kill a woman.

Tournament co-hosts Slingerz FC defeated Netrockers 4-0 as the Slingerz/National Association for Women Football (NAWF) Goal for Gold tournament continued on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, Isn’t it a shame that UG will open in a few days and grades for last semester as well as registration confirmations have not been completed?

A couple and a teenager were yesterday charged with obstructing justice by preventing a man from attending court.

Dear Editor, I am counted among the many who long for the Rodney Inquiry to be called up and done with so that we can have closure.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Shane Watson’s magnificent 176 put Australia in command at 307 for four on the first day of the fifth and final Ashes test against England at The Oval yesterday.

(Reuters) – Australia coach Darren Lehmann has accused England’s Stuart Broad of “blatant cheating” and called on fans to send the fast bowler home from the return Ashes series in tears.

Guyana at the Carifesta Grand Cultural Market and Trade Fair in Suriname yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) BEIJING, China — The governments of Jamaica and China have signed four agreements among which will see the Asian superpower provide the island with billions of dollars in grants and loans to facilitate infrastructure development.

Dear Editor, I would be very grateful if you publish the following in response to a blogger and others of his ilk who might feel that his assertions have any accuracy.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has expressed concern over the increased attacks by bandits on business owners, especially those who conduct their operations in rural communities.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Former Jamaica and West Indies wicketkeeper Jackie Hendriks says he is surprised at the decision by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to present him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,CMC- Captain Chris Gayle has welcomed the arrival of Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara in the Jamaica Tallawahs ahead of their semi-final clash against Barbados Tridents in the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL).

BEIRUT/AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syria’s opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people yesterday by firing rockets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept.

(Trinidad Express) Deputy Commission of Police Mervyn Richardson has defended his actions in detaining Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget in Port of Spain yesterday, saying that Roget and his supporters had no police permission to protest in the city.

Dear Editor, In the PPP Central Committee’s report at the congress and in a number of reports by delegates from the workshops a lot was said about corruption and the negative attitude of some leaders in addressing problems at the grassroots level.

Two teenagers were yesterday charged with robbing a man of his cellular phone.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican economy has continued in a recession as data from the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) have confirmed a fifth consecutive quarter of negative growth.

Dear Editor, Monuments do not only freeze images in our minds and help us form opinions about experiences which we have no knowledge of, but they depict the frozen ideas in their creator’s mind of the subject matter being shaped.

Story-telling time at the Grand Cultural Market.

FORT MEADE, Md., (Reuters) – U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in a military prison for turning over more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of secret data in the nation’s history.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC- Jamaica dug themselves out of an extremely unfavourable position to beat ICC Americas by 73 runs and seal the Regional Under 19 50 over title after the seventh and final round of matches here on Tuesday.

Walking through the Georgetown Public Hospital becomes an experience of profound despair.

The article ‘Airy Hall accident leaves several persons hospitalized,’ published in the Monday, August 19, 2013 edition of the Stabroek News, erroneously reported that Clement Brusche was the driver of the car and was speaking on his cell phone at the time of the collision with another car.

(Reuters) – Opener Tino Mawoyo has recovered from injury and joined experienced bowlers Graeme Cremer and Shingi Masakadza in being recalled yesterday to Zimbabwe’s 20-man squad for the upcoming series against Pakistan.

Dear Editor, Norman Browne’s letter ‘The culture of the ownership of women must cease’ refers (Stabroek News, August 16).

Politikles

ANSA McAl bursaries:  Renee Ramsarran and Khristian McDonald who were successful at the recent National Grade Six Assessment were added to the bursary programme of ANSA McAl Trading Ltd (AMTL) at a ceremony on August 16 at its Beterverwagting headquarters.

Cartoons

Guyana at the Carifesta Grand Cultural Market and Trade Fair in Suriname yesterday.

How do we honour our heroes? By remembering them; by ensuring that whatever they lived by, stood for or died changing is treasured and taken account of in what we do and how we live.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as today after a court ruling that jolted a divided nation already in turmoil seven weeks after the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

St. Lucia’s prime minister says the United States has suspended all aid to its police force over concerns about alleged unlawful police killings.