Daily Archive: Thursday, October 3, 2013

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC-The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today announced a 15-man Test squad for the tour of India, starting next month.

Acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell is likely to be confirmed in his position shortly as Opposition Leader David Granger has expressed no objection to his appointment.

PALERMO, Italy,  (Reuters) – At least 94 people died and up to 250 were missing after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Some 87 Muslims were turned away from entering Venezuela and getting a visa to travel to Saudi Arabia. They

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said this morning that the man who is believed to have been the target of Sunday’s deadly attack at Mambo Bar in Kitty was arrested last night in Essequibo.

(Barbados Nation) STAFF LAYOFFS are looming at CIBC FirstCaribbean Bank in light of heavy expenses having to be set aside for bad loans.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados tourism sector has taken a nosedive so far for the year, and an imminent cut in flights to the island from at least one major source market could result in a further blow.

In the wake of an alarming upsurge in crime including several execution-style murders, the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday announced that approval has been given for a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) Unit, a move which Opposition Leader David Granger believes is not needed.

The Guyana Revenue Autho-rity (GRA) has said that the professionals it identified in a recent notice are not the only ones compliant with the Tax Act.

AFC Vice-Chairman Moses Nagamootoo has accused the PPP of stooping to race-based politics to mitigate the falling away of its Indo-Guyanese support base.

Ganesh Narine will have to face a new trial after a jury yesterday failed to reach a unanimous verdict on his guilt in the murder of his wife Krishandai Singh After close to three hours, the 12 members of the jury returned to report to Justice James Bovell-Drakes that nine of them were in favour of a not guilty verdict and three were against it. 

While the US will continue to support Guyana in wiping out HIV and AIDS, this will be gradually scaled back as local mechanisms are strengthened and the role of the US will eventually evolve to one of technical assistance.

The Bank of Guyana has issued two souvenir coins to mark the 250th anniversary of the Berbice Slave Rebellion and the 175th anniversary of Indian Immigration to Guyana.

House Speaker Raphael Trotman says that despite his efforts, he has not been able to remove the vagrants and junkies who seem to have made the surroundings of Parliament Buildings their home.

Last year’s 74kg Master Two world power lifting champion and two-time World Masters medalist, Winston ‘Little Master’ Stoby returned from Orlando, Florida on Sunday after smashing his world dead lift record en route to lifting the overall silver medal at the World Masters Power lifting Championships.

The Guyana Police Force is notifying the public that in order to facilitate the smooth flow of traffic at GuyExpo 2013 at the National Exhibition Site, Sophia, Georgetown, the Traffic Department will be effecting special traffic arrangements from today to October 06, 2013, as follows: >  Duncan Street would be used for east bound traffic only from Sheriff Street to Eastern Highway (this route will be used to gain access to the Southern Parking lot in the Compound) >  When exiting traffic will have to proceed south on the Eastern Highway and west into Kooma Street.

DELHI, India, CMC-Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis and Rayad Emrit played key roles as Trinidad and Tobago crushed Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets to claim a decisive victory and cement their spot in the Champions League Twenty20 semi-finals yesterday.

The Secondary Competency Certificate Programme (SCCP) held its third graduation ceremony on Wednesday for 525 students from secondary schools and practical instruction centres from several regions.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Veronica Campbell-Brown, one of Jamaica’s most decorated athletes, has been found guilty by the three-member Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Disciplinary Committee.

CGX Energy Inc says it continues to actively pursue strategic joint venture partners for all three of its Petro-leum Prospecting Licences (PPLs) and has a technical data room open at its Houston office.

Instead of taking measures to curb the upsurge in criminal activity, especially gun crimes, the government has opted to blame the opposition parties, according to AFC General Secretary David Patterson.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- New Zealand’s Women’s cricketers have arrived in the Caribbean to play West Indies in a three-match One Day International series starting on Sunday at Sabina Park, Jamaica.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) is accusing the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) of unfair play by refusing to give the BCB any subvention which has resulted in the board coming under immense financial constraints.

Principal of UWI’s Cave Hill Campus Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has been elected as Chairperson of the Caricom Regional Reparations Commission, which is to develop and implement a regional strategy to pursue reparations for native genocide and slavery.

The opposition yesterday accused government of undermining the local government reform through the continued delay in signing into law of enabling legislation passed over a month ago.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-Top order batsman Chinelle Henry has been called-up while left-armer Stacy-Ann King has been recalled to the West Indies Women’s squad for the ODI series in Jamaica and the T20 series in Barbados.

The touring Bangladesh Under-19 team is expected to fly in early this morning ahead of their seven match One Day International (ODI) series against the West Indies.

Jafar Seetaram, 19, one of the six men charged with the vigilante killing of Alfred Munroe, 45, called ‘Guana Man,’ on May 9 in Rose Hall Town, walked out of the Whim Magistrate Court on Monday as a free man.

A Brazilian national was yesterday sentenced to 24 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to stealing from a special constable guarding the home of the Home Affairs Minister.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC– American cyclist Clixto Bello of Team Cocos has taken the lead in the 2013 Tobago International Cycling Classic (TICC) after winning Stage One of the event on Tuesday.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC- Grenada has withdrawn from the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Women’s Under-20 Finals scheduled for Jamaica from the 18th to 27th of October.

A 12-member jury was on Tuesday empanelled to preside over the trial of murder accused Khemraj Boodhoo, called ‘Sham’ and ‘Shaw,’ who is accused of killing Lilendra Roopnarine called ‘Boyo’ on July 5, 2005.

Dear Editor, The letter by Mr Anil Nandlall, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs ‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills’ (Stabroek News, September 30) addresses two principal points: first the presidential assent (or non-assent) of Bills and second, the role of the Attorney General in the process.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama met with Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress yesterday to try to break a deadlock that has shut down wide swaths of the federal government, but there was no breakthrough.

SHIMOGA, India, CMC- Half centuries from Kraigg Brathwaite and Assad Fudadin as well as a half century stand from Leon Johnson and Chadwick Walton steered West Indies A to 283 for six against India A at stumps on the first day of their second unofficial four-day test here on Wednesday.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) urges the public not to frustrate the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of trade processes and to report any officers who deviate from them as the agency remains committed to ensuring the highest possible efficiency.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter in the October 2 edition of the Stabroek News under the caption ‘Guyana Securities Council Annual Reports tabled in Parliament for 2007-2011,’ signed by Mr Shaun O Allicok,  the GSC’s Legal Counsel/Corporate Secretary.

BANJUL, (Reuters) – Gambia has withdrawn from the Commonwealth, the 54-member grouping including Britain and most of its former colonies, branding it a “neo-colonial institution,” according to a statement released by the West African nation yesterday.

DELHI, India, CMC-West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith powered a run chase as Mumbai Indians beat Perth Scorchers by six wickets to enter the semifinals of the Champions League Twenty20 here yesterday.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Clinton Urling has called on parliamentarians to review legislation on merit, transparency and accountability.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup continues today at the Tucville Community Centre ground with a doubleheader.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to clarify a situation which is perceived as a threat to the East Coast Cricket Board of Control.

Growing corn for the regional stockfeed industry will be highlighted at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) set to get underway in Georgetown tomorrow.

(Reuters) – Science was put on hold, normally bustling stores went quiet and families depending on government aid feared losing their baby food as a government shutdown rippled across the country.

Children from Bagotville and neighbouring communities participated in an activity-packed fun day that included word and other games, when the Rotary Club of Stabroek and the Bagotville Community Library hosted its annual Education Fun Day at the community centre.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s Congress-led government yesterday withdrew a decree which would have allowed convicted politicians to run for elections while appeals were pending, demonstrating the authority of party leader Rahul Gandhi.

Dear Editor, I refer with interest to the letter in Tuesday’s Stabroek News written by Vidyaratha Kissoon captioned ‘LGBT should be allowed to donate blood in Guyana’ and reinforce my support for the points made by the writer, since I was planning to pen a few similar words.

Daniel Lopes edged Gavin Lewis in a third set tie-break in the final of the boys U18 fixture when the Courts Junior Tennis Championships concluded on Saturday at the National Racket Centre, Woolford Avenue.

The Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute (CCGI), a non-profit membership-based organisation dedicated to strengthening principles of good corporate governance across the region, will be formally launched today in Trinidad and Tobago.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – A Los Angeles jury cleared concert promoter AEG Live of liability yesterday in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Michael Jackson, in a trial that offered a glimpse into the private life and final days of the so-called King of Pop.

Dear Editor, For more than ten years Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co, Ltd (GT&T) has refused to install functioning landline phones on the island of Leguan.

With respect to the letter captioned ‘The TSC uses agreed criteria for promotions plus the recommendations of supervising officers’ which appeared in SN yesterday, we should like to point out that Mr Ray Bassoo was not the signatory to the letter in a personal capacity; it came from the Teaching Service Commission.

Bush Lot Rising Star batsman Sumnath Bharrat hammered an explosive half century against Edinburgh as his team won both of their matches in last weekend’s Universal DVD first division T20 competition which continued its rescheduled fixtures throughout Berbice. 

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police used pepper spray to stop hundreds of protesting Indians from storming Congress yesterday, clamping down on the second day of indigenous rights marches.

The Kanuku Mountains Com-munity Representative Group (KMCRG) Christmas Fair Committee is seeking sponsorship of awards and prizes for the fourth Rupununi Christmas Fair to be held at the Market Place, Lethem, on Saturday, December 21, 2013.

Dear Editor: Reference is made to the letter ‘The AG must act in a way consistent with the responsibility of his office’ (SN, October 2) which purportedly attempts to communicate my thoughts in response to the Attorney General’s (AG) letter ‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills (SN, September, 30). 

LAHORE, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board must start paying its players more money for test appearances, according to top spinner Saeed Ajmal.

LAHORE, (Reuters) – Struggling Pakistan are primed to catch South Africa out by laying on a “spin trap” during the two-test series in the United Arab Emirates, coach Dav Whatmore warned on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, If the opinions regarded by some as “inviolable sagacity” are indeed “as flawed as they may be,” then the learned attorney-general should have pointed them out in his letter of Sept 30 in SN (‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and withhold assent from Bills’).

The Ministry of Home Affairs in its monthly report on the operations of its Stray Catching Units says that the Units impounded a total of 201 animals during the month of September, 2013.

Food and nutrition security: Agriculture Month was officially launched yesterday at the Ministry of Agriculture by Minister of Agriculture Dr.

(Reuters) – Best-selling U.S. author Tom Clancy, who thrilled readers with vivid descriptions of soldiers and spies in novels including “The Hunt for Red October” and “Patriot Games,” has died at 66, his publisher said yesterday.

Manufacturers celebrate 50th anniversary  

Dear Editor, With some fanfare and a ceremony, we launched Heritage Week – laudable and acceptable.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says there has been no development in the Sunday shooting which claimed the life of 33-year-old Essequibo businesswoman Shelliza Basir-Lall and injured three other persons, including her husband Raymond Lall.

(Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke will miss the one-day tour of India this month due to a chronic back injury in order to get fit for the home Ashes series against England, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Tuesday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Exercise may be just as good as medication to treat heart disease and should be included as a comparison when new drugs are being developed and tested, scientists said yesterday.

This column provided by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is aimed at publishing summaries of all CCJ decisions in an effort to educate the public about the activities of the Court.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — In an attempt to get more revenues out of the gold industry, the government intends to introduce a gold tax starting next year.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Washington has expelled Venezuela’s highest-ranking diplomat in the United States and two others from its embassy in retaliation for Venezuela’s booting out three American diplomats accused of fomenting sabotage, both governments said yesterday.

Cartoons

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Commissioner Leroy Brumell for visiting a crime hot spot with a team of senior members of the force and holding discussion with members of the community.

(Jamaica Observer) The Ministry of Education is in the roll-out phase of a National Mathematics Policy to improve how the subject is taught in schools in light of low exam performances at both the primary and secondary levels.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh named the following squad yesterday for the first test against New Zealand starting in Chittagong on Oct.

Fire prevention week: Ramona Singh (right), Fire Manager of the GTM Group of Insurance Companies, recently handed over a quantity of t-shirts, caps and posters to the Guyana Fire Service as it prepares activities to observe Fire Prevention Week 2013this month.

Politikles

In our quest to create the kind of future we aspire to, we must cultivate the ability to know the root cause of why we are where we are today.

Over the past two years this newspaper has been invited to highlight the centenary birth anniversaries of at least ten people; the majority of them being women.

(Trinidad Express) Bird flu has come to T&T.Contacted last night, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan confirmed there are three cases of the H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as bird flu, in this country.Khan