Daily Archive: Saturday, February 22, 2014

MAZATLAN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexico’s most wanted man, drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, was captured today with help from U.S.

The gathering today for the Region Four flag-raising ceremony at Triumph, East Coast Demerara.

The Golden Arrowhead being hoisted at the Regional Democratic Council Office, Triumph, East Coast Demerara today to mark Guyana’s republican status.

Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) adviser Roger Hernandez has expressed concern about amendments to anti-laundering legislation proposed by APNU and has also said that once passed, Guyana will have to implement those laws before it could be removed from a regional blacklist.

In observance of Guyana’s 44th Republic Anniversary, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in collaboration with the University of Guyana’s (UG) Library, the National Library, Book Foundation, Book Land, the National Archives and the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) hosted a literary fair on Friday, under the theme “Reconnecting People to Books on the Main Street Avenue.

At about 2230h. last night, police say that five men armed with a handgun, ice-picks and knives, attacked and robbed pump attendant at the Nismes Fuel Station Hassan Khan, 25 years, of an undisclosed sum of cash and three men who were with him watching television of a total of $13,600.00 and two cell phones.

At about 1545h. yesterday, Taxi Driver Narine Bahadur, 52 years, of Canal No.

The US State Department today extended Republic Anniversary greetings to Guyana.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall today announced that President Donald Ramotar has issued an order increasing the number of Puisne Judges to 20.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – Hashim Amla’s blistering stroke-play and Morne Morkel’s fearsome bowling put South Africa in control of the second teat against Australia as they closed the third day on 192 for four today.

KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament voted today to remove President Viktor Yanukovich, who abandoned his Kiev office to protesters and denounced what he described as a coup after a week of fighting in the streets of the capital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Supreme Court has ruled that the United States Coast Guard does not have the power under the law to search Jamaican flagged vessels which are docked in the island and are under the custody of local law enforcement.

The police have been asked by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to do further work on their internal probe of the alleged rape of Colwyn Harding by one if their own ranks.

The main sugar workers’ union yesterday expressed grave concern over the state of the sugar industry and urged the revamping of the GuySuCo board.

There has been a 50% reduction in the number of infant deaths at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in the first year of implementation of a Neonatal Intensive Care Services project between the Ministry of Health and Dr Narendra Singh’s Guyana Help the Kids (GHTK) organisation.

The Guyana Securities Council (GSC) is seeking court orders for the Managing Director of Caribbean Containers Inc (CCI) Ron Webster to account for all sums from what it said was an “impugned” shares transfer and for full restitution to be made of all sums received by him from it.

The United States refused offers by the Government of Guyana to obtain a building to set up a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office here in 2005, presidential advisor Gail Teixeira told Lindeners on Wednesday.

Three former Muneshwers Limited workers were yesterday accused of embezzling nearly $60M in total from the company.

Victor Yearwood, 37, a pharmacy assistant of the New Amsterdam Hospital (NAH) who ingested a poisonous substance after reportedly physically abusing his Cuban wife, Dr.

Sase Gunraj, the lawyer defending Fatima Martin who was sentenced to 60 months in prison for assaulting a one-year-old baby, says that his client suffered a lot of trauma while in prison and was taken to a safe place upon her release.

Omesh Balram, the 16-year-old son of a Corentyne Cambio dealer, was on Thursday evening shot to his spine after gunmen invaded their home and is currently a patient of the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The ribbon has been cut marking the opening of the National Resource Centre that is expected to open new doors and launch careers.

Saying that charges for 11.5% of its post-paid customers are estimated because their meters are inaccessible, the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- A herculean face saving effort put history on hold allowing West Indies to pull off an 11 run victory over persistent Ireland and draw the two match T20 international series at Sabina Park here yesterday.

It was an emotional scene when some of the students from the Cotton Tree Primary who escaped injuries from a burning bus on Thursday evening, arrived home and reunited with their worried parents.

The Frank Watson Memorial U14 and U16 football tournaments will get underway today at the Tucville ground.

Wendell Austin will be spending the next 56 months in jail after he was found guilty of a knife-point hold-up.

(The Sports Xchange) ———-Forward LeBron James scored 33 points to lead the Miami Heat to an emphatic 103-81 road victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday.

A West Ruimveldt man was committed to stand trial on Tuesday for attempting to kill a man in a row over a missing cellphone.

Opener Assad Fudadin’s unbeaten century backed up by Captain Leon Johnson’s 46 gave the national team the upper hand over the Rest XI yesterday on the third day of the four-day practice match at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence ground.

Burnett Hudson was granted a $500,000 bail release on Thursday after denying that he used his pick up to hit another man off his bicycle and then proceeded to beat him over stolen shoes.

He shaved his head, shirtless while chatting with the cook. In the open, glancing into a little round mirror at the side of the kitchen, purple soap at hand, the award-winning flautist Keith Waithe was (figuratively speaking because he has little to speak of), letting his hair down to giggles from the cooks.

West Indies cricketers, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Shemaine Campbell were voted the National Sports Commission’s (NSC) sportsman and sportswoman of the year (2013) when the selection panel voted in their favour yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Neaz Subhan has been in the performing arts for a whopping 30-plus years and he still plays a very active role today.

Dear Editor, We have previously proposed principles justifying Unity and Human Development (UHD) in a paper that can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/18odYmG. 

Cyclists get ready, the most lucrative event for the season thus far will pedal off on Monday when the Flying Ace Cycle Club along with Benjamin Sports Store stages a 40-mile road race in Berbice.

Dear Editor, As a resident living near Congress Place in Sophia, it is with a huge amount of trepidation that I see a banner advertising a two-day Mash Mania.

With the help of a number of local businesses, the Rotary Club of Demerara yesterday erected a billboard in the compound of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) to reflect its ‘Gift of Life’ programme.

I would love to know why we really celebrate Mashramani. Ask a school child and he or she will say almost robotically, “Mashramani is a celebration after hard work.” 

Dear Editor, The purpose of this letter is to let the public know about our problems in the Micobie Amerindian Village.

Religious leaders in Region 6 recently moved to stem the tide of persons taking their own lives in the region through an initiative that saw young people talking with their peers, parents, social workers and the religious leaders themselves.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – JP Duminy, AB de Villiers, Wayne Parnell and Vernon Philander put South Africa on top as the hosts reduced Australia to 112 for four on the second day of the second test at St George’s Park yesterday.

Hi Everyone, Tomorrow is Mashramani and apart from the main event – the parade of costumes and bands in various parts of the country – the number one activity that many will be participating in is some form of picnic.

Dear Editor, I live obliquely opposite where construction is taking place at 447 Fordyce Street, Phase 11 Republic Park.

Defending champion Jason Ray Khalil survived a scare in his quarterfinal encounter of the 2014 Bounty Farm Mash Handicap Tournament organised by the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel Guyana.

Godfrey Pereira, the 19-year-old facing a prison sentence after admitting to steal a cellphone earlier this month, was yesterday given two years’ probation by the Chief Magistrate after agreeing to a number of conditions, including joining a trade school.

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Legendary former West Indies Cricket Captain Clive Lloyd wants current players to recommit themselves to the improvement of the game in the region.

It has been one year since he stormed on stage declaring “God Don’t Sleep” and unnerved a government minister who had the calypso pulled from the air.

As the police continue investigations into the shooting of an East Bank Demerara resident, who was robbed on Church Street shortly after leaving a city bank on Thursday, camera footage from the vicinity will be checked.

Dear Editor, At long last, after more than 33½ years, a high-powered commission was set up by President Donald Ramotar to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Walter Rodney who died following an explosion from a walkie talkie made by former army sergeant, Gregory Smith.

Dear Editor, I found three articles in two sections of the Barbados media of Wednesday, February 19, 2014 absolutely fascinating. 

Amazingly talented performances rocked a packed George Walcott Lecturer Theatre (GWLT) last Friday, February 14, when the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana (UG) held its ‘Talent Splash’.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- Barbados and West Indies cricketer Ryan Hinds has been cleared of sexual assault charges the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) reported yesterday.

Blue Sackie Day Care and Play Group toddlers with their Blue Sackie float preparing for their Mash parade yesterday.

While government had last week announced that talks with the United States about the controversial $300 million democracy project would have commenced this week, no such talks were held.

Kiskadee Kids Day Care and Play Group sets out on its Mash Parade yesterday.

The second annual Milo U20 Football Competition continues today at the Ministry of Education ground from 11:00hrs.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s jailed protest leader urged supporters yesterday to keep demonstrating peacefully against President Nicolas Maduro despite violence that has killed at least six people and rocked the OPEC member nation.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s opposition leaders signed an EU-mediated peace pact with President Viktor Yanukovich yesterday, winning a raft of concessions in a delicate deal to end violence that killed at least 77 people and turned the capital into a battle zone.

Dear Editor, The brouhaha over MP Vanessa Kissoon’s reassigned seating in the National Assembly matters in the context of how such a decision was taken and what it can mean for future speaking assignments and time allotments.

(Billboard) – Sorry dance fans, Ne-Yo is going back to R&B.

President Donald Ramotar (left) met with Police top brass yesterday to address the recent spike in crime and to examine measures to reduce it, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA).

A fortnight ago, on the opening day of the Winter Olympics, Moscow police arrested several LGBT activists for waving rainbow flags while they sang the Russian national anthem in Red Square.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama held low-key talks with the Dalai Lama at the White House yesterday after warnings from Beijing that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would “seriously damage” ties with Washington.

The Demerara Bank Limited is set to have a new corporate head office by the end of 2014, or by early 2015.

BEVERLEY HILLS, California (Reuters) – When Cheryl Boone Isaacs presides over the Oscars on March 2, her mere presence will convey a statement on diversity in Hollywood as the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its third woman in its 86 years.

Showing how it’s done: A Precious Angels Day Care tot steals the spotlight during a mini Mash parade yesterday (Photo by Arian Browne)

The Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) will be hosting an athlete’s meeting today from 13:00hrs at the GOA headquarters in Kingston.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has put a bill imposing strict penalties for homosexuality on hold to give scientists a chance to prove that homosexuality could be triggered by genes and is not a “lifestyle choice”.

Politikles

The words “child abuse,” with their unsettling overtones of physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment of a child, are triggers for rage.

Dear Editor, Knock me down with a feather if this makes sense.

Birds of a feather: Blue Sackie Day Care and Play Group and Kiskadee Kids Day Care and Play Group ‘mashing’ together in Kitty yesterday.

Financial Adviser from the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), Roger Hernandez being escorted into Parliament yesterday by Chairperson of the Anti Money Laundering Select Committee Gail Teixeira.