Daily Archive: Saturday, May 10, 2014

(Trinidad Express) Former acting general manager at the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AATT) Dayanand Birju has been charged with two counts of fraud.

Twenty less fortunate elderly women in West Berbice felt special today when the officers from the Fort Wellington Police Station presented with food hampers for Mother’s Day.

Twenty less fortunate elderly women in West Berbice felt special today when the officers from the Fort Wellington Police Station presented them with food hampers for Mother’s Day.

An elderly woman died while on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Trinidad to Barbados early today, the Caribbean Media Corporation reported today.

Chief- of-Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips (centre) on Tuesday April 29, 2014 received United States Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt (second from right) at his office, during a courtesy call.

In December 2013 Digicel and the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre signed an MOU for major rehabilitation works to be undertaken at the facility.

Friday was a proud day for the Ministry of Education as the largest ever batch of disabled students in the Caribbean took their first Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Examination at the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA), Thomas Lands Georgetown.

Some of the differently able students preparing to write their first CXC examination on Friday.

The Office of the Chancellor of the Judiciary is inviting attorneys-at-law desirous of being elevated to Senior Counsel to apply.

(Jamaica Observer) Senior Superintendent of Police James Forbes, the cop who in the 1990s became the poster boy of what a clean police force should be, was yesterday convicted on a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

-wounded accomplice escapes A Lodge man was shot dead on Main Street yesterday afternoon, seconds after he reportedly robbed a courier who was transporting a large quantity of cash to a bank.

–accused of abuse by inmates Several of the staff members at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) are insufficiently qualified for the posts they hold and not fully aware of their responsibilities; there are also claims of abuse of the institution’s teenaged inmates.

-was jailed in UK for drug trafficking A mother of five, who was convicted and deported from England for narcotics trafficking, is back behind bars after being remanded to prison on a charge that she tried to traffick over 200 grammes of cocaine in salon products through the mail.

-as hearing of appeal on appointment begins Government appointee Carol Sooba yesterday continued to lay claim to the office of Town Clerk, while the City Council moved to get its banks to recognise its chosen replacement Royston King as the official signatory to its accounts.

– tissue samples taken for further tests Post-mortem examinations conducted yesterday on the bodies of the four persons who died two Sundays ago after consuming a multivitamin tonic reportedly laced with cocaine have provided inconclusive results and samples were taken from the bodies so that toxicology tests can be conducted.

Guyana retained the Milex Cup, the symbol of long range shooting supremacy in the region when they came out victorious in the Long Range Team match at the West Indies Fullbore shooting Championships being held at the Twickenham Park ranges in Spanish Town, Jamaica Friday.

–unlikely to meet Millennium Development Goal It is unlikely that any country in the Americas or the Caribbean will achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5A, which calls for the reduction of the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU)  has released the names of its players to kick start their NACRA 15s championship campaign on May 17 in Barbados.

Balchand Basdeo and skipper, Sharaz Ramcharran led Berbice to first innings points against Essequibo yesterday as the first day of the final round of the Guyana Cricket Board Under-19 three day Inter-County match ended with Berbice on 168-5 and a lead of 46.

The Government of Guyana has been ordered by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to pay Suriname company Rudisa Beverages some US$6, 047,244.47 (G$1.2B) which had been collected in an environmental tax that contravenes the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC).

-gets three years added to sentence A Camp Street prisoner has had his stay extended by three years after he was caught trying to smuggle 40 grammes of cannabis hidden in his anus into the prison.

Training Camp Q and A with world title hopeful Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell.

A row over the taking of photographs has resulted in a woman being brutally assaulted and hospitalised and her assailant being charged with attempted murder.

—retains WI fullbore shooting title but narrowly loses grand aggregate titleGuyana’s Lennox Braithwaite retained his West Indies Fullbore shooting title but was upstaged by Canadian Serge Bissonnette for the  Grand Aggregate title on the final day of the Individual Competition at the West Indies Fullbore shooting championships being held at the Twickenham Park ranges in Spanish Town, Jamaica on Thursday.

The Council of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday ratified the appointment of Ramesh Persaud, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED), as Chairman of the Commission, replacing Ronald Webster who passed away last week.

Gold trader Ryan Nobrega was remanded to prison yesterday after he was accused of stealing over $500,000 in raw gold from a miner.

-could be in recovery for at least a year After being severely injured in an accident on the East Bank Public Road just over two weeks ago, motorcyclist Jesse Gibbs is now an admitted patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he is weighing options that will literally change his life, while awaiting justice.

Caricom’s negotiations with Canada for a new trade agreement must take full account of the bloc’s interests, given the differences in size and levels of development, says Cari-com Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Friday expressed outrage at the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian school girls in two attacks by Islamist militants, demanding their immediate release and threatening to take action against the insurgents.

The Guyana table Tennis Association (GTTA) is looking up give its players some amount of overseas training as it prepares to participate in a number of upcoming international events.

By Samaria Deonauth   Unable to complete primary education due to a visual impairment caused by cataract, Vishaul Mohabir now finds himself among a select group of students now sitting the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in hopes of getting their lives on track.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Last season’s losing finalist, Guyana’s Amazon Warriors, will raise the curtain on the second edition of the Caribbean Premier League in July, when they face Antigua Hawksbills in the opening game in Grenada.

BANGALORE, India, CMC – Chris Gayle’s quiet start to the Indian Premier League continued yesterday when he scored just four as his Royal Challengers Bangalore slumped to a 32-run defeat to rampant Kings XI Punjab.

The annual Mother and Daughter pageant has become quite traditional in the Guyanese celebration of a day to honour mothers.

The Ministry of Education has announced that 13,721 students have been enlisted to sit the 2014 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and 795 candidates have been registered to sit the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE), both of which started on Monday.

DOHA, Qatar, CMC – World and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce opened her IAAF Diamond League campaign in winning fashion when she stormed to victory in the 100 metres at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix here yesterday.

By Mariatha Causway Aka Jennifer Thomas   In my belly The ultra sound Portrayed your sweetness In profile view.

President Donald Ramotar on Monday commissioned Bal Nivas, a state-of-the-art housing facility in Berbice for victims of abuse and domestic violence.

Hi Everyone, I am not a perfectionist but I get my sense of perfection from my mother.

Dear Editor,   Please allow me space in your column to offer my views on a statement made by His Excellency, President Donald Ramotar on the poor rate of conviction of persons charged (SN, April 25, 2014 ‘Ramotar raps cops over poor conviction rate’) It would seem as though His Excellency is surprised at the dismal rate of conviction.

SARAJEVO, (Reuters) – Sarajevo’s City Hall, a building marked by two 20th-century wars, re-opened yesterday, restored to its former glory after being destroyed by Serb shelling of the besieged city in 1992.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) is joining with the international community in denouncing the kidnapping of over 200 teenage girls in Nigeria and the atrocities committed by Boko Haram in the name of Islam.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,CMC – Football’s world governing body, FIFA, is set to inject BDS$2 million (US$1 million) into various programmes of the cash strapped Barbados Football Association.

Dear Editor, Prominent Senior Counsel, Ralph Ramkarran, and several prominent legal luminaries in the region are calling for the abolishment of jury trials.

-as part of American Stores ‘Mother’s May’ promotion “We are using ourselves as role models,” Seon Blair, of South Ruimveldt Gardens’ De Crib Barbershop, said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – In a land where the potato is scarce, black marketeers peddle tubers in hushed tones, like drug dealers on a big city street corner.

(The Sports Xchange) – The Portland Trail Blazers had a snake in their locker room on Thursday.

Dear Editor, There is something electrifying about the rise of Narendra Modi from the son of a tea seller to most likely the next Prime Minister of the world largest democracy.

1. Stone and Garfield are pure gold! As in the original film, Andrew Garfield (Peter Parker/ Spiderman) and Emma Stone (Gwen Stacy) have an amazing chemistry that translates well on screen.

Construction of a culvert in ‘B’ Field Sophia, which is expected to see significant traffic between Sophia and Guyhoc Park, will be completed by the end of the month, the Public Works Ministry announced yesterday.

SEVASTOPOL, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin flew in to Crimea yesterday for the first time since it was annexed by Moscow, proclaiming as he marked the Soviet victory in World War Two that incorporating the former Ukrainian territory had made Russia stronger.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies selectors have ended Darren Sammy’s near four-year reign as captain and appointed wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin in his place for the upcoming New Zealand series.

(Reuters) – Vermont on Thursday became the first U.S. state to mandate labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms as Governor Peter Shumlin signed a law that is expected to be challenged in court by some food and agriculture companies.

The family of Orvin Milton, the man who was gunned down in Albouystown early Thursday morning, is receiving threats, according to the dead man’ sister.

Dear Editor, Having read the various news reports on the situation involving both Samuel Elvis and Alex Griffith, I am touched and concerned about the horrific circumstances that joined them in that they have suffered serious injuries at the hands of experienced police officers in circumstances that do require a full, fair and impartial investigation.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s attorney general Claudia Paz y Paz, who earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination last year for her crusade to prosecute those accused of civil war-era abuses, sees progress for human rights as she leaves office but says major problems remain.

Some years ago in conversation with a colleague I had referred to City Council as an “archaic and useless body” that exists to furnish us with laughs, and one that also serves as a useful model of how an important democratic institution could disintegrate in the absence of crucial reforms, years of political wrangling and numerous internal trivialities.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Some basic landing conditions at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) were found to be breached with Jamaican personnel ignoring basic safeguards on December 23, 2009, when an American Airlines Flight 331 overshot the runway, injuring several passengers.

(Reuters) – Perennial All-Star Kobe Bryant, who has won five NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers, says he hopes the team will consult with him on finding their new head coach.

Nicholas Young’s Rainforest Pottery and Richard Winter’s Arawak Leather will join 11 other particpants from 9 countries around the Caribbean in Jamaica on the Design Caribbean Stand at the Calabash Literary Festival.

MEDELLIN, (Reuters) – Massive expansion into Central America is a good business move for Colombian banks, but financial institutions run the risk that regional instability could affect markets and the financial system, the head of Colombia’s central bank said on Thursday.

-could be in recovery for at least a year After being severely injured in an accident on the East Bank Public Road just over two weeks ago, motorcyclist Jesse Gibbs is now an admitted patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he is weighing options that will literally change his life, while awaiting justice.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – The Canadian government is under mounting pressure to hold a public inquiry after police unexpectedly revealed last week that more than 1,000 aboriginal women had been murdered in the past few decades.

(The Sports Xchange) – The Miami Heat delivered another strong performance on defense to beat Brooklyn 94-82 on Thursday and take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven National Basketball Association Eastern Conference semi-final series.

Dear Editor, To cut to the chase -in his previous letter (`There is a fundamental difference between what obtained under the PNC and what exists now under the PPP/C’ (SN: 18/04/2014)), Mr.

The annual ‘Style Mission’ fashion show is slated to be held on June 21 at the Guyana Pegasus with the awareness of sickle cell disease being the focus of this year’s mission.

Shakespeare, Walcott and poetry are set to be played on a single stage in a one-night performance called ‘Expressions’ at the Theatre Guild, next Friday, May 16.

(Billboard) – John Legend takes over the Billboard Hot 100 at last, as his piano ballad “All of Me” unseats Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,” which reigned for 10 weeks.

Troy Johnson, who was nabbed with 14 grammes of cannabis by a police mobile patrol, was yesterday handed a three-year sentence after admitting his guilt.

Dear Editor,   Mr. Christopher Ram’s letter titled `Stats Bureau should be doing far more to explain questionable GDP numbers’ (SN, May 8, 2014) highlights some critical questions about the determination of important national statistical markers and information.

  (The Sports Xchange) – The San Antonio Spurs continued their run of hot form to trounce the Portland Trail Blazers 114-97 on Thursday and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference semi-finals series.

President Xi Jinping’s decision to send troops to Xinjiang province in order to strike a “crushing blow” against terrorism marks a troubling resurgence of a political crisis that has been simmering for years.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Grammy-winning R&B singer Chris Brown admitted to violating probation from his 2009 assault of pop singer Rihanna and was sentenced to a year in jail by a Los Angeles judge on Friday.