Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Former House of Israel member Joseph Hamilton at the Commission of Inquiry today into the killing of Walter Rodney.

Two police constables accused of assaulting Colwyn Harding late last year were today placed on bail after denying the charges.

(Trinidad Express) MUSICIAN and recording artiste Isaac Blackman was beaten and robbed by thieves who stole valuables from his home in Piparo around midday yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Sport Minister Anil Roberts has been suspended by the Congress of the People (COP) for his failure to co-operate and clear the air on a video of someone resembling a minister rolling a joint.

Under the direction of the then governing party PNC, the House of Israel used violence and other means to disrupt Working People’s Alliance (WPA) meetings during the late 1970s, Joseph Hamilton testified yesterday and he said Dr Walter Rodney was not one of the two “sacred cows” who they were instructed against harming.

A teenager is currently a patient in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Burn Care Unit nursing burns to both hands, which he alleged were inflicted by a police officer two weeks ago.

The woman accused of abducting a baby just over a week ago was yesterday charged with child stealing when she appeared in the Whim Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh.

Police in St Kitts nabbed a Guyanese man after he went to see his hospitalised father who he had allegedly shot in the chest and mouth and who is now battling for his life in a Barbados hospital.

A Rubis gas station employee was robbed on his way to make a deposit at Demarara Bank early yesterday morning.

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday said that he has conveyed his concerns about the security of government’s Town Clerk-appointee Carol Sooba to acting Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud, even as Mayor Hamilton Green wrote to the commissioner to find out whether her private bodyguard Shawn Hinds is armed in the light of uneasiness about his presence.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Half-centuries from left-handers Leon Johnson and Jonathan Carter helped West Indies High Performance Centre to a challenging total on the opening day of their second four-day “Test” against Bangladesh A here yesterday.

A man died late last night after he was trapped in a burning house at 33 Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara.

The woman accused of trying to smuggle nearly eight pounds of cocaine in frozen fish to New York was yesterday remanded to prison once more.

Georgetown champions Queen Street Tiger Bay solidified their status as the nation’s leading street football outfit, crushing East Coast champions Melanie-A 3-0 in the finale of the Guinness of the Streets national tourney on Sunday.

Close to two decades after its establishment, Iwokrama—the forest reserve meant to be a model of sustainability—remains financially dependent on government for a huge portion of its financing even as international funding dwindles.

A 52-year-old Lima Sands man is now dead after he was stabbed to his abdomen on Sunday last at a rum shop during an argument over cricket.

West Demerara yesterday won the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Under-17 title with a crushing eight-wicket victory over Georgetown with Ronaldo Renee scoring his second half century of the tournament at the Everest Cricket Club ground.

The summer peak travelling period started yesterday with competition heating up among major airlines that fly between Guyana and North American destinations.

Despite being “psychologically prepared” for local government polls, Guyanese citizens are more concerned with big issues, such as the stalled anti-money laundering bill, according to General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) Clement Rohee.

FALMOUTH, Trelawny, CMC – New Zealand’s batsmen had a disappointing outing on the opening day of their final three-day warm-up match as they struggled against leg-spinner Damion Jacobs here yesterday.

More than enough time has passed for the commencement of bilateral talks with Venezuela on the Maritime boundary issue and Guyana has insistently been lobbying for the first meeting to be initiated soon.

A father of three was yesterday morning struck down and killed as he attempted to cross the road at New Hope, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and some four hours later another man was killed when the car he was in crashed into a utility pole on the West Coast Demerara (WCD).

Outgoing US Ambassador Brent Hardt launched the Guyana Shines next chapter, Keep Guyana Beautiful on Sunday, while expressing satisfaction with the Georgetown project being replicated in Linden and Berbice.

An early morning hit-and-run accident at Golden Grove, West Coast Berbice has resulted in the death of pedal cyclist, Neil Wallerson, 53, of Hopetown Village.

  Education Minister Priya Manickchand has promised to revamp parts of Queen’s College after administrative staff and board members complained about insufficient furniture, the Ministry of Education said in a press release.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday heard that several persons, in 2010 and again in 2011, defrauded the Ministry of Finance of a total of $215.6 million.

The eight-year-old son of murdered taxi driver Savitri Gangadeen Parma, was among four witnesses who testified yesterday when the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Sylvester Bristol, the Yarrowkabra man accused of the crime, commenced.

A labourer, accused of attempting to traffic 15 grammes of cocaine, was remanded to prison yesterday.

By Jorge Familiar   Vice President of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean It is no coincidence that the Globe International network of legislators has chosen Mexico as the venue for the Second World Summit of Legislators on climate change that will take place in the Mexican Congress this weekend (June 6-8).

(The Sports Xchange) – New York Knicks president Phil Jackson was fined $25,000 by the NBA for tampering with Oklahoma City Thunder guard Derek Fisher, ESPN.com

Meetings between government and the opposition parties to reach an agreement on the AML/CFT (Amendments) Bill before the next sitting of the National Assembly could commence as early as today.

Nicholas Carryl scored an unbeaten century for University of Guyana (UG) in their rain affected match of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) /Noble House Seafoods second division two day competition on Sunday against Police which ended in a draw at the UG ground, Turkeyen.

Local bakers attending tomorrow’s Baking Seminar being held by the National Milling Company (Namilco) in collaboration with US firms Seaboard Corporation and Engrain LLC, will each be provided with a professional production manual that will better position them to take their businesses to “the next level,” Namilco Chief Executive Officer Bert Sukhai said.

  Investigator’s probing last month’s shooting of Subryanville resident Susanna Da Silva have hit a brick wall in their investigations; there appears to be no apparent motive and no arrests have been made.

Former Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s (GBTI) Managing Director Marguerite Elizabeth Da Silva passed away in Barbados on May 27, 2014, after a brief illness.

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) says a senior government official has been misrepresenting its European Union (EU)-funded project to help educate indigenous communities on a new forest management process and says that any intimation that the project funds are being misused has no basis in fact.

The two baggage loaders, who allegedly loaded nearly five pounds of cocaine on to a flight destined for Canada, remain prisoners on remand following another failed bail application by their lawyer, while charges are yet to be instituted against the dog-handler who was also implicated in the plot.

Khemraj Pooranmall was crowned national champion on Sunday when the Guyana Draughts Association held its national championships last weekend at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

  A labourer, accused of attempting to traffic 15 grammes of cocaine, was remanded to prison yesterday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Stroke-maker Marlon Samuels and veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul both struck form on the first day of the West Indies’ two-day practice match against a Barbados Select XI here yesterday.

A man is in custody at the Port Kaituma Police Station over the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.

Dear Editor, Prime Minister could not agree more with CDB President: We must turn to renewable energies.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the third Test of the upcoming series between West Indies and New Zealand.

Dear Editor, Those who would have been paying heed to talk of local government elections would know that the preparedness of the Guyana Elections Commission to conduct same is an important facet.

An exultant Anthony George swiftly left the High Court yesterday after Justice Dawn Gregory announced that he had been acquitted of manslaughter; hehad been found not guilty by the jury.

Dear Editor, Last week Monday, Guyana observed 48 years of political independence from Britain.

(Reuters) – Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will be hoping his return to competitive action is profitable on and off the field after agreeing a deal with county side Lancashire that will earn him a cut of the gate receipts.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers angered by a White House deal to swap five Taliban prisoners for a captured US soldier in Afghanistan yesterday demanded hearings over why the Obama administration reached the agreement without consulting Congress.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake has been reported for a suspect bowling action following his side’s win over England in the fourth one-day international at Lord’s on Saturday, the International Cricket Council said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Richmond Hill, Queens, New York has the largest concentration of Indo-Guyanese people outside of Guyana.

(Trinidad Express) – A 9-year-old boy and his 15-year-old brother, both believed to be instrumental in several robberies in the Port of Spain area, were killed on Sunday when gunmen entered their family’s home, forced them to lie down and shot each one in the head.

(Reuters) – The World Cup, which kicks off in Brazil this month, is set for a record global television audience thanks to new technology and fan-friendly scheduling, FIFA’s television director Niclas Ericson told Reuters yesterday.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s new prime minister Ahmed Maiteeq yesterday held his first cabinet meeting at the premier’s office after police forces helped him take over the building.

Dear Editor, I have been told often enough that the law must be consistent, that it should make sense, especially the constitution.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Concerns that Rafa Nadal’s reign as king of Roland Garros might be in jeopardy due to an aching back proved wide of the mark yesterday as the world number one led a mini Spanish charge into the French Open quarter-finals.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has published dozens of new textbooks that glorify late president Hugo Chavez and belittle his adversaries, infuriating opposition critics who call them part of a campaign to indoctrinate school children.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s administration said yesterday it plans to work with and fund the new Palestinian unity government, and Israel immediately voiced its disappointment with the decision also criticized by some US lawmakers.

Dear Editor, The nonsense of our political independence has reached worrying heights.

Christopher Barnwell scored a scintillating century in the first ever leather ball match to be played under lights at the Demerara Cricket Club ground, Queenstown Friday night.

HAVANA (Reuters) – A Cuban intelligence officer recently released from a US prison said yesterday that a similar deal to the one that freed US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl should be negotiated in the case of jailed US contractor Alan Gross and three Cuban agents behind bars in the United States.

(Reuters) – A US-led international operation disrupted a crime ring that infected hundreds of thousands of PCs around the globe with malicious software used for stealing banking credentials and extorting computer owners, the Justice Department said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Things that inspire the push for the development of Basketball in Guyana: Seeing Haslyn Graham, Vice-President of the Linden Basketball Association sweeping water off of the Mackenzie Sports Club court after the Berbice v Linden game was washed out, so that his counterparts from the ancient county of Berbice who had travelled over a hundred miles could actually play some basketball in Linden.

(Reuters) – The San Antonio Spurs expect to have point guard Tony Parker in their lineup when they host the Miami Heat in Game One of the NBA Finals on Thursday, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

Those of us who live in the coastal regions of Guyana and who rarely if ever venture into the hinterland will, by now, be aware that the coast and the interior are, in a sense, two different worlds.

Mandeville, Manchester (Jamaica Observer) — A policeman who dressed as a female to catch serial rapists was one of two officers who received top awards in the Manchester parish.

(Reuters) – Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel said yesterday his team remained on track in its pursuit of an NBA title despite a disappointing finish and a 25-point dismissal by the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference clincher.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have discovered a new type of rocky planet beyond the solar system that weighs more than 17 times as much as Earth while being just over twice the size, scientists said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I would like to touch on a most dangerous traffic problem and that is what is referred to as blind spots caused by illegal parking.