Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 28, 2014

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- West Indies middle order batsman Marlon Samuels has blamed the president of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) Wavell Hinds for the circumstances which forced the players to abandon their tour of India Samuels says the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is not at fault since the players are upset with Hinds over the terms and conditions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, signed recently between the WICB and WIPA.

Presidential Advisor on Sustainable Development, Science and Technology, Navin Chandarpal passed away this morning at his home, the PPP confirmed.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Organisers are confident West Indies will take part at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand early next year despite the crisis caused by their withdrawal from the tour of India earlier this month.

Kaieteur News (KN) publisher Glenn Lall yesterday lodged a complaint with police against Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall, accusing him of threatening him and suggesting that the newspaper’s employees will be targeted.

Speaker Raphael Trotman has moved for the National Assembly to meet next week, after concluding that no direction from the government is needed.

Guyana’s logs exports continue to rise and up to August, were double the figure for the same period last year while exports of value-added products were marginal.

A 13-year-old boy, who was stabbed to his temple by a classmate yesterday morning is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), while his alleged attacker is in police custody.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) retired Justice Cecil Kennard has completed his review of the Adrian Bishop shooting death case and has since made his recommendations.

The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is set to rule, at its next sitting, on the complaint against the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) over the electrocution of a ten-year-old boy in May.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – Four of the players who controversially quit the recent one-day tour of India have signed contracts to play in South Africa’s Ram Slam Twenty20 League.

It cannot be completely ruled out that Gregory Smith, the man accused of causing the 1980 explosion which killed Dr Walter Rodney, was an agent of the security forces, Crime Chief Leslie James said yesterday while being confronted with more holes in the police investigation.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Initial talks to resolve the latest spat between West Indies players, their union, WIPA, and the West Indies Cricket Board, have been described as “cordial, positive and fruitful”.

“I’m guilty, guilty, guilty, your honour,” an impatient Edward Rahim declared to Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday.

A Freeman Street woman is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after she was shot in the stomach at her home on Friday.

Businessman Randy Charles, allegedly held with a semi-automatic pistol after shots were fired in a city street, was yesterday remanded to prison on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and a quantity of ammunition.

MORATUWA, Sri Lanka, CMC – A patient, unbeaten half-century by Jonathan Carter helped pull West Indies A out of trouble on the penultimate day of the third and final four-day “Test” against Sri Lanka A here yesterday.

Bernadette Campbell who was shot and robbed while in a Route 44 bus at Plaisance three months ago, died on October 20, relatives have confirmed.

A North Sophia man is now awaiting sentencing after he admitted assaulting his wife during a row.

(Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam claimed eight second innings wickets to post the best figures by a Bangladesh bowler and set up a tense three-wicket win for the hosts in the first test against Zimbabwe in Dhaka yesterday.

Contrasting half-centuries from Johnathan Foo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul steered the Leon Johnson led XI to 240 all out against the Vishaul Singh XI yesterday after day one of the Cricket Guyana Inc.

The accused in an armed hold-up at a gas station, in which two persons were robbed and over $500,000 in cash and other valuables were stolen, was yesterday remanded to prison.

Northern Rangers survived a relegation battle on the final day of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division league, defeating cellar occupants Beacons 4-1 on Sunday at the Tucville Community ground.

Twelve persons who applied to become investigators at the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) will today be interviewed by a five-member committee, PCA Chairman retired Justice Cecil Kennard disclosed yesterday.

Four persons miraculously escaped with their lives after a wedding celebration when an alleged intoxicated driver drove head on into another car on the West Coast Demerara public road, leaving the driver of that car with a broken leg Residents of Meten-Meer-Zorg said they heard the loud impact of the crash around 1.30 am.

From Emmerson Campbell in Suriname   The 2014 Inter Guiana Games (IGG) is a wrap.

Accused of impersonating another person for the purpose of obtaining a car, a man was yesterday released on $100,000 bail.

GT, GT, Gt! were the chants resonating from the lips of Guyana’s supporters Sunday night after the local male volleyball team grounded the hosts in four sets to win the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) gold medal game here in Paramaribo, Suriname.

Dear Editor, In a letter which was kindly published in the Stabroek News (SN 22-10-2014) and the Guyana Chronicle (GC 22-10-2014) Pinnacle Green Resources (Guyana) Inc.

Dear Editor, Your editorial on October 25th, `Canada’s mature response to acts of terror’, was excellent.

Amidst the firework illuminated skies and the thunder of firecrackers, Fruta Conquerors Football Club was crowned Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division league champions, defeating nine men Pele 5-1 on Sunday at the Tucville ground.

Conservation International (CI) yesterday called for a continuation of the bilateral agreement between Guyana and Norway as it congratulated both countries on the fourth year forest climate payment.

Lindener Orville Hinds on Sunday won the grueling Digicel sponsored Breast Cancer Awareness cycle road race in 2h 39m 29s.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The head of Canada’s national police told a parliamentary committee yesterday the government must do more to stop homegrown radicals, such as those who killed two soldiers on home soil last week, from going overseas for militant training.

A security guard is now a remanded prisoner after being implicated in the shooting of a man during an attempted robbery.

Dear Editor, I observed a letter in yesterday’s SN from Mark DaCosta captioned `APNU’s apparent reticence is saving Guyana from another five years of PPP dictatorship’.

The police have completed their investigations into the abuse allegations made by Johnny Welshman against Raphael Trotman and the matter is now engaging the attention of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 27 Shi’ite militiamen outside the Iraqi town of Jurf al-Sakhar yesterday after security forces pushed Islamic State militants out of the area over the weekend, army and police sources said.

Dear Editor, In a SN letter of Oct 25, Nowrang Persaud, a human resources development expert seemed to be in agreement with the views expressed by Prime Minister Hinds in his SN letter of Oct 23 that in order to improve the lives of Guyanese, attention must be focused on improving the low production, productivity, quality and competitiveness of Guyanese organisations/industries.

Guyana’s Cleveland Forde and Trinidad’s Tonya Nero on Sunday won the male and female categories respectively of the South American 10K road race.

Kashif and Shanghai director Kashif Muhammad said that the organization was preparing to host their 25th annual knockout club football tourney and was awaiting the installation of the FIFA normalization committee to discuss the staging of the event.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will expedite planning for some 1,000 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a government official said yesterday, in a bid to placate a restive coalition ally without further aggravating a dispute with Washington.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff’s narrow re-election victory met with cold reality yesterday as Brazil’s financial markets tumbled on doubts that she can restore confidence in the economy and maintain political support in a sharply divided nation.

Dear Editor, There is a glaring factual error in yesterday’s Stabroek News article `Sugar output still dismal, Skeldon far below target.’

Signs of the times? Man and animals forage for food at an illegal dumpsite at Saffon Street and Independence Boulevard yesterday.

Three armed, masked men launched an attack on an East Bank Demerara family early yesterday morning, leaving one person wounded and the others traumatised, while robbing them of millions.

Dear Editor,   Prof. David Hinds called out the Guyana Times (no evidence cited) for what he claims are biased reporting and negative commentaries (of Africans and some Indians) by the paper (in letter captioned `I have not seen more vile attacks on public persons …’ SN Oct 25).

Guyana is one of a number of countries in the western hemisphere where child-begging is a manifestation of poverty and while the practice may not be as pronounced here as in the capitals and bigger, more crowded cities of countries like Mexico and Brazil, any country in which poverty in the family renders it necessary to press children into service as beggars has good reason to be concerned with its social fabric.

NATIONAL junior chess player Sheriffa Ali maximised on her stay in Suriname with a first place finish in a blitz chess tournament last Sunday in Paramaribo.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities yesterday said they had arrested four drug gang members involved in the kidnapping of dozens of student teachers who disappeared last month and are feared massacred.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal health officials yesterday revamped guidelines for doctors and nurses returning home to the United States from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, stopping well short of controversial mandatory quarantines being imposed by some US states.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — A joint police operation involving members of the Revenue Protection Divi-sion (RPD) and The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) was underway yesterday at the Account-ant General’s office downtown Kingston.

By Richard N Haass  NEW YORK – Historical eras are difficult to recognise before they end.

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