Daily Archive: Wednesday, December 24, 2014

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr.

BRIDGETOWN Barbados, CMC – All-rounder Darren Sammy has been named to replace Kemar Roach in the 15-man One-Day International squad to face South Africa next month, in another twist in the ongoing selection saga.

The President, Executives and Clubs of the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) have expressed regret at the passing of their first Vice-President Samaroo Jailal, 42, who died at the Woodlands Hospital after feeling unwell today.

(Reuters) – An 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police at a gas station late on Tuesday in a St.

Three persons died after a car crashed into a utility pole at No 6 Village, West Coast Berbice around 9:30 pm yesterday.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, CMC- West Indies batsman Shiv Chanderpaul has expressed confidence in his team’s ability to bounce back against South Africa in the second Test match at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth starting Friday.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday met with the heads of the country’s security forces and urged them to get on top of the crime situation.

A member of the Belize Defence Force is nursing an injury in the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot and robbed on Monday night while walking along Stanley Place, Kitty.

A man suspected of being one of two gunmen who invaded a house at Ruby Backdam, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) last Friday was yesterday found floating in a nearby trench.

Trinidad and Tobago opening batsman Adrian Barath will most likely miss the rest of the West Indies Cricket Board Professional Cricket League (PCL) after writing to the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) asking for some time off from the game.

Armed bandits carted off just over $2 million and other valuables during a brazen daylight robbery at a Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara business yesterday.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC-West Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron says that the decision by the board to approve a recommendation for rookie fast bowler Jason Holder to be appointed new one-day captain was unanimous.

Six-year-old Amrita Ramdin jumps over the river wall and trails behind her grandmother through the muddy dam, searching for her older sibling.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- An executive member of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB), Patrick Rampersad, has blasted the appointment of 23-year old fast bowler Jason Holder as the new captain of the West Indies one-day side.

The community of Land of Canaan on the East Bank of Demerara will soon have its own police station as bids were yesterday opened for the project, set to cost some $96.8 million dollars.

JAGS Aviation, a member of the BK Group of Companies held a ceremony yesterday to welcome their Poland-made, M28 Sky Truck to Guyana, at the GuySuCo Hangar at the Ogle International Airport.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The average attendance at Brazil’s new arenas in the five months since the World Cup was higher than the league mean but stadiums in cities without major clubs are in danger of becoming white elephants, studies and experts said.

The deep flood in Bourda Market yesterday.

The police yesterday said that four more persons have been found guilty of driving under the influence and fined $7,500 each.

Not able to vend on the pavement because of the flooding, vendors moved onto Regent Street for Christmas business.

From mall to floodwater – outside of Sharon’s Mall on King Street.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain coach Vicente del Bosque is feeling positive about 2015 despite the shock of failure at this year’s World Cup and is confident he can successfully shepherd the team through qualification for Euro 2016.

The Gillian Thompson Collection in the National Library was yesterday boosted with a donation of 16 computer tablets with some 500 books loaded on each one.

The police yesterday sought to defend their response time to a chilling robbery on Sunday at Maida, Corentyne saying that reports of a slothful response was a fabrication aimed at achieving political mileage.

Two-time consecutive Mackeson 3×3 basketball winners Pitbulls officially received their prizes from beverage conglomerate Ansa McAl at a simple presentation ceremony held yesterday at the entity’s Beterverwagting headquarters.

Flotsam yesterday at the No.42 bus tarmac outside of the Stabroek Market  after yesterday’s rains.

A misunderstanding between a husband and wife in relation to the health of their six-month-old child has led to Joseph Hoyte facing two charges: assault and threatening behaviour.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has dismissed his second-place finish on a list of Sweden’s all-time sporting greats behind tennis master Bjorn Borg.

Piggybacking in the Stabroek Market yesterday

(The Sports Xchange) — Chicago chased the Toronto Raptors for most of the game before Chicago put up a franchise-best 49 points in the fourth quarter to secure a 129-120 points victory.

Dear Editor, Christmas is with us and as is our tradition the majority of Guyanese workers look forward to having some cash to help them share the joy and goodies associated with this season.

A visitor holidaying in Guyana from the US Virgin Islands yesterday incurred a $20,000 fine and found himself receiving orders to perform community service after his arraignment for possession of narcotics in a Georgetown court.

Marine surroundings in the seafood section of Stabroek Market yesterday.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) maintained their unbeaten run in the Georgetown Football Association Banks Beer Cup, edging Pele FC 2-1 in a top of the table group-D affair on Monday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

 By Jeff Trotman If the people are allowed to meaningfully manage their own affairs at the local government level, Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) commissioner Vincent Alexander says the central government could pay more attention to national problems and there would be less political partisanship and suspicion in communities.

Dear Editor, I’ve been in Guyana a month now, and have had a superb time with family and friends in the beautiful land of our birth.

A member of the Georgetown Prison band was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with possession of narcotics.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Afghanistan has new roads, sections of which many deem too dangerous to use.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose yesterday, with the Dow closing above 18,000 for the first time ever and the S&P 500 ending at a record after an unexpectedly strong report on economic growth.

Botofago secured their berth to the quarterfinal section of the GT Beer sponsored Upper Demerara Football Association knockout tourney, squeaking past Peacemakers FC 4-3 on Monday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

With the majestic St George’s Cathedral in the background this was a picture postcard scene yesterday save for the floodwater on King Street.

The driver who ran away leaving his car behind after he allegedly struck down three young men on Sunday morning at Providence, East Demerara, is still at large.

Dear Editor, It is amazing and distressing to think that a leading company and essential service provider, namely GT&T, which generates large revenues and has been doing so for decades, seems to be complacent about providing a quality service.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Brad Haddin has backed the elevation of Steve Smith to the Australian test captaincy in place of the injured Michael Clarke for the remainder of the India series, despite being overlooked for the caretaker role himself.

Floyd Drakes, 30, the third victim in the Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo triple murder was laid to rest yesterday while the suspect, Joshua Franklyn, 45, is still on the run.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations informed the Security Council yesterday that rival factions in Libya have agreed “in principle” to hold a new round of peace talks aimed at ending the escalating political crisis early in the new year.

Making the best of the sales in Stabroek Market yesterday on high

Dear Editor, In my letter to the Stabroek News some time ago captioned ‘What if Amerindians could unite and form their own political party?’

Seventeen-year-old Seon Gittens whose mother told the court that he punched her after she refused to give him the $500 he demanded, had the case against him dismissed but not before being reprimanded by the magistrate.

Determined shoppers in flooded Bourda Market yesterday.

(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators will recommend that gay men be allowed to donate blood one year after their last sexual contact, easing a ban that has been in place since 1983.

CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque says that 2014 must be marked as a milestone year for the Caribbean Community, noting that in July, Heads of Government approved the Community’s first Five-Year Strategic Plan which covers the years 2015-2019.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia batsman Michael Clarke has said his recovery from surgery on his torn hamstring was progressing as expected and he still hoped to lead his country at next year’s World Cup.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s decision to end five decades of enmity with Cuba has shaken the island’s political dissidents, dividing their ranks and forcing them to rethink tactics.

Dear Editor, I am a pharmacy graduate from the University of Guyana.

Business must go on no matter what – in Bourda Market yesterday.

Three youths who were allegedly armed with pieces of wood and severely thrashed a man were refused bail when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with the offence.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – A Delta Air Lines baggage handler has been charged with helping another man smuggle 18 handguns onto a flight from Atlanta to New York City, in a scheme that prosecutors said ran for years and also involved assault weapons.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australian all-rounder Shane Watson was forced to cut short his training session in the Melbourne Cricket Ground nets after being hit on the helmet by a bouncer yesterday, three days before the start of the third test against India.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Monday opted not to address any possibility that she may be offered the prime ministerial position at the upcoming general elections.

Flooded goods in Bourda Market yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan shoppers line up outside a Caracas liquor store to buy bottles of Buchanan’s 12-year Scotch whisky at half the usual cost, a deal made possible by a state subsidy that gave cheap dollars to import them.

Dear Editor, December 22, 2014 marked the twelfth anniversary of the death of one of Guyana’s statesmen, Mr Hugh Desmond Hoyte.

LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Sony Pictures will allow “The Interview” to play in more than 200 U.S.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Left-arm slow bowler Robin Peterson has become the latest player ruled out of the ongoing test series between South Africa and West Indies after he was injured in practice yesterday.

Sixty-six students graduated two Sundays ago from the University of Guyana’s Institute of Distance and Continuing Education Berbice Centre, receiving certificates after completing various courses.

Politikles

No broom or mop will help with this flood – in Bourda Market yesterday.

SANTA FE, Argentina, (Reuters) – A laboratory in the Argentine farm province of Santa Fe has developed what it calls the first prosthetic arm in Latin America to use sensors to respond to nerve impulses at a price that could radically expand the use of such devices.

Last week’s column showed how similar our constitution is to that of the United States of America when it comes to the power relations between the institutions that we call “supreme organs of democratic power” (in my view this phrase is nothing but archaic socialist hyperbole).

Dear Editor, Now that it seems almost inevitable that the ‘Cold War’ between the United States of America and Cuba is about to end there must also be wishful thinking among many, at this festive season, that the stand-off between North and South Korea would ere long no longer be a blot on our landscape, and would be relegated forever to the footnotes of history books.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe all-rounder Malcolm Waller has been suspended from bowling just seven weeks out from the World Cup, the International Cricket Council said yesterday.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzanian President Jakaya Kiwete’s office suspended a senior energy ministry official on Tuesday, the third political casualty of a corruption scandal that has rocked the east African nation.

The favourite public portrayal of North Korea in the Western world, and particularly in the United States, is that North Korea is one of the most backward countries in the world, incapable of advancing its own development, and led at the present time, by a political infant, Kim Jong Un, inclined to buffoonery.

About to test the water level in the Stabroek Market yesterday.