Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 24, 2015

(Trinidad Express) West Indies batsman Dwayne Bravo raised eyebrows when he appeared on a political platform on Monday night.

(WICB) ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board announced today a 20-member West Indies squad for a training camp in Antigua ahead of the International Home Test Series against England, starting next month.

Over the next three days, Customs and Border Control Officers will be participating in a workshop aimed at building capacity in the area of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and their enforcement, a release from GINA said today.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron has praised the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) for the success of the Jaguars in the Professional Cricket League (PCL) which ended on Monday.

AUCKLAND, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Grant Elliott struck the premier South Africa strike bowler Dale Steyn for six today to give the World Cup co-hosts a tight four-wicket victory with a ball to spare in their semi-final at Eden Park.

MARSEILLE, (Reuters) – An Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France today and all 148 on board were feared dead.

Guyana’s representative to the Food and Agriculture Organi-zation (FAO) Reuben Robertson warned yesterday that forest degradation is on the rise while President Donald Ramotar noted that critical international financing is lacking.

Two weeks after former president Bharrat Jagdeo implied that People’s Progressive Party (PPP) founder Dr Cheddi Jagan lived in luxury comparable to his own lifestyle, party General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday stated that the former president’s remarks do not reflect the official position of the party.

A Laing Avenue resident is nursing two gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was shot in his yard just before 1 am yesterday.

By Roger Wong   Nine-year-old Holly Ann Archer, though confined to her bed, cheerfully sings nursery rhymes and recites prayers she remembers from Sunday school.

Child sex offender Dennis Evans was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by Justice Brassington Reynolds in the Berbice High Court yesterday morning.

Demerara Distillers Limited’s (DDL) after-tax profit for 2014 was 38.4% above the preceding year while for the Group, after-tax profit was up by 23.9%.

Just over three weeks after the death of a young man, who was struck down while riding his motorcycle, his family says the driver responsible is yet to be charged.

A post-mortem examination performed yesterday on the body of Ramesh Katarhnauth revealed that he died as a result of asphyxia due to drowning, compounded by compression injury to the neck and multiple blunt trauma to the body, police said yesterday.

It was the perfect homecoming for Jamaal Shabazz as Guyana secured their first home win in over three years, defeating St.

The Pan American Health Organization/World   Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is calling on countries in the Americas to step up efforts to detect and treat people with tuberculosis (TB), to bring the epidemic to an end in the region by 2030.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Guyana Jaguars needed just about an hour to dispose of Windward Islands Volcanoes by an innings and ten runs, and put a definite shine on their capture of the inaugural WICB Professional Cricket League here yesterday.

City councillors yesterday learned that their monthly stipends are being adjusted based on their attendance at statutory and committee meetings, according to the directions of acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba.

Local franchise Cricket Guy Inc. (CGI) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday joined forces in congratulating the Guyana Jaguars on completing a historic and emphatic victory in the inaugural four-day tournament of the WICB Professional Cricket League.

Accused murderers Devon Thomas and Randy Isaac yesterday both maintained their innocence in the Mashramani night murder of businessman Kumar Mohabir and each pleaded for a chance to be reunited with his family.

The final group-stage round in the third annual Greatest Guinness of the Streets East Coast of Demerara tourney will commence today at the Haslington Market Place tarmac with eighth slated fixtures.

Three athletes have been added to the initial nine-member squad to represent Guyana at the CARIFTA Games Easter Weekend in St.

A remorseful young man was sentenced to 21 days in prison yesterday after he admitted to abusing his common-law partner.

A seaman was yesterday charged with breaking into a house at Mabaruma, North West District, where police allegedly found him hiding under a bed.

Recently confirmed Golden Jaguars Head-Coach Jamaal Shabazz said Sunday while Guyana’s 2-0 victory over Caribbean Football Union (CFU) rival St.

Dear Editor, Just a few comments on Manzoor Nadir’s appearance with APNU+AFC’s Imran Khan and Guyana Press Association’s Nazima Raghubir on the radio show ‘Hard Talk’ with host Chris Chapwanya.

It is a man’s world. Or so it seems to be especially on the local sporting landscape.

Dear Editor, I refer to the Kaieteur News article of March 14, under the caption ‘APNU+AFC plan to improve living conditions in Region Nine.’

Accused of stealing two phones, mason Jamal Taylor yesterday told a city court that there might have been a mix up.

Everest Cricket Club (ECC) dethroned defending champions Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) winning by 41 runs on Sunday at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) ground in the final of the Banks Malta Supreme U13 cricket tournament.

Dear Editor, In his March 15 Kaieteur News column, at the height of saturation media coverage of Crum-Ewing’s murder, Freddie Kissoon wrote an article headed ‘Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar were right on what they said about me.’

A gold miner, charged with robbing a co-worker in a violent attack, was placed on bail yesterday after he denied committing the crime.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said yesterday it was notifying 100 US troops that a group claiming ties to Islamic State militants had posted their names, addresses and photos on the Internet and was calling for American sympathizers to kill them.

A taxi driver was refused bail yesterday after he was accused of robbing a couple of over $2 million at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, It is alleged that on December 23, 2014, Alistair Naughton, being armed with dangerous weapon, robbed Hemchand Narine and Dianne Ramroop,

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Barbados Pride opted to bat out the final day, forcing a tame draw against Jamaica Franchise in their tenth round WICB PCL contest at Sabina Park yesterday.

Dear Editor, For the past two months the collection of garbage in Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara, is close to non-existent.

COUVA, Trinidad, CMC – Rahkeem Cornwall blasted a stroke-filled maiden first class century to fire Leeward Islands Hurricanes to a sensational five-wicket victory over Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, and end their otherwise disappointing WICB PCL campaign on a high here yesterday.

Dear Editor, The President of Guyana was at Anna Regina to turn the sod for the $100 million Rice Cereal factory and declared that it will create 200 jobs for Essequibians in the near future.

A jet man yesterday found himself in a city court on a drug charge after police said he could not keep his cool when lawmen offered to help him with his malfunctioning tractor.

WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) – The December breakthrough that upended a half-century of US-Cuba enmity has been portrayed as the fruit of 18 months of secret diplomacy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama met with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, for about an hour yesterday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The daughter of an imprisoned Mexican Mafia kingpin who pleaded guilty to racketeering and drug trafficking charges and admitted carrying out her father’s orders in running a brutal Los Angeles street gang was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison.

Dear Editor, One of the topical ideas embraced by news commentators about work related lifestyles in public office is the lean, clean and mean image articulated by Cde Cheddi following his inauguration speech in Oct 1992.

Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker has joined the fray over the employment of City Hall Clerk Nnesha Hinds, siding with Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba that Hinds should be downgraded to a Clerk 1.

RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen’s top factions are squaring off for battle after months of skirmishes, turning respectively to neighbouring Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran for help in what may become all-out war.

Dear Editor, Rice farmers in Region 2 have welcomed a decision taken on Monday, March 23, for some millers in the district to up the price of paddy by $500 per bag.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, died yesterday aged 91, triggering a flood of tributes to the man who oversaw the tiny city-state’s rapid rise from a British colonial backwater to a global trade and financial centre.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The love-hate relationship between Australia and India has added extra spice to Thursday’s World Cup semi-final at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).

Dear Editor, I was pondering the following questions: Was there was an explanation for not appointing a Head Coach for the World Cup even if it had to be only for that limited period?

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – James Faulkner has built a reputation as Australia’s best finisher, the man who can always be relied on to get the team across the line in a tight finish.

Dear Editor, Minister Juan Bishop Edghill during his visit to Linden, according to News Source “has declared that the people of Linden and Region 10 have received their fair share of development under the current administration.”

(The Sports Xchange) – Center Tiago Splitter scored a season-high 23 points and added eight rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Atlanta Hawks 114-95.

Afternoon fun: No Xbox and no Nintendo for these guys. Instead they were photographed racing in a dried out drain at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara after they got home from school yesterday.

Those of us in the Caribbean who sat through the early hours of Saturday morning to watch the last of the four quarter finals in this year’s Cricket World Cup Tournament knew only too well that the outcome that we wanted, had hoped for, could come only through some miracle or else on the back of a West Indies performance on the field that rose head and shoulders above the mediocrity which had characterized the team’s ungainly entry into the quarter finals stage of the competition.