Daily Archive: Sunday, July 26, 2015

(Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of late singer Whitney Houston, died today at the age of 22, some six months after suffering irreversible brain damage in an incident at her suburban Atlanta home, her family said in a statement.

(CPL) Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel are the new kings of Caribbean cricket after winning the 2015 Hero CPL.

(Trinidad Express) Prison escapee Hassan Atwell, 41, has been killed. Reports are that Atwell was not killed by police but by members of the Rasta City gang.

At about 0245h. today, the police say that two men were involved in an argument on the Plaisance Railway Embankment, ECD, when one of them discharged rounds at the other which missed and struck bystander Jomo Lewis, 34 years, of Plaisance Squatting Area, ECD, to his shoulder and abdomen.

(Trinidad Express) The brother of murdered Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal is questioning the timing of the arrests and charging of 11 men in connection with his sister’s murder.

In 1964 Venezuela wanted Forbes Burnham and Peter D’Aguiar to attempt to overthrow the Cheddi Jagan administration here with the assistance of men trained in Venezuela, and then form a “Revolution-ary Government.”

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj   Uitkomst is a petite village in Canal Number One.

A man identified as self-confessed death squad member Shawn Hinds was observed sitting in a “strange car” that was parked near the home of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and this information has since been passed to Police Commis-sioner Seelall Persaud.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum is refuting suggestions that police have not questioned politicians as part of the investigation of the murder of activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.

A day after she lost a child, tragedy struck again for an Enterprise mother of five when a fire gutted her home on Friday.

Just three days after they were identified as the suspects into the murder of transgender sex worker Noel Wilson Luthers called ‘Nephi’, the police yesterday issued wanted bulletins for Ron Forde and Kanand Ojha.

Politician Mark Benschop yesterday refused to give police a statement on a reported $3 million contract on his life after saying that one of the ranks who turned up to interview him was among those alerted to the plot.

Rayon Clementson, who was shot to his thigh in Tucville on July 14 succumbed to his injuries on Friday night at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Guyana clinched their 11th consecutive overall team title by securing the boys team title for the third consecutive year while adding a silver medal in the girls’ section when the 33rd Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) championship concluded yesterday in Barbados.

Introduction         Hypothesis: Paradigm shift   The hypothesis that has been under consideration in my July columns thus far, is that international best practices in the area of financing for development are undergoing a paradigm shift, which is partly reflected in mounting global efforts to incorporate “recovery of stolen public assets” (StPAR) as a central feature of domestic resource mobilization, particularly for developing countries.

Endowed It is understood that Guyana has been encouraged to become a part of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI).

Led by Player-of-the-match Alphius Bookie who bagged three wickets Guyana yesterday eased to a seven-wicket win over the Leeward Islands in a second round match of the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Regional Under-15 50 over tournament at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Exports of logs were up by a staggering 80.77% last year over the figure in 2013, according to the 2014 annual report of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

(CPL T20) Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel yesterday caused Guyana’s Amazon Warriors to crack with the bat and then made fairly little fuss in the run chase to run out deserving winners in a must-win Eliminator match-up and earn a place in today’s final of the Caribbean Premier League against current holders Barbados Tridents.

Following recent musical explorations in the country, including Dr Vibert Cambridge’s excellent book, Musical Life in Guyana, the current depressed state of our music industry is once again a topic of discussion.

With gold plunging to a five-year low on Monday of US$1,094.5 per ounce, miners are again seeking the help of government and warning of a downturn in communities that have been dependent on the precious metal.

Guyana’s protest to the world governing body for football (FIFA) against St.

By Tony Cozier The topsy-turvy cricketing life of Denesh Ramdin has taken another back flip.

The burden of debt is overwhelming country after country. Greece is in the headlines now but there are scores of others teetering on the precipice.

Showstoppers, Queen Street Tiger Bay, Sparta Boss and Samaroo Dam were among the winners when the inaugural Second Ground Entertainment ‘Ballers in the Summer’ knockout street football tourney commenced on Friday at the Pouderoyen Tarmac.

The controversial contractor for the troubled Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) project is now under investigation for offering a bribe to the failed presidential re-election campaign of Mahinda Rajapakse in Sri Lanka, Reuters reported on Friday.

Millions in articles went up in flames early last Thursday when a fire destroyed a section of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) complex that housed the Colombian Trade Fair Expo, at Thomas Lands.

Sean Hinds comes out of the dark and dangerous recesses of our recent history.

Team Gillette Evolution (TGE) defied the odds to finish first and second in yesterday’s feature 35-lap event of the inaugural Nauth’s Motor Spares 11-race cycle programme.

Though the two suspected planners of the armed robbery which left mall owner Ganesh Ramlall dead have been charged and placed before the court, the police are adamant that they are still actively searching for the trigger men.

Cycling returns to the Ancient County today with the staging of the Grenville Felix Memorial road race.

Critics of the popular play in contemporary drama, and very specifically those in the Caribbean and Guyana, often hold it up against what is called ‘serious’ theatre.

(Continued) Tick infestation on the ear   Throughout the year, it is possible to find ticks abounding on the ear flap (Pinna), and to a lesser degree in the ear canal (ticks usually do not wander deep into the ear canal).

At times, the column focuses primarily on regurgitating chess stories from around the world in juxtaposition to highlighting what is happening locally.

Many of us are more familiar with the hot version of lemongrass tea but have you ever considered making the tea and having it cold?

Part 1 In the last seven months much has been written about Cuba and the reopening of full diplomatic relations with the US.

If Secretary of State John Kerry is serious when he claims that the Obama administration will keep pressing for democracy and human rights in Cuba, this is the least he should do: invite Cuban dissidents to the flag-raising ceremony at the US Embassy in Havana when he travels for the historic event there on August 14.

As I said last week, there is a lot of hype around mulch and wood waste but sometimes the sawmills cannot be trusted to provide safe wood waste.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Cricket super star Chris Gayle has announced that he will be out of action for about three months to undergo corrective surgery to tackle a lingering back problem.

Dear Editor, On page 16 of the Stabroek News of July 22 there is a photograph of the Attorney General in a meeting with the Ambassador of China to Guyana.

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish fighter jets and ground forces hit Islamic State militants in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in Iraq yesterday, in a campaign Ankara said would help create a “safe zone” across swathes of northern Syria.

Eleven people have been charged with the murder of Dana Seetahal SC and will appear in court tomorrow.

Dear Editor, A few days ago a three-toed sloth was seen in the burning sun on a road in Campbellville.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama told Africans yesterday that discriminating against gays was like treating people differently because of race, drawing criticism from anti-gay activists who said he was imposing his morality on the continent.

(Trinidad & Tobago’s Newsday) – A woman dressed in Muslim clothing, who was given a special visit to one of the escapees at the Port of Spain Prison at mid-morning on Friday, has been identified as the person who allegedly smuggled two pistols and a hand grenade into the prison without being detected.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – At least 19 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Cameroonian town of Maroua yesterday, a local military commander said, just three days after twin bombings there suspected to have been carried out by Boko Haram.

Dear Editor, The PPP is in dire straits. One wonders if the party has actually lost its way, as Ralph Ramkarran noted, or if the party is totally oblivious to the dilemma in which it finds itself.

A large section of this tree outside the Supreme Court broke off sometime yesterday, bringing down power lines with it.

An assessment of how the new government has been performing would produce something of a mixed verdict.