Says Brassington’s disclosure could have been handled differently
The announcement by the Government of Guyana that it is offering Atlantic Tele-Network (ATN) first refusal on a buyout of its 20 per cent shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is likely to be on the agenda of the local telecommunications company’s majority shareholder at its next meeting, according to the company’s Chief Executive Officer Major General (ret’d) Joe Singh.
An award-winning Profes-sor of Marketing from the United States is scheduled to visit Guyana next week to conduct seminars in Linden and Georgetown designed to assist the local private sector in developing workable strategies to support the marketing of their goods and services.
Protecting legitimate exports from the taint of drug trafficking
As if the already existing challenges associated with external market access for locally produced goods had not already impacted significantly on export earnings and, in at least one case, forced the closure of operations by at least one company, we are now confronted with the additional, self-imposed impediment to accessing markets in the United States that has to do with the proliferation of drug trafficking through concealment in various known and legitimate exports including pepper sauce, fish, vegetables and some wood products.
Action committee charges absence of democracy in Rice Producers Association
Chief Executive Officer of the Alesie Group of Companies, Turhane Doerga is taking the government to task over what he says is the undemocratic manner in which the local rice industry is being administered and has told Stabroek Business that the “dictatorial manner” in which the industry is managed could seriously compromise its future at a time when rice is being cited by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a critical commodity in the global response to an impending international food crisis.
-Brazil, Venezuela targeted
Finding extra money to splurge on a keepsake, it seems is more difficult for visiting Guyanese, as the craft sector is reporting declining revenues from its main support base.
Government’s band-aid approach over the years to complaints from Guyanese travelling to Barbados and inadequate representation on the island have contributed to the current tenuous situation, the PNCR said yesterday, calling for action now to develop a sensible long-term policy on the issue.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 304’s trading results showed consideration of $7,455,930 from 645,821 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 303 which showed consideration of $136,717 from 12,777 shares traded in 5 transactions.
Several customs officers implicated in the polar beer scam involving Fidelity Investments have been dismissed by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) after being interdicted from duty nearly a year ago.
The International Monetary Fund has observed that direct spillovers from the global financial crisis on Guyana’s banking system have so far been limited.
– man still in custody
A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of a West Coast Berbice waitress proved that she died from poisoning and the man who allegedly forced her to ingest it is still in custody at the Fort Wellington Police Station.
A Trinidadian businessman and two Guyanese were in custody last evening as police in Trinidad and Tobago continue their investigation into the murders of two Guyanese men whose bodies were found in a river on Sunday with gunshot wounds to the back of their heads.
-reaping of financial rewards to be criminalized
Two bills, which seek to modernize the laws governing the legal status of children and adoptions, were yesterday unanimously passed by the National Assembly, in a move deemed as progressive in the effort to protect the basic human rights of Guyanese children.
-Stats Bureau
The Bureau of Statistics says that during the first quarter this year the inflation rate was held at 0.4% by such factors as the contraction in demand, the supply rebound in vegetables and fruits and relatively low fuel prices.
-in false murder probe
Police reportedly investigating a murder that had not occurred “broke” into a Tain, Corentyne home, one of its occupants said, and took a pregnant woman into custody when they did not find the “suspect” they were seeking.
-court hears
A father of four was yesterday refused bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of carjacking at a stoplight.
The main opposition PNCR has questioned the legitimacy of the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting (ACB), accusing the government of turning a temporary arrangement into a political tool.
– Drainage under scrutiny as ODI is abandoned
LEEDS, England, CMC – Not even a newly installed drainage system could salvage West Indies’ plans of a quick rebound from their Test series hammering, as heavy overnight and morning rain forced the abandonment of the opening One-Day International against England yesterday.
-will be available online
Guyenterprise says the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company (GT&T) has contracted it to be its sales agent for the 2009/2010 Guyana Telephone Directory.
A 24-year-old woman was yesterday refused bail when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to two counts of larceny from a dwelling house.
Former National Sports Commission (NSC) three-stage champion and Anguilla-based Guyanese Godfrey Pollydore believes that new champion Alonzo Greaves has a far way to go in the sport of cycling, with the potential he has been displaying.
-Joseph and Jeffrey continue unbeaten run
Following his devastating loss to Alexander Cheeks on the first night, Patrick Fraser rebounded to defeat Travis Whitehead in a closely fought match when the second night of action in the Guyana Squash Racquets Association organized Woodpecker Products sponsored national junior championships continued at the Georgetown Courts Wednesday night.
Suriname has now become part of a wider network for intelligence sharing and dissemination of information in relation to illegal firearms within the Caribbean.
The first round of the inaugural Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Trix Under-17 Football Tournament commences next Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club ground (GFC) following its official launching yesterday in the boardroom of Bryan and Fernandes.
-English weather denies Windies of a kick-starting revival
When the West Indies were last in England in 2007, they enjoyed the consolation of a 2-1 triumph in the three ODIs that followed their 3-0 defeat in the four Tests.
–girl, 10, found cooking on kero stove
A ten-year-old cooking roti on a kerosene stove near a bed and an eight-month-old baby who had not had a diaper change in hours was the scene welfare officers from the Child Care and Protection Agency happened on in a shack at Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara.
CARICOM trade ministers at the 27th Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development last week expressed concern at the latest proposals by the European Union (EU) for new tariff measures to deal with the longstanding banana dispute.
The long wait is over and the finals of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) organized German Restaurant/W&H Rambarran sponsored Under-19 Inter-association competition will be held today at the Lusignan Community Centre Ground.
Two riverain communities received outboard engines from Food For the Poor (Guyana) Inc at the organisation’s headquarters in Festival City, Georgetown on Wednesday.
CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic withstood a sensational 49-point effort from LeBron James to shock the Cleveland Cavaliers 107-106 in a thrilling Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Manish Pandey smashed the highest score of the Indian Premier League season as his unbeaten 114 helped Bangalore Royal Challengers to a 12-run win over Deccan Chargers and third place in the table.
The PNCR yesterday said any kind of brute force used by the police is unacceptable as it leads to the “indiscriminate slaughter of young men and prevents a determination of the masterminds behind crime in Guyana.”
When the national Under-19 squad goes into its first encampment in preparation for the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/TCL Regional Under-19 tournament in Jamaica from today, the fitness level of the players will be the main item on the mind of coach Hubern Evans.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – A scheme that could unlock billions of dollars for poorer nations by saving their forests is set to be included in a new climate pact, a top U.N.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – A billionaire Egyptian businessman and politician was sentenced to death yesterday for ordering the murder of a Lebanese pop star reported to have been his lover in a gory case that captivated the Arab world.
Dear Editor,
I am flabbergasted at the posture of Ms Fidela Corbin, a modern-day lawyer who was trained in the post-Cold War days when the state of our leaders ought not to be a closeted matter.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered the latest in a series of setbacks yesterday when he caved in to public pressure and said more retired Nepalese Gurkha soldiers would be allowed to settle in Britain.
Dear Editor,
I sincerely trust that this letter will in some way perk up those at the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) and goad them into a bit more forceful action to serve and protect consumers, especially those who are daily struggling to earn a dollar.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A law expected to be approved by Brazil’s Congress granting 1.2 million people and numerous companies titles to a huge chunk of the Amazon rain forest could provoke a new wave of land-grabbing and deforestation, conservationists warn.
Dear Editor,
It is insulting that Mr Bisram claims that the intent of his letter (‘The Indian and African experience has been similar,’ SN May 11)was to promote racial harmony when the substance was glaringly offensive and insensitive.
(Barbados Nation) – Ambassador to Caricom MP Denis Kellman, wants to see pan-Caribbean companies take the region’s productive sectors into the export markets.
Dear Editor,
I wish to react to Mr Patrick Barker, who said in a recent letter (‘Van West Charles is not the man to lead the PNC or be president,’ SN May 16), that he did not support Dr Richard Van West Charles’s bid for PNC Leader and possibly as a President, simply because of Dr Charles’s past link with the autocratic Forbes Burnham regime.
DURANGO, Mexico, (Reuters) – Drug gangs have forced open a bloody new front in Mexico’s drugs war, extending their battles over smuggling routes into a formerly quiet northwestern state and further stretching the army.
Dear Editor,
I wish to commend the Executive of the Ex-GDF Association of Guyana for excellent voluntary work being done in the interest of the less fortunate former soldiers.
Public Protection, Public Perception-No credibility? Integrity?
I am hanging these brief remarks on a journalistic clothesline provided by Adam Harris in his Sunday newspaper, by Stabroek’s editorial of this Monday and by my own observations of the unfortunate.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 11 people in Haiti, as the poor Caribbean nation struggles to recover from last year’s disasters, civil protection officials said yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Former US President Bill Clinton’s role as UN special envoy to Haiti will help raise world awareness of its plight as the poorest state in the Americas, Haiti’s prime minister said on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Police and federal agents arrested 88 people linked to a notorious Southern California street gang in raids yesterday that capped the largest such sweep by the U.S.
Dear Editor
We refer to the May 8th editorial under the headline `Putting more pressure on the private sector to pay up employee NIS contributions’ in which you stated quote “Moreover, the records indicate that the delinquents include many prominent businesses, including banks.”
