Daily Archive: Friday, June 5, 2009

Articles published on Friday, June 5, 2009

So what about alleged Roger Khan/gov’t links?

…Luncheon says ‘comprehensive disclosure’ needed A “comprehensive response” to the alleged links between government and jailed Guyanese drug kingpin Roger Khan depends on “comprehensive disclosure,” according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon.

Sugar down 6,000 tonnes in first crop

– annual target still doable if plan stuck to, Gopaul says There was a shortfall in sugar production by some 6,000 tonnes during the first crop which recorded just over 83,000 tonnes, largely as a result of poor weather conditions, Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation board Dr Nanda Gopaul said yesterday.

Girl severely beaten by father

-child protection unit steps in Welfare officers attached to the Child Protection Unit of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSS) yesterday met with a 15-year- old girl who was severely beaten by her father at the family’s East Coast Demerara home on Wednesday.

2009 Parbo Bier Cup

Golden Jaguars to seek  redemption It’s day two of the 2009 Parbo Bier Cup in Suriname and team Guyana after losing their opening game on Wednesday will be coming out looking for a much needed victory when they face the hosts today at the Andre Kampervene Stadium at 4 pm local time.

Dr Roger Luncheon

Two more local gov’t bills tabled

-administration would be able to pick all members of key commission Following criticism by the opposition, the government yesterday tabled two more bills in Parliament for local government reforms and the one catering for the establishment of the local government commission would enable the PPP/C administration to pick all six members.

Guyana and Norway in talks on advancing rainforest MOU

Director of Norway’s Climate and Forest Initiative, Ambassador Hans Brattskar says that recent talks with President Bharrat Jagdeo included trying to advance the memorandum of understanding the two countries have signed on a rainforest deal and the amount of financial aid this country could get for its programme.

President of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr Compton Bourne

Global crisis not all to blame for economic woes in CDB member countries – Bourne

…past economic policy failures also a factor President of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr Compton Bourne has said that while the global economic and financial crisis currently affecting  the bank’s Borrowing Member Countries (BMC’s) is a consequence of severe external economic shocks,  vulnerability to the  crisis has been accentuated by past economic policy failures.

GMSA President Ramesh Dookhoo

Manufacturers ‘feeling the heat’ as export markets dry up

First quarter bauxite production plunges “Tentative” production figures released to Stabroek Business by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) indicate a drastic reduction in bauxite production for the first quarter of 2009, a circumstance which GMSA President Ramesh Dookhoo says reflects the dramatic shrinkage in the world market demand for the commodity.

Hastening the creation of a regional agribusiness sector

The sense of disappointment, even frustration over the slow pace at which the hoped-for creation of a strong regional agribusiness sector is proceeding was evident in the presentations at last week’s regional agribusiness forum by Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud and, at the end of the two-day forum, by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

President Bharrat Jagdeo

Caricom agribusiness forum

President Jagdeo calls for less talk and more action Caricom SG urges greater Secretariat role In the face of growing impatience on the part of  President Bharrat Jagdeo over the slow pace of progress towards the creation of a viable regional agribusiness sector, Caribbean Community Secretary General Dr Edwin Carrington is advocating a more central role for the Georgetown-based Caricom Secretariat in hastening the pace towards the realization of the regional objective.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington

Single Market `not working’

Some Caricom states deliberately restricting free flow of trade – GMSA President The promulgation of a Caricom Single Market more than two years ago has done little so far to accelerate fair and equitable access to regional markets by member countries of the Community, according to President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Ramesh Dookhoo.

Bharat Dindyal

Business sector fuming over protracted power woes

Third quarter deadline for new electricity plant `unacceptable’ – GMSA President The protracted periods of power outage that have gripped parts of the country over the past few weeks have evoked angry responses from sections of the Georgetown business community backed by calls from the Heads of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) for the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) to seek to bring forward its announced time frame for ending the power supply woes.

Test crowds dwindle while fans flock to one-dayers

(Reuters) – Test-match crowds have steadily dwindled  throughout much of the cricketing world while fans turn instead  to 50-over and Twenty20 matches      In advance of the Twenty20 World Cup opening at Lord’s today, Reuters correspondents examine attendances in the major  countries: AUSTRALIA Melbourne regularly attracts crowds of more than 200,000 for  each test match and Sydney generally pulls in between 100,000  and 200,000.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 306’s trading results showed consideration of $249,400 from 18,450 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 305 which showed consideration of $822,195 from 4,567 shares traded in 6 transactions. 

Frankly Speaking by A.A Fenty

Turn which other cheek? Violence in the stations This is motivated both by the daily doses of violence on the streets of our country as reflected on newspapers’ front pages –and  by two features on domestic violence published in Arnon Adams’ May 2009 Guyana Review.

Fantasy politics

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is probably not enjoying the job he openly craved while serving as Tony Blair’s Chancellor for so long.