-amid threat of major strike
Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir last evening imposed compulsory arbitration in the Guysuco-GAWU wage dispute amid the threat of another widespread strike in the sugar industry and sharp exchanges between the two sides
In a statement last night, Nadir said the move came after conciliation proceedings between the Guyana Sugar Corporation and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union was declared a deadlock yesterday by the Chief Labour Officer.
-crowd gathers amid search pandemonium
Pandemonium reigned yesterday afternoon when officials from the National Frequency Management Unit(NFMU) swooped on the south Georgetown residence of Mark Benschop seizing what they said was an illegal wireless transmitter shortly after he was arrested for obstructing the police.
-two in hospital with pellet wounds
A search has been launched for two East Coast Demerara fishermen who are missing after two Guyanese fishing boats were attacked by pirates in Suriname waters around 7 pm on Wednesday, the pirates taking the two men hostage while escaping.
PNC accuses gov’t of bad faith
The government yesterday defended its negotiating position with the UK for security sector reform saying that the British wanted to be the chief cook and bottle washer.
-PNCR says list of 450 names to be provided
Investigators from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) visited the Office of Opposition Leader Robert Corbin twice in the past week seeking information on persons allegedly killed by drug trafficker Roger Khan.
In keeping with the recent Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling, Guyana has implemented the Common External Tariff (CET) on cement coming from sources out of the region but it continues to question whether Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) can provide the quantity and quality of cement demanded by the region.
Cabinet cleared a $191.1M contract for the provision of police kit and uniforms and seven others for the upgrading of roads and installation of traffic lights, at its Tuesday sitting.
The President’s College Old Students Association (PCOSA) is kick-starting a fundraising campaign tomorrow to rehabilitate sections of the institution which are in a bad condition with an initial focus on the Home Economics Department.
-Coach Seeram warns players ahead of B/dos encounterBy Marlon MunroeNot satisfied with his team’s three-wicket win over the Leeward Islands in the opening game of the West Indies Cricket Board-sponsored President’s Cup limited overs tournament, national coach Rabindranauth Seeram has issued a stern warning to his charges as they prepare to take on Barbados in a second round encounter today.
A 29-year-old prisoner accused of murdering another inmate was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
LONDON, England, CMC – Wigan Athletic’s troubled Jamaican striker Marlon King has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old student and causing her actual bodily harm last December.
GPL said yesterday that it has been faced with a dramatic increase in power demand on the West Coast and it will have to implement statutory load shedding during the peak period since it is experiencing a network capacity problem which is affecting consumers from Versailles to Lookout.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies selectors will sit down this weekend to pick the 15-man squad and a captain for the much anticipated three-Test tour of Australia.
Guyana will soon have a better picture of the care provided to new-born babies and pregnant mothers through a countrywide survey set to be conducted next month, with the goal of reducing maternal and child deaths.
The third annual Fruta Conquerors organized NAMILCO Football Festival recommences today after the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) lifted their suspension of the tournament following a stabbing incident on the opening night.
The police have sent the file on the allegations made against Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) President, Colwyn King to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.
Chintamani floats idea of separate entities for electricity generation, distribution
Private sector concern is mounting over the debilitating effect of the current countrywide power supply crisis on the business community and the heads of two of the country’s leading umbrella business organizations have declared that they are holding the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) to the publicly stated commitment that the protracted power woes will be alleviated by its stated November 5 date.
-concerned over reluctance of Bank of Guyana, Stats Bureau to provide reliable data
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Chandradat Chintamani has told Stabroek Business that information gleaned from some of the country’s leading money transfer agencies suggest that the volume of overseas remittances for the third quarter ending in September reflected an increase over both the first and second quarters of 2009 and over any quarterly period during last year.
MANCHESTER, England, CMC – West Indies pacer Daren Powell will play for Lancashire in next season’s County Championship, after signing a two-year contract with the club.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers suffered their second successive loss, despite a triple-double by league MVP LeBron James, in the new NBA season on Wednesday with a 101-91 defeat to the Toronto Raptors.
Even as the Caribbean persists in its inexplicable dilatoriness over what regional Heads have long agreed is a need to drastically reduce its food import bill by paying a great deal more attention to strengthening their agricultural sectors, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organiza-tion (FAO) continues to predict a likely global food crisis by the middle of the century unless there are significant increases in food output.
CANBERRA, Australia, CMC – Batting icon Brian Lara has advised Aussie pacer Brett Lee to adopt the same approach that helped West Indies fast bowler Malcolm Marshall in his latter years.
Recently, The Guyana Review conducted an extended interview with AFC Executive Member Gerhard Ramsaroop during which he spoke at length on issues relating both to his personal outlook and to the politics of the political party which he feels is much more than the ‘third force’ that it has been labeled.
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. is extremely disturbed by efforts of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union to distort the grim realities which confront the sugar Industry.
Customer service and the commercial sector
Jacquelyn Hamer
I consider it important to use this second installment of my series on Consumer Service to make some observations about everyday examples of the kinds of everyday mistreatment of customers that occur in the commercial sector.
Queen’s College observes its 165th anniversaryThis year marks the 165th anniversary of the establishment of Queen’s College − the most prestigious educational institution in Guyana’s history.
DOHA, (Reuters) – When Andre Agassi failed a drugs test 12 years ago having dabbled with crystal meth then fabricated an excuse to the ATP, the men’s governing body took him at face value and moved on to other business.
Guyana-Brazil relations have been impeded by deficiencies in physical infrastructure and slowed by a feeble foreign service, impotent government bureaucracy, underdeveloped commercial sector and a distrustful political directorate.
Dear Editor,
I have always held Dennis Wiggins in high regard because I am of the view that when he enters a debate he will be pushed by arguments and evidence, rather than by a pre-analytic politicized disposition.
Jenel Jacobs seeking to make her mark as a health products distributor
High unemployment and low salary levels in the urban service sector have pushed many young mostly female wage earners into various alternative employment options designed to subsidize their modest incomes.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders fell out yesterday over how to split the bill for helping poor countries tackle global warming in a deal to be agreed in December in Copenhagen.
The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) has attracted sponsorship from some overseas-based Guyanese and has also established long term relationship with some of them.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a sweeping healthcare overhaul yesterday that would transform the insurance market, create a government-run insurance plan and levy new taxes on the rich.
IMF forecasts more gloom ahead for Caribbean tourism
As travel costs to the Caribbean from Europe threaten to soar in the immediate future Carib-bean tourist destinations offering Europeans the traditional sun, sand and sea holiday are likely to come under increasing pressure to diversify their offerings if they are to compete effectively with similar destinations that are both cheaper and closer to Europe according to the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA).
LONDON, (Reuters) – Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt believes the tainted image athletics has acquired after several high-profile drugs cases in the past few years will clear as time goes by.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto rulers in power since a June coup returned to the negotiating table yesterday under U.S.
Dear Editor,
It remains the highest academic institution of learning in the country but the rapid decay is so pungent and chronic at the Turkeyen Campus.
KABUL – Afghanistan laid out plans for the Nov. 7 run-off presidential vote yesterday in an announcement criticised as insufficient to prevent fraud, a day after a Taliban attack on U.N.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate foreign relations committee approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur yesterday despite concerns over President Hugo Chavez’s thwarting of democracy.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 327’s trading results showed consideration of $587,127 from 41,727 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 326 which showed consideration of $4,888,401 from 240,668 shares traded in 14 transactions.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – Soccer’s governing body FIFA will work with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to step up the pressure on drug cheats in the sport, possibly with cycling-style biological passports.
Dear Editor,
Permit me space to comment on a particular issue which I have raised at different times with key officials at the Central Ministry of Education, Regional Education Officer, Regional Chairman of Region #3, Head Mistress and Former Deputy Head master, and other staff concerning the intervention needed to bring relief to the insanitary and unsafe conditions that have existed over the past 1 1/2 years at the West Demerara Secondary School.
(Trinidad Express) – Kidnap victim Imran Mohammed-Khan owes his freedom to a brother and to the police officers who caught the suspects and killed them all in an alleged shoot-out on Wednesday.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Shakib Al Hasan led Bangladesh to a seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the second one-day international with a blistering knock of 105 off 69 balls yesterday.
LABADEE, Haiti, (Reuters) – An ultramodern ocean liner and a 19th-century mountaintop fortress built by a slave rebellion leader figure prominently in Haiti’s plans to revive tourism in the poorest nation in the Americas.
Dear Editor,
Recently, in a number of articles and letters to the print media, especially, detractors, critics and other contributors have been stating, most erroneously, that GAWU’s President, Komal Chand is a member of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guy-suco).
LONDON, (Reuters) – Big energy and engineering companies will reap most profit from a climate deal due in December, as they use their financial and intellectual clout to grab low carbon subsidies
Utilities and oil companies, among the biggest polluters, are using their market awareness to stay ahead of a climate race, manoeuvring to own the most viable low-carbon technologies.
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Stabroek News of Thursday, October 29, 2009, under the caption `Fuel that coastguards had was illegal’.
Old Harbour, St Catherine (Jamaica Observer) – The police on Wednesday morning shot dead three men in an alleged gunbattle, which lasted for approximately half-hour, in the quiet, upscale New Harbour Village in this busy town.
CHENNAI, India,– Australian wicketkeeper Tim Paine will take no further part dia, (Reuters) in the one-day tour of India after suffering a broken finger during the second game, Cricket Australia (CA) said yesterday.
DOHA, (Reuters) – World number one Serena Williams marched into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships yesterday with a comfortable win over Elena Dementieva.
Frankly Speaking… By A.A. Fenty
-Regionalism, Race and Politics
Quite apart from his Guyana Water Inc Camp Resolutions outreaches, the relatively new-kid-on-the-block Minister of Housing (and Water) was in Region Three – the West Demerara – towards the last week-end.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Noddy, the beloved toy character created by Enid Blyton 60 years ago, returns to the book stores today in “Noddy and the Farmyard Muddle”, written by the late author’s granddaughter Sophie Smallwood.
There is no silver lining behind the dark cloud of controversy and chaos that has bedeviled West Indies cricket for so many months and perhaps the most regrettable consequence of the recent impasse between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) has been a gradual and now marked decline of interest among Caribbean people in the fortunes of the regional game.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Honduras de facto government has started proceedings at the UN court in The Hague to stop Brazil giving refuge to ousted President Manuel Zelaya in its embassy in Tegucigalpa.
