Daily Archive: Friday, November 20, 2009

Articles published on Friday, November 20, 2009

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett

Embassy made ‘huge mistake’ over Suriname deportee

–foreign minister orders probe By Oluatoyin Alleyne Officials at the Guyana Embassy in Washington DC made a “huge mistake” when they issued travel documents for a man of Guyanese parentage to be deported to Guyana and Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has ordered an investigation.

New IDB loan to help with financial transparency

A US$5 million ($1B) loan from the Inter-American Development Bank will be utilized to consolidate the Bank of Guyana’s supervision capacity, boost access to financial services and bring about more transparency, the IDB said in a release yesterday The IDB approved yesterday the US$5 million loan to strengthen Guyana’s financial sector and the programme will support one of the three pillars in the IDB Country Strategy for Guyana (2009-2012), namely the Competitiveness Strategy.

CJ dismisses preliminary objection in CLICO wind up case

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday dismissed preliminary arguments by CLICO (Guyana) raised in the winding-up hearing in the High Court saying that the court was authorized in its actions with respect to the petition by the then Commissioner of Insurance and the subsequent order for leave which was granted.

Corrupt politicians in poor countries having a field day!

Raking in US$20 to US$40 billion annually in bribes, kickbacks -Transparency International Corrupt politicians and government officials in “developing and transition countries” are  believed to receive bribes and kickbacks totalling between US$20 billion and US$40 billion annually, the equivalent of between 20 and 40 per cent of development assistance, according to the 2009 Global Corruption Report published by Transparency International.

PSC Chairman Captain Gerry Gouveia with the Cave Hiss Business School delegation and the representive of local partner Brain Street.

Cave Hill School of Business seeking to build capacity in Guyana

Visiting team meets gov’t, private sector The strengthening of the human resource base of both the private and public sectors of the Caribbean in order to ensure that institutions are more responsive to regional developmental needs is one of the key priorities of the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill School of Business (CHSB), Programme Director Ann Wallace told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week.

A complete loss of public trust and confidence

Editorial On Thursday, October 15th Prime Minister Samuel Hinds promised the nation through the National Assembly that come November 5th there would have been some measure of relief from the worsening power supply problems that have plagued the country for some months now.

 Veerasammy Permaul after  snaring five wickets.

B/ce needs 237 more to defeat Demerara

By Marlon Munroe With the Inter-County four day title virtually in their grasp, and having won all their matches, Berbice will be looking for a clean sweep when play resumes today, the final day of their Inter-County clash against Demerara.

GECOM acknowledges concerns in letters

Matters raised in letter of November 17 not addressed Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) acknowledges the concerns raised in the letter titled ‘Contradictory information from GECOM’ (SN, November 17) and the letter from Latchman Sookdeo (SN; GC, November 18).

From left, Sabiola Grey, Robin Roberts, Noel Adonis, Laurence Adonis and Theodore Henry at yesterday’s press briefing at the Guyana Olympic Association, building.

GABA knock-out tourneys bounce off tonight

After months of inactivity, Courts Pacesetters will be back into action tonight when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Open and third division knock-out tournaments bounce off at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Congratulations to the Guyana football team

Dear Editor, To the other members of the technical and management staff and most importantly, the players, I extend with pride, sincerity and gratitude, congratulations on our collective performance in the recent Independence Football Tournament, where Guyana for the first time in its footballing history, was crowned champion of a regional/international football event.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 330’s trading results showed consideration of $885,706 from 77,234 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 329 which showed consideration of $71,836,053 from 612,099 shares traded in 13 transactions. 

Another downgrade hits Jamaica

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Claiming Jamaica appears close to defaulting on its debts, ratings agency Moody’s Investors has downgraded the country’s local and foreign currency bonds from B2 to Caa1 with a negative outlook.

Our public discourse

It is a pity that Dr Rupert Roopnaraine’s feature address delivered at the special assembly of the Queen’s College reunion a few weeks ago, was heard only by the QC faithful.

BBC Caribbean News in Brief

OECS discuss economic union Leaders from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are this week furthering talks on plans to establish an economic union, at their meeting in Anguilla.

Kensington problems no ‘big issue’

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) chief executive Ernest Hilaire believes that if more cricket was played at Kensington Oval the ground would not have run into the problems that brought a scathing report from International Cricket Council (ICC) pitch consultant Andy Atkinson.