Daily Archive: Friday, December 3, 2010

GDF anniversary fireworks Parachuting was done by soldiers from the Guyanese and Brazilian armies GDF in fine marching form GDF soldiers showing off their karate skills

LONDON, (Reuters) – Libyan leader caused a month-long nuclear scare in 2009 when he delayed the  return to Russia of radioactive material in an apparent fit of  diplomatic pique, leaked U.S.

The Government today approved a five percent across-the-board salary increase for all public servants and members of the disciplined services with effect from January 1, 2010.

Two employees of Mohamed’s Enterprise have been dismissed and suspended respectively for their role in the recent beating and torturing of three security guards, the business’s owner Nazar Mohamed said yesterday as he apologized publicly for the incident.

NEW YORK/LONDON, (Reuters) – Three of the world’s  most influential newspapers have finally come to terms with the  notion that charging readers online is the only way to  survive.

A 35-year-old man who was wanted for questioning for several offences in Berbice, this morning burnt himself to death in his home on seeing the police.

Saying that the rate of armed robberies is alarming, the PNCR today called on the government to implement immediate measures to raise pay so as to attract higher calibre recruits for the Guyana Police Force.

The government procurement website www.eprocure.gov.gy is currently down after being hacked, Press and Publicity Officer at the Office of the President Kwame McCoy says.

A cable from USAID Bridgetown from December 2006 is one of the first on the Caribbean that has been released either by WikiLeaks or the media that have been given full access to the hundreds of thousands of cables leaked by the site.

Two teenagers were found hanging early this morning in an abandoned house at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara in an apparent suicide pact following refusal of permission to wed.

A new market was commissioned at Port Mourant yesterday. The Government Information Agency said that the new Port Mourant market was constructed at a cost of $102M through a joint initiative of the government, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

Harry Narine Nawbatt will be Guyana’s new High Commissioner to Canada.

KANDY, (Reuters) – West Indies were 244 for five  wickets at the close after persistent rain washed out the third  day of the third and final test against Sri Lanka at Pallakele  Stadium today.

University of Guyana (UG) lecturer Evan Radhay Persaud has admitted using profanity and sexual innuendo in the classroom saying that his general manner of speaking is accepted in the “real world”, but he has denied ever discussing sex as a topic with his students.

After confirmation on Wednesday that  Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will appear after all in the 21st Kashif & Shanghai tournament, the players in the proposed replacement team, Ann’s Grove Football Club are feeling disheartened, according to Club President Trevor Waterman.

Chairman of the Medical Council of Guyana, Dr. Sheik Amir said yesterday that the body erred in granting Dr.

Fugitive Colin Jones was yesterday charged with murdering two of his former gang members and another man and was jailed for eight years on a series of other charges including cultivation of ganja and possession of an unlicensed weapon and ammunition.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Awarding the 2018 and 2022 World  Cups to Russia and Qatar sees FIFA continue to expand soccer’s  horizons while tapping into huge financial resources, and the  will to spend them, at a time of global economic uncertainty.

For the second time this year masked bandits attacked guards at the Engineering Construction Incorporated (ECI) and escaped in a boat via the Demerara River with millions in equipment and cash.

Guyana’s number one seed and defending champion, Philip Squires, lost in straight sets to Jeremy Miller in the men’s singles finals of the Pegasus Open lawn tennis tournament that was played last night at the courts of the Pegasus Hotel.

A man who was held following the recent discovery of 21 kilogrammes of cocaine at Uitvlugt was yesterday released on station bail.

Tributes continued to flow yesterday for former PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray as the National Assembly unanimously passed a motion to put on record its sympathy on the death of the former Deputy Prime Minister.

A 21-year-old mini-bus conductress and her father, a minibus driver, say they were assaulted by policemen last evening after the bus ‘jammed’ a policeman in plain clothes, causing his beer to fall.

THOUSAND OAKS, California, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods  put himself in position to end a forgettable year on a  triumphant note by charging one shot clear in the Chevron World  Challenge first round yesterday.

The Guyana Revenue Authority, according to reports, will shortly be moving to sell by auction or dispose of by dumping a quantity of want of entry (unclaimed) cargo, which has been lying on local wharves for several years.

Stabroek Business has learnt that four local companies have been named in the recently completed draft telecommunications Bill 2010 as entities that will be licensed to provide services under the deregulated telecommunications regime once the Act is passed into law.

Over two years ago as an active player, two weeks of table tennis work and a stint of weight training was all that table tennis veteran Godfrey Munroe needed to capture the title as Guyana’s table tennis men’s singles champion.

The National Assembly last evening unanimously passed another piece of legislation that would postpone Local Government elections for yet another year.

The Police today said that an alleged market robber was shot in his leg after he attacked a policeman.

The Annual RRT Enterprises golf tournament will be played tomorrow at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) as the curtains draw closer to the end of the LGC’s 2010 season.

It is by no means an overstatement to say that the refusal by the Ministry of Health to secure drugs for state institutions through public tender rather than persist with its sole-sourcing method that basically puts public funds into the pocket of the Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC) without the company having to do much more than simply go out an acquire the drugs is highly improper.

FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, CMC – A swaggering Jamaica strolled to a commanding 4-0 win over Guyana on Wednesday night, maintaining their winning run and installing themselves as overwhelming favourites to win the Digicel Caribbean Cup.

The sugar corporation has announced that the required amount of cane to run the US$185 million Skeldon sugar factory at top capacity will not be available until 2012.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin rules Russia by  allowing a venal elite of corrupt officials and crooked spies to  siphon off cash from the world’s biggest energy producer,  according to a picture painted by leaked U.S.

KANDY, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka grabbed two West Indies  wickets in the afternoon session before rain washed out play for  the rest of the second day in the third and final test at  Pallakele yesterday.

CANCUN, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Google Inc  unveiled  technology yesterday it says will help build trust between  rich and poor countries on projects designed to protect the  world’s tropical forests.

Barama Company Limited (BCL) is working to have its plywood factory functioning in a shorter time than the one-year period it said previously and in keeping with the season also gave its former employees a cash taken as a gift of appreciation.

Dear Editor, We are a group of women who have begun to come together to discuss the burdens weighing on us.

Experience As a country with a strong agricultural focus and capacity, Guyana should be making every effort to develop its agro-processing industry. 

Former junior champion Taffin Khan on Wednesday became Guyana’s youngest senior chess champion after he defeated Kriskal Persaud in a final playoff of the Neal and Massy/Seven Seas National Chess Championships held at Keishar’s Sports Club.

In order to enhance public knowledge of the financial services industry and its significance to the economy, Stabroek Business has agreed to partner with the Guyana Association of Securities companies Intermediaries Incor-porated (the Guyana Stock Exchange) to publish a series of articles on the subject.

Yesterday, Terrence Azore was remanded to prison for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking when he appeared before Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop at the Fort Wellington Magistrate‘s Court.

Teenage murderer Steven Julian, age 17, who pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter last week, was sentenced to seven  years

This car and pick-up collided on the Railway embankment, close to the Bel Air Access road last evening before 9pm.

Dear Editor, I worked with Guyana Elections Commission during the claims and objections period from December 28 to February 7 as a cleaner at the Goed Bananen Land Health centre, Region 6 (New Amsterdam Registration office).

LONDON/STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – The lawyer acting for  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied yesterday that Sweden  had issued a valid European arrest warrant for alleged sex  crimes, despite Stockholm’s insistence that legal difficulties  with the warrant were resolved.

(Jamaica Observer) – Celebrated Jamaican scientist Dr Henry Lowe will this evening announce the launch of a research and development institute, which will develop pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals from indigenous Jamaican plants.

The post office at Meten-meer-Zorg, West Demerara has been repaired. A release from the post office said the entire roof was changed, the fence fixed and the interior repainted.

The Demerara team is looking to put behind them the dominance of Cellink Berbice in local cricket and focus on one game at a time in order to wrest the Carib/Pepsi T20 title from the Ancient County.

Dear Editor, With much satisfaction, I read the article ‘Sex felon doc fired’ in your edition of Wednesday,  December 1.

The Institute of Private Enterprise Develop-ment (IPED) and the Inter American Investment Corporation (IIC) are partnering to deliver a training and technical assistance programme aimed at helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Guyana to enhance their competitiveness abroad.

HAIFA, Israel, (Reuters) – A huge fire swept through a  forest in northern Israel yesterday, killing up to 40 people,  many of them prison guards who were trapped in a bus trying to  flee the flames, security services said.

Police at Kwakwani are on the hunt for a resident who attempted to rape a ten-year-old girl.

Even as a campaign is ongoing in the North West District to curb the spread of tuberculosis (TB), sources at the Mabaruma Hospital have confirmed that a 19-year-old female from the community of Tobago Hill in the area succumbed to the disease over the weekend.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Around 2,000 protesters  marched in Haiti’s capital yesterday demanding a rerun of  Sunday’s elections they said were skewed by fraud, as the  jittery Caribbean nation awaited results expected next week.

(Trinidad Express) – There are 110 gangs operating in Trinidad and Tobago, each with an average membership of 12 people, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, Dr Madan Rambaran takes the cake with his letter titled ‘We should seek to keep the discourse on Dr Vishwamintra Persaud intelligent and civilized’ (SN, December 1) Dr Rambaran says in his opening line “The issues pertaining to Dr Vishwamintra Persaud are already sufficiently complex and difficult.”

The threat of major fires is an ever-present challenge to Guyana’s urban business community and both the Guyana Fire Service and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry have told Stabroek Business that they are committed to working with business houses and with other agencies responsible for aspects of the administration of buildings in order to reduce that risk.

Guyana’s  leading distance athlete Cleveland Forde  left here this morning for Barbados where he will be participating in the annual Run Barbados Series from today.

The term ‘blood money’ usually brings to mind the thirty pieces of silver Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus Christ to the Romans or similar cases in history.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – The Toronto Raptors spoiled the   return of number one draft pick John Wall to the line-up by   routing the Washington Wizards 127-108 on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, I have never had reason neither do I have any intention of indulging in a dialogue that borders on ‘buse out.’

-My government can respond, I’m sure My “working-class” here refers to the thousands of Guyanese actually holding down some type of employment in the country’s public or private sector.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of  Representatives censured veteran Democrat Charles Rangel for  ethics violations yesterday, forcing the former chief tax  writer to face a humiliating public rebuke before his  colleagues.

Reform debate launched Cuba has launched a public debate on plans to transform its struggling socialist economy by reducing the role of the state and boosting private enterprise.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 384’s trading results showed consideration of $595,143 from 21,547 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 383 which showed consideration of $467,157 from 32,376 shares traded in 10 transactions. 

Dear Editor, We the following eight Toshaos of the Upper Mazaruni are demanding an unqualified apology from Mr Peter Persaud, who in his letter that appeared in the Guyana Chronicle of November 9, 2010, calls us dishonest and liars for trying to protect our rights (‘Yvonne Pearson was quite in order’).