Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry says its new banking facility at Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara will open on Thursday, December 16, 2010.

Businessman Clayton Hutson was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $50,000, after denying a charge that he stole a pair of motor clamps belonging to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

Re-migrant farmer Compton Paul, 69, was today remanded to prison on the accusation that he imported a shotgun without being the holder of a requisite licence.

The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) has expressed its “deepest concern” over the violence and disorder which ensued in Haiti following the announcement of the  preliminary results of the Presidential and Legislative Elections which were held on November 28, 2010.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) is today scheduled to launch its E-magine Broadband service on the lower East Bank Demerara as the company expands its coverage of what it describes as “superior and reliable” internet access.

A Guyanese woman was this morning sentenced to ten years in prison after she was found guilty of drug smuggling at the Croydon Crown Court, United Kingdom court, the Sutton Guardian has reported.

A 58-year-old Triumph, East Coast Demerara shop owner was shot in the neck last night by one of four bandits who confronted him and is now in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

In keeping with anti-money laundering laws, cambios now require the name, address and a form of identification from persons changing foreign currency.

Several cash crop farmers from Profitt to D’Edward Village in West Berbice have suffered major losses after their produce was destroyed by salt water, following a sea defence breach at Brahn.

The annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament  opened Sunday evening with the usual pomp and splendour as two of Guyana’s leading footballers, former national captain Charles “Lilly” Pollard and striker Collie “Hitman” Hercules were honoured for their contribution to the sport locally at the ceremony.

Nearly three years after the slaughter of 12 men shattered Bartica’s tranquillity, a 13-foot black marble sculpture dubbed the ‘Monument of Hope’ was handed over to the community yesterday to honour and celebrate their lives.

The operator of a light Cessna 206 aircraft that landed on the Number 63 beach in August had permission to operate there, Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Director Zulficar Mohammed said yesterday.

President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Henry Greene emphatically declared Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall that “table tennis is back” in Guyana.

The teenager who was hogtied after he was allegedly caught stealing, a pensioner and two other men, all reportedly members of the ‘Salt Fish Gang’ were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday accused of attempting to steal.

Police investigators believe that Harry Kumar Sukhraj, who was reportedly one of two men who ran away from a car which had 21 kilogrammes of cocaine inside, is hiding out is Venezuela.

Wayne Dover, Coach of the Guyana All Stars team which defeated Atletico Roraima Sunday night as the annual Kashif and Shanghai football extravaganza got underway is of the opinion that the side performed “creditably.”

Guyanese Abdel Nur, who in June admitted that he provided support to terrorists in a New York airport bomb plot, is suffering from lung cancer and a status conference is to be held on Friday to discuss his illness, according to court documents.

Guyana is set to benefit from an additional 50 million Renminbi (US$7.5 million/$1.5 billion) in grant aid from China, after Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and Chinese Ambassador to Guyana Yu Wenzhe signed an economic and technical co-operation agreement yesterday.

Berbice’s Neil Reece took top honours in the open and junior categories of the Phillip Arokium Memorial 40-mile cycle road race which ended at New Amsterdam, Berbice on Sunday.

Three armed bandits smashed their way into the home of a family at Gangaram Settlement, East Canje around 1:15 am yesterday and robbed them of a quantity of gold jewellery.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will be collaborating with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) to throw up an official table tennis facility at the Racquet Centre being built at Camp Street and Woolford Avenue.

Rice Quality Consultant from Argentina, Pierre Boucher, played unbeaten to accumulate 6.5 points to emerge the winner of the RRT-sponsored one–day rapid chess tournament at the KEI-SHAR’S Sports Club last Saturday.

A woman accused of stealing a sum of money and a passport from her reputed husband was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Guyanese humanitarian activist Shabir Hussain won this year’s Tikun Olam Award for Humanitarian aid when the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian organization Vé ahavta recently held its annual Awards Ceremony at the Toronto Centre for Performing Arts.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has earmarked female racquet wielder Trenace Lowe to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games in London and beyond.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is scheduled to sign off the contract for the synthetic track and construction work is expected to begin at Leonora on the West Coast of Demerara before yearend.

Two other men implicated in the November 2009 crime rampage were yesterday read multiple charges when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the George-town Magistrates’ Court.

The St. Rose’s High School recently received a quantity of sports equipment from Giftland Office Max which is expected to boost the school’s Physical Education programme.

Provisions in the Procurement Act would have permitted the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) to procure US$18 million in additional generation from Wartsila without going to tender, a source within the national tender board has said.

The police are investigating the stabbing to death of a 25-year-old woman by another female yesterday in the North West District.

Dale Hing emerged as the top gun at last Sunday’s Spads Incorporated yearend small-bore shooting championships held at the Timehri ranges.

While disputing the accuracy of the recent report on the Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) trawler fire, an official of the seafood company says it will “improve in whatever areas are lacking.”

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England could go through the   entire tour of Australia unbeaten according to wicketkeeper   Matt Prior, who scored a century to help the tourists grind   out a draw against state side Victoria over the weekend.

Anyone who has watched local performer Jumo Primo gyrate his way through a soca number would understand why he is the newly crowned groovy soca king, but the competition was largely disappointing.

Marathon Man created a major upset in winning the feature B class event when the Port Mourant Turf Club staged its pre-Christmas horse race meet at the club’s track on Sunday at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice.

ST JOHN’S Antigua, CMC – World record holder Deandra Dottin and the highly rated Stafanie Taylor were among six women’s players awarded central retainer contracts by the West Indies Cricket Board yesterday.

BRUSSELS/ABIDJAN (Reuters) – The European Union agreed to impose sanctions on Ivory Coast incumbent Laurent Gbagbo yesterday, and his army deployed near his rival’s headquarters in a standoff later defused by the UN envoy.

With a significant increase of waste expected during the Christmas season, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has received permission from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to reopen cell number 2 at Le Repentir landfill site even as the site remains in a precarious state.

Dear Editor, The continual pushing back of the naming of a presidential candidate by the PPP seems to signal a dilemma of almost unsurmountable proportions.

The decomposing body of a 68-year-old man who was missing for two days was yesterday found floating in a drainage canal at Greenfield, East Coast Demerara.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez sought to outwit Venezuela’s rejuvenated opposition yesterday by saying he would assume fast-track decree powers for up to 18 months and scoffed at criticism this would undermine democracy.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowler Carlos Brathwaite is the lone newcomer in a Barbados 14-man squad announced Monday to contest next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to the attention of the relevant authorities – be it the Ministry of Public Works or Mayor & City Council – an accident just waiting to happen.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Dominican Billy Doctrove was among 18 umpires named Sunday to stand in next year’s Cricket World Cup in Asia.

The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) recently made a cash donation to the Karanambu Trust which the company sees as it not only contributing to the protection of the Guyana’s rich biodiversity but also supporting the work of the Trust that continues to portray the country positively.

Dear Editor, Re: President Jagdeo gives lecture to UWI team in Guyana for academic exposure I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Guyanese Centre for Human Rights & Social Justice (Centre), a group of Guyanese Canadians with deep family ties and relationships in the land of our birth.

KABUL (Reuters) – About 100 Afghan members of parliament demanded yesterday that President Hamid Karzai inaugurate the assembly by December 19, almost three weeks after final results of a fraud-marred election were declared.

An unemployed man of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam was remanded to prison on separate charges of robbery under arms and break and enter and larceny when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Court on Friday.

Guyana’s Under-17 footballers failed to record a win in their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) second round World Cup preliminary competition when they were beaten by Barbados 6-1 in the Dominican Republic on Sunday.

Dear Editor, It was some time ago that I wrote on the curriculum our children have to complete and the attitude of teachers to completing the curriculum.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Richard Holbrooke, who was President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, died yesterday, an administration official confirmed.

(Trinidad Express) – The Caribbean Airlines board will not resign. Tired of being punched by its line Minister Jack Warner, CAL’s board sought to defend its actions in a three-page statement issued on Sunday.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Middle Eastern man killed in a blast in Stockholm was wearing a bomb belt and ready to attack a train station or department store when the device went off prematurely, Sweden’s chief prosecutor said yesterday.

The Guyana Red Cross will be hosting the last blood drive for 2010, today Tuesday December 14th at the GRCS Headquarters, Eve Leary, Kingston,

There is a sense in which Dr Leslie Ramsammy’s recent public statement announcing the termination of the employment of Dr Vishwamintra Persaud at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation departs significantly from the posture usually taken by government ministers and other high officials in the face of blunders and wrongdoings inside their ministry or department.

Politikles

The Developmental and Planning Committee of the Police Progressive Youth Club will stage its 2010 Awards Ceremony on Friday at the Police Sports Club, Eve Leary.

(Trinidad Express) – Businessman Lawrence Duprey is disappointed about what is described as the People’s Partnership Government’s poor management of the collapsed CL Financial conglomerate and he is willing to return to Trinidad and Tobago “to set things right”.

Dear Editor, I am responding to the news item ‘PPP likely to select candidate early in New Year’ (Sunday Stabroek, Dec 12). 

The ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves won an historic third consecutive term in office fighting off a strong challenge from the New Democratic Labour Party (NDP) in yesterday’s general election, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation.

(Barbados Nation) Senior consultant cardiologist Dr Richard Ishmael has been suspended from duties at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).