Daily Archive: Friday, September 30, 2011

Articles published on Friday, September 30, 2011

Cuban government set for broad reorganization

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba plans to close some  ministries, create new ones and eliminate some of their  business activities by year end in reforms spearheaded by  President Raul Castro to modernize the communist island’s  economy, government sources said.

Deputy Suriname speaker skeptical about job growth

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ruth Wijdenbosch says that the drop in unemployment as recently reported by the General Bureau for Statistics (ABS) is a positive development, but she believes that the announcement by President Desi Bouterse that 5000 new jobs will be created every year is a “pipe dream”, as it has no foundation and the President did not mention how he reached that figure and did not indicate in which sector.

President Bharrat Jagdeo (left) and Suriname Vice President Robert Ameerali (centre) touring the exhibits at GuyExpo last night. (GINA photo)

Suriname brings 20 companies to GuyExpo

The annual showcasing of Guyana’s business and entrepreneurship sectors was opened last evening with neighbouring Suriname introducing over twenty companies to Guyana as part of a delegation to the expo, headed by its Vice President Robert Ameerali.

Mortimer Mingo

Mingo: No lot at Pradoville 2

Chairman of Region 10 Mortimer Mingo yesterday denied that he had a house lot at the Pradoville 2 housing scheme as stated in court testimony on Wednesday by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon.

Religious programme at Linden to be restored by NCN

The local religious television programme which was pulled from the air in Linden following complaints that the content of a recent broadcast was perceived as  attacking the government of Guyana will be back from  Sunday after the decision was revisited by senior management of National Communications Network (NCN).

OLPF project has verified 11,000 persons so far

The One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) Secretariat has verified 11,000 persons so far with close to 2,000 persons being reached per week, particularly since the secretariat now has a full force of verification officers in Region Four, according to Verification and Customer Relations Manager, Shanelle Ferguson.

Kevin McClean

McClean grabs five as Sagicor HPC stuns Windies

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Kevin McClean cruelly exposed the batting limitations of the current West Indies team, jolting them with an inspiring spell of fast-medium bowling to lead the West Indies High Performance Centre to a six-wicket victory in a One-day practice match yesterday.

Kraigg Brathwaite

Under-19 Windies trounced by Aussies

VISAKHAPATNAM, India, CMC – A half-century from their captain Kraigg Brathwaite was insufficient to take West Indies Under-19s to victory yesterday, when Australia Under-19s slammed them by 137 runs in the quadrangular Youth One-day International series.

How safe is our money

ATMs vulnerable to hackers

Concerns over the possibility of hacking could be among the reasons for the limited number of stand-alone Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) installed by commercial banks even in the face of complaints by customers over the lengthy queues, a banking source has said.

Shaheed Feroze (right) with Rafeek and members of staff at Twins Manufacturing Chemists Industrial Site Plant

Twins Manufacturing Chemists turns forty

Say the name Twins and Guyanese who are old enough will take you back at least 60 years to a time when remedies for common maladies—pains and sprains—were to be found at the village drug store; when concerned parents choose the pharmacist as their first resort to diagnose and heal their children’s sudden and discomfiting ailments, the doctor being pressed into service only if and when the ailment persisted.

The Skeldon Sugar Factory and the flight of skills

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud’s disclosure that the skills that are necessary to run the Skeldon Sugar Factory properly simply do not exist within the company or, for that matter, within the country is probably not all that surprising when one considers that despite the much-touted view that the skills base with the sugar industry is sufficiently adequate, the performance of the industry, particularly its field performance, has been, in large measure, a function of the continuous flow of skilled managers out of GuySuCo.

Bryan Habana

World Cup rugby braces for weekend showdowns

DUNEDIN, (Reuters) – The rugby World Cup paused for  breath yesterday with a rare rest day as attention turned to  the preparations of the 13 teams hoping this weekend’s final  round of pool games will send them into the quarter-finals.

Reuters World News Highlights

BERLIN – Following a now-familiar script, Europe again  averted disaster in its debt crisis when German lawmakers  rallied behind Chancellor Angela Merkel to approve a stronger  euro zone bailout fund yesterday.

US to deport convicted killer to T&T

(Trinidad Express) A national of Trinidad and Tobago convicted of manslaughter and for selling drugs has been named among the almost 3,000 illegal immigrants arrested by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 427’s trading results showed consideration of $2,941,143 from 201,830 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 426 which showed consideration of $205,000

No player is bigger than the game

In a European Champions League football match on Tuesday, Manchester City’s Argentine forward, Carlos Tévez, refused manager Roberto Mancini’s call to come on as a substitute in the second half, with City 2-0 down to Bayern Munich.