Daily Archive: Friday, October 21, 2011

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A Chinese navy hospital ship  called the Peace Ark sailed today into Havana Bay in Cuba,  reflecting good relations between the communist allies and  China’s expanding global presence.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua -The West Indies Cricket Board has offered contracts to 26 players for the year October 2011 – September 2012.

MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s body  lay in an old meat store today as arguments over a burial,  and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya’s  new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter  announced his long-awaited anti-corruption plan today  including a pledge to re-open the case into the collapse of  former marketing partner ISL.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A Venezuelan doctor who  forecast President Hugo Chavez would die of cancer within two  years said today he had left the country with his family  after colleagues reported police visiting his consultancy.

(Trinidad Express) It’s time to take back our communities from criminal elements who have wreaked havoc in our homes and our lives.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – NATO aircraft struck 11  vehicles in an armoured convoy speeding late Libyan leader  Muammar Gaddafi out of his hometown of Sirte yesterday,  although NATO did not know at the time he was in the convoy, it  said in a statement today.

US Customs and Border Protection officers have seized almost four tonnes of marijuana hidden in a shipping container at the Miami seaport, according to the Associated Press.

(De Ware Tijd) WAGENINGEN – Oil company Staatsolie is aiming for a yield of 70 to 85 tons of sugar cane per hectare at its pilot project in Wageningen for the production of ethanol.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five properties valued at millions of dollars and three motor vehicles were among several assets seized yesterday as local and American law-enforcement agencies mounted a coordinated crackdown on an international money-laundering ring.

(Barbados Nation) Top economists Charlie Skeete and Sir Courtney Blackman believe that a wage freeze is necessary and that Government must cut spending on tertiary education by making some parents contribute to their children’s education.

(Barbados Nation) A businessman is taking legal action to prevent the Government from compulsorily acquiring a portion of his land to give to his competitor.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights  office called today for a full investigation into the death  of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and voiced concerns that he may  have been executed.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif  al-Islam is fleeing south from Sirte towards Libya’s border with  Niger, a senior military commander of the interim National  Transitional Council (NTC) said today.

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday formally named Dr Rupert Roopnaraine as its prime ministerial candidate for the elections and unveiled a 24-member leadership team that includes former AFC member Dr Rishee Thakur as well as conservationist Sydney Allicock.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miner’s Association (GGDMA) has been waiting for over a year for talks with Police Commissioner Henry Greene on crime in interior mining areas—a situation that President Bharrat Jagdeo dubbed “unacceptable” during a meeting with miners yesterday.

Hundreds of people flocked the Lyken’s Funeral Home yesterday morning to bid farewell to the three Soesdyke children who were viciously slaughtered last week.

If elected, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) says that it will revisit the deals between the government and bauxite companies Rusal and Bosai, since both companies have failed to deliver on promises made to Guyanese.

The Rights of the Child Commission (ROC) in collaboration with UNICEF yesterday launched an assessment report of a two-month study on birth registration in four regions in Guyana and President Jagdeo later signed a declaration.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday called for former New Building Society (NBS) senior staff Maurice Arjoon, Kent Vincent and Kissoon Baldeo to be paid all the benefits due to them that accrued during their interdiction according to the law, in view of the fact that they have been freed of all charges.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will review opposition proposals on its draft code of conduct for parties contesting the elections and may incorporate them if “workable” into the final document.

Kyle Mayers and Floyd Reifer guided the Combined Colleges and Campuses (CCC) to a comprehensive upset five-wicket victory over Trinidad & Tobago at the Everest ground yesterday in the Regional Super50 Group B match.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Dr Steve Surujbally yesterday denounced recent attacks on the media, saying that they are  not conducive to the atmosphere for upcoming elections.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to hold talks with the management of the National Communications Network (NCN) to review its offer of five minutes of free programming per week for parties contesting the elections on the state-owned radio and television.

The Chris Gayle-led Jamaican side made light work of the co-defending champions Leeward Islands  as they clinched a thoroughly convincing seven-wicket victory in a Group B encounter of the 2011 Regional Super50 limited overs competition at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, yesterday.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is appealing to over 40,000 registrants to collect their national Identification Cards.

By Emmerson Campbell Bronze medallist at the recent 28th World Masters Power Lifting Championships, John ‘Big John’ Edwards says that despite not winning the gold medal, he is proud of his achievement. 

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry sentenced a 26-year-old electrician to two weeks in prison, after he pleaded guilty to striking a woman across her face with a belt.

By Iva Wharton Guyana’s female heavyweight boxing champion Gwendolyn O’Neil says her match against Pauline London is one of the things she is doing to warm-up for her upcoming match with Nigerian Ijeoma Egbunine but her main reason for returning home is family.

The two police officers who were flung from the motorcycle they were travelling on at the junction of Middle and Carmichael streets on Wednesday evening have been admitted to the Male Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

After spending almost three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, 10-year-old Sameer Samshuddin will soon be transferred to the open paediatric ward where his parents can have 24/7 access to him.

Residents of Linden who turned up yesterday for the Ministry of Housing’s one-stop-shop house lot distribution had mixed reactions to the criteria set for persons of various income brackets and economic standing as it relates allocation and the size of land.

Chicken is now being offered at $200 per lb for

The Guyanese athletes got a chance to size up their competitors when the opening ceremony of the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) was held at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Suriname yesterday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a clothes vendor accused of robbery with violence when he yesterday appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Guyana will take to the track tomorrow in defence of their male title while the females seek to  reclaim theirs when the Track and Field segment of the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games runs off at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Suriname.

Dear Editor, I have noted with utter alarm in the two independent dailies a statement by the PPP/C’s Presidential candidate of a 150% increase in employment in the bauxite industry in Linden and Aroaima.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it is offering assistance and technical advice to Mahdia and is working assiduously to restore water supply to the community in the wake of Tuesday’s protest outside the company’s office.

Detective Corporal Rodwell Sarrabo testified when the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the matter of setting fire to the Supreme Court for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Basil Morgan and Anthony Watson  stand accused, continued on Wednesday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– GT&T still committed to competition Both the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Digicel remain in the dark as to reason for government’s decision to postpone the formalization of arrangements for bringing into force legislation which would have effectively ushered in a liberalized telecommunications sector.

(Reuters) – World number one Luke Donald seized an  early advantage in his title duel with Webb Simpson by charging  into a seven-way tie for the lead in yesterday’s opening round  of the Disney Classic at Lake Buena Vista in Florida.  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Points standings in the Regional Super50 championship following Thursday’s matches in Group-B:  GROUP-A Guyana 6 points Barbados 2 West Indies High Performance Centre 2 Windward Islands-2 GROUP-B Jamaica 8 Combined Campuses & Colleges 4 Trinidad & Tobago 0 Leeward Islands –2 NOTE: In the new Super50 Points System, teams can pick up hefty Super Bonus Points for scoring at over six runs per over and bowling out the opposition for under 150 runs.

A couple was the latest target of gun-toting bandits; attacked at a Sheriff Street Chinese restaurant on Wednesday and forced to drive to the seawall before being relived of cash and jewellery.

Dear Editor, This election season has so much to celebrate and to fantasize about.

The Guyana Cooperative Credit Union League is seeking to steer the local cooperative credit community in the direction of leveraging its $4.9 billion in financial assets base to raise its profile among local lending institutions by diversifying the range of services which it provides, beyond the conventional loans at low rates of interest, President of the League Denise M.

By Treiston Joseph in Suriname Guyana was embarrassed last night in their best of three series football tournament with Suriname at the Inter Guiana Games at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Suriname.Their

Dear Editor, It is becoming commonplace nowadays to see vehicles running off roads and ending up in trenches or people’s property. 

Spend More There comes a time when monetary policy must concede to fiscal policy. 

Dear Editor, We are at a time in our political history where thinking people living in our country are contemplating who will be our next president.

LA GRITA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez declared himself cancer-free yesterday, four months after surgery to remove a malignant tumour that shook the South American nation ahead of a 2012 presidential election.

Even as evidence unfolds of a growing decline in the quality of service offered by the country’s business sector, both private sector umbrella organizations and several business houses remain oblivious, immersed as they appear to be in their objective of maximizing profits, Con-sumer Service Consultant Joyce Sinclair told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week.

(Reuters) – Taufeeq Umar hit his maiden test double  century as Pakistan turned the screw on Sri Lanka on the third  day of the first test in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s air force killed a leftist guerrilla leader accused of sending cocaine-laden submarines to Mexico as part of an alliance with drug traffickers, Colombia’s defence minister said yesterday.

The new online Market and Enterprise Information System launched earlier this month by the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (New GMC) seeks to remove the constraint of limited access to critical market information which has constrained the growth and expansion of enterprises in the local agricultural and agro processing sectors.

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Disturbing images of a blood-stained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi being dragged around by angry fighters quickly circulated around the world, after the Libyan dictator’s dramatic death near his home town of Sirte.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – India pulled off a  thrilling five-wicket victory over England with four balls to  spare in the third one-day international yesterday to take an  unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

Dear Editor, The Amerindian vote was a key reason for the PPP winning in 2006.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Voters in the Tunisian capital looked bemused this week when Suad Abdel-Rahim of the Islamist Ennahda party went on a walkabout to drum up support ahead of elections on Sunday.

GUADALAJARA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s volleyball women beat  arch-rivals the United States 3-1 in a highly charged semi-final  at the Pan-American Games on Wednesday to keep their title  defence on track.

Libyan refugees in Tunisia celebrate after hearing news that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed in

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 430’s trading results showed consideration of $3,612,250 from 128,843 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 429 which showed consideration of $1,197,444 from 50,500 shares traded in 8 transactions. 

Politikles

Dear Editor, In my opinion the cost for electricity in Guyana is way too expensive, which causes electricity theft to always be a major problem in Guyana, and some recent moves by GP&L have me wondering if they are really serious in combating this situation.

I pledge, upon whatever honour I have left, not  to return to this issue for many, many weeks – after today.

In the wake of the violent Piari robbery and the spate of deaths that followed, the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association have now decided to move against the many illegal ‘shops’ that are operating in the gold-mining regions of Guyana.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said yestersday she would not prejudge her embattled sports minister and wanted a thorough investigation into corruption allegations against him.

We have just over a month to go until our fifth election since President Desmond Hoyte ushered in the current phase of our democratic process in 1992, by not only holding the nation’s first free and fair elections since 1964 but also recognising the result.

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