Daily Archive: Friday, December 7, 2012

Articles published on Friday, December 7, 2012

New measures at Paramaribo Port practically rule out smuggling

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Be it drugs, arms, fake goods or even people, smuggling via the Paramaribo Port facilities, Nieuwe Haven, has become much more difficult now that Suriname has officially been connected to the International Container Control Network (CCP) an affiliate of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Former CEO: CLICO was ponzi scheme

(Trinidad Express) Insurance giant CLICO was a “ponzi scheme”, former chief executive officer (CEO) Gene Dziadyk stated in an internal e-mail to top executives three years before the company’s collapse.

CAL named Guyana flag carrier

In what is a clear sign that the government has given up on options for an indigenous airline, Guyana on Wednesday conferred flag carrier status for the country on Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines, the Government information Agency reported.

 Clive Lloyd

Interim cricket body members may resign

-feel abandoned by gov’t By Iva Wharton Members of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) set up by the government to run cricket here will make a decision over the weekend as to whether they will resign from the body.

Beepats Brand Manager for Nestle, Selwyn Bobb, (second from right) hands over the sponsorship cheque to Petra Organization Co Director, Troy Mendonca as Nicholas Fraser (extreme left) and Petra’s other Co Director, Marlan Cole look on. (Orlando Charles photo)

Milo football contest for schools

By Emmerson Campbell In keeping with its vision to develop the sport of football at the grass roots level, Petra Organization, has once again collaborated with a corporate entity to stage a schools tournament.

Manny Pacquiao, left, and Juan Manuel Márquez will fight in Las Vegas tomorrow to a backdrop of discussion about the part doping plays in boxing. Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters

Marquez and Pacquiao both aim for vindication

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Tomorrow’s non-title welterweight bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez has all the makings of a classic as the two fighters prepare to meet for a fourth and, almost certainly, final time in the ring.

Dharry, Hedge to box December 28

Boxing fans will now have the opportunity to see Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry and Rudolph Hedge cuff off in the ring on December 28th when the two clash on a card organized by Hurry Up Promotions in collaboration with Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry and Pearl Vodka.

Walters seeking to create  history on home soil

Jamaican boxer eyeing history on home soil

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Nicholas ‘The axeman’ Walters is seeking to become the first Jamaican to win a world title on home soil when he fights with Daulis Prescott of Colombia in a World Boxing Association featherweight bout tomorrow night.

Kerwin Clarke

Kerwin Clarke confident of flex supremacy

Bronze medallist at this year’s Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding Championships and reigning overall and welterweight champion of this year’s Hugh Ross Classic, Kerwin Clarke, intends to pose and flex his way to supremacy at tomorrow’s Flex Night International.

Felled: Logs waiting to be transported from the Mabura road

Gold rush, concrete ‘fell’ forestry industry

– regeneration distant A succession of hard knocks in recent years has set the country’s timber industry on a downward slide from which it is unlikely to recover in the short term, President of the Guyana Forest Producers Association (GFPA) Khellawan told Stabroek Business in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.

Rudi Westerborg

Suriname Airways eyes Georgetown-NY flights by June 2013

– manager points to ‘reasonable’ Miami market share Suriname Airways could enter the Georgetown –New York market as early as the first half of 2013, once the company completes its planned January acquisition of an additional 737 aircraft to the two currently serving Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean, Guyana Station Manager Rudi Westerborg said.

Chamber awards

Chamber awards: The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry last night held its annual awards ceremony at the Pegasus Hotel.

Shiv gets practice

Shiv gets practice: No. 1 ranked Test batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul plays a shot during a practice session yesterday at the Everest Cricket Ground.

Jose Miguel Insulza

OAS Secretary-General proposes US$100M fund for human rights commission, court

Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza proposed on Wednesday to the Organisation of American States (OAS) Permanent Council the creation of a capital fund with US$100 million to finance the operations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH), with funds from a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Andean Development Corporation.

Corruption: a public-private partnership

Infamous Offenders Even as a reconfigured parliament begins the slow but necessary process of forcing changes to the bad management practices of the government and bringing increased accountability to the use of public funds, Guyanese must again endure the embarrassment of being among some of the worst perpetrators of corruption. 

Anti-Mursi protesters set fire to a Muslim Brotherhood flag outside its main office in Cairo December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer

Egypt’s Mursi calls for dialogue amid street fury

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, called yesterday for a national dialogue after deadly clashes around his palace, where demonstrators responded by demanding the “downfall of the regime”, using the chants that brought down Hosni Mubarak.

Partners of the Americas (Guyana) President Myrtle Richards

US$1.175M Japanese grant to grow hydroponic farming

The second phase of an extensive local agricultural project aimed at popularising shade house farming technology in communities across the country is likely to kick off by March 2013, following the injection of a US$1.175 million grant from the Japanese Government, Head of the Partners of the Americas (Guyana) Project Myrtle Richards said.

Shane Warne

Warne ‘clarifies’ Ashes return comments

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Shane Warne has done it again. One of the most successful slow bowlers of all time, Warne has consistently shown since his retirement from international cricket in 2007 that he is also the master of a different type of spin.

GBTI makes donations

GBTI makes donations: The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry yesterday made its annual donation of cash to several charitable organizations.

Stock market updates

      GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 488’s trading results showed consideration of $1,970,394 from 87,598 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 487 which showed consideration of $1,878,612 from 80,165 shares traded in 11 transactions. 

EU appears to be penalizing Cariforum for sticking to EPA

–Rodrigues-Birkett Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett says Cariforum values its partnership with the European Union and has questioned why it appears as though the region is being penalized for adhering to the partnership and agreements while other regions are being granted more concessions.

Corruption

Despite a new methodology and scoring system, Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has once again given Guyana an extremely low mark (28 out of 100 points) on its annual report card.

T&T minister `fired for gay/abortion rights’

(Trinidad Express) Former government minister Verna St Rose Greaves was fired because she tried to force the Cabinet into accepting her own position of pro-gay rights and pro-abortion with respect to the national gender policy, says Sport Minister Anil Roberts.