Articles published on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
(Trinidad Express) The Caribbean Airlines (CAL) board has directed that its acting chief executive Robert Corbie provide a report on why the company has to potentially write off $200 million in cargo revenue and credit card fraud.
(Trinidad Express) An acting police corporal was shot and killed in Couva Tuesday night.
The Guyana Police Force today said that the prime suspect in the recent murder of Corporal Romein Cleto on April 27 has been identified but has not yet been arrested.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said today there would be “consequences” for Sri Lanka if its leaders did not address international concerns over human rights abuses, ahead of a Commonwealth summit scheduled to be held in Colombo in November.
(Jamaica Observer) LITTLE LONDON, Westmoreland — Leroy Robinson was only doing what always came to him naturally — help a fellow human being in distress.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Leaders who are overweight have poorer job performance, are less effective at interpersonal relationships in the office, have less stamina and less leadership ability, with decreasing performance ratings, claimed a recent study from the Center for Creative Leadership in the United States (US).
(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines should finally be able to break even by the end of 2014, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Vasant Bharath said yesterday.
-contracts to be terminated Twenty-one of 34 Guyana Energy Agency employees who recently took lie detector tests failed them and while some have resigned the contracts of the remainder are to be terminated, according to Head of the GEA, Dr Mahender Sharma.
The trial into the murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass has begun in the High Court at Suddie before Justice Franklyn Holder and a jury.
Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur says the agency is paying some $5 million in rent to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) for the use of the former Clico building on Camp Street.
A father of three was sentenced to 10 years in jail yesterday after he was found guilty by a jury for attempted murder and wounding with intent at the High Court at Suddie.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is inviting sealed bids for a number of projects for the disciplined services including construction of the Lusignan Prison estimated at $67M.
As the Guyana Police Force prepares for its Integrated Crime Information System, bids have been submitted by five companies for the supply and delivery of IT equipment and accessories to the force.
The four suspects in last week’s fatal attack on Nigel Lowe have been released on station bail as police continue their search for those responsible for beating and chopping the man until he died.
APNU MP Basil Williams yesterday said that the Special Select Committee on Local Government has completed consideration of the Municipal and District Councils (Amendment) Bill and is positioning itself to revisit other bills which had been “parked.”
Workers from the Blairmont Sugar Estate yesterday downed tools protesting a one-week delay in their “holiday with pay (HWP)” allowances and later in the day an agreement was reached that the workers would receive their money on May 17.
Three days before the expiration of the deadline, the winner of the $78M lottery yesterday submitted the winning ticket to the Guyana Lottery Company.
Police are seemingly making little progress in their investigation into the murder of cambio dealer Totaram Mohotoo and his wife Bhagwattie as an arrest in yet to be made and checks are still being made in areas that could yield vital clues more than 72 hours after the incident occurred.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Monday lashed out at the media charging that their “biased” public pronouncements on the issuance of radio licences were likely to have a negative impact on the matter which is now the subject of court proceedings.
The Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) will once again provide corporate support for the annual Independence Horse Race meet which will be run off Sunday at the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club, Bush Lot, Corentyne.
Researcher, Dr. Janette Bulkan believes that it is time that the Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources ask serious questions of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Guyana Forestry Commission over the investments of Bai Shan Lin and insist on full disclosures as it is entitled to under the Legislative Bodies (Evidence) Act.
Guyana rifle shooters will be banking on experience in their quest to retain the West Indies Fullbore shooting championships as two days of team competition fire off on today at the Paragon ranges in Barbados.
Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh says more training opportunities will be made available for Buxton youth, as he presided at a graduation ceremony on Wednesday for graduates from an Information and Communications Technology and Office Procedures course.
The Education Ministry is in the process of reforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
LONDON, England, CMC-Former Trinidad and Tobago International Dennis Lawrence has become the first man from the Caribbean on the coaching staff of the English FA Cup champions.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will earn US$4.5M each year from their deal with Verus International the owners of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), a WICB Director has announced.
Police on Monday said that there has been an overall 2% decrease in serious crime as at the end of April with a total of 36 murders inclusive of one execution being recorded.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Opener Alviro Petersen will replace the injured Graeme Smith in the South Africa squad for next month’s ICC Champions Trophy, Cricket South Africa confirmed yesterday.
A Chinese national was yesterday fined $70,000 with the alternative of six months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to entering Guyana illegally.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Singapore’s Ng Ser Miang is expected to announce a bid for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency tomorrow, a source close to the Olympic movement told Reuters yesterday.
Trinidad and Tobago historian Dr Brinsley Samaroo said East Indians made a substantial difference to the evolution of the Caribbean, lending their skills to resuscitate the sugar industry and enriching it with their vibrant culture.
The mother and family of Satish Gobin are reaching out to the public for financial assistance for the 22-year-old who needs another renal transplant as the one he now has is showing signs of rejection.
The directors of the MACORP and Caterpillar companies have committed to providing technical and financial assistance for the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission’s Guyana Mining School and Training Centre Inc with the aim of developing the extractive sector.
Alpha United mauled Amelia’s Ward United 8-0 as action in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Super League Season 2012/2013 continued at the Wisburg Secondary School ground, Linden on Sunday.
After serving with distinction in the Parliament of Guyana for 13 years, Deputy Clerk Lilowatie Coonjah proceeded on pre-retirement leave on Friday.
Trinidad and Tobago’s France-based professional Dexter St Louis yesterday survived a scare from 13-year-old United States of America player Kunal Chodri before escaping with a hard fought 4-3 win.
A 30-year-old man appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday and was remanded over shotgun cartridges in a taxi.
(SportsDirect) – The Miami Heat Monday night held hosts Chicago to 25 percent shooting to take a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semi-final series with an 88-65 points win.
Groyne defence: A groyne to break the waves of the Atlantic Ocean and help stop the drift of sediment is currently under construction near the seawall bandstand.
(Reuters) – World number one Serena Williams inflicted swift revenge on behalf of her older sister when she beat Britain’s Laura Robson 6-2 6-2 in the Rome Masters yesterday.
(Cricinfo) Even before the match began, Chennai Super Kings got the news that they had qualified for the playoffs.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Shahid Afridi and Younus Khan were handed top category central contracts in Pakistan despite being dropped for next month’s Champions Trophy.
Dear Editor, I have decided, with some reluctance to enter the controversy which has arisen over the allocation of radio frequencies, especially as there is pending litigation concerning the granting of licences initiated by Mr Enrico Woolford.
(Cricinfo) During one of the matches that Adam Gilchrist sat out of, he complained – not without humour – about how the umpiring mistakes had all been targeting his Kings XI Punjab side.
Dear Editor, Over time, the majority of Councillors expressed grave dissatisfaction over the strange behaviour of the acting Town Clerk, Ms Carol Ryan Sooba, and out of sheer frustration did something unprecedented by leaving the council chamber as long as Ms Sooba was occupying the chair.
If there was one word to describe the Guyana team’s performance in the just-concluded West Indies Cricket Board Regional first-class season that word would me mediocre.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny.
Dear Editor, I recently had to go to the Licence Office on Smyth Street to conduct a transaction, and the general environment of this building is unbelievably poor and unhealthy.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica’s batsmen are being blamed for the team’s unsuccessful bid to win the Regional Four day title for the sixth year running.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday he did not make the controversial decision to secretly seize telephone records of the Associated Press but defended his department’s actions in the investigation of what he called a “very, very serious leak.”
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia yesterday warned of a plot by an organized crime group to kill several high-profile journalists, just weeks after an assassination attempt on an investigative reporter boosted concerns over threats to a free press in the violence-plagued Andean nation.
Marian Academy, led by a Dale Beresford 14-point effort, edged Charlestown Secondary 37-33 in their U-20 encounter as action in the Youth Basketball Guyana’s (YBG) National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) Georgetown Conference continued with four fixtures at the Marian Academy Court, Carifesta Avenue on Saturday.
Dear Editor, After reading about all these domestic violence cases, physical and mental abuse, molestations of young girls and in some cases young boys, and different perverse behaviours, I think it is time women begin to look at themselves; question themselves.
(Reuters) – U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for overseas lobbying that promotes controversial biotech crops developed by U.S.-based
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Annan Boodram in which he stated: “Somehow, it seems that Freddie Kissoon has an obsession with Annan Boodram….”
ABUJA, (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states yesterday, ordering in more troops to try to stem an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency.’
(Trinidad Guardian) The United States Government has released a report on intellectual property rights (IPR) which has placed T&T on a watchlist as a result of its treatment of the property of local and foreign artistes.
Chairman of the Competitions Committee of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), Shaun Massiah has blasted ground staff and players alike for their lack of enthusiasm towards the welfare and responsibility of club grounds and pitches in the Georgetown district.
In theory, James Madison’s argument that federalism could prevent a majority from dominating a minority while taking advantage of local management and national diversity appears attractive for the kind of situation existing in Guyana.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday sent some 3,000 troops into the streets of the capital of Caracas to crack down on rampant crime that has made the OPEC nation one of the most dangerous in the world.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Manager of the West Indies “A” team, Colin Borde, has appealed to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to change the structure of the Regional Four-Day Tournament.
Dear Editor, The Oliver Tambo award should be rightly given to the people of Guyana.
At the beginning of this month, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved new funding arrangements to help stabilize the Jamaican economy and put it on a path to economic growth.
(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) lost US$70 million last year. And if the fuel subsidy is added, the total loss would be US$110 million ($704 million), Finance Minister Larry Howai conceded yesterday.
