Daily Archive: Friday, June 21, 2013

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two male students of the Caribbean Maritime Institute have been confirmed dead following a motor vehicle crash along the Palisadoes main road in Kingston.

(Trinidad Express) STATEMENT BY MR KENNETH GORDON, CHAIRMAN Coupled with the Oath of Secrecy which Commissioners are required to take, Part II, Section 5(2)(a) and (c) of the Integrity in Public Life Act (IPLA) states in part that in the exercise of its functions under the Act the Commission (and by extension, all Commissioners): (a) shall not be subject to the direction or control of any other person or authority.

The Ministry of Local Government today said that it has agreed on a series of improvements with the contractor for the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill (HBSL), BK International Inc.

(Trinidad Guardian) The local franchise in the upcoming Caribbean Premier League (CPL) the T&T Red Steel is being sold for a total of TT$12m (US$2M).

(Jamaica Observer) International recording artiste Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley and Norwegian Cruise Line will stage the first ever Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise in October 2014.

(Barbados Nation) Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin has taken legal action against the Attorney General (AG) and the Police Service Commission (PSC) over his forced retirement.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat won their second straight National Basketball Association (NBA) title on Thursday with a 95-88 win over the San Antonio Spurs in the decisive seventh game of an epic series.

The names of the eight amateur pugilists scheduled to match gloves on the 28th edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card on June 29 have been released by the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA).

The Guyana and Trinidad Mutual, Fire and Life Insurance Group of Companies (GTM) is set to bowl off its 2013 Under-19 Inter-County competition today across various grounds in Georgetown.

All ten affiliated clubs of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) are gearing up for an U20 competition which will open with a march past at the Bayrock Ground on Saturday.

By Mandy Thompson Three men were killed yesterday and two others injured when a small pick-up owned by the Bosai Mining Company slid under a truck it attempted to overtake on the company’s internal road located in the East Montgomery Mines in Linden.

Guyana yesterday signed a €23.355M ($6.3B) financing agreement for funding from the European Union (EU) to support the sugar industry and head of the EU Delegation Ambassador Robert Kopecky said one of the crucial requirements to ensure the full payout is the conversion of land for mechanisation.

The Mae’s School was crowned the Georgetown Zone Male Champions as they defeated West Ruimveldt Primary by four runs as action in the MCYS/NSC/AL Sport & Tour Promotions 16th Annual End of School Year Overhand Windball Cricket Champions Trophy continued at the National Park, Thomas Lands.

The Santé Fe mega farm in the Rupununi operated by the Simpson family of Barbados has begun harvesting of paddy and is preparing for a significant expansion of planting.

The recently formed Berbice Softball Alliance (BSA) which is headed by cricket enthusiast Vicram Seubarran, will over the next two weekends, host its inaugural President’s Cup knockout competition at the Port Mourant Community Centre ground.

Guyana continues to lag behind other Caribbean countries in the Information and Communication Technology Sector (ICT) despite the manifest potential of the sector to contribute to the country’s development, Senior Vice President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Lance Hinds told a forum at the Pegasus Hotel last week.

For some, July is about getting toned to show off their ‘summer bodies’ but for hardcore bodybuilders and fans it is about four words: The Senior National Championships.

– seeks to reform waste disposal culture Thirty years after it first commenced operations in 1983, Caribbean Container Inc (CCI) is seeking to come into its own in more ways than one.

The main opposition APNU yesterday dismissed President Donald Ramotar’s proposal for cooperatives to take charge of sugar cultivation as insubstantial, while calling once more for the reconstitution of GuySuCo’s board of directors and for an inquiry into the operations of the industry.

The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) has been allocated a Beach Volleyball Grassroots Course by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (World Body FIVB), slated to run from June 24  to 29, 2013 at the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports’ (MCYS)  sand court Carifesta Avenue.

Slingerz FC led by a Quason McAulay five-goal haul in the 34th, 38th, 57th, 70th and 85th minutes swamped Wales FC 16-1 as action in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Stag Beer Senior League continued at the Den Amstel Ground on Sunday.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC- West Indies A Captain Dwayne Smith said he was expecting stronger opposition from Sri Lanka in the second of the two-match T20 series between the two sides at Arnos Vale on Wednesday.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation has reported another maternal death, just over two weeks after a young mother and her unborn baby girl died.

The University of Guyana (UG) continues to come under sustained criticism for reasons that have to do with deficiencies in the quality of service it provides.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC- Spice Girls were crowned new champions of T20 cricket in Trinidad and Tobago following an exciting four wicket win over technocrats.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The voice crackling over the Hezbollah radios was clear and authoritative, and the guerrillas poised to attack the Syrian border town of Qusair recognised it immediately.

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A high-level team from Suriname and Guyana participated this week in the prestigious Newfoundland Offshore Industries conference (NOIA) in Atlantic Canada to learn from and share best practices at the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas experience.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Archaeologists have found an ancient Maya city that remained hidden for centuries in the rain forests of eastern Mexico, a discovery in a remote nature reserve they hope will yield clues about how the civilization collapsed around 1,000 years ago.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – As a wave of protests continue to plague the Confederations Cup, security was tight around the Maracana stadium yesterday with a heightened police presence as mass demonstrations take place in Rio.

A teen is in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation after being shot several times in the abdomen.

The man accused of killing a miner in a drinking row at an Essequibo River location, was remanded to prison after being arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on the capital charge yesterday.

WASHINGTON  (Reuters) – Hiring screeners at Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the National Security Agency, found possible discrepancies in a resume submitted by Edward Snowden, but the company still employed him, a source with detailed knowledge of the matter said yesterday.

Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Clinton Urling has described last week’s disclosure by President Donald Ramotar that the sugar industry was in crisis as “very bad” but “not entirely surprising” news.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC- Trinidad and Tobago have named mystery spinner Sunil Narine in a 29 man squad to start training tomorrow in preparation for September’s Champions League Twenty20 in India.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance programme that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said.

Ken Peters has spent the last nine years or so working as one of the leading agents for Caribbean Container Inc (CCI), a local company that operates an integrated paper recycling and corrugated box manufacturing entity at Farm, East Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, Time and again persons have brought to the attention of all concerned the situation of noise nuisance through your column. 

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen has been named in England’s 14-man squad for a two-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand after returning from a knee injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

Employees of the Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) have written to the Leader of the Opposition, David Granger pointing out the effects of the cut on the 2013 budgetary allocation to their agency.

The local government reform bills are expected to be returned before the National Assembly soon but there is some amount of confusion as to who will shoulder the responsibility of presenting the amended bills.

(Reuters) – Olympic silver medallist Carmelita Jeter has pulled out of the U.S.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – The number of people living in poverty in Bangladesh has fallen sharply over a decade, to 47 million from 63 million, a new World Bank report said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams heads to Wimbledon to defend her title with seeds of doubt and defeatism already sown in the minds of her opponents.

Dear Editor, More than two weeks have passed since I made a complaint to the GT&T Customer Fault-reporting section through 097 about my two landlines and to date, no technician has visited to check the problem.

CARDIFF,  (Reuters) – World champions India outplayed Sri Lanka in all departments of the game yesterday to advance to the final of the Champions Trophy against hosts England.

Members of the Board of the Guyana Cooperative Credit Union League (GCCUL) concede that credit unions in Guyana have seen better times.

(Jamaica Observer) ANCHOVY, St James — A 14-year-old student of Anchovy High school was fatally stabbed allegedly by one of her classmates during a fight on the main road near the school as they headed home at the end of the morning shift on Wednesday afternoon.

Just weeks after a local professional body utilised a high-profile forum to criticise the quality of graduates in a key discipline being produced by the University of Guyana (UG), one of the country’s leading business support organisations (BSOs) has praised the university for producing high-quality graduates in another discipline.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport on Wednesday evening launched the National Drama Festival, now in the third year since it was restarted and its director Godfrey Naughton said the organisers are working to create an industry.

(Reuters) – United States striker Abby Wambach became the all-time top scorer in women’s international soccer when she scored four first-half goals in a friendly against South Korea yesterday to take her tally to 160.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A wholesale produce market run by a private cooperative will open on July 1 in Havana, the first such market since Cuba monopolized wholesale operations in the 1960s, state media said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Amidst the steady stream of financial skullduggery by officials, a friend and I exchanged some thoughts recently. 

TIP hero: Simona Broomes with her award minutes after she became one of the nine persons from across the world to be honoured on Wednesday by US Secretary of State John Kerry as a 2013 anti-Trafficking in Person (TIP) hero.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting will retire from all cricket after playing in the Champions League in October, he said yesterday.

(Reuters) – A U.S. Christian group that once promoted therapy to encourage gays and lesbians to overcome their sexual preferences has closed its doors and apologized to those who underwent treatment, acknowledging its mission had been hurtful and ignorant.

Dear Editor, As one who served in the public sector for many years, and follows unfolding events, I was glad to hear that our government has agreed to an international enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of Dr Walter Rodney.

The Rotaract Club of the University of Guyana has won the 2013 Rotaract Outstanding Projects Award in the Latin America District for the Victoria Literacy Project.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Wearing sports gear in the national colors and sitting on a sofa in a modest family home, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a microphone, chats with locals and expounds on the benefits of socialism.

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(Reuters) – Pakistan-born refugee Fawad Ahmed’s Ashes dreams received a major boost yesterday with the Australian senate passing legislation to fast-track citizenship in special cases.

Off road: This truck ran off the Linden-Soesdyke Highway yesterday. (Arian Browne photo)  

There is not a lot in Brazil that is more important than football but on Wednesday, not even Brazil’s victory over Mexico in the Confederation Cup could divert attention from the wave of protests that have shaken the country this week.

Lost control: This car ended up in a drain at Atlantic Ville on Wednesday after the driver lost control.

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As a citizen of this sorry Republic, formerly somewhat “political” and still with a lively interest in its survival, I am given to wondering: of what significance is Guyana to the U.S.A.

NOTICE Due to considerations of space we would be unable to publish the second instalment of Talking Points (Corruption and entrepreneurship) in this issue of the Stabroek Business.

The Alliance for Change says they will not support government’s motion for an increase in the debt ceiling on external loans until the completion of the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank’s due diligence and approval for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the exhortation by the Head of State to ranks of the police force, viz, that they must not be bought ‒ very, very commendable.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Britain and a representative of the Falkland Islands yesterday rejected the idea of Pope Francis intervening in the long-running dispute with Argentina over the islands, which Buenos Aires claims are Argentine territory.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Argentina forward Lionel Messi and his father Jorge were ordered yesterday to appear before a Barcelona court in September after Spanish prosecutors accused the pair of tax fraud.

(Trinidad Express) Today could very well be D-Day for Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon.