Articles published on Monday, July 8, 2013
Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, Permanent Secretary, Nigel Dharamlall, Regional Vice Chair, Amrita Thomas and youths who registered for the Youth Entrepreneurship and Apprenticeship Programme in Region Seven at the launch on Sunday at the Kamarang/Warwatta Community Centre, Upper Mazaruni, (GINA photo)
(Barbados Nation) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – LIAT wishes to advise that due to the impending passage of Tropical Storm Chantal, the St.
Caricom Heads have passed a directive which could eventually see the implementation of the hassle-free travel that was in place in the region for the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal, the Health Ministry said today.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden lived in plain sight for almost a decade and was once even pulled over for speeding but not apprehended, thanks to the incompetence of Pakistan’s intelligence and security services, an official report into his killing said on Monday.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Chantal churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward the eastern Caribbean today on a track that would put it over flood-prone Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, U.S.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sri Lanka defeated West Indies by 39 runs in their rain-hit fifth Celkon Mobile Cup ODI at Queens Park Oval today.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested five officials and charged them with embezzling $84 million from a China-financed development fund administered by state-run development bank Bandes, President Nicolas Maduro said today.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – At least 51 people were killed today when the Egyptian army opened fire on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Mursi, in the deadliest incident since the elected Islamist leader was toppled by the military five days ago.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Meteorological Service is reporting that Chantal, the third tropical storm for the season has been formed in the Atlantic.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica Labour Party leader Andrew Holness has declared that more than 100 years since the abolition of slavery, nothing much has changed for Jamaican workers.
A man identified as Victor Da Silva of Covent Garden, East Bank was shot dead at around 8.15 this morning and Foulis, East Coast gas station owner Cecil Gajadhar, 71, wounded in a brazen ambush on Water Street, Kingston after which a bloodied Gajadhar sped away in his vehicle until he got to the back of Republic Bank on Robb Street where he threw a haversack over the fence.
MACAU (Reuters) – The film Barfi scooped top honors in India’s version of the Oscars at a ceremony in the Chinese gambling haven of Macau on Saturday that also celebrated a century of Bollywood, which makes up a big chunk of a multi-billion-dollar film industry.
(Trinidad Express) The e-mails are fake. Based on the documents before him, this statement has come from acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams on the 31 e-mails read by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley into the Hansard in Parliament on May 20.
Growing up in a tenement yard, Basil Gibbons would have had direct knowledge of broken families and would have seen how the absence of opportunities denied the young the possibility of developing their potential.
A 31-year-old mason was last evening pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after he was shot in the vicinity of the Vryheid’s Lust seawall, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Logging company Bai Shan Lin (BSL) yesterday pledged to fix a farm road at Moblissa, Region Ten which its vehicles had damaged but could face problems after the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) ordered a halt to its extraction of laterite from a site approved by the Regional Democratic Council (RDC).
Guyana’s road race champions Raynauth Jeffrey (senior), Michael Anthony (junior) and Junior Niles (veteran) of Team Coco occupied the podium in their respective categories when the 14th annual John T Memorial Road Race was staged in Anguilla yesterday.
Robin Persaud powered to his third win of the season yesterday, outsprinting fellow national rider Orville Hinds in the 4th annual Seven Seas Multivitamins and Dr.
Significant strides have been made towards improving the rights of domestic workers but much more remains to be done according to regional advocacy groups.
With the second crop underway and a daunting 192,000 tonnes of sugar still needed to make the 2013 target of 240,000 tonnes, the Guyana Sugar Corporation is soliciting private cane farmers in the outsourcing of 800 hectares of land at Uitvlugt Estate.
BK Western Tigers FC through a Malachi Adonis brace defeated Camptown FC by a 2-0 margin as action in the Fruta Conquerors U-13 Football Tournament continued at the Tucville Community Centre, ground yesterday.
Kwakwani Secondary overcame a game Wismar/Christianburg Secondary 55-51 in their U20 semifinal encounter on Saturday.
While African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries will continue to have access to the European market after the end of the sugar quota in 2017, Guyana’s Ambassador to the European Union (EU) PI Gomes says it will “hardly be commercially attractive” and this country could be one of those starved out of the arena.
Former Programme Manager at the state broadcaster NCN, Martin Goolsarran has denied that he had sold his home and planned to migrate.
Young Achievers powered by a Delroy Adams six-goal haul in the ninth, 41st, 45th, 50th, 55th and 58th minutes hammered Wales United 10-0 as action in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Stag Beer Senior League continued at the Den Amstel ground on Saturday.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sri Lanka were fighting off some menacing pace bowling from West Indies when rain washed out the remaining day’s play in their Celkon Mobile Cup ODI game at Queens Park Oval yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Guyanese national Chadwick McGarrell was jailed for nine months on Wednesday after pleading guilty to two charges of fraud—uttering and possession of fraudulent documents.
Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Zulfikar Mohammed said last week that while airline start-up Fly Guyana has not yet made a formal application to the GCAA, Fly Jamaica on the other hand is another step closer to taking to the skies, with the remaining issues requiring another two weeks for finalisation.
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Former World Youth and Junior 400 metres champion Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas is now a professional athlete.
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on the final day of their Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting on Saturday in Trinidad agreed on follow-up action on the question of reparations for native genocide and slavery.
(Reuters) – Andy Murray wiped out 77 years of pain and hurt as he became the first British man since 1936 to win the men’s title at Wimbledon with a 6-4 7-5 6-4 victory over world number one Novak Djokovic yesterday.
Dear Editor, Someone once said to me: “The true test of a man’s character is not how much he’s been attacked, but how he reacts to such attacks.”
(Reuters) – Chris Froome survived a brutal early onslaught from his Tour de France rivals to retain the yellow jersey after an epic ninth stage won by Ireland’s Dan Martin yesterday.
Several private sector housing initiatives were highlighted at the Building Expo with many of the multi-million dollar projects looking to import materials to meet the taste of their clients.
MORELIA, Mexico, CMC – Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Bahamas finished behind host Mexico following strong performances on the final day of competition at the XXIV Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Senior Athletics Championships yesterday.
By Kimalee Phillip An African woman born and raised in Grenada, Kimalee Phillip is an anti-colonial labour and community organizer and independent researcher.
Dear Editor, My mother Jane C Cyrus is 92 years old and is now residing in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
During the last two weeks, we suspended our review of the UN Convention Against Corruption to look at the operations of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL).
The $1.5B from the Caricom Development Fund (CDF) for Guyana will see attention being focused on the Parika/Ruby Backdam which has been a longstanding problem for farmers of Region Three (West Demerara/Essequibo Islands).
Dear Editor, The response from Mr. Neville Harricharan (SN July 7th) replying to my letter captioned `Guysuco’s primary problem is not industrial relations; it is production and productivity (SN July 4th)’ was quite instructive.
The Guyana Post Office Corporation has worked assiduously to ensure that this month pensioners and other customers were served in a timely manner, says Post Master General Henry Dundas.
PASADENA, CA, CMC – Substitute Fabrice Reuperne scored a late winner to give Caribbean side Martinique a 1-0 victory over Canada in Group A of the opening game of the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament yesterday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco’s airport on Saturday was flying “significantly below” its intended speed and its crew tried to abort the landing less than two seconds before it hit a seawall in front of the runway, the U.S.
(Reuters) – Brazil will demand an explanation from the United States over report its citizens’ electronic communications have been under surveillance by U.S.
Dear Editor, Being a proud and patriotic Guyanese, I take every opportunity to observe Guyana’s politics and politicians.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Deadlock over Egypt’s interim prime minister entered a third day yesterday after the Islamist Nour Party rejected candidates for interim prime minister, prolonging the impasse amid huge protests that turned violent and killed more than 35.
Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has announced that it made three management appointments in May.
Dear Editor, Previously critical citizens (myself included) have to eat their words.
(Trinidad Guardian) Faced with expulsion from the United National Congress (UNC), Jack Warner is now turning to his political guru, Basdeo Panday, with a heartfelt apology, but Panday has outrightly rejected it. Warner
This week we paid a visit to the forecourt of the Guyana National Stadium, Providence where the International Building Expo was being held and asked the people there for their thoughts on the initiative.
After a re-tender for the construction of potable water wells at Providence on the East Bank of Demerara and Better Hope on the East Coast, the project on Tuesday attracted tenders from four companies.
Eight Community Policing Groups (CPGs) in the Fort Wellington district were presented with awards by the Station Management Committee (SMC) in recognition of the dedication of members.
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) – The only warning Lac-Megantic residents had of the coming disaster was the louder-than-usual rumble of a train – a runaway locomotive laden with crude oil that would jump the tracks, explode and burn down the centre of town.
Rapt attention has no doubt been paid by the public to the manoeuvrings surrounding the contract of the Chief Election Officer, Mr Gocool Boodoo.
Best literacy student: Last Wednesday, Rock-stone Primary School held its annual prize giving and graduation exercise during which the outstanding performers in a Literacy Project were recognized.
Dear Editor, One week ago I wrote a letter (`Teacher issues at Cornelia Ida Primary’ SN July 2, 2013) about the staffing of the Grade 6 at the Cornelia Ida Primary School.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The biography of Kingston kingpin, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is to be aired on the popular documentary series, ‘Gangsters: America’s Most Evil’ at 10:00 p.m
At about 2125h last night, police say that Tyrone Boodhoo, 32 years, of Better Hope, ECD, and a female friend Martha Mohamed, 23 years, were at the seawalls in the vicinity of Vryheid’s Lust, ECD, when they were confronted by two men who ordered them to lie on the ground.
