Daily Archive: Friday, July 12, 2013

President Donald Ramotar and his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff attending the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay. 

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Soul music superstar Aretha Franklin today canceled an upcoming concert in Michigan, citing recovery from health issues that forced her to postpone concerts earlier this year.

UG Vice-Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi today denounced an online report which quoted him as having purportedly uncovered a “corrupt ring” at the university in addition to the leaking of examination papers.

Asiyah Mohammed, the winner of the finger spelling bee competition sponsored by Courts, was yesterday presented with a cheque of $320,000 which will go towards the Deaf Association of Guyana.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court upheld the conviction today of a former leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad and Tobago for his role in a conspiracy to bomb New York’s John F.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said today it will postpone enforcement of a new law that cracks down on offshore tax avoidance by Americans by six months until July 1, 2014, giving foreign banks more time to determine how to comply.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Heathrow airport said today it had closed both its runways after a fire aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane.

Joseph Williams, 27, called “Joey” of 59 Gordon Street, Kitty was this morning remanded to prison after being arraigned for the murder of Victor Da Silva.

(Trinidad Express) Media consultant and journalist Sunity Maharaj said yesterday she believes no other government has attempted to compromise the media more than the People’s Partnership Government.

Opposition parties APNU and the AFC yesterday said that Chief Election Officer Gocool Boodoo should no longer be in his position following stunning claims by an elections commissioner on how the ruling PPP/C was nearly handed a parliamentary majority in 2011 that it had not won.

One miner is dead while several others are critically injured after a bush truck toppled yesterday along the Puruni trail in Region 7 (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) .

Police apprehended three men after an attempted robbery in the Coldingen, ECD area yesterday afternoon and recovered a sub-machine gun in the process.

The trial of the three men accused of the 2008 Lusignan massacre, in which 11 persons were killed, will begin on Monday in the High Court.

Guyana yesterday signed a framework agreement to join the Southern Customs Union (MERCOSUR) as an associate member.

One of the three suspects held in connection with Monday’s fatal bank trip robbery is to be charged, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday lauded elections commissioner, Vincent Alexander for speaking out on the count fiasco in 2011 that nearly erroneously handed the PPP/C a parliamentary majority.

With the four revised local government bills slated to be returned to the National Assembly next week, AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that his party would vote for their passage.

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced that Cabinet had no objections to several contracts in five sectors including seven in the security sector and four for the supply of material and building of river and sea defence infrastructure.

Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday handed down a two-year prison sentence to Brian Benjamin, who was found guilty of robbing a woman of her jewellery after telling her that it looked “nasty.”

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has applauded the organisers of an investment conference last month but expressed disappointment at the lack of a continuous presence by senior officials of the government and the parliamentary opposition.

Two brothers who threatened to kill each other yesterday exchanged apologies and were bonded to keep the peace.

Asiyah Mohammed, the winner of the finger spelling bee competition sponsored by Courts, was yesterday presented with a cheque of $320,000 which will go towards the Deaf Association of Guyana.

A businessman accused of using abusive language to his wife has been ordered to keep the peace for a year or face a four-month jail term.

The National Disabled Persons’ Network (NDPN) intends to make a “positive noise” as it shares awareness of the capacity of disabled people, its Chairman Lloyd Griffith has said.

Vanessa Collymore and the members of her family now live their lives around a single mattress.

Dear Editor, Please let me respond to Tony Vieira’s letter (July 10) on proposed joint projects with Brazil.

Television broadcasters plan to mount a legal challenge to the new $2.5M annual licensing fee recently announced by the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), pioneering broadcaster Anthony Vieira said yesterday, while the main opposition APNU charged that the increase would force small stations out of business.

(CMC) Another saviour’s knock of 45 from captain MS Dhoni and a fighting half century from Rohit Sharma, carried India to a thrilling last-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the final of the Celkon Mobile Cup tri-nation series at Queen’s Park Oval yesterday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the alarming traffic deaths and road accident statistics recently released by the Guyana Police Force.

Within the next few days or weeks, there will be a “significant evolution” of the Caribbean Press, according to executive editor Dr.

Pakistan spin wizard Saeed Ajmal’s 5-wicket haul, reinforced by opener Ahmed Shehzad’s half century edged hosts Guyana by 8 runs yesterday, in their 50 overs-a-side warm up match played at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter published in the Stabroek News dated Thursday, July 4, 2013 and bearing the caption, ‘Still waiting for NIS Old Age Pension.’

Guyana and Brazil have agreed that a cost analysis is essential to moving ahead with the Linden to Lethem road project.

Local police are investigating how 12 Guyanese loggers ended up sailing from Guyana to Trinidad in a Trinidad-registered vessel that had its name changed before it pulled into a port on the island.

By Duncan Saul in Mabaruma Photos by Orlando Charles Home side North West Secondary propelled by a Dexter Mendonca first-half  hat trick blanked Wauna Secondary 5-0 as action in the Digicel Secondary Schools National U18 Football Tournament continued at the Mabaruma Community Centre ground yesterday.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to the letter bearing the caption ‘NIS benefits problem,’ which was published in the Monday, July 8, 2013 edition of Stabroek News.

A young man accused of robbing a woman of her jewellery at gun-point was on Wednesday refused bail after Magistrate Fabayo Azore was told that he was positively identified by the victim in a police line-up.

Dear Editor, Four weeks have elapsed since two letters (J Tekchand, KN, June 13) and (W W Alexander, SN, June 16), asking that fuller details of the 2013 NGSA be published appeared in the local press. 

In a year when the Ministry of Housing-sponsored International Building Expo reflected few if any new developments in the manufacturing sector, BK Quarries Inc, a subsidiary of the BK Group of Companies, is promoting a relatively new product.

(Reuters) – The records set by Australia’s Ashton Agar and Phil Hughes against England during the first Ashes test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham yesterday.

By Chevy Devonish Chairperson Leotha Green-Watson is denying that changes in the Region Three Works Committee’s procedures for inspecting works carried out by contractors in the region are intended to sideline opposition councillors, saying that her actions have been misinterpreted.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC– Wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin has been dropped from the West Indies squad for first two One Day international (ODI) matches against Pakistan starting this weekend.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) is partnering with four of the country’s leading service and solutions providers in the information technology sector in order to raise the level of consumer access to tools necessary for their effective utilisation of the information super highway.

Dear Editor, This is exactly the dilemma presented to residents of Parfaite Harmonie, Schoonord, Westminster, and all surrounding areas. 

Dear Editor, For months now my family’s landline has not been working properly in Buxton.

Backseat It is not often that so many issues of capital budgeting are discussed as stories in their own right in the newspapers, even though matters of public spending are reported upon quite frequently.

Dog-food vendor Shaka Nunes was yesterday sentenced to a 12-month prison sentence after he was found guilty of snatching a woman’s gold chain.

Carifta Games 200m bronze medallist Tirana Mitchell is set to compete in the Women’s 200m heat today at the 8th International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Youth Championships in the Ukraine, even as 400m athlete Jason Yaw’s dreams of victory ended yesterday when he failed to qualify for the final round of his event.

Dear Editor, I write this letter on behalf of all the owners of motor vehicles using the T&HD service between Bartica and Parika The old system of throwing boards cannot work. 

Eighteen-year-old mason Lasell Duke was on Wednesday remanded to prison by Magistrate Fabayo Azore for allegedly robbing a girl of her jewellery using violence.

TOURS, France,  (Reuters) – German Marcel Kittel claimed his third victory on this year’s Tour de France when he pipped Mark Cavendish on the line to take the 12th stage yesterday.

“Corrupt practices constitute a vicious force that undermines fair competition, suppresses economic growth and ultimately destabilises an entrepreneur’s own existence,” Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana David Devine declared in his feature address to mark the 10th anniversary of EMPRETEC last week.

Contractors and hardware store proprietors along with the commercial banking sector have been singled out by Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali as the private sector entities that provide significant material and technical support for the country’s housing drive.

Dear Editor, I am bringing to your attention, the woes that people endure while they are in any neighbouring territory.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Australia’s number 11 Ashton Agar made an astonishing record 98 on debut as the tourists seized control of the first Ashes test against England on a wildly fluctuating second day at Trent Bridge yesterday.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi called for protests today, and Egyptians prayed there would be no repeat of clashes that killed more than 90 people in the last week and left the Arab world’s biggest nation bitterly divided.

The pace of the construction of the East Bank Demerara four-lane road is expected to improve since the Work Services Group (WSG) of the Ministry of Public Works, with support from the power and telephone companies has been addressing the challenge of utilities relocation hindering the project’s progress.

Dear Editor, Recently I have had cause to send the letter which follows to the Guyana Cricket Board and a representative of the Essequibo Cricket Board about the management of the Essequibo Under-15 cricket team.

Bids were opened on Tuesday  at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB)  for major infrastructural work at Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara and Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo and other projects.

Despite smashing the Men’s 83kg Pan American deadlift record and earning the best lifter award at the Caribbean Powerlifting Championships for the fifth consecutive year, Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan did not achieve what he wanted to but is aiming to do so later in the year.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported yesterday, sometimes followed months later by quakes big enough to destroy buildings.

The creation of the new Guyana Fashion Designers Council seems set to create lucrative entrepreneurial opportunities in a sector which has, up until now, been unable to come even close to realising what is widely believed to be its considerable potential.

Dear Editor, My advice to business people and anyone transporting large sums of cash is to contract a proper security service, which is equipped with the personnel, the vehicles, insurance and expertise. 

The endurance of the nation’s cyclists will be tested this weekend as National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed has organized back-to-back events.

President of the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) Clinton Williams wants the construction industry to implement a “broad-based education and sensitisation programme” that seeks to absorb larger volumes of lesser known species of Guyana’s hardwoods into the country’s building sector.

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – Ireland’s parliament voted yesterday to allow abortion under certain conditions for the first time, following months of polarising debate in the Catholic country including letters to the premier written in blood.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of union demonstrators blocked roads and snarled traffic in dozens of Brazilian cities yesterday in a one-day strike aimed at seizing the momentum of huge protests that swept the country last month.

It appears that the local manufacturing sector – or perhaps more accurately its umbrella organisation, the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) – has opted for deafening silence in the wake of what is widely known to be a condition of crisis in the local industry.

Politikles

GASCI reports that session 519’s trading results showed consideration of $2,117,516 from 17,190 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 518 which showed consideration of $5,977,568 from 148,032 shares traded in 16 transactions. 

Dear Editor, What is the future for locally-based, aspiring track athletes?

Between the host prime minister’s opening speech and the final communiqué of last week’s Caricom summit, there was, as feared in many quarters, a distinct lack of comfort with regard to concrete action to reinvigorate our faltering regional integration project.

(Reuters) – Two players from the Belize men’s national team have revealed that they were offered a bribe ahead of their CONCACAF Gold Cup opener against the United States, the confederation said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Joint-venture projects between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana could be the foundation upon which a unified Caribbean is built, businessman Donald Baldeosingh said on Wednesday.

Fire tenders from China: Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday received the keys to 10 fire tenders, and 400 suits for fire officers from officials of the Chinese Government at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Brickdam. 

Business Cartoons

SANTA ANA, Calif.,  (Reuters) – A Saudi princess charged with bringing a Kenyan woman to the United States as a domestic servant and holding her against her will could face more charges, a California prosecutor who likened the case to “slavery” said yesterday.

Does not crime and punishment hold a permanent place in most societies?

(Barbados Nation) Loan delinquency is at an all-time high in Barbados’ commercial banking system.