Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 24, 2013

(Reuters) – Misbah-ul-Haq produced a crucial captain’s innings to steer Pakistan to a four-wicket win over West Indies in the fifth one-day international in St.

A post-mortem examination was today performed on the body of Gweneth Alexander, of Arakaka Village, NWD, by Dr.

(Jamaica Observer) Justin Felice, the chief technical director of the Financial Investigations Division (FID), says that the reported targeting of Chinese business operators by criminals is directly related to the reluctance of some members of that community to use the banking system.

The body of fourteen-year-old Kelly Hope was found washed up along the shores of the Victoria Seawall this morning after he went missing on Monday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “I have never considered quitting.” That was the message from embattled Jamaican sprinting standouts Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson as they sat before a specially selected media conference, for the first time, since they both tested positive for banned stimulant Oxilofrine at the Jamaican trials.

APNU Members of Parliament also walked out of a Monday meeting of the committee on anti-money laundering over the terrorism remark by President Donald Ramotar and they are not returning unless so advised by the Leader of the Opposition, David Granger.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of the People and Social Development, Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh, last night denied he owned six houses.

(Trinidad Express) Two Trinidad and Tobago nationals who are currently investing millions in Trinidad and Tobago were charged in Orange County, Florida, on July 14, with trafficking some 3,000 pounds (1,360 kg) of marijuana.

(Trinidad Express) Some four and a half years after Government took charge, CL Financial (CLF) is to return to shareholders, but not to the perceived wrong-doers who were there when the company went belly-up.

President Donald Ramotar on Monday said that the government will not give up on the Amaila Falls Hydropower project and that he is prepared to meet again with the opposition to thrash out lingering questions on it.

Lusignan massacre accused Mark Royden Williams had told police that he accompanied the members of the gang who  went to Track ‘A’ Lusignan and committed the 11 murders but said that he did not kill anyone as he was only armed with a cutlass.

Concerned male and female bus drivers and conductors of Route 45 (Hospital)  minibuses yesterday staged a picket  at their park near Stabroek Square to protest against continuous abuse which they say is being meted out to female operators by male colleagues.

Obrian White and Adrian David, the two men accused of hiding cocaine in straws that were packed in cargo bound for Canada, were yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment after being found guilty.

‘A’ Division on 96 points maintained its lead at the end of the second day of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) annual Inter-Division track and field championship at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary yesterday.

Members of the New Amsterdam Constabulary along with Deputy Mayor Harold Debydeen have started a campaign to rid the town of all encumbrances and stop illegal vending.

The Guyana Review news magazine celebrated its 20th anniversary in February 2013 and, in so doing, set a record for longevity in the local periodicals industry.

“In discussing our contemporary shambles, almost every visitor to this country ultimately comes round to asking about local publications of the nature of this one. 

Out-of-favour West Indies Test and ODI cricketer Veerasammy Permaul, national lawn tennis player Carol Humphrey and her brother former national youth footballer Neil Humphrey were among those receiving awards Last Thursday when the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) in conjunction with Sentinel Security Limited hosted the inaugural Gregory Gaskin Memorial/Berbice Sports Award ceremony at the St.

A Kitty man was yesterday charged with two counts of narcotic-trafficking after quantities of cannabis were found at a stall at Merriman Mall.

Last year’s Caribbean men’s singles bronze medallist Paul David and overseas-based national women’s singles champion Trenace Lowe were among a squad of players shortlisted by the Guyana Table Tennis Association to prepare for next month’s Caribbean championships in St Lucia.

Yesterday’s opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board saw New GPC bidding $641M for medical supplies.

By Karen De Souza Most adults in Guyana agree – without even thinking about it – on how to treat very young children.

Walter B Alexander Ever since the “Common Entrance” Examination replaced the former County Scholarship Examination in the 1960s there has always been much publicity about the ‘top’ performers. 

A sweets vendor was yesterday charged for assault after he allegedly hit a policewoman with his buttocks.

Four Guyanese are through to today’s finals of their age group categories of the annual Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in Trinidad and Tobago following play yesterday at the Cascadia and Queens Park Oval squash courts.

Guyana’s Shomari Wiltshire on Monday reached the semi-finals of the annual Caribbean Junior Squash Championships at the Cascadia and Queen’s Park Oval Squash Courts.

It would not be altogether surprising if it transpired that the Government of Guyana finds it discomfiting the United States Secretary of State John Kerry has deemed Guyanese woman miner Simona Broomes a “hero” for her efforts to try to suppress the practice of Trafficking In Persons (TIP) in Guyana.

The home of public relations expert Kit Nascimento was recently burgled and he says police appear reluctant to investigate.

A man charged with damaging a telephone cable belonging to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday told a court that he was accused of the crime when all he did was stop to pee.

Fifteen coaches are more knowledgeable of the fistic amateur sport both practically and theoretically following the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) organized two-day coaching seminar over the weekend.

Q. Have you been able to measure the impact which the Coalition has had on employer responses to HIV/AIDS at the workplace?

—St George’s, Wismar/Christianburg meet in second semi The semifinals of the Digicel National Secondary Schools Football Tournament are set to take place today at the Beterverwagting (BV) and Uitvlugt Community grounds respectively from 16:00hrs.

A handyman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last evening after an altercation  left him with several injuries including an almost severed left hand.

Address by Canadian High Commissioner David Devine at Guyana Investment Forum June 27, 2013 Globally, the demand for investment dollars is becoming increasingly limited and competitive. 

Long before she begun to attract wider attention for her work with schoolchildren participating in the Ministry of Education’s National Schools Drama Festival, Jean Kingston had been pursuing a love affair with the theatre.

  There is something frighteningly repetitive about media reports regarding women… wives, paramours, girlfriends, all of whom   share the common fate of having been brutalized, abused and often slaughtered in the most heinous ways by intimate partners.

Defending men’s singles champion Anthony Downes defeated Jason Andrews in straight sets as action in the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Open lawn tennis tournament continued at the company’s Recreational Club, Kaieteur Street Bel-Air Park on Monday.

City Hall says its Municipal Solid Waste Management Department recently removed 83 truck loads of garbage from Georgetown.

Young Kevlon Anderson was last Thursday named top cricketer of the 16th Annual Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC)/ TCL Cricket Academy which was held at the Area “H” Ground in Rose Hall, Berbice.

Dear Editor, On July 18, during what I would describe as one of the ‘dumb’ debates in which both government and opposition alternated to be silent, Minister Irfaan Ali confidently denied that the raising of the national debt ceiling from $1 billion to $150 billion, has anything to do with the cash-strapped Guyana Power and Light (GPL).

Hundreds of people in Linden and the wider Region Ten are expected to benefit from free medical attention between July 29 and August 3 from a visiting team of USA-based medical professionals.

After the results of the 2011 general elections and the consequences for the mathematics of the National Assembly had become clear, a fairly sizeable constituency of Guyanese roundly applauded the verdict of the electorate.

Dr Jo-Anne S Ferreira   Many popular myths surround Patois (known to linguists as French Creole or French-lexicon Creole), one of which, is that it is not a ‘real’ language, or that it lacks a ‘real’ grammar, or that it cannot be written, or that it is ‘simplified’ French.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior female Inter-County limited overs cricket tournament is set to bowl off today but so far only one county Demerara has named its representative squad.

Dear Editor, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the nation’s supplier of water and sanitation services, wishes to address the concerns stated in the letter published in the Stabroek News, July 22, 2013, page 7 regarding GWI’s service in Bartica (‘Why after nine years is the Bartica water treatment plant not fulfilling its promises?’).

Two men were yesterday each charged with possession of an offensive weapon after they were allegedly picked up with an ice pick and a knife.

Dear Editor, There are two recent news items that captured my attention:  Mr Nigel Hughes’ call for mass protest and Mr Sharma Solomon’s admittance to the Central Executive of the PNC.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Al Qaeda claimed responsibility yesterday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) will today resume its nationwide School Cricket Coaching programme at the Mahaicony Centre Ground.

The Guyana Livestock Development Agency (GLDA) and the US Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP), conducted a veterinary training seminar and a livestock veterinary treatment outreach in Region 3 from July 15 to 20, 2013.

It surprised me considerably that the turnout at the St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church Memorial Service for the late Courtney Gibson included few of his contemporaries; I wondered whether it was that news of the event might not have reached them up to that time; but then it occurred to me that we live in a society where word gets around and once I got to thinking that there was probably no good reason why news of the event did not get around the circuit of Courtney’s contemporaries, I begun to reflect on times past and how different it was ‘in those days.’

A woman was placed on $20,000 bail yesterday after denying damaging her partner’s mattress.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- A close finish is anticipated between Pakistan and West Indies when the two sides meet in the fifth and final deciding game of their five match One Day international (ODI) series at the Beausejour playing field here today.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Bribery is the lubricant that helps keep China’s public hospitals running, and the health system would struggle to function without illegal payments to poorly paid doctors and administrators, say medical practitioners and industry experts.

“The history of the Caribbean Examina-tions Council cannot be written without the name Archibald Moore occupying a stellar position.

Dear Editor, On the 9th July I sent a letter (‘Contract workers sometimes damage the mains when disconnecting water’) to the Stabroek News and it was published on the 11th July with an Editor’s note indicating that it would be forwarded to the PRO of GWI Timothy Austin for a reply, and to date I haven’t seen the reply.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela is seeking a loan of up to $5 billion from China to finance a state investment fund that was recently the victim of an embezzlement scheme by the fund’s own employees involving millions of dollars.

Dear Editor, I find myself being asked by potential donors and supporters of the AFC to explain the decision by Mr Nigel Hughes to defend one of the accused in the case of the Lusignan massacre.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prince William and his wife Kate gave the world its first glimpse of their new baby yesterday when they left hospital to a barrage of camera flashes with the boy who is third in line to the British throne.

Georgetown, Guyana – With just days left to the bowl off of the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League, Windsor Estates developed by Navigant Builders has signed on as a founding Sponsor of local Franchise Guyana Amazon Warriors.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — The two brothers who were charged with the rape and assault of five females, including an eight-year-old, in the upscale community of Irwin Point in St James last year, were on Monday acquitted of all charges in the Western Regional Gun Court after the prosecution offered no further evidence.

 By Barrington Braithwaite The issue of publishing and the national ethos has never been treated with deserving seriousness.

(Reuters) – New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner yesterday vowed to stay in the race despite admitting sending sexually explicit messages and photos to women even after the online sex chat scandal that cost him his congressional seat.

When I first came to South America I wasn’t sure what to expect.

I began this discourse on local government reform with the contention that elitist behaviour in this kind of matter has not served us well, and the events in the National Assembly last Thursday have reinforced this.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Rain and an on-field injury which prevented South African opener Hashim Amla from batting spurred Sri Lanka to a 17-run win under the Duckworth-Lewis method in the second one-dayer yesterday.

Dear Editor, National under-19, left-arm leg spinner Herry Green joins his brother Herell Green, a composed opening batsman, to be the latest combination of brothers or family members from Essequibo to either represent Guyana or another nation in cricket at any level.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Supreme Court judge Bryan Sykes has turned down the application to accept two witness statements at the murder trial of dancehall artiste Adija ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have hit rock bottom with their defeat to England in the second Ashes test and spinner Nathan Lyon must be recalled at the expense of Ashton Agar if they are to turn things around, according to fast bowling great Glenn McGrath.

As Brazil’s President Dilma Rouseff has been preparing for two significant events this year, the first a visit by Pope Francis of Latin American origins, and the second a visit by the President herself to the White House in October, she has suddenly, and obviously unexpectedly, found herself under political siege at home.

Dear Editor, The economic and financial crisis that has gripped a number of Western countries has demonstrated in no uncertain terms that the neo-liberal model of development has failed to address in any fundamental way the issue of poverty and human misery.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Labour Ministry says it is assessing the protests being staged by workers at three of Jamaica’s sugar factories operated by the Chinese-owned Pan Caribbean Sugar Company.

Musical tradition has decided that Trinidad and Tobago is the “home” of the Calypso, that art-form that once outsiders defined as “a West Indian Song.”

CHISINAU,  (Reuters) – Doctors at a Moldovan state-run hospital used household tools, including an electric drill and pliers, to perform surgery in a video leaked to local press and published on the Internet, prompting outrage among the public and government officials.