Daily Archive: Friday, August 9, 2013

President Donald Ramotar is reassuring the nation that Government will continue to work with stakeholders to bring the Amaila hydropower project to fruition, GINA said tonight.

Sithe Global has pulled out of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, Head of NICIL Winston Brassington, has confirmed to Stabroek News.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) One-hundred-and-twenty-seven Jamaicans have been allegedly killed by the police between January 1 and June 30 of this year.

ALGIERS/LONDON  (Reuters) – Inquiries into the bloody assault on an Algerian gas plant are uncovering increasing evidence of contacts between the assailants and the jihadis involved in killing the U.S.

The face off begins:  The clash between angry protestors and police outside Parliament on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Construction of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s prized $1.5 billion Couva Children’s Hospital is in jeopardy as seismic and structural experts have called for all work there to be aborted. This

Jamaica yesterday received bids for a massive power plant using a variety of fuel sources which puts the average cost per megawatt at US$1.54M to US$1.62M compared to the Amaila hydropower project’s US$5.09M.

(Trinidad Express) Government is seeking legal advice on the possibility of postponing the local government elections, sources said yesterday.

A Cummings Lodge Secon-dary School teenager was allegedly chopped to death by her teenage boyfriend yesterday at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara after his sister invited her to his home.

Deported back to Guyana on Tuesday for a crime he says he didn’t commit, Mohamid Nazim Mohamed’s future is uncertain.

Although the AFC has declined his resignation, party Chairman Nigel Hughes plans to take a break to decide if he will remain in politics.

President of Sithe Global, Brian Kubeck says that the company would be communicating its position on whether or not it will continue its involvement in the Amaila Falls Hydro project today and declined to give any indication of what direction its decision may take.

Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs says the four recently passed local government bills and the Hydro Electric Power (Amendment) Bill need to be sent to the office of the Attorney General (AG) for assent certificates before they are sent to President Donald Ramotar to sign them into law.

Leron Griffith, the taxi-driver who struck and killed a Surinamese restaurateur on Mandela Avenue in May, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving yesterday.

A man was yesterday arraigned on a charge of forcing a 13-year-old boy to perform a sexual act.

Unwilling to back down from their fight to remove acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba, city councillors say they will not recognise directives from Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud if he believes that he does not have an obligation to honour the wishes of the democratically-elected council.

Thirty-eight-year-old Garvin Newyear of New Forest, East Canje died yesterday after a motorcycle accident.

Ramjattan: `We are still uncertain about a number of things, like rates coming down, losses coming down and so on’ Following emergency meetings among Government MPs and members of the Opposition on brokering an arrangement suitable to all sides, the House on Wednesday and early yesterday morning passed both the Hydro Electric Power Amendment Bill and a government motion aimed at raising the loan guarantee ceiling for public corporations.

At about 1415h yesterday, the police say they conducted a search on a house at Bel Air Street,

American investors interested in formulating an energy drink with coconut water from Guyana as one of the key ingredients, paid a courtesy call on President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday.

Darian Rose, accused of robbing a woman at gun-point in her yard, was remanded to prison on Wednesday on an armed robbery charge.

A fisherman, who was found with a small quantity of marijuana when police stopped and searched him, was yesterday fined $3,000 for narcotics possession.

Dobby Doman, a mechanic accused of assaulting and robbing the mother of his child, was on Wednesday cleared of the charges after the woman declined to offer any evidence against him.

Transport Minister Robeson Benn says the MV Kimbia will return to service by August 15, enabling the full resumption of the ferry service to Region One.

Major changes have been made to the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill 2012 including the removal of contentious provisions objected to by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) dealing with the dissolution of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

MOSCOW, Russia,  CMC- Three of the world’s biggest track & field names, Usain Bolt, Kirani James and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, are finalizing preparations here for tomorrow’s start of the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships.

Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier David Granger has renewed his call for a Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate the many deaths on the East Coast Demerara between 2000 and 2010.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC-Dwayne Bravo, whose captaincy skills have been under intense public scrutiny lately, has appealed to cricket fans to exercise patience with him while he matures in his new role.

EINDHOVEN, Holland,  CMC- Top Trinidad and Tobago swimmer George Bovell captured the gold medal in the 100 m individual medley in a new national record as he began his short course World Cup in Holland on Wednesday.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC-Jamaica defeated Barbados by seven wickets to lift the Regional Under-19 title on the third day of their fifth and final round match here at EGSC Molineaux on Wednesday.

The country’s key Business Support Organizations (BSOs) – the Private Sector Commission (PSC), the Guyana Manufac-turing and Services Association (GMSA) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) have acknowledged that the performance of the beleaguered Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) may be enhanced through the infusion of foreign skills including  management.

CHESTER LE STREET, England, (Reuters) – England’s and Australia’s cricketers still back the use of the Decision Review System (DRS) for the last two tests of the Ashes series despite a string of controversies in the opening three games.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Athletics will end 18 years of frustration in 2015 by returning to four-year bans for first-time dopers, ending the situation of Olympic athletes suspended for doping turning up to compete in the following Games.

A delegation to Guyana from Trinidad and Tobago comprising representatives from two of the country’s business support organizations says that a key objective of their visit is to develop “direct  relationships” with the business community here to help reduce resort to government involvement whenever important private sector initiatives are to be taken.

If the full details of what we are told will be an important two-day (August 14-15) national economic summit are yet to be made known, there is absolutely nothing wrong with wondering aloud about the significance of this forum and about just what the anticipated outcomes are.

Dear Editor, The AFC has joined with the PPP to increase the public corporation loan guarantee ceiling from $1 billion to $50 billion after leading the citizens to believe that whatever position it takes is driven by the pursuit to bring about good governance.

Wismar/Christianburg Secon-dary captured the 9th edition of the Linden Secondary Schools under-19 Basketball tournament, edging Wisburg Secondary 52-51 in a pulsating finale on Saturday.

President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle gave  six amateur boxers a vote of confidence ahead of this weekend’s Invitational Youth tournament in Trinidad and Tobago when they paid him a courtesy call yesterday at his office at the Ministry of Sport.

Dear Editor, As Guyana once again is confronted by the domestic violence murders and attempted murders of five women and three children, including the near severing of limbs of children, one has to ask whether we as a nation really care about reducing and eliminating domestic violence and whether our political directorate and government leaders care or have the will, capacity and expertise to comprehensively address the issue.

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Dear Editor, When the PPP/Civic came to power in October 1992, one of its priorities was to prepare a plan for national development, sometimes referred to as ‘The Strategy for National Development.’

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – When Jamaican Novlene Williams-Mills takes to the track at the world championships in Moscow tomorrow she will do so as a flag-bearer for breast cancer sufferers everywhere.

Port Mourant boasts one of those local markets that is a mix of commerce and spectacle.

Permanent Secretary of Suriname’s Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, Michael Watson, was optimistic of the visitors bettering host Guyana in the four disciplines of the first leg of the annual Inter Guiana Games (IGG) when he spoke to the media yesterday.

Dear Editor, The shocking statement reportedly made by new PPP Central Committee member, Mr Shyam Nokta, as it pertains to the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO), was brought to my attention through Red Thread Karen De Souza’s letter to the media.

Gouveia hopeful about August forum for tourism sector Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business that he is optimistic that the mid-August high-level development discourse being organized by government will embrace recommendations being prepared by a committee of tourist operators for significantly upgrading the local tourism sector.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to state the facts regarding the construct and operations of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), in response to a Demerara Waves publication in which Mr Shyam Nokta is reported to have said at the just concluded Congress of the People’s Progressive Party that there is opposition party influence in Gecom. 

Gold medalist at last month’s Pan America Powerlifting Champion-ships, Gumendra Shewdas would become Guyana’s youngest ever World Champion if he garners sponsorship to compete at the International Powerlift-ing Federation (IPF) World Sub junior and Junior Championships later this month in Texas, USA.

For all her considerable academic accolades, Rutgers University Professor Robin Brumfield still regards herself as a farmer with a mission to do what she can to help maximize the production of healthy food.

The August 13 Security Seminar being hosted by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry must go beyond “the customary erudite exchange of views and ideas” and focus on “finding real solutions to the serious crime challenges facing the business community”, GCCI President Clinton Urling has told the Stabroek Business.

(Cricinfo) Barbados Tridents 175/6 (20/20 ov) St Lucia Zouks 92 (17.5/20 ov) Barbados Tridents won by 83 runs           

Dear Editor, Despite the clarion calls for the autonomy of the Berbice campus and the purported benefits of this, it is important to first to analyse the governance structures of higher education and weigh their benefits and disadvantages before making a decision on supporting or rejecting calls for autonomy.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A Miami man who reportedly posted a photo of his wife’s body on Facebook after killing her turned himself in to authorities yesterday and confessed to the slaying, police said.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are waking up to the potential across borders in their own backyard.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to set the record straight, after reading the report in your edition of July 17, captioned ‘Josiah Tanner laments being bypassed for Caricom 10K –says AAG needs to review selection criteria.’

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Ever since Jack Warner’s victory in the Chaguanas West by-election in Trinidad on July 29, there has been a lot of excited comment in the twin-island republic about a “paradigm shift” in the politics of the country.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An experimental malaria vaccine proved highly effective in a small, early-stage clinical trial in people, raising hope in the global effort to combat the deadly disease, U.S.

Senior–Citizen moralistic lamentations again? I suppose so. But if I influence only one reader, I would sleep well.

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Dear Editor, Just recently, Ron Robinson was interviewed and celebrated by NCN TV and radio for his 48 years contribution to radio broadcasting.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebel leaders negotiating peace with the government must return to the jungle and end their days on the battlefield or in prison if talks under way in Cuba collapse, President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) THE State is ready to begin calling witnesses in the five-year-old case against Reshmi Dipnarine, the woman charged with twice raping a 17-year-old boy.