Daily Archive: Saturday, September 7, 2013

LONDON, (Reuters) – Film critics have savaged a new movie of the late British Princess Diana’s relationship with a Pakistani doctor as an intrusive and embarrassingly cheap soap opera.

Repsol is set to begin oil exploration again with a fresh round of 3D seismic surveys in the offshore basin close to Suriname with a view to determining the hydrocarbon potential that may lead to a US$200 million drilling campaign after 2015.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Tokyo was awarded the 2020 summer Games today, beating Istanbul in a head-to-head vote after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a charismatic plea to the International Olympic Committee.

A 29-year-old La Grange, West Bank Demerara resident yesterday died on the spot after the vehicle he was travelling in slammed into a utility pole at Crane Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

VILNIUS, (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Saturday the EU’s 28 nations agreed that available information seemed to show strong evidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack on civilians in August.

(Jamaica Gleaner) JAMAICA WILL, this weekend, seek to have Venezuela agree to a proposal for the training of Venezuelans in English language as part of a programme to offset oil debts.

SYDNEY/CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia’s conservative leader Tony Abbott swept into office in national elections today as voters punished the outgoing Labor government for six years of turbulent rule and for failing to maximise the benefits of a now fading mining boom.

With an October deadline approaching, contractors working on 20 road bridges in Regions Five and Six were criticised yesterday for shoddy work and Minister Juan Edghill warned that penalty clauses will be applied where necessary.

‘Caricom strongly endorses the calls of the UN Secretary General for the situation to be resolved through dialogue and not through the recourse to the use of military force or any other action which would violate international law.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is dealing with upgrading its infrastructure and will take a “technological approach” and later step up efforts to tackle loss reduction, its Chief Executive Officer Bharat Dindyal has said.

A man was yesterday charged over the fatal stabbing of a former football player, who addressed him using a gay slur.

A Linden man, who said he was trafficking marijuana to in order to provide for his two young children, was yesterday sentenced to serve the next three years in jail.

Already into the ninth month of the year, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has registered total annual production of only 88,000 tonnes of sugar with six of the factories grinding as of yesterday.

Police yesterday issued a new wanted bulletin for Carolan Lynch for questioning in relation to the murder of her husband, cambio owner Farouk Razack.

Biker Kirk Davis was shot 16 times, an indication of murderous intent, but up to press time last evening there was still no word from the police as to whether the suspect, once a close friend, had been captured.

In the wake of the fallout over the involvement of two of its senior members in the Amaila Falls hydropower project, the AFC has adopted a raft of guidelines, including the disclosure of its leaders’ private material interests, albeit on a case-by-case basis.

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers’ Union (UGWU) were yesterday collecting signatures for a petition calling for the re-instatement of the recently dismissed Bursar John Seeram and Senior Accountant Hazel Bentick.

Christopher Barnwell’s XI yesterday defeated Stephen Jacobs’s XI by 49 runs in a high-scoring, final Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) trial match to select the Inter County one day team for the upcoming DDL-sponsored tournament.

Outgoing Director of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC), Professor Daizal Samad has reiterated his call for full autonomy saying that not much can be achieved “if you’re bound hand and foot.”

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – World and Olympic champion Usain Bolt powered away late in the race to destroy his rivals and win the 100 metres in 9.8 seconds at the season-closing Diamond League meeting in Brussels yesterday.

The main opposition APNU is calling on the government to announce a plan to curb suicides in Guyana.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s most accomplished batsman Younus Khan completed an unbeaten double century  yesterday to turn the course of the first test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club.

Some 20 staff members of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday successfully completed a “customer service” training programme, aimed at improving patient care at the facility.

The Humanitarian Aid Programme (HAP) of the US Embassy has donated five microscopes valued US$5000 to the Animal Health Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture to assist their effort at ensuring food and animal safety.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Defending champion Serena Williams slugged her way to a U.S.

Brand Manager of the Demerara Distilleries Limited (DDL)/Pepsi brand, Larry Wills said yesterday that the company was  pleased to collaborate with the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to launch the 2013 the Inter-County 50-over round robin competition.

The PNCR insists that it has made numerous contributions to Amerindian development and dismissed claims to the contrary made by President Donald Ramotar as “wildly uninformed.”

A total of 12 courts will be housed at the refurbished Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Complex along Avenue of the Republic and Brickdam, between Croal Street and Brickdam, which is expected to be handed over to the judiciary by the end of September after more than two years of works.

Darlon Jones, the victim of an armed robbery, yesterday said that the man accused of carrying out the attack battered him for hours and threatened to kill him if his overseas-based mother did not send money for his release.

Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters Basketball Club’s Mackeson sponsored 12 team inter-ward tourney begins today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

(Reuters) – New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith has been suspended for five games for violating the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) anti-drug program, the league said yesterday.

A Holland-based Guyanese man is accusing a local tour company of false online advertising and says that instead of refunding him for failing to deliver, it removed the false information from the site.

(Reuters) – Seven touchdown strikes from Peyton Manning helped the Denver Broncos to a 49-27 rout of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens on Thursday after Colorado lightning had delayed the start of the new NFL season.

The Ministry of Education and has organised ‘Give a Book’ and ‘Drop Everything and Read’ campaigns to encourage reading and literacy nationwide for Education Month 2013, currently underway.

The office of Dr SenGupta and Associates has delivered a series of outreach events in the past month.

“It really does not matter how many people believe in you, you have to believe in yourself and that is sometimes the hardest thing.

Ambassador Noel Sinclair, who recently completed his tour of duty as Caricom’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, on August 26 was appointed as Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the President of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda.

On September 8 and 9, Guyana joins the international community in celebrating World Literacy Day which is a celebration of those who have triumphed in learning to read and write; a celebration of those who teach literacy and a call for all to become literate in their language.

The Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) has named nine players to participate in the Caribbean International junior championships (CAREBACO) to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from tomorrow until September 15.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Dr Monica Odwin has been appointed Regional Health Services Director.

Hi Everyone, I have this monologue with myself each Saturday that I go to the market: “You have the list right?

Dear Editor, I thought it is very appropriate during Amerindian Heritage Month, to share my findings on the term ‘Guyana.’

Two nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital were among the recipients of prestigious awards in nursing and midwifery from the Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) at its recently held Annual Awards Ceremony.

NAPIER, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Uncapped leg spinner Ish Sodhi and all rounder Corey Anderson have been promoted from the New Zealand ‘A’ team to the full test squad for a two test series in Bangladesh in October.

Dear Editor, In Guyana there is an absence of restrooms, which term we borrow from the Americans but which are simply referred to locally as toilets.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama resisted pressure yesterday to abandon plans for air strikes against Syria and enlisted the support of 10 fellow leaders for a “strong” response to a chemical weapons attack.

The local golf season is expected to resume today with a club tournament following a prolonged break due to the recent inclement weather, an official of the Lusignan Golf Club (LCG) has disclosed.

Dear Editor, Your readers included, I read with interest the editorial titled ‘Who are we?’

Nine Guyana Oil Company Limited (Guyoil) employees’ children, who were successful at the 2013 National Grade Six Assessment, were rewarded when the company recently held its annual presentation of Bursary Awards.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men ordered to leave a U.N.

  The Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur has revised the current requirement of submitting four copies of each document, including the Form C72.

Dear Editor, Shaun Samaroo’s ‘Being a cause for solutions’ (SN, August 29), is a novel variation on the theme ‘Yes we can’ that characterized President Obama’s 2008 campaign.  

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been given the green light to resume playing after suffering a fit while on duty for Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last month.

Guyana Fashion Week culminates its World Water Week collaboration with The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment with a grand celebration titled ‘Still Waters Run Deep’ billed for the Botanic Gardens tomorrow from 4.30 pm.

(Jamaica Observer) Labour and Social Security Minister Derrick Kellier insisted on Thursday that his ministry was “not distributing work permits willy-nilly”, while rejecting suggestions that jobs were being given to Chinese nationals over Jamaican workers.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A senior Bolivian police official, accused of flying to Miami in late August to extort $30,000 from a prominent businessman seeking asylum in the United States, will remain in jail until a bond hearing next week, a judge ordered on Friday.

McNeal Enterprise and Hits and Jams Entertainment have sought to make good on the R Kelly debacle and will present the R&B singer here in concert on October 19 at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Dear Editor, Each day you open the newspaper, it is always about the Amaila Hydro Project.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa and India cricket chiefs will meet in Dubai this month to try to resolve a dispute over the scheduling of a series between the world’s top test nation and the World Cup one-day champions.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with attempting to break and enter the home of another man Mark Wilson pleaded not guilty to the charge when he was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Judy Latchman, who refused him bail after the prosecutor warned that he may attempt to commit the offence again.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The BBC’s former director general Mark Thompson has accused the head of its governing body of misleading Britain’s parliament about large payments to senior executives, in an escalating spat that has put the two men’s reputations on the line.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Describing the discussions surrounding the ownership of Goat Islands as a non-issue, Attorney General Patrick Atkinson said suggestions that the United States (US) has a 99-year lease on the property “is a fact that should be relegated to trivia”.

Dear Editor, There is a situation in Guyana that has long gone out of control, namely the use of illegal firearms.

Leaning on… Power lines were removed from the two leaning poles at left and placed on new sturdier ones.

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded to prison a Linden man accused of stealing household items valued over $400,000 from his sister.

(Reuters) – Rain washed out the first of five one-day internationals between England and Australia at Headingley in Leeds yesterday.

(Headline Entertainment) – The long anticipated collaboration between Grammy award winning dancehall artistes Sean Paul and Damian ‘Jr.

Dear Editor, Australia holds elections on September 7 with opinion polls suggesting that the incumbent Labour Party led by Kevin Rudd (since June), in coalition with the Greens, will be defeated by the opposition Coalition led by Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party.

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) says it stands in solidarity with Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) leader Simona Broomes as she continues to expose instances of human trafficking in the hinterland and urges that an urgent public inquiry be held into the matter.

A US-based Guyanese was yesterday granted $10,000 bail after she pleaded not guilty in court on charges that she assaulted another woman.

Two months ago, while addressing the National Assembly at a biannual conference, President Raul Castro surprised his audience by focusing at length on the “social indiscipline” that could no longer be tolerated within Cuba.

(Billboard) – With the eye of the tiger, Katy Perry is the Billboard Hot 100’s new champion, as “Roar” rises 2-1.

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the death of a 44-year-old woman, who was found dead at her home yesterday.

I wish the leaders of the nation would spend as much time talking about and fighting over women as they have spent on the Amaila Falls project.

Bronze medalist at last year’s Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships, Kerwin Clarke is looking to emulate that achievement when he poses and flexes his chiseled physique at this year’s edition later this month in the Dominican Republic.

KHOST, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – An Indian author whose story was told in the movie “Escape from Taliban” was shot dead after returning to Afghanistan to make a documentary about women, police said on Friday.