Daily Archive: Friday, October 25, 2013

The yachting industry in Guyana is gaining momentum as a second flotilla of nine yachts is anchored in Guyana’s waters, according to the Government Information Agency.

ANSA McAL Trading Ltd on Friday, October 25th, 2013 hosted PINK Friday in support of the fight against breast cancer.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – British actor Orlando Bloom and Australian model Miranda Kerr have separated after three years of marriage, the couple said on Friday.

(Reuters) – South African batsman AB de Villiers defended team mate Faf du Plessis today after the fielder was caught ball tampering during the second test against Pakistan in Dubai and his side handed a five-run penalty.

At about 0900h today, police say a 13 years old female student of St.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of licensed firearm holder Robert Marvin Wright, 71 years, of Bel Air Gardens, who is reported to have shot himself through his mouth at about 1450h today on the Kitty Seawall in the vicinity of Conversation Tree.

Harry Saran Ramsaroop the man who has been synonymous with the Dharm Shala ‘Home of Benevolence for all races’ has passed away at the age of 97, relatives confirmed today.

On November 6, 2013, a full scale preparedness exercise will be held to test the emergency responses of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

The Guyana Association of Bankers (GAB) is the latest group to appeal for all sides to ensure passage of the anti-money laundering amendment bill which is the source of a dispute between the government and the opposition.

The Guyana Water Incorporated today advised customers from Canal # 1 and Parfaite Harmonie that due to operational difficulties at the L’Oratoria Well Station, customers will experience reduced levels of service.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF)  is hosting nine United States Coast Guard personnel for two days of interaction with the GDF Coast Guard October 22-24. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Government has secured a major legal victory in its bid to go after multimillion-dollar assets believed to be owned by a Jamaican who has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and gunrunning charges in the United States.

Guyana’s deforestation rate has jumped to 0.079% and the country stands to lose up to 45% of funds that it would have earned for 2012 under the Guyana-Norway forest protection partnership.

Guyana has copped five of the eight Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) awards this year, with Yogeeta Persaud of the Anna Regina Multilateral School (ARMS) winning the award for overall outstanding achievement in the region with 18 grade ones, Education Minister Priya Manickchand announced yesterday.

A Martyrs Ville, East Coast family is in deep mourning after 13 year old Rama Manoo was tragically struck down and run over by a sand truck yesterday along the Mon Repos school road.

Azam Inshan, a 17-year-old student of the New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) was electrocuted at his Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice home around 11:15 pm on Wednesday.

Twenty-year-old Retish Bhagwandin, who was behind the wheel of the truck that crashed into a minibus at Coverden, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday charged over the four deaths that resulted from the collision.

Tameshwarie Naharry who suffered first degree burns after a fire on Wednesday, succumbed to her injuries around midday yesterday while receiving treatment in the Burn Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

An accountant at the Metro Office and Computer Supplies Store is being accused of stealing $10M from the company.

The suspect in the fatal beating of Lusignan       resident Maharanie Parmanand 0had been convicted for assaulting her and fined in his absence with an alternative of eight months imprisonment, but the woman’s family says police failed to pick him up although he could be seen walking the streets daily.

A woman now hospitalised with multiple stab wounds inflicted by her former partner wants police to visit her so that the man responsible for her injuries could be charged.

In the face of an ongoing political impasse, Transparency Institute (Guyana) Inc.

More than two months after being passed in the National Assembly, four local government bills are yet to be sent to President Donald Ramotar for him to determine if he will give or withhold his assent.

“T20 cricket is an exhibition, while Test cricket is more of an examination,” were the terms used to compare the two diverse forms of cricket by former West Indies Captain Clive Lloyd, who along with former England skipper Michael Atherton and local historian Dr Winston McGowan engaged in a discourse last evening about the history of the game and the way forward.

Sixteen residents of the Uncle Eddie’s Home and three residents from the Millicent Greaves Seniors Residence in D’Urban Backlands travelled to the Splashmins Resort yesterday for a picnic and day’s outing coordinated by Resident Care Committee members Maria Rodrigues and Eliza Hackett.

Guyana, the six-time NACRA men’s Sevens champions were booted out of this year’s championships slated for the Cayman Islands next month without playing a game following late registration by five hours.

A minibus driver was yesterday refused bail after being charged with stabbing a rival in a row over a passenger.

Five students and a mentor are representing Guyana on a three-week exchange Youth Ambassador Programme in the United States to develop and hone leadership skills to empower them as community leaders.

Guyana Fashion Week’s (GFW) first runway collection takes to the stage this evening at the Parc Crayne Entertainment Centre, Rahaman’s Park, Georgetown.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) in collaboration with sponsors Carib Beer (ANSA McAL) and Noble House Seafoods, yesterday launched their first division T20 and second division two-day cricket tournaments respectively, at the Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas Lands.

GCC veterans crushed Hikers veterans 5-1 when the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB)/Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) National Indoor Hockey Championships continued at the National Gymnasium on Wednesday.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has used the occasion of its 50th anniversary to identify the need to overhaul the current operations of the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) as an important prerequisite to enhancing the interests of the country’s manufacturing sector.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Obama administration launched its troubled healthcare insurance website after only a minimum of crucial system-wide testing, despite contractors warning officials repeatedly about performance risks, a congressional panel heard yesterday.

Up to US$1,575.000 of the US$5 million to be disbursed on the execution of the Micro and Small Enterprise Development and Building Alternative Livelihoods For Vulnerable Groups Project will be spent on the project’s Collateral Guarantee facility which will essentially provide large numbers of small business owners and potential owners access to financing through the commercial banking sector.

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) published a relatively brief but insightful assessment of the condition of the manufacturing sector which dealt in large measure with some of the critical impediments to its growth; also included were the GMSA’s views on how the challenges facing the sector can be addressed.

Guyana’s four wheelsmen who competed in this year’s Caribbean Cycling Championships in Curacao last weekend failed to crack the top 30 but despite their misfortune, manager of the team, Brian Allen was satisfied with their performances.

(Reuters) – The Miami Heat enter the 2013-14 NBA season as favorites to win a third consecutive title but with several teams sporting beefed up rosters the reigning champions face their biggest challenge to the crown yet.

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) will be holding its 3rd Annual Dilip Budhram Memorial Volleyball Competition on Sunday October 27 at the Port Mourant Training Centre (PMTC) Court, Corentyne, Berbice.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the terms for the creation of one of the country’s largest Indian reservations did not apply elsewhere, in a setback for agricultural interests hoping to limit the expansion of reserves onto lucrative farmland.

Dear Editor, The bold press releases issued on the subject of the belated (and beleaguered) Anti-Money Laundering Bill should be adequately applauded, despite the long time lapse allowed by the Administration to address the issue.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Former Australia captain Richie Benaud, the voice of cricket for millions of television viewers, has been injured in a car accident and will remain in hospital for the next few days, Channel Nine said yesterday.

  The first ever Credit Bureau has now been launched to service the Guyanese credit environment, and with it, the hopes and aspirations of several stakeholders are finally realised.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- West Indies defeated England in a super over after scores were tied in the final preliminary match of the Women’s Twenty20 International Tri-nations series at Kensington Oval, here last night.

Falling gold prices on the international market amount to a mixed blessing for the country’s mining sector, according to Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud.

(Trinidad Express) Lobby group Fishermen and Friends of the Sea yesterday staged a protest in the waters off the International Waterfront, Port of Spain, to bring attention to plans by Petrotrin to conduct a seismic survey, which, it claims, will devastate fish stock and affect the livelihood of fisher folk.

LONDON,  CMC-The president of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), John Fahey, has accused Jamaica of attempting to dodge an audit of its anti-doping programme this year.

Dear Editor, I extend thanks, on behalf of Mr. Raja Singh, to the Minister of Education, Mrs.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC- Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, has challenged CONCACAF to do everything in its power to lift football’s greatest prize, the FIFA World Cup.

Football fans are in for a treat today when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) hosts the grand finale of its Players Cup at the Georgetown Football club ground in Bourda.

(Reuters) – Captain Graeme Smith hit an unbeaten double century as South Africa went on a merciless scoring spree to establish a 361-run lead over Pakistan on the second day of the second test in Dubai yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been fined 8,000 pounds ($12,900) after admitting an improper conduct charge for his behaviour in Saturday’s Premier League game against Cardiff City, the FA said.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded yesterday that the United States strike a “no-spying” agreement with Berlin and Paris by the end of the year, saying alleged espionage against two of Washington’s closest EU allies had to be stopped.

Just over two weeks ago the culinary skills of the Food and Nutrition students at several of the country’s secondary schools combined to offer audiences from across the region one of the more attractive presentations among the many unveiled in the forecourt of the National Convention Centre as part of Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2013, held from October 4-12.

Dear Editor, I have read the joint statement on reparations in Stabroek News, October 12 by Duane Edwards, Melissa Ifill, Charlene Wilkinson and Tacuma Ogunseye, and I share the approach for wider participation and dissemination of information on this subject, so that trusted individuals can be involved in this process, which is an ancestral responsibility and not to be taken for granted. 

ROME, (Reuters) – It was a long time coming – nearly 40 years to be precise – but Sophia Loren finally got her revenge against someone who many love to hate: the tax man.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Violence against a Muslim minority in Myanmar is feeding a wider anti-Muslim feeling that poses a serious threat to the country’s dramatic economic and political reforms as it emerges from half a century of military rule, a U.N.

Dear Editor, Grateful if you could please publish this disclaimer which was first published on my Facebook page in the year 2012.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Trinidad and Tobago defeated Cuba 3-1 to finish as group winners in a top-of-the-table clash of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Women’s Under-20 tournament here Tuesday night.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A newspaper industry group will go to court today to seek a judicial review of plans by the British government for tougher press regulation following a string of high-profile scandals.

By Ramon Gaskin Since April of this year, the Government sent to the National Assembly a Bill with approximately 20 Amendments to the Anti -Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (AML & CTF) but notwithstanding various deadlines reportedly set by the foreign entities pushing the law and amendments, they have been stuck in the Committee system.

Their aim, they say, is to utilise the opportunities afforded by information technology to provide the best possible promotional platform for Guyana and for what the country has to offer.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Ricky Ponting knew his time was up when he bowed out of international cricket a year ago, but the competitive fires still rage for the former Australia captain when he imagines facing England one more time on home soil.

SEATTLE, (Reuters) – An 11-year-old student faced charges of attempted assault and other crimes yesterday after bringing a handgun, some 400 bullets and several kitchen knives to his middle school in southern Washington state, police said.

Chief Executive Officer of the country’s recently launched Credit Bureau, CreditInfo (Guyana) Inc Judy Semple-Joseph has told Stabroek Business that much of the work of the institution in the period ahead will be focused on enhancing public understanding of the role of the Credit Bureau and how it functions.

Dear Editor, I was disappointed to learn of President Ramotar’s use of the 7th Annual National Toshao’s Council (NTC) meeting to bash the political opposition; instead of focusing on issues pertinent to Guyana’s Indigenous Peoples.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – British clothes retailer Primark and Canadian grocer Loblaw laid out plans yesterday to pay more compensation for the collapse of a Bangladeshi factory that killed almost 1,130 people, as protesters demanded other brands follow suit.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-Jamaica came from behind to beat Dominican Republic 2-1 in a top-of-the-table clash of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Women’s Under-20 finals here on Tuesday.

Following the interception of the Teknik Perdana, by a Venezuelan warship on October 10 last and prior to the meeting of the Guyanese and Venezuelan foreign ministers in Port of Spain on October 17, our October 13 editorial (Venezuelan arrest), in attempting to give some context to the incident – Venezuela’s economic woes, President Nicolás Maduro’s political weakness, nationalist sentiment in the opposition and military with regard to Essequibo – asked whether Mr Maduro himself was responsible for approving the less than good neighbourly action or whether his hand was forced by the navy.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago lost to South Africa SPAR Proteas 47-30 in a rough opening match of the tri-nation series at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Indoor Sport Centre in South Africa.

Dear Editor, Allow me to express how grateful I am as a young political student and a Caricom citizen who recently observed what I would describe as a ground-breaking event by our regional court, an event that many Guyanese should be aware of and evidently proud of.

Frankly Speaking a few folks would most likely, berate me for daring to juxtapose the illustrious Jessica Huntley’s name in the same (literary) vicinity next to Priya Manickchand’s.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 534’s trading results showed consideration of $664,454 from 34,269 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 533 which showed consideration of $2,066,876 from 102,109 shares traded in 6 transactions. 

(Barbados Nation) CAVE SHEPHERD MAY BE GETTING a makeover, but the iconic Broad Street business is certainly not prepping itself for sale to any other company.