Daily Archive: Thursday, November 21, 2013

The 13th Sitting of the National Youth Parliament (NYP) was called to order this morning after President Donald Ramotar addressed the legislators about Parliamentary norms and practices and the current situation in the National Assembly, GINA said.

Entrepreneurs and companies were among those recognised for the development of the tourism industry, last evening, as the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce in collaboration with the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) hosted their 7th annual tourism awards ceremony.

Students from Ann’s Grove Secondary School designed information posters about the dangers of dumping garbage.

Students from Ann’s Grove Secondary School designed information posters about the dangers of dumping garbage.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Government has placed Trinidad and Tobago on notice that it has become alarmed that several of its citizens have been denied entry into that eastern Caribbean nation over recent weeks.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Three women claiming to have been held in captivity as domestic slaves for 30 years have been rescued from a house in London and a man and a woman arrested, police and charity workers said today.

KOCHI, India, CMC- India defeated West Indies by six wickets in their first One- Day International here at Nehru Stadium, Kochi today.

(Barbados Nation) Having lost its prized investment grade credit rating last year, Barbados has been dealt another blow by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) which last night downgraded the country again and assigned a negative outlook to its economic performance.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall today said that following a meeting in The Bahamas of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) a formal letter will be sent to Guyana pointing to identified deficiencies in its anti-money laundering legislation and giving it up to May 2014 to implement the necessary reforms failing which it will be referred to the international financial task force.

Residents of Cane View Avenue awoke this morning to find the lifeless body of a man wrapped in a blue tarpaulin at the side of the roadway.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – England paceman Stuart Broad ignored the jeers, chants and catcalls of a hostile Gabba crowd to take five wickets and leave Australia clinging on at 273 for eight on the first day of the first Ashes test yesterday.

The government has scrapped its agreement with Natural Globe Guyana Inc for the construction of a solid waste recycling plant over concerns highlighted in the press about the developer, who admitted that his firm had only ever built a prototype of the proposed US$30 million facility.

A Brazilian national who operated a money transfer service at Mahdia in Region Eight was last evening robbed and killed by bandits who carted away an undisclosed sum of cash.

How did local cricketer Carlyle Barton go free after he was caught on camera fatally shooting a man?

Public service employees will soon be receiving a salary increase of 5% that will be retroactive to January 2013.

An early afternoon fire yesterday destroyed a two-storey building at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, leaving eight persons homeless.

By Jeff Trotman Cabinet has approved a memorandum seeking $9.2 million to assist the Linden municipality to meet the minimum wage and other incidentals for the rest of the year, Junior Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker has announced.

Just under a month before it relaunches its operations with nonstop flights to New York, TravelSpan’s principals are assuring that the airline is here for the “long haul” and is seeking the support of travellers to withstand expected predatory pricing by rivals.

The Guyana Water Incorporated said it will remove the entire service of delinquent customers in a move to reverse a decline in revenue collection.

The Caribbean Disaster and Emergency Manage-ment Agency (CDEMA) has lauded the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) on the execution of its annual Disaster Pre-paredness and Response exercise – Exercise Floodgate 2013 and for steps taken to boost disaster preparedness in Region Nine.

Guyana’s industrial fishing sector has seen a halt in industrial licensing and a reduction in the fleet by 14% as part of continued efforts to organise the industry towards achieving sustainable fishing certification by the Marine Stewardship Council.

The hot, humid conditions at the Providence National Stadium was ideal for breaking records and the high school stars of Track and Field did not disappoint.

Three Linden men were remanded to prison yesterday over breaking and entering, as well as armed robbery charges when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

By Jeff Trotman Residents of Moblissa, a farming community on the Linden Soesdyke Highway, are being encouraged to sign two petitions for the Education and Health departments of the Region Ten administration to be responsible for the respective departments within the community.

Let the games begin. Following the exhortation of the athletes to aim for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil from President of the Guyana Teacher’s Union, Colin Bynoe, the 53rd Guyana Teacher’s Union/Ministry of Education (MOE) National School’s Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships was officially declared open by acting president, Samuel Hinds at the Providence National Stadium.

The United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean Professor Edward Greene yesterday lauded the new Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV & AIDS (Pancap) ‘Justice For All’ campaign as a “signal of movement towards getting to zero discrimination.”

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday denied knowledge of warehouse provision services for Office of the President saying that there must be a “mix up”.

One sign among the abundance at the Wankedhe Stadium last week grieving over the passing of Sachin Tendulkar – for that is what it seemingly was to his millions of Indian disciples – bore a simple, unanimously held sentiment.

A 12-member jury was yesterday empanelled to preside over the murder trial of Jahora Ramnauth which is being conducted before Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court.

Alpha United Head coach Wayne Dover says that while he expects a very competitive Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer knockout tournament, his side will do everything in their power to reclaim the title when the event commences on Saturday.

Contractors building the outfall eight-door sluice for the Hope Canal have been given until Friday to submit a plan to address the issues hampering its construction.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) in partnership with the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) will be launching a comprehensive anti-discrimination workplace policy based on the protection of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The Ghanaian Navy on Tuesday detained a vessel travelling from Guyana carrying 21 bags of substances suspected to be cocaine, according to yesterday’s edition of the Ghana Business News quoting the Ghana News Agency.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee is said to be returning to his post by Monday November 25.

Cabinet has granted permission for the commissioning of 17 District Tender Boards across Guyana’s ten regions which will be responsible for tendering contracts with sums up to $599,999, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon has said.

A North Sophia man who pleaded guilty to having a small quantity of cannabis and not guilty to having a larger amount was yesterday remanded to prison.

The Ministry of Health has partnered with the University of Guyana (UG) to host a week-long health and wellness fair targeting male students and lecturers, and open to the public.

Chathram Gangadin slammed a belligerent century as Lower East Coast Bulls thrashed Upper East Bank Colts by 64 runs in the seventh preliminary round of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/Raj Singh Insurance Brokers Over-40 20-overs-a-side competition yesterday.

Retiring Chairman of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Group of Companies Yesu Persaud has broadsided government for its handling of the sugar industry, saying the Skeldon Modernisation Project is costing taxpayers money and not producing what is was designed to while stressing the importance of returning focus on the fields and cane cultivation.

Volleyball teams from Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will participate in the second International Invitational Club Festival which commences tomorrow at the National Gymnasium.

PERTH, Australia, CMC- Prolific West Indian batsman Dwayne Smith has signed as the Perth Scorchers’ second international player for new Big Bash League season.

The 79th edition of Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green’s birthday anniversary seven-a-side Inter-Ward/Village knockout football tournament is set to continue tomorrow at the Tucville Community ground with seven fixtures.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai on Thursday visited St Cuthbert’s Mission, Region 4, to hand over a Hilux pick-up valued $5 million, to Toshao Luke Simon, to be used for the community’s benefit. 

Dear Editor, I have been a rice farmer for the past 56 years.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) on Friday donated three trophies for the winners of the Comforting Hearts Primary School Art Competition.

Swim sensation Amy Grant continues to better her performances with every meet.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Nov 20, CMC — Afghanistan dented Bermuda’s tournament hopes when they cruised to an eight-wicket victory with more than half their overs to spare in a Group B game at the ICC World Cup Twenty20 qualifiers here yesterday.

With one in ten Guyanese affected by asthma, the Georgetown Public Hospital hopes the opening of its state-of-the-art lung testing lab and Asthma Education Programme will take it one step closer to managing chronic lung diseases.

KOCHI, India,  CMC- Spinner Sunil Narine says he is not frustrated by his omission from the West Indies test team for the just ended two match series against India.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Major powers resumed talks yesterday on a preliminary agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear programme with the United States warning it would be “very hard” to clinch a breakthrough deal this week and Tehran flagging “red lines”.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Kobe Bryant gave his Los Angeles Lakers teammates a huge boost on Tuesday when he said he could see himself returning to competitive action later this month.

Dear Editor, When India were reeling at 80 for 5 in reply to the W/Indies first innings score in the first test, the outcome of the match hung in the balance and could have gone W/Indies way.

Stabroek News apologises for the omission of a table at the end of a letter by EB John captioned ‘An examination of the comparabilities across the whole justice sector should be considered justifiable’, which was published in our edition of Monday, November 18.

A policeman is now on $150,000 bail after being charged with stealing a laptop from a colleague.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday he will seek a second term in next May’s election, a widely expected decision that could offer him another four years to pursue a peace process he initiated with Marxist FARC rebels.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A former party official in Guangdong province was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for taking bribes and holding property valued far in excess of his legitimate earnings, official media reported.

(Trinidad Express) – A one year old baby boy who was reported kidnapped by a close male relative was discovered dead in a cesspit behind the relative’s home in St Joseph on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, We at Pro Guyana are dismayed but unsurprised by the ongoing contest of attitudes between Mr Mark DaCosta and Ms Melinda Janki, not least because their sentiments are probably widely representative.

(Reuters) – Rain ended an intriguing chase from Pakistan and handed South Africa a four-run victory via the Duckworth/Lewis scoring system in the first Twenty20 international in Johannesburg yesterday.

Some 12 patrons who will be attending this year’s Kashif and Shanghai Chico Schools football tournament will receive a cell phone upon entry to the playing venue of the tournament complements of Cell Phone Shack.

KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Afghanistan reached a draft agreement yesterday laying out the terms under which US troops may stay beyond 2014, one day before Afghan elders are to debate the issue.

Dear Editor, The PPP/C elite has been unrelentingly critical of the positions taken by the opposition in the matter of the Anti-Money Laundering and Coun-tering of Terrorism (Amendment) legislation (AML/CFT).

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro said he would use newly granted powers to decree two laws today to cap retailers’ profits and reorganize the distribution of foreign currency in Venezuela’s troubled economy.

(Barbados Nation) – Three students have been taken into custody after police were called in to investigate an alleged explosion at Princess Margaret Secondary School yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, We note how the Guyana Chronicle devoted most of its page to the Courts Main Street Xmas Light Up ‒ “a fairy land festooned with twinkling coloured lights,” but this event exposes a further decline in the affairs of Guyana.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The trouble within the prison system escalated to another level on Tuesday, after a list of the names, addresses and telephone numbers of several prisons officers was found hidden inside the wall of a cell at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – England are in Australia seeking a fourth Ashes triumph in a row for the first time since the 1890s but they know that if they are to achieve their goal they probably need to get a result at the Gabba.

Last Monday, we began an examination of the three financial papers that the Minister of Finance presented to the National Assembly seeking approval by way of supplementary provision in the sum of $12.385 billion.

Defending men’s doubles champions Jason Andrews and Anthony Downes will be looking to repeat as champions when the fourth annual Trophy Stall doubles tournament commences today.

Dear Editor, Someone once said that all it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Trade Organisation is close to the first worldwide trade reform since it was formed 18 years ago, diplomats and trade officials said yesterday, as marathon negotiations defused some of the most complex disputes.

Our nation faces crucial, crushing problems, and the only way out demands that citizens of good conscience and sound mind work at designing solutions.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Thousands of Haitians took to the streets on Monday calling for President Michel Martelly to resign, and some protesters scuffled with police as international concern mounts over rising violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Globally, the fisheries industry, inclusive of aquaculture, had a total value of US$217.5 billion in 2010.