Daily Archive: Friday, November 29, 2013

On Wednesday, residents of Buxton and surrounding communities gathered at the Tipperary Hall, in Buxton to receive their laptops as the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme continued distribution in Region Four.

An Essequibo man on Thursday night fell to his death at his residence.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (right) hands over a trophy to the Chairman of the West Demerara Road Safety Association which copped first for most outstanding traffic association.

Some of the students who participated in the Guyana National Road Safety Council’s School Road safety rally at the Guyana National Stadium today.

The Diabetic Foot Centre which was commissioned at the Fort Wellington Hospital, region Five  on Thursday by Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud.

Some of the items to be removed from the Charlestown area.

The Ministry Public Works today embarked on a major exercise designed to alleviate drainage problems in Georgetown in the wake of Wednesday’s flash flooding. 

Linden public servants in a protest march today along Republic Avenue against the 5% increase announced by the government earlier this month.

The police today issued a wanted bulletin for Brian Leitch called “Big Foot”  for questioning in relation to the murder of hotelier Joseph Alexander Jagdeo which occurred on November 14, 2013, at South Road, Georgetown.

The police say they are conducting investigations into an incident that occurred at about 1115h.

After successfully completing training in several areas under the National Training Project for Youth Empowerment, 29 persons from several Region Seven villages on Wednesday received their certificates, according to GINA.

On November 22, 28 students of the Annai Secondary School, region Nine received their graduation certificates.

Financial analyst Christopher Ram says while there is justification for a higher denomination, a $2,000 note would have been a better idea and he also cautioned that with the imminent arrival of the $5,000 bill its inflationary potential is real although not certain.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police say they will be seeking the help of its international partners as it probes the seizure of an ammunition making machine and thousands of warheads.

(Trinidad Express) STRIPPED beauty queen Sherrece Villafana broke her silence yesterday to accuse pageant director, Athaliah Samuel, of being a bully who withheld funding from sponsors for the 2013 Miss World Pageant in September.

Less than a month after the Comfort Sleep Bond was gutted, fire returned last evening this time destroying the company’s factory also located in the Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara.

By Dacia Whaul Albouystown and Charlestown remained swamped by floodwater yesterday and fed up residents accused the City Council of neglect while calling for something to be done to address the problem.

One woman is dead and another is in stable condition at the Bartica Hospital after two small 15 HP motor boats collided on the Essequibo River late Wednesday night.

By Duncan Saul North East La Penitence edged Festival City 2-1 in their group-C matchup when action in the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown Zone continued last evening at the National Cultural Centre Tarmac on Hadfield Street and Mandela Avenue.

City businesses are still counting their losses after Wednesday’s flash flood and incessant rain continued to beat down in certain areas in Georgetown, flooding homes and streets yesterday.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Top-order batsman Aaron Redmond has earned a New Zealand test recall, five years after he last played the longest form of the game, for the series against West Indies that starts next week.

The Ministry of Education last evening said that the following schools will remain closed today:The Ministry said the decision to have the schools remain closed was made after checks by Ministry officials revealed that as a result of the slow pace in the receding of the floodwaters, no sanitation work could have commenced.

ST.JOHN’S , Antigua,  CMC- Off-spinner Sunil Narine has been added to the West Indies squad for the three Tests against New Zealand to be played next month, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced on Thursday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC– The Bangladesh Cricket Board has announced a 14-member Under-19 squad for the upcoming Youth ODI series against West Indies Under-19 at home next month.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison on charges that they committed numerous armed robberies and a break-in during a five-month period.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC — The Netherlands and Hong Kong clinched the final two places among the Associates in next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Bangladesh with emphatic victories yesterday.

APNU yesterday announced the launch of its campaign for local government elections and coalition leader David Granger said he was confident that the Donald Ramotar administration would sign the outstanding reforms of the system into law.

The United States Embassy in Georgetown hosted the “Entrepreneurship Speed Challenge” for local young aspiring business professionals and students on Tuesday in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW).

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-President of the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA), Dr Warren Blake, has robustly defended Jamaican athletes following threats by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Private sector investment of more than $1.5 billion in key machinery and equipment for the rice industry in 2013 contributed significantly to an overall yield of more than 500,000 tonnes this year, according to Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Jagnarine Singh.

Defending champions Hikers Hockey club crushed Old Fort 7-4 in their first division matchup when the Diamond Mineral Water Inter- national Indoor Hockey Festival commenced on Wednesday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

A city businessman was up to press time last evening in police custody after he reportedly fired several shots at his wife, a senior police official has confirmed.

An all-round performance from Guyana under-15 skipper Bhaskar Yadram playing in his first club match for Berbice, gave Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes the edge over No.

A prime plot of land, located between the Guyana Stores and Courts buildings on Main Street, Georgetown is up for sale and the public might soon see another mega store on Main Street as the land is attracting serious interest.

Shaan Deen has been operating a business enterprise at Lethem for the better part of five years, comprising a general store and a hardware store on Barrack Retreat.

The launch of the Windsor Estates Housing Develop-ment was welcomed by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds as yet another example of how far housing sector had advanced when he formally opened the door to a completed model home aback Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, Even though it has been written about before, it cannot be said enough times – we toy with a health epidemic; we live with a ticking time bomb in our midst.

LINCOLN, New Zealand,  CMC-Shivnarine Chanderpaul missed out on a century by eleven runs on the second day of the three-day tour match between a West Indies X1 and a New Zealand X1 here yesterday.

A view from the Forest Products Development and Marketing Council Part of the role of the Forest Products Development and Marketing Council (FPDMC) – in collaboration with the Guyana Forestry Commission and the Forest Products Association – is to promote the utilization of the lesser used species of woods (LUS’) found in Guyana’s forests. 

Dear Editor, How is it that Guyanese are never forewarned about increased and prolonged rainfall that will have a severe impact on their lives?

(Reuters) – Venezuela’s central bank president denied on Thursday that Caracas is carrying out any transactions with Wall Street banks, a day after a senior government source said it was evaluating a swap agreement involving its gold reserves.

A push cart vendor was yesterday remanded to prison after he allegedly stole over $800,000 worth of items from the Brickdam Cathedral.

(Reuters) – Treble winners Bayern Munich’s winning run through the Champions League group stage shows no sign of stopping with the title holders displaying ruthless efficiency in their 3-1 victory at CSKA Moscow on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Just after midnight in early October, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and a coterie of his closest advisers met at his palatial Lahore home and made his toughest decision since coming to power – picking the new army chief.

The sight of the downtown street vendors, their Christmas stocks piled high, marooned atop boxes and other precarious perches, waiting for the water dumped by the early morning deluge to recede, was more than ample testimony to the folly of a city that is simply unable to get its act together as far as managing our garbage disposal and draining the city are concerned.

(Reuters) – A comet’s 5.5-million-year journey to the inner solar system apparently ended during a suicidal trip around the sun, leaving no trace of its once-bright tail or even remnants of rock and dust, scientists said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am indebted to the PS of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment for reminding me, in his statement on the road from Parabara, of the term “anthropogenic” referring to the way people’s actions so often make nature’s workings have a bad effect on many other people.

(Reuters) – Ben Stokes’ last tour of Australia ended in ignominy but the England all-rounder claims he is back with a new attitude and ready for a dream debut in the second Ashes test at Adelaide.

Officials from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), led by the Director of Maritime Safety, Captain Stephen Thomas, this week visited Muritaro village to distribute life jackets to the Muritaro Primary School.

Successive Auditor General’s reports allude to serious deficiencies in the management of finances and stocks of materials associated with the execution of the duties of the Guyana Elections Commission and the inefficient maintenance of records relating to the disbursement of stocks.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – Former West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Junior Murray is preparing to launch a cricket academy in Grenada.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A multi-billion dollar organisation controlled by Iran’s supreme leader shook up the management of its charity division, appointing as its new chief a man involved in the confiscation of thousands of properties from Iranian citizens.

Dear Editor, There is a lack of a Child Protection Officer who is supposed to be stationed at the Anna Regina Welfare Division.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo recently joined world leaders in appealing for urgent global action on climate change and announced a new partnership with Colombia and three European governments “to provide performance-based payments across Colombia’s Amazon region.”

Over 220 students graduated from the 12th convocation at the Tain, University of Guyana (UG), Berbice Campus last Saturday.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – If England think their two-day tour match in Alice Springs against a Chairman’s XI will be a quiet interlude from the red-hot Ashes series, Michael Beer says they are in for a surprise.

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya,  (Reuters) – More than 40 people were killed yesterday in an explosion at an army depot in southern Libya after locals tried to steal ammunition, officials said, while four soldiers died in clashes in the restive eastern part of the country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A controversial proposal to criminalise the production and singing of songs which incite violence against homosexuals, police and informers and other groups, caused a split among members of a parliamentary committee examining the anti-gang law.

Dear Editor, The statement issued by the Minister of Human Services for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was woefully lacking in any commitment on her part to do anything.

Stabroek Business has learnt that some Corri-verton business houses are weighing the option of a one-day shutdown of their enterprises to draw official attention to their frustration over a worrying rise in violent crimes targeting business owners in the Corentyne.

Dear Editor, The National Insurance Appeal Board has been out of existence for the past two years in Region Two; the chairman of the board has been sick and the board has not been meeting to conduct the people’s affairs as a consequence of which there is a backlog.

President Donald Ramotar extended felicitations to the pastor and congregation of Smith Memorial Congre-gational Church for their service to the needy at the church’s 170th anniversary service on Sunday.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A fatal construction accident at Sao Paulo’s World Cup stadium may delay its opening until February, but FIFA is not worried about it being ready on time to host the tournament’s opening game in June, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – It’s Sunday morning. The sun is barely up, and already there are long lines outside a large state-run supermarket next to a hillside Caracas slum.

The long-standing anomaly associated with the misallocating of sums voted as “subvention and capital provision” for the Ministry of Agriculture to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has again attracted unfavourable comment in the Report of the Auditor General.

(Trinidad Express) Police confirmed yesterday afternoon that missing six-year-old Keyanna Cumberbatch has been found.

(Reuters) – Google’s practice of combining personal data from its many different online services violates Dutch data protection law, the country’s privacy watchdog said on Thursday following a seven-month investigation.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Brazil clawed their way back into the top 10 when FIFA published the November rankings yesterday ahead of next week’s World Cup draw.

Dear Editor, I am forced to return to the topic of curbing white-collar crimes within Guyana’s public sector, because the accusations are continuing to grow, and the present PPP/C Government is refusing to implement institutional measures which would lead the population to feel that it was willing to prevent acts of public-sector corruption.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – President Hamid Karzai’s stubborn refusal to sign a pact that would keep thousands of U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Former Prisons commissioner John Rougier will be appointed as chairman of the deportee task force.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s main leftist party said on Thursday it had pulled out of a cross-party pact on economic reform, raising hopes that the government will agree to a more far-reaching plan to attract private investment for the oil industry.

A week ago on Wednesday, the Venezuelan National Assembly gave President Nicolás Maduro controversial new powers to rule by decree for one year, without having to consult the country’s parliament.

There was something ironic about the late night/early morning deluge that brought business in Georgetown to a near crippling halt on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – South Africa, who have already lost the series, will rest Dale Steyn and Jacques Kallis for the third and final one-day international against Pakistan at Centurion tomorrow.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Linstead Police in St Catherine are investigating the circumstances under which an elderly woman and her son were killed on Wednesday night.

(Reuters) – The decision by a New York bank to close Cuba’s checking account in the United States has presented an unusual diplomatic quandary that provides a test for new-found pragmatism in relations between the two longtime foes.

Business Cartoons

Crimes against cleanliness. Crimes against the environment. Beginning in 2004, those were captions I used to show off my grasp of the challenges and possibilities with respect to the daily, necessary and vital issue of solid waste management.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

Dear Editor, I take my two-and-a-half-year-old grandson (a champion in the making) to daycare every day.

Politikles

An urgent meeting will be held by the executive members of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority (GHRA) on Sunday at the Bush Lot United Turf Club, West Coast, Berbice.

Hospital bed:  Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated recently donated an electrical hospital bed to 21-year-old Trinetta Mc Cammon of Lamaha Park who is physically disabled.