Daily Archive: Friday, December 13, 2013

(Trinidad Express) TWO cousins were shot dead on Thursday night after spending the day at a bar in Boissierre Village, Maraval, where they spent a total of $3,000 buying drinks for anyone they knew.

The Office of the President has declared tomorrow as a National Day of Mourning for the late Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela who died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95, a release from GINA said today.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Deryck Josiah died at about 15:30 hrs today at a private hospital.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) today said that if the content of a survey permission for rare earth metals is as reported in the media, then it has been misled by the Minister of Natural Resources, Robert Persaud.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (Reuters) – Slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” and 1970s con-artist caper “American Hustle” led the Golden Globe Awards nominations announced on Thursday with seven nods each, fortifying their frontrunner positions in a crowded field ahead of the Oscars.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred on December 12, 2013, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Narine, 54 years, of Airy Hall, Essequibo Coast.

The National Assembly last night approved three financial papers covering various categories of spending during last year but not before the combined Opposition excised a number of allocations, including for NCN, GINA and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion.

The main opposition APNU will at the next sitting of the National Assembly on December 19 be putting a number of questions to Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud regarding his granting of a mineral survey permit for the south east of the country and over the answers he had given during a parliamentary committee hearing.

Hubert Pilgrim, who was accused of the murder of nursery school teacher Natalie Loncke, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in the High Court yesterday before Justice Diane Insanally.

Dwayne Fraser also known as Nigel James and ‘Fat Man,’ 39, of Bagotstown and Mocha Arcadia and Joshylan Congreaves, 47, of K 19 Tucville, were both sentenced to four years in jail yesterday for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Thailand.

A joint APNU and AFC team on Tuesday met with residents of Mahdia (Region Eight) to discuss their problems.

Over 80 indigenous persons gathered opposite the Public Buildings yesterday to demonstrate against a move by AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan to slash $500M in supplementary funds sought for Amerindian communities for the remainder of the year but some of them said that they were promised increased stipends by the Amerindian Ministry for the protest.

A motion to read a petition reputedly signed by close to 5000 “Stakeholders of Guyana Cricket” urging Members of the National Assembly to expedite the passage of the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill 2012 was yesterday voted down because inappropriate language was used in its drafting.

Sugar workers on all estates, except Albion, returned to the fields and factories yesterday after a one-day strike to push for their annual production incentive resulted in the total shutdown of GuySuCo’s operations.

Several previously defeated bills, including the Anti-Money Laundering/Coun-tering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill and the Firearms (Amendment) Bill were re-introduced to the National Assembly yesterday afternoon.

An autopsy has found that Kenya Alleyne, the woman who died a week ago during childbirth at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), died of cardiac arrest due to a blockage in a heart valve.

City tailor Collin Allicock, 54, was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with the alleged possession of an unlicensed .32 revolver and five matching rounds.

The police yesterday said that all of the ranks deployed in the immediate area of the November 12, 2013 shooting rampage by Deryck Kanhai were fitted with protective body gear while some in the outer cordon were not so fitted but “relatively safe”.

Barber Randy Bobb, the man accused of last week’s $1.2M car wash robbery in which a taxi-driver was shot, was yesterday charged with two counts of armed robbery.

Two Essequibo Coast men were fined $40,000 and $30,000 respectively yesterday when they appeared at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court charged with separate traffic offences.

While investigators continue to search for clues into the razing of the Comfort Sleep Factory, employees have started working shifts at another business of the owner.

Magistrate Faith McGusty on Tuesday handed down a two-month prison sentence to Kerwin Baksh, after he admitted to threatening his former partner and her daughter.

A teenager of Charity, Essequibo Coast was yesterday found hanging in her home and it is believed that she took her own life.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says the $4.4 billion allocation for the revision of wages and salaries was explained during the consideration of the budget estimates in the National Assembly.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Seamer Trent Boult delivered career-best figures of 10-80 as New Zealand thrashed West Indies by an innings and 73 runs inside three days to complete their first test victory in more than a year last night.

A car washer and a push cart vendor were arraigned on simple larceny charges yesterday after the theft of a motorcycle.

A team from the Agriculture Ministry is set to travel to Trinidad and Tobago next week to meet with their counterparts to discuss non-tariff trade barriers between the two countries.

(Cric Info) Michael Clarke perished in the minutes before lunch as an over-eager Australia offered England an avenue into the hosts’ middle order on day one of the third Ashes Test in Perth.

A woman, who passed herself off as her sister-in-law to get a passport, was on Tuesday fined $40,000 for obtaining the document by making false declarations.

The Forbes Burnham Foundation will be hosting a commemorative symposium in honour of the life and works of the late President of South Africa and international anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela today at 4.30pm at the Critchlow Labour College, Woolford Avenue.

Queen Street Tiger Bay sealed their quarterfinal berth, edging Castello Housing Scheme 2-1 on penalty kicks after normal time ended 1-1 when the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown Zone continued last night.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – To many National Basketball Association (NBA) observers, the Eastern Conference race looms as a battle between the league’s two-time defending champion Miami Heat (16-6) and emerging Indiana Pacers (19-3).

LONDON,  (Reuters) – PSV Eindhoven were dumped out of the Europa League after losing 1-0 at home to Ukrainian side Chernomorets Odessa, who pipped them to the runners-up spot in Group B yesterday.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Wednesday’s National Basketball Association games.

Stabroek Business has learnt that the 80-year-old Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) is set to undergo a major makeover that will result in its transformation into Guyana’s first ever hospitality institute, possibly within the next three years.

Guyana will today become the eighth country to benefit from the commitment given by the global information technology giant Samsung to launch 41 stores in the hemisphere as part an ongoing effort by the South Korean giant “to establish itself as the dominant technology provider in the world.”

By Jeff Trotman Fifteen goals in two matches spiced the opening of the inaugural Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) GT Beer Cup opening on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

Parliament protest: Public servants protesting their 5% wage increase outside of Parliament during yesterday’s sitting.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan opted for youth over experience when the 15-man squad for the five-match one-day series against Sri Lanka in the United Arab Emirates was announced yesterday.

As evidence of the approaching Christmas holidays becomes more apparent, the signs of increased commercial activity manifest themselves in a heightened appetite for the profligate disposal of garbage in the commercial capital.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A pair of autographed shoes worn by basketball star Michael Jordan in the famous 1997 “flu game” during the NBA finals sold at auction on Thursday for a record-breaking $104,765.

By Hasan Tuluy   Creative entrepreneurs are not byproducts of development.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) President’s XI yesterday wrapped up their campaign against Essequibo defeating them by an innings and 52-runs, while all-round performances from Berbice sealed a 10-wicket  win over Demerara on the third day of the GCB Senior Inter-County second round four-day tournament played at the Bourda Cricket ground.

Torginol Paints Inc’s 20 plus years of sponsorship of the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) Boxing Day meet continued yesterday.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday the uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, previously considered the second most powerful man in the secretive state, has been executed for treason, the biggest upheaval since the death of Kim’s father two years ago.

Last Friday was not the first time that the corner of Alexander and Robb streets hosted a modest display of local products.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment is disappointed by the continuous efforts of the Stabroek News to misinform the public on the granting of a Permission of a Geological and Geophysical Survey (PGGS) and the presentation by the Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert M Persaud to the Standing Sector Committee on Natural Resources on November 27, 2013.

Stock market updates

Dear Editor, The Private Sector Commission in a statement issued on Wednesday, December 11, stated that “As far as we are aware, the Government directly or indirectly has no investment in, or liability relating to, the [Berbice River] bridge at this time.”

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela will be laid to rest on Sunday in an elaborate ceremony combining a state funeral and all its military pomp with the traditional burial rituals of his Xhosa clan to ensure he has an easy transition into the afterworld.

Guyanese will have an opportunity to change, inspire and uplift society through film with the launch of the Loyola Documentary Film Festi-val 2014.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand,  CMC– Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard have not been included in a West Indies squad announced yesterday to play New Zealand in a One Day International (ODI) series later this month.

Netrockers sealed their quarterfinal berth, defeating Flamingo by a 3-0 margin when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Cup continued on Wednesday at the Tucville Community ground.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A breakthrough budget deal that avoids a government shutdown in January and blunts automatic spending cuts easily won passage in the U.S.

Hadflield street and Magnet Place in proximity to the Brickdam Police Station, St Stanislaus College and the offices of quite a few prominent Attorneys-at-law

Contractors responsible for the ongoing construction of the City Food Court at Camp and Robb streets, where a worksite accident on December 2 left four workers injured, could face sanctions for failing to formally report the incident to the Ministry of Labour as required under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s murder rate has fallen by about a quarter this year, the government says, dismissing opponents’ talk of ever-rising crime as propaganda.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, December 8, I was fortunate to catch a part glimpse of a TV clip showing the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment making one of his usual articulate presentations, this time explaining the coordinating policy role of the ministry, and providing insights into current and future mandates of, what he described as the ‘agencies’ under his ministry’s purview.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Anadarko Petroleum Corp and its Kerr-McGee unit acted with “intent to hinder” when they spun off Tronox, the paint materials company that later went bankrupt, and should pay billions of dollars in environmental cleanup costs, a judge ruled yesterday.

This day sixty years ago Martin Carter, Eusi Kwayana (then Sydney King), Rory Westmaas, Bally Latchmansingh and Adjoda Singh were detainees at Atkinson Field, now the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Phantom businesses account for about 40 percent of buyers of dollars through Venezuela’s currency control system this year in a massive fraud costing the OPEC nation billions of dollars, the country’s intelligence chief said.

Dear Editor, I do not know where to begin a response to Mr Mike Persaud’s riposte to my earlier letter (‘There is evidence to indicate an evolving political consciousness among the Guyanese people,’SN Dec 11). 

With two weekends now left before Christmas downtown merchants and pavement vendors say the wave of consumer spending which they expect to precede the holidays is yet to materialise.

Garbage bordering the nation’s Parliament in downtown Georgetown

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Former West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor is seeking a return to the international stage following his inclusion in a 44-member Jamaica squad to start preparation for the upcoming regional Four-day and Super 50 tournaments.

It was most symbolic and appropriate that the heavens opened over the memorial service for Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, for the rains are regarded in Africa as a blessing; as South African Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said: “It’s a blessing from the ancestors welcoming a son of the soil.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was so incensed with royal police officers eating nuts from bowls left out in the corridors of Buckingham Palace that she drew lines on the sides in a bid to catch them out, a London court heard yesterday.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, , CMC- Former Caribbean Junior table tennis champion Gordon Delph was laid to rest following a funeral service at the St.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Just over 10,000 Russian tourists visited the island over an eight month period with the establishment of a direct flight from the European country to Jamaica this year.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)                *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Don’t Stop? Don’t Search? Don’t Detain?  The High Court Judge’s ruling tended to confuse my poor layman’s mind. 

John Lewis Jr is blunt about his reason for ‘taking the plunge’ into children’s clothing.

Dear Editor, Essequibians are in total darkness once again as the two Wartsila generation plants went down for the second time in two weeks, crippling  businesses and banks; damaging electrical appliances; spoiling restaurant meat, fish, greens and vegetables, etc; and shutting down all the manufacturing sectors, including the two  mortuaries at Charity and Suddie.

(Trinidad Express) A “liquid cocaine” concoction in a “Pear D” soft-drink bottle led to the death last week Thursday of Royal Navy vete­ran Joromie Lewis in the United Kingdom.