Daily Archive: Thursday, January 30, 2014

Amid Chief Justice Ian Chang’s ruling that cuts made to the 2012 budget by the majority opposition in the House were illegal, Parliament Office today said that it would be for the National Assembly to decide the way forward.

The 16-year-old boy who accused three police officers of sodomizing him at a police outpost at Stabroek Market on Sunday, this midday scaled the roof of Stabroek News on Robb Street out of frustration and it was only an hour later he was brought down by a civilian and fire officers.

(Trinidad Express) A nurse was discovered dead in the trunk of her car at the San Fernando General Hospital this morning.

(Trinidad Express) A 12-YEAR-OLD boy and his 16-year-old sister were among four people who appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of mechanic Dulraj Boyan Deodath, who was bludgeoned to death at his Diego Martin home earlier this month.

(Trinidad Express) Had the capital city not seen a change in wind direction on Tuesday, smoke streaming out of the Beetham Landfill could have caused “mass casualties”, Deputy Mayor of Port of Spain, Keron Valentine, said yesterday.

-finds National Assembly’s power limited in approval of estimates Delivering his long-awaited final decision, acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday declared that the National Assembly acted “unlawfully and unconstitutionally” by effecting cuts to the 2012 budget estimates, after finding that its power is limited to either giving or withholding approval.

A teenaged boy was shot dead yesterday afternoon during a robbery in Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Three police officers have been placed under close arrest after a 16- year-old boy alleged that he was sodomised by the police on Sunday night at an outpost in front of the Stabroek Market.

Tramangra Williams called ‘Queenie’ was yesterday found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by Justice Navindra Singh.

The Environmental Protection Agency is currently monitoring the tailings and pond discharge of Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated (BMGGI)  in Linden which has increased reportedly by heavy rainfall last Thursday.

The parliamentary opposition yesterday signalled plans to proceed with cuts to the budget estimates if necessary despite a ruling yesterday that previous reductions were unconstitutional.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday welcomed the ruling by Chief Justice Ian Chang that the opposition’s slashing of the 2012 budget was unlawful.

A 14-year-old student of the Richard Ishmael Secondary was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was repeatedly stabbed about her body by another student.

By Jeff Trotman The long-delayed seven-member Board of Directors of the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN) was inaugurated yesterday in the Macaw Conference room of the Region Ten Business Centre, Linden by Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh.

At about 1500h yesterday, Talesha Persaud, 7 years, of No. 71 Village, Corentyne, was struck down by a motor vehicle on the No.

Works began yesterday for the construction of the controversial US$18M Specialty Hospital at Turkeyen, on the East Coast of Demerara, where local firm BK International is laying the foundation.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has said that if marijuana possession is not to be decriminalised, then the sentencing policy for narcotic offences needs urgent revision.

The Caribbean Vulnerable Com-munities Coalition (CVC) and the Centre for Integral Orien-tation and Investigation (COIN), yesterday announced the first round of CVC/COIN grants in Guyana, under the ‘Caribbean Vulnerabilised Groups Project’.

By Kenesha Fraser A number of residents of Tapakuma, Essequibo Coast, are calling for justice following their eviction from their ‘Food For The Poor’ homes last Saturday by the village council.

– valued at US$320,000 for IPL 2014;Roach doesn’t sign up Freshly-crowned Ashes heroes Mitchell Johnson, Brad Haddin and Steven Smith are part of a group of 31 players that has attracted the highest base price of Rs 20 million (US$ 320,000 approx.)

The remaining two of the four men charged with the 2011 fatal shooting of Robb Street resident Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, 72, were on Tuesday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

A Linden miner was yesterday fined $25,000 after pleading guilty to assaulting the mother of his child over a borrowed mp3 player.

BK Western Tigers has signed former Alpha United and Fruta Conquerors talisman Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams in the current transfer period.

Trinidad and Tobago has now joined St. Lucia and Jamaica in confirming their participation in the fistic International Goodwill Competition here next month.

A miner was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $45,000 when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with stealing $45,000 worth of items in Mahdia.

Unbeaten Mackenzie High edged Christianburg/Wismar Secondary 37-36 in the finale of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) sanctioned Sunburst Secondary Schools U-17 Basketball tourney last Friday at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hardcourt, Linden.

Chief Executive Officer, Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA) Dr Vishwa Mahadeo has announced that equipping the Bara Cara Health Centre with electricity and water would be a priority this year.

Dear Editor, The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) joins other civic organisations and concerned citizens across the country and diaspora in condemning the alleged brutality meted out to Colwyn Harding and others at the hands of the Guyana police. 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC-The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is projecting a one hundred percent increase in revenue over the next eight years if new principles giving more control over cricket’s future to England, India and Australia are voted in.

Dear Editor, We take this opportunity to make some suggestions about the way some of us treat our country, Guyana.

Charged with conspiring to insert forged Guyana immigration stamps on an Antigua and Barbuda passport in an effort to visit his ill sister in Canada, a Berbician man was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail after appearing before the Chief Magistrate.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- A number of leading cricketers capable of swinging the momentum of a game will be missing when the battle to crown the best One Day side in the region begins here today.

A man who was allegedly caught with more than 200 grammes of cannabis during a routine police patrol at Mahdia was yesterday remanded to prison when he made his first appearance in court.

Dear Editor, I have noted with interest the various individual and team records that were set during the previous 50 overs regional cricket tournament, compliments of sports historian Charwayne Walker.

(Cricinfo) With the Bangladesh Cric-ket Board (BCB) accepting revised proposals for the restructure of the ICC after securing the assurance that their Test status will not be revoked, the Big Three are one vote away from the number required to push through constitutional amendments in order that the revamp be completed in full.

The public policy group, GNCPP on Friday engaged the US Embassy on Guyana’s civil society status and role in governance.

Dear Editor, Our country is festering and those who should do something to stem this rot from spreading are letting the people down.

Dear Editor, The headlines in Stabroek News on Wednesday, January 29, read ‘Top Cop sweeps No 51 station clean.’

A Grove man was brought to court on Tuesday on a charge of breaking into his neighbour’s apartment and stealing his television.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC- The ICC Board has approved the introduction of an International Women’s Championship.

The knowledge-base of 34 Guyana Defence Force officers and other ranks was enhanced as a result of professional training obtained at external institutions during 2013.

Dear Editor, When I learned that Linden was planning a protest on the occasion of President Ramotar’s visit to the area, I was hopeful that finally the President would be forced to address the failed promises he made to the region.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC- Former National defender, Brent Sancho, has blasted the Trinidad and TobagoFootball Association (TTFA) for refusing to honour a payment schedule designed to settle a longstanding wage dispute with the 2006 strike squad.

Dear Editor, Today, I write to you on a situation that has plagued society for some time now, and something has to be done quickly to arrest it or else it will become a public health risk.

(The Sports Xchange) —Forward Kevin Durant scored 41 points and hit the game-winning shot for the Oklahoma City Thunder in a 111-109  comeback victory over the Atlanta Hawks.

MOSCOW/KIEV,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin raised the pressure on Ukraine yesterday, saying Russia would wait until it forms a new government before fully implementing a $15 billion bailout deal that Kiev urgently needs.

The current drainage system at Diamond/Grove on the East Bank of Demerara is set for upgrading as the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority on Tuesday received six bids for the expansion of the sluice there.

Dear Editor, Dr Cheddi Jagan some time in the late ’50s started a road from Parika to Makouria.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud last week, announced the appointment of Clinton Williams as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and also confirmed Rickford Vieira’s appointment as Commissioner.

(Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene struck his seventh double hundred and Kithuruwan Vithanage reached his maiden century as Sri Lanka toyed with Bangladesh’s toothless attack before declaring their first innings on a mammoth 730 for six in Dhaka yesterday.

Young people make up most of our nation’s population today. And unless we create sound ways to mentor and coach and develop these young minds, we would stumble along into our default future, another generation lost, unable to rise to our potential.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a simple way to reprogramme mature animal cells back into an embryonic-like state that allows them to generate many types of tissue.

  (Jamaica Gleaner) A father of seven was yesterday morning murdered in front of three of his children as he took them to school.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – All-rounders Ryan McLaren and Wayne Parnell were named in South Africa’s 15-man squad yesterday for the three-match test series against Australia starting on Feb.

Acting on a request from Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, which was made public by the same minister on Monday, Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell has removed the police officers stationed at the Number 51 Village Police Station and replaced them with a new batch of law enforcers in a move he believes will reduce crime on the Corentyne and restore confidence in the Guyana Police Force – at least on the Corentyne.

Dear Editor, The Department of Education in Region 6 has made a huge blunder due to one education officer.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Latin American leaders backed the right of all countries in the region to choose their own political systems yesterday, a victory for Cuba as the only one-party state in the western hemisphere.

Guyana is being represented at the 2014 Caribbean Nations Security Conference (Cansec) by Brigadier Mark Phillips, Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force.

(This is Part Four of a series of five reviewing the reports of the Guyana Forestry Commission for 2005-12 which were tabled in Parliament on November 7th,  2013)    By Janette Bulkan and John Palmer     In the third article in this series, we offered comments on the general principles for annual reports (ARs) from government agencies and noted peculiarities common in the eight reports from the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC). 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve yesterday decided to trim its bond purchases by another $10 billion as it stuck to a plan to wind down its extraordinary economic stimulus despite recent turmoil in emerging markets.

Thirty health workers who graduated from an Information Technology course yesterday posed with health officials at the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre.

After completing six weeks of training in basic Information Technology, 30 health care workers graduated today at a ceremony at the Cheddi Jagan Research centre, High Street.