Daily Archive: Friday, February 28, 2014

President Donald Ramotar today addressed the opening of the Chinese owned Zhanghao Shipyard in Coverden, East Bank Demerara.

President Donald Ramotar today addressed the opening of the Chinese owned Zhanghao Shipyard in Coverden, East Bank Demerara.

President Donald Ramotar today addressed the opening of the Chinese owned Zhanghao Shipyard in Coverden, East Bank Demerara.

(WICB) Kingston, Jamaica – Andre Russell and Jamie Merchant shared eight wickets evenly as Jamaica seized control on the opening day of the Regional 4-Day season at Sabina Park.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua today made a brief visit to Guyana.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Rainy skies did not deter the fashionistas from gathering this week in Paris – with singer Rihanna this season’s front-row “It” girl – as the Fall/Winter ready-to-wear collections promised cold weather looks to warm the iciest of hearts.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds today said that every police officer dealing with traffic on the road should be armed with a breathalyzer, radar gun and a firm commitment to stamp out dangerous/reckless driving.

A high level meeting of officials from Guyana, Suriname and Caribbean Export is currently underway in Suriname with officials discussing a report prepared on enhancing exports from Guyana and Suriname to Brazil, according to a release from the Private Sector Commission.

A three bedroom building for Florence Tyndall, a 69 year-old woman whose previous home in Plaisance, East Coast Demerara turned to rubble when an aircraft crashed into it last year is 70 percent completed, according to the Ministry of Works.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC- A defiant century stand between Lendl Simmons and captain Dwayne Bravo rescued a failing West Indies innings and set the platform for a 15 run win over England in the first One Day International (ODI) here today.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — Former West Indies cricket captain and Antigua national hero, Sir Vivian Richards, says he feels privileged to have a statue unveiled in his honour.

The treatment of Guyanese passengers at Piarco by Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is one of a series of questions that APNU MP Carl Greenidge wants the government to answer in relation to the flagship agreement which was clinched with the regional carrier in January, 2013.

The Police say they are conducting investigations into the murder of businesswoman Bibi Shaneeza Bhola, 35 years, of La Grange, WBD.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Lackin, at a press briefing yesterday, presented a much weaker version of the harsh words uttered by President Desi Bouterse on Tuesday.

Guyana will miss another deadline for the updating of its anti-money laundering legislation after the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Cecil Dhurjon was unable to complete drafting APNU’s amendments in time for them to be presented with the completed bill for yesterday’s sitting of the National Assembly.

The Automated Fingerprint Information System has resulted in the arrest of a suspect in the 2011 murder of Robb Street pharmacist Harold Rachpaul.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh has been referred to the Privileges Committee of Parliament for matters surrounding his failure to comply with a parliamentary resolution that required him to provide reports on extra-budgetary agencies and to pay all monies being held by such agencies into the Consolidated Fund.

A Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) driver is now wanted by police following a fatal hit and run on Mandela Avenue on Wednesday night, in which a company sports utility vehicle (SUV) struck a cyclist.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and several other entities have filed legal action to prevent legislation to reform cricket in Guyana from being considered by the National Assembly resulting in the deferral of the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill 2012 which was due to be debated yesterday.

A Guyana-born Canadian citizen became the third person this month to be charged with trying to smuggle cocaine in achar out of the country through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA).

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) plans to convene a meeting of around 500 businesses to bolster its attempts to convince policy makers to take whatever actions are necessary for passage of the Anti-Money Laundering/ Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill.

Akeem Roberts, charged with the murder of a St. George’s Community High School student in 2012, yesterday pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter in the High Court.

A co-operation programme with Brazil will see studies in the Middle and Upper Mazaruni to determine the best site for a hydropower project, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett told the National Assembly yesterday.

Two men who denied breaking into Guyana Stores Limited and stealing nearly $4 million worth of household appliances and goods were yesterday granted bail after they both claimed they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, President Donald Ramotar has called for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to become more dynamic towards addressing the changing and evolving hemispheric realities that can threaten the nation’s security.

The retrial of Charles Anthony Woolford for the murder of his wife began yesterday in the High Court with the empanelling of a 12-member jury.

By Jeff Trotman The Mackenzie High School (MHS) student who comes up with the winning submission for the name of the MHS girls football team will receive $10,000.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh was not intoxicated at the time of a vehicular accident on February 23rd and left the scene shortly after for medical attention at a city hospital, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The inaugural Caribbean Premier league (CPL) has generated a combine figure of US 105.6 Million dollars across the region, a study by the University of the West Indies has found.

After a near perfect Super50 tournament and good performances by their players, Guyana will now switch gears and engage in the more testing four-day format of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) 2014 Regional fixtures when they take on the Jamaicans at Sabina Park.

An autopsy will today be performed on Patricia Younge, the woman who was found buried in a shallow grave at Paradise on the East Coast of Demerara on Wednesday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Jamaican sprinting star Asafa Powell will know his fate in early April when the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel announces its decision on his doping violation case.

Brenthnol Woolford’s entertaining half century took Bush Lot United Sports Club (BLUSC) past Enmore Cricket Club (ECC) by 30 runs in the Azeez Memorial Cricket Competition, played last Monday at the Bush Lot ground, West Coast Berbice.

Ten years after its completion, there is little evidence that work is being done to implement the 71 recommendations for the improvement of the police force made in the Disciplined Forces Commission (DFC) report, despite renewed interest by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

More than three years after United States President Barack Obama signed that country’s Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 into law, Guyana is still well adrift of being positioned to meet tough new standards in the absence of which locally produced foods will be denied access to US markets.

The Environmental Community Health Organisation (ECHO) launched its ‘Most Improved School Yard’ Competition with a tree planting exercise at the Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School on Wednesday.

Security-related anomalies at port facilities in Guyana could, conceivably, negatively affect the country’s international maritime standing and raise questions about its compliance with International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) protocols and practices, a local shipping industry source has told Stabroek Business.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaican all-rounder Andre Russell says his players will have to bury the disappointment of the Super50 tournament and turn their attention to the upcoming Regional Four-day competition The Jamaicans lost to hosts Trinidad & Tobago by seven wickets after a poor batting display saw them dismissed for a record low 49 in the semi-final.

Medical examinations have found that a two-year-old toddler, who was rescued from underneath a bed in a house at North Ruimveldt, where he had been found with his hands bound behind his back, had previously suffered broken bones and concussions.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – Dale Steyn, the world’s number one test bowler, says his team mate Morne Morkel will be the player to watch when South Africa play Australia in the series-deciding third test starting at Newlands tomorrow.

At this very moment we are living in one of those now familiar cycles of violence that targets the business community; violence that is sudden and frightening and which leaves even those of us who are not its actual victims chastened.

(ICC) Shadman Islam fell short of a century by three runs, but helped Bangladesh seal a 77-run victory over New Zealand to win the Plate Final of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

Linden secondary school students and dropouts have an opportunity to enhance their employment chances through a remedial programme that commenced at four centres in the town on Tuesday.

(ICC) The conditions were perfect for batting at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium yesterday and India made the most of it to beat West Indies by 46 runs and finish fifth in the ICC Under-19 World Cup 2014.

By Jeff Trotman Orinella Oyana Drakes, the top performer for Region Ten at the 2013 CXC examination, was among twenty seven students, who received bursaries from the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Soc-iety Limited (LUSCSL) on February 21st.

By Nick Said CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Ryan Harris says there is no panic in the Australian camp before the series-deciding third test against South Africa starting in Cape Town tomorrow.

(Barbados Nation) – Sandals Barbados has spent more than $4 million buying local supplies in its 16 weeks of operating here.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Australia opener David Warner has been fined 15 percent match fee from the second test for suggesting South African AB de Villiers used his wicketkeeper’s gloves to rough up one side of the ball in the Port Elizabeth match.

Dear Editor, It appears that the electricity problems of Lethem and its environs are far from over.

Residents of Upper Corentyne can look forward to free consultations as well as prescription and non-prescription medications when the Guyana International Relief Organisation (GIRO) hosts a medical outreach on Sunday, March 2.

Two local companies operating in tandem out of modest premises in Waterloo Street have set themselves the twin tasks of significantly broadening the variety of fruits and vegetables cultivated locally and expanding markets in the Caribbean and further afield.

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – The United States told Russia to demonstrate in coming days that it was sincere about its promise not to intervene in Ukraine as armed men stormed the regional parliament and hours later others seized the airport in a mainly ethnic Russian region.

With several hundred visitors expected to pass through the March 28-30 Wedding Expo at the Roraima Duke Lodge, the company’s Marketing Manager Shamaine Davis believes the event can serve as an invaluable “poster board” for a host of businesses involved in the country’s wedding and entertainment sectors.

Dear Editor, In September 1964 a unique in-service programme was initiated to cater for teachers with Class I, II and (III) certificates who did not receive formal training in the Teachers Training College then situated on Battery Road, Kingston. 

Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud says the low production in the quarry sector is worrying as government has a $3B road programme that will require substantial quarry supplies and there has been a reduction in output compared with last year’s amounts.

E TOWN,  (Reuters) – Crushing victories for either side in the first two matches have set up a potentially thrilling decider when South Africa host Australia in the final test at Newlands in Cape Town tomorrow.

Optimism in the mining sector about the immediate-term fortunes of the gold industry persists despite the imponderables associated with fluctuating gold prices, Administrative Coordinator of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) Colin Sparman told Stabroek Business earlier this week.

Dear Editor, Regarding the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry that was finally appointed and its members sworn in, many Guyanese locally and overseas seem to think that nothing new would be known other than what is so far known.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The World Bank yesterday postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda’s health system over a law that toughened punishment for gays, an unusual move for an institution that typically avoids wading into politics.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) responded to a request from Edwin Seeraj, Host of the Cricket Info and Quiz Programme for sponsorship for the programmes covering nine limited – overs cricket matches with the senior West Indies, Ireland and England teams and the ICC Twenty/20 World Cup in Bangladesh.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia’s peak anti-doping agency has completed a 13-month probe into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in local sports and a retired judge will now decide whether to pursue individual cases, the country’s anti-doping chief said.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court overturned racketeering convictions against former leaders of the ruling Workers Party yesterday, reducing their prison sentences in the country’s biggest political corruption case.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – After a 14-month manhunt in four countries, a Cuban man accused of a $2.8 million Miami gold heist is in custody in Belize and could be headed back to the United States to face charges, authorities and a private investigator said yesterday.

 Dear Editor, The recent utterances by the PPP General Secretary and Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee once again indicate that the PPP/C is more interested in playing party politics than in managing Guyana.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Former New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent has pleaded guilty to not reporting an approach by a bookmaker while playing in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) last year.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelans began a week-long national holiday yesterday as some protests still simmered, but President Nicolas Maduro’s government was hoping the break would take the heat out of the nation’s worst unrest in a decade.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 552’s trading results showed consideration of $11,206,752 from 323,325 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 551 which showed consideration of $4,352,071 from 102,665 shares traded in 18 transactions. 

CARACAS, (Reuters) – One month ago, Henrique Capriles was Venezuela’s undisputed opposition leader, espousing a vision of dialogue and measured dissent towards the socialist government.

Dear Editor, Briefly, a simple timeline of certain events with regard to the tedious, but as yet unresolved issue of the Caribbean Press.

There is still one senior PPP-man (a People’s Progressive Party Stalwart) – that I can relate to as a somewhat principled gentleman.

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

At the time of writing, another student demonstration was due to take place in Caracas yesterday, to demand, among other things, the freeing of the hundreds of protesters detained by the authorities and justice for the more than 500 wounded in the recent street clashes.

Marvin Wray, a final year Public Communications student at the University of Guyana, is not altogether a rookie in the world of business.

A team of toshaos and councillors from the South and South Central Districts, Rupununi today met with the Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud and representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to inform and share information on development plans for their communities.

Commander-in-Chief, President Donald Ramotar, addressing the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) Annual Officers’ Conference yesterday at Camp Ayanganna.

President Donald Ramotar speaking to those gathered at the Cove and John Ashram for Maha Shiv Raatri observances yesterday.