Daily Archive: Thursday, March 27, 2014

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

The two-day National Science Fair opened up today at Queen’s College.

Two persons are in custody assisting the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) after an undisclosed quantity of cocaine was found in a shipment of awara, a bright orange fruit,  destined for Canada this morning.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2005h last night on the main road at Greenwich Park, EBE, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Mohan Lall, 57 years, of Greenwich Park.

Late last week, eight research grants were awarded to teams of academic staff at the University of Guyana.

(Trinidad Express) Eight male Trinidadian Muslims were among 14 men who appeared before an Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Court in Venezuela late on Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – High winds and icy weather halted the air search today for a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet presumed crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, just as new satellite images emerged showing what could be a large debris field from the plane.

A 75-year-old woman was found dead in her North Ruimveldt home yesterday morning and she is believed to have been strangled during an early morning robbery.

By Desilon Daniels A La Parfaite Harmonie shopkeeper is currently in hospital nursing gunshot wounds after she was shot twice and relieved of $750,000 in a brazen daylight attack at her business/home.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) committee which analysed Guyana’s fight against corruption has made a series of proposals for bolstering the DPP’s office including strengthening the ability of officers to prosecute fraud.

The twenty-seven members of the newly formed Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) were yesterday charged to be a “special unit” by Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell.

Government wants to spend over $30 billion this year improving Guyana’s public infrastructure and transportation systems, according to budget 2014.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud says that the steady fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Guyana has resulted in a drastic reduction in its prevalence.

An Essequibo logger was killed early Tuesday morning at Oku Backdam, Cuyuni after apparently accidentally shooting himself with an improvised shotgun, police said yesterday.

Government wants to commit $32.3 billion this year to carry out infrastructural and other improvements to the education sector, according to the 2014 budget.

A miner will be a guest of the state for the next twenty-seven months, after he changed his initial not guilty plea to 10 charges including resisting arrest, assaulting and using abusive and indecent language on police officers, and assault meted out to his partner.

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) of India presented an audit of Guyana’s potential for energy efficiency to stakeholders from participating agencies, at a ceremony held on Monday at the Guyana International Conference Centre.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Tuesday dispatched a team of engineers to Paramakatoi, Region Eight to assess reports about a disruption in water supply on Thursday.

No requests for the depositions in the Rondy Jagdeo murder case which was discharged last week have been made as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack is presently on leave.

Government plans to spend $72.6 million this year to improve the quality of care given to maternal health patients.

Alpha United President Odinga Lumumba said yesterday that even though his club was forced to endure terrible accommodation during their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club championship campaign in Jamaica, his team performed outstandingly and was able to emerge winners of the very difficult Group-3.

A man was remanded to prison when he appeared in court before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Tuesday charged with break and enter and larceny and armed robbery at a traffic light.

Fitness Express, Guyana’s leading supplement and fitness products supplier, has once again flexed its corporate muscle in support of a discipline.

Accused of hitting a woman with a chair, a GT Recyclers’ labourer was yesterday granted bail when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer the assault charge.

  A Guyanese man, who escaped from the prisons in Antigua last Sunday, was on Tuesday recaptured by the island’s authorities while hiding out in an abandoned house.

Dear Editor, It seems as if Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is a no nonsense Prime Minister, and President Donald Ramotar should take a page out of her book and deal with his ministers when they slip up and do not live up to the high office of a minister of government.

Grace McCalman is the new president of the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) following its Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Thursday at the Georgetown Cricket Club pavilion, Bourda.

Dear Editor, While one would expect that the PPP government, faced with flagging popularity in even its core support demographics, would try to propose a budget geared more towards surface citizen appeasement than actual economic practicality, no one could have predicted that it would be at the level of fluff as was the 2014 budget as presented by Minister of Finance Ashni Singh on Monday.

By Jeff Trotman Linden businessman James “Chicken” Steele and two others will return to court on May 21st in a matter in which they are accused of beating up Richard Barrow on May 30th, 2013.

After what was alleged to be months of continuous torment at the hands of virtual complainant Randy Bradshaw, defendant Vijay Naideo allegedly raised a cutlass on him forcing him to jump into a trench.

Dear Editor, Referring to recent reports of an ethanol plant proposed for Guyana, I would like to draw the attention of the public and government officials to facts about ethanol in petrol engines.

  SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Aircraft and ships scouring the southern Indian Ocean for wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were racing to beat bad weather yesterday and reach an area where new satellite images showed what could be a debris field.

Santos FC overcame Riddim Squad FC by a 3-1 margin when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) second division league continued at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground on Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, On February 13, 2014 a Guyanese, of very humble upbringing, was brutally murdered while at work as a guard at a nursery school in East Canje.

It was tough to watch the gutless capitulation of the Guyana team in the recent Four-Day Regional fixture on their home turf at Providence against a Barbados unit that was thrashed by Windward Islands in their opening match of the tournament.

The Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) will stage the annual Torginol Paints Medal Play tournament on Saturday.

Houston Stars downed Black Pearl FC by a 3-1 score line when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) second division league continued at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground on Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development on Tuesday signed a US$1.5M ($300M) agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for solid waste management.

Dear Editor, Has this condition arisen from a dereliction of duty or an abrogation of responsibility?

To observe World Water Day 2014, the Stella’s Sisterhood of Support and Services Foundation (S4 Foundation) donated water to the food bank of the Guyana National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) and to the Gifted Hands Learning Centre.

After an upset loss to Treacle in January, the nation’s premier thoroughbred, Scores Even returned to it’s winning ways on Sunday in the feature A and Lower event of the annual Phagwah Meet at Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club.

Dear Editor, I bought an outdoor stove for picnic purposes and tried getting a ten-pound gas cylinder to go with it.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Leeward Island selectors say they have made “sweeping changes” as they attempt to improving their team’s position heading into the 5th round of matches in the Regional Four-Day Tournament this weekend.

Kevin Griffith, the man who lost his right arm in an accident late Monday night, is in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Trophy Stall will sponsors the trophies and medals for the fourth annual Hugh Ross Classic Bodybuilding and Fitness Show set to take place at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday.

NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) – A species of crow native to islands east of Australia has long wowed scientists with its intelligence, and now it has shown it can solve at least one puzzle as well as the average 7-year-old child, scientists reported on Wednesday.

(The Sports Xchange) — Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki had 32 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and four steals in a vintage performance that blew away Kevin Durant and the Thunder 128-119 in overtime Tuesday night.

Dear Editor, It’s refreshing to read the editorial ‘A tasteless manifestation of the way we live’ (Stabroek News, March 25), about the plight that commuters have to face every day using public transportation.

Jang Xu, a 58-year-old Chinese national, appeared in the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on a vehicular charge but the court experienced difficulties as the accused appeared to have a problem understanding English.

CAIRO, March 26 (Reuters) – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted Egypt’s first freely elected leader, declared his candidacy yesterday for a presidential election he is expected to easily win.

More than seventy persons, including police officers, failed to show up for a variety of cases that were down for hearing at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on March 25th.Presiding

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia’s pace attack terrorised England’s lower order batsmen with short-pitched bowling during the 5-0 Ashes whitewash and all test sides can expect the same treatment, according to coach Darren Lehmann.

BRUSSELS/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The United States and the European Union agreed yesterday to work together to prepare possible tougher economic sanctions in response to Russia’s behaviour in Ukraine, including on the energy sector, and to make Europe less dependent on Russian gas.

Dear Editor, I was not really surprised while listening to one of the hosts of NCN’s ‘Guyana Today’ during this past week.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – The good news for rival bowlers is Chris Gayle has abandoned his onslaught-from-the outset approach… The bad news is, the West Indies opener has decided to delay his big hitting so he can explode in the later stages.

Guyana welcomed the first cruise ship for 2014 and the return of the passenger ship Minerva to its shores on Sunday, with its over 500 passengers and crew who were treated to a tour of Arrowpoint and other areas.

Dear Editor, So the 2014 budget caters for the cleaning up of the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A large international team of scientists has built the clearest picture yet of how human genes are regulated in the vast array of cell types in the body – work that should help researchers target genes linked to disease.

KUWAIT,  (Reuters) – Arab leaders, at loggerheads over inter-Arab issues including Egypt and Syria, offered little evidence of progress after a two-day summit in Kuwait focused largely on avoiding further splits.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s government has drawn up a new foreign investment law that will cut the profits tax in half and exempt investors from paying it for eight years in an attempt to attract desperately needed capital into the communist economy.

Dear Editor, History does repeat itself. The Stabroek News of March 5 carried the story of 26-year-old Trinidadian “hero” Nicholas Seucharan who died after rescuing two children 11 and 8 years old from drowning.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – The Vatican removed a German bishop yesterday because he spent 31 million euros ($43 million) of Church funds on an extravagant residence when Pope Francis was preaching austerity.

DARRINGTON, Wash.,  (Reuters) – Authorities searching for victims of a deadly Washington state landslide said on Wednesday that the number of missing had dropped to 90, as officials reported finding more bodies while acknowledging that some victims’ remains may never be recovered.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – England’s batsmen are adequately prepared for the challenge of facing maverick Sri Lankan bowlers Lasith Malinga and Ajantha Mendis in  today’s vital World Twenty20 match, all-rounder Ravi Bopara said yesterday.

Our nation drags through its days, under the searing sun on the edge of the vast broiling Atlantic Ocean with the green waves of virgin forests shaping our dear land, facing this void: we lack a national vision.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top court has sentenced the mayor of the city of San Cristobal to a year in jail for failing to break up anti-government protests, extending a crackdown of opposition leaders associated with nearly two months of demonstrations.

Dear Editor, A deceased Berbician has done us proud in Trinidad and deserves kudos for his humanitarian insight.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – South African all-rounder Wayne Parnell has been released from the squad for a mandatory court appearance in Mumbai meaning the player will miss today’s World Twenty20 clash against Netherlands, the team said yesterday.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC-West Indies Women swept aside host Bangladesh by 36 runs to win their second match in the ICC T20 World Cup at Sylhet Stadium here yesterday.

Late last week, eight research grants were awarded to teams of academic staff at the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, I read with disgust the utterances by the Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green during an interview when he criticized the approval of monies to clean up the huge piles of garbage around the city. 

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A Carnival Cruise ship rescued 41 Cuban migrants from a small, overcrowded boat in the Florida Straits, the 90-mile span of water between the southern tip of Florida and Cuba, a U.S.

Introduction:Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change  (AFC)  to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters. 

(Trinidad Express) At least 19 Trinidadian Muslims are now in the custody of the Venezuelan intelligence service      SEBIN (Servi-cio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional), under the suspicion of being terrorists.

A state police witness under cross-examination in the trial of Tiffany Clarke, who was indicted in the 2011 murder of her lover Sonobia James at the Red Dragon Night Club, yesterday said that she didn’t not know where the alleged murder weapon was.