Daily Archive: Friday, April 11, 2014

The newly accredited Ambassador of Sweden to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Claes Hammar (left) has described the formalisation of his country’s ties with the Community as an historic and significant step.

At about 1300h. today, ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch at the CJIA conducted a search on the cargo of a flight bound for New York, and found 644 grams of cocaine.

The Alliance For Change says it is concerned that the Government seems interested in having its own Budget not approved.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says this year’s Budget has the potential to dangerously divide Guyana into two nations – one poorer and one richer.

(Trinidad Express) Subhas Ramkhelawan yesterday resigned as an Independent senator and as chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange (TTSE).

(Jamaica Observer) THE eight policemen allegedly involved in a death squad in Clarendon are being investigated for unlawfully killing 40 civilians, it was revealed in court yesterday, where four of the accused were denied bail.

(Jamaica Observer) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) pilots in Jamaica yesterday joined their colleagues in Trinidad in registering disgust at the company’s failure to pay them their full salaries over the past four years.

Curaçao airline Insel Air will be conducting flights between Guyana and Miami via Aruba connecting to many other destinations commencing June 18, 2014, according to a release today from Roraima Airways.

PERTH/SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Search and rescue officials in Australia are confident they know the approximate position of the black box recorders from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday.

Carol Sooba’s appointment as Town Clerk was quashed yesterday by Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang, who found that her appointment was “legally defective” since former Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud did not have the lawful authority to appoint anyone.

President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) Colin Bynoe has been suspended for two weeks by the union’s executive council for exhibiting inappropriate behaviour.

The opposition yesterday voted down a $1.3 billion allocation for the health sector that includes financing for the controversial specialty hospital.

One man is dead and another critically injured after a Toyota Carina AT 212 motorcar PRR 6417 and a Canter truck collided at D’ Edward, West Coast Berbice around midnight on Wednesday.

Saturday April 12 marks one year since the Christopher Matthias-led administration was elected to govern the Guyana Football Federation.

Guyana’s Gardel ‘The Judge’ Roberts lost via split decision to Jamaican Romel ‘Sub Zero’ Lewis in the fourth bout of this season’s Wray and Nephew Caribbean Contender Series on Wednesday night in Jamaica.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Timothy Bradley Jr believes a lengthy and successful career has sapped Manny Pacquiao of his motivation, and that their WBO welterweight title bout tomorrow may be one fight too many for the Filipino legend.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Gleaner) Former 100-metre world-record holder, Jamaican, Asafa Powell, has been given an 18-month suspension from competition, after testing positive for the banned stimulant, oxilofrine.

The Committee of Supply yesterday unanimously approved the $6.9 billion Housing and Water budget, even after concerns over how the ministry would be dispensing $484 million under a new Community Infrastructure Improve-ment Project (CIIP).

The attorney for Tenza Lane, the woman accused of attacking of the Prime Minister’s son and his fiancée, yesterday argued that there was no case made out against her client, who will soon know her fate.

Guyana’s Coach Esaun Crandon is hoping that his team can produce a home win and end on a high note in their final match against arch rivals Trinidad and Tobago in this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional 4-day tournament starting today at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Members of the National Association of Agriculture, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) will not be intimidated by the management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the workers will continue with their strike.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Wednesday agreed to a framework that would see the judiciary gaining full financial independence.

Old rivals Fruta Conquerors will face off against Pele FC today in the quarter-final round of the Namilco sponsored Fruta Conquerors One Love Knockout Festival at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

Team Canada crushed Team Guyana 6-0 in their third group match-up, when the Pan American Indoor Hockey Cup was held on Wednesday in Montevideo, Uruguay.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Wednesday launched their 6th annual Republic Bank Under-17 Inter-Zone tournament, with the bank donating $200,000, along with committing to provide uniforms for the finalists.

By Jeff Trotman   Concern has been raised over two faulty ECG machines at the state-of-the-art Mackenzie Hospi-tal.

A $1 billion fund to examine and test mercury-free gold mining equipment will be activated soon, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Clinton Williams said yesterday.

Government is yet to recognize the potential of tourism in the development of the Guyana economy, President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento has declared.

Estimates totalling $13.9 billion meant for the Ministry of Education were approved on Wednes-day afternoon when the National Assembly met to consider the amounts.

This week’s public announcement by Trans Guyana Airways that it will be increasing the frequency of its air service to Lethem to three flights daily attests to the growing economic and social focus of the Rupununi and the commensurate growing demand for the movement of people and material in and out of the region.

A post-mortem examination performed on kidnapped car dealer Rajendra Singh who was found dead in the Le Repentir Cemetery on Wednesday, has revealed that he died of multiple gunshots to the head.

School children across the country are in for a three-week vacation to celebrate Easter when the school term ends today.

Another witness took the stand when the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Carol Ann Lynch continued yesterday and the prosecutor reported that five more witnesses are due to testify.

The current political administration, including President Donald Ramotar, has made some  definitive pronouncements regarding the country’s tourism potential and what is felt to be the contribution tourism can make to providing employment and growing the country’s economy.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations warned yesterday that Burundi leaders who have manipulated young people to stoke violence could face international prosecution if human rights abuses are committed.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday evening, April 9, I was in the upper flat of the GCC, Bourda, to hear Reds Perreira share his memories of cricket in Guyana in the old days, particularly the 1950s.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that Russian gas supplies to Europe could be disrupted if Moscow cuts the flow to Ukraine over unpaid bills, drawing a US accusation that it is using energy “as a tool of coercion”.

– East Ruimveldt blank Campbellville 4-nil North/South Ruimveldt squeaked past Kitty 4-3 when the first annual Grassroots Foundation Inter-ward Knockout Football Tournament, continued Tuesday at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

Dear Editor, A resolution to amalgamate the Guyana Legion and the Ex-GDF Association was welcomed with great applause and excitement. 

Dear Editor, I read with great interest a letter written by my old New Amsterdam friend, Morty Codett which  appeared in Wednesday’s  issue of the Stabroek News (April 9) under the caption ‘Why no women Senior Counsel?’

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

(Reuters) – A woman threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton yesterday as the former secretary of state was delivering a speech at a Las Vegas hotel, but Clinton dodged it and continued with her remarks, a US Secret Service spokesman said.

On Sunday cricket returns to the Rose Hall Canje Ground with a match that will feature the home team playing against Enmore Cricket Club.

Dear Editor, In the face of threats by the PPP to turn any denial of the government’s $6 billion subsidy for the sugar industry into a racist act against the predominantly East Indian sugar workers, the joint parliamentary opposition voted for the subsidy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Public company and bank audits conducted around the globe by units affiliated with the world’s six largest accounting firms are persistently riddled with flaws, a group of international regulators have found.

Harold Smith is one of a succession of Guyanese whose names are linked to the international shipping industry.

MURRYSVILLE, Pa (Reuters) – Pennsylvania officials sought a motive yesterday for what may have driven a 16-year-old student to turn on his classmates with two kitchen knives, stabbing startled victims in the stomach and back and leaving nearly two dozen wounded.

Dear Editor, I have been visiting the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground (ARCCG) on a regular basis, including playing cricket matches there.

SATUN, Thailand (Reuters) – After a two-hour trek through swamp and jungle, Police Major General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot halts in a trash-strewn clearing near Thailand’s remote border with Malaysia.

Rubis Guyana Inc West Indies Ltd may have every reason to believe that its new Lightweight Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) Composite Bottle may, potentially, provide a significant breakthrough in the cooking gas sector.

 Dear Editor, The recent announcement by Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira that the government is seriously thinking of establishing a local law school in light of the recent decision taken by the Council of Legal Education to no longer grant twenty-five LLB students from the University of Guyana places in the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad is a step in the right direction.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro was due to host Venezuelan opposition leaders yesterday at the start of mediated talks intended to stem two months of political unrest that has killed dozens in the OPEC nation.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 558’s trading results showed consideration of $47,368,020 from 595,796 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 557’s trading results which showed consideration of $5,852,934 from 180,483 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Dear Editor, Only in Guyana would its citizens be at the mercy of criminals, as in the case of Rajendra Singh.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Observer) – A website Havoscope.com, which provides data and information on black market activities around the world, ranks Jamaica 25th in Prostitution Revenue Worldwide.

MEXICO CITY (Reu-ters) – Honduras retains the world’s highest murder rate, according to a United Nations report published yesterday, with the Americas overtaking Africa as the region with the most peacetime murders per 100,000 people.

Even though I am a relative dinosaur, still not (idiot -) friendly with computers, I welcome the few, but pointed, responses to last Friday’s offering: ‘Inside GuySuCo, today’s ideal police commissioner’.

Dear Editor, Despite the huge amount of the budget allocated to the Ministry of Education, female education will not improve because Guyana continues to be a male dominated society where women are not seen as equal partners with their male counterparts.

The late, splendidly named Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson – Ray to his family and close friends, ANR as he rose through the hurly-burly of Trinidad and Tobago politics, and then, curiously, His Excellency Arthur NR Robinson, when he occupied the highest office in the land – will probably be best remembered as a heroic champion of democracy when he was Prime Minster during what has been called his country’s “darkest hour.”

Colwayne Morris believes he may be living through a significant period in the evolution of agricultural practices in Guyana and while he concedes that the shade house method is by no means new, he feels a point has been reached where its impact could significantly alter the face of local farming.

The truck that went overboard today at Supenaam has been partially salvaged.

(Trinidad Express) THREE police officers last attached to the Chaguanas Robbery Squad appeared in court yesterday charged with agreeing to accept a bribe to forego the detection of a crime and prosecution of a Guyanese national.