Daily Archive: Monday, April 14, 2014

Cognisant of an article appearing in the Stabroek News today to the effect that the file dealing with the Colwyn Harding matter had not yet been returned to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the Guyana Police Force today said that the file was returned to the DPP last Friday, April 11, 2014.

The Aircraft Owners Association today expressed concern that its proposals for the budget were mostly ignored by the government and also that the opposition has since cut some of the aviation provisions.

Today, Dean Hassan and investors of Tesouro Resourses donated $1M to the Guyana Police Force towards the Impact Albouystown Project that was launched last Friday April 11, 2014.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – A morning rush hour bomb killed at least 71 people at a Nigerian bus station on the outskirts of the capital today, raising concerns about the spread of an Islamist insurgency after the deadliest ever attack on Abuja.

Certain foods are all about tradition in terms of how they are made and eaten; however, I have to confess (and this is the season for the baring of one’s soul) that I have never liked the traditional Cross Buns.

(Barbados Nation) The rental of caskets has taken off in Barbados in a significant way.

Six men are in custody as the probe into the kidnapping and murder of businessman Rajendra Singh continues and the police have denied receiving a tip that the man was being held in an abandoned Goedverwagting house and didn’t act on it speedily.

In the final year under long-serving Chairman Dr Yesu Persaud, the Dem-erara Distillers Limited (DDL) Group registered a 19% increase in after-tax profit and a growth of turnover by 11%.

After-tax profit for the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) was up by 20% for 2013 over the previous year.

By “ministerial order” two Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) officials at the centre of a controversy regarding surveying for the Santa Fe mega farm in the Rupununi will return to work on Thursday and no disciplinary action will be taken against them.

Another gold mine is set to open soon and the Australian company behind it is seeking workers for the medium-scale operation which will be located at Kaburi, Region Seven.

The Chinese logging firm Bai Shan Lin is moving to construct a wood processing facility, ship building operation and exhibition centre and has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental authorization.

By Jeff Trotman) A man who used threatening language to his former lover and her current fiancé was fined and advised by Magistrate Clive Nurse to split the house in two so that both he and his former lover can enjoy their privacy.

Nearly two months have passed since the file on a policeman’s alleged sexual assault of a detainee, Colwyn Harding, was returned to police for further investigation.

Chairman of Caricom, St Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has asked the Council of Legal Education (CLE) to accept UG’s top 25 graduating law students as has been the practice for their Legal Education Certificate (LEC) in the 2014/2015 academic year.

Although, $9.6M has been spent on installing new road lights in Linden, Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon is dissatisfied.

The University of Trinidad & Tobago and the Art Williams & Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School have signed an MoU establishing substantial cooperation aimed at the two institutions pursuing a “mutually beneficial educational and research relationship for the development and growth of the local and regional aviation sector.”

The preliminary inquiry into the murder charge against Sylvester Bristol, who is accused of killing a female taxi driver, is set for commencement following the completion of the police investigation.

Estimates amounting to $2.7 billion for the Local Government Ministry were approved on Friday, even as members of the opposition criticised government’s proposed $1 billion ‘National Clean-Up Programme’.

The Guyana Reparations Committee is set to kick off a public awareness campaign this week in an effort to sensitize the population to the work of the Caricom Reparations Movement; to quash the belief that Africans are seeking a hand out and prompt civic involvement in its ongoing outreach programmes.

Leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo etched his name into the history books of Regional first-class cricket by becoming the first Guyanese to capture 15 wickets in a match, putting his team in a probable winning position requiring 208-runs to attain their first win in this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) 4-day tournament against Trinidad and Tobago.

The Committee of Supply on Friday evening approved the proposed budgetary allocations for regions 2, 3, 4 and 5, amounting to $11.2B in total.

The shared interests between Sweden and the Caribbean promises to be strengthened following last week’s presentation of credentials by Claes Hammar, Sweden’s plenipotentiary representative to the Caribbean Community (Caricom).

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said the Caribbean has lost one of its finest minds with the passing of Professor Norman Girvan.

East Ruimveldt Secondary defeated Tucville Secondary 4-0 when the u-17 female division of the Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF) Pepsi/Scotia Bank tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Michael Clarke, a former national junior table tennis player on Saturday presented a quantity of equipment to the Guyana Table Tennis Association at Olympic House, High Street, Georgetown.

The first annual Grassroots Foundation inter-ward knockout football tournament continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda with an exciting quarterfinal doubleheader.

Dear Editor, The sum of $12M was approved in the 2013 national budget for an ambulance for the Mahdia Hospital, Region No.

Guyana edged heavyweights Argentina 2-1 in a penalty shoot-out to clinch the bronze medal following a 2-2 score at the end of normal time, when the Pan American Indoor Hockey Cup concluded on Saturday in Montevideo, Uruguay.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) arrested Beacons FC by a 3-1 score line when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) first division league continued at the Tucville Community Centre ground on Saturday.

Dear Editor, In a few weeks’ time Guyana’s major rainy season is expected to commence but the drainage systems in the city and along the coastland lack basic preparation (clean inland graded drains and outfall channels, drainage pumps in working order at critical locations, etc) all necessary to meet the impending challenges of heavy downpours with resulting widespread flooding.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – Barbados crushed hapless Leeward Islands by an innings and 49 runs inside three days here  yesterday, to leave themselves with a slim chance of winning the WICB President’s Trophy.

Dear Editor, For those interested there will be a total eclipse of the Moon very early Tuesday morning April 15, 2014.

LONDON,  CMC – Veteran West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul hit a typically composed, unbeaten half-century to prop up Derbyshire on the opening day of the English County season here  yesterday.

AUGUSTA, Georgia, (Reuters) – The 78th Masters was poised for another thrilling finish as 2012 champion Bubba Watson outdueled playing partner Jordan Spieth over the front nine to seize a two-shot lead at Augusta National yesterday.

Dear Editor,   I am going to a wedding at the Riu in Jamaica. 

(Jamaica Observer) Convicted entertainer Vybz Kartel told the police the whereabouts of several wanted men in Portmore, St Catherine and provided the authorities with information that led to the recovery of 17 illegal firearms, a highly-placed police source has disclosed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has agreed to compensate a St Andrew woman with just under J$9 million for a misdiagnosis that she was HIV-positive.

KIEV/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council held an emergency session last night to discuss the escalating crisis in Ukraine, just hours before a deadline by Kiev for pro-Russian separatists to disarm by this morning or face a “full-scale anti-terrorist operation” by its armed forces.

Dear Editor, It is now 1.30 am on the 5th April, and I pen this epistle to share with your readers information regarding the loud music noise that is currently emanating from a loud and incoherent boom-box here in Chateau Margot.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao scored a unanimous decision win over Timothy Bradley to regain the WBO welterweight title on Saturday and avenge a highly controversial loss to the American in June 2012.

(The Sports Xchange) ———The Dallas Mavericks qualified for the playoffs with a tense 101-98 points  home victory over the Phoenix Suns on Saturday.

Dear Editor, On Friday, April 11, I visited Zeelugt Village on the East Bank of Essequibo and whilst socializing with a few friends, I learnt of another suicide.

(Reuters) – Glencore Xstrata Plc has sold its interest in the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru to a Chinese consortium in a $5.85 billion cash deal, making it one of China’s biggest mining acquisitions in recent years.

David Abdulah is an economist by training, labour and political activist committed to social justice.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – At least 36 people were killed and four injured yesterday when a bus crashed into the back of a truck in eastern Mexico and caught fire, the government of the state of Veracruz said.

Dear Editor, David Hinds sees himself as Black, Guyanese and Caribbean (KN April 8). 

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Leading Spanish club Atletico Madrid and former cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly are among the owners of eight franchises of a new Indian soccer league set to kick off later this year, organisers said  yesterday.

(Part II)   Last week, we carried the presentation I had made at the University College of the Cayman Islands Caribbean Anti-Corruption Conference held on 19-21 March 2014.

Dear Editor, Our problems can’t be fixed if vindictive politics continue to get the better of us.

Important questions have been raised during the budget debate in Parliament and in the Committee of Supply about major public works and whether they have been well thought out and maintained.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas,  (Reuters) – Three people, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed yesterday at two different Jewish community facilities in a Kansas City-area suburb, and a man was in custody as police investigated whether the shootings were anti-Semitic, authorities said.

Photos and interviews by Desilon Daniels With road accidents continuing unabated, quite a number of which are fatal, we asked the man/woman in the street what they thought was the cause of so many crashes.