Articles published on Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The United States yesterday called upon the Government of Guyana to join it in imposing targeted sanctions on individuals seen to be destabilizing Ukraine and those providing material support to Russian leadership.
JINDO, South Korea, (Reuters) – Almost 300 people were missing after a ferry sank off South Korea today, the coastguard said, in what could be the country’s biggest peacetime disaster in nearly 20 years.
Targeting proposed budgetary allocations for both the National Communica-tions Network (NCN) and Government Information Agency (GINA), the parliamentary opposition yesterday voted down the entire $5.1B Office of the President (OP) budget for Administrative Services, sinking funding for other unrelated entities in the process.
A four-month-old baby died yesterday morning at the Mothers’ Union Day Care after care workers said that he was having trouble breathing.
A wake house was raided by three gunmen on Monday night on Shell Road, Kitty and one man’s attempt to contact the police via 911 produced no result.
The Committee of Supply last evening approved more than $17.5 billion for a number of agencies, including the Guyana Defence Force, the Office of the Ombudsman and Parliament Office.
The Princess Hotel & Casino is being rebranded under international hotel chain Ramada and its management plans on investing over US$5M on renovations as it aims to attract more international travellers into Guyana for tourism and business.
The City Council has been told by Attorney General Anil Nandlall that it faces contempt of court proceedings if it makes any attempt to replace Town Clerk Carol Sooba and Mayor Hamilton Green is now seeking advice on the matter.
The police yesterday closed its assault case against Tenza Lane, the woman charged with attacking the Prime Minister’s son, Samuel Hinds Jnr.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has returned the case file into Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh’s car accident on Republic night to the police.
Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region 5, Ashford Ambedkar is calling for an inquiry into the accident at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice on Wednesday night which claimed the life of his son.
Taxi driver Deon Tulkaram, accused of having a concealed knife in his possession, was yesterday placed on bail after he explained that the “offensive weapon” was what he used to help his father clean fish.
Taxi driver Deon Tulkaram, accused of having a concealed knife in his possession, was yesterday placed on bail after he explained that the “offensive weapon” was what he used to help his father clean fish.
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Sunday held a General Members meeting at the Paradise Primary School, East Coast to prepare Party members for Local Government elections.
The $9.7 B allocation to the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security in this year’s National Budget was on Thursday approved by the Committee of Supply and the number of old age pensioners has been listed as 42,500.
The seventh season of Pepsi Indian Premier League was flagged off in Abu Dhabi with an opening event rich in cricketing pedigree as well as a generous dose of fun and frolic yesterday.
The revetment project at Cane Grove main access road, Mahaica, Region Four is progressing smoothly with the contractor completing around 40 percent of the task so far, according to the Ministry of Public Works.
A woman accused of damaging the fender of a judge’s car was yesterday granted bail when she appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to the charge.
The Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) has named a strong team to participate in the 2014 Commonwealth Games to be held from July 23rd -August 3rd, in Glasgow, Scotland.
An apologetic water vendor was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly stabbing the mother of his child with an ice pick.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC-West Indies and New Zealand are expected to go all out to lift themselves from their lowly ranked status when they square-off in a test series starting in June Both teams are struggling on the same number of points above bottom of the table Zimbabwe and Bangladesh who are 34 and 19 points respectively.
Two Albouystown men were yesterday brought to court on drug possession charges as police embark on an initiative to minimise crime in the community.
LONDON, CMC – West Indies batsman Shiv Chanderpaul was carrying the fight for Derbyshire after another batting collapse left them in danger of defeat on the penultimate day of their opening English County fixture against Essex yesterday.
Taxi driver Randolph Edwards was yesterday released on bail and bonded to be on good behaviour after denying a charge that he battered his stepson.
Just over a month ago, the IPL was still looking for a venue, thanks to the Indian federal elections.
An exciting doubleheader will end the semi-final stage of the Namilco sponsored Fruta Conquerors One Love Knockout Festival which continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.
The Ministry of Agriculture via the Guyana School Agriculture (GSA), and with the University of the West Indies (UWI) has organised a three-day workshop for students of the GSA on biogas technology and its possible applications.
A Delroy Fraser 120th minute goal marred Laing Avenue’s 4-3 quarterfinal win over West Ruimveldt when the Grassroots Inter-Ward Knockout Tourney continued on Monday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.
KRAMATORSK/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces launched a “special operation” yesterday against separatist militia in the Russian-speaking East, authorities said, although aside from a landing by airborne troops the action was limited.
Professor Norman Girvan, who passed away last week following injuries sustained during a hiking accident in Dominica had, well before his death attained the sobriquet of Caribbean Man for the extent of his academic, policy and practical work over the Caribbean as a whole.
Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque has lauded the Caricom-Chile agreement as a model for South-South co-operation.
NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India’s top court yesterday recognised the country’s long marginalised transgender community as a third gender and, in a landmark judgment lauded by human rights groups, called on the government to ensure their equal treatment.
Timehri Panthers suffered their first defeat when they went under to Grove Hi-Tech by a 2-0 score line when the Stag Beer/East Bank Football Association (EBFA) division-one league continued on Sunday at the Grove Community ground.
Dear Editor, As over fifteen thousand of the nation’s pupils prepare to write the National Grade Six Assessment, it is fitting that we should address some of the related concerns surrounding the assessment and its perceived or real implications vis-à-vis education in Guyana in general.
The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has distributed the energy activity booklet titled What is Energy?
The Ministry of Education yesterday began the first of a series of intensive coaching focus group workshops aimed at further bolstering the quality of teacher educators at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) and the School of Education and Humanities (SEH), University of Guyana (UG).
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist insurgents abducted more than 100 female students in a night raid on a government secondary school in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, a teacher said yesterday.
The Aircraft Owners’ Association of Guyana (AOAG) is disappointed that none of the recommendations made by the aviation industry for its development was addressed in the national budget and that the Parliamentary Opposition has cut funding for the entire aviation sector, including the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Expansion Project.
(Reuters) – A number of news agencies have decided against covering cricket’s Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition in India and the United Arab Emirates, due to the exclusion of some photo agencies from covering matches.
A Lodge man, accused of stealing two doormats, was yesterday fined for the crime after claiming that he no idea that the items had belonged to someone.
Dear Editor, The North Rupununi District Development Board is a fully autonomous Amerindian NGO that has no political, religious or other institutional affiliation.
Dear Editor, As Guyanese endure a 38% increase in gun related robberies, a 37% rise in murders, reports of a kidnapping and the failure of the judicial system to effectively prosecute offenders, we cannot avoid wondering how our anti-crime tax dollars are being used.
A self-professed teacher, accused of threatening to kill his brother, was yesterday granted bail after claiming that the police had been too “jealous” of him to take his own reports of threats.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The Second Annual Caribbean Singlewicket Cricket Tournament, will be held June 14th at UWI SPEC in St.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korean police charged a man on Tuesday for the murder of his 2-year-old son after he confessed to suffocating the child so he could leave the house to go back to playing games at an Internet cafe.
A man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with breaking the feet of another man during a fight over a dog.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – A passenger ferry carrying about 470 people was listing badly off South Korea’s southwest coast and had sent a distress signal, a Korean coast guard official said last night, and a rescue mission was underway.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC– The New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation Incorporated (NEW GPC INC), under its popular Limacol brand, has renewed its sponsorship of the Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News of Tuesday April 15, 2014, under the heading ‘Confusion rages over anti-kidnapping unit,’ in order to clarify what acting Commissioner of Police Mr Seelall Persaud, actually said.
Dear Editor, There are two roads in Golden Grove and Nabaclis which are in dire need of urgent repairs.
A family of seven is now homeless after a fire ripped through their one-bedroom dwelling in Good Hope on the East Coast of Demerara last night, burning it to the ground.
-Hesson WELLINGTON, New Zealand, CMC- Wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi and off-spinner Mark Craig are the new caps named in the New Zealand squad for the upcoming tour to the West Indies.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales personally handed over documents at the International Court of Justice yesterday that support his country’s claim against Chile in an ongoing case that it hopes will win it back the sea access it lost over a century ago.
Dear Editor, Please allow me to say to some of our very learned radio and television announcers and reporters that ever since I was a kid attending school, I was taught about the twenty-four hour day.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, other leaders and survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing shared messages of thanks and defiance yesterday at a tribute to the three people killed and 264 wounded in the attack exactly one year ago.
The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is ready for any elections—regional or national—once so directed, the Committee of Supply heard last evening, when it voted in favour of the $3.3B requested in the national budget for the agency.
(Reuters) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday blasted Jamaican anti-doping officials for the mishandling of a drug test by sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown that led to a successful appeal of the three-time Olympic gold medallist’s two year ban.
Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ position that the “fight against the use of the global financial network for criminal activities is as effective as the weakest link in this chain of effort,” succinctly captures the crux of Guyana’s problem which is again being manifested around the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill (AML/CFT).
Digicel recently partnered with some private sector companies to participate in a Tech Day Camp for Girls, the precursor to the Girls in ICT global movement aimed at fostering more involvement by girls in the Information Communications Technology (ICT).
LONDON, (Reuters) – A doctor will be one of two men to be tried in the UK’s first prosecution for female genital mutilation.
Counter-protest: These protesters yesterday berated the government and Amerindians who were demonstrating outside of Parliament against the opposition’s chopping of the Amerindian Development Fund.
PARIS, (Reuters) – The French Open prize money pool has risen to 25 million euros ($34.54 million) after the country’s tennis federation announced a three million euro increase to overall winnings yesterday.
Dear Editor, It is with great concern that I pen this letter to you.
The records of the Ministry of Education will show that in 2003/4, when I was the minister, it began “discussions with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security (MLHSS) to discuss areas of possible collaboration, e.g.
Protest by Amerindians continues: Members of the Amerindian community continued protests outside of Parliament yesterday over the opposition chopping of the Amerindian Development Fund from the 2014 budget.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The New York Police Department has disbanded a surveillance unit that targeted and monitored Muslim communities, The New York Times reported yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Civil aviation authorities have ramped up monitoring and safety checks on Caribbean Airlines’ fleet of 22 planes in direct response to the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
In the previous column (Apr 2, 2014), we observed two ideas relating to the origins of money – the Metallist view and the Chartalist view.
First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar, President Donald Ramotar, Canadian High Commissioner Dr.
(Trinidad Guardian) Stricken by the fear of being innocently prosecuted for his wife’s kidnapping, Rennie Coolman paid TT$75,000 to a conwoman who promised to assist by bribing senior prosecutors into forgoing investigating him.
Politikles
Dear Editor, In all fairness to former President Jagdeo, I am of the view that he recognized the critical weaknesses, vulnerabilities and fears of Guyanese and orchestrated a cunning plot to not only divide and rule the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) but also our country.
(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic opened his Monte Carlo Masters title defence with a 6-1 6-0 demolition of Spanish qualifier Albert Montanes yesterday to reach the third round.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s sister clashed with an estranged cousin running in the election on an opposition ticket on Tuesday, in a new sign of aggression that partymen hope will draw her deeper into active politics to revive their fortunes.
(Trinidad Express) CONCACAF is challenging Jack Warner’s claim to ownership of the coveted Centre of Excellence in Tunapuna.
(Trinidad Express) ANOTHER Government official is at the centre of a sex scandal.
