Daily Archive: Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) recently made a donation of $200,000 to the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA).

President Donald Ramotar (left) being greeted by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during the Caricom-Mexico Summit this week in Mexico.

L-R – GT&T’s Chief Financial Officer Justin Nedd, GT&T CEO Mr.

The Government of Guyana has revoked the work permit and extension of stay of the Head of the controversial US Leadership and Democracy project.

Thirty-four Peace Corps trainees arrived in Georgetown on the evening of April 29 to complement their 39 colleagues already in service, a release from the US Embassy said today.

Twelve years after his controversial killing at the height of the 2002 crime spree, the inquest into the death of Compton Dolphin Cambridge is set for Friday at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court and eight witnesses are being asked to attend.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Harrison Ford will lead returning and rising stars, including Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis and Oscar Isaac, for the anticipated new “Star Wars: Episode VII” film, Walt Disney Co and Lucasfilm said on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Observer) MANDEVILLE, Manchester — THE police were up to late last night carrying out investigations into yesterday’s brutal murder of a woman and her two sons in Ramble District, near Porus in this parish.

Local Government elections have not been held since 1994. They were first due in 1997 and since then there has been a series of postponements for various reasons.

-lawyer says accused victims of police brutality, rigged ID parade Two men accused of killing Patsan Trading salesman Bharrat Ramcharan were remanded to prison after being charged with the capital offence at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.

Human rights activist Karen de Souza yesterday said that she felt the PNC government killed Working People’s Alliance (WPA) co-leader Dr.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will be cracking down on self-employed tax evaders, who according to Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur pay less than 25% of the required taxes.

-collusion with GPL workers suspectedIllegal electricity connections were yesterday removed during a raid by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) of Skull City, Patentia and Long Pond, Sister’s Village on the West Bank Demerara.

-Inquiry chairman Several weeks after political activist and historian Dr. Walter Rodney was killed, Sir Richard Cheltenham QC delivered a glowing tribute to him during a memorial service in Barbados.

An 18-year-old boy died when the car he was in, PLL 4632 crashed into a parked car at Vriesland, West Bank Demerara at approximately 11:00 pm on Sunday.

A suspected rapist was fatally shot by a policeman yesterday after he reportedly attacked the rank with a cutlass at Kuru Kururu on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

The House of Israel was a “hit squad” with links to the police and the then PNC Government and among its members was the prime suspect in the 1980 murder of Dr.

The failure of police witnesses appearing in court to offer evidence in the trial of Odeda Underwood, who stands accused of causing the death of the late Chief Librarian Gillian Thompson by driving dangerously, resulted in an adjournment of the trial yesterday.

A post Mortem Examina-tion (PME) is expected to be conducted today on the body of Wayne Giddings who died on Monday following an accident at Goedverwagting Railway Embankment Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

A property dispute stemming from Jagwandai Ramnauth’s sale of her home is believed to be the motive behind her death.

Justice Navindra Singh will today rule on the admissibility of a statement allegedly given by murder accused Charles Colwyn Cush, when his trial continues in the High Court.

Things have not been the same since the general elections in November 2011, though, as Guyanese would say, the outcomes – or at least the majority of them – were hardly anything to write home about, anyway.

An altercation between two inmates at the New Amsterdam Prisons has left one critically injured after he was stabbed with an ice pick yesterday afternoon.

By David A. Granger Hinterland Guyana comprises over three-quarters of this country’s territory.

Address by Dr. the Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves Prime Minister of St.

-Blackwood, Ambris score breakthrough hundreds GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Two promising batsmen, Jermaine Blackwood and Sunil Ambris, featured prominently with breakthrough hundreds before Jamaica claimed the Headley/Weekes Trophy with a tame draw against Windward Islands in the Final yesterday here.

(Cricinfo) A few days ago, individual brilliance from Chris Lynn had given Kolkata Knight Riders a win from nowhere, which sparked wild celebrations.

Once I had read and re-read Dr Ralph Gonsalves’s address to the opening of the Twenty Fifth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government it was inevitable that it would be set aside for publication in this issue of the Guyana Review.

Two municipalities yesterday signed their first ever HIV/AIDS declaration with a vision of Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS-Related Deaths.

World title hopeful, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell will shift his training camp to the United States of America (USA) from Friday, ahead of his May 24 bout in Mexico.

Capitol News Director Enrico Woolford shares his views on media issues with the Guyana ReviewGR: When you think of media freedom what do you consider to be its key elements?

An essay on Gabriel Garcia MarquezBy Robert Kiely To speak of a land of enchantment, even in reference to a contemporary novel, is to conjure up images of elves, moonbeams and slippery mountains.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association yesterday banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the game for life for racist comments that outraged players, fans and the U.S.

President of the Rice Producers Association and PPP/C Member of Parliament, Dharamkumar Seeraj says there is no middleman profiting from the rice deal with Venezuela.

Dear Editor, Now that an Inquiry into the circumstances leading up to Dr Walter Rodney’s death is to be undertaken I wish to express my concern for the National Unity Monument – a Walter Rodney memorial which the ruling People’s Progressive Party/government has desecrated and has since made inaccessible to myself and the public following the construction of the National Intelligence Centre on the lawns of Castellani House.

Mark Wiltshire has teamed up with La Belle Hotel and Bar to stage a four-day dominoes tournament commencing tonight at the club’s Norton Street, Lodge, Location from 7:30 p.m.

The Guyana Defence Force has signed a new Collective Labour Agreement with the Guyana Labour Union (GLU).

Boyd Tonkin recalls a recent pilgrimage to the former home of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Cartagena and marvels at a writer whose fantasies helped define a country and continentLast September, I might easily have died in Cartagena de Indias.

Dear Editor, We read yesterday from another section of the national press that “several squatter farmers have been advised to discontinue farming on Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and state lands.

Alfred Mentore who was recently reelected president of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) is vowing to continue the hard work in a bid to groom and churn out the country’s future top players even as he attempts to turn the club into Guyana’s premier sporting facility.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is alarmed that key constitutional commissions necessary for good governance remain inactive.

Evaluation of nutritional, chemical, textural and sensory characteristics of goat milk ice cream manufactured with three different levels of Caprine milk fatNew research has been launched at Fort Valley State University for development of goat milk ice cream and its quality evaluation.

Under the Community Roads Improvement Programme (CRIP) tenders were yesterday received for major rehabilitative road works in Regions 3, 4, 5 and 6.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan players will be fined and face being dropped from the team if they do not meet required fitness standards in new plans designed by the national selection committee to prepare for the 2015 World Cup.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Football Federation Conference held on April 26, 2014, was indeed an interesting one.

For several years now the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organiza-tion (FAO) has been urging a more robust response by countries to what is widely believed to be an impending global food crisis.

A woman was yesterday released on bail after denying that she doused a man with gasoline.

He was an unstinting advocate for Caribbean integration, with a vision that encompassed the entire region as one civilization.

-Atlanta stun Pacers with three point barrage (The Sports Xchange) -The Atlanta Hawks made a franchise-best 15 3-pointers as they moved within one win of stunning the top-seeded Indiana Pacers 107-97 in their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series.

Dear Editor, Tomorrow we celebrate. Tomorrow we will also lay bare some of what is real about workers and citizens in this society.

Caught red-handed stealing a helmet, self-described “smoke man” Mahesh Sarjoo was yesterday sentenced to three months in prison.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-Top American sprinter, Justin Gatlin, says he is aiming to run a faster time when he competes in the 100 metres at the IAAF World Challenge Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday.

Deborah Jan Osman-Backer, Attorney-at-Law, former Deputy Speaker and Member of the National Assembly, died on Friday March 21, 2014, at the age of 54.

Two municipalities yesterday signed their first ever HIV/AIDS declaration with a vision of Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS-Related Deaths.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Mr Seelall Persaud, Commissioner of Police (ag) who recently visited Albouystown – a crime hot spot – and launched ‘Albouystown Impact.’

LUHANSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Hundreds of pro-Moscow separatists stormed government buildings in one of Ukraine’s provincial capitals yesterday and fired on police holed up in a regional headquarters, a major escalation of their revolt despite new Western sanctions on Russia.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – Real Madrid’s world record signing Gareth Bale looked forward to his first Champions League final after a 4-0 thrashing of holders Bayern Munich yesterday and said it was exactly why he wanted to join the Spanish side.

Veteran Guyanese broadcaster and media administrator, Terrence O. Holder died on Wednesday Janauay 8, 2014 following a prolonged illness at the age of seventy- three.

Dear Editor, Over the years I observed that the government has been bailing out rice millers with large sums of money to pay rice farmers, although there was a EU facility which was set up for millers to access loans at Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry.

(Jamaica Observer) The country was still waiting for a response from the Government, up to press time Monday, to news reports that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has raised concerns about the bidding process for the proposed 381-megawatt plant which could affect financing of the project by the contractor, Energy World International (EWI).

Born sixty-two years ago in the East Coast Demerara village of Plaisance, Clarke attended Queen’s College from 1962-1969 where he established a reputation as an outstanding student and a know sportsman.

“The finance minister in a Third World country should have the ability to present his annual budget as a package that cannot be amended, only approved or denied as a whole ….

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board will review the life ban for match fixing imposed on the country’s former captain Saleem Malik on the recommendation of a judicial inquiry commission, PCB chairman Najam Sethi said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Huge queues at supermarkets and shortages of basic products have become the norm in Venezuela over the last year – and the most needy are increasingly at the sharp edge.

Damien James, a repeat offender, will be serving a four-month prison term after admitting to the theft of a spray can.

Dear Editor, The village of Port Mourant is well known in Guyana for being the birthplace of Dr Cheddi Jagan and also for being the home of the historic Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC).

The vast majority of parents send their children off to school every day hoping that they would do well though a smaller number actually address the formal education of their children from the standpoint of a carefully laid out plan designed to – as far as possible – ensure that they do well.

Dear Editor, Brigadier (rtd) Granger sure is giving the Grand Old Duke of York a run for his money with the way the PNC is behaving towards the Rodney Commission of Inquiry.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. FBI will create a unit to help trace the assets of corrupt foreign leaders, to complement an existing group of prosecutors focused on the issue, Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The basketball world was united in their support for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver following his decision to ban Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fine him $2.5 million for racist comments.

The PPP/C administration has never given the impression that it sets much store by foreign affairs, as a consequence of which it has never invested the kind of resources which would have allowed it to frame a policy reflective of this country’s longer term interests, or build up the expertise which would allow it to respond in anything other than an ad hoc way to unanticipated situations.

The purpose of this column is to propose a non-exhaustive list of possible solutions for the crisis facing the sugar industry, a crisis mainly brought about by several political decisions over the years.

The new Protected Areas Commission (PAC) building in the National Park was last evening officially commissioned by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds performing the duties of President, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Robert Persaud, and German Ambassador to Guyana Stefan Schluter.

Staff of the Labour Ministry releasing balloons yesterday in honour of those workers who would have died on the job as a result of accidents or otherwise.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Legislator, Carl Breeveld, did not go easy on the government last night in parliament during the budget debates.