Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 29, 2014

City Councillors yesterday deferred consideration of a no confidence motion against Finance Committee Chairman Junior Garrett but they asked numerous questions over resources being used by Town Clerk Carol Sooba The motion, due to be considered at City Hall’s statutory meeting, contained 10 whereas clauses and stated, among other things, that Garrett approved the release of money without consultations, including $500,000 spent on legal fees for the Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba and on non-priority items like a $409,000 sofa for the Town Clerk’s office.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese police shot dead dozens of knife-wielding attackers Monday morning after they staged assaults on two towns in the western region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – England batsman Moeen Ali has been banned from wearing wristbands featuring the slogans “Save Gaza” and “Free Palestine”, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced today.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – President Hamid Karzai’s powerful cousin, a close ally of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed today in a suicide bomb attack at his home, the governor’s office in the southern province of Kandahar said.

Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon yesterday said despite the rift torn between the PNCR and some Linden groups in the recent weeks, he and other “disenfranchised” members remain committed to the party and to working to ensure the grievances are resolved.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is preparing to move motions seeking the referral of the Alliance for Change (AFC) parliamentarians Khemraj Ramjattan and Catherine Hughes to the Privileges Committee.

Despite a court ruling nullifying the recent birth certificate requirement for passport applications, the Central Immigration and Passport Office is asking all applicants to produce birth documents issued no more than two years ago.

The bodies of two Corentyne fishermen, who went missing after an alleged pirate attack at sea, yesterday washed ashore in Bush Lot, Berbice.

Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green has filed a lawsuit against acting Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba, seeking $15 million in damages for defamation.

President Donald Ramotar on Saturday said that the readiness of the society has to be taken into consideration before changing anti-gay laws.

By Delvon Mc Ewan   Inspired by leg-spinner Steven Sankar’s five-wicket haul on the final day of the second round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under-19 match, Guyana recorded a convincing four-wicket victory over the Windward Islands yesterday at the Everest Cricket Club ground.

By Cosmo Hamilton   Ronsford Beaton, the lanky lithe prototype 21 year old fast bowler blessed with considerable raw talent, just two days earlier was entrusted with the immense responsibility of bowling the final over and the decisive delivery – the 6th ball of the 20th over to a well set Darren Bravo, the prolific West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel batsman needing six runs to give his team a moral boosting vengeful victory before a raucous crowd at the Queen’s Park Oval, this after losing a heartbreaker to Guyana at Providence in another CPL nail-biter just days earlier in a super over.

Team Guyana suffered mixed fortunes on the track, the court, the rifle ranges and the ring for day five of the ongoing Commonwealth Games is Glasgow, Scotland.

Vidol Rawlins, who allegedly fatally stabbed his wife Candy Rawlins more than a week ago at their Crane, West Coast Demerara home is still at large said the Police Crime Chief.

The Guyana Police Force has launched an investigation into the reported discharge of a gun during the PNCR’s 18th Biennial Congress on Sunday afternoon, Crime Chief Leslie James has confirmed.

A Buxton resident charged with wounding another man, was placed on bail yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

The National Secretary for the youth arm of the PNCR has vowed to renounce the party over verbal abuse he has suffered at the hands of fellow group members for supporting Aubrey Norton’s aborted leadership campaign “I’m resigning completely from the party, I don’t see myself making an impact in the PNC anymore,” Adel Lily declared yesterday, even as the head of the Guyana Youth       and Student Movement (GYSM) said whatever verbal repercussions Lily suffered were likely the result of inappropriate comments he posted on his Facebook page.

Returned PNCR leader David Granger said the party is yet to discuss whether it will support the no-confidence motion the Alliance For Change (AFC) has vowed to bring against the government because it is yet to receive a draft of the document.

An autopsy carried out on the skeletal remains of an unidentified woman, found in a clump of bushes along the Turkeyen Road, East Coast Demerara last Thursday, revealed that the woman was stabbed several times to her abdomen, police said.

For the first time in Guyana’s history a Men’s Physique exhibition will hit the National Senior Championship stage.

Nicola Joseph who allegedly stabbed her reputed husband to death on July 21, at their Plantain Walk, West Coast Demerara home, was charged with murder and remanded to prison last Wednesday.

Former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member Sherwood Lowe has expressed disappointment that the party time and time again has failed to address the management of its election process, resulting in another situation where members were forced to take their frustrations to the public.

President Donald Ramotar in a meeting with Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe in Trinidad & Tobago yesterday encouraged Jap-anese companies to invest in mining in Guyana.

A 52-year-old woman accused of stealing a toilet set and a kitchen sink belonging to the Ministry of Housing and Water was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $40,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Dellon Bess at the Georgetown Magis-trates’ Court.

Trinidad & Tobago opener Amir Jangoo stroked a masterful century to help his team to a draw against Barbados yesterday in the second round of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional U19 tournament played at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Dear Editor, It is more than one shot fired in the air.

Dear Editor,   Please permit me to thank Esther Robinson for the letter published in Stabroek News dated July 26, 2014.

Dear Editor, In your news article, ‘Riehl says Granger “too aloof,”’ (July 28), former Deputy House Speaker and PNCR executive, Clarissa Riehl is reported as describing Mr David Granger as “an aloof leader who stands aside” when he should be more involved in the management of the party.

Dear Editor, The whole sordid affair that took place over the weekend at the PNC Congress serves as a reminder that our political leaders are failing the people and are afraid to embrace the tenets of what true democracy is all about.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply disappointed” the Netherlands released a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief detained over US drug trafficking allegations, and is “disturbed” at reports indicating Caracas used threats to obtain his freedom, the State Department said yesterday.

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A grim-faced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned yesterday of a protracted war in Gaza, dashing any hopes of a swift end to the three-week conflict as Palestinian fighters launched an audacious cross-border raid.

Dear Editor, The bitter and angry outcries that rang out at the PNC Congress over the weekend have once again driven the final nail into the PNCR chances of defeating the PPP and forming the next government.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will be hosting a card on Saturday at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Gym geared towards the inclusion of the fistic sport in the annual Inter Guiana Games (IGG).

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – Ian Bell returned to form in spectacular fashion with a superb 167 and debutant Jos Buttler also shone to help England strengthen their dominant position over India on the second day of the third test yesterday.

Dear Editor, The UGSS President acted ultra vires in representing the students on the fee increase issue.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi police found 15 corpses yesterday, including three women shot in the head, in a bloody start to the holiday ending the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, security sources said.

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a trade show and a petrol station in northern Nigeria’s biggest city of Kano yesterday, killing one other person and injuring at least six others, police and a military source said.

Dear Editor, Guyana Water Inc has by way of a press release informed its consumers about the disconnection of water services for outstanding payments for the period up to June 2014.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Leeward Islands suffered a wobble before pulling off a nervous two-wicket victory over Jamaica, on the final day of their Regional Under-19 Championship contest here yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Organisers of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League say they are pleased with the second edition of the regional Twenty20 tournament, despite a lukewarm start two weeks ago.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A UN Security Council committee yesterday blacklisted the operator of a North Korean ship, which was seized near the Panama Canal last year for smuggling Soviet-era arms, including two MiG-21 jet fighters, under thousands of tonnes of sugar.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said yesterday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – South Africa reclaimed top spot in cricket’s test rankings after grimly hanging on for a draw in the second and final test against Sri Lanka yesterday to win the series 1-0.

Dear Editor, While much has been written about Georgetown, its environs, and the causes of its putrid state, there is one little aspect that I feel needs to be highlighted and brought to our collective attention.

It would be naïve of the People’s National Congress/Reform to pretend that it can now assume what one might call an ‘as you were’ position following the proceedings at last weekend’s Congress.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – England batsman Moeen Ali is being investigated by the International Cricket Council (ICC) after wearing wristbands that featured the slogans ‘Save Gaza’ and ‘Free Palestine’ during the second day of the third test against India at Southampton.

Dear Editor, It often amazes me what passes for news in Guyana.