Daily Archive: Friday, August 29, 2014

Natural Resources Minister, Robert Persaud addressing the WWF Community Monitoring Reporting and Verification (CMRV) System at Duke Lodge, Georgetown today.

This morning members of the government’s “Clean-Up My Country” Programme Implementation Committee met with a community representative from the Stevedore Housing Scheme to inspect the areas where work is required as outlined in the community’s proposal for cleanup activities.

This morning members of the government’s “Clean-Up My Country” Programme Implementation Committee met with a community representative from the Stevedore Housing Scheme to inspect the areas where work is required as outlined in the community’s proposal for cleanup activities.

This morning members of the government’s “Clean-Up My Country” Programme Implementation Committee met with a community representative from the Stevedore Housing Scheme to inspect the areas where work is required as outlined in the community’s proposal for cleanup activities.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Eldon Sampson, 25 years, of Craig, EBD, who was found with multiple injuries on the roadway at Samantha Point, Grove, EBD, at about 1045h.

The police say that Elizabeth Henry, 52 years, of 4 Miles, Bartica, succumbed at the Bartica Hospital, while receiving medical treatment after she was reportedly struck by lightning at about 1430h.

Russian Ambassador to Guyana, Nikolay D. Smirnov addressed a packed audience at the GAWU’s Conference Room in Georgetown on August 28, 2014 on the origins and developments of the current turmoil in the Ukraine, a release from GAWU said today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Suriname President Desi Bouterse’s son pleaded guilty today to charges of attempting to aid Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Veteran West Indies batsman Guyanese Shivnarine Chanderpaul will represent St Kitts & Nevis against Bangladesh in three-day match starting tomorrow, August 30 at Warner Park in St Kitts.

(Trinidad Express) With a vote of 18 for and 12 against, the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2014 was passed in the Upper House, Tower D, International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain, last night.

Alpha United’s dismal showing in the CONCACAF Champions League continued yesterday as they were blown away 6-0 by Honduran outfit Olimpia FC at the Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino in Honduras.

Brazilian officials have reiterated the political commitment of Brasilia to proposed infrastructure projects here including the hydropower project in the Mazaruni and the Linden-Lethem road.

The Ministry of Agricul-ture and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) yesterday signed nine contracts worth  $697.3 million for the construction of drainage pump stations and sluices.

The body that washed up at the Kitty foreshore has been identified as a West Ruimveldt woman, who had been mentally ill.

Police on Wednesday evening made an arrest in relation to the fatal shooting of Debra Blackman, according to Crime Chief Leslie James.

A manager of Princess Hotel’s casino was yesterday charged with chucking a patron.

Canadian oil explorer CGX Energy Inc yesterday reported that the High Court here has upheld an injunction against Spanish oil producer Repsol Exploracion, S.A.

Magistrate Sunil Scarce remanded a 33-year-old self-employed man charged with abducting a man and for possession of 83 and a half grammes of narcotics when he on Tuesday appeared in court.

To date some 8128 pensioners are benefiting from the 50% hike in the electricity subsidy announced in this year’s budget, GINA said yesterday.

Jocelyn Dow, an associate of historian Dr. Walter Rodney, has described her friend’s death as a “state-sanctioned” act in a time when she and several others feared for their lives daily.

A 16-year-old is among three young men accused of a gun-point seawall hold-up in which a car was stolen.

Government’s holding company, NICIL will once again act as facilitator for the sale of a property owned by the State Planning Secretariat (SPS).

A miner was yesterday released on $100,000 bail after denying that he stole a quantity of raw gold from his employer.

Addressing miners at an outreach in Port Kaituma, Region One on Wednes-day, Minister of Natural Resources and the Envi-ronment Robert Persaud said he shares some of their worry and concerns of the residents with regards to the roads in the community, having seen first hand their condition.

On Wednesday, members of the Private Sector Commission met with Norman Whittaker, Minister of Local Government and Regional Develop-ment and the “Clean-Up My Country” Programme Implementa-tion Committee.

An autopsy performed on the remains of Mohamed Bacchus, the fisherman who was killed in a hit and run accident along the Carifesta Avenue last Saturday, has found that he died of multiple injuries.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The West Indies hierarchy must give new chairman of selectors Clive Lloyd a free rein to make the changes that will inspire a turnaround in fortunes for the national team, according to batting great Gordon Greenidge.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President yesterday announced that Guyana will be moving to introduce online processing of visa applications.

Chargé d’ Affaires of the US Embassy Bryan Hunt spoke on Tuesday in Kuru Kuru with participants of  Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World), a US Peace Corps initiative, a release from the US Embassy said yesterday.

Crime Chief Leslie James said police have not made any arrests for the murder of 20-year-old Nickel Leacock, who was knifed to death in Blackwater Backdam, Region Eight.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai and Head of the Office of Climate Change Gitanjali Chandarpal on Monday conducted an outreach exercise in Kato and nearby villages in Region Eight to further sensitise residents on the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

An efficient method of timing and accurately assessing close finishes  will finally be a reality for track meets in Guyana.

All-rounder Kellon Carmichael says that he intends to put all the training he endured during his stint with the English Club Hadleigh and Thundersley during the 2014 Essex county Division One League season into practice upon his return to the local circuit.

New Road Eagles continued their undefeated run in the Stag Beer 5-aside-football tournament, defeating Showtime by a 1-0 score line on Wednesday at the Vergenoegen Rice Mill Tarmac.

The International Rugby Board will become World Rugby from November 19, 2014 as part of a major rebranding programme.

Best known until now as home to the Essequibo Boys School (renamed the New Opportunity Corps), a corrective institution for young offenders, Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast will shortly become the locale for a facility that is likely to be much more pleasing to its guests.

A year ago, a Ministry of Education official had told this newspaper that it would be “another story” when the full reality of published texts becomes apparent.

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) is gearing up to host the third leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Association (CMRA) on November 18 with aspirations of defending home turf and topping the points stable.

The Golden Jaguars senior squad led by a Delroy Fraser first half hat trick, defeated East Bank of Demerara unit Grove Hi-Tech by a 3-1 margin in their third practice fixture yesterday at the Tucville Community ground.

It has been almost two years since a delegation from Trinidad and Tobago headed by that country’s Food Production Minister Devant Maraj came to Guyana and held talks with local officials including Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy about an arrangement that would have seen large tracts of local lands being leased by Trinidad and Tobago farmers for the creation of mega farms, the produce from which was to have been shipped directly to the twin-island Republic.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Former West Indies stroke-maker Sir Richie Richardson has hailed Denesh Ramdin’s recent hundred against Bangladesh as one of the best ever one-day innings.

Dear Editor,   Heritage Month celebration is once again here so kindly permit me to share some reflections and suggestions on this special occasion for the sake of history, the memory of those who played a useful role in its early visioning, and for the young and others so they would know the significance of the Indigenous peoples of this beautiful land of ours.

Hassan Mohamed will wrap up the 38th annual ‘Teach Them Young’ eight-week clinic tomorrow in the National Park with the staging of an 11-race programme.

(Reuters) – In-form Rory McIlroy has set his sights on dislodging Hunter Mahan from the top of the FedExCup standings after this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship in Massachusetts on a course he says is ideally suited to his game.

(Trinidad Express) Once the People’s National Movement (PNM) is voted into office they will immediately repeal the Constitu-tion (Amendment) Bill, 2014 if it is passed in the Upper House, Opposition Senator Camille Robinson-Regis has said.

Dear Editor,   No-confidence motions seem to be a popular agenda item at statutory meetings of some Municipal Councils and Neighbourhood Democratic Councils, the most recent ones being at the city council’s recent statutory meetings of Monday, August 25, 2014.

ZURICH (Reuters) – Botswana’s Nijel Amos repeated his Common-wealth Games win over Olympic champion David Rudisha in the men’s 800 metres at the Weltklasse meeting in Zurich yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States openly accused Russia yesterday of sending combat forces into Ukraine and threatened to tighten economic sanctions, but Washington stopped short of calling Moscow’s intensified support for separatist forces an invasion.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Genetic studies of some of the earliest Ebola cases in Sierra Leone reveal more than 300 genetic changes in the virus as it leapt from person to person, changes that could blunt the effectiveness of diagnostic tests and experimental treatments now in development, researchers said on Thursday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney was named the new captain of England yesterday.

Dear Editor, I was wondering if it is at all possible for City Hail to quit bickering and do just one thing to endear themselves to the populace?

It would appear that the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is not ready to give up on the idea of having small businesses become members of the Chamber even though, knowing what we do about the way in which the Chamber has been traditionally organised and the manner in which those businesses that we call small businesses are organised, the Chamber is embracing quite a challenge.

VENICE, (Reuters) – Former “Batman” star Michael Keaton gave a soaring start to the 71st Venice Film Festival on Wednesday as a crestfallen superhero in “Birdman”, a film its Mexican director Alexandro Inarritu called an experiment that could have failed miserably.

Dear Editor, Calypso has been a part of our culture ever since its creation, and it is sad today to see this art form disappearing with no help for its revival in sight.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s army stepped into a political struggle between the country’s embattled prime minister and the opposition yesterday, signalling a possible end to a crisis that has destabilised the coup-prone nation.

This small craft is performing a service to residents of the Pomeroon River that belies its size and appearance.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States openly accused Russia yesterday of sending combat forces into Ukraine and threatened to tighten economic sanctions, but Washington stopped short of calling Moscow’s intensified support for separatist forces an invasion.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies team manager Sir Richie Richardson has backed the regional side to use the momentum from the successful one-day series and also dominate Bangladesh in the upcoming Test series.

The twenty or so farmers who had assembled in a storage bond at Land of Plenty belonging to rice miller Ramesh Ramotar had done so at the invitation of the miller.

MONACO, (Reuters) – UEFA president Michel Platini ruled himself out of the running for the most powerful job in football yesterday, saying he “could not convince himself” that opposing incumbent Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency was the right thing to do.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – American singer and actor Harry Belafonte, French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, Japanese animated film director Hayao Miyazaki and Irish actress Maureen O’Hara will be honored with Governors Awards, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – World number ones Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams sailed through brisk winds to dismiss overmatched opponents yesterday and land comfortably in the third round of the U.S.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Only 28 deliveries were possible as rain wrecked the one-off Twenty20 International between West Indies and Bangladesh here Wednesday night.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Women venture capitalists underperform their male counterparts by some 15 percent, according to a new Harvard University study, but the performance differences have narrowed over time and in firms that employ more than a single female venture partner.

Dear Editor, People have often said they have many associates but few friends.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, CMC – International Cricket Council chief executive, David Richardson, believes Australia and New Zealand are on track to deliver a first class Cricket World Cup next year.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Eighth seed Andy Murray, who overcame cramping in his first-round victory, roared past unseeded German Matthias Bachinger in straight sets yesterday to reach the third round of the U.S.

(Barbados Nation) Even in death, George Linton couldn’t be separated from his one and true love – cricket.

(Reuters) – Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Hollywood’s first couple, married in France over the weekend following a two-year engagement, ending nearly a decade of fevered tabloid speculation over whether “Brangelina” would ever tie the knot.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 578’s trading results showed consideration of $2,240,110 from 56,314 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 577’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,814,061 from 100,250 shares traded in 11 transactions.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica— Minister of Agriculture Roger Clarke died yesterday.

Dear Editor,   We on the East Coast Demerara have had enough of cricket politics.

Dear Editor,   I wish to express my concerns regarding persons who have come to my office to make enquiries in relation to applications made to the Canadian Embassy for non-resident visas.

Aadil Baksh belongs to the third generation of the family that migrated from the Essequibo island of Wakenaam more than sixty years ago to Plantation Affiance where, today, the business complex known as Imam Bacchus and Sons extends over 300 acres of what used to be a sugar estate.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Alastair Cook’s misery over his side’s one-day humbling at the hands of India was compounded yesterday when he was fined 20 percent of his match fee for a slow over rate.

I know that I have had cause to express my curious appreciation of those columnists and dedicated letter writers – based in Georgetown and overseas – who, virtually, daily, lambaste Bharrat Jagdeo, his heirs and wannabes, most relentlessly with a view to regime change.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 U.N.

Last Friday’s editorial on the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) came close to being a purist’s lament for the lost virtues of Test cricket in the region and a hankering for the halcyon days of West Indies cricket.

Omar Khan Manager of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Team presents a cricket bat with the signatures of all the players to President Donald Ramotar yesterday as Trevor Bassoo, Marketing Manager of the team looks on.

Agriculture Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy (centre) along with representatives of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and the recipients of contracts for the building of pump stations, sluices and consultancy services.