Daily Archive: Monday, September 29, 2014

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Guyana Power and Light this afternoon said it will be forced to load shed over the next two days.

On Tuesday, September 16, 2013, the British High Commissioner, Andrew Ayre and wife, Bettina Ayre hosted a farewell lunch for the 2014/2015 Chevening Scholars, Roovindra Singh who will be pursuing a MSc in Structural Design and Construction Management with Sustainability at Kingston University and Joann Bond an LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 2040h.

At about 2145h yesterday, the police say that businessman Lejum Jhang, 62 years, of 111 Miles, Mahdia was robbed by four masked men, three of whom were armed with firearms.

Guns are still being fired by owners of moored boats on the Demerara River, a year after the death of 14-year-old Ryan Persaud, who was fatally injured by a stray bullet which was fired from a moored boat in front of his house at a Vive la Force resident.

The 130 kilometre road built by logging company Baishanlin in the Region Six forests appears to be in violation of the law as it was built without an impact assessment being done or approval being given for the construction, and conflicting reports given by several top officials as it relates to the process raise further questions about how the Chinese company operates here.

The police have said they have launched no investigation into a rape allegation by a young Amerindian woman who says that she was drugged and raped recently in Mahdia but instead are investigating assault causing actually bodily harm.

Despite the absence of some big names and the Group four drivers, yesterday’s GMR&SC’s ‘Race of Champions’ meet had some scintillating performances.

Raynauth Jeffrey rode off with the Alanzo Greaves ‘Dash For Cash’ 30-lap winner’s trophy yesterday at the National Park but second place finisher Greaves rode to the bank.

The ruling PPP is entering a new phase of its history where its electoral majority cannot be sustained because of longevity in office and demographic changes, former PPP stalwart Ralph Ramkarran says even as he noted that the party is misreading the mood of the electorate.

The recent visit by top executives of the Tate and Lyle Sugar Company earlier this month was “nothing out of the ordinary” according to Ross Hall, the Associate Director of Ketchum London, the firm charged with the sugar company’s public relations.

With the absence of Cleveland Forde another Cleveland stepped up to win yesterday’s Courts 10km road race.

By Cosmo Hamilton When that fateful day September 13, 2014 came as West Indies 500th Test match was recorded, one got the distinct impression that the gifted left-hander Leon Johnson was ready to take his place in the annals of Test history as a batsman, regardless of whomever the opposition might have been – whether it were Australia, India, England or Bangladesh, even in the unaccustomed role of opening batsman.

Dear Editor, The principle of reparations is as old as warfare and humankind and is well established in international law.

The Venezuelan border controversy was one of the issues discussed when Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett met United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Friday.

Dear Editor, We are just over two months away from the Christmas season and we are now greeted by blackouts on a daily basis for over eight to twelve hours.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Riot police advanced on Hong Kong democracy protesters in the early hours today, firing volleys of tear gas after launching a baton-charge in the worst unrest there since China took back control of the former British colony two decades ago.

The Ministry of Health on Saturday signed a five-year Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) with the National Health and Family Planning Ministry of China to strengthen health policies, human resource training and disease control in both countries.

Interviews and photos by Desilon Daniels and Suraj Narine Ghansham, porter – ‘I would usually read newspapers and every Sunday I buy papers.

Dear Editor, While the showcase distribution of books by the Ministry of Education is highlighted in the media as an Education Month activity, one wonders how many of our schools in Guyana have an active library with a librarian attached.

Almost two months after Bernadette Campbell was shot and robbed in a route 44 bus at Plaisance on July 29, she remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

MOHALI, India, CMC – Barbados Tridents produced a limp all-round effort to crash out of the Champions League Twenty20, after going down by six wickets to Hobart Hurricanes here yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s increasingly powerful evangelical Christians are tantalizingly close to electing one of their own as president next month in what would be a historic shift for the world’s largest Catholic nation.

MOHALI, India, CMC – Head coach Desmond Haynes believes Barbados Tridents have done themselves and the entire Caribbean proud despite their elimination from the ongoing Champions League Twenty20 tournament here.

Mother of Parfaite Harmonie fire survivors expressed fear that the second suspect fingered in the arson/murder may return to “finish the job.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become “ground zero” for jihadists worldwide, President Barack Obama said in a CBS television interview broadcast yesterday.

On 27 October 2014, citizens across Ontario, including the cities of Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton where most of the estimated 100,000 Guyanese in Canada live, will be electing new Mayors and City Councillors.

Dear Editor, I recently returned from Guyana after a five-day trip.

One wonders why the Guyanese public continues to have to suffer the agony of charter-type operations with inadequate resources and tenuous relations with their air carriers.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – In a glitzy show of lights, lasers and slogans, populist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a triumphal address to tens of thousands of Indian-Americans and US dignitaries in New York on Sunday, less than a decade after he was barred from the United States over bloody sectarian riots.

Dear Editor, When a person has attained the age of 65 years they are entitled to receive an old age pension from the government once an application has been made and the relevant documents to support the application have been submitted.

By Savitri Persaud Savitri Persaud was born in Guyana and spent part of her childhood in Moblissa, off the Linden Highway, and in Bellevue, West Bank Demerara.

President Donald Ramotar has called on Guyanese living in the United States to return home and invest in the country’s economy, GINA said.