Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 8, 2014

(Trinidad Express) The official vehicle of Attorney General Anand Ramlogan was involved in a crash outside the South Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA) in San Fernando last night, shortly before the official opening of the V111 Americas Competitiveness Forum.

The Ministry of Education this evening announced that its $10,000 cash grant distribution to parents of children in the public school system will be launched on Saturday.

Guyanese singer, Mortimer Softley aka Natural Black (right) paid a courtesy call on President Donald Ramotar today at the Office of the President.

At about 1230h. today, the police say they conducted a search on a house at Lancaster, Mahaica, ECD, during which an unlicensed .45 Ruger Pistol along with 56 matching rounds were found.

(Cricinfo) No Sunil Narine, no Chris Gayle, losses in the two practice games followed by a dispute between players and the board on the eve of the first match.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, died this morning at a Dallas hospital, a hospital spokesman said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, one of dozens of actresses, models and celebrities whose intimate images have been posted online, spoke about the photo hacking scandal for the first time on Tuesday, saying it is a crime and sexual violation.

(Trinidad Express)  A terrorist working with the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria has been identified as an El Socorro man who was also deported from the United States.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) was spared a major embarrassment after its leading players, who had issued a strike threat following a row with their own union, showed up for the tour opener against India today.

Chinese company Bais-hanlin International Forest Development Inc says it has not constructed a new road in the Rupununi but has “merely upgraded old roads and trails through existing forest concessions and onto one of its State Forest Exploratory Areas (SFEP)”.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) filed criminal charges related to tax evasion against publisher and owner of the Kaieteur News Mohan ‘Glenn’ Lall almost two weeks ago and up to press time last evening the businessman was still to be served a summons or formally told of the proceedings.

The Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security yesterday expressed “absolute disgust” over the publication of images of children involved in sexual acts in the state-owned Guyana Chronicle and on social media.

No fish has ever gotten under my skin quite like the arapaima.

Rehabilitation works on airstrips in the hinterland will soon begin as the Ministry of Public Works yesterday received bids for the project.

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday said that the AFC’s no-confidence motion against the government seems to be “in limbo” but the ruling party is preparing itself for any eventuality.

Dynamic Airlines is gearing to resume flights between Guyana and the United States late next month after the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) lifted its suspension and granted approval for the carrier to operate to a variety of destinations in South America.

By Pushpa Balgobin in Paramaribo, Suriname   Praedial larceny is responsible for up to US$390 million in agriculture losses annually across the Caribbean region, Technical Advisor to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States on behalf of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s sub-regional office, Reuben Stewart says.

The PPP is protesting the decision by the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) to hire public relations consultant Richard François as its public relations officer, saying that he is politically-aligned.

Cheddi (Joey) Jagan (Jr), who was a candidate for the PPP/C at the 2011 general elections, has called on the government to convene local government elections before the end of the year.

A Queenstown, Essequibo Coast man was yesterday sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of assaulting his aged father.

By Pushpa Balgobin in Paramaribo, Suriname   Four years after the Caricom trade council initiated a committee to begin implementation of comprehensive Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures (which ensure plant health and safety for export) Guyana is slated to be one of the countries responsible for moving the process along.

Former prison officer Akeem Vyphuis, who police said had reported for duty at the Camp Street Prison with 279 grammes of ganja in his possession, was yesterday found guilty of the offence and will be sentenced today.

A Cuban national, who admitted that he inserted a false Guyana employment visa into his passport, has been spared a prison sentence.

The need for improved governance of the mineral sector and a revised mining code were some of the issues raised yesterday at a forum on foreign direct investment in the extractive sector and its impact on the environment.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) said yesterday that the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Organisation of Guyana donated an ECG Machine to the Institution on Monday.

Steve Mohamed, who was shot by police on Monday at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, remained hospitalised yesterday.

A man who police say was found with bags of cannabis near the GuyExpo site was yesterday admitted to $75,000 bail after denying the charge.

The new Guyana Franchise Company Cricket Guy Inc (CGI) responds to former West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan comments which was made during a recent interview with Sportsmax.

The retrial of Cyon ‘Picture Boy’ Collier, who is accused of killing Chandrapaul Persaud, 34, during a robbery in 2006 is underway.

A jury was empanelled yesterday for the trial of Delon Gordon, who is accused of killing his partner Natasha Johnson in 2011.

Alonzo Ambrose placed third in the 92km road race during last weekend’s Caribbean Junior Cycling championships in Suriname.

Colin Moses King, who the police say was found with a quantity of cannabis hidden in his pants crotch, was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill, visited the community of Kwakwani recently at which time the One Laptop Per Family Programme (OLPF) was engaged in distribution of over 700 laptops to families in Kwakwani and nearby communities along the Berbice River.

Guyanese chess players Anthony Drayton and Ronuel Greenidge will now have the title of Candidate Master affixed to their names following the confirmation of their new status by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) the world governing body for the sport.

MoneyGram and SurePay, two Neal and Massy Services Ltd (NMSL) subsidiaries hosted an award ceremony for the winners of the recently concluded “back to school” promotion at the Neal and Massy Staff Facilities at Ruimveldt two Fridays ago.

League leaders Victoria Kings maintained their lead at the top of the East Coast Football Association (ECFA) Stag Beer division one league, defeating Buxton Stars by a 4-0 margin on Sunday at the Victoria ground.

Bounty Farm has once again answered the call of national cyclist Alanzo Greaves.

By Jeff Trotman   The Region Ten Democratic Council has called on the Region’s Education Department to state the number of teachers whose salaries have been withheld because they returned to school late in the new term.

Dear Editor, In every society there are persons who crave public attention and in order to catapult themselves into the limelight, select certain targets, be it in government or outside of government and probe relentlessly until they discover that which they perceive will give them the public attention about which they are obsessed.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) first division league continues today at the Tucville Community ground with a doubleheader.

A vigil was held yesterday to mark another anniversary of the “imposition” of the 1980 constitution under the government of late president Forbes Burnham.

Dear Editor, According to the Guyana Times (October 7) Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has said that local DNA testing won’t be happening any time soon.

Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) completed their second successive victory of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/ Banks DIH Malta Supreme Under-13 tournament after defeating hosts, Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) by 63 runs on Monday.

Devon Davis is now a three-time gold medalist at the CAC bodybuilding championships.

Dear Editor, His birth name is Lenox O Shuffler, known to many as Uncle Leny, LO, Cucumber Head, and Lenwald.

MONROVIA, (Reuters) – Liberia’s justice minister has stepped down, saying President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf blocked her investigation into fraud allegations against the country’s National Security Agen-cy (NSA), which is headed by the president’s son.

Dear Editor, The Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG) is calling on President Donald Ramotar to have his Minister of Local Government name a date for the holding of long overdue local government election (LGE) within the first quarter of 2015.

Junior National sprinter Kevin Abbensetts performances were not enough to prevent Queen’s College and St John’s College from topping Zone 1 and 2 in yesterday’s track events in the 2014 Inter-School Sports held at the Eve Leary ground.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Beaten finalist in the last Caribbean Football Union Cup, Trinidad and Tobago, will play Dominican Republic when Group Seven semifinals of the 18th edition of the tournament kicks-off here today.

Dear Editor, I am concerned, as indeed the entire population should be, that because fever is one of the more obvious symptoms of both chikungunya and ebola, there could be a delay in the diagnosis of the deadly ebola virus until it’s too late to prevent an epidemic.

MURSITPINAR, Turkey/ BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Turkey’s president said the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani was “about to fall” yesterday as Islamic State fighters pressed home a three-week assault that has cost a reported 400 lives and forced thousands to flee their homes.

Dear Editor, Two frequent writers on the subject of animals deal with dogs, cats, turtles and other ‘protected’ wild animals.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong agreed with the city’s government late yesterday to start formal talks later this week to address concerns that have brought tens of thousands of people onto the city’s streets.

Niamey, (Reuters) – Leaders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Benin on Tuesday announced plans to step up the fight against Boko Haram with an additional battalion and a command centre to tackle the militants whose insurgency has spread beyond Nigeria, a statement said.

NEW YORK, CMC- Former West Indies fast bowler Jermaine Lawson is set to make his debut for the United States after he was selected on a 14-man squad for the ICC WCL Division Three in Malaysia later this month.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff’s strategy of slamming bankers and playing up class divisions may give her the edge in this month’s election but it further strains relations with business leaders just as Brazil’s stagnant economy badly needs fresh investment.

Dear Editor,   In the last two weeks I read at least three news articles in SN and several letters dealing with the rise of chikungunya cases.

SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Thousands of Indians fled their homes in the disputed Kashmir region yesterday as Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged gunfire again, a day after the highest civilian death toll in a single day in more than a decade.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – About two dozen U.S. military specialists deploying to Liberia will test laboratory samples for Ebola, but most of the nearly 4,000 troops due to go there are not expected to be in direct contact with the virus, defense officials said Tuesday.

KOCHI, India, CMC- Captain Dwayne Bravo wants West Indies players to avoid the errors that forced them to lose a One-Day International (ODI) series against India last year as the two teams begin a new ODI series on the sub-continent.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Legal momentum for extending U.S. marriage rights to same-sex couples accelerated yesterday as a federal appeals court struck down bans on gay matrimony in Idaho and Nevada a day after the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The discovery of cells in the brain that act as the body’s internal global positioning system, which won three scientists the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, opens an intriguing new a window onto dementia.

Perhaps because he was a lawyer, when President Forbes Burnham was suspected of using all kinds of machinations, including peoples’ tax records, to gain their compliance, he loved to – improperly I believe – import the clean hands doctrine into politics: he who sought to criticize and challenge him or the state must come with clean hands.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Former Guyana and West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan says he is anxious to represent Red Force in the forthcoming inaugural Professional Cricket league (PCL) which starts in November.

Dear Editor,   The late Mohamed Fazloor Yasin was undoubtedly one of the greatest literary voices in Guyana; he passed away five years ago.

A little under two years since President Barack Obama won re-election in November of 2012, he finds himself embroiled in a series of global confrontations that he must hardly have bargained for on the day of his inauguration in January of 2013.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, (Reuters) – An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics yesterday for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source, leading to the creation of modern LED light bulbs.

FREETOWN, (Reuters) – Teams in charge of burying the bodies of Ebola victims in two districts of Sierra Leone have gone on strike over the non-payment of their weekly risk allowances, leaders of the group said yesterday.