Daily Archive: Saturday, October 11, 2014

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh (left), signed two agreements with the World Bank that will support Guyana’s Education and Agriculture sectors with funding totaling US$21M.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The West Indies squad in India say they want no longer want any part of a Wavell Hinds-led West Indies Players Association, and has asked the West Indies Cricket Board to “urgently” intervene in the impasse.

Blue CAPS held a handing over ceremony at its Headquarters on Mundy Street, North Cummingsburg for the winners of its “Local Government Elections Essay Contest” on Friday October 10, 2014.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – India defeated West Indies by 48 runs in the second One-Day International at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium here today.

More than forty PNCR/APNU supporters were locked out of a meeting that was held by PNCR/APNU leader, David Granger last evening at the Mackenzie High School auditorium.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s health ministry said today a man under observation for a possible case of Ebola has tested negative for the disease.

With gold prices falling below the key support level of US$1200, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is again pressing government for urgent and significant relief.

(Trinidad Express) There are 19,000 illegal Jamaicans living in Trinidad and Tobago who are feeding off State resources and causing this country to lose over TT$1 billion in revenue annually, according to National Security Minister Gary Griffith.

New YORK, (Reuters) – The missteps in Dallas’s handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality: state and city plans for handling the deadly virus are based on generic recommendations for everything from measles to floods, to hurricanes and dirty bombs.

Three days after high tides smashed the Peter’s Hall koker, resulting in major flooding of three villages on the East Bank of Demerara, residents are still seeking compensation and want systems put in place to prevent a recurrence.

AFC Member of Parliament Moses Nagamootoo has moved to ensure that his party’s no-confidence motion against the government be given priority on the order paper for the earliest sitting of the National Assembly, now that the annual parliamentary recess is over.

Rafiq Khan, one of Guyana’s first radio broadcasters, died yesterday in Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 82.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – Captain Dwayne Bravo is urging his West Indies side to replicate their performance from Wednesday’s opening win, then they face India in the second One-Day International of the five-match series here today.

If the National Assembly votes now on abolishing the death penalty, the measure would not pass, Presidential Advise on Governance Gail Teixeira says.

The nation’s best riders along with foreign wheelsmen will do battle in the ‘Ride for Life’ Five-Stage Road Race from October 16.

Mashramani 2015 was officially launched yesterday under the theme, ‘One People, One Culture, One Celebration’, conceptualised by Ariel Gittens, and crowds turned out in front of the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport on Main Street to witness the heralding of the annual event.

Ansa Mcal, via their Stag Beer Brand, became the latest sponsor of the highly anticipated 2014 Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association’s (GFSCA) Guyana Cup 4 tournament which is set to bowl off on October 31.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday blasted the public education system, while calling on government to urgently implement sex education programmes in schools.

The Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC) has called on the ministries of Education and Health to embrace the teaching of comprehensive sexual and health and family life education in schools, noting that this is often overlooked and left out of the curriculum in many local schools.

Perennial heavyweights Tucville Primary will aim to continue their dominant displays when today’s second day of the fourth annual Petra Organization/Courts Pee football tourney continues at the Thirst Park ground with 12 fixtures.

Barbadian Raymon Reifer, the lone overseas player contracted by the Cricket Guyana Incorporated (CGI) franchise said yesterday that he was thankful for the opportunity of building a new career with the local team and is optimistic about himself and his team’s success in the forthcoming season.

Although both murders and armed robberies are up for the first nine months of the year, the police force is reporting that strategies employed by the force in tackling crime have had a positive impact as the growth in crime since June has declined.

The “Rice Brekkies” cereal, launched at last week’s GuyExpo by President Donald Ramotar, is a pilot project developed by the Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (IAST) and the factory still has to be set up and the product cleared by the regulatory authorities.

For some time now Paul Burnette has been on the pulse of local fashion, but more behind the scenes until Guyana Fashion Week 2013, when he showed his ‘Tease’ Collection.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) has released its fixtures for this weekend?s

By Pushpa Balgobin in Paramaribo, Suriname   The region’s agricultural entities need to find ways of complementing each other instead of competing with each other, which ultimately results in a contest for funding, according to Caricom’s Deputy General Secretary Manorma Soeknandan.

Experiencing a different culture can be both taboo and a thrill.

The Pepsi Hornets rugby club will aim to stay atop the points table when the second round of the Golden Brook/Windjammer/Rawle Toney Sevens League continues today at the National Park.

Two Sophia men, accused of stealing over $4 million in machinery and equipment from a bond, were remanded to prison yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Hi Everyone,  There are many cooking utensils that get passed down from one generation to the next – masala bricks, mortars and pestles, pots, pans and rolling pins too.

Veteran marksman, Harold “Topgun” Hopkinson captured a gold medal for Guyana at the just concluded International Practical Shooting Federation Level 11 competition held last Sunday at the MTC Shooting Range in Suriname.

Dear Editor, Since cell phones got easily obtainable in Guyana and the different types of cell phones started to flood the market, many people ensure that they have one or two, and that seems to get a lot of them into trouble.

A Bourda Market greens vendor yesterday found himself facing an attempted murder charge after what started out as drink between friends ended in a stabbing.

Tomorrow, the nation’s top trotters will be competing at the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club for cash and stakes in the PPP/C President’s Cup.

Dear Editor,   A series of letters under the hand of Ms Anandjit, PS Ministry of Legal Affairs refers to matters concerning the affairs of the Guyana Bar Asso-ciation that she ought not to know.

D’Edward Sports Club of West Bank Berbice were on Monday crowned the 2014 Hand-in-Hand Insurance second division limited overs cricket champions of West Berbice after they defeated Hopetown United by seven wickets in the final at the Cotton Tree Die Hard ground.

Plays from as far as the Barima-Waini and Potaro-Siparuni regions are expected to showcase their talent when the National Drama Festival kicks off on Tuesday next, at the National Cultural Centre.

Mark Anthony Burnette, the teen who took a fatal dive into a trench through a tyre on Tuesday, died by asphyxiation, a post-mortem examination has confirmed.

By Cosmo Hamilton With a focused, feisty, furious skipper Dwayne Bravo literally leading from the front, a typically unpredictable West Indies team turned a dire situation into a hearty triumph as they fashioned one of their more convincing limited over victories in recent times, winning by 124 runs against a likely over-confident world champion India team in the town of Kochi, nestled just beyond the verdant hills of Kerala in beautiful south India on Wednesday.

Guyana is a very backward society for so many reasons believe it or not.

Dear Editor,   The problem with Guyana is that we have not learned how to disagree without dishonouring; hence we have become a society of reckless incivility – crassness.

Last month, a young woman came forward to share a horrific report of being drugged then brutally raped by three men at a business in Mahdia where she had worked.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education, and Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labour Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.

Police in New York discovered human remains buried in the back yard of a Brooklyn residence after being tipped off by Guyanese Oswald Lewis, an accused drug smuggler arrested in August following a shootout with US marshals.

Health Sciences student of the University of Guyana Joshua Griffith was yesterday officially installed as president of the University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS).

NEW DELHI, India CMC- The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) says there is “no threat” to India’s ongoing home series against West Indies despite a bitter pay dispute between the visiting cricketers and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).

Today from 5.30 pm the Indian Cultural Centre will screen Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham at its Lot 67 New Haven, Bel Air premises.

Dear Editor, As reported in the media, it appears that the sharing of the Government of Guyana “Because We Care $10,000 Cash grant” is restricted to “parents of children on the registers of public schools.”

BEIJING/SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in firm control of his government but hurt his leg taking part in a military drill, a source with access to the secretive North’s leadership said, playing down speculation over the 31-year-old’s health and grip on power in the nuclear-capable nation.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A rogue crocodile, a green baby, a puking Peter Pan and a punching kangaroo are troublesome yet comedic obstacles that befall the Cooper family on a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Disney’s new live-action family comedy.

IGUALA, Mexico, (Reuters) – For nearly two years, President Enrique Pena Nieto has sought to direct the Mexican public’s gaze onto his efforts to open the economy and away from the brutal gang violence that blighted his predecessor’s government.

Dear Editor,   I heard a preacher saying that hardly any more do we adhere to boundaries, and that many things done are beyond the boundary – not within specified limits.

The rebranding and extension of the Guyana Fire Service needs parliamentary acquiescence, Fire Prevention Officer Andrew Holder said on Thursday, while speaking to Stabroek News about plans to include other services.

DELHI, India, CMC – West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo is refusing to look too far ahead despite his side’s impressive win over India in the first One-Day International of the five-match series on Wednesday.

GENEVA/MURSITPINAR, Turkey, (Reuters) – Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – A foot injury has ruled seamer Mohit Sharma out of the five-match one-day series against West Indies.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – French writer Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature for works that made him “a Marcel Proust of our time” with tales often set during the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War Two, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

Meghan Trainor self-love single “All About That Bass” remains the No.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge in California announced a $30 million settlement on Friday between the United States and a vice president of Equatorial Guinea that requires him to forfeit his U.S.

Despite the large marches and impassioned rhetoric, the UN’s recent Climate Week was mostly just another reminder of how hard it has become to achieve any progress on global climate change.

Dear Editor,   Voters in Fiji endorsed a multi-racial democracy last month in a general election.

The Rotary Club of Demerara donated three computers to the Guyana Prison Service earlier this month to support the facility’s education programme.