Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Home side Buxton United and BV/Triumph United recorded come-from-behind victories when the East Coast Football Association (ECFA) Stag Beer senior league continued on Sunday at the Buxton Community ground.

(Jamaica Gleaner) West Indies senior player Marlon Samuels said he was not in support of the decision to abandon the tour of India last Friday.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – A gunman attacked Canada’s parliament today, with gunfire erupting near a room where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was speaking, and a soldier was fatally shot at a nearby war memorial, jolting the Canadian capital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former West Indies coach Ottis Gibson, who parted company with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) under controversial circumstances in August, says the board fired him.

It has been reported to the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) that on Saturday, October 18, 2014, at approximately 02:30 hours, an unidentified vessel heading in the general direction of Georgetown collided with the fishing vessel “Lady Pinky” off the coast of Guyana in the Pomeroon area.

The police say they are investigating the murder of miner Azad Potter, 17 years, of Garden of Eden, EBD, which occurred yesterday at Konawaruk Backdam, Potaro.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Leading drugmakers plan to work together to accelerate development of an Ebola vaccine and produce millions of doses of the most effective experimental product for use next year.

A delegation from opposition coalition APNU on Monday met with President Donald Ramotar and his team on “advancing the national governance agenda” but there was no apparent breakthrough on thorny laws or local government polls neither was a date agreed for Parliament to reconvene when the PPP/C administration will likely face the AFC’s motion of no-confidence.

Two men were on Monday each granted $100,000 bail after being charged at a city court with the rape of the young Amerindian woman, who said she had been drugged and attacked by more than one man at the hotel where she worked in Mahdia, Region Eight.

The Government on October 15th sued Cari-com General Insurance Company for almost $15M in relation to a performance bond and an advance payment guarantee.

The widow of historian Dr Walter Rodney believes that claims published in a book authored by Gregory Smith, the suspect in his murder, were made to tarnish her husband’s character and seemed to have come “from a poorly written spy novel.”

Although items found on a decapitated corpse have convinced the family of former MFK Trading owner Mohamed Khan that it is him, Crime Chief Leslie James says that this is not “legally acceptable” and the police will have to move to DNA testing.

Training officers from the Pennsylvania State Police in the United States held a symposium for 34 members of the Guyana Police Force from October 13-17 at the Guyana Police Force Training Centre, a release from the US Embassy said yesterday.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will meet on Friday having decided on an arbitrator to review the case of a Skeldon estate employee who was sacked after an altercation with the manager.

While the National Pro-curement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) has sent official correspondence to the Ministry of Health notifying it of the selection of the New Guyana Pharmaceu-tical Corporation (New GPC) as the only supplier prequalified to supply drugs to the health sector, the ministry is yet to notify bidders.

A Plaisance man was yesterday charged with impersonating a prison officer and illegally acquiring handcuffs.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) have implemented a new monitoring, billing and royalty payment system for sand pit operations.

By Jeff Trotman   The proposed Digicel Children’s Rehabilitation Centre in Linden will be a main agenda item when the Linden IMC holds its monthly statutory meeting today.

  Incumbent Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Christopher Matthias has been formally replaced at the helm of the federation after the world governing body FIFA officially began preparations to install a normalization committee to govern the affairs of the sport yesterday.

Martin Salvadore, accused of stabbing his drinking buddy, was yesterday refused bail and remanded to prison after being charged with the man’s murder.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) retired Justice Cecil Kennard says by the end of the week he will make his recommendations on the death of Adrian Bishop, who was shot by a policeman last month.

(Barbados Nation) ST JOHN’S – A delegation from LIAT’s commercial department will be in the Guyana capital, Georgetown, this week for two road shows to promote the launch of three additional flights per week between Barbados and Ogle, taking the airline’s weekly services to ten per week.

An alleged drug trafficker, who was caught with marijuana, was yesterday remanded to prison after he disputed the quantity of the drug found in his possession.

Local and overseas-based alumni of Queen’s College are invited to register to ensure their participation at a grand reunion planned in observance of the school’s 170th anniversary.

Stage lighting at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) is expected to be given an upgrade as a tender was yesterday received for the contract.

Furniture giant Courts Guyana yesterday made donations to the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC) and the Caribbean Association of Fire Fighters (CAFF).

A gold miner is missing and his family, fearing the worst, is seeking any word on his whereabouts.

The prizes for the Most Valuable Players (MVPs) of the Open and Masters categories of the upcoming Guyana Softball Cup 4 cricket tournament were unveiled at a simple function on Tuesday at Steve’s Jewellery on Church Street in Georgetown.

In spite of the ruling party’s continuing objections, Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) chairman Dr.

  National Coach Esaun Crandon said he was satisfied with the performances of the players who participated in the Cricket Guyana Inc.

A two-day media workshop, aimed at improving elections coverage, closed on Sunday with the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) calling for greater partnership between the media and the elections body.

By Joe Brock   PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius started his five-year jail sentence yesterday for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, marking the end of a trial that has gripped South Africa and millions around the world.

Dear Editor, Pinnacle Green Resources (Guyana) Inc. notes the letter written by Assistant Professor Janette Bulkan, University of British Columbia, Canada, regarding our proposed investments in Guyana (SN 15/10/14).

The World Federation of Trade Unions lauded Guyana for the provisions made to protect workers, when Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul met yesterday with Ramon Cardona Nuevo, the Federation’s Secretary for Latin America and Caribbean.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says it will establish a Task Force to probe the circumstances that gave rise to the dramatic pull out by the senior West Indies cricketers from their tour of India.

It will be a battle of the juices when Fruta Conquerors battle Sunburst Camptown in the second round of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division league today at the Tucville Community ground.

By Tony Cozier   AS the directors of West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) met in emergency session in Barbados yesterday “to conduct a thorough assessment of all the ramifications” of Friday’s unprecedented abandonment of the Indian tour, they faced the prospect that the organisation could go out of business should the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) press a claim for damages along with its suspension of future bilateral tours.

Dear Editor,   I refer to the SN October 17, 2014 article, `Linden works committee puts Digicel rehab project on hold’.

(Reuters) – It was the week of Chinese New Year, and Jian Zhen Huang was climbing her sister’s doorstep in Brooklyn with cups and other supplies for the celebration inside.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to the letter `Claim rejected by NIS Board’ which was published in the Tuesday, October 14, 2014 edition of Stabroek News.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – North Korea has freed Jeffrey Fowle, one of three Americans detained by the country, and he is being flown home to his family in Ohio, the White House said yesterday.

Photos by Arian Browne 

Dear Editor,   The reported declamation of an appointment of a new staff member to GECOM on the basis of the latter’s alleged political sympathies, if not indeed association, unwittingly raises a possible converse: that is the presumption must be that where in recent circumstances in the same organisation, at least two quite substantive appointments did not invite the same reservations, these recruits must have been evaluated as having the right sympathies and even approved political affiliations.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States ratcheted up its safeguards against Ebola yesterday, requiring travelers from three countries at the center of an epidemic in West Africa to fly into one of five major airports conducting enhanced screening for the virus.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban doctors and nurses departing for West Africa to combat Ebola consider themselves lucky.

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News carried an article captioned `Former Senior Health Official peeved at non-support from NIS’ which was printed in the Saturday, October 11, 2014 edition.

MATARA, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies A and Sri Lanka A played to a tame draw after rain again interrupted play on the fourth and final day at the Uyanwatte Stadium here yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Ben Bradlee, the hard-driving editor who reigned over the Washington Post newsroom with the style of a well-dressed swashbuckler and the profane vocabulary of dockworker as the newspaper helped topple President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, died yesterday at age 93.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The Brazilian government said yesterday it has put an environmentally rich area of the Amazon rainforest under federal protection, creating a reserve larger than the U.S.

Photos by Arian Browne  

Dear Editor, As I read Mr. S. E Isaacs- Clerk of the National Assembly’s, intelligent and guided opinion on the authority to convene Parliament, I couldn’t help but think, here is a man who is just doing his job to the best of his ability.

SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Quebec, (Reuters) – Canadian police said yesterday they had arrested a suspected militant as he was leaving the country, took away his passport and talked to him several times but had no chance of preventing him from killing a soldier.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James – Residents of Upper King Street were on edge on Monday night following Sunday evening’s shooting attack which left three members of the community, including an elderly woman, dead.

Photos by Arian Browne   

Dear Editor,   Tuesday, October 14, 2014’s edition of Stabroek News carried a letter bearing the caption `NIS Officer was unhelpful.’

HYDERABAD, India, CMC The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced that it would “initiate legal proceedings” against West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) as the fall-out continues yesterday following the sudden and dramatic pull out by the senior West Indies cricketers from their tour of the sub-continent.

(Reuters) – Australia are fretting over the composition of their final XI as Michael Clarke and his men embark on their journey to reclaim the world number one ranking in the two-test series against Pakistan starting today.

“The real question is whether Fiji could handle a genuine democracy with a free press, or if the country needs an ultra-authoritarian strongman like Bainimarama to keep control.

(Reuters) – South Africa captain AB de Villiers anchored his side to a six-wicket victory over New Zealand, whose bowling and fielding was far superior to a poor batting performance in the first game of their three match one-day series   yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) takes this opportunity to respond to a letter in the Stabroek News on page 6 of Thursday October 16, 2014 which was captioned `Overloaded speed boat from Wakenaam was forced to let off some passengers during journey’.

Dear Editor, Hardly a day passes without numerous reports of crimes committed by young people, mostly males.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC- The chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Ranjib Biswal, has said that West Indies’ cricketers would not face any ban from the tournament after pulling out midway through their tour of India.

An old saying has it that circumstances alter cases and recent events suggest that the way is once again opening for a substantial discussion among governments on the issue of Cuba’s role in the Hemisphere, and more particularly on the question of Cuba-United States relations.

Photos by Arian Browne   

From left to right are: Dr. Melissa Varswyk, Stefan Singh, Joel Simpson, Tresurer Jo-Ann Thompson, Vice-Chairman Michael Leonard, Executive Chairman Clinton Urling, Secretary Marissa Lowden, Chontelle Sewett and Alfonso De Armas.

Guyana’s provision for workers came in for high commendation when the World Federation of Trade Unions’ Secretary for the Latin America and the Caribbean, Ramon Cardona Nuevo (right) and Guyana’s Labour Minister, Dr.

As part of its “Eat what we produce” drive, the Ministry of Agriculture today launched a Guyana Recipe Book which features recipes using local ingredients, and also includes nutritional benefits of some local foods.