Daily Archive: Friday, October 24, 2014

 President Donald Ramotar and First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar addressing guests at State House during the Diwali Lighting ceremony yesterday.

A person who recently travelled to Guyana from a part of West Africa where the Ebola virus is not currently present is being monitored by the Ebola response team at the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was referred by a private physician after complaining about leg pains.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies players who controversially abandoned the tour of India last week have retained legal counsel as they prepare to tackle the contentious Collective Bargaining Agreement signed by their union, WIPA.

At a hearing on the Ebola response today, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa three times erroneously the country where the outbreak originated, Guinea, Bloomberg reported.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Former Trinidad and Tobago captain Daren Ganga maintains the current controversy surrounding the West Indies team is primarily a players issue, and says the team’s decision to pull out of the India tour needs to be explained fully.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – For actress Shailene Woodley, transitioning from her teen years into adulthood in Hollywood was an emotional experience.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson has described West Indies’ walk-out of the India tour as “humiliation” and says it has exposed “a total collapse of a governance system” in the administration of the game by the West Indies Cricket Board.

Government Chief Whip Gail Teixeira today confirmed that her acquiescence to a date for the sitting of the National Assembly is awaiting the outcome of the ongoing engagement between the President Donald Ramotar and Leader of the Opposition David Granger.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2330h.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) met on the 22nd October, at the Office of the Opposition Leader, Hadfield Street Georgetown and agreed that there should be an early resumption of Parliament sittings.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A doctor who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients was in an isolation unit in New York City today after testing positive for the virus, becoming the fourth person diagnosed with the disease in the United States and the first in its largest city.

(Trinidad Express) A CHAGUANAS woman and her brother were shot dead yesterday afternoon by a close male friend of the woman after he had allegedly threatened to kill her that morning.

An Indian national who was employed as a nurse with the Balwant Singh Hospital here was fatally stabbed to his neck on Wednesday night as he and his friends were watching the Diwali Motorcade.

From all indications, Guyana, once again, has been able to avert being placed on a blacklist by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported yesterday.

A Lusignan father of three is dead after he became the victim of an illegal road race in front of his home on Wednesday night.

Guyana’s contingent of officials and athletes were greeted with smiles and handshakes upon arrival here yesterday in Paramaribo, Suriname for the second leg of the XX Inter Guiana Games (IGG) after a tiring 12-hour overland journey.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies stroke-maker Marlon Samuels said he wanted no part of the one-day team’s plan to abandon the tour of India, and revealed he stayed away from most of the players’ meetings on the troubled tour.

The Guyana Mangroves Restoration Project is currently investigating the destruction of a large expanse of mangroves in the Peter’s Hall koker area on the East Bank Demerara.

A taxi driver died last night after having ingested a bottle of weedicide in his car, which was parked two corners away from his home in Better Hope, East Coast Demerara.

Landline customers suffered disruption of voice and data service due to more than 22 acts of vandalism and theft over the past three months.

A Covent Garden man was killed early yesterday morning after a Green Ice taxi slammed into him along the East Bank Demerara public road while he was crossing to catch a bus.

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday announced the imminent arrival of the Caribbean Medical Mission Medical Team from USA.

Police have arrested four suspects in connection with the Delhi Street shooting, which led to the killing of Electrical Engineer Abdool Saleem in front of his home.

A Linden man is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after escaping with his life during a traffic-light robbery at Eccles Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

The Rotary Club of Demerara is inviting the public to “fund the fight” against polio and to join its 27 years-long mission to eradicate the disease.

Days after the fatal shooting of electrical engineer Saleem Azeez Abdool, police are still working on the footage that captured images of the man’s attackers.

A man appeared in court on Tuesday charged with the murder of a fisherman.

The 10-month project to reconstruct the Moleson Creek Bridge is completed, the Ministry of Public Works revealed yesterday.

Veerasammy Permaul, Anthony Bramble, Troy Matheison, Jason Sinclair and Jonathan Foo have been reprimanded and penalised by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) for indisciplined behaviour exhibited in the recently concluded Berbice River Bridge 50-over final at the Albion Sports Complex.

The 19th Special Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) has endorsed an initiative aimed at transforming the health laboratory environment, which is being facilitated by the Caribbean Med Labs Foundation (CMLF) under its Caricom-Pancap Global fund Programme.

Volleyball stalwarts Achievers were last weekend crowned champions in the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) inaugural Super League Volleyball Tournament 2014 which spiked off at the National Gymnasium, Georgetown.

After denying that he snatched a Samsung Galaxy cellphone from a Stabroek Market vendor, a man was on Wednesday placed on $50,000 bail.

Fruta Conquerors reclaimed the top spot in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division league, defeating arch-rivals Sunburst Camptown via walkover in their penultimate fixture on Wednesday at the Tucville Community ground.

Guyana and Suriname are not adequately exploiting trade and other economic opportunities either between themselves, or with Brazil.

(Trinidad Express) – In an unprecedented move, the Office of the President has joined with the wife of the President, Reema Carmona, in threatening legal action against comedienne and talk-show host Rachel Price for “offensive” utterances made about Mrs Carmona’s attire.

Two houses were burnt to the ground last night in Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

The National Funeral Directors Association was launched at the Georgetown Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s boardroom during a simple meeting in the presence of representatives of funeral homes across the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) – This country will be sourcing crude oil supplies from Colombia and Russia after Petrotrin workers refused to berth a tanker that arrived in T&T waters on October 18 from Gabon due to concerns over the Ebola virus.

Albouystown-A were crowned the La Penitence Development Group One-Day Knockout Street Football Champions, defeating Masiki Stallions 3-1 on sudden death kicks yesterday at the Cross Street Tarmac in Middle Road.

Information released in the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) 2014 Needs Assessment Survey indicates that sections of the local business community support the GCCI being vocal on certain political issues.

Deliberately, one suspects, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, in Guyana Khadija Musa last week took what some might see as an indelicate tilt at a section of the local fast food sector.

The junior national lawn tennis team is set to smash onto the courts today and tomorrow, hungry for a first win in third edition of the Inter Guiana Games (IGG).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), reeling from the fallout from the team’s withdrawal from the tour of India, is facing fresh pressure from its worried commercial and broadcast partners.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The gunman in Wednesday’s attack on Canada’s capital had a criminal record and recently applied for a passport, planning to travel to Syria after undergoing a “radicalization process,” police said yesterday.

GuyExpo has set itself apart as the country’s biggest and best example of public/private sector collaboration on commerce and trade promotion and “by far the best forum for the initial marketing of local small enterprises looking to make an entry into the wider market.

Dear Editor,   Many people have asked me why, despite their legislative majority, the opposition in Guyana have, since 2001, allowed the PPP ant its Executive Government to out-manoeuvre them.

Dear Editor, Although Go-Invest and the Ministries of Agriculture and of Tourism, Industry and Commerce do not seem to have the information, I was pleased that the family owners of Pinnacle Green Resources (Guyana) Inc.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Gonzalo caused between $200 million and $400 million in insured losses over the weekend on Bermuda, according to an estimate by AIR Worldwide, a Boston-based catastrophe modelling company.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 586’s trading results showed consideration of $564,267 from 19,100 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 585’s trading results, which showed consideration of $19,997,951 from 902,382 shares traded in 14 transactions.

Dear Editor, Response is made to Barrington Braithwaite’s letter, `Lindeners opposing Granger have not stated what he is not doing to make their lives better,’Stabroek News 23rd October, 2014.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government said yesterday it had taken over warehouses around Venezuela crammed with medical goods and food that “bourgeois criminals” were hoarding for speculation and contraband.

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali confirmed its first case of Ebola yesterday, becoming the sixth West African country to be touched by the worst outbreak on record of the haemorrhagic fever, which has killed nearly 4,900 people.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova’s bid to end the year ranked number one was left hanging by a thread after she suffered a second straight defeat at the WTA Finals yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) – Port of Spain-based One Caribbean Media Ltd (OCM) has recorded growth in revenue for the nine-month period up to September 30, 2014.

The fifth Annual Berbice Chambers of Commerce and Development Association 20 overs-a-side hardball cricket tournament bowls off tomorrow at the Albion Sports Complex, from 9.30 am.

BERLIN (Reuters) – The IOC has drawn up 40 recommendations aimed at making the Games more attractive to bidders, sports and fans and will put them to a vote in December, president Thomas Bach said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) – President of the Chaguanas Chamber of Commerce Richie Sookhai says illegal immigrants are taking away jobs from locals.

Dear Editor, The decision of PNC/APNU to meet with the president ahead of the no-confidence vote described in your article, `APNU meets President on Governance,’ brings to the fore my conclusion that all of Guyana’s problems stem from perpetual inside fighting between the PPP/Jagan faction and the PPP/Burnham faction.

JUNEAU, Alaska (Reuters) – Alaska’s governor signed a bill yesterday to officially recognize the state’s 20 indigenous languages in a symbolic move that gives a nod to tribal efforts to save Native American tongues at risk of dying out.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The ombudswoman for the United Nations’ al Qaeda blacklist yesterday called for her oversight to be expanded to more than a dozen other UN Security Council sanctions regimes to ensure fair process for the individuals and entities targeted.

Dear Editor,   I was mildly intrigued by a couple of items that appeared in SN.

(Trinidad Express) Trini-dad Cement Ltd has recorded growth in revenue of $97.2 million for the first nine months of 2014 ending September 30.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The governor of a Mexican state roiled by the disappearance of dozens of students that has sparked protests and embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto, bowed to pressure yesterday and said he was standing down.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph yesterday, wounding two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said.

Dear Editor, The standards of Church’s Chicken, New Amsterdam outlet have dropped severely.

CANBERRA, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women’s team management say their side will not be distracted by the storm of controversy surround their male counterparts.

After a certain authority figure in a downtown store had been notified that the law required him to engage a furious customer who was demanding a refund since an electronic toy which the customer had bought from the shop a few days earlier had stopped working, he assumed a belligerent posture and proceeded to make the point that he could not consider either a refund or an exchange since it had been two days since the item had been bought.

The ten pieces of exotic cane furniture which Prainroop Prasad took to GuyExpo two weekends ago were all sold.

Dear Editor,   What the West Indies team has done by aborting the tour of India is tantamount to holding the WICB, WIPA, BCCI and the Indian and West Indies fans to ransom for the sake of money.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), in response to the unprecedented mid-tour termination of the series in India and the decision of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to suspend all bilateral tours to the West Indies and to consider legal proceedings against the WICB, has decided, among other things, to “establish a task force, comprising critical stakeholders, to review the premature end of the tour to India” and “request a meeting with the BCCI”.

Welcome again to one of my “time-out” days when I promise – or attempt – to be most brief.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda are sweating on the fitness of Nottingham Forest’s Dexter Blackstock, ahead of next month’s Caribbean Football Union Caribbean Cup Finals in Jamaica.