Daily Archive: Saturday, October 25, 2014

The final General Council Meeting of the People’s National Council Reform (PNCR) for 2014 was held today at the party’s headquarters, Sophia.

Over 12, 870 parents and guardians today received the Education Ministry’s “Because We Care” grant at several locations in Georgetown as the distribution of the $10,000 support continues across the country.

At about 0515h. today, ranks of a mobile police patrol responded to a report of gunshots being discharged at Waterloo Street, Georgetown.

China is to help Guyana with the mapping of its mineral resources, it was announced today by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into an incident that occurred at a night spot at Tabatinga, Lethem, at about 0315h.

(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.

(Trinidad Express) As People’s National Movement political leader Keith Rowley celebrated his 64th birthday yesterday, the PNM-held Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation was levie­d upon for failure to pay a debt amounting to about TT$2 million.

-Ramotar hints at Amaila hydro revival Guyana is in line for a new payment of US$35M under its forest protection agreement with Norway, after a marginal increase in deforestation and forest degradation in 2012.

A woman who recently returned to Guyana from West Africa and had some health concerns was confirmed yesterday to not have the deadly Ebola virus.

Four suspects were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of Saleem Azeez Abdool, the electrical engineer who was fatally shot near his Prashad Nagar Home during a robbery on Sunday morning.

Four men have been charged with murdering 17-year-old miner Azaad Potter, who was fatally beaten at Konawaruk Backdam, Potaro on Tuesday.

Crime Chief Leslie James yesterday stated that police did not have sufficient evidence to convict Donald Rodney of the possession of explosives as he was following his brother Dr.

Weeks after police and the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) began investigating how a 12-year-old girl became pregnant, another case has surfaced.

Government Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has said that she is awaiting the outcome of the ongoing engagement between President Donald Ramotar and Opposition Leader David Granger before setting a date to reconvene Parliament.

Faced with eviction, 17 families of Rosemary Lane (Tiger Bay) agreed voluntarily to move yesterday and their shacks were immediately dismantled and reduced to a pile of rubble.

Four persons, including an elderly woman, lost their Canal Number Two Polder home to fire on Thursday evening.

A huge step was taken in the race to eliminate HIV in Guyana by 2020, when the United Nations (UN) launched a multi-million-dollar joint programme yesterday to assist the local fight – a move the Ministry of Health deemed necessary if the deadly virus is to be eradicated.

The finishing touches are being put on the new parking lot constructed at the Thomas Road entrance to the National Park.

The bigger, better network promises a bigger better tournament. Yesterday, the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) in collaboration with telecommunications provider Digicel launched the 2014 Guyana Open Golf Cup two-day championships and according to officials of the LCG and Digicel, the tournament is expected to be bigger with a higher level of competition when it tees off on November 1 and 2 at the Lusignan Golf Course.

From Emmerson Campbell in Suriname   Following an encore performance by the army’s brass band before the start of the XX Inter Guiana Games (IGG) here in Paramaribo, Suriname yesterday, the country’s Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Ismanto Adna trumpeted the importance of the Games and assured its continuity.

From Emmerson Campbell in Suriname   Guyana’s female volleyball team was grounded by Suriname but the local males defeated their French counterparts in straight sets when action in the second leg of the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) served off here in Paramaribo, Suriname last night.

It will be Berbice against the East Coast of Demerara when defending champs Monedderlust Football Club battles Victoria Kings this evening in the final of the Starlite Generation/Monedderlust Football Club second annual Berbice Cup at the No.

With the main contenders surviving the tricky group stages, the business end of the Petra Organization/Courts Pee Wee U13 football tourney will get underway today at the Thirst Park venue with the round of 16 fixtures.

The 17th annual Troy Humphrey Memorial cycle race which was set to take place today has been rescheduled to a later date.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Left-handed stroke-maker Jonathan Carter is among four players called up for the West Indies A team’s three-match one-day tour of Sri Lanka starting next month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Principal of the UWI Cave Hill Campus, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, says there is a crisis in sports governance in the Caribbean which has the potential to detract from the quality performances being exhibited by regional athletes.

There were wins for Fishermen Masters and Wolf Warriors in the male competition when the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) Ramchand/ Rohan Auto Spares softball competition continued recently.

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.

By Alysia Christiani For many Caribbean families, the immigration story is a familiar one.

Hospitality is the bedrock of tourism. It drives the industry. Many Caribbean economies depend heavily on tourism, selling their year-round summer, sparkling blue waters, ‘life is a party’ image mainly to people in bleak climes.

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.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Mr. Isaacs, Clerk of the National Assembly titled `Two precedents have found that the Speaker has no power to convene a sitting of the National Assembly unless the assembly is adjourned to a specified date’ (SN, Oct 21/14).

Hi Everyone, Hot, spicy, peppery and sweet, candied ginger is a real sweet treat.

Rivals Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Police Sports Club will clash today and tomorrow at the DCC ground in Queenstown in the semi-final of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s Noble House Seafood’s second division competition as the GCA resumes its first and second division competitions.

The lifeless body of a teenage biker was fished out of a trench at Nismes, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Thursday evening after he apparently lost control of his bike and plunged overboard.

A former employee was yesterday charged with swindling the Ministry of Public Works of nearly $2M.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – New York and New Jersey will automatically quarantine medical workers returning from Ebola-hit West African countries and the U.S.

Dear Editor,   Recently Mr. Samuel Wright has taken pleasure or pains to write two missives to your newspaper on matters pertaining to decisions of the IMC in Linden.

Under the theme ‘True Sons of the Soil’, ten contestants will compete for the first ever Mr Guyana International title.

Blood, hair and saliva samples have been taken from relatives of missing businessman Mohamed Khan and according to Crime Chief Leslie James they will be sent to Trinidad and Tobago for testing.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Some of Cuba’s best-known economists are openly questioning the very core of the Soviet-style command economy and saying market reforms under way are too modest to boost weak growth.

ISMAILIA, (Reuters) – Two attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed 33 security personnel on Friday, security sources said, in some of the worst anti-state violence since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was overthrown last year.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada vowed on Friday to toughen laws against terrorism in ways that critics say may curtail civil liberties as a country that prides itself on its openness mourned the second soldier this week killed by homegrown radicals.

Dear Editor,   The reply by the PRO of NIS to my complaint and that of Dr.

Dear Editor,   It was refreshing to see the recent long letter written by our Honourable Prime Minister advising that “we must shift from distribution and redistribution to production and productivity”.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania and China have signed investment deals worth more than $1.7 billion, including one to build a satellite city to ease congestion in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam – deepening Beijing’s ties with East Africa.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, CMC – Former West Indies pacer Jermaine Lawson went wicket-less as United States crashed to a five-wicket loss to hosts Malaysia, in their second game of the International Cricket Council World Cricket League Division Three 50-overs tournament here yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Another Trinidadian has been unmasked fighting in Syria for the militant movement Islamic State (ISIS).

A man was yesterday sentenced to 24 months imprisonment after he was found guilty of armed robbery by Magistrate Judy Latchman.

Last weekend I visited State House to attend a charity fundraiser.

(Jamaica Observer) Montego Bay, St James — JAMAICA and the Caribbean need to prepare stress tests that include the halt of the PetroCaribe oil arrangement with Venezuela, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – At least four prisoners were killed and nine others wounded, including two guards, after an attempted mass escape at a prison in the southern Dominican Republic, officials said on Friday.

Kevon George, who allegedly assaulted another with intent to murder him, was yesterday remanded to prison.

League leaders Victoria Kings continued to extend their lead at the top of the table defeating Sparta United 2-0 when the East Coast Football Association (ECFA) Stag Beer senior league continued on Thursday at the Victoria Community Centre ground.

MARYSVILLE, Wash., (Reuters) – A student shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others when he opened fire in the cafeteria of his Washington state high school yeterday, apparently after a fight with fellow students, authorities said.

Dear Editor, Animal control is definitely a big issue in our nation.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A dinner party in an elegant New York apartment goes terribly wrong in Disgraced, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about ambition, race, religion and identity that opened on Broadway.

Continuing its recent attacks on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), the PPP is currently waging a public campaign against the recent hiring of Richard Francois as the commission’s Public Relations Officer (PRO).

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.

Reporting on two acts of terrorism in the space of a week, the Canadian media’s restrained coverage of events, and the general absence of provocative speculations – most noticeably in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s live coverage – has shown how profoundly a country’s media culture can shape its response to a crisis.

The Burnham Foundation is collaborating with small producers of pickles and other agricultural products to host a Producer’s Day exhibition and fair today at the ACDA headquarters, Thomas Lands.

Dear Editor, A headline in the October 23 edition of Kaieteur News caught my attention (Minister slams “dishonest” Guyana Times report on Glen Lall).

LOS ANGELES(Reuters) – Sitting in a palm-tree lined cemetery in Hollywood promoting her latest film, Bates Motel actress Olivia Cooke says the impact of working in the horror genre has left her emotions on edge.