Daily Archive: Friday, November 7, 2014

Social and political activist, Mark Anthony Benschop (right)  has joined the protest calling for the resignation of Attorney General Anil Nandlall over a controversial phone conversation which was released to the public.

The Guyana Defence Force this afternoon, provided celebrated national distance athlete Cleveland Forde (left) with the sponsorship necessary, to enable his participation at Sunday’s Association of Athletic Federation (IAAF) South American 10km Road Race Classic, in Panama.

A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change met this afternoon at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition while PPP executives also held a meeting at Freedom House as both sides strategize for Monday’s Parliament showdown.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin has again accused the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of axing him as national captain because of his role in the abandoned tour of India, and says their actions are a breach of his rights.

Mexico has revoked a US$3.75 billion high-speed rail contract from a Chinese-led consortium after its uncontested bid prompted an outcry from lawmakers, Reuters reported today.

Main opposition APNU today said that President Donald Ramotar’s threat to prorogue Parliament because of the opposition’s planned motion of no-confidence is a dangerous threat to democratic norms.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan attempts to “sabotage” a war crimes inquiry raise questions about the government’s integrity and are an affront to the U.N.

The AFC yesterday warned that government could move to run the country as “an extra-parliamentary dictatorship,” by proroguing parliament and delaying the run off of early general elections AFC Vice Chairman Moses Nagamootoo told a news conference yesterday at the Georgetown Club that he believed that government will not debate his party’s no-confidence motion

With gold at a more than four-year low of US$1,137.40 an ounce this week, the miners association yesterday upped the pressure on government for help, warning that at a price of US$1,000 many miners will exit the industry and most of the big ones are now operating at 25-30% capacity.

Two teenage brothers drowned in the Takutu River on Sunday, not far from the neighbouring Brazilian municipality Bonfim, where they lived.

Dereck Jaisingh, the licensed firearm holder who shot two men along the Land of Canaan Public Road early on Sunday morning, was yesterday charged with two counts of attempted murder and was released on $800,000 bail after his lawyer said he thought he was being threatened by the men.

Paramountcy of the then ruling People’s National Congress (PNC) party over the state pushed historian Walter Rodney to end the enabling cycle of fear and oppression and he in turn suffered an undeserved death carried out by the Forbes Burnham Regime, Labour Minister Nanda Gopaul testified yesterday.

The resurfacing of key parts of the Linden/Lethem road will be completed in another seven days, the Ministry of Public Works said yesterday.

Government has instructed that a recording of a       conversation between Attorney General Anil Nandlall and a Kaieteur News reporter be sent overseas to be authenticated.

GT&T says it has undertaken a comprehensive review of an incident in which one of its employees was electrocuted and says it will continue to work with stakeholders to further review practices.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The world’s rarest postal stamp, the 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, will go on display at the National Postal Museum in Washington starting in April, the Smithsonian Institution said yesterday.

When Cabinet met on Tuesday four contracts were given its no objection, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon at his weekly briefing yesterday.

Some members of the Joint Services and health care providers have been trained to better assist persons in need of emergency health care assistance.

The PPP is working to recapture the votes it lost in the 2011 elections and bottom-house meetings, a dinner for professionals, and lunch for party stalwarts were among its planned activities on the Essequibo Coast this week.

The main opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Tuesday continued its picketing campaign to mount pressure on the government to hold local government elections.

-Sharma The Guyana Telephone   and Telegraph Company (GT&T) plans to intensify its efforts for government to grant the wireless spectrum needed to deploy 3G and 4G (third and fourth generation) wireless services, according to Chief Executive Officer Radha Krishna Sharma, who says four years have passed since the company’s initial request.

Charges are likely to be laid against the driver who reportedly caused the death of 12-year-old Isaiah Khan at La Union, West Coast Demerara around 12:15 am on Wednesday.

A fifth form student of the St. George’s Secondary School on Church Street was stabbed by a schoolmate yesterday afternoon.

A man was yesterday sentenced to spend the next 36 months in jail after he confessed to burgling a woman’s home.

JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- A prominent attorney, a leading businessman and a former West Indies cricketer have been appointed on a Task Force setup to probe the circumstances that led to the dramatic pull out by the senior West Indies cricketers from their tour of India.

Seron Skeete, an employee of Cevon’s Waste Management, was yesterday sentenced to 48 months in jail after he was found guilty of robbing a woman.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. Navy Seal commando team that killed Osama bin Laden at his Pakistan hideout in May, 2011 are making conflicting claims as to who actually shot the al Qaeda leader.

Wizardry from spinners Raj Nannan and Steven Jacobs laid a platform for the Vishaul Singh XI, who seem to be on course for yet another win over the Leon Johnson XI as they maintained a lead of 87-runs heading into the final day of the Cricket Guyana Inc.’s

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Google’s ambition to defy the limits of ageing has fired up interest in the field, drawing in drug companies who are already quietly pioneering research, despite the regulatory and clinical hurdles that remain.

The church must continue to play its part in fighting poverty and ensuring unity, locally and regionally, President Donald Ramotar told the delegates at the formal opening of the Caribbean Baptists Fellowship Assembly at the National Cultural Centre on Wednesday.

St. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday denied media reports that Richie Richardson was fired as manager of the West Indies Cricket team.

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said that government is positioning the local rice industry to emulate its Asian counterparts by embarking on a regime of diversification that would yield a range of high-quality byproducts that would be good enough to hold their own on western markets.

The 17th annual Troy Humphrey Memorial event will definitely roll off tomorrow in the National Park.

Mohammed Gafoor lshmail is one of several Guyanese entrepreneurs who have hedged their bets, returning to Guyana to set up businesses over the past decade or so after having made earlier successful investments in their adopted countries, mostly in North America.

By Delvon McEwan   After a spectacular weekend of golf at the Lusignan Golf Course (LGC) where local golfers dominated the flights in the men’s and ladies’ categories at Guyana’s premier golf tourney, Digicel Guyana Open Golf Tournament, there is controversy surrounding the final results of the ladies’ category.

Speed demon Chet Singh is all fired up and ready to put pedal to the medal when Guyana hosts the third leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) come November 16.

Beacons FC kept their hopes alive of qualifying for the knockout round, blanking Renaissance FC 3-0 in their final group matchup when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer Futsal tourney continued yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Friday September 12, 2014 our family chose to bury a family member in the Le Repentir Cemetery on a plot of land to the northern side of the crematorium.

Two stories published in this issue of the Stabroek Business address the issue of buying local, albeit from different perspectives.

Dear Editor, Now that we have the benefit of hindsight regarding the recent hand-out of $10,000 to parents of every public school student, we can consider how we perhaps could have done better.

Dear Editor, With reference to Dr S Surujbally’s Nov 2, 2014 Pet Corner column on euthanasia, I have two comments: First, he wrote, “I remember a supposed pet lover and animal activist holding a bundle of kittens under water …” That prompted several friends to call and ask if I knew who he was referring to.

With local fruit already in considerable demand on both the domestic and export markets the beauty industry is beginning to make its own additional demands on the sector.

(ICC) India handed Sri Lanka a six wicket drubbing in the second One-Day International at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Motera, Ahmedabad yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is inconceivable that the once, and sometimes still, heralded institutions of attorney general and the presidency can fall farther, sink lower.

(This is an edited interview between the Chief Executive Officer of Massy, Gervase Warner and Stabroek News on October 29th.

LONDON/VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Struggling gold producers plan increasingly drastic measures such as scrapping dividends, cutting jobs, halting projects and shutting mines to survive the latest price plunge, but not all of them will make it.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Breaking British records has become a bit of a habit for Andy Murray.

Annabelle Carter-Sharma is one of several entrepreneurial aspirants whose ambitions are now much better positioned to take shape, following her receipt in May of a $3 million loan from the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) to consolidate Euphoria Indoor and Outdoor Fun Park an enterprise which, though already registered as a business is still very much in the making.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to the story in the edition of the Kaieteur News dated 1st November, 2014, captioned ‘Legal fraternity calls for immediate sacking of Nandlall.’

(Trinidad Guardian) A Princes Town mother wants to know how her son, Navin Bheesham-Singh, died from a rare flesh-eating bacterium, five days after a doctor diagnosed and treated him for a pinched nerve. An

(Barbados Nation) Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) has entered into an agreement to acquire Columbus International Inc.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 588’s trading results showed consideration of $2,989,128 from 93,555 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 587’s trading results, which showed consideration of $898,243 from 37,000 shares traded in 13 transactions.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned ‘Carpe Diem? Maybe not…’ in ‘The Scene,’ which appeared in last Saturday’s Stabroek News (November 1).

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia’s three World Cup-winning captains are unified in their belief that under-fire skipper Michael Clarke is the right man to lead the team to a potential fifth tournament victory next March.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan judge who was accused by the United States of involvement in drug trafficking pleaded guilty in Miami federal court on Wednesday to extortion, obstruction of justice and money laundering, according to court documents.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago I wrote a piece advocating that star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul should be named a sports ambassador and given a diplomatic passport, so he would not have to queue up at the airport, etc.

(Trinidad Express) Unconfirmed reports yesterday stated that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) were about to fire their three captains – Test captain Denesh Ramdin, One Day International captain Dwayne Bravo and T20 captain Darren Sammy, as directors are set to attend an important board meeting by conference call today.

(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have launched a money-laundering investigation into a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, citing people familiar with the matter.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Coach Gus Logie has expressed support for the appointment of Rayad Emrit as the new captain of the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, now wrapping up preparations for the start of the new first class season.

Twenty years after it first opened its doors, Metro asserts that its intervention in the local market could hardly have come at a more strategically important time.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – Nigeria enjoys a perfect rice-growing climate over a vast area yet it is the world’s second biggest importer of the staple, often from countries in its warm, wet tropical latitude like top exporter Thailand.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday bucked a recent trend of pro-gay marriage decisions by upholding state bans or restrictions in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, pressuring the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Government has considered introducing genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to Trinidad and Tobago to fight the deadly dengue and chikungunya viruses and if the price is right, it is a possibility, according to Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Germany and Brazil are pushing the United Nations to be tougher on spying by beefing up an earlier U.N.

By Hallam Hope   As Caribbean economies continue to be buttressed by a weak world economy an international two-day conference is scheduled for Barbados to provide a road map for future economic growth.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England have named former middle-order batsman Mark Ramprakash as their batting coach, the England and Wales Cricket Board said yesterday.

Dear Editor, This letter may seem trivial at a time when we are faced with so many distressing matters within the State of Guyana.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s selectors have retained the 16-member squad that whitewashed Australia in the recent two-test series for this month’s tests against New Zealand.

Five years after its operations were re-sited from Kingston to temporary premises inside the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus, the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department of the Ministry of Health is to be given a permanent home close to the university campus.

KARACHI, Reuters) – Pakistan’s suspended off-spinner Saeed Ajmal says he will be as effective as ever when he returns with a remodeled bowling action.

Dear Editor, On October 20, Ron Robinson and Marcia Parker co-hosting and filling in for Kean McRae was a delightful change on the Voice of Guyana’s ‘Breakfast Show.’

Dear Editor, This is in response to your editorial of Nov 3, news reports of Oct 31 and Nov 5 and letters of Nov 5 pertaining to a phone conversation between the Attorney General and a reporter of Kaieteur News.

By all accounts, last week’s Queen’s College Old Students’ Association (QCOSA) reunion, marking the 170th anniversary of the founding of QC, was a great success, with old boys and, significantly, an impressive number of old girls, gathering to relive the carefree days of their youth and to celebrate the institution that laid the foundation for their many and varied achievements.

Four special needs schools—the Georgetown-based David Rose School and its counterpart institutions at New Amsterdam, Linden and Diamond—have embarked on a project that will provide around 80 deaf students and 40 otherwise differently able ones with the opportunity to acquire a valuable self-sustaining skill and an opportunity to take a small but significant step into the world of business.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Antigua and Barbuda have retained their title as champions of one-day cricket in the Leeward Islands a week after capturing the three-day tournament They defeated St.Kitts

Greetings to all friends. Even critics, detractors attract my best wishes and blessings as I really endeavour to make today’s piece the briefest.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Kavem Hodge and Johnson Charles scored contrasting centuries as Dominica and Grenada shared title honours in the 2014 Windward Islands Cricket series which ended here Wednesday.

The Hope Secondary School, yesterday under its motto “Determination and hard work brings success,” held its 2014 Graduation ceremony.