Daily Archive: Saturday, November 15, 2014

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday commissioned a $34.5M water treatment plant in order to provide safer water for both patients and staff at the facility.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday commissioned the southern section of its $94M new wing.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development on Friday conducted a one-day training programme for Overseers, Assistant Overseers and Works Superintendents attached to Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) to improve the services offered by the sector.

Investigations are being conducted, police say, into the murder of miner Dennis Creme, 35 years, of Port Kaituma, NWD, which occurred at about 1830h.

(Trinidad Guardian) Missing sisters Felicia, 17, and Jenelle Gonzales, 19, were found yesterday alive and well.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies leg-spinner Samuel Badree has denied being involved in any kind match fixing or spot fixing after his name was among six disclosed by the Supreme Court in India yesterday as part of the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee report that probed the allegations of betting and spot-fixing in the 2013 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues -Birkett met with her counterpart Fumio Kishida, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan on Friday, November 14, 2014 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.

Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips, has briefed GDF officers and ranks, on the current political situation, particularly as it relates to President Donald Ramotar’s prorogation of parliament, a release from the GDF said today.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday said that in the next few days he will invite the combined opposition to talks on the way forward following his suspension of Parliament.

The parliamentary opposition last evening pledged that it will continue to hammer the Ramotar- led government over its “dictatorship” leadership-style even as Chairman of the AFC Nigel Hughes said that the prorogation of parliament has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis.

Faced with accusations that his arbitrary suspension of the Parliament to avoid being voted out of office by opposition was anti-democratic and dictatorial, President Donald Ramotar yesterday continued to try to make a case for his decision.

House Speaker Raphael Trotman has appealed for the Commonwealth’s intervention to resolve the political gridlock between the government and the opposition in the wake of President Donald Ramotar’s suspension of the Parliament.

The governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday emphasised its “full commitment” to engaging in meaningful dialogue with the political opposition to country forward, but also announced that it is ready for general elections.

Royston Waldron, the prime suspect in the disappearance of two women, died yesterday after he was wounded in a shootout with lawmen, police said.

Almost three weeks after Attorney General Anil Nandlall insinuated in a secret recording that President Donald Ramotar had been in talks with the wife of Kaieteur News owner Glenn Lall to have tax evasion charges against them dropped, the president has finally issued a denial.

A prison officer was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the fatal assault of another man.

Johnathan Validen, who died in a suspicious motorbike accident on the Montrose public road on Wednesday, had expressed fears for his life only a week ago, according to his lawyer.

Steve Ninvalle has now etched his name in amateur boxing’s history books.

Damion Bailey, a former Ministry of Home Affairs employee who allegedly pretended to be Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee in order to obtain a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone from Digicel, was placed on $200,000 bail after denying the charges yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says it foresees an “amicable” resolution to its current impasse with the Indian Cricket Board, as the deadline arrived Friday for the regional board to outline a compensation plan of how it will settle the multi-million claim made by the BCCI.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday sounded warnings about the government’s plan to cover city canals to provide parking, while noting that they were not consulted on the move.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary former West Indies opener Desmond Haynes wants an end to the bickering between the West Indies Cricket Board and its players, the Barbados Today online newspaper has reported.

Defending champs Fruta Conquerors were bundled out of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer Futsal Championships as they were hammered 6-2 by Alpha United on Thursday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue.

The award of a $183M contract, for the construction of road and drainage structures at the Lethem Industrial Estate, is stirring controversy in Region Nine, where residents are worried about the winning firm’s track record and its use of Brazilian workers.

The security guard attached to the Nismes Primary School, West Bank Demerara feels she is being victimised after she spoke out about a snake that was spotted at the school last month.

The inaugural Petra Organization girls Primary Schools Pee Wee football event will officially commence today with group matchups at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The Salvation Army launched its annual Christmas Appeal yesterday at the Georgetown Club, where the call was made for public support.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Windward Islands, responding to Jamaica’s 208 all out, were 16 for three in the first innings at the close on the opening day of their first round match in the WICB Professional Cricket League at Sabina Park, yesterday.

Guyanese turned out yesterday in large numbers as Courts Guyana held its annual Christmas tree lighting along Main Street.

It pops up constantly. It never truly goes away. This week, it came at me again in an email from my friend Ken Corsbie, living in North Carolina, as he relayed a collection of complaints from folks in his generation; their problem was dissatisfaction with the state of popular music today, and the language was on the strong side.

In excess of 1500 student athletes and teachers from across Guyana will converge in the city to compete in the 54th edition of the National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships which starts on Tuesday.

Caricom Secretary General Irwin LaRocque said a permanent solution is being sought to the annual constraints experienced by non-University of the West Indies (UWI) law graduates trying to complete their legal education at regional law schools.

St Rose’s High embarrassed an experienced Bishops’ High unit 66-10 when the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) U-19 High School Exchange Project continued on Wednesday at the St Rose’s High Basketball Court.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Washington will allow some children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee status from their home countries, Vice President Joe Biden announced on Friday, in a bid to stem an exodus of undocumented migrants to the U.S.

Dear Editor, One person has asked me directly, and another through the Stabroek News blog, for clarification or explanation on how I arrived at the date of November 30, 2015 to which a re-elected PPP/C could spend money without going to the National Assembly (‘Gov’t can spend up to November 30, 2015 without approval – Ram’ SN, November 13).

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will announce a $3 billion U.S.

Dear Editor,   My five-year-old son Renel Roberts was hit on August 24 last while in the company of his grandfather, Sydney Stephen.

The third staging of Flex Night Berbice will be held today at the Skeldon High School.

Clinton Duncan’s career as a theatrical makeup artist started just after high school.

  Dr Cheddi “Joey” Jagan Jnr has condemned the Donald Ramotar administration’s decision to suspend the Parliament, saying it is “anti-democratic” and “bordering on dictatorship.”

Dear Editor, Mr Christopher Ram in a recent article titled ‘Government can spend up to November 30, 2015 without approval’ (SN, November 13) outlines a scenario that could allow the PPP/C to spend moneys belonging to the state up to the period stated, without the need for parliamentary approval.

NELLMAPIUS, South Africa, (Reuters) – To the squatters marking it up this week with sticks, rocks and strips of plastic, ‘Malema Valley’ is a little slice of South Africa they want to call home.

After surpassing more than 10 teams during several months of competition at numerous venues in the city and its suburbs, Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and the Everest Cricket Club are set to clash in the final of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/ Noble House Seafoods Second Division Two-day Competition at the DCC ground in Queenstown.

The University of Guyana’s main campus in Turkeyen graduated over 1,500 students last week Saturday and many of these graduates will move on to further their education elsewhere, reside in another country or, as the guest speaker Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Irwin LaRocque recommended, apply for the Caribbean Single Market and Economy Recognition of Skills Certificate and enhance the development of their region.

The Trinidad Express and Trinidad and Tobago Newsday newspapers yesterday both voiced concern about the political impasse in Guyana.

Hi Everyone,   I love feet, that is, chicken feet, pig’s feet and cowheel.

YANGON, (Reuters) – Standing next to Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, U.S.

Dear Editor, On July 6, 2014, a young Guyanese citizen, Rohan Persaud, was cremated six days after he died, without the cause of death ever being verified.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The task force set up to investigate the abandoned tour of India has been given a detailed mandate by the West Indies Cricket Board, and asked to report its findings by December 13th.

A state witness testified on Thursday to witnessing murder accused Christopher Singh and Devendra Bushram brutally rob and stab a man after a floodlights cricket match on the East Coast in 2010.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested a former Petroleo Brasileiro SA executive yesterday, sending the state-run oil company’s shares and bonds down after a widening corruption scandal forced it to delay the release of its financial results.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela is still considering raising domestic fuel prices that are the world’s cheapest, and is taking a big hit in revenues due to the global fall in oil prices, President Nicolas Maduro said.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with using a bottle to stab his common-law wife after a misunderstanding.

BILASPUR, India, (Reuters) – The recent deaths of 15 people linked to a small pharmaceutical factory in the eastern city of Raipur have highlighted how easily adulterated drugs can enter India’s huge healthcare system.

CENTURION, South Africa, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Darren Sammy has been handed the Titans captaincy for the rest of the South Africa Ram Slam Twenty20 League.

Dear Editor,   In the letter by Reverend Chris Bowman he states: “The church is not a political, nor is it a secular entity; it is first and foremost a spiritual organism.

(Trinidad Express) A US-based infectious disease specialist says hospitals in Trinidad and Tobago would not be prepared if there is an outbreak of the deadly Ebola here.

Health 2000 Incorporated continued their support of the Petra Organization Girls Primary Schools Pee Wee football event, donating a large assortment of vitamins yesterday to the competing teams at their headquarters in Industrial Site.

Odinga Chase, accused of robbing a woman in a North Ruimveldt home invasion, was remanded to prison yesterday after being arraigned on two counts of armed robbery.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Beijing police have shut down more than 10 “underground banks” responsible for illegally funnelling more than $22.6 billion out of China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

I got back from Port-of-Spain on Monday afternoon after a long and tiring week of fashion shows, collection viewing events and art exhibitions.

Commentary on the 25th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall has repeatedly touched on one of central political arguments of the early twenty-first century, namely the relationship between political and economic freedoms.

Dear Editor, From a distance, but not too distant, I have noted what purports to be a contretemps surrounding one of my areas of special interest – cane farming – amongst the membership of what is styled the National Cane Farming Committee.

AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes speaking last evening at the opposition rally at the Square of the Revolution against the suspension of Parliament.

(Trinidad Express) FIVE Trinidadian nationals held in Venezuela over the last seven months on suspicion of terrorism have been charged with terrorism and criminal conspiracy.