Daily Archive: Monday, December 1, 2014

BOSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S.

Barbados celebrating their stunning victory against Guyana earlier today at the Guyana National Stadium.

Opposition Leader David Granger (left) accompanied by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Members of Parliament Ronald Bulkan and Christopher Jones, heard criticisms against the People’s Progressive Party Civic-dominated Regional Democratic Council of the Pomeroon- Supenaam Region during a recent visit to the area.

Dynamic Airways last night hit another snag when its plane became stuck in the mud at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri as it was preparing to leave Guyana for New York.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board Selection Panel today announced that Devon Smith has been selected to replace Christopher Gayle in the West Indies Test squad to South Africa.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) today said it has seen and is “totally disgusted” by a video on Facebook and on other media made by a person or persons deliberately showing slum and neglected areas of Georgetown and dubbing the voice and image of Minister of Tourism, Irfaan Ali over the video.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Barbados Pride defeated Guyana Jaguars by two runs on the final day of their third round WICB Professional Cricket League match at the National Stadium at Providence here today.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Outar Ramphal, 50 years, of Princetown, Corriverton, which occurred at about 2300h.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) today lauded the Ombudsman’s report into a complaint by a sacked NBS manager as courageous and it called on the savings institution to reinstate and fully compensate the managers and staff who had been dismissed in connection with the loss of $69M from a customer’s account in 2006.

The Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) today apologized to all customers served by the Shelter-Belt Water Treatment Plant which it said is experiencing reduced levels of service due to an electrical problem.

CGX Energy Inc today announced the settlement of the claims brought against Repsol Exploración, S.A.

(Barbados Nation) A man in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Barbados was nearly stripped of their pride yesterday after spinners Veerasammy Permaul and Devendra Bishoo ran amok at the Guyana National Stadium leaving the islanders tottering with a lead of 54 and only three wickets in hand.

A former soldier who had been convicted of manslaughter in 1996, yesterday shot his neighbour before turning the gun on himself and ending his life with a single bullet to the head.

Kashif and Shanghai Co-Director Aubrey Major, says the entity’s traditional yearend tourney will officially be moved to the Easter period, following the GFF Normalization Committee’s decision not to grant them permission to host their event this year.

Facing criticism of their “slow motion” efforts to end the suspension of parliament, leaders of the opposition APNU and AFC yesterday rejected claims that momentum is being lost with APNU Leader David Granger saying that resources needs to be mobilized for a sustained campaign.

Following a request from the US State’s Attorney Office, New York Judge Dora Irizarry has ordered Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad to make all payments of a forfeiture money judgment to the tune of US$500,000 by certified or bank cheque.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday condemned the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration’s arbitrary imposition of what it described as “another paltry ‘freck’” on public servants’ salaries.

Guyana is among thirteen Caribbean countries on track to be certified as having eliminated mother-to- child transmission of HIV with three being close to reaching this goal, a release from UNAIDS Caribbean said yesterday on the eve of World AIDS Day.

Barbados’ Orlando Husbands continued his good showing at the fifth edition of the FIDE-World Chess Federation/Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Umada Cup, ending round six atop the field in the open category as action continued at the Sleep Inn International Hotel, Georgetown.

More than a month after a 21-year-old woman reported that she was raped, she is still awaiting justice even as policemen claiming that they were from Georgetown turned up at her home to question her in a manner that made her uncomfortable.

Score’s Even produced a powerful late surge to win the feature A and Lower seven-furlong event of the Champions of Champions meet yesterday at the Rising Sun Turf Club.

More than two weeks after his client, confessed drug trafficker Leonard Bacchus, received a suspended sentence, Member of Parliament and lawyer James Bond has been accused by the PPP/C of being “in bed with the criminal underworld;” an accusation Bond has dismissed as senseless and a distraction by the PPP/C.

Island All-Stars kept their chances alive of progressing to the knockout stages, overcoming North Sophia 2-1 when the final group round in the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Georgetown leg got underway yesterday at the Demerara Park Tarmac.

Former Director of the University of Guyana’s Tain, Berbice Campus, Professor Daizal Samad has joined the Alliance For Change (AFC), making a public appearance at the party’s rally in Whim, Berbice on Saturday.

Dear Editor, Attorney Murseline Bacchus made what looked like a nice, neat defence of Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s taped threats in relation to KN.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Seasoned campaigner Nikita Miller helped Jamaica Franchise’s tail wag and then returned to strike a key blow with the ball, to leave Trinidad and Tobago Red Force with a difficult task of winning their third round WICB Professional Cricket League game on today’s final day.

Dear Editor, I deeply appreciate your fearless approach to journalism in the context of the questions posed to Sir Shridath Ramphal on the launching of his memoirs.

Access to justice is a challenge for women who are victims of violence, especially those who live in remote areas, given the geography of the country and that law enforcement services are limited.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Orlando Peters carved out his maiden first class hundred and Liam Sebastien, his first ever ten-wicket haul, as Leeward Islands Hurricanes put up an admirable fight on day three of their third round WICB Professional Cricket League clash here yesterday.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds on Saturday paid a visit to the Bornion Guyana Inc.

Dear Editor We read from the pages of Stabroek News of a salary increase for all public servants in Guyana.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, (Reuters) – Pope Francis said yesterday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism to help dispel the stereotype.

Team Coco’s ended the 2014 cycling season on a high yesterday, winning the Arokium Funeral Parlour sponsored 60-mile road race in Berbice.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – For the first time since the ill-fated tour of India last month, a West Indies squad will leave the Caribbean for an international assignment, when the Test team heads to South Africa.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clashed with police last night as they tried to encircle government headquarters, defying orders from authorities to retreat after more than two months of demonstrations.

This year’s World AIDS Day theme challenges Caribbean policy makers, programme managers and implementers to identify and develop strategies and policies for ‘Closing the Gap’ in resources and to universal access, PANCAP Coordinating Unit Director Dereck Springer says.

Dear Editor, Mr Ralph Ramkarran, in his Stabroek News column of November 23, 2014, has put forward a workable plan to take us out of the quagmire that we are in – a plan which could lead to a form of governance that will be one of cooperation rather than the decades of confrontational politics with which we have been burdened and which have led our country to the sorry state it is in.

MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Tabare Vazquez won back his old job as president of Uruguay in a runoff election yesterday, allowing the leftist ruling coalition to extend its decade in power and roll out a law legalizing the production and sale of marijuana.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A clampdown down on bouncers is unlikely despite the death of Australian Phillip Hughes this week, International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson said yesterday.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Gold prices fell the most in more than three weeks and the Swiss franc dipped slightly today after Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected proposals to boost gold reserves in a referendum.

A young man will be in jail for the next two years after he pleaded guilty to two charges of simple larceny last Friday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to M Maxwell’s letter ‘The constitution is illegal,’ SN, November 25.

Dear Editor, I came across some interesting facts about race relations in the United States of America which certainly do not speak well of American society from a sociological perspective.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Gambia’s foreign minister said the West African country would sever all dialogue with the European Union and rejected what he said were attempts by the bloc to use its aid budget to force Gambia to revoke a tough new law against homosexuality.

(Reuters) – Paceman Trent Boult took four wickets as New Zealand beat Pakistan by an innings and 80 runs to win the third and final test within four days and level the series 1-1.

(Jamaica Observer) Friends, relatives and associates of 19-year-old medical students Danielle Hanson and Mikhail Campbell have taken to social media to mourn the tragic and untimely death of the two in a motor vehicle crash early Saturday morning.

 By Charlene Wilkinson Ms. Wilkinson is currently a lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana.  Her

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels freed an army general and two other captives yesterday, paving the way for peace talks in Cuba to resume in the quest to end five decades of conflict.

There are many questions which arise from the detention of Mr Kem Khamraj Lall in Puerto Rico over the discovery of US$620,000 on the private jet on which he was a passenger.

World AIDS Day is being observed today internationally under the theme ‘Closing the Gap’.

If FIFA’s (Federation Internationale de Football Association) decision to appoint members of the Normalization Committee without any connection to football here seemed weird, that feeling is now fully justified.

Dear Editor, Quite reasonably, the opposition has called for a probe into the jet with a Guyanese copilot which had a substantial amount of undeclared cash on board when it was bound for Guyana.

The Commissioner General (CG) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is again in the news.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world has finally reached “the beginning of the end” of the AIDS pandemic that has infected and killed millions in the past 30 years, according to a leading campaign group fighting HIV.

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