Daily Archive: Sunday, December 7, 2014

The Trades Union Congress today branded President Donald Ramotar’s pledge of elections next year as deceptive and it called on all stakeholders to continue the pressure for the President to end the suspension of Parliament.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Six men held for more than a decade at the U.S.

Amid political deadlock and facing growing criticism over his decision to suspend parliament, President Donald Ramotar yesterday announced that he will call general elections but declined to name a date, saying that he will “announce further steps” in this direction early next year.

Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the senior al Qaeda operative who had Guyanese citizenship, was yesterday killed after more than a decade of slipping under the FBI’s radar.

With a growing number of inmates recently ending up in court for ganja trafficking in the Georgetown Prison, there are concerns about security at the facility which spawned the 2002 jail-break.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday shot down accusations by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) that his party was misusing state resources for elections campaigning, before questioning whether his ministers are expected to abandon their government vehicles and walk.

The Women and Gender Equality Commission has hit out at the recent ruling of acting Chief Justice Ian Chang which deemed paper committals under the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) as unconstitutional.

Several top AFC leaders were returned unopposed to their positions during the party’s biennial National Conference held yesterday.

Reading a Gallup Poll about the happiest countries on earth, I couldn’t help being surprised by the fact that nine out of the 10 happiest countries — led by Paraguay — turned out to be in Latin America.

Sources say the deal for the sale of the Hotel Tower has collapsed and workers hired by the prospective Canadian buyer Michael Mosgrove have been ejected from the property.

So much begins with parents. So much continues in the training grounds.

The widow of East Coast Demerara biker Jonathan Validen says three weeks after her husband crashed and died, she is yet to see the video supporting the police’s claim that he toppled.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Captain Vishaul Singh struck his maiden first class hundred as leaders Guyana Jaguars took command of their fourth round match in the WICB Professional Cricket League against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force here yesterday.

Hikers men’s and women’s teams were in top form when the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival continued on Friday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

The recent interception of drug couriers abroad is a sign that security arrangements at Guyana’s main international airport are flawed and according to opposition leader David Granger attention needs to be paid to training, supervision, remuneration and careful selection of law enforcement officers if the situation is to be improved.

The notion in 1950 by the leaders of the PPP that freedom will bring justice has not materialized.

Johanna Chan and Mahadeo Harrinarine were on Friday placed on a total of $300,000 bail after denying stealing over $3M from their employer.

Followers of this column will know I’m always preaching that we should, whenever possible, present both sides of the coin when we’re discussing issues in the homeland; that as we take time to rightfully criticize the shortcomings, we should also be pointing to the good news happenings as they occur.

The news that all citizens of St Kitts-Nevis wishing to travel to Canada will from now on require a visa, and that subsequently the St Kitts government announced it is to recall a number of passports, ought to cause pause for thought across the region about economically valuable, but reputationally risky, citizenship-by-investment schemes.

History was created as Alpha United recorded the largest margin of victory in the history of the Georgetown Football Association/Banks Beer Cup, crushing Black Water 17-0 when the fourth annual tourney commenced on Friday at the Camp Ayanganna ground.

The Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) in partnership with Banks DIH Limited officially launched their second annual GT Beer Super 16 Football Tournament yesterday at the Watooka Complex.

Araucaria excels, commonly called Norfolk Island Pine or just Christmas Tree originated from Norfolk Island in the South Pacific which is an Australian territory off the coast of Australia.

There are two crucial issues which remain to be tackled in this series on inequality and poverty in contemporary Guyana.

A taxi driver, who is alleged to have fraudulently converted funds given to him to buy spare parts, was on Friday released on $60,000 bail after he denied the charge.

Continued from last week After having spent some time last week discussing canine chronology and positing that the ‘7 human years = 1 dog year’ opinion should not be taken as gospel, let us now have a more serious look at the physical and psychological (behavioural) changes in the elderly dog as well as those things that influence his wellbeing and longevity.

Enterprise Primary continued their unbeaten showing in the inaugural Health 2000 Guyana Incorporated Girls Primary Schools football event, dismantling South Ruimveldt 3-0 yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

During a night of music, readings and Christmas cheer, a cultural magazine was launched by the Moray House Trust as it celebrated its Annual Christmas Concert.

Rose Hall town’s Kriskal Persaud, a former national junior and senior chess champion, looks tentatively at the chess board in his first game of the Umada Cup.

WASHINGTON/SANAA (Reuters) – It could have been something as simple as a barking dog that alerted the al Qaeda guards as US special operations forces approached the compound just after midnight.

The cream of the nation’s musclemen and women along with Surinamese rivals will display rippling abdominals, well-defined quadriceps and sculpted arms among others in the highly-anticipated Flex Night International Body Building and Fitness Show tonight at the National Cultural Centre.

The executive and members of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) have expressed their profound condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of consumer rights activist Eileen Cox on her passing.

Two Linden men were yesterday released on $15,000 bail each, while another was fined the same amount after they appeared in a Georgetown court charged with possession of cannabis.

New Governor The appointment of a new Governor of the Bank of Guyana would be major financial news in many parts of the world if Guyana was a major world economy.

The staging of the production Expressions 2 by GEMS Theatre Produc-tions directed by Gem Madhoo-Nascimento at the Theatre Guild Playhouse on November 9 drew attention to a number of factors arising from the current range of dramatic and poetic performance in Guyana at present.

KABUL (Reuters) – The United States will keep up to 1,000 more soldiers than previously planned in Afghanistan into next year, outgoing U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Senate has approved amendments to the Representation of the People Act, despite lingering concerns about a provision which will see taxpayers being called on to fund political parties.

These are early days yet for judging the impact of the new, enthusiastically heralded West Indies Cricket Board’s Professional Cricket League (PCL).

Dear Editor, I could not agree more with the sentiment expressed by Canadian High Commissioner Nicole Giles (‘Time ripe for renewable energies here,’ SN, December 6).

HARARE (Reuters) – Ninety-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe promoted his wife to the top ranks of his ZANU-PF party on Saturday but delayed filling vacant senior posts, prolonging anxiety over his lack of successor.

Masqueraders on Camp Street yesterday: Showing off his athletic prowess, one masquerader jumps forward on one stilt while spinning the other one around his head (Photo by Arian Browne)

More than two months after miner Troy Greenidge went missing, his mother is planning to lodge a complaint with the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) over what she says is the disinterest being shown in the case by the police.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – With pundits already writing off West Indies’ chances against World number one South Africa, assistant coach Stuart Williams has warned the Caribbean side will not simply roll over and play dead.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The remains of one of 43 trainee teachers abducted in southwestern Mexico 10 weeks ago and believed to have been massacred by drug gang henchmen have been identified from tests, a source close to the investigation said yesterday.

MANILA (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon roared into the eastern Philippines yesterday, bringing lashing rain and strong winds that felled trees, ripped off tin roofs and toppled power lines in areas still bearing the scars of a super typhoon 13 months ago.

Dear Editor, Reports are that Bishop Francis Alleyne, OSB, of the Roman Catholic Church has led a team on a round of outreach to the local political parties.

(Trinidad Express) Petrotrin, the State-owned oil company, was not insulated from the impact of plummeting oil prices.

Sunday  Cartoons

Residents from around the Kaieteur National Park yesterday concentrating on a text during a nine-day training session, made possible by the Frankfurt Zoological Society in Collaboration with the Protected Areas Commission.

  Generally speaking, the way we present our food here in the Caribbean does not come as a 3-course meal; rather it is served in 2 courses – the main/entrée (which would also include a variety of side dishes and what in other cuisines would be referred to as appetizers).

“When the people began to display their young vigour, Carter turned his attention to nurturing the forces of the radiant future.”

When those in power suffer from power disease, then the confidantes and employees who surround them will often exhibit arrogance themselves, as if the conceit of their superiors has radiated outwards to touch them too with the scourge of what perhaps should be called power association disease.

WINDERMERE, Florida (Reuters) – Young American Jordan Spieth was on course to satisfy his 2014 season’s objectives as he stormed to a seven-shot lead at the Hero World Challenge, while host Tiger Woods showed his grit in yesterday’s third round.