Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 9, 2014

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For the second consecutive year, the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) today conducted a public march to commemorate International Anti-Corruption Day 2014.

For the second consecutive year, the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) today conducted a public march to commemorate International Anti-Corruption Day 2014.

P&P Insurance Brokers and Consultants Limited last week again donated $1 million to ten organizations that house the less fortunate.

The association of private security organisations today issued a statement expressing sadness at the killing of security guard Wilfred Stewart by bandits yesterday at Sterling Products Limited.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The CIA routinely misled the White House and Congress over its harsh interrogation program for terrorism suspects and its methods, which included waterboarding, were more brutal than the agency acknowledged, a Senate report said on Tuesday.

(WICB) ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board Selection Panel yesterday named the 30-man provisional squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup to be played in Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2015.

At about 2000h last night, police say that Shazam Bacchus, 23 years, of No.

(Trinidad Express) Nigerian rebels who were involved in military attacks against the Nigerian government spent a year in this country as tourism students.

A security guard of Sterling Products is now dead and a quality assurance chemist critically injured after a swarm of gunmen stormed the Providence business last evening.

China Harbour Engineering (T&T) Ltd has signed a US$30 million contact for the construction of the long in works Movie Towne Guyana complex at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission Dr Steve Surujbally stated that the commission may agree to truncate the current exercise of continuous registration and prepare to go to elections, “once it is clear we are having elections next year.”

The police are investigating the death of an East Coast Demerara businessman, who was shot and killed during a gun-point robbery at his Mango Landing shop yesterday morning.

A Venezuelan soldier was yesterday remanded to a local prison after being charged with shooting at a countryman and having an unlicensed gun and ammunition in the Cuyuni area.

A man is dead and a woman injured following a boat collision at Karatabo in the Essequibo River last evening, while a second man is in police custody.

The Agriculture Ministry has operationalised four new fixed pump stations over the last week, three of which were set up from the controversial 2011 Surendra Engineering contract.

Tanasha Fleming, the American traveller held at the Cheddi Jagan airport with just over 40 pounds of cocaine stashed in baking and custard powders, will be spending the next five years in jail after pleading guilty to drug trafficking.

Attorney Gordon Gilhuys has been reported to the police for allegedly making a death threat to a snow cone vendor—an accusation he has denied.

Twelve Nepalese men were remanded to prison yesterday after being arraigned before Magistrate Ann McLennan for allegedly departing Guyana illegally after vacationing here.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica Franchise required just half-hour on the final morning here yesterday to trounce Leeward Islands Hurricanes by four wickets and log their third victory of the new WICB Professional Cricket League.

As Flex Night International 2014 unfolded on Sunday, the anticipation was palpable.

Some residents of the three East Bank Demerara villages that suffered massive flooding after a Koker gave way in early October, protested in front of the Office of the President yesterday as they called the $11 million flood relief proposed by government an insult.

Winston Felix, the truck driver who fatally struck an Agricola woman while she was on a pedestrian crossing, was yesterday charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

BK international owned JAGS Airlines has teamed up with Dagron tours to bring a domestic Christmas travel special to Guyanese.

A tattoo artist, accused in the theft of $1 million in valves, was remanded to prison yesterday after a court heard that he was caught selling the stolen items.

With the local sugar industry in dire straits, President Donald Ramotar yesterday turned to Cuba for help.

Bharrat Kellawan, 18, is nursing a gunshot wound after he was attacked by two bandits on Sunday.

Chairman of Gecom Dr Steve Surujbally said yesterday that the Constitution was very clear on political parties involving themselves in Gecom’s work, as the PPP once again called for the names of polling day staff to be revealed.

The Private Sector Com-mission has expressed disappointment that there was no formal response from any of the political parties on its proposal for dialogue during the prorogation of parliament.

Almost three weeks after he was shot in the neck as he and friends were allegedly playing with a gun, Devon Howell yesterday succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A responsible half-century from Akeal Hosein was not enough to save Trinidad and Tobago Red Force from their second straight defeat of the WICB Professional Cricket League, as they crashed to an innings and ten-run loss to leaders Guyana Jaguars here yesterday.

Relatives of a De Willem West Coast Demerara (WCD) teen who has not been seen since she left home for school five days ago are asking the public to help in locating her.

On a night devoid of high scoring matches and highlighted by penalty shoot-outs, Sparta Boss clinched their inaugural semi-final spot, downing Albouystown-B 2-0 on Sunday at the Demerara Park Tarmac.

Dear Editor, I was more than a little bit surprised by the statement in Mr Lincoln Lewis’s letter that “[Guyana] is a nation of laws” (‘Constitutional conversation,’ Stabroek News, December 8).

Premiership Sports Promotions in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, officially launched their inaugural u-17 Secondary School Invitational Tournament yesterday at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Headquarters.

Dear Editor, On many occasions when I happened to visit the new Diamond housing scheme where some of my family and friends are living, I saw rapid development since the scheme was first implemented by former Minister of Housing and Water Shaik Baksh under the new housing policy on land and house lot distribution in March 2002.

Christopher M Cushing, former USAID Mission Director in Ecuador has been appointed Mission Director for USAID Eastern and Southern Caribbean effective October 21.

Dear Editor, Mr Ramjattan’s announcement of the willingness of the AFC to lead a political alliance in a pro-democracy drive may be both encouraging and confusing.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Barbados Pride held their nerves to pull off a nail-biting 11-run victory over Windward Islands Volcanoes and post their second straight win in the WICB Professional Cricket League here yesterday.

The farmers of Hope Estate, East Coast Demerara (ECD) are calling on the relevant authorities to compensate them for the millions of dollar in crops they lost during the flooding two weeks ago that was caused by heavy rainfall.

Moray House recently hosted an evening of readings from the poetry of Mahadai Das and Mark McWatt by Stanley Greaves and Kathleen Henriquo.

Dear Editor, We are at a critical juncture in our history.

MONACO, (Reuters) – Radical changes to how cities will bid to host Olympic Games, and rules allowing more sports to feature, were among 40 innovations ushered in yesterday as International Olympic Committee members took bold steps to revamp their movement.

The Dharm Shala is appealing for financial assistance to continue its humanitarian service.

GENEVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Divisions among the veto-wielding powers of the UN Security Council are harming the world’s children and sowing the seeds of future conflicts, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, As Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) meet in Havana, this week hopes are increasing for the embargo initiated by the US government in January 1962 to be lifted and moreso that Americans will be free to travel to the communist state without any restriction.

(ICC) The small crowd that came to watch the first One-Day International between Pakistan and New Zealand at the Dubai International Stadium was treated to an enthralling contest as Haris Sohail and Shahid Afridi carried their side home with a record-breaking seventh-wicket partnership yesterday.

Novices from Mae’s Under 12 dominated the Guyana Tennis Association’s 2014 Christmas Interschool 10s competition held on Saturday at the New Guyana School Tennis Court but Adelicia Andries of West Ruimveldt Primary took the accolade for Most Outstanding Player.

Relatives are relieved at the return of Schoonord West Bank Demerara (WBD) teen Safiyyah Sookram, who had been missing since December 1.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A South African court cleared British businessman Shrien Dewani yesterday of charges that he paid hitmen to kill his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.

Dear Editor, I am a subscriber of the GT&T telephone service which became defective on Friday, November 7, and I reported this to 097 on Monday, November 10.

Dolly Stanford, a peer educator who has been active in the HIV/AIDS fight for 21 years was recognised for her services when the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) held an appreciation awards ceremony at Herdmanston Lodge on Friday.

Western Tigers got their Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Cup campaign off to the perfect start, mauling Houston Stars 5-0 in their group matchup on Sunday at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency’s anti-terror tactics, sources familiar with the document said.

(Trinidad Express) – A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) plane was chartered at a cost of $2.6 million to deport illegal immigrants back to Ghana on Sunday following a marathon 12 hours of hearings before the High Court and Court of Appeal on Saturday in a bid to stop the flight.

Dear Editor, Based on conversations I had with people in Guyana, including critics of the government, people are disappointed as well as pleased with President Ramotar’s announcement that he would dissolve the Assembly in the new year.

Dear Editor, “A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove.

Dynas Ravens clinched their berth in the finale of the Phillip George Legacy (PGL) Memorial Basketball tourney, dismantling arch-rivals and tourney hosts Bounty Colts 85-68 on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – As a young Marxist in the early 1970s, Dilma Rousseff was jailed, hung upside down and tortured with electric shocks to her feet, head and breasts by Brazil’s military dictatorship.

Guyana Help the Kids (GHTK) organisation recently donated eight electronic foetal monitors valued about $3.6 million to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) to better equip the staff to treat expectant mothers.

LIMA (Reuters) – Projected global warming this century has slowed but is still at a severe rate after promises by China, the United States and the European Union to limit greenhouse gas emissions, a scientific study showed yesterday.

Some residents from around the Kaieteur National Park area have been engaged in a 9-day training programme to better equip them as Tour Guides or Park Wardens.

Chief Instructor of the Guyana Wado-Ryu Karate Association (GWKA), Shian Compton Winston Dunbar has been awarded the 7th degree black belt in Wado-Ryu Karate by the Wado-Ryu Academy of Guyana in collaboration with the Martial Arts Federation International of England.

MARYLAND (Reuters) – An executive jet crashed into a Maryland house yesterday, killing all three people aboard the plane and a mother and two children inside the house, a fire official said.

It requires no great knowledge of the manufacturing sector to recognize that – in the main – manufacturing has traditionally been a considerable underperformer in the Guyana economy.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A onetime concert organizer who promoted Elton John and Tina Turner shows was extradited from Brazil to south Florida over the weekend to face charges of allegedly running a $300 million Ponzi scheme, an FBI spokesman in Miami said.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Paediatric Ward is a little more comfortable compliments of Courts’s Annual Christmas Donation.

Dear Editor, Some of us may be well aware as to all that is currently happening in the political sphere, some of us may not be.