Daily Archive: Monday, December 29, 2014

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo will lead the Commonwealth Observer Group, which follows a formal invitation from Sri Lanka’s Commissioner of Elections, Mahinda Deshapriya, a release from the Commonwealth said today.

(Trinidad Express) Two of the photos bearing the face of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar wishing the nation “a Merry Christmas and a bright and prosperous new year” were removed yesterday from the billboards on which they were placed.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said today, as countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort.

Over six hours of searching failed to locate a twin engine Cessna Britten Norman Islander plane that went missing earlier yesterday over the Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) jungle with the pilot and cargo handler on board.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, CMC – Kraigg Brathwaite and Marlon Samuels stroked enterprising unbeaten half-centuries to rescue West Indies and lift them to a comfortable position on the third day of the second Test against South Africa here yesterday.

Thus far, $13.7 billion has been spent on government’s floundering Information Communica-tions Technology (ICT) programme including the troubled fibre-optic cable project with little to show for it, former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran says.

Thirteen-year-old President’s College student Kojo McPherson Jr died yesterday after a car crashed into his bicycle on the Paradise Line Top Road, East Coast Demerara.

Anil Beharry defeated Vickram Seubarran by six votes to be elected the new President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) when the body held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers for the 2015/16 term yesterday at the BCB office, Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Virat Kohli blasted a brilliant 169 to help India claw back into the third test yesterday and was still firing missiles at the Australian team well after the close of play on day three.

The distraught father of Yonette Branche, Alfred Branche was found dead at Cotton Tree yesterday and it is suspected that he took his own life.

Main opposition APNU yesterday said that the government’s announcement on Christmas Eve that it was advancing $2.1B to millers so they could meet obligations to rice farmers is intended to mislead the public and divert attention from the hardships faced by growers.

For the first quarter of 2013, the highest level of electricity loss was in the South Georgetown area with the average monthly electricity losses being 60%, according to the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled in favour of Malweg Darnley in a case against Joy Reid and Anthony Reid and ordered that a decision of the Guyana Court of Appeal that it didn’t have jurisdiction to hear the matter be set aside and that the local court set the date to hear Darnley’s appeal to it as soon as possible.

Dear Editor, We learn that over the last month, the price for crude oil on the international market has seen continuous decreases, hitting a five-year low of US$54.73 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

(Reuters) – Dimuth Karunaratne thwarted a tiring New Zealand bowling attack to score his maiden test century yesterday before Trent Boult snapped up two late wickets to leave the hosts well positioned to wrap up the first test on the fourth day.

A nine-year-old boy was electrocuted on Boxing Day when he stepped on a live electrical wire in the Pattensen Squatting area, while returning home from an errand.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Nikita Miller says he plans to draw extensively on the experience of senior players when he leads Jamaica Franchise for the first time in the Super50 Championship next month.

Dear Editor, After their actions the members of the WICB have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that they are human after all.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The absence of Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero cost Manchester City dear as they blew a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at home to struggling Burnley yesterday.

Dear Editor, For every one step of development taken during the 22-year-old leadership of the PPP/C we have taken two steps backwards.

A man who went missing last Monday was on Wednesday found floating in the Demerara River and relatives believe that he was murdered.

Army officers about to depart Timehri for Mahdia. (GCAA photo)

Three men are in police custody after police discovered a cell phone that was stolen during a recent robbery in Berbice.

No problem: This child was fetching wood on a broad piece of plywood in Abouystown on Saturday.

Dear Editor, It takes an outsider, like brother Anthony Pantlitz to raise the hard-charged question “Why are the churches so racially segregated in Guyana?”

Dear Editor, I wish to apologize to Stabroek News readers with respect to my letter titled ‘The extreme powers of the presidency show how atrocious the constitution is’ (SN, December 25).

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – India batsmen Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane struck inspired centuries during a record fourth-wicket partnership at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday to help India claw their way back into the third test against Australia on day three.

The Guyana-Jamaica Friendship Association (New York), Inc. (“GJFA”) is to sponsor a Breakfast Programme for all students at the Mashabo Primary School.

The Brickery, Supply and Land of Canaan Community Policing Group on the East Bank of Demerara brought Christmas to the lives of 520 kids within the three communities on Sunday 21st December2014 with the aid of Santa Claus.

Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) President Michael Singh said the entity achieved its main focus in 2014 which was to provide the avenue for players to be constantly active in the sport through the staging of regular competitions.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Actor Bradley Cooper is quick to say that “American Sniper,” his film about Navy Seal sharpshooter Chris Kyle, is not about the Iraq conflict but an intimate character study of the harrowing impact of war on a soldier and his family.

Colonial Emigration from the Bengal Presidency and Kanpur to Kolkata: Labor Recruitment for the Sugar Colonies are two newly published historical studies which present a different perspective of Indian Indentureship to the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, Our society is plagued by young and old rum drinkers from all walks of life including men, women, young boys and girls and even children as young as ten years old.

Beach life… Boys having fun on the Kitty seawall on Saturday (Photo by Arian Browne)

SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – AirAsia was built up from two planes in 2001 to an airline industry titan that operates more than 180 jets in just over a decade but now faces its biggest ever challenge.

(The Sports Xchange) – Kyle Lowry scored 25 points to lead Toronto to a 110-98 road victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.

Dear Editor, Have you ever sat down and asked yourself: What if?

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The last movie of Peter Jackson’s three “Hobbit” films rode to a second consecutive win atop U.S.

By The Caribbean Voice The Caribbean Voice comprises thirty suicide-prevention advocates/activist, drawn from the USA, Canada, the UK and the Caribbean, including Guyana, among whom there are three pastors and three pandits, along with educators, youth activists, women’s activists, social activists, community activists, media personnel and individuals of varied skills and experiences.

Good and honourable intentions, vigorously pursued to finality, are more likely to produce the desired outcomes.

(Trinidad Express) Christmas is not the only time that Government has tried to be generous to the media.

As stated in the November 23rd Sunday Stabroek editorial, the deep flooding of Georgetown on November 20 was “a painful commentary on government’s inability to think ahead, consult the best skills available and manage projects of a certain technical complexity.”

Politikles

In spite of the turmoil that engulfed the association in the earlier moments of the year, Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) President Collis Gifth believes the entity and by extent the sport nationally, are currently on the right path.

Tree down: Another decorative tree along South Road has fallen into the canal.

(Reuters) – Sony Pictures said on Sunday that the “The Interview” had been purchased or rented online more than 2 million times, generating more than $15 million in the first four days after the controversial comedy’s wide theatrical release was shelved.

Dear Editor, I celebrated Christmas in Austria where there are deep-rooted traditions regarding the season – folk singing and dancing, going to mass, the Christmas market, lighting the tree, drinking gluhwein (a boiling hot, sweet wine), unique ornaments, visiting family, feasting, and the like.

In the last few days before the New Year we asked the man/woman in the street about their big plans and hopes for 2015.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s most prominent dissidents say they have been kept in the dark by U.S.