Daily Archive: Friday, January 30, 2015

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, through its Small Business Bureau today held its first ever Grant Award and Partnership ceremony, at which over 60 small business owners benefitted from financial aid, GINA said.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – All-rounder Dwayne Bravo has announced his retirement from Test cricket, after four years in the wilderness and just weeks after being sacked from the one-day squad.

The Rights of the Child Commission today expressed its alarm at the promotion this year of two policemen found culpable of the torture of a child in 2009 at the Leonora Police Station and called for the rescinding of the preferments.

Two Guyanese and a Guyanese-born Canadian citizen are currently in police custody after they were caught attempting to smuggle cocaine through Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early this morning, a statement from the CJIA said.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was arrested for murder today in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed one person near Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday issued a statement saying that a comment by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon approving of the promotion of two policemen accused of torture, pertained to the process and not the merits of the decision.

  Command of Base Camp Ayanganna yesterday changed hands when Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Clement Baird (right) formally handed over to Lieutenant Colonel Mark Thomas at a simple ceremony at the Drill Square at the base.

Roland Eudoxie (left), a Guyanese Sensei in Martial Arts, on January 28 paid a courtesy call to Robeson Benn, Minister of Public Works to convey his

                                                                                                                  Alicia Benjamin rehearsing her song ‘Trafficking in Human’ (GINA photo)

 This accident at Camp and Princes streets yesterday morning left the rider of the bike and the pillion rider unconscious.

(Trinidad Express)  Very serious and troubling. This was how Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night described the allegations made against Attorney General Anand Ramlogan.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Com-mission (GGMC) has signed a loan agreement for $3B with the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) which observers say transgresses the GGMC Act and would also violate the constitution.

By Rae Wiltshire   A father of seven was shot dead yesterday by a security guard at the Pritipaul Singh wharf at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara.

A 37-year-old miner was shot dead at a camp at Five Star, North West District on Wednesday and a team of police ranks are hunting for a former employer who allegedly committed the offence.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) has written to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) – the holder of $950m in preferred shares and other stakeholding, saying that it was unable to pay dividends for 2014 as it did not make a profit.

Gavin Graham, the suspect in the arson of a Sophia home that claimed two lives, was charged with murder yesterday.

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) leader David Granger has had “long and detailed talks” with Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon to address the growing disenfranchisement among supporters in the region.

Rape accused Colin Mack yesterday led his defence, telling jurors that he and his accuser engaged in consensual sex and afterward the woman’s mother attempted to extort $1 million from him.

Canada on Wednesday questioned what Guyana is doing to address the intimidation of members of the press as well as the lack of impartial distribution of broadcast licenses.

Teleperformance, which occupies the six-storey structure at the junction of Camp and Robb streets, has announced that the opening of a new customer care facility is slated for later this year.

Justin Felix was yesterday freed of the 2008 murder of Paul Austin, after Justice Franklyn Holder upheld a no-case submission.

A miner was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with recruiting a 16-year-old girl for sexual exploitation in the interior.

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday testified that Dr Cheddi Jagan and Dr Walter Rodney shared a “healthy relationship” and, although constantly under pressure by the state, neither believed in the use of violence to retaliate.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) ranks during an operation in the Sheriff Street area on Wednesday seized over ten kilogrammes of cocaine according to its head James Singh who stated that four persons who were arrested will be appearing in court today.

A trickster was yesterday again arrested by the police after he pretended to be Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali.

Several soldiers sustained injuries yesterday morning after the bus they were travelling in collided with a truck on the Public Road at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara.

The late Dr Faith Harding was a hard worker and insightful thinker, whose contribution to Guyana’s development is beyond question, according to Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Seasoned left-arm spinner Nikita Miller has been named to replace Sunil Narine in the West Indies World Cup squad.

The Golden Jaguars are set to depart local shores today for the Land of the Flying Fish to oppose Caribbean Football Union (CFU) rival Barbados in an international friendly scheduled to be contested on Sunday February 1st.

A city magistrate yesterday refused bail to a labourer, who is being accused of harming his girlfriend, causing her to lose an eye.

Assad Fudadin, the Guyana and West Indies batsman says he is physically fit again after recovering from a broken finger and plans to use this final leg of the Professional Cricket lLague (PCL) 4-day tournament to score runs and help his country win the title as well as bat himself again into contention for the West Indies.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Eight Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation yesterday to repeal all restrictions on U.S.

Two men were remanded to prison yesterday on a charge of planning to commit a robbery on an Indian national.

Sixty-four proprietors of local small businesses are expected to be the first recipients of grants under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project funded through the Low Carbon Development Strategy/Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (LCDS/GRIF) at a ceremony scheduled to take place at the Guyana International Conference Centre this morning.

Milton Eastman, who was arrested after he and two others broke into a Survival Supermarket outlet, is now a remanded prisoner after being arraigned on a charge of stealing over $6 million.

In an effort to aid in preparations for the Milo u-20 tourney, event coordinators Petra Organization donated two practice balls each to the participating schools yesterday at a presentation ceremony held at the Ministry of Education ground.

    WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget on Monday will include $1 billion in new aid for Central America as part of a broad effort to address the unaccompanied child migration crisis, the White House said yesterday.

Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud has told Stabroek Business that projects designed to determine the various sources through which mercury enters the Guianas and the distribution networks that obtain in the region, are part of a wider exercise of seeking to control the movement of the substance into Guyana’s gold-bearing communities.

A security guard has been fined $35,000 for stealing a surveillance camera from the Guyana Hydrometeoro-logical Service.

In this issue of the Stabroek Business we reported on a visit to Guyana earlier this week by Prism Communications, a Jamaican product promotion company.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – With all the off-court chatter focusing on the influence of his ex-coach and present coach, Andy Murray sent out an emphatic message by reaching his fourth Australian Open final yesterday.

Months after the Ombudsman ruled that there had been no basis to charge employees from the New Building Society (NBS) following a 2007 scam, former NBS Director Nanda Gopaul maintained that his integrity is still intact.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will begin accepting applications on Feb.

Civic group BlueCaps has welcomed President Donald Ramotar’s announcement of a date for the General and Regional Elections and urges all parties to avoid indulging in adverse tactics while campaigning.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke will return to club cricket this weekend as he continues his bid to prove his fitness for the upcoming World Cup, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Serena Williams overcame feisty teenage challenger Madison Keys to set up a dream Australian Open final with Maria Sharapova yesterday but seemed to be the only person surprised she had made it that far.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has announced that 93 ranks including three women graduated on Monday after having successfully completed three months of intense training at its newly built training complex at Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is planning an investigation into accusations of human rights abuses in the final stages of a 26-year civil war amid international frustration at the failure to look into numerous civilian deaths, a government spokesman said late on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara scored an unbeaten 113 and then returned to break the world record for the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in one-day internationals as Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 34 runs in the seventh and final match in Wellington yesterday.

In just over five months, one of Guyana’s best-known entrepreneurs will commence the creation of a project that will not only take his business pursuits to another level but will also single him out as an investor with a vision for the longer-term future of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Trafficking in narcotics is against the law but why does it only have to be enforced for some and not others?

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh and Governor of the Bank of Guyana Dr Gobind Ganga on Wednesday unveiled a plaque emblazoned on the façade of the bank in honour of its 50th anniversary celebration.

Executive Director of the European Union-funded Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) Pamela Coke-Hamilton says the body is backing exports to contribute meaningfully to sustaining the economies of the region at a time when marginal economic growth would appear to be on the horizon.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso said he was ready to write a fresh chapter at McLaren as his new Formula One team unveiled their 2015 car yesterday at the start of a new era with engine partners Honda.

DUANVALE, Trelawny (Jamaica Observer) — Chairman of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association Allan Rickards (AIJCFA) says a number of the projects financed by European Union (EU) money under the Sugar Transformation Unit (STU) in the Ministry of Agriculture, are politically selected for the benefit of the cane farming communities.

Suriname-based psychologist/psychoanalyst Professor Tobi Graafsma on Monday held a mental health workshop on suicide prevention for ministry officials and other stakeholders aimed at helping them to better identify and address risk factors.

Dear Editor, Last Sunday I visited the seawall to take pictures.

  MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Two-time grand slam champion Lleyton Hewitt has flagged his retirement after a record 20th campaign at his home Australian Open next year.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fired the country’s highest ranking diplomat and replaced her with India’s ambassador to the United States, a day after a successful visit by U.S.

A man who allegedly used insulting language at a woman found himself before a city court facing a charge.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados’ international friendly against Guyana on Sunday here is being used as a gauge by the Barbados Football Association, ahead of crucial upcoming assignments for the national team.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A climate-controlled archive in Chicago holds 5 million images of what could be called the African American experience since 1942, including exceptional, intimate photographs of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, singer Billie Holiday and boxer Muhammad Ali.

Dear Editor, Recent letter contributions to a section of the print media tend to indicate that there is a cadre of émigrés and others still resident in Region 11, whose extended sojourns in a less inhospitable environment have prepared them as matriculants of the esoteric science of solution methodology for the protean vicissitudes they perceive afflict their motherland.

ISMAILIA, Egypt, (Reuters) – Islamic State’s Egypt wing claimed a series of attacks that killed at least 27 security personnel yesterday in some of the worst anti-government violence in months, after commemorations around the anniversary of the 2011 uprising turned deadly in the past week.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The number of new confirmed Ebola cases totalled 99 in the week to Jan.

Joseph E Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, was Chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Preparations are underway for the chutney singing competition which is slated for tomorrow at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, (Reuters) – Officials in Puerto Rico and Colombia arrested 17 members of an alleged drug ring yesterday accused of money laundering and smuggling cocaine from Venezuela to the United States.

By Jorge Familiar, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean   Energy security is at the top of the agenda for Caribbean leaders and it has been for some time.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir vowed to put behind a spot-fixing scandal and return as a reformed player after the International Cricket Council (ICC) gave him an early reprieve yesterday for a return to domestic cricket.

Dear Editor, A letter by Dr David Hinds published in SN on January 26 was captioned ‘After 23 years of an Indian Guyanese presidency, African Guyanese are being asked to vote for another.’

(Trinidad Express) Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams yesterday issued a statement confirming that a report has been made by the Director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) David West against Attorney General, Anand Ramlogan, in which West made an allegation of “an attempt to pervert the course of justice.

LISBON, (Reuters) – Luis Figo’s decision to enter FIFA’s presidential election has received a positive reaction in his native Portugal even though he faces a seemingly impossible task to unseat incumbent Sepp Blatter in May.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 600’s trading results showed consideration of $1,263,400 from 50,600 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 599’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,348,103 from 8,675 shares traded in 9 transactions.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A suspicious civilian plane being pursued by Venezuela’s military has come down in Aruba’s Caribbean waters, the island’s justice minister said yesterday.

The Ministry of Education, in partnership with Banks DIH Limited, recently launched a national skipping rope contest intended to increase levels of physical activity among schoolchildren in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Since the President announced dates for general elections in the country, all we are reading in the media is about the plans of the two rival political parties to appoint the persons who will take their parties into the election to be the president of the country.

Members of the University of Guyana student  body marched along the road leading into the  university yesterday and hung a new slogan across the university’s sign in protest over general conditions at UG.

We’re 22 today! Let’s do a layman’s “analytical” breakdown of the elements, institutional assistance experts, expertise, environment and other personnel needed to deem a society, a country, a State, a narco- friendly place.

Dear Editor, I have stated before that I’m not a regular and avid fan of the Linden Radio Station 104.3, except for the Sunday night ‘Golden Oldies and Retro Show’ hosted by Winston ‘Czar’ Caesar of ‘Cannon Ball’ fame, which is easily 104.3’s most popular show for the elderly and not so young, and which I make a special effort to tune in to.

(Barbados Nation) A 22-year-old Guyanese man will be spending three years at Dodds Prison after he was unable to pay a $150 000 fine forthwith yesterday.

(Reuters) – A ‘Super Over’ will be used to determine the winner of this year’s World Cup if the final ends in a tie, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed yesterday.

At 33, and 18 years after harvesting honey for the first time, Devon Gilead is still seeking a breakthrough from his present position as a micro-business owner in the bee products industry.

Oscar Arias, the former president of Costa Rica (1986-90 and 2006-10), won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the guerrilla wars ravaging Central America and for promoting peace and democracy in the isthmus.

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Setting aside the role that packaging and labelling play in protecting product identity, they also serve, critically, to help develop product and brand image and enhance visibility in target markets, Beverley Hirst, Managing Director of Jamaican product promotion firm Prism Communications told Stabroek Business during an interview earlier this week.

Dear Editor, I have read recent articles by both PM Hinds and Minister of Natural Resources & the Environment Robert Persaud reporting that all is well in the timber industry.

(ICC) West Indies has been fined for a minimum over-rate breach of the ICC Code of Conduct during the fifth and final One-Day International (ODI) against South Africa in Centurion on Wednesday.