Daily Archive: Friday, February 13, 2015

Articles published on Friday, February 13, 2015

Leaders Jaguars in charge against Hurricanes

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Guyana Jaguars put themselves in position to continue their winning run in the WICB Professional Cricket League when they manhandled Leeward Islands Hurricanes on the first day of their sixth round contest here today.

Reckless

Reckless: This man was relaxing with his feet out of this car while it was driving past the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Azad Ali

Suspected wheelchair killer found dead in T&T

(Trinidad Express) The decomposing body of a man found in bushes near the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba this morning, is believed to be that of Azad Ali, the wheelchair-bound man suspected of murdering 19-year-old Salma Chadee of Caroni and Sherlene Mahangoo-Charles of Tarodale.

Progress in alliance talks

Although yesterday’s alliance talks between APNU and the AFC yielded “some fruit” both sides are still locked in heated arguments over who will fill the positions of President and Prime Minister.

PPP endorses Ramotar

The Central Committee of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) met yesterday and unanimously endorsed President Donald Ramotar as the Party’s Presidential Candidate, a release from Freedom House said last evening.

Rice mill tragedy places sharp focus on safety and health delinquencies

Safety and Health Consultant Dale Beresford has told Stabroek Business that if reports regarding possible links between a defective storage tank at the Caricom Rice Mills Ltd (CRML) and last Friday’s death of company employee 17-year-old Threeion Gittens are sustainable then critical questions arise about “the diligence or otherwise” of both CRML and the Ministry of Labour as far as their safety and health obligations are concerned.

Dr Fernando Vladimir
Ramirez Tellez

Oncologist, pathologist added to GPHC staff

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation has announced that three overseas doctors have been added to its staff complement to bolster vital services and it is also benefiting from service from two other experts in intensive care and paediatric surgery.

Lenovo official in discourse with local public and private sector IT functionaries  at the Pegasus Hotel

Local IT sector gets a Lenovo ‘look-in

Local state-run, technology-driven entities were earlier this month afforded the rare opportunity of interfacing with the internationally renowned Chinese-owned Lenovo, currently among the world’s leading personal computer manufacturers and IT innovators.

Not the author of letter

Dear Editor, I shall be grateful if you could inform your readers that the letter in Stabroek News dated February 11, 2015 titled, ‘APNU, AFC could contest separately but each in different regions’ by Ramesh Persaud is not the same Ramesh Persaud who is the Chairman of the Private Sector Commission or CEO of IPED.

SKYE Chief-of-Party Magda Fiona Wills

Good response to SKYE’s ‘Be Your Own Boss’ initiative

The USAID-funded Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) project which seeks to develop entrepreneurial and management skills among young Guyanese through its “Be Your Own Boss” (BYOB) initiative will, on Wednesday February 18, show off the achievements of the first batch of young people who have successfully completed the programme.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 602’s trading results showed consideration of $4,552,359 from 147,915 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 601’s trading results, which showed consideration of $49,088,362 from 905,442 shares traded in 51 transactions.

UK privy council overturns St Kitts and Nevis boundary changes ahead of polls

St Kitts and Nevis has been thrown into political turmoil following a British judicial decision to strike down new electoral regulations a few days before the state’s general election, the UK Guardian reported yesterday Five British justices sitting on the judicial committee of the privy council in London overturned the introduction of fresh constituency boundaries ahead of the poll, which is scheduled for Monday.

Pamela Grant

Entrepreneurship adviser pushing youth integration into business culture

At a time when young Guyanese seeking to gain entry into the world of business complain with monotonous regularity about closed doors, Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) Youth Entrepreneurship Advisor Pamela Grant hopes her five-month stay in Guyana will result in a breakdown of the “silos” that stand between young people and the business sector.

Historic signing: Stakeholders signing the Memorandum of Understanding. Small Business Bureau CEO Derrick Cummings is at extreme left.

Small Business grant recipients to proceed under strict monitoring

Small business operators who, late last month, received more than $20 million in grants under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) Project through the Low Carbon Development Strategy Guyana Redd+ Investment Fund can anticipate stringent post-disbursement monitoring from the Small Business Bureau (SBB) to ensure compliance with the conditions under which the grants were allocated, the Bureau’s Credit Guarantee Fund Manager Gillian Griffith has told Stabroek Business.

Ansel Hall

Cargo company seeks to deepen relations with Guyana

The demand for the movement of cargo by sea between North America and the Caribbean has, for more than a quarter of a century, been driven largely by the relationships between Caribbean people in the diaspora and their families and relatives in the island and mainland territories of the region.

Two more women accuse Bill Cosby of drugging them

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Two women accused Bill Cosby on Thursday of drugging them decades ago when they met him as young models, and one said he sexually assaulted her, as more of his performances were shelved amid an outcry from activists over similar allegations.

Antigua demands explanation on Leewards support for Cameron

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC-The Antigua and Barbuda Cricket Association (ABCA) is complaining that it was left out of a decision taken by the Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA) to support incumbents Dave Cameron and Emmanuel Nanthan for the positions of president and vice-president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

Fine dining

Fine dining: El Dorado, the Pegasus Hotel’s newest restaurant will open today offering hotel guests as well as the public a fine dining experience.

The Cuban Adjustment Act

Even as the process of rapprochement between Cuba and the United States of America continues, with a not unexpected ebb and flow in the negotiations and a certain political caution, there is one perhaps surprising point of convergence, albeit for different reasons, between Havana and the staunchly anti-Castro Cuban exile community in Miami: the need to reform or do away with the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA).

Study on extractive sector

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud (left) yesterday receiving the final report on the study of investments in the Extractive Sector, from United Nations Development Programme Deputy Resident Representative, to Guyana Chisa Mikami at the Ministry’s Brickdam office.

Newly commissioned GDF officers

Newly commissioned officers of the Guyana Defence Force yesterday with Commander-in-Chief, President Donald Ramotar, and the army’s top brass, after the officers had received their instruments of commission at the Office of the President.