Daily Archive: Thursday, March 5, 2015

President Donald Ramotar last evening called on women to support each other regardless of race, colour, creed or political persuasion in pursuit of their rights, GINA said.

President Donald Ramotar last evening called on women to support each other regardless of race, colour, creed or political persuasion in pursuit of their rights, GINA said.

A jury earlier this afternoon found Jarvis Small and Bibi Sharima-Gopaul guilty of the brutal 2010 murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul, Sharima-Gopaul who is the mother of the teen was later sentenced by Justice Navindra Singh to 106 years in prison.

Demerara Bank Limited recently presented an award to an outstanding University of Guyana Student Nanda Persaud.

PERTH, Australia, CMC- Chairman of selectors Clive Lloyd says West Indies are desperately missing the spin heroics of game changer Sunil Narine to strengthen their campaign in the ICC World Cup currently underway in New Zealand and Australia.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s government censors have said they will not allow the big-screen adaptation of erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” to be shown in Indian cinemas, a decision most had anticipated in the largely conservative country.

(Trinidad Express) St Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony says that all the players who quit the tour of India in October last year should have been fired.

  Under the slogan “It is time,” the APNU+AFC alliance yesterday launched their campaign for the May 11 general elections and promised a new day for Guyana, unity, and a change in the local political culture while assuring that the alliance is not a short-term, office-sharing bargain.

Cabinet on Tuesday approved a $3B transfer by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to the housing authority, CHPA, abandoning a plan for a loan between the two agencies that had attracted controversy and a court challenge.

Referring to Jarvis Small and Bibi Sharima-Gopaul as “cold-blooded killers”, State Counsel Diana Kaulesar in her impassioned closing arguments yesterday presented to the jury, reasons why they should be found guilty of the murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul.

A woman, who was allegedly nabbed with a quantity of cocaine in a suitcase as she was leaving Guyana via the Timehri Airport was yesterday refused bail, along with the man who reportedly gave her the suitcase.

ExxonMobil’s approximately US$200M oil exploration project is to kick off today as the Deep Water Champion rig is in position at the offshore Stabroek Block.

Students of the Georgetown School of Nursing have called off their protest against the relocation of their school and are looking at different avenues to engage the Ministry of Health.

The Caribbean Community has noted with grave concern that the ruling by the Dominican Republic concerning the regularisation of Dominicans of Haitian descent expired on February 1 and government officials have indicated that it will not be extended.

A Stabroek Market vendor was last evening shot to his leg and robbed of an undisclosed sum of cash at his Vereeniging, Mahaica home and two of the alleged robbers were caught sometime after in a neighbouring village.

Tenders were on Tuesday received for the procuring of laptops for teachers under the Guyana Improving Teacher Education Project (GITEP).

Having completed a four-year sentence for drug trafficking last year, a former Georgetown Magistrate’s Court employee was yesterday again busted with cocaine this time as he attempted to board a LIAT flight for Barbados.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – West Indies fast bowling icon Sir Curtly Ambrose has urged discipline from his pace attack when they face reigning World champions India on what is expected to be a lively pitch here tomorrow.

Emphasising that Guyana’s tertiary education system needs to be reformed, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Nigel Harris has urged that a “national conversation” on education be started and promised to assist if asked.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Australia flexed their batting muscles to rack up the highest ever World Cup total as they crushed Afghanistan by a tournament record margin to revive their stuttering campaign yesterday.

After stepping down as the Chairman of Blue CAPS, the social change organisation, businessman Clinton Urling is mulling a future in politics.

Trinidadian Jamaal Shabazz and Alpha United tactician Wayne Dover were officially confirmed Head Coach and Assistant Coach respectively of the senior male and u-23 programmes, inking two-year contracts yesterday at a ceremony held at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) headquarters.

A Zeelugt man, who broke the window of a car to steal a handbag and was caught in the act, was yesterday sentenced to seven months imprisonment after he was found guilty of the charges when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

DG was on top. “Our young people demand jobs, not jails and drop-in centres…our women and children demand safe homes not safe-houses,” DG – David Granger, not Director General– insisted.

A scuffle over house keys landed a couple in court yesterday where they were placed on a six-month bond to keep the peace, while the husband was fined $10,000.

With the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) awarding national Captain Leon Johnson a central contract, multiple Guyana Jaguars players received new franchsie contracts.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank you for giving coverage to the Electoral Assistance Bureau’s (EAB) soon to be launched ‘2015 Elections Observer Exercise.’

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is set to be one of the main speakers at the Babu John Crematorium in Port Mourant, Berbice this Sunday when the People’s Progressive Party holds its annual commemorative ceremony for late Presidents Dr Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan.

Caricom leaders last week endorsed the idea of the Caricom Secretariat and Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) preparing a proposal for a Caribbean Creative Industries Management Unit.

Dear Editor, The Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana (EFG) is deeply disturbed by the media reports of the death of the late Zaharadeen Rozan of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, who apparently had been held in the Parika lock-ups just prior to his death on February 25, 2015.

Says Orin Davidson If it was a decision deemed disingenuous at best in the beginning, the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) plan to vote for Whycliffe “Dave ‘Cameron in the West Indies Cricket Board presidential election this weekend is fast becoming a major travesty, as the fallout continues.

A man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit forgery was yesterday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment when he appeared in a city court.

Dear Editor, I very much enjoyed reading Mr Moore’s letter about poetry (‘Too much emphasis on trying to find out what a poem means,’ Sunday Stabroek, March 1).

Dear Editor, Elections for a new Village Council, ie, for captain and councillors are due in Orealla Village and Siparuta Village Region 6, in April this year.

Guyana and West Indies batsman Assad Fudadin, will return to national colors come tomorrow when the Jaguars face Jamaica in the 8th round of the WICB Professional Cricket League 4 day tournament.

A man was remanded to prison after he denied two counts of possession of narcotics read to him at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.

East Coast are the new champions of the Demerara Inter Association Under-17 cricket competition following two victories and an abandoned final round game which was completely washed out yesterday at the Enterprise Community Development Centre ground.

Dear Editor, Time is, and has always been found to be, a great healer; the proverbial balm that induces the rehabilitative process so essential to health and happiness.

Adults and children should reduce their daily intake of ‘free sugars’ to less than 10% of total calories, the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised.

Dear Editor, Based on the 2002 census, roughly 39.06% of the population is ineligible to vote, meaning they are under 18 years.

Dear Editor, Someone dubbed the recent exchange between myself and Ruel Johnson as “the duel with Ruel.”

NAPIER, (Reuters) – Ahmed Shehzad anchored Pakistan’s innings and his bowlers then ensured UAE never seriously challenged it as their World Cup hopes continued for another day after a 129-run victory at McLean Park yesterday.

Eccles Nursery School’s literacy and numeracy programme has been boosted with the donation of a television set by Massy Gas Products at a ceremony held at the school at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara last Friday.

Dear Editor, I am obliged to respond to Chris Persaud’s ‘Concerned about reference to “Christian workers”’ (SN, March 4).

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff raced yesterday to defuse a rebellion by legislators upset about her budget austerity plans and her handling of a corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras.

Caricom leaders are gravely concerned at the Region being labelled as a high-risk area for financial services and have established a Committee of Finance Ministers to address the matter.

Dear Editor, The revelation in Stabroek News recently, of government spending $361M on medical expenses for officials is expected to have mixed reactions.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad And Tobago Red Force has strengthened its side for this weekend’s clash against Windward Islands Volcanoes, with the inclusion of West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has launched what is reported to be the first Military Electronic Health Information Network (MeHIN) in South America which is designed to aid efficient and accurate reporting to measure the impact of medical programmes.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Charges of bribery and tax evasion were formally pressed against the owners of a Chilean financial company yesterday, in a probe that has sucked in business leaders and politicians and angered Chileans.

Dear Editor, APNU-AFC presidential candidate Mr David Granger is disdainfully not offering any apology for the rigging of the 1968, 1974, 1980 and 1985 general elections by the PNC government because he says he is not aware of such skullduggery by the PNC.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Residents in Windsor, St Ann’s Bay are expressing outrage after a young female was discovered chained in the cellar of the house occupied by her father and stepmother.

JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said on Tuesday that the presentation of an audit report will be among the main features of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Jamaica tomorrow.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic announced yesterday the temporary closure of its consular missions in neighbouring Haiti due to “recurring attacks” posing a danger to diplomats and staff.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Archaeologists working in the dense jungle of Honduras have found dozens of artifacts at a site where they believe twin cities from an ancient civilization once thrived, the head of the country’s anthropology institute said on Wednesday.

A Partnership for National Unity’s core philosophy of inclusionary democracy is a wide foundational construct, which encompasses all citizens.

Politikles

MIAMI, CMC – High profile CONCACAF president Jeff Webb is set to be elected unopposed for his first full term as leader of the confederation.

Cartoons

Dear Editor, The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has come a long way compared to my last visit there in 2010.

‘Make it happen’ is the theme under which International Women’s Day will be observed on Sunday.