Daily Archive: Friday, April 3, 2015

Articles published on Friday, April 3, 2015

CJ puts temporary hold on spending from IDB loans

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang on Wednesday granted an interim order that effectively prevents the government from accessing funds secured from two recent Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loans until a legal challenge brought by former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge is fully heard and determined.

From left are Scotiabank Senior Vice-President Caribbean South, Anya Schnoor; outgoing Country Manager Amanda St. Aubyn, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and new Guyana Country Manager Raymond Smith. (Scotiabank photo)

Scotiabank’s before-tax profits doubled in seven years under outgoing country manager -official

Scotiabank Guyana has hailed the contributions of outgoing County Manager Amanda St Aubyn noting that profits doubled during her seven-year tenure In front of a packed audience at the Pegasus Hotel on Monday evening, St Aubyn was praised for several innovative measures she implemented since her appointment as at Scotiabank Guyana’s Guyana Country Manager in 2007.

Cavaliers down Heat

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of yesterday’s National Basketball Association games: – – – Cavaliers 114, Heat 88 The chance of seeing an opening-round playoff series between Cleveland and Miami was dealt a major blow when the second-ranked Cavs knocked the Heat out of seventh place with a 114-88 victory on yesterday.

Shaquan Gittens

North Ruimveldt boy missing

Family members are looking for nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens. The boy went missing on Wednesday afternoon around 16:30hrs in the vicinity of his home located at 2950 Well Road, North Ruimveldt.

*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 609’s trading results showed consideration of $469,630 from 18,830 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 608’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,234,296 from 64,707 shares traded in 15 transactions.

The list of improvements is endless

Dear Editor, In as much as Guyanese are entitled to practise their post-1992 freedom of expression, albeit guaranteed since the adoption of the 1980 Constitution, the more educated, in particular, and presumably at the same time, the more informed, ought to articulate their opinions in a responsible manner.

Keith Rowley’s message

The recent descent into vulgarity in the Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives, with a minister of the People’s Partnership Government using the cloak of parliamentary privilege to cast the vilest of aspersions on opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley’s parentage and supposed attitude to women, represents a new low in Caribbean, Westminster-style political debates.

Tracking the MSE Project

It has been two months since around 60 beneficiaries received grants totalling some $20 million under the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) Development and Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups’ project.

This one Mommy!

This one Mommy! This single-minded young lady is not about to be distracted from her negotiations with a kite vendor on Camp street earlier this week ahead of Easter Monday’s traditional kite-flying activities

Operation Shock and Yawn

Dear Editor, I don’t know if it’s deliberate but the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic seems to be engaged in the strange electioneering strategy of going between complete provocative inanity as represented by Bharrat Jagdeo and Clement Rohee, and the mind numbing banality as represented by Elisabeth Harper and Donald Ramotar – Operation Shock and Yawn, if you will.

Lianne Fernandes-Sears

Lianne’s Cakes: Aiming to break into the ‘big time’

For Lianne Fernandes-Sears this year’s seventh annual Wedding Expo staged by the Roraima Group of Companies at its Duke Lodge Hotel in Kingston provided just the opportunity she was seeking to broaden the client base of an enterprise which, for the last five years, has been seeking to break into the mainstream market in what has become a highly competitive industry.