Daily Archive: Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Dear Editor, My physical constriction over the past several months forces me to resort to taxis in order to commute.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Congress today he intends to remove Cuba from a U.S.

Honesty, decency, and humanity were all references made to describe Former President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and founder member of the People’s Progressive Party, the late Dr.

Honesty, decency, and humanity were all references made to describe Former President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and founder member of the People’s Progressive Party, the late Dr.

(Reuters) – West Indies trailed England by 244 runs at the close of the second day of the first test in Antigua on Tuesday after Shivnarine Chanderpaul applied the brakes to any potential batting slumps.

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Cuban Government yesterday launched a five-day training programme for health workers, in both private and public institutions in the area of emerging and re-emerging Public Health Threats.

  The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Cuban Government yesterday launched a five-day training programme for health workers, in both private and public institutions in the area of emerging and re-emerging Public Health Threats.

As part of component three of the Agriculture Policy Programme which aims to develop enterprises, through improved market linkages, the Ministry of Agriculture, in partnership with The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), hosted a cassava and small ruminant validation seminar, yesterday.

With reports of forest fires in the foothills of the Kanuku Mountains in drought-hit Region 9, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment today said that it recently facilitated an aerial assessment of the area.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Soul singer Percy Sledge, best known for his recording of “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died at his home in Louisiana at age 74 after battling cancer, his agent said on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) The missing luxurious $26,558.68 vibrating executive chair that was purchased for Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) chairman Sushilla Ramkissoon-Mark has been found.

Rayon Paddy and Orin Arthur, the two men accused of impersonating cops and erecting a roadblock to stage an almost $1 million robbery, were yesterday also charged with murdering mines commission engineer Trevor Abrams as well as security guard Wilfred Stewart, who was killed during a raid at the Sterling Products Limited (SPL) offices at Providence last year.

The construction of the $191.5 million pump station at Lima, Essequibo Coast, has suffered setbacks due to the heavy amount of clay in the area.

APNU+AFC candidate Cathy Hughes last evening said the integration of social services into the police force is needed to begin the process of ending violence against women.

Fifty-two members of the City Constabulary have been promoted, the first such promotions in five years.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has appealed the decision by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to dismiss the company’s application to raise domestic rates for some of its services.

Clyde Barker, the truck driver accused of running over 12-year-old Ezekiel Murray along the Friendship Public Road, was yesterday released on $250,000 bail after denying a causing death by dangerous driving charge.

Following Sunday night’s shutdown of the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System, after a Canter crashed into a power pole at Mon Repos, the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) yesterday appealed for caution on the roadways.

The Carter Center plans to have six medium-term observers deployed by April 22 as part of its plan to establish its presence here for the General and Regional Elections on May 11.

The Caribbean is on track to become the first region to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, but while there has been a decline of HIV incidence in the region of some 49% it still remains the second most affected region in the world after Sub-Saharan Africa due to the population size compared to other regions, Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) Coordinating Unit Dereck Springer said yesterday.

Extolling former president Cheddi Jagan as a good friend and mentor, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves yesterday made it clear that his presence in Guyana at this time should not be seen as an endorsement of the PPP/C.

A man who admitted to slapping his wife and biting her after a misunderstanding was yesterday sentenced to 14 days in jail.

The state will today call the last of its 11 witnesses in the case against Donald Mopp, the senior citizen on trial for the murder of gold miner Winsel Roger Edwards.

A 43-year-old Bachelors Adventure, East Coast Demerara man collapsed and died in front of the Georgetown Public Hospital on Thomas Street yesterday morning.

An examination conducted yesterday to determine the cause of death of Devkumarie Ramadhar, the teen girl whose partially nude body washed ashore at Ruimzigt, West Coast Demerara on Saturday, was inconclusive, Commander of ‘D’ Division Marlon Chapman said.

The young man who allegedly stabbed 15-year-old Kester Yamster last Friday at Eccles Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, is expected to be charged today, a police source said yesterday.

By Jeff Trotman   Prime ministerial candidate for the PPP/C Elisabeth Harper reaffirmed her commitment to women’s rights at a campaign rally in Linden on Sunday.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with trying to rob a neighbour.

A man held last week in connection with the murder of Samantha Benjamin, the Buxton woman whose dismembered body was found at the Annandale foreshore, has been released on station bail, a source said.

The twenty-year-old mother of one who went missing several weeks ago was found last week by the police in Bartica.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C)’s Region 5 representative Priya Manickchand has condemned the destruction of party campaign material.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) will hold a training exercise with members of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) on Friday at the Union’s Headquarters on Regent Street.

A man accused of breaking into the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) compound and stealing over $500,000 in electronics and cash, was yesterday remanded to prison.

A security guard will be spending the next four years in jail after he admitted to being in possession of an unlicensed gun and ammunition.

A man was refused bail on drug trafficking charges yesterday after police allegedly found him with a haversack containing quantities of cocaine and marijuana.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Ian Bell’s 22nd Test hundred took the sting out of West Indies’ attack and lifted England from a position of danger to one of dominance, on the opening day of the first Test here yesterday.

Dear Editor, I welcome the report of the Gecom Media Monitoring Unit for the month of March 2015.

Shimron Hetmyer’s ton reinforced by quick strikes from the Berbice bowlers left Demerara reeling at 71 for 8 needing 227 runs for a victory heading into the third and final day of the ongoing Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U19 three day tournament.

A vendor, allegedly caught with a quantity of cannabis, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared in a city court.

Dear Editor, Public servants who are desirous of running for political office must resign their government post in an effort to avoid a conflict of interest.

Dear Editor, It pained me to see in today’s issue of your newspaper, the report that a man hanged himself while in the Lethem lock-up for possession of 60 grams of marijuana.

At least 200 persons were expected to be employed on the spot at the Giftland Mall Career Fair last weekend.

A marathon match between old rivals Sandeep Chand and Jason Andrews was the highlight of the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) Assuria-sponsored tournament which got underway over the weekend at the National racquet centre courts.

Sherfane Rutherford snatched four wickets for Demerara while ParmanandRamdhan struck an even 50 for Berbice in round two’s first day of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U19 three-day tournament which continued Sunday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.

A mechanic was refused bail on Friday by Magistrate Judy Latchman before whom he appeared and denied a charge of simple larceny.

Dear Editor, I am aware of Mr Charles Ramson Jr’s qualifications as a lawyer, but I am now of the belief that he may need to take a political science class.

Dear Editor, I am delighted to see the long trumpeted Guyana Marriott Hotel fructify this week.

  In the article `Charlotte St man succumbs after Strathspey accident’ in the April 12th edition of the Sunday Stabroek it was erroneously stated that Kerwyn Benjamin, the man who passed away,  was in a vehicle that was being chased by the police. 

The provisional programme is out for the President’s Cup Horse race meet scheduled for April 26 at the Port Mourant Turf Club.

With the first round of group matches completed, the second round in the inaugural Guyana Beverage Company Busta soft shoe football tourney commences today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

A taxi driver was remanded to prison yesterday after he was accused of being the getaway driver in an attack that saw a man and his family robbed of over $1.7 million in jewellery.

Dear Editor,           I wish to register my disgust to Mr R K Sharma, CEO of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), about the unsatisfactory service being provided by this utility company under his stewardship.

Dear Editor, The Walter Rodney Youth Movement wishes to state its continued indignation at the choice of language being used by politicians on the campaign trail.

(Reuters) – PepsiCo Inc is taking over league sponsorship rights for the National Basketball Association, ending a 28-year partnership that the league has had with Coca-Cola Co.

Defending champions Transport Sports Club (TSC) surrendered its Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA)/ Brainstreet Under-15 title to the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Sunday at the Malteenoes Sports Club ground.

Dear Editor, At several meetings across Region Two, the President has said that he realized that the rice industry is in a crisis and he will fix it soon.

Dear Editor, The PPP/C has put together a list of candidates comprising family and friends.

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military accused pro-Russian rebels yesterday of using heavy weapons that were meant to have been withdrawn under a ceasefire deal, after one Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six wounded in rebel-held territories.

The National U17 cricketers were facing a daunting task at the end of the second day of their three-day match against Essequibo U19s at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground yesterday in the Guyana Cricket Board/Raj Singh Insurance Brokers U19 Inter-County competition.

Dear Editor, The PPP list of nominees is a real screamer.

AUGUSTA, Georgia,(Reuters) – Jordan Spieth’s remarkable victory at the 79th Masters not only confirmed the greatness for which he has long been earmarked but offered a glimpse into the likely pattern at majors for the next decade.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The UN Security Council is due to vote today on a resolution to blacklist the son of Yemen’s former president and a Houthi leader and effectively impose an arms embargo on the rebels who rule most of the country, diplomats said.

BANGALORE, India, CMC – Chris Gayle and Darren Sammy had little impact as Royal Challengers Bangalore crashed to a heavy eight-wicket loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad, in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has unexpectedly released five women activists on bail, two lawyers said yesterday, after a vocal campaign against their detention by the West and Chinese rights campaigners.

Dear Editor, There seems to be this emerging agitation for national integration influenced by coalition politics and sloganeering in Guyana’s election season.

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President-elect Muhammadu Buhari vowed today to make every effort to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants a year ago but admitted it was not clear whether they would ever be found.

  NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Athletics Kenya said yesterday it had suspended two foreign agencies for six months from managing its athletes pending investigations into allegations of doping that have rattled a nation famed for its distance runners.

Dear Editor,   Elections are about thirty days away, and the APNU+AFC coalition seem to be in a very strong position to unseat the incumbent PPP/C Government.

ARIZONA, United States, CMC-Olympic 400 metres champion Kirani James posted his fastest season opener and the current world leading time of 44.31 seconds in the 400 metres at the Sun Angel Track Classic here on Saturday.

Dear Editor, This election seems to attract a lot of attention, especially with the coalition, and many agree this might be like nothing they have ever witnessed before.

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Two Islamic parties have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, the Jakarta Post said today.

White sand beach? Check. A worker was yesterday smoothing the white sand that has been trucked in to cover the beach outside the Marriott Hotel ahead of its opening on Thursday.

The loss of a child to a family, no matter what the circumstance, creates feelings of grief and desolation sufficiently acute as not to be easily assuaged by even the most heartfelt expressions of condolence.

Dear Editor, With regard to your news items (SN, Apr 10, 11) on the passing of iconic cricket commentator Richie Benaud, in my travels around Australia, he was topic of conversation everywhere.

(The Sports Xchange) – C.J. Miles scored a career-high-tying 30 points as the Indiana Pacers stayed alive in the Eastern Conference playoff chase with a 116-104 victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder.