Daily Archive: Friday, April 17, 2015

Articles published on Friday, April 17, 2015

President Donald Ramotar (third from left) and Brenda Durham, Senior Vice President and Regional General Counsel for Marriott International cutting the ribbon to declare the hotel open. (Arian Browne photo)

Taxpayer Marriott launched

Controversially built with taxpayer money, the US$58M Guyana Marriott Hotel was commissioned by President Donald Ramotar yesterday during a morning ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a grand opening reception attended by a few hundred persons in the evening.

Neonatal monitoring in Latin America (PAHO photo)

New PAHO network to monitor maternal, neonatal health in region

As part of its efforts to find the causes for and curb maternal and neonatal deaths, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has launched a new network involving the Latin American Centre for Perinatology, Women and Reproductive Health (CLAP/WRH) and Latin American and Caribbean Centres for Maternal Surveillance and Research on Women’s and Neonatal Health.

Devon Smith essays a trademark back-cut on the penultimate day of the first Test between West Indies and England on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground. Photo by WICB Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks Latouche Photography

Smith leads Windies fight

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Opener Devon Smith stroked his first half-century since his return to Tests last December but Darren Bravo’s demise, half-hour before the close, left West Indies with a mountain to climb to win the opening Test against England.

Raymond Perez

Perez, Sukwah half centuries keep U-17 alive

Solid half centuries b y Raymond Perez and Adrian Sukwah, followed by an unbeaten knock by skipper Ronaldo Ali-Mohamed placed the Guyana Under-17 at 211-9 at the end of day one of their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U-19 final round match against Demerara.

 Busta football continues today

The second round of group stage matches in the inaugural Guyana Beverage Company Busta Football tourney continues today with six programmed fixtures at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.

GDF mauled 7-1 by T&T club

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) got their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship off to the worst possible start, losing to Trinidad and Tobago unit DirecTV W-Connection 7-1 on Wednesday at the Ato Boldon Stadium in the Twin Island Republic.

Manny Pacquaio

Reckless means ‘entertaining’ for Pacquiao

HOLLYWOOD, California, (Reuters) – Appearing relaxed and confident, Manny Pacquaio embraced suggestions he was “a reckless fighter” when he held a workout for the media on Wednesday ahead of his heavily anticipated fight against Floyd Mayweather.

Clinton Williams

GMSA lobby making snail’s progress with dredging channel, counterfeit imports, copyright abuse

Protracted legal battles being waged by local importers and distributors to retain the good reputation of the authentic products they deal in by confronting the issues of counterfeit imports and product dumping frontally, tackling the long-standing issue of the dredging of the Demerara Navigational Channel and creating increased marketing opportunities for locally produced goods in foreign markets are among the areas in which the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) realized little if any success despite its lobbying efforts last year.

Diversification on the horizon: Footsteps Mega Store

United Investments readies for North American ice cream franchise

Officials of Marble Slab Creamery, a chain of independently owned North American franchised stores that specialize in serving ice cream and other desserts are currently in Guyana winding up discussions with United Investments that are likely to result in the launch of a local franchise at its America Street outlet “possibly within a matter of weeks,” Marketing Manager Michael Alleyne has said.

Revisionist history

Dear Editor, The fever of elections in Guyana produces protean manifestations of unimaginable infections and Stabroek News of the 15th inst provided a ready and willing waiting room for the patients to congregate.

The Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association

Whether President of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) Clinton Williams would have made much headway during his presentation at last Friday’s Annual General Meeting in his quest to persuade his audience that the umbrella body had made meaningful strides in overseeing the development of the manufacturing sector under his watch is not something that can be determined from a distance.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 611’s trading results showed consideration of $21,019,063 from 726,555 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 610’s trading results, which showed consideration of $3,572,360 from 86,127 shares traded in 16 transactions.

Cuba rejoins the hemispheric families

Almost exactly three years ago, on the occasion of the 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, we published an editorial opining that if President Barack Obama were re-elected in November of that year, that might herald “a new process of engagement” with Cuba.