Articles published on Friday, May 1, 2015
BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – England captain Alastair Cook made his first test century in almost two years but lost his wicket in the final over of the day as the tourists ended the first day of the third test against West Indies on 240 for seven.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall today assailed aspects of the law reforms presented in APNU+AFC’s manifesto and argued that private property could come under threat.
BALTIMORE, (Reuters) – A Baltimore police officer was charged with murder and five others with lesser charges in the death of a black man who suffered a critical neck injury while riding inside a police van, the city’s chief prosecutor said today.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Soul singer Ben E. King, famous for the hit song “Stand by Me” died on Thursday at the age of 76, his representative said today.
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) yesterday hosted a National Symposium on Immunization, aimed at educating youths about the importance of vaccination, GINA said.
During this morning, the police say they conducted a raid at Agricola where nine buildings were searched.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The ICC confirmed it was investigating the registration of company names which it regarded as of “concern to the sport of cricket” as reports of a rebel organisation which might split the game continued to emerge today.
Within three months of taking office, an APNU+AFC government will appoint a Commission to amend the Constitution with the full participation of the people, which among other things, will reduce the powers of the president, the coalition’s manifesto says.
A mother of one was murdered yesterday in her home after being repeatedly threatened by her husband who she had reported to the police earlier in the morning.
Should it get into office, in its first 100 days, the APNU+AFC alliance will reduce the Berbice Bridge toll and increase salaries for government workers including nurses and teachers as well as examine the reduction of the President’s pension, according to the coalition’s Manifesto released yesterday.
After a food shortage at the New Amsterdam Hospital sparked a picketing exercise, regional officials yesterday said that the situation was blown out of proportion and accused opposition activists of trying to make the administration look bad.
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday denied ever knowing convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan or shutting down the Military Criminal Intelligence Division (MCID) of the GDF.
Ex-policeman Jarrel Huntley was yesterday handed two five-year sentences after he was found guilty of having a gun and ammunition while not being a licensed firearm holder.
With the official launch of its manifesto at the Stabroek Market Square yesterday afternoon, the APNU+AFC leadership says the setting was symbolic of its commitment to the grassroots population of Guyana.
Gladstone George, who was shot dead in a minibus last week, has been linked to the heist in which $42M was stolen during a transfer to the Bourda Post Office last month.
Two prison officers, including one with almost 20 years on the job, were yesterday charged with trying to smuggle marijuana and cigarettes into the Georgetown Prison on Camp Street.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- West Indies must win to draw the series against England when the third and final match in the three test series begins at Kensington oval here today.
A jockey is now out on $600,000 bail after denying an attempted murder charge stemming from a stabbing at the after-party of a horse racing meet on Sunday.
A woman was yesterday freed of a cocaine trafficking charge after she was found not guilty by a city court.
KOLKATA, India, CMC-West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell slammed an unbeaten half century and grabbed two wickets as Kolkata Knight Riders edged Chennai Super Kings by seven wickets with a ball to spare in the Indian Premier League (IPL) yesterday.
A retrial has been ordered for a Jamaican couple accused of human trafficking including of a 16-year-old Guyanese girl; their daughter who faced similar charges has been freed by a court in Kingston, Jamaica.
Dear Editor, As one of the many voices who called on President Ramotar to rid his Cabinet of Dr.
Dear Editor, The current public debate about the relevance of our sinister past is occurring in the context of the upcoming national elections, said to be the most important ever.
BIRMINGHAM, England, , CMC- Grenada international and former Premier League striker Delroy Facey was jailed for two and a half years on Wednesday after being convicted of plotting to bribe lower league players in England.
Finance Minster Dr. Ashni Singh has demonstrated a “misunderstanding” of the operation of the Consolidated Fund, according to Carl Greenidge, who says government is legally bound to account for payouts of proceeds from two Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loans, totaling US$32 million, which were recently deposited into the fund.
Dear Editor, The APNU/AFC coalition is campaigning on a promise of a Government of National Unity (GNU).
Imran Baksh, a Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast resident, on Wednesday staged a one-man protest in front of the Regional Democratic Council office to highlight a two-year delay in the installation of water tanks given to the community by the government.
A heavyweight matchup between West Front Road and Queen Street Tigerbay alongside an unlikely meeting between Sparta Boss and Kitty Weavers will highlight the semi-finals of the inaugural Guyana Beverage Company Busta Football tourney today at the GFC ground.
Dear Editor, Ronald Bulkan wrote a letter in the April 29, 2015 edition of SN entitled `Transformations’ asking “what are these persons driven by?”
Government’s announcement a week ago that the local company e-Networks had been granted clearance to land its own fibre optic cable in Guyana from neighbouring Brazil has been met with a robust query from another service provider in the IT sector.
Omesh Danram and Pavindra Persaud’s brilliant efforts with the bat were not enough to give host University of Guyana an outright victory over Sophia Cricket Club in their Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Noble House Second Division encounter.
Three Cuban nationals were fined $100,000 each yesterday after they admitted to forging immigration stamps in their passports.
Fyuse Hossein, the rice farmer who was shot in a robbery last Friday, has been discharged from the private hospital where he was being treated.
Against the backdrop of what is widely believed to be the country’s significant potential to become a major producer of oil and natural gas, Guyana can anticipate support from the United States in building capacity in the creation of structures that would ensure accountability for oil and gas revenues once exploitation gets underway.
From today top local T20 players will display their skills on the field over the next three days as the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Carib Beer T/20 fever enters its second week.
Dear Editor, A number of unemployed and a few employed youths of Bartica, Region 7 last week joined the membership of the Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG).
Dear Editor, The ethnic issue has always played a major role in our elections.
There have been times when a fair measure of controversy has attached itself to local representation at international trade shows coordinated by the state-run Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest).
Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters overcame home side Pepsi Sonics 64-54 in a u-23 matchup when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) ‘King of the Hard Court’ Championship continued on Wednesday.
The accused in the gun-point robbery of two men was yesterday remanded to prison after answering to the charge in a city court.
Dear Editor, I wish to point out that Ms. Ryhaan Shah did not ignite any debate over the role of our past, as Mr.
Clarence Ceres is of the view that the high profile which Guyana once enjoyed in the field of furniture-making is being continually compromised by what he regards as the “crisis” in the wider forestry and wood products sector.
Former magistrate Fazil Azeez, who was shot last Saturday, was discharged from a private hospital yesterday.
Linden Technical Institute (LTI) were crowned the Victory Valley Royals organized Secondary Schools Basketball champs, dismantling Mackenzie High School by an 84-34 score line on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court in Linden.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The highly pathogenic H5 avian flu turned up in initial tests at five more farms in Iowa, including a commercial egg operation housing up to 5.5 million birds, Iowa’s agriculture department said yesterday.
Dear Editor, The President of Guyana has created history once again by asking the GDF to vote for his party in a letter in both the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News recently.
On April 27, 2015, the National Heritage Trust of Guyana launched New Amsterdam Heritage Trail, a 45-page booklet documenting 39 past and present historical sites in one of Guyana’s oldest towns.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) on Wednesday evening unveiled their second edition of the “Guyana Cricketer” Magazine, while honouring a cricketing great in former Guyana and West Indies batsman Alvin Kallicharran.
Jamaican company GeoTechVision which was founded in 2008 and which, since 2012, has established operations in Guyana, was earlier this month named by the high-profile magazine CIOReview among its 20 most promising solutions providers in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) sector in 2015.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bisssessar said Wednesday that despite projections that this country’s budget would have been in a deficit of billions of dollars, figures at the end of this half of this fiscal year, shows a surplus.
CANBERRA, (Reuters) – A $30 million mansion overlooking Sydney’s harbour that was illegally bought by a Chinese-controlled company has been sold to an Australian citizen, Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey said yesterday.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Top Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Kelly-Ann Baptiste has pulled out of this weekend’s IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas for personal reasons, officials here have announced.
Dear Editor, As a woman, I still do feel particularly insulted by the vile and callous behaviour of Mr.
Against the backdrop of a decidedly modest after-tax profit of $30.0 million, local company Caribbean Container Inc (CCI) has announced that its shareholders are to receive $0.20.00 per share for 2014, a 53.8 per cent increase on the $0.13.00 earnings per share at the end of 2013.
A miner was yesterday charged with using a taxi and then welching on the payment of the $19,500 in charges he racked up.
Dear Editor, The recent humiliating loss to England has once again shown that the West Indies team is still wind-less.
The ‘fight of the century’ involving ‘boxing’s heavyweights’, Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather and Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao goes down tomorrow.
A welder was yesterday fined $100,000 after pleading guilty to forging a passport.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 613’s trading results showed consideration of $7,954,243 from 200,850 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 612’s trading results, which showed consideration of $22,862,033 from 278,142 shares traded in 17 transactions.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – After finally turning the page on a dispute over spying that hampered attempts to deepen trade ties, Brazil and the United States may be headed for another clash, this time over U.S.
KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – The death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake rose steadily past 6,100 yesterday as fresh aftershocks and the stench of rotting bodies made it hard for nervous survivors to return to their homes.
LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – When Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao enter the ring tomorrow the stakes could not be higher, even for a bout already labelled the “Fight of the Century.”
Dear Editor, For those who are not familiar with Thurgood Marshall, I would like to introduce you to this historic figure.
WASHINGTON/KINGSTON, (Reuters) – An American woman arrested last month for trying to travel to Syria to join the militant group Islamic State was in touch with an Islamist preacher in Jamaica, a federal law enforcement official said.
Long before Dougal Kirkpatrick’s formal elevation to the position of Head Chef of a family business that goes back more than half a century he had been playing a pivotal role in what has been the steady growth of Kirkpatrick’s Catering.
(Reuters) – The Church Commissioners and the Church of England Pensions Board said they have divested 12 million pounds ($18.42 million) from their investments in thermal coal and tar sands companies as part of an initiative aimed at promoting transition to a low carbon economy.
If one were to try to predict the electoral outcome on May 11, simply by surveying the social media and online blogs, one might be forgiven for believing that Guyanese are ready for change and that the APNU+AFC coalition is heading for victory.
Gregory Shaw, the 29-year-old General Manager of California Stucco believes that its arrival in Guyana, just under three years ago, has added a new and exciting dimension to the country’s design and building landscape at a time when the local construction sector is expanding at breakneck speed.
This picture was taken on Hadfield Street immediately beyond the perimeter fence of St.
AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – A federal judge in Texas yesterday sentenced two members of the Los Zetas Mexican criminal cartel to life in prison for smuggling thousands of kilograms of marijuana and hundreds of assault rifles across the border, prosecutors said.
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
The labouring inmate: This prison inmate was washing this vehicle parked in front of the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday.
Dear Editor, I have noted President Donald Ramotar’s sacking of Health Minister Bheri Ramsaran.
LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Floyd Mayweather Jr. describes himself as a perfectionist and inside the ring the boxer known as the ‘Money Man’ is just that, his flawless professional record of 47-0 a monument to perfection.
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Jamaica will host its Sixth Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference during the period June 13 to 18 2015 at the Montego Bay Convention Center.
I am not surprising myself today – my penultimate piece before our May 11 D-Day-when I am finding it challenging to write on something different and relevant at this time.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The former head of Colombia’s intelligence service was sentenced to 14 years in prison yesterday for spying on opposition lawmakers, judges and journalists in one of the biggest scandals to mar the government of ex-President Alvaro Uribe.
West Indies training at Kensington Oval on Tuesday, April 28, 2015.
