Daily Archive: Friday, May 15, 2015

Articles published on Friday, May 15, 2015

President Donald Ramotar

PPP denies Ramotar conceding

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) tonight refuted reports in the media that Head of State, President Donald Ramotar is preparing to concede electoral defeat to opposition leader David Granger.

On Election day:  From left are UK High Commissioner Greg Quinn, US Charge d’Affaires Bryan Hunte, Captain Gerry Gouveia, Canadian High Commissioner, Nicole Giles and private sector head Ramesh Persaud

Western missions stand by vote count

While President Donald Ramotar refuses to concede defeat, the heads of the United States, British and Canadian diplomatic missions in Guyana have reiterated their confidence in the tabulation of results from Monday’s general and regional elections.

Belvedere man fatally shot by bandit

At about 2100h. last night, police say that four men armed with cutlasses and a handgun entered a home at Belvedere, Corentyne, through an open door, and held up Ramesh Puran, 49 years, his wife and two other relatives, and demanded cash and jewellery.

Exuberant APNU+AFC fans at Albert and Oronoque Sts yesterday.

Slim win for APNU+AFC -preliminary results

Preliminary results show that the APNU+AFC alliance has won the May 11th elections by a margin of just over 5,000 votes but President Donald Ramotar yesterday refused to concede that his PPP/C had lost, while saying the process was rigged and demanding a manual recount of all ballots.

Mourners viewing the remains of Guyana’s first world boxing champion, Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis yesterday at the Parade Ground. (Orlando Charles photo)

‘Sixhead’ laid to rest

`Lewis kicked down the door that said world champions only, no Guyanese allowed’ Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis, Guyana’s first world boxing champion and one of the nation’s iconic sports figures, was laid to rest during a tearful home going ceremony yesterday.

Swearing in the new President

After Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield declares the official results of the May 11th polls, he will then name APNU+AFC presidential candidate David Granger as the president-elect -which would pave the way for the eighth president of the country to be sworn in.

Anthony Joshua

Independent review to probe Hughes death

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia has commissioned an independent review into the cause and circumstances of last year’s death of test batsman Phillip Hughes in a bid to prevent anything similar happening in the future.

Some schools open but students scarce

While the Ministry of Education maintains that schools across the nation are opened and operating normally, parents at least in the city have taken the decision to keep their children at home during the wait for results from Monday’s polls.

Guyana’s number one tourist
attraction

Guyana must push integrated South America tour packages

Even as local tour operators seek to structure their entities to attract a greater share of the visitor market in the hemisphere the idea of Guyana’s greater involvement in a more integrated approach to marketing the tourism product in South America is being mooted by international industry experts.

Made in Guyana: The local craft industry still has a distance to travel

Guyana can learn from Jamaica’s pursuit of a J$5B craft industry

Guyana can learn more than a thing or two from the news that this year the government of   sister Caribbean Community (Caricom) state Jamaica allocated J$12.8 million to a Craft Enhancement and Business Planning Training Project, which has been set up to improve and strengthen the capacity and business acumen of the country’s producers through increased quantity and diversity of their product offerings to meet, indeed exceed, the demand of the country’s tourist industry.

Canada’s New Democrats overtake Liberals in poll

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), which stormed to victory in a provincial election in conservative Alberta this month, has vaulted ahead of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in national support, a public opinion poll showed yesterday.

Jimmy Carter should have a monument in Guyana

Dear Editor, James Earl Carter, Jr, known as Jimmy Carter is the 39th President of the United States of America and he deserves a monument in Guyana to honour the invaluable role he has played over the last twenty-five years in ensuring the evenhanded and credible counting of votes for general and regional elections here.

Joan Honore-Paul

Deputy DPP says PM, former AG not cleared in Emailgate

(Trinidad Guardian) Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Honore-Paul on Wednesday night slammed Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for her suggestion that she and her colleagues should be cleared in the Emailgate probe, saying the police were far from done with their investigations and the case was still wide open.

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Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 615’s trading results showed consideration of $3,515,177 from 173,688 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 614’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,930,504 from 90,931 shares traded in 10 transactions.

‘Inclusionary democracy’

The country has spent the best part of this week waiting to exhale, with rising tensions and most of the citizenry fit to burst, not to mention the stress placed on children taking CXC papers (and their parents), and the general loss of productivity suffered by the nation.