Daily Archive: Friday, June 12, 2015

(Reuters) – Australia moved towards another massive victory over West Indies on the second day of the second test in Jamaica today after the hosts collapsed for the third time in as many innings.

Through a collaborative effort between the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and the Atlantic Emergency Medical Service, 80 Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) along with nurses from the GPHC and the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) benefited from a one-week training programme in emergency medicine, GINA said.

(Trinidad Express) Election Day is Monday 7 September. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in the Parliament this afternoon.

Grenada-born Dt Slinger Francisco, 79, better known as the Mighty Sparrow has been conferred with Order of the British Empire.

Venkatachalam Mahalingam, Indian High Commissioner to Guyana, today paid a courtesy call to the country’s Public Infrastructure Ministers at their Wight’s Lane office, a release from the Ministry said today.

Seven students from the University of Guyana – Yogvika Arjune, Hilary Benjamin-Byer, Juanelle Marks, Darion Marshall and Samantha Sheoprashad (Computer Science), Rhea Benn and Shefali Seecharran (Chemistry) – were selected to be first-time participants from Guyana in the Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation programme, offered by the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, a release from the University of Guyana said.

Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine (left), met with the Chief Executive Officer of the Art Williams & Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School, Capt.

With rain swelling the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) to dangerous levels, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is currently putting procedures in place to begin operational testing of the Hope Canal relief channel.

The police today said that serious crime is up by 10%.

President David Granger (right) saying goodbye at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo who will be performing the duties of President over the next few days.

First Vice President and Prime Minister,  Moses Nagamootoo was this morning sworn in as Acting President by Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag), Justice Carl Singh, GINA said.

(Trinidad Express) “I want my day in court.” Former FIFA vice-president and Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner said last night that if the local courts rule that he be extradited to the United States, he will go.

LILLE, France (Reuters) – A French court today acquitted former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of charges that he instigated sex parties with prostitutes.

Government will be forced to find around US$15M ($3B) to pay rice farmers when they send their next shipment of rice to neighbouring Venezuela due to the previous PPP/C administration’s mismanagement of the PetroCaribe fund, which is now bankrupt.

Success Elementary student Solomon Cherai has been named the top student at this year’s National Grade Six Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) will be reconstituted, according to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, who says that after years of sole sourcing the new government intends that the award of contracts will be done in a transparent process.

The Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) will be given the opportunity to host one final sitting, following which the commissioners will be given a one-month period in which to present their findings to the president, Minister of the Presidency Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

A reduction of the Berbice Bridge toll is being “actively considered” by Cabinet and some advice has been sought from a group of experts, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

An interim board will be set up for the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) and will be comprised of representatives of the government, opposition, the private sector and civil society.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Steve Smith’s ninth Test hundred and fifth in six Tests upstaged Jerome Taylor’s fireworks and led an admirable Australian recovery, as the visitors took the honours on the opening day of the second Test against West Indies here yesterday.

Anthony De Paul Hope, called “Papa,” was implicated by one of his co-accused in the murder of his aunt Colleen Forrester, a jury heard yesterday after the caution statement of Ralph Tyndall was admitted into evidence at the men’s trial.

Reiterating that Guyana’s May 11th general elections was fair and the results represented the will of the people, British High Commissioner Greg Quinn last evening said that is now important to move forward and for the United Kingdom to help Guyana develop and grow.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Legendary former West Indies Sir Wes Hall was yesterday inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, in a ceremony during the lunch interval on the opening day of the second Test against Australia at Sabina Park.

Dear Editor, As Finance Minister Jordan puts together his Tax Reform Committee here are some suggestions the members might want to consider if they are looking for a tax regime that favours the working class while still having a negligible effect on revenue generation.

Dear Editor, I refer to Stabroek News’s article titled ‘Roopnaraine takes aim at extra lessons’ published on the 7th June.

(Reuters) – World-class cricket is finally coming to the United States with “three or four” matches being planned for south Florida next year, a top Caribbean official told Reuters yesterday.

One of the three men who police say was involved in a shoot-out with businessman Neezam Khan during a foiled robbery, at Grove, East Bank Demerara on Saturday was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

Carl Hooper, the Guyana Amazon Warriors Head Coach says sharp fielding and aggressive bowling are some of the key characteristics which the ongoing training camp will embody for the next few days, in his quest to help the local franchise win the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League (HCPL) T20 tournament.

Dear Editor, The purpose of any political party is to gain and lose power inside parliament.

The Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs has rejected a complaint by the opposition PPP that three nominees of the governing coalition were not eligible for swearing in as technocratic ministers on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund dramatically raised the stakes in Greece’s stalled debt talks yesterday, announcing that its delegation had left negotiations in Brussels and flown home because of major differences with Athens.

Dear Editor, When expatriates leave their homeland to seek a future elsewhere, it is not very often that they return to resettle in the country of their birth.

At the opening of the 11th Parliament on Wednesday, several new parliamentarians were sworn in and the rookies are excited and eager to play their role in the law-making forum.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA’s director of communications Walter de Gregorio is to resign after making a joke on television about the scandal-hit soccer body, while pressure mounted for his boss Sepp Blatter to step aside at once.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Feisty, positive and quietly efficient, Matt Prior was one of England’s finest wicketkeeper batsmen in seven years behind the stumps during which he helped his country to three Ashes victories.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – More than half of a record 160 million accounts opened in India as part of a drive to offer banking to all are still empty, illustrating the massive task ahead for one of the government’s most high-profile campaigns and the strain on banks.

(Trinidad Express) The wife of a murdered businessman has appeared in court charged under the Trafficking in Persons Act.

Dear Editor,   Unlike the majority of Guyana, Kwik is unable to access local radio and live local television programmes.

Dear Editor, Guyana suffers from chronic unemployment and underemployment. The solution to this issue is to create job centres where people can find work and can access training to upgrade their skills level.

Cleveland Allen, accused of break and enter and attempting to commit a felony after police found him in the Bourda Market during prohibited hours, told a city court yesterday that he fell asleep in the market.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Master of the macabre Christopher Lee, who portrayed Dracula in outrageous Hammer Films horror classics but became known to later generations for roles in “Star Wars” and as the wizard Saruman in the “Lord of the Rings”, has died aged 93.

(Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke had little time to reflect on a “tough summer” battling injury and grieving the death of his friend Phillip Hughes but took satisfaction in defying the doubters who thought him a spent force.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Left-handed batsman Jehan Mubarak’s nearly eight-year wait for a test recall finally ended with Sri Lanka naming him in their squad for the three-match series against Pakistan starting on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.

Dear Editor, Over the past week the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has moved to the High Court seeking a resolution of two issues.

A man who admitted to entering a woman’s yard and stealing her clothes baskets and doormats was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail.

Politikles

DHAKA, (Reuters) – The entire second day’s play in the one-off test between India and Bangladesh was washed out by heavy showers and a wet outfield yesterday.

Hello there my nationalistic, patriotic Guyanese friends, please try to tolerate my vastly different view and perspective – perhaps provocative – on the issues mentioned in my lead caption today.

Dear Editor, Foreign Guyanese and other students who study one of the so called Stem (Science, Tech, Engineering, Maths) subjects will be allowed to live and work in the US for three years after graduation if a proposed bill from President Obama becomes law.

In law, a person is innocent until proven guilty. Nevertheless, there is a strong sense that in the court of public opinion, in Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and around the world, Jack Warner, the former regional football supremo and International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) vice-president, is already guilty of the charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering levied against him in a US federal court.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protecting the world’s dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan mayor jailed last year for his role in anti-government protests has ended a 20-day hunger strike that supporters said had weakened him and triggered kidney pain, his wife said yesterday.