Daily Archive: Thursday, June 18, 2015

The gazetted official results of the 2015 General and Regional Elections are now available on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) website: www.gecom.org.gy,

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has advertised for repairs to the Prime Minister’s residence.

Investigations are being conducted into the murder of Jason Cort, 27 years, of Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown, which occurred at about 2230h.

CHARLESTON, S.C., (Reuters) – A white gunman was still at large after killing nine people during a prayer service at an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city’s police chief said on Thursday, describing the attack as a hate crime.

Former auditor general Anand Goolsarran is one week into his work of forensically auditing government holding company, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).

A public relations consultant and several engineers from India attached to the Skeldon sugar factory have been sent packing by the government, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon who says that they were not providing any valuable service to the ailing sugar industry.

The government wants to ditch the controversial Specialty Hospital project, which the previous administration had been pursuing with an Indian line of credit of US$18 million, as it believes the money would be better spent on primary health care, but would first await a report from a consultancy team to be formed.

Cabinet has approved payment of $75m to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) for the switch in dates for exams to facilitate the May 11 general elections.

The trip by several senior government officials to New York last weekend for an APNU+AFC victory rally was not paid for with state funds, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

Russian Ambassador to Guyana, Nikolay Smirnov on Monday paid a courtesy call on Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan at the Ministry of Public Security, Brickdam, Georgetown and discussed support to the security sector.

Ravin Singh was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail after being found guilty of causing the death of an elderly woman almost one year ago.

A jury yesterday heard that Clive Knights had said in his caution statement that he had stabbed GTM executive Bert Whyte once on his arm after he was sexually assaulted by him.

Dozens of nurses left their patients unattended yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital to protest what they say was the “wrongful” dismissal of their Director of Nursing Services Colleen Hicks by the hospital’s CEO Michael Khan.

Charles Anthony Wool-ford’s fate will rest in the hands of 12 jurors tomorrow as his second re-trial for the murder of his wife in 2009 comes to an end.

A jury has been empanelled and the indictment read to two men charged with the murder of fisherman Rajmohan Phaskanran called ‘Vishnu.’

A shoot-out with the police on Tuesday night ended with a bandit jumping into a trench in the Diamond Housing Scheme and being caught.

The Indian Arrival Committee is calling on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to give critical support to the APNU-AFC coalition government for any programmes or policies that would achieve national cohesion and advance development, The IAC says it recognises that since its founding in 1950, the PPP has been at the forefront of the struggle for political,

Scotiabank launched its auto loan campaign yesterday at its Carmichael Street Branch.

New Silver City Secondary and L’Aventure Secondary sealed their berth to the next round defeating Wisburg Secondary and West Demerara Secondary when the 5th edition of the Digicel Secondary Schools Championship kicked off yesterday.

After rainfall at Wash Clothes and Savannah Number One coincided with the spring tides at Mahaicony, residents are now faced with mild flooding.

Two-time Caribbean Premier League (CPL) finalists the Guyana Amazon Warriors, yesterday winged out for Barbados ahead of Saturday’s opening match of the tournament’s third season against defending champions, Barbados Tridents.

Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge said the new administration’s foreign policy will improve Guyana’s international standing, stimulate greater economic development and create conditions for increased remigration, in his address to Guyanese in Washington, DC.

Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) President Nigel Hinds said he is unsure what the reasons were for national basketball player Kean Andrews remaining in the British Virgin Islands despite the conclusion of the CBC Women’s Championship.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The wealthy owners of Indian Premier League franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders, are set to acquire the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel, the Caribbean Premier League announced Tuesday.

The body of a labourer, who went missing on Tuesday was yesterday pulled from a canal in the backlands of Number 61 Village during the mid-morning hours.

The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) will hold trials on Saturday at the National Gymnasium to select the senior male and female national squads.

The New York-based group, Caribbean Voice has welcomed the new APNU+AFC government and hopes that it will accommodate and implement new policies and approaches to treat suicide and related social pathologies.

Former national under-19 skipper Shawn Perreira has been included in the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club team which will compete in the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) fund raiser T20 Competition, “Caricom Championship” 2015 under the Gizmos and Gadgets banner.

Route 40 minibus conductor Ragesh Ragbeer is feared to be paralysed from the waist down after he was knocked down by a car while crossing the road last month.

Dear Editor, One of the many perceivable imponderables with which the new administration would have to grapple in the more immediate future is that of public service pay, regarding which several spokespersons have raised expectations, evidently speaking not from the same page, while addressing different categories of employees.

As customary on June 23, World Olympic Day is a celebrated for youth around the world to observe the Olympic values of Fair Play, Perseverance, Respect and Sportsmanship.

The clean-up campaign has prompted Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson to identify a Community Coordi-nator to liaise with communities to remove debris and garbage, a release from the Ministry said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I wish to have the following letter published, in light of your story in yesterday’s paper titled, ‘Youth prisoners pardoned by President released from jail.’

Guyana’s winless run in the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Men’s championship continued Tuesday night when they went under to The Bahamas 69-89 in their second group fixture yesterday at the Multi Sports Complex in Tortola.

Dear Editor, Most of us in the diaspora are looking on with optimism as events keep unfolding since the new administration has taken office.

Top domino teams will compete this Sunday in a Father’s Day dominoes competition organized by the Georgetown Dominoes Association (GDA).

Dear Editor, I have been reading Peggy Chin’s interesting and valuable columns about trees in the city.

MADRID, (Reuters) – A Spanish judge has accepted a legal complaint filed by Brazilian investment fund DIS that alleges it was the victim of a fraud perpetrated in Barcelona’s signing of forward Neymar from Santos.

Dear Editor, The recent disclosures about the state of the police station at Bartica are so shocking that the citizens of this country should be outraged that former minister Rohee would allow such a disgrace to occur under his watch; our policemen in Guyana deserve much better.

BERNE, (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors looking into corruption at global soccer body FIFA have identified 53 suspicious bank transactions, the attorney general said yesterday, stressing that the investigation may take time.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent faced the risk of deportation from the Dominican Republic yesterday as a deadline for enforcement of a new immigration law approached.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to express my concern and get answers on a matter in which I strongly believe that I am being treated unfairly by the Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL), formerly BWIA.

Dear Editor,  As predicted, the Cummingsburg Accord has begun to unravel.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A growing online craze among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers for buying and drinking human breast milk poses serious health risks, British experts said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – French Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka was scythed back to earth by big-serving South African Kevin Anderson on the Queen’s Club grass as the Swiss bowed out of the Aegon Championships 7-6(4) 7-6(11) yesterday.

Dear Editor, For most of Guyana’s post-independence history the state has played a paramount role in shaping and controlling the country’s development paradigm.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – The Golden State Warriors capped a brilliant season with a 105-97 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday to win the NBA Finals for the first time in 40 years.

(Trinidad Express) THE police are already probing themselves but now, the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) has launched its own investigation to determine whether there was any criminal misconduct by police offi¬cers in the alleged discovery of marijuana at Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s Phillipine home more than two years ago.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered a new anti-malarial compound that could treat patients with a single $1 dose, including those with strains of the mosquito-borne disease that are resistant to current drugs.

Dear Editor, It was with profound disappointment that I read the Gina article of June 11, ‘One more sitting for Rodney COI,’ specifically the part that read: “As for the expensive engagement of Shaun Samaroo, Minister Harmon indicated that Cabinet considers this as ‘money not well spent’ but since the expenditure was authorised by the former President Ramotar it will not be pursued.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Television newsman Brian Williams, suspended by NBC in February for fabricating a story that he had come under fire on a helicopter during the Iraq war, will not return as anchor of the network’s “Nightly News” program, CNN reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – LeBron James has tasted defeat four times in NBA Finals now but that does not make it any easier to swallow.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro’s son has emerged as one of his father’s closest aides, taking on an increasingly important role reminiscent of the one Raul used to play for his older brother Fidel Castro.

Dear Editor,   Some words and phrases are making the rounds in post-election Guyana.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A dispute has been tee’d off between Switzerland’s ambassador to Venezuela and a neighboring elite golf club, after a banner appeared at the diplomat’s residence warning that golf balls injuring or killing anyone inside would violate the Vienna Convention.

(A fortnightly column by the Guyana Bar Association )Preface   The Guyana Bar Association is pleased to introduce the first in its fortnightly column on the Law and the Citizen.

Dear Editor,   The comments made by Coach Jamaal Shabazz, namely, “Guyana paid the price for defensive lapses” are absurd.

Dear Editor,   When on the morning of the recently completed second Test against Australia, it was announced that Bishoo, Samuels and Gabriel were not in the final 11, why did we continue to believe that the game could be competitive?

Visits by Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton to hospitals and health centres beyond Georgetown have revealed a most unhealthy state of affairs.