Daily Archive: Saturday, June 20, 2015

Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton has expressed disappointment with the state of the Mahaicony Hospital.

At about 1020h. today, the police say that two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, entered an Internet Café and Western Union Outlet at Duncan Street, Georgetown, and held up the proprietor Gordon Nestor, 52 years, and staff member Fernandes Ally, 18 years, of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, and took away over $400,000.00 and escaped in a waiting motor car.

At about 0200h. today, the police say that Beau Allison, 27 years, of Louisa Row, Georgetown, was riding a motor cycle along the LBI Public Road, ECD, when he is reported to have collided with a motor car which he was attempting to overtake.

(Trinidad Express) Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran has said the Trinidad and Tobago Government was “deeply concerned” over the recent re-igniting of the issue of the deportation of Dominican Republic citizens of Haitian descent.

President David Granger yesterday named former Public Service Minister Dr Jennifer Westford and her spouse as two of the persons whose names state vehicles were being transferred into and which has prompted a police investigation.

Residents of Mahaicony and Mahaicony Creek, Region Five have been flooded again and are blaming the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) as livestock and crop damage mounts.

Ravi Outar, the former policeman who was shot by a lone gunman last Wednesday succumbed to his injuries yesterday afternoon.

After hours of deliberations, directions, redirections and a lot of back and forth, a jury yesterday found Charles Anthony Woolford guilty of manslaughter in the killing of his beautician wife Latoya Conway-Woolford in 2009.

Up to late last evening there was still no sign of missing boat captain, Mohamed ‘Saeed’ Yusuph, 61, of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice who was tossed overboard by pirates..

A South Ruimveldt Gardens pensioner is nursing at least three gunshot wounds after he put up a fight with two men who robbed him in front of his home just after lunch yesterday.

The man who was charged with causing the death of a hotel worker on the East Bank Demerara late last year, by way of dangerous driving, was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment after he was found guilty.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday condemned what it termed the illegal dismissal of the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Director of Nursing Services, Collene Hicks by the hospital’s CEO Michael Khan.

The National Communi-cations Network (NCN) Station Coordinator for Berbice has been relieved of his position after an evaluation of his performance found it to be unsatisfactory, his superiors said, but Faizal Jafarally has dubbed the action a “political witch hunt.”

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) says it is dissatisfied with the attention given to the mining industry by the new government.

Flooding has caused major damage to the Port Kaituma Main Road, Region One and water has also seeped into the homes of residents, a businessman from the area said yesterday.

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday remanded a gold miner to prison after he appeared before her accused of robbery under arms committed on two persons.

A young resident of the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) started a one man clean-up campaign along the streets of the capital after being motivated by the actions of many but particularly that of “Captain Clean” and his team.

A butcher was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of having a quantity of cocaine in his possession.

The Annandale woman who allegedly set herself ablaze on June 3 has since succumbed to her injuries.

The State yesterday closed its case in the trial of Ralph Tyndall, Anthony De Paul Hope and Kevin O’Neil, who are jointly charged with murdering Colleen Forrester and stuffing her body in a septic tank in 2007.

The PPP/C is adamant that it will be filing an election petition to contest the results of the just concluded general and regional elections and according to executive member Anil Nandlall the party has time left in which it can take this step.

The Rupununi Music and Arts Festival returns to Rock View Lodge, Annai in the North Rupununi for its second showing on September 18 – 20 offering locals and tourists Amerindian culture, samba and capoeira from Brazil, drums and tassa, rhythms from Africa and India, chants from the Makushi and Caribbean island vibes among other things.

Dear Editor, I share the sense of relief and welcome at the change of administration in Guyana.

A few hours after completing a grueling workout on Thursday, Guyana’s world renowned bodybuilder, Hugh Ross picked up his bags, drove to the JFK International Airport and boarded a plane for Malta.

PPP executive member Anil Nandlall on Thursday criticized government’s decision to have chartered accountants Anand Goolsarran and Christopher Ram conduct the forensic audit of several state agencies saying that they are inappropriate for the task.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan told a group of engineers and other technical specialists that his ministry hopes to harness their skills and expertise and group them into a single unit whose objective is to build cohesive sustainable communities nationwide.

Guyana’s national Under-23 football team yesterday paid a courtesy call on Director of Sport, Christopher Jones at his office at the National Sports Commission building.

Dear Editor,   The price range for exported wamara logs was reported as being between US$200 and 220 per cubic metre during January to March 2015 (FPDMC Market Export Report, April 2015, page 10).

Dear Editor,   Why are our children of Grades Two and Four being burdened with assessments?

Guyana’s premier 17 and under 19 athletes will get into their blocks today to compete at the Smalta National Youth and Juniors Track and Field Championships.

Dear Editor, “In the meantime, the coalition will probably have to accept that unity is just an empty word.

Executives of the Guyana Sport Shooting Federation (GSSF) Monday met with Minister within the Ministry of Education, Department of Culture, Youth and Sport Nicolette Henry to discuss the way forward for the shooting sport locally.

Dear Editor, In commenting on Mr Lall’s letter of June 19 in SN, captioned ‘Home is where the heart is,’ I should have been more specific about the two areas in which the diaspora is very concerned − accountability and the rule of law, crime being only one part of the latter.

Kevaughn Garnett scored a double and Demel Joseph the other goal as Hope Hope Secondary defeated La Bonne Intention (LBI) 3-1 in the fifth annual Digicel nationwide schools football competition yesterday at the Victoria Community Centre ground.

Today the Guyana Amazon Warriors and defending Hero Caribbean Premier League (HCPL) T20 champs, Barbados Tridents will open the third season of the competition with a grudge match  against Guyana’s Amazon Warriors,  at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.

Trevon `Bugsy’ Griffith, the now ex-Guyana Jaguars opener said yesterday his drafting to the Jamaica franchise ahead of the 2015/16 Professional Cricket league (PCL) four-day tournament was just a career stepping-stone and another opportunity to showcase his skillset in the longer format of the game.

Dear Editor, The letter from Janette Bulkan refers (‘Points in letter about over harvesting of timber species missed,’ SN, June 17).

Dear Editor,   We are constantly belaboured by arguments that suggest that those who have served our country in the armed forces, by virtue of such service, are automatically ineligible to participate in the politics of our country or hold positions in the current government.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka took the upper hand after the third day of the opening test at Galle yesterday, reducing Pakistan to 118-5 after Kaushal Silva’s second test century took the hosts to 300 in their first innings.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an attempt to rehabilitate minor, non-violent substance abusers across the region, Chief Justice Ivor Archie is looking to Caricom to support a Caribbean Drug Treatment Court Association.

Dear Editor,   I do not wish to engage in what seems to be evolving into a futile, albeit repetitious correspondence with Frederick Kissoon regarding an issue that is as plain as daylight (‘Rai would not speak on his life and politics for Ramharack’s biography,’ SN, June 18).

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel captain Dwayne Bravo says he is happy with the decision by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to acquire the franchise ahead of the new Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season which starts this weekend.

You may have seen him in 2012’s Front Yard or last year’s Shattered Dreams but actor Johann David has been making his mark on the local stage for over five years now.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’s largest engineering and construction company Odebrecht SA, and accused his family-run conglomerate of spearheading a $2.1 billion bribery scheme at state-run oil firm Petrobras.

Hi Everyone, This week begins a 4-part series featuring a few weekend favourites among Barbadians (Bajans).

DHAKA, (Reuters) – India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Bangladesh paceman Mustafizur Rahman have been fined for a collision during Thursday’s first one-day international at Mirpur, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said.

Dear Editor,   This planet earth is our home away from our home.

(Jamaica Observer) Students attending Denham Town Primary School in west Kingston are being put through ‘gunshot drills’ that train them how to react during gun battles between thugs — a common occurrence in the volatile community.

Dear Editor,   Leon Suseran’s ‘A presidency of change’ (May 28, 2015) is exactly the kind of gushing, fevered elation, misplaced euphoria, form over substance analysis that has left this country with a frightening history of failed politics, failed politicians and a failure by the citizenry to make proper political choices for the nation’s sake.

Review by Timothy Austin   I really wanted to like Jurassic World.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba plans to beam Wi-Fi signals at 35 public spaces in the first such offering for the population at large, whose Web access has been mostly limited to desktop rentals in state-owned Internet parlors.

ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, CMC- Underdog Jamaica, facing an early exit from their historic participation in the Copa America, are banking on a miraculous effort in their third encounter of the oldest continental tournament this weekend.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Locally produced cassava starch is now a key ingredient in the brew of Red Stripe Beer, as the company moves to reduce imported raw material for its production.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A rejuvenated England head into today’s winner-takes-all fifth one-day international against New Zealand knowing that even a defeat would do little to spoil the buzz surrounding English limited-overs cricket.

Dear Editor,   It is here again. The day we refer to as ‘Father’s Day.’

West Palm Beach is said to be one of the ‘popping’ places to visit in Florida and this year’s Guyana Day event would have added to its zing.

It’s been just over a month since the new government has been in power and boy oh boy was I dying to see the wardrobe of the new President!

Dear Editor, When even NIS and government paid old age pensions are increased, only old age pensioners from certain utilities, corporations and institutions are paid the increase.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- The ongoing work of the West Indies Retired Players Foundation (WIRPF) is set to get a major boost as it stages the inaugural charity golf day in Barbados this weekend.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A pioneering project in one of India’s sunniest states has led to one farmer harvesting what could become the country’s most climate-smart cash crop yet – sunshine.

Mass shootings in the United States occur with soul-numbing frequency. In the last 30 years there have been at least 70.