Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Minister within the Ministry of Communities Keith Scott, toured the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Water Treatment Facility at Shelter-Belt, Vlissengen Road, Bel-Air Park, today, GINA said.

In observance of National Rehabilitation Week 2015 which commenced on June 21, several agencies under the Ministry of Public Health have come together and held an annual rehabilitation fair, GINA said.

There is evidence that several government agencies including NICIL misspent monies and should the forensic audits currently being conducted show any evidence of criminality, the matter would be handed to the police, President David Granger has said.

Hollywood composer James Horner, who scored the Oscar-winning film “Titanic” and its mega-hit theme song “My Heart Will Go On”, died in a plane crash in southern California yesterday, US media reported.

At about 0850h today, the police say that Ian Ambrose, 28 years, of Cooper Street, Albouystown, was standing on the Tuc-Ville Bridge, when a man approached and shot him to his left shoulder and fled.

(Trinidad Express) FOREIGN experts are on the ground to assist the People’s Partnership in its general election campaign.

Charlestown Secondary overcame a two-goal deficit to defeat Central High 4-3 on penalty kicks when the 5th edition of the Digicel Secondary Schools Football Championship continued yesterday at the Tucville Community Ground.

A Kortberaad canecutter yesterday hanged himself after stabbing his reputed wife and two others and torching a home at Number 7 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

The People’s Progressive Party has failed to pay $13,561,676 million which it owes the National Communication Network (NCN) for political ads that were aired in the run-up this year’s General and Regional Elections.

Two friends are dead and a third missing after the car they were travelling in toppled several times and plunged into a trench at Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara around 12.30 am yesterday.

By Donald Duff in Barbados In another groundbreaking attempt to assist in the development of cricket in the United States of America, the International Cricket Council (ICC) yesterday said that a team from the Americas will participate in next year’s WICB Nagico Super50 tournament and its top players in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

Minister of Public Infra-structure David Patterson has begun the process of ensuring qualified contractors for public works and he has signalled a tough approach on poor work and delays.

A capacity crowd at the Leonora Sports Facility witnessed two-time defending champs Slingerz FC seal their third consecutive Stag Beer West Demerara Knockout Cup, dismantling Ann’s Grove 5-0 Sunday night.

A carpenter lost his life late Sunday night after allegedly being attacked and robbed by two men on a bicycle.

A 51-year-old Essequibo Coast man is now dead after a mining pit he was working in caved in on Sunday at Barama Region One.

After a below par showing at the NACRA Championships and Olympic Qualifiers in Cary, North Carolina last weekend, the national male 7s rugby outfit will look to iron out some of the wrinkles when they contest the Pan American Championships next month in Canada.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni is willing to step aside as India captain and focus on his own game if it will help the team, the 33-year-old said in the wake of their first ever one-day series defeat to Bangladesh.

Two police officers accused of corruptly receiving money were both placed on bail after they pleaded not guilty in a city court yesterday.

Now that the Guyana Elections Commission’s (Gecom) official Box by Box 2015 General and Regional Election results match those contested by the PPP, save for one, General Secretary Clement Rohee is saying that the public should wait and see what his party presents in its elections petition.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – It’s too early to say if 11 Argentines will lift the Copa America after the final in Chile on July 4 but the chances are that at least one Argentine will.

A 99-year-old resident of Lichfield, West Coast Berbice was badly beaten around 8 pm on Friday last when a bandit broke into his house and robbed him.

The trial of United States State Senator John Sampson, who is facing charges of obstructing an investigation into his outside businesses, tampering with evidence and lying to FBI agents, began yesterday in a Brooklyn Federal Court and Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad is said to be the government’s star witness, according to the New York Daily News.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Virtually all eyes will be trained on one player when Barbados Tridents clash with Jamaica Tallawahs in the third game of the 2015 Caribbean Premier League at Kensington Oval tonight.

The International Cricket Conference’s (ICC) annual conference began yesterday at the several suites at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados with meetings of the associate and affiliate members and according to the ICC’s Head of Global Development, Tim Anderson, the meetings were mainly to look at various issues affecting the development of the game among the 95 associates and affiliates of the ICC.

The private charge against former head of state Bharrat Jagdeo was adjourned to July 13, following the submission of a medical report.

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Ernest Scott came up with a massive game as Antigua and Barbuda held off hosts British Virgin Islands to clinch third spot in the men’s Caribbean Basketball Championships which wrapped up here Sunday.

A Sophia resident was yesterday slapped with four simple larceny charges over the Election Day looting at ‘C’ Field Sophia.

Single Food Export, a factory in Ruimveldt, will have to add 10 to 15 centimetres to its generator’s chimney if Ruimveldt residents are to live in a safe environment.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Defender Lucy Bronze scored a fine winning goal as England came from behind to beat Norway 2-1 in a second round Women’s World Cup game yesterday and set up a quarter-final clash against hosts Canada.

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee yesterday said the party won’t be attending Thursday’s sitting of Parliament and he fended off questions over whether its Central Committee had voted in favour of former President Bharrat Jagdeo being the Leader of the Opposition whenever the PPP/C takes up its seats.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez could be banned from bowling for one year after the part-time off-spinner was again reported by match officials for a suspect action during the test against Sri Lanka in Galle that ended on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. Open and U.S. Masters winner Jordan Spieth is rated the 7-1 second favourite by bookmakers William Hill to win next month’s British Open, the third major of the year.

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman, who has responsibility for natural resources, has been mandated by President David Granger to launch an enquiry into the collapse of mining pits that have resulted in death of or injury to miners.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza believes playing a fearless brand of one-day cricket has brought about a “significant change” in his team’s fortunes.

Sections of the Albouystown community were last night hit by another wave of flooding after a suspected koker malfunction.

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) has asked the City Constabulary, which is conducting investigations into alleged illegalities by the Town Clerk to conclude the activity by July 6, when her annual leave ends.

KABUL (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament yesterday as lawmakers met to consider a new defence minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the militants as they intensified a summer offensive.

Dear Editor,   The police force desperately needs informants who can supply the police with information on planned robberies and the whereabouts of known criminals.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil have decided not to appeal against the four-game ban that will keep Neymar out of the Copa America and the Barcelona star left the team hotel yesterday vowing to learn from what he called the “bad situation” arising from his disciplinary issues.

Dear Editor,   I refer to the article titled ‘Jagdeo likely to be Leader of the Opposition –sources’ (SN, June 22).

The police are looking for three suspects in relation to the murder of Travis Rudder at Nandy Park on Sunday, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told this newspaper last night.

(Reuters) – Pakistan have even more reason to cheer their first test victory in Sri Lanka in nine years thanks to impressive performances from the team’s younger players, said captain Misbah-ul-Haq.

 (Reuters) – A widely used farm chemical that is a key ingredient in a new herbicide developed by Dow AgroSciences “possibly” causes cancer in humans, a World Health Organization research unit has determined.

Dear Editor,   I have to write begging on behalf of myself and other Amerindians for clarification of the report in Kaieteur News of June 21 headlined ‘Toshaos elections set for July.’

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former captain Andrew Flintoff believes Ben Stokes can become one of England’s greats and rates the all-rounder as a more talented player than he was.

Two men who were positively identified as having participated in a harrowing gunpoint robbery on Sunday of a family that had just returned from the airport are likely to appear in court soon.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Millions of the world’s poorest children are denied a fair start in life and many more will be left behind unless they’re put at the centre of new development goals for 2030, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said today.

DAKAR (Reuters) – Police in Ivory Coast freed 48 child slaves in raids on plantations in the country’s Western cocoa belt and arrested 22 people accused of trafficking or exploiting children, Interpol said yesterday.

Dear Editor,   As an antecedent to the debate, we have no immediate expectation with respect to the raising of wages by 10 per cent as expressed in the APNU+AFC Manifesto which states “APNU+AFC in government will… award a 10% increase on the total public sector wage…” We are of the firm belief that Guyanese of all political stripes owe the Granger-Nagamootoo led coalition administration its first 100 days in office without criticism.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – The turning point in Venezuela’s disappointing Copa America campaign was the dismissal of defender Fernando Amorebieta in the second match against Peru, according to their coach.

Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) President Collis Gifth says that the association will be seeking legal advice following the GFF Normalization Committee’s (NC) decision to revoke its participation at the upcoming Extraordinary Congress on Friday June 26th.

An Albouystown resident was yesterday refused bail after he denied having a quantity of cocaine, which was allegedly found in a match box and his pocket.

GFF Normalization Committee Chairman Clinton Urling says the entity is waiting on a response from FIFA after filing a protest against St.

Dear Editor,   It was very unfortunate and sad that at the Enmore Martyrs’ Commemoration Day we witnessed two different sets of persons saying different things.

A Lodge man was yesterday remanded to prison after police allegedly discovered a quantity of narcotics in his pocket during a search.

A miner was yesterday remanded to prison on charges of possession of cocaine and cannabis for drug trafficking, allegedly found in his crotch and pocket.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City has agreed to carry out reforms at its Rikers Island jail complex to resolve US Justice Department claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates, US officials said yesterday.

Allister Woolford, a former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), who was charged with killing his friend, Devon Howell while they were allegedly playing with a gun late last year was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) – Jessica Quintero awakes drenched in sweat and instinctively grabs for her AK-47 assault rifle.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Education Ministry is calling for the authorities to pursue and prosecute vendors who sell sweets laced with ganja to students.

OSLO (Reuters) – The number of animals and plants at risk of extinction rose in 2015 despite government pledges to improve protection, with species under threat ranging from lions in West Africa to orchids in Asia, a study showed today.

A Public Service Ministry employee embroiled in a scandal over the attempted transfer of state vehicles yesterday proclaimed his innocence and the former Minister, Dr Jennifer Westford, who is at the centre of the probe, has been advised by the PPP to take a certain “course of action”.

Alanzo Greaves (Roraima Bikers) gained confidence with his winning performances during the last two races of his six-week stint on the US racing circuit; confidence that he will put to use in aiming for the National Road Race Championship this weekend.

A man who was sentenced to 76 years imprisonment was found hanging in a cell on Sunday by wardens at the New Amsterdam Prison.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The Russian government ordered 30 billion roubles ($560 million) in cuts in spending on the 2018 World Cup yesterday but said the construction of stadiums would not be affected.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon at the University of California Los Angeles yesterday, college law enforcement authorities said.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that several persons and businesses found in breach of anti-littering regulations have been served notices to attend court.

Dear Editor,   M Maxwell’s letter of June 2 in Stabroek News, captioned ‘The Granger presidency has signalled a troubling inclination to authoritarianism’ states that at this time in our history a national cadet corps programme is not appropriate.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s parliamentary election will be held on Dec 6, authorities announced yesterday, ending lengthy speculation over the date for a vote that surveys showed was likely to punish the ruling socialists.

Politikles

The Patterson-Belles library was opened on Saturday at the Pattensen Community Centre in B Field Sophia.

Dear Editor,   The deep faith in our national motto One People, One Nation, One Destiny rests on a core belief system.

During the course of the past week Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge finally got around to setting up the new political administration’s stall as far as foreign policy is concerned.

President David Granger (centre) along with General Manager of China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd.