Daily Archive: Saturday, July 4, 2015

Notes 1 – Interim Results 2 – Prospective Dividends 3 – Shows year-end EPS but Interim Dividend EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

At about 1500h. today, the police say that ranks of the Cane Grove Police Station responded to reports received that Junior Gulliver, 30 years, of Strathavon, ECD, who is reported to be mentally unstable, was threatening a woman with a cutlass at Strathavon.

Reuters) – Suspended FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb, already facing charges in soccer’s global bribery scandal, has now been charged in a healthcare fraud case in his native Cayman Islands, local media reported on Friday.

Eleven corneal transplants were done this week at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation by a team of experts from the US-based Subraj Foundation.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 619’s trading results showed consideration of $17,295,460 from 138,479 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 618’s trading results, which showed consideration of $7,203,570 from 40,636 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Continuing investigations into a number of recent armed robberies in which taxi-drivers have been held up and their motor vehicles taken away, the police say they arrested two men yesterday who have been so far positively identified as the perpetrators of two of the robberies, involving the use of firearms, and an attempted robbery involving the use of knives.

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Charles Caesar, 40 years, of Line Path, Skeldon, who was found at about 0055h.

At about 2020h. last night, the police say that four men armed with firearms entered a house at Bush Lot, Corentyne, and held up the occupants Valerie Williams, Rose Raphael, Bibi December and Shameer December and took away a total of $100,000.00 and a quantity of jewellery.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia’s injury-plagued paceman Ryan Harris announced his immediate retirement from all forms of cricket today dealing a major setback to his team’s defence of the Ashes starting in England next week.

While pointing out that the scourge of heavy drinking is taking a toll on the country’s economy, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said the 2AM curfew for bars across the country will be enforced from this weekend.

Controversial Town Clerk Carol Sooba was yesterday dismissed by the Minister of Communities after a tumultuous three-year tenure that saw her in almost weekly confrontations with the city council and its mayor.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was not in attendance at the Caricom Heads of Government Summit yesterday, the Barbados Nation reported.

Government will be pushing for logging and other companies operating here to do value-added processing locally and companies that do not fulfill their commitments would have to shape up or ship out, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman says.

After four hours of deliberation, a jury last night found both Anthony de Paul Hope and his co-accused Ralph Tyndall guilty of murdering Colleen Forrester, whose body was found in a septic tank of a William Street, Campbellville house for which she was the caretaker.

A two-day working session on finalising a national policy on youth empowerment that opened yesterday also hopes to yield a strategic plan to improve the conditions of young people over the next five years.

ExxonMobil officials have informed government that the company is committed to continuing exploration in the Stabroek Block and will be deploying additional resources there, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said on Wednesday.

The Federation of Inde-pendent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) yesterday said that despite the constraints faced by law enforcement, greater ef-forts can be made to contain, reduce and eventually stamp out violent crime and it stands ready to assist in these pursuits.

As part of a larger plan to outfit the police with needed resources to ensure a safe Guyana, 11 new vehicles were yesterday handed over and according to Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, the force will receive 16 more very shortly.

Investigators are making “earnest efforts” to capture two remaining suspects in the robbery and murder of rice farmer Hardat Kissoon, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

Sixty-nine graduates from the Hinterland Scholarship Programme on Thursday celebrated their success at a small graduation ceremony held at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre.

Minister of State within the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon yesterday met with Project Manager of the controversial E-Governance Project Alexei Ramotar.

Each morning, countless persons wake up and immediately check their phones.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) has re-elected co-founder Shaun McGrath to serve a second term as president.

A local footballer was yesterday released on bail on an attempted murder charge after his lawyer told a city court that there was no way he could have committed the crime since he was not in the country at the time.

One of two men found with almost half a kilo of cannabis was yesterday sentenced to serve three years in jail after he admitted that the drug was his.

Simon Primo, who was charged late last year with burglarising a Guyana Power and Light Inc.

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) chairman of selectors Clive Lloyd yesterday encouraged the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) players who will be representing Guyana at the upcoming Regional youth tournaments to be proactive and diligent throughout their journey.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana Amazon Warriors moved off the bottom of the standings while condemning St Kitts and Nevis Patriots to their third defeat, by strolling to an effortless seven-wicket victory in the Caribbean Premier League here last evening.

A miner was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge that he severely chopped his ex-wife’s current beau, who has been left hospitalised.

With only two weeks remaining it is almost show time for the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation’s flagship event the Senior National Championships.

After centering its attention on international tournaments for the first half of the year the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will now shift its focus to local competitions.

Tucville Secondary overcame New Campbellville Secondary 4-2 when the fifth edition of the Digicel Secondary Schools football championships continued yesterday at the Tucville ground.

In excess of 20 teams have registered for tomorrow’s pre CARICOM relay championships to be staged in the National Park from 16:00hrs.

Sonia Noel has begun to expand her global reach, with her fashion lines now available at the Design Faze Boutique, a chic women’s specialty shop at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, Georgia.

Payless Variety Store yesterday donated a quantity of tracksuits and a number of footballs to the Order and Discipline Football Club of the National Park.

Dear Editor, The European Union welcomes Suriname’s recent ratification of a new penal code which includes abolition of the death penalty.

The six teenagers vying for the Miss Guyana Talented Teen crown on July 18 showed their mettle in ballroom and freestyle dancing on Sunday last at the Pegasus Hotel where Simpli Royal hosted its Cotillion, an annual precursor to the pageant and now a much anticipated event.

Following more than six months of inactivity the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will be staging its first tournament for the year.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter from one Carlton Beckles giving the impression that the RDC Council of Region 9 is about to move a no-confidence motion against acting REO Mr Carl Parker.

Often, when people are asked ‘Who are you?’ they respond by giving their names.

LAHORE, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Mohammad Irfan has recovered from a hip injury and was named in Pakistan’s one-day squad yesterday for the five-match series in Sri Lanka later this month.

Dear Editor, Last week there was a letter from Rev Gideon Cecil raising issues about General Register Office (GRO) certificates.

Dear Editor, It would appear that an increasing number of persons keep expressing their apprehensions about the exponential growth of challenges with which the new administration is faced at this critical juncture in the country’s history.

LONDON, (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum smashed the second-highest Twenty20 score of all time when he hit a typically belligerent 158 not out in 64 balls for Birmingham against Derbyshire yesterday.

Hi Everyone, When you eat a fried pork chop, you can’t help feeling naughty.

(Reuters)-Dimuth Karunaratne’s second test century lifted Sri Lanka to 272 for eight against Pakistan after Yasir Shah exposed their frailties against leg-spin on the opening day of the series-deciding third and final test in Pallekele yesterday.

Dear Editor, I have been involved in various groups and organisations for all of my adult life.

TORONTO/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – An eyebrow-raising disclosure in the U.S. indictment of FIFA officials is that a representative of a Caribbean bank made it easy for one allegedly illegal transaction to be done by flying to New York to personally collect a check and then returned to deposit it in an account in the Bahamas.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The needle on the Wimbledon Richter scale sat poised and ready but Serena Williams dug deep into her battle-hardened playbook to ensure there was no earth-shuddering shock at the hands of scurrying Briton Heather Watson yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Gymnastics and mixed martial arts do not come naturally to Indian batsmen but former opener Gautam Gambhir, toiling in Perth to revive his international career, does not mind giving them a try if it helps get him back to the top.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter written by former Attorney General Mr Anil Nandlall in respect of President Granger’s insistence that the positions for Chancellor and Chief Justice be advertised before a decision on the respective appointments are taken (‘Why are we recruiting judges from outside Guyana.’

Dear Editor, Former President Ramotar cannot be seen, heard or noticed in the press since the recent elections, and now we are coming to the general understanding that he is not to be the leader of the opposition; the PPP has dumped him in favour of Mr Jagdeo, and it is now that we, the citizens of Guyana, can see that all along, Mr Ramotar was just a political puppet.

By Andrew Kendall There is a scene in the film Inside Out which sees a trio of characters entering a danger zone called ‘Abstract Thought’.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets yesterday in rival rallies that laid bare the deep divide heading into a referendum that may decide the country’s future in Europe’s single currency.

Far too often in the fashion industry we override certain developments and movements because fashion has this crazy partisan attitude attached to it.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia all-rounder James Faulkner has been charged with drink-driving by Greater Manchester Police, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Chinese stocks tumbled again yesterday, taking the week’s losses to more than 10 percent, as the securities regulator said it was investigating suspected market manipulation and announced a slew of measures aimed at heading off a full-blown crash.

Dear Editor, What a difference in the way America’s birthday was celebrated in Guyana this year as contrasted with last year at the reception hosted by the US Embassy.

Two newspaper cartoons from the United States neatly capture some of its current socio-political tensions.