Daily Archive: Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) as part of its 176th anniversary, yesterday morning staged a grand route march that saw participation from all arms of the force.

CARICOM Heads of State and Government reaffirmed the longstanding, deep and wide-ranging friendship between CARICOM and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

A team of police ranks has been dispatched to Chinese Creek, Puruni, to conduct investigations into a report that at about 1800h.

At about 0010h. today, the police say that businessman Ganesh Ramlall, 48 years, of La Jalousie, WCD, had just returned home and gone to use the outside bathroom when he was confronted by four men who shot him about his body and took away his licensed firearm, jewellery and a wallet and escaped.

The new Chairman of CARICOM, Prime Minister of Barbados Freundel Stuart, announced last evening, that the Caribbean Community stands in solidarity with Guyana as it relates to a bitter row with Venezuela over a May 26th, 2015 maritime decree.

Limits will have to be placed on how much of Guyana’s resources one person or one company can access, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman, who has vowed to ensure transparency in the mining sector.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj Amid towering coconut and other palms and many other beautiful trees is a tiny village called Relief, nestled between villages also with odd names such as Support and Land of Canaan.

While questions linger over how US$12 million worth of cocaine stashed in a frozen shrimp shipment managed to get by customs and law enforcement here and make it to the United States, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said the new government will be taking a serious approach to drug trafficking.

Auto dealer Deokarran ‘Ram’ Sanasie, the husband of slain businesswoman Patricia Sanasie is in custody assisting with the investigation into his wife’s murder.

A Skeldon man is dead and three people are in custody including a member of the Berbice anti-Smuggling squad (BASS) following a shooting on the Corentyne yesterday.

Armed bandits on Friday invaded a Bush Lot, Corentyne house and held up four persons, after which they took away a quantity of cash and jewellery.

A mentally unstable man was yesterday afternoon shot dead by police at Strathavon, Cane Grove Mahaica shortly after he threatened a woman with a cutlass and damaged a motorcar.

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman says that it is not inappropriate for him – the Speaker of the National Assembly in the Tenth Parliament – to return as a Member of Parliament for this session.

Construction is continuing at the Celina Atlantic Resort, Kitty despite an oral and written warning from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to stop.

Kamwata Secondary dismantled Wauna Secondary by a 5-1 margin when the Region #1 Zone of the 5th edition of the Digicel Secondary Schools Football Championship commenced yesterday at the Kumaka Ground in Moruca.

(Conclusion)   Less tension Member countries of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are required to avoid the use of restrictive practices that interfere with or undermine international trade.

Two months after a biker was hit down on Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and subsequently died, his family members are keenly awaiting word on the fate of the driver of the vehicle.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – St Lucia Zouks produced an aggressive batting display to post the tournament’s highest score this season, as they gained revenge over Barbados Tridents with a 30-run victory in the Caribbean Premier League here Friday night.

The police on Friday arrested two men in connection with recent robberies which involve taxi drivers and charges will be laid shortly.

Mrs Jean Smith of Station Street, Kitty, recently celebrated her 100th birthday anniversary in Toronto Canada.

It is a puzzle that has gone unsolved for a couple of decades.

Coincidences can be an intriguing part of life. For the past two weeks, for example, I had been in a back-and-forth with a publisher, Desmond Roberts, of the Guyana Diaspora Times magazine, produced electronically in New York.

(Barbados Nation) – The Government of Panama wants to strengthen its relations with Caricom and to achieve “new and better levels of understanding and cooperation.”

Introduction Last week I put forward the hypothesis that a paradigm shift is underway in international best practice in the area of financing for development.

Mark McDonald and Jordan Beaton yesterday qualified for the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) under-18 final at the end of two tough matches at the bank’s recreational facility at Bel Air.

A father who is now tasked with taking care of his children after their mother, Carol Bollers, died last month at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) is determined to get answers and justice and has started taking the necessary steps although he has not yet been able to obtain the post-mortem examination results.

Since its establishment some 24 years ago, Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated (FFP) has been responsible for building more than 3,100 housing units, distributing 194 containers of food, medicine and other essentials, and the sponsorship of more than 236 orphans.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – St Kitts and Nevis Patriots stunned 2013 champions, Jamaica Tallawahs, by 119 runs to grab their first home win of this season’s Caribbean Premier League here yesterday.

The selection of Dr Bharrat Jagdeo by the Central Committee of the PPP as its nominee for Opposition Leader seals that party’s fate in opposition for decades to come, unless the APNU+AFC coalition underperforms or unravels.

In the four years since the opening of the Haags Bosch landfill, the Communities Ministry says site manager BK International has failed to fulfil its contract, which has resulted in a significant portion of incomplete works and ongoing payment issues.

The Guyana Police Force has received the results for some of the DNA samples sent to Brazil last year February as part of an agreement between the two countries and Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has informed that a timely delivery was affected by an issue with the lab.

What’s most worrisome about Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s xenophobic remarks about Mexicans is not that he actually made them, but the fact that they seem to have helped him among Repub-lican voters nationwide.

We are fortunate in Guyana that even in the worst times of party paramountcy the full ruthlessness of power was never exercised wholesale.

A match-winning exhibition of off-spin bowling by Plaffiana Millington who snared a 6-3, helped Berbice to a comprehensive 10-wicket whipping of Essequibo as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior female inter-county 50-over tournament bowled off yesterday.

Cassia fistula, commonly called Golden Shower Tree or Indian Laburnum, as the name suggests, originated in the Indian sub-continent and South-East Asia.

(Barbados Nation) – President of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC) Ramesh Dookhoo has warned Caribbean governments about massive foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, which, if they fail, have the potential to pull the economy down with them.

Artists Stanley Greaves and Akima McPherson, in this their fourth Conversation, examine Gary Thomas’s sculpture, Retrogression.

A little over a week ago at least 38 holidaymakers died on a beach in Tunisia, and many more were injured in an appalling terrorist attack aimed at killing visitors and damaging terminally that country’s tourism industry.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel held their nerve to win a nail-biter, beating Guyana Amazon Warriors by three wickets with a ball to spare, in a low-scoring second game of a Caribbean Premier League double-header at Warner Park yesterday.

National Drainage and Irrigation Authority CEO Lionel Wordsworth said the testing of the Northern Relief Channel of the Hope-Dochfour outlet was successful and had reduced water levels in the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).

Chops and steaks are quick-cooking cuts of meat, and they are ideal for the stovetop or a grill.

Orville Hinds out rode a field of Guyana’s premier wheelsmen to cart off the spoils of the feature 35-lap event of the fifth Malta Supreme sponsored nine-race programme at the National Park yesterday.

St. Rose’s High, Kwakwani Secondary, President’s College and New Amsterdam Multilateral clinched respective divisional titles when the Conference Tourney in the YBG National Schools Basketball Festival concluded on Friday.

General considerations Quite unlike the eye, which we have already established is not the dog’s most important organ, the ear is of great value.

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

For many persons born in Guyana within the last three decades, the concept of riding in a big yellow bus is a foreign one and if you were to ask if they knew about the blue buses that traversed the rural routes, they would stare at you agog.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece votes today on whether to accept more austerity in exchange for international aid, in a high-stakes referendum likely to determine whether it leaves the euro-currency area after seven years of economic pain.

Garber to fellow policeman: “You won’t believe this.” Policeman: “You know me.

Last week we analysed the rise of two productions in the Guyanese popular theatre in the context of trends that have developed in the Caribbean region and in Guyana.

Dear Editor,   I used to routinely go home at around 4.30 in the morning on weekends when I was in my 20s and early 30s.

Last Friday, there was a launching of my book entitled “Public Accountability at the Crossroads: the Guyana Experience” under the auspices of the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.

A view of Lethem from the air

(Barbados Nation) – The latest island to offer citizenship through investment believes it is a good tool to help the islands.

(Reuters) – Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed his third five-wicket haul of the series but Sri Lanka took the upper hand on day two of the third and final test by restricting the visitors to 209 for nine at Pallekele yesterday.

With the end of the school year on Friday, the children of St Lawrence and the other villages following it, along the East Bank of the Essequibo River, will have a two-month respite from traversing the deplorable main access road.

HONG KONG/MANILA (Reuters) – China’s claims to the disputed South China Sea will come under international legal scrutiny for the first time this week, but while Beijing has officially refused to take part in the case filed by the Philippines at a UN tribunal, it has made its presence felt.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis leaves Rome today for his first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America, a “homecoming” to a continent where he will champion the rights of the poor and of the planet.

Dear Editor, I totally agree with the comment made by learned friend, Jonas MF Coddett when he stated in a letter to the Stabroek News on Saturday July 4, “if the positions are not advertised then prominent lawyers overseas would not know of the vacancies to be filled.”

Fathers’ day can be any day: These fathers whose toddlers attend Kiskadee Kids and Blue Sackie Kids Playschool and Daycare demonstrated that by taking the time out to go fishing with their sons recently while the mommies stayed home.

By Karen Davis Almost unnoticed last Christmas Day, one of Guyana’s most accomplished musicians, Joyce Ferdinand-Lalljie (later Saunders) died in Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

(Reuters) – South Africa begin their build-up to next year’s Twenty20 World Cup when they take on Bangladesh in the first match of a two-game series today.

By Lauren Wolfe  (Reuters) More than 3,000 miles away from her home in Nigeria, a woman who lost her father in a terror attack sat slumped in her seat.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, visited 19 cheese masters for four hours on Friday in a rare trip outside his Havana home, official media reported yesterday.

Sunday Cartoon

President David Granger’s address to the Heads at the opening of the Caricom summit in Barbados last week was a tour de force.