Daily Archive: Friday, July 17, 2015

(CPL) The Guyana Amazon Warriors moved into 2nd place in the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League table with a thrilling victory over the St Lucia Zouks on their home ground at Providence.

Over the past  seven days , a high-level ministerial team visited Region Nine where they met and interacted with residents from about 45 villages, GINA said.

An early morning tour by Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr.

Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence along with a team from her Ministry continues to reach out to persons affected by the recent rainfall, a release from GINA said.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health Leslie Cadogan was yesterday instructed to proceed on accumulated leave of 193 days from Monday, July 20th to enable significant reforms particularly in light of growing concerns over the procurement and distribution of drugs.

After careful consideration, a decision was taken to disband the Berbice Anti Smuggling Squad (BASS), a release from the GRA said this afternoon.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb has arrived in the United States to face criminal charges as part of the global soccer corruption scandal, a U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner and cabinet nominee who later went to prison for tax evasion and lying to White House officials, was sued on Wednesday by a woman who claimed she helped him write his recent memoir and was not credited or paid for it.

The Ministry of the Presidency (MOP) has decided to conduct an investigation into the financial arrangements of the E-Governance Project, a statement from the ministry said this morning.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – All-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has become the second Pakistan cricketer to be banned from bowling for 12 months today after his action was found to be illegal by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the second time since November.

President David Granger yesterday convened a Cabinet meeting at 4 am to address severe rain-fuelled flooding which surged through the city and several parts of the coast and by last night the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) was reporting that normalcy was being returned gradually to some areas.

Floodwater was still receding from the city last evening after a heavy overnight downpour that left some areas like flood-prone Albouystown swamped and some storeowners bailing water from their businesses.

Residents of several villages along the East Coast were left devastated yesterday following the flooding caused by sudden and intense rainfall that started on Wednesday afternoon.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure yesterday dispatched a team to assess the Guyana Revenue Authority head office on Camp Street after a tremor caused cracks in several parts of the building.

As police continue their investigations into the activities of a criminal gang based at Craig, East Bank Demerara, the High Court yesterday granted the police more time to keep the almost one dozen men they arrested in custody.

Residents on the West Coast of Demerara are counting their losses after floodwaters severely damaged items from their homes, business places and kitchen gardens early yesterday morning.

While emphasising zero tolerance for corruption in the police force, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud on Wednesday said once police ranks are charged with certain crimes, they will lose their jobs.

A vendor was stabbed to death, while her husband was wounded when they were attacked by a former neighbour at their Sophia home on Wednesday night.

History was made on Wednesday night when the Ogle Airport received its first regional night flight after LIAT’s ATR42 made a flawless touchdown at 21.54 hrs with 17 passengers aboard from Trinidad & Tobago.

A bandit is suspected to have been shot by his accomplice last evening while they were carrying out an armed robbery at a New Amsterdam supermarket.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan met on Wednesday with the executive of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on the upcoming national budget and committed to consider a proposal for a stimulus to boost the economy.

The hearing of the private charge against former president Bharrat Jagdeo filed by attorney Christopher Ram has been put on hold at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, due to the related proceedings pending in the High Court.

President David Granger celebrated his 70th birthday at Base Camp Ayanganna on Wednesday and received a gift of a 40-seater boat which will be used to transport children residing in the Pomeroon area to school.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan on Monday met with representatives from the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) to discuss security challenges in the mining sector and he announced afterward that there would be new criteria for the granting of gun licences to miners, including the payment of taxes.

(CPL) A sensational fifty from Darren Bravo (80*) set the platform for a crucial victory for bottom-of-the-table Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel against top-of-the-table Barbados Tridents last night in Trinidad.

Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has dismissed suggestions that crime has “spiralled out of control” since the May 11th elections, while saying that statistics don’t support the claims.

The Bureau of Statistics yesterday announced that its self-imposed deadline for completion of the detailed Census analysis could not be met and it cited staffing issues as one of the challenges.

While floodwater left many residents reeling yesterday, it proved to be a lifeline for an Industry, East Coast Demerara family whose home was saved from a fire.

NEW YORK/ZURICH, (Reuters) – A sports marketing executive who was indicted along with 13 other people in a U.S.

The frequency of mining accidents that often result in loss of life in the gold mining sector is an extension of a “long-standing pattern of lawlessness and indifference to the value of human life” that obtains in the gold-mining industry, a source close the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has told Stabroek Business.

Denesh Ramdin, the Guyana Amazon Warriors skipper said the upcoming matches are a must win for the local franchise, as they are expected to play their first game at home this evening in this year’s Hero CPL T20 tourney, against the St Lucia Zouks at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Despite submitting a complaint more than three weeks ago against St.

Prior to Minister Noel Holder’s intervention earlier this week to announce that the situation with regard to Guyana’s rice exports to neighbouring Venezuela was not as dire as had been initially thought, rice farmers, millers and the populace as a whole would have experienced some heart-stopping moments in the matter of the fate of huge volumes of rice that had already been consigned to Venezuela.

Dear Editor, My weather station in Lamaha Gardens, Georgetown recorded 200 mm of rain for the calendar day, midnight to midnight, July 15, 2015.

The grand finale of the inaugural NPG Packaging First Division Basketball tourney between Canje Knights and Smithfield Rockers has been rescheduled to Sunday July 26th at the Vryman’s Erven Basketball Court.

The management of the local Franchise, Guyana Amazon Warriors has put in place a “ticket exchange programme” for fans who had purchased tickets for Wednesday’s rained-out game to claim tickets for the Amazon Warriors next encounter today against the St Lucia Zouks.

By Marilyn Collins Agriculture is a key sector in Guyana’s economy, accounting for approximately 32% of GDP, 30% of employment, and 40% of export earnings.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chris Rogers and Steve Smith plundered superb centuries to lead Australia to a commanding 337 for one on the first day of the second Ashes test against England at Lord’s yesterday.

Tourism can be described as local or international travel for the purpose of recreation, leisure, religious, cultural, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, July 14, the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), on its website (http://www.hwls.edu.tt/

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaica is tying-up loose ends on its move to repurchase US$2 billion of PetroCaribe debt from Venezuela after bond purchasers signalled their willingness to lend the Simpson Miller administration around US$1.5 billion, at sufficiently low rates, to make the deal viable, several sources have told Wednesday Business.

Dear Editor, I have noticed that there is a massive construction presently going on immediately north of the Chinese Embassy.

ST ANDREWS, Scotland, (Reuters) – Dustin Johnson sounded an ominous warning to grand slam-chasing Jordan Spieth by outmuscling the youngster to power his way to the top of the leaderboard in the British Open first round yesterday.

ZURICH/MIAMI, (Reuters) – Swiss authorities extradited to the United States the first of seven current and former FIFA officials arrested in a corruption investigation while world soccer’s governing body hired a New York-based crisis communications firm to help handle multinational probes and try to restore its tarnished image.

In an effort to continue their tradition of youth development, Tucville giants Fruta Conquerors will be staging their 8th Annual Football Summer Camp during the month of August at the entity’s club house at the Tucville Community ground.

The Minister of Agriculture would do well to seek to determine with due haste the current status of the Guyana/Trinidad and Tobago land-for-farming deal that may have been struck over two years ago and under which private investors from the twin-island republic were to be allocated large tracts of land here to invest in mega farms.

Dear Editor, Before the election I heard a senior member of this new government say on national TV that the Vreed-en-Hoop-Georgetown crossing is a disgrace and not fit for humans.

Texila American University (TAU) which was launched in Guyana in 2010 and has now established campuses at the Critchlow Labour College in Georgetown and at Goedverwagting on the East Coast Demerara, is to set up a 150-bed hospital as one of the facilities at its third campus currently under construction at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board said yesterday it would no longer pursue disciplinary action against superstar opener Chris Gayle for his criticism of selectors last January.

Dear Editor, Every day we have reports of robbery and assaults, shootings and even murders.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic has been charged with trespassing and resisting arrest following complaints over a noisy penthouse party at a Miami Beach hotel, police said yesterday.

Commercial ties between Guyana and Suriname are on the threshold of being further strengthened as a well-known local entrepreneur prepares for tomorrow’s opening in Georgetown of a franchise of one of Paramaribo’s biggest and most successful private sector enterprises.

Dear Editor, I have read that the GuySuCo is tendering a 15 year plan for the sugar industry, which must be subsidized, and giving the reasons for it failures.

(Trinidad Express) Four members of a family were found dead at their house at Chatham, Cedros early yesterday.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., (Reuters) – Four Marines were killed yesterday by a gunman who opened fire at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, before being fatally shot in an attack officials called a brazen, brutal act of domestic terrorism.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba is prepared to break with the contentious past and peacefully coexist with the United States, Cuban President Raul Castro said on Wednesday as the two former adversaries are set to restore diplomatic ties.

Recent exchanges in the print media on aspects of “public information,” our right to know, to access facts and stats and to familiarize ourselves much more with the role and responsibilities of our Commissioner of Information – himself a Master of Many Unfamiliar Words – have motivated me to re-visit this issue, briefly.

Dear Editor, Once again, for the third successive year my telephone (330-2359) is not working.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 624’s trading results showed consideration of $1,484,945 from 1,463 shares traded in 2 transactions as compared to session 623’s trading results, which showed consideration of $16,613,806 from 267,605 shares traded in 24 transactions.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, CMC – Keron Cummings scored twice while Yohance Marshall produced a dramatic injury-time goal, as Trinidad and Tobago came from behind to snatch a share of the points in an eight-goal thriller against Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Cup here Wednesday night.

At thirty, Abbigale Loncke is the co-proprietor of a developing enterprise born out of a combination of her own entrepreneurial disposition and what she believes is a fast-growing demand for a particular range of services in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I read with utter dismay the recent report that the Venezuelan authorities may issue ID cards to Essequibians as part of their claim to Guyana’s territory.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Brazil have opened a formal inquiry into whether former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva improperly used his connections overseas to benefit Latin America’s largest engineering firm, Odebrecht SA, a spokeswoman said yesterday.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 16, 2015 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reu-ters) – Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes was found guilty yesterday of multiple counts of first degree murder, a verdict that enables prosecutors to seek the death penalty for the former graduate student who killed 12 people and wounded 70 at a midnight premiere of a Batman film in 2012.

PLATEAU DE BEILLE, France, (Reuters) – Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez won the 12th stage of the Tour de France, a gruelling trek in the Pyrenees as Chris Froome retained the overall lead after holding off his rivals on the final climb yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s JSW Group, a $11 billion conglomerate with interests ranging from steel to power, is shelving plans to buy a cricket team in the highly profitable Indian Premier League, blaming the “negative aura” of the corruption-hit competition.

David Patterson must be the most unfortunate of ministers. There he was, blessed with that all-important attribute which is so rarely found among members of Guyana’s governing classes ‒ common sense ‒ setting up task forces, getting pumps mended, desilting canals and generally cleaning up Georgetown, when we were visited by yet another pluvial inundation.

As Linden seeks to wean itself off what appears to have become a permanent image as a “mining community,” next weekend’s River Front Festival marks the latest initiative to send a message to the rest of the country that the town offers far more than memories of a once thriving bauxite industry.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo pledged on Wednesday to punish any investigators found to have broken the law by using unauthorized bugs or leaking documents to the press while probing corruption at state-run oil firm Petrobras.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Europe moved to re-open funding to Greece’s stricken economy yesterday after the parliament in Athens approved a new bailout programme in a fractious vote that left the government without a majority.

Robb and Camp streets, one of the busiest junctions in the nation’s capital has now – at least for the time being – become a considerable eyesore.

Dear Editor, In Trinidad, neither major party (political force) – the ruling Peoples Partnership or United National Congress and opposition PNM ‒ enjoys a significant advantage over the other in terms of popular political support or seats projected to win, according to the findings of an ongoing tracking opinion poll being conducted by the North American Caribbean Teachers Associa-tion.