Daily Archive: Sunday, July 19, 2015

President David Granger attended a 70th birthday celebration hosted by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR).

At about 1430h. today, the police say that miner Clint Gunput, 25 years, of Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, WBD, was attacked by two men armed with knives as he exited a mini-bus on the Pouderoyen Public Road in an apparent attempt to rob him.

Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 0200h.

At about 0010h. today, the police say that Leroy Moore, 21 years, of Caneville Avenue, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was at a Bar at Soesdyke, EBD, when he became involved in an argument with a group of men during which he was stabbed about his body.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The franchise owners of Indian Premier League (IPL) teams Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings were suspended for two years by the Indian cricket board today for their role in an illegal betting scandal that erupted in 2013.

Ballistic tests linked an illegal gun recently discovered at a Georgetown house to the Courtney Crum-Ewing murder scene and the suspect now being questioned is believed to be the trigger man.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj Home to approximately 250 people, Supply, East Bank Demerara is a beautiful, little multi-cultural village.

The homes of many persons remained inundated with stagnant floodwater yesterday along the East Coast of Demerara, especially at Buxton, where livestock farmers appealed for relief to save their animals and long-term solutions to their increasingly familiar plight.

Louis Berger International Inc, a New-Jersey-based construction management company that won contracts here, will pay a US$17.1 million criminal fine to resolve charges that it bribed officials to win government contracts abroad, the US Justice Department said on Friday, according to Reuters.

Guyana is among several countries at risk of a government external debt crisis, according to a report released this month by UK-based non-governmental movement Jubilee Debt Campaign.

Warning of chaos and the disruption of integration if established borders are violated, President David Granger on Friday in his address to South American Presidents at the 48th Mercosur Summit said that the continent must be a “zone of peace” for it to progress.

The police are “wrapping up” their investigations into the activities of a criminal gang based at Craig, East Bank Demerara, whose alleged leader was recently killed during a shootout with police and several members detained, and will soon be seeking legal advice, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday.

The crash of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft while on a shuttle from Olive Creek to Imbaimadai on January 18, 2014, which caused the deaths of Canadian pilot Captain Blake Slater and Guyanese cargo handler Dwayne Jacobs has officially been deemed the likely result of engine failure.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) can continue to operate indefinitely, according to engineer Joseph Holder, a former project manager for the bridge including during its construction.

Ideal Autos Inc has launched a Hyundai new passenger and commercial vehicles dealership which is set to open at the beginning of next month at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Region Ten Councillor Lawrence Hackett has expressed the opinion that Region Ten should be in a position to provide assistance to persons affected by coastal flooding but Regional Chairman Rennis Morian says the region is unable to do so.

New Regional Chairman of Region Ten Rennis Morian has suggested that the Guyana Teachers Union and the education committees of all ten Regional Democratic Councils should petition the Minister of Finance for $400 million to be made available to teachers to acquire their own homes.

ATHENS (Reuters) – The Greek government ordered banks to open tomorrow, three weeks after they were shut down to prevent the system collapsing under a flood of withdrawals, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looked to the start of new bailout talks next week.

Veteran member of the Region Ten Democratic Council, Charles Sampson, refused to accept the diary that was distributed to the newly inaugurated members of the council at their first meeting on Thursday.

I have known Vibert Cambridge for more than 40 years, going back to 1970 in the We Place nightclub home of the Tradewinds in Toronto.

More than 100 children aged six to nine years old were exposed to learning about animals and their habitat, craft-making, fitness and fun while sharpening up on their biblical knowledge during the first ever Luminous Youth Federation Adventurer Camp, which was held from July 10 – 12 at the West Demerara Secondary School.

Interesting: a new world ranking shows that many Latin American countries are way ahead of China and India in creativity, and suggests that — if they improve their education and technology standards — they could be among the world’s most competitive economies.

ROME (Reuters) – Italy arrested three Egyptian men who are suspected to have piloted a boat carrying more than 300 migrants to Italy from Egypt, including a 10-year-old Syrian girl whose father said she died during the sea crossing, according to Italian media.

DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday the nuclear deal with world powers did not signal any wider shift in Iran’s relationship with Washington or its policies in the Middle East.

Submersible The change of government and the aggression shown by Venezuela towards Guyana have brought the PetroCaribe energy agreement into sharp focus.

A 63-year-old man of Queenstown Village, Essequibo Coast was yesterday struck by a car and killed while he was walking along the Public Road in the village.

Kieron Pollard held his nerve during the final over to take the Barbados Tridents to a comfortable 14-run win over the Guyana Amazon Warriors in match 27 of the Hero CPL T20 tournament played at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence last evening.

Introduction The Third International Conference on Financing for Development has just concluded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13 to 16 July.

Patients at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation were treated to a moment of high drama when a prisoner being transported for treatment tried to make a run for it.

Squash players from the defending overall team champion Guyana made a strong start for singles honours on the opening day of the 33rd Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) championships in Barbados yesterday In the boys U19 singles, Nyron Joseph defeated Sean Murphy of the Cayman Islands 11-13, 11-3, 11-8 11-6 while Alec Melville defeated James Lanser of Trinidad and Tobago 11-7, 11-6, 11-3.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma was admitted to hospital yesterday for a scheduled procedure to remove gallstones and was expected to be discharged Sunday, the presidency said.

A 58-year-old man is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after an alleged drunk driver struck him down on Friday.

It is only fair that the traditional honeymoon period of three months of the new APNU+AFC administration be exhausted before its performance is assessed.

Climate change is an issue on which the Caribbean has every reason to have its voice heard and be taken very seriously.

Following their arrival on local shores yesterday, the provisional Lady Jaguars squad will officially commence training today for their upcoming for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Olympic Qualifier tournament.

Dear Editor, In the few years since my return, this was the highest I have seen the floodwaters.

The resident students of President’s College now have an alternative means of electricity supply for lights during power outages.

There is an entry in my father’s diary which moved me deeply when I read it after he died.

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.

Dear Editor, With reference to the editorial ‘Forgetting Srebrenica,’ published in Stabroek News on July 18, 2015, I would like to clarify some misunderstandings and misconceptions and tell the truth on the topic.

Ground meat – beef, veal, lamb, pork, chicken or turkey – are perfect meal stretchers.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel defeated St.Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 18 runs by the Duckworth Lewis method to improve their standings in the rain affected 28th match of the Caribbean Premier League here yesterday Chasing a revised target of 142 for victory, Patriots stumbled to 123 for seven from 14 overs after Red Steel posted 134 for five from the same number of overs in a match truncated because of two major rain delays.

Dear Editor, Out of curiosity I visited a cruise ship office in Georgetown that’s hiring and is also advertising in a daily newspaper.

Fitness fans get ready, the highly anticipated Supligen Mr. Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Show will be staged tonight at the Park Vue Hotel, Farm, E.B.D.

A number of Guyanese plays that began to develop after 1981 belonged to the period of the popularisation of drama in Guyana and the rise of a new, popular and populous audience for theatre.

CASTELFRANCO VENETO, ITALY (Reuters) – Clusters of silkworms munch on piles of locally-grown mulberry leaves in a white marquee in Italy’s northern Veneto region.

General considerations By now, it must be clear how susceptible to infection ears are.

Problems are never far away in West Indies cricket; they have come in profusion for two decades now.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News dated July 13, published a letter captioned ‘Rules should be framed by NIS to govern workers in the mining industry.’

LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia repelled a brief England fightback led by Alastair Cook and Ben Stokes to remain firmly in control of the second Ashes test on the third day at Lord’s yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Observer) — Twenty-one children were detained by the police during a series of operations in the St Andrew South Police Division between late Friday and early yesterday.

Dear Editor,   It is often said that writers, especially those who write with a critical eye, are never without enemies, for in an effort to point out and rectify wrongs, those guilty of irregularities and improprieties will be hurting and bitter.

Some time in the fourth century BC, Sun Tzu wrote the Chinese classic The Art of War which has survived.

LISBON (Reuters) – In the past year, Lisbon’s 19th-century riverside market has soared from dilapidated oblivion to a top attraction on a zesty blend of fine food, drinks, arts and hip shopping – a concept its owners now plan to replicate in London and New York.

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Weeks after she lost her reputed husband in a mining pit accident, a young mother faced added hardship when her mother-in-law forcefully removed her from the house she called home even as she fights to get some form of compensation from her husband’s employer.

After receiving a few phone calls on mulch and wood chips I decided to write on the subject.

In a letter to this newspaper which was published last Wednesday, former Attorney General Anil Nandlall wrote that a “bold and aggressive response by the police is needed at this point in time.”

MONTEGO BAY, St James (Observer) — Security Minister Peter Bunting rushed to St James on Friday for a hastily arranged tour following a bloody 24 hours in the crime-hit parish during which six people were shot and killed.

Dear Editor, On a hot March morning I was driving along Avenue of the Republic, approaching Robb Street, when I saw a man pulling a dog down the street.

MENDE, France, (Reuters) – British journeyman Stephen Cummings earned South African team MTN-Qhubeka a landmark victory on Mandela Day when he spoiled a French party to take a surprise win in the 14th stage of the Tour de France yesterday.

Dr Chloe Angyal is Senior Columnist at Feministing.com and a facilitator at The OpEd Project.