Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes has laid down the law on workers’ rights.

The Disabled People’s Network of Berbice made a recent courtesy call on Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence.

After a huge investment here dating back to 1996, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) has poured its first gold bar.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. was named the world’s top-earning actor on Tuesday by Forbes, taking first place on a list that featured leading men from Bollywood as well as Hollywood for the first time.

(Trinidad Express) Ten charges, including that of murdering PC Sherman Maynard during a daring midday prison break in Port of Spain on July 24, were read to prison escapee Christopher “Monster” Selby when he appeared in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A judge threw out corruption charges against South African opposition firebrand Julius Malema today, a ruling hailed as a major victory by the vocal critic of President Jacob Zuma.

Three members of the Georgetown City Constabulary have been dismissed for becoming pregnant.

With GuySuCo’s production cost rising to close to US$0.40 per pound, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the sugar industry Vibert Parvatan says swift “corrective action” will need to be taken to reduce losses as they could prove catastrophic for the current planning to make the corporation viable.

A little boy is left hospitalized after he was knocked down by a speeding motorcycle yesterday afternoon.

The University of Guyana may be close to patenting an antibacterial treatment from passion fruit based on research conducted by Professor Raymond Jagessar of the Department of Chemistry.

A jury was yesterday empanelled before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow for the trial of Shameer Mohamed, called “Pipe,” who is accused of unlawfully killing Munrajie Amza, called “Sandra.”

A Cuban couple was yesterday fined $60,000 by a city magistrate after admitting to overstaying in Guyana.

Government is examining the possibility of setting up a court to deal with mining matters, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

The University of Guyana (UG) has appointed three members of its academic staff to the status of full professors.

The Ministry of Public Service’s Chief Personnel Officer Margaret Cummings was yesterday detained at police headquarters, Eve Leary and questioned about missing funds amounting to just over $127 million, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.

Following the savage murder of 77-year-old Danrasie ‘Carmen’ Ganesh, who was clubbed to death on Saturday at Montrose, police have released a photograph of the suspect in hopes of finding him.

Amanda Lam, one of the victims of the accident that left an elderly woman dead last Friday, last been discharged from the hospital although she is alleging that she was neglected during her admission.

Two weeks after being charged with carrying out a $17 million burglary, Nabadamingi Gobin found himself back in court accused of murder.

The Maritime Administra-tion Department (MARAD) has reported that all of the crew of the vessel Capt Saif, which capsized in the Waini River on Saturday evening, have been rescued and are safe.

New Chairman of Region Four Genevieve Allen, the only woman head of the 10 recently constituted Regional Democratic Councils, intends to make her region the “frontline” region.

Over three months after three men were charged with the murder of mines commission engineer Trevor Abrams and remanded to prison the preliminary inquiry into the matter has not yet commenced; it is scheduled to start on the next court date which was given as August 12.

A 37-year-old man was remanded to prison after facing a city magistrate on charges of being in possession of an illegal firearm and using threatening language Gregory Williams, 37, of Annai Village Central, North Rupununi was charged on Friday with being in possession of one 77 pistol without a licence and using threatening language towards Mark George on July 29.

Faizal Bacchus and Lennox Roberts who are charged with the murder of La Jalousie businessman Ganesh Ramlall appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday and had the start of the preliminary inquiry adjourned to September 25.

A youth is now nursing a wound to his neck after being chopped by a teenager on Friday.

The relatives of Mary Chappell who went missing in June have still not been able to locate the 16-year-old.

The PPP has called into question the government’s plans for the restructuring of the One Laptop per Family (OLPF) programme while rejecting Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s reference to the programme as a “massive fraud.”

Thirty-two boat operators on the Parika/Bartica service have joined 188 others on different routes who have benefited from basic first aid training this year.

EU Ambassador Robert Kopecky and Acting British High Commissioner Ron Rimmer have debriefed Minister of Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge on the outcome of the E3/EU+3 negotiations with Iran and the resulting Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

As the 2015/16 Professional Cricket League (PCL) Regional season looms closely, Coach and Manager of the defending champions, Guyana Jaguars yesterday bowled off a three-day training session at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

National 400m record holder, Winston George and a female track and field athlete yet to be named will represent Guyana at the August 22-30 IAAF World Championships in China.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – The rain-marred, two-test series between South Africa and Bangladesh ended in a predictable draw yesterday after the final day’s play of the second match was called off without a ball being bowled due to a wet outfield.

Team Guyana recorded their second win of the Player Tournament defeating an U-21 Training Squad by a 2-0 score line on Sunday in the Twin-Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Football Union president, Gordon Derrick, believes the Caribbean can rebound from the latest scandal to shake the region.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Massachusetts prosecutors said yesterday that an anonymous caller, who told lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez that one of the jurors who found him guilty of murder should have been disqualified, had a sexual relationship with the athlete.

(Reuters) – World number one golfer Rory McIlroy has scheduled a Saturday practice round at Whistling Straits, site of next week’s PGA Championship, a reliable source told Reuters yesterday.

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee yesterday called on the government to justify what he called an “unconscionable decision” to increase ministerial salaries in some cases by 100%.

The ladies of the Guyana National cricket team departed this morning for Trinidad & Tobago ahead of the WICB Regional Super50 Tournament which begins on Thursday, August 6, 2015.

Dear Editor,   I would like to commend all those involved in putting together the National Rice Industry Conference.

KUALA LUMPUR/SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Some of the readings from athletes’ blood tests leaked by a whistleblower for a report exposing suspected doping were so extreme they were “downright dangerous”, one of the experts cited in the report told Reuters yesterday.

Dear Editor,   If Case Timbers Ltd/Unamco had received one tenth of the understanding and kind consideration BaiShanLin receives from GFC, today it would have been, by far, the premier value added producer in Guyana’s forestry sector.

National Coach Garvin Nedd will bowl off his annual Cricket Summer Camp from August 10-22 at the Demerara Cricket Club Ground (DCC) from 9:00hrs, Mondays to Fridays.

 Dear Editor,   How premature is premature? If a friend drove the wrong way down a one-way street would it be premature to warn the friend before there was a collision?

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has blocked hundreds of adult websites to prevent pornography becoming a social nuisance, a government official said yesterday, sparking a debate about censorship and freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several US politicians sharply criticized the Obama administration yesterday over an annual global report on human trafficking in response to a Reuters article chronicling how senior US diplomats had watered down rankings of more than a dozen strategically important countries.

This weekend’s National Novices Championships and the ones going forward will be named after Guyana’s first world boxing champion, Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis as a way of paying homage to the fallen hero.

Dear Editor,   Every incoming government needs the room of a honeymoon.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia’s Athletic Federation will not act on allegations of widespread doping among its sports stars before the world athletics championships in Beijing later this month, the acting head of the body, Vadim Zelichenok, told Reuters yesterday.

Dear Editor,   It’s a disgrace to see a certain political party using a couple of parents to picket schools and the Ministry of Education for a mere pittance of We Care $10,000 vouchers for their own political ends, while millions were unaccounted for while they were in office.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Observer) – A 30-year-old married man who was caught by the police kissing a 13-year-old schoolgirl in an abandoned building in downtown Kingston, and making plans to have sex was yesterday slapped with a J$150,000 fine when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.

(Reuters) – UN sanctions experts have accused British company Soma Oil and Gas of making large payments to Somalia’s oil ministry that created a “serious conflict of interest,” some of which appeared to have been used to pay off senior officials.

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan authorities warned yesterday that diseases might break out in the eastern city of Benghazi due to imported meat left rotting for months in containers at the city’s closed commercial port.

WESTFIELD, NJ (Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown was buried alongside her mother, Whitney Houston, yesterday, bringing to a close the brief and tragic life of the only child of the singing legend.

(Trinidad Guardian) A class-action suit has been filed against the manufacturers of Red Stripe beer in the United States, for allegedly deceiving consumers into thinking the beverage is made in Jamaica.

Dear Editor, I welcome the Minister of Education to his position and wish him the best as he serves.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dominated the US box office over the weekend with an impressive $56 million at 3,956 locations.

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTYSC), recently received a massive boost via a financial contribution from the Calcutta Sports Club of Freeport, Central Trinidad.

By Stephen S Roach   NEW HAVEN – Market manipulation has become standard operating procedure in policy circles around the world.

By John Kemp (John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)  LONDON (Reuters) – The biggest losers from the current price war between OPEC and the shale producers seem set to be producers outside the Middle East and North America caught in the cross-fire.

This newspaper accepts – and it has said so previously – that the new administration will take some time to ‘catch its length,’ (to use a well-worn cricketing term) and that it will make errors (for which it will have to take responsibility, of course) and make decisions that will probably not meet with the approval of many, and in some instances, perhaps even most people.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Disapproval of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet reached an historic high of 70 per cent in July, as her government scaled back its reform program and struggled with a sluggish economy, an opinion poll showed yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Men in Black star Will Smith took the unusual step yesterday of publicly shooting down a report that he and his actress wife of 17 years had decided to divorce.

Dear Editor, I have been patient for a long time in relation to the minibuses in Georgetown.

Parallel was introduced in King Street yesterday but some vehicle owners were not ready to fall in line.

CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers’ Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.

Two men, who police say were involved in several break-and-enter offences across Central Rupununi were remanded to prison after both pleaded not guilty to the charges.