Daily Archive: Friday, August 7, 2015

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) held its 37th General Council Meeting (GCM) on Saturday August 1st 2015 at the CIOG’s Secretariat, Woolford Avenue, Thomas Lands, Georgetown.

An eighty-member contingent will be representing Guyana at the 2015 Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in Haiti, GINA said today.

Colonel Enoch W Gaskin (right), formally handed command of the Second Infantry Battalion to Colonel Patrick West, on July 28.

The Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, today slammed the Guyana Times for what he said were “absurd” figures on planned allowances for ministers.

Castellani House is featuring, for the next four days, the artworks that Guyana will put on show at the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) XII in Haiti, GINA said.

Regan Rodrigues, the suspected triggerman in the slaying of Courtney Crum-Ewing, was charged this afternoon with the political activist’s murder.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) says that a team of doctors from the Health Education and Relief Organization (HERO) recently visited Guyana to perform corrective surgeries on a number of children with lower limb deformities at the hospital.

The US government is now moving forward with the process for the sentencing of fraud convict, Edul Ahmad by the Court of the Eastern District of New York.

The police say they are conducting investigations into a robbery/murder that occurred at the Jade Stone Chinese Restaurant, Mandela Avenue, Georgetown.

(Trinidad Express) Surinamese national Edmund Quin­cy Muntslag, who was wanted in the United States, was extradited to that country from Trinidad and Tobago yesterday, to face char­ges of narcotics trafficking.

Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called for the decriminalisation of attempting suicide in Guyana.

Following the recent dismissals and reinstatement of three pregnant city constables, a former policewoman has come forward and stated that she was dismissed last month under a similar policy against pregnancy in the Guyana Police Force.

The Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs is examining a report of alleged irregularities in the Toshao election at Capoey, Region Two.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England skittled out shell-shocked Australia for 60 and piled up 274 for four in reply to take control of the fourth Ashes test on a dramatic first day at Trent Bridge yesterday.

Gold miner Sherwin Sharples, 40, who was found guilty last week of raping an 11-year-old girl, was yesterday sentenced to eight years in prison.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has officially filed a letter of appeal with the FIFA Appeals Committee following the latter’s decision not to sanction St.

An inter-agency suicide prevention helpline was launched yesterday. The Inter-agency Suicide Prevention Helpline hopes to offer counselling services to anyone who is thinking of suicide, whose life feels unmanageable or just needs a little help.

Cycling action returns to the inner circuit of the National Park tomorrow for the staging of the 12th annual Seven Seas 11-race programme.

Quincy Massiah, the music cart operator charged with murdering a workmate last year, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court.

Dear Editor, I note that Ms Yvonne Sam calls for the death penalty to be implemented in Guyana (SN, August 5).

As the local cricket fraternity mourns the passing of veteran statistician and scorer, Ron Legall, senior commentator and journalist Joseph “Reds” Perreira and the Guyana Cricket Board have sent out sympathies.

Central Immigration at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri grounded Insel Air Aruba yesterday after what Director of Roraima Airways, Gerry Gouveia, called an “unfortunate mix-up” between carriers.

Three persons have been detained in connection with the shooting death of Plaisance mason Akeem Yorrick, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Nowhere in the Amerindian community of Capoey, can anyone be found who will declare unequivocally that the July 28, 2015 election was free or that the results represented the will of the people.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Off-spinner Karishma Ramharack claimed an amazing eight-wicket haul to steer Trinidad and Tobago to a convincing eight-wicket victory over Windward Islands South in the opening round of the Regional Women’s Super50 here yesterday.

Colts dismissed Melanie Patriots by an 83-46 score line in an Open Divisional matchup when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League Qualifying Knockout Tournament continued on Wednesday.

A looming strike by workers of the Chinese bauxite mining operations at Linden has been called off following negotiations between the workers’ bargaining agent, NAACIE and the company’s management yesterday.

Dear Editor, Your columnist Mr Rawle Lucas wrote an interesting piece in his column of Sunday August 2, 2015 in which he published Bank of Guyana figures on public and private expenditure.

KAZAN, Russia, Reuters) – American swimming great Ryan Lochte became only the second man to win titles in the same individual event in four consecutive world championships when he triumphed in the 200 metres individual medley yesterday.

Dear Editor, We as a nation seem lacking in a proactive approach and instead react when something horrible happens.

The police are still seeking the suspect in the brutal killing of 77-year-old Danrasie ‘Carmen’ Ganesh, who was bludgeoned and strangled at the Montrose house for which she was the caretaker.

Dear Editor, I must congratulate Digicel Guyana for taking the initiative to sponsor the Secondary Schools Championship tournament which looks to demonstrate the talent and skills of Guyana’s youth.

A gate and fence at the IMEX International complex on Leopold Street are to be demolished today, according to the City Council, but the owner of the building is contending that the demolition will be illegal because he is in possession of documents which granted permission for the construction.

MELBOURNE, Reuters) – Australia’s stunning dismissal for 60 runs on day one of the fourth Ashes test prompted incredulous headlines in local newspapers last night along with calls for the citizenship to be stripped from the entire team.

With few employment alternatives now available, families in several interior communities including the township of Port Kaituma have little alternative but to continue to hitch their sails to the mast of a gold mining industry that continues to be affected by the plummeting price on the world market.

The Guyana Police Force has intentions of appealing the recent sentencing of two University of Guyana students to community service after they were found guilty of gun-point robbery, sources say.

The suspect in the murder of Davonan Sookram will be making his first court appearance today after police yesterday received legal advice, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Floyd Mayweather’s latest title defense began outside the ring yesterday as he fought to validate his upcoming bout against Andre Berto.

Dear Editor, There is a potential epidemic simmering like a volcano waiting to consume the residents of Linden.

Last weekend’s capsizing of the Capt Saif reflects the perils of our waterways, a critical means of connecting coastal Guyana with huge swathes of the country’s interior.

By Valrie Grant, Managing Director GeoTechVision The Fifth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Manage-ment (UN-GGIM) ends today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

A mother and daughter are in police custody after police found a quantity of cocaine in a house at D’Urban Street yesterday.

Months after the suspect was charged with the murder of nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens, a psychiatric report on the man is still to be submitted to the court in order to move forward with the preliminary inquiry into the charge.

(Reuters) – Tests to detect performance-enhancing drugs in athletes are improving, but even the newest have limitations, testing experts say, following recent reports of widespread doping in athletics.

Dear Editor, The government’s assertion of its preparedness for local government elections ought not to be the only determinant of the nation’s readiness for those elections.

For about a week leading up to the annual Emancipation anniversary, before thousands of Guyanese, Brazilians and visitors from the Caribbean and the North American diaspora converge in the National Park to celebrate, the Main Street Avenue comes alive.

A mason was placed on bail on Tuesday after he denied robbing a man of a chain.

Dear Editor, So Tacuma Ogunseye has decided to engage me and at the same time defend his colleague, Clive Thomas on the Globe Trust debacle.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Keshorn Walcott is still smarting from his World Championship disappointment three years ago and is determined to compensate for it at this month’s edition in Beijing.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – The African Football Confederation (CAF) has declined to back Liberia’s Musa Bility in his bid to stand for the FIFA presidency.

A construction worker has been told that he will be bedridden for at least six months as he slowly recuperates from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident last Sunday.

Dear Editor, I look forward to any response which says that my observations which follow are not the case.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate committee demanded yesterday that the State Department hand over all the documents used to rank countries in its annual human trafficking report, as lawmakers expressed concern it had been watered down for political reasons.

With countries like Guyana having promised much but delivered little in terms of public/private sector cooperation in pursuit of meaningful national development projects, a recent study on reforming the regional public sector produced by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) is recommending restructuring regional public service reform that focuses on the outsourcing of what has been commonly regarded as traditional public service responsibilities to the private sector.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Australian great Shane Warne and former captain Ricky Ponting lamented technical failings and mental approach as their countrymen were shot out for a humiliating 60 by England on the first morning of the fourth Ashes test yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan supermarkets are increasingly being targeted by looters as swollen lines and prolonged food shortages spark frustration in the OPEC nation struggling with an economic crisis.

Dear Editor, Frequently in the recent past we were forced to look at photos in the press of the unkempt condition of the Le Repentir Cemetery in Georgetown with captions implying that ‘the authorities’ were failing to discharge their responsibilities to the public.

The alleged theft of over $1.2M in steel pipes from the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) landed two men, including a driver who had been hired by the company, in front of a city court yesterday.

Junette Stuart is not simply starting out in the business of fashion design.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – A bookmaker has paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds to punters who put money on England to win the Ashes after they bowled out Australia for 60 in the fourth test on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the U.S.

The 30th death anniversary of Guyana’s first executive President Linden Forbes Burnham was commemorated at the headquarters of the National Congress of Women in Kitty yesterday. 

A fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a two-bedroom house at Block 33, Wismar, Linden, on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, Every now and again, I pause to listen to the comments made, and observe the postures taken, by the spectral opposition.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  August 6, 2015

ZURICH, (Reuters) – World Cup sponsor McDonald’s has joined Coca-Cola and Visa in urging FIFA to adopt an independent reform commission in response to corruption scandals plagueing world soccer’s governing body, according to a campaigning group.

(Trinidad Express) Their school vacation was supposed to be fun but it ended in tragedy after ten-year-old Reuben Reed was shot dead while playing with three friends yesterday.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 627’s trading results showed consideration of $6,012,888 from 82,274 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 626’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,144,497 from 7,029 shares traded in 10 transactions.

Horrific collision: The driver of this Toyota Corolla motorcar, PMM 1643 crashed into a Toyota Premio, PMM 6369 that was parked on the road at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara around 3:45 pm yesterday.

Dear Editor,   I seem to be Freddie Kissoon’s newest pet peeve, as if there isn’t enough for this political analyst to write about.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Ugandan men can no longer demand a refund of the so-called bride price after divorce, the Supreme Court said yesterday, in a landmark ruling campaigners said would make it easier for women to leave abusive relationships.

Every conceivable economic activity at Port Kaituma revolves around the gold-mining industry so that it is hardly surprising that the downward spiral in the price of gold has cast a pall of gloom over the community.

History, especially post-conflict history is, as we are repeatedly reminded, usually written by the victors.

What manner of “human” cracks an old lady’s skull, tramples her battered body, perhaps strangles her, then drinks a beverage from her refrigerator?

Who doesn’t have a cellphone these days? Being cellphone-less is akin to either being a member of some uncontacted tribe or other societal misfit.

Dear Editor,   Paul Nehru Tennassee, former President of the Democratic Labour Movement (DLM) in the 1980s and early 1990s, at public meetings and in his writings had suggested that Guyana establish a corporation, calling it the Guyana Essequibo Corporation , as part of a strategy to deal with the resolution of the Guyana-Venezuela controversy, so Guyana would develop an enduring new pole of development and fulfil its continental destiny.

Politikles

Minister of Health Dr George Norton has formally disclosed that the government has halted what was clearly an attempt a few weeks ago to ‘walk’ a $572 million payment to the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC) through the system.

Business Cartoon

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Until national federations and governments put clean competition ahead of winning medals, sport faces a difficult task in its battle against doping, a longtime U.S.