Daily Archive: Monday, August 17, 2015

The PPP/C team headed by former President Bharrat Jagdeo today turned up to take their seats in the 11th parliament.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo arrived in Parliament this afternoon with PPP/C MPs to take up their 32 seats in parliament.

(Trinidad Express) Florida-based outsourcing firm iQor has expanded its operations in Trinidad and Tobago with the launch of a call centre at Tamana InTech Park.

Minister of Public Infra-structure, David Patterson has defended his decision to remove GPL’s CEO Bharat Dindyal and he will today convene a meeting with the heads of departments and management of the utility on the way forward.

A West Berbice vendor is in critical condition after she and her husband were chopped by bandits during a home invasion yesterday that also saw their daughters being terrorised and robbed.

The Hughes family is in mourning after the tragic death of matriarch Christobel Hughes following a traffic accident on Saturday night.

The Ministry of Social Protection has begun consultations geared at ensuring that all pregnant women on the job are protected and their human rights upheld in accordance with the Constitution.

Former PPP stalwart Ralph Ramkarran believes that political interference led to the dismissal of the power company’s Chief Exe-cutive Officer Bharat Dindyal last week and he has warned about a growing perception among Indo-Guyanese that the government is discriminating against them.

A new Registrar of Lands has reportedly been appointed but without an amendment to the law this is illegal and the Ministry of the Presidency has been unresponsive when the issue was raised, head of the Guyana Bar Associa-tion (GBA) Christopher Ram says.

The Indian Action Committee (IAC) says it views with grave concern the removal on Friday of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Power & Light (GPL), Bharat Dindyal.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) conducted training sessions at Orealla and Siparuta in Region Six earlier this month with the intention of transforming them into models on how to manage disaster risk.

By the end of this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hopes to bring 40% of large manufacturing companies, fuel depots and other categories in regions 4, 3 and 6 into the environmental authorisation process.

Home furnishing company, Courts is inviting applicants for three scholarships to the University of Guyana.

Government has proposed the development and implementation of a National Youth Empowerment Action Plan (NYEAP) that supports focused and strategic youth development.

Last evening at the Theatre Guild, Kingston was all about `folklore and rights’, the theme Guyana will be taking when they arrive later this week to celebrate the twelfth staging of the Caribbean Festival of Arts in Haiti.

The Music School recently concluded its Music is Fun programme where 105 participants completed training in the basics of music education.

Consumed with a passion to work for a transformed Guyana, ex-convict Tameshwar Beekham on Friday withstood the mid-morning sun in Georgetown as he protested, calling for President David Granger to open a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s twelve-year tenure.

Over two weeks after a suspect was captured on camera battering 77-year-old Danrasie ‘Carmen’ Ganesh to death, he is yet to be apprehended by police.

At about 1600h on Saturday, the police say that pedestrian Rudolph Ramsammy, 72 years, of Adventure, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway, attempted to cross the roadway at Adventure and was struck down by a motor car.

By Orin Davidson   The sight of sprinter Adam Harris inexplicably abandoning his event after a few metres at the recent Pan American Games, summed up another dismal display by a national senior athletics team at international competition.

Remarkable displays of speed, strength, stamina and leaping ability, enabled the Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) to retain the championship trophy of the Boyce/Jefford Classic on Sunday night at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies players Kyshona Knight and Hayley Matthews stroked half-centuries as Barbados crushed defending champions Jamaica by 124 runs, to lift the Regional Women’s Super50 title here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Former local journalist, Godfrey Wray’s letter from the diaspora titled, ‘Remi-grants don’t expect to be confronted with bottlenecks and indifference; (SN, August 14) got me thinking.

CP Got Even produced a powerful late surge to repeat as winner of the feature A and Lower 1800m event of the Guyana Cup yesterday at Port Mourant in a meet marred by the death of a man.

Dear Editor, A recent editorial (SN, August 14) captioned ‘Management and leadership’ referred to an article with an interesting title by Dr Rudi Webster: ‘The WICB: over-managed and under-led’ which reportedly provided some insights into the difference between management and leadership.

Dear Editor, The national and regional elections are over and the citizens of this country are eagerly awaiting the fulfilment of one of the hundred days promises, which is the announcement of the date for local government elections (LGE).

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. civil rights leader and former head of the NAACP Julian Bond, who emerged as one of the pre-eminent student activists in America’s turbulent 1960s, died on Saturday aged 75.

Dear Editor, From all the evidence ‒ exhibitions, pronouncements, and costumes, this is the time, indeed the season, of celebrating African history and consciousness of Africanness.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Latin America’s booming urban slums look set to continue their rapid expansion as government housing policies fail to tackle an explosion in informal housing, legal experts said yesterday.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls failed to overcome England yet again, and were forced to settle for fourth spot on the final day of the World Cup here yesterday.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – An Indonesian search and rescue plane spotted debris yesterday believed to be from a crashed aircraft with 54 people on board in Papua province, the local police chief said.

Community Emergency Response Teams practising their newly-learnt skills of fire-fighting (GINA photo)

KOHLER, Wisconsin, (Reuters) – Australia’s Jason Day held his nerve to end five years of close calls at the majors with an emotional breakthrough victory by three shots over American Jordan Spieth at the PGA Championship yesterday.

Dear Editor, For some time I have been speechless that someone influential in society can allow themselves to be referred by a title that has not been achieved.

LONDON, (Reuters) – World athletics’ governing body (IAAF) has suppressed a 2011 survey that reveals that up to a third of the world’s top competitors admitted using banned performance-enhancing techniques, Britain’s Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD/WDR reported.

(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would increase fees on some Mexican visas and all border crossing cards as part of a broader plan to force Mexico to pay for a wall along the southern U.S.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets in dozens of Brazilian cities yesterday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, blaming her for a vast corruption scandal and the economy’s worst slump in a quarter century.

Dear Editor, The government is spending $221 billion from August 2015 to March 31, 2016.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Josefina Vidal receives a check from the United States for $4,085 once a year, rent money for the U.S.

By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas teaches at Hamilton College   The rejection of the old politics was implicit in the election campaign and platform of the APNU +AFC coalition.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has lost 20,000 jobs in the last month after a court ruled that companies can fire workers by giving them three months’ notice, the main labour union said yesterday, as the government moved to amend the labour law to stop further losses.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Six-times Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt will miss Jamaica’s training camp in Japan before the world athletics championships in Beijing later this month, the manager of the Caribbean island’s delegation said.

Dear Editor, Red rice weed is currently causing havoc in the rice industry in Guyana.

Last Monday, the Minister of Finance presented the 2015 Budget to the National Assembly in keeping with the requirements of Article 219 (3) of the Constitution.

Dear Editor, In the course of the evening of August 14, I called GT&T via 0448 to report no access to the internet.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – A blazing half-century from opener Martin Guptill helped New Zealand beat South Africa by 32 runs in Centurion on Sunday to draw the two-match Twenty20 international series 1-1.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago football chief Raymond Tim Kee has lamented the cash-strapped situation of the local FA, but believes as the national team’s fortunes improve so will the financial state of the organization.

Government ministers and officials of support agencies at the expo

Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s budget has won plaudits from the private sector and other sections of society for the practical prescriptions and measures announced.

Dear Editor, The role of the private sector in the development of our country is not to be denied and I have always advocated that, for genuine development, the private sector should be the real engine of growth.