Daily Archive: Monday, August 31, 2015

Fire erupted at the GuyOil facility at Providence, East Bank Demerara this evening.

President David Granger (right) today met with Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo at the Ministry of the Presidency.

President David Granger, this morning, met with a team from the United Nations to discuss his Government’s position on relations between Guyana and Venezuela and the ongoing border controversy between the two countries.

At about 1410h. yesterday, the police say that it was discovered that three juveniles who were in custody and together in the same lock-ups at the La Grange Police Station had escaped.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA), until recently headed by arrested FIFA official Jeffrey Webb, is facing an investigation from police on the Caribbean island in the latest probe linked to corruption in the sport.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Australia and England might have the Ashes but India and South Africa have evoked the memory of two iconic historical figures to name future cricket series between the two countries.

Even if it was just for one day, Just Call Me Boss was in charge of all local thoroughbreds.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Asbel Kiprop produced a trademark sprint finish to win a third straight 1,500 metres gold and ensure Kenya topped the medals table at successive world championships after the final night of action yesterday.

Columnist Rawle Lucas has criticised the mines commission and the gold board for their failure to detect what government and law enforcement officials have said has been major smuggling of gold to the US and other countries including Brazil.

Dear Editor, If it were properly done, there would have been much to commend the Government of Guyana for leasing Red House at a token rental to Cheddi Jagan Research Inc (CJRI) for use as the home of the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre (CJRC).

Dear Editor, Former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds mentioned a “North American compensation package” for the CEO of GPL in his letter published in Stabroek News on August 27, 2015. 

Dear Editor, The reluctance of the BCCI to accept the toll reduction proposed by Government in the 2015 budget which was to take effect by September 1, 2015 is indeed troubling and while I do agree that consultations could have been held with BBCI about the proposed lowering of tolls through a government subsidy prior to the budget presentation this issue raises the following concerns: (1) The BBCI stance is a wakeup call for much greater scrutiny of any future private/public sector infrastructure projects.

Guyanese Trevon Griffith said his new stint with the Jamaica Scorpions franchise for the 2015/16 Professional Cricket League (PCL) season, is a move which is geared towards the evolution of his professional career.

While in opposition, the AFC had heavily lobbied for the reintroduction of a ferry service across the Berbice River that would provide an affordable alternative to the bridge crossing, however, the party’s General Secretary and the Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson says that moving forward will depend on the rehabilitation of stellings.

Fresh off of losing the I-Net Communications U13 final to Santos on Saturday, Fruta Conquerors rebounded in emphatic manner, downing Renaissance FC on sudden death kicks when the inaugural Tannehill U15 club championships concluded yesterday.

Dear Editor, Marcus Aurelius once wrote: “Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so”.

Halting payments to the Chinese builders of the problematic Skeldon sugar factory until its many problems are fixed as well as the lease of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) West Demerara estates are among the solutions proffered by Accountant Christopher Ram to the crisis facing the sugar industry.

harp-shooter Terron Welch led the way for the winners with a monstrous showing of 35 points while Michael Turner assisted with 13 points.

One man was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) while another is nursing a gunshot wound to his foot after they were shot just after exiting a night club on Lamaha Street yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, Despite our political differences, which in some respects are good for the body-politic, Guyana has a promising future.

The Mahdia and Eteringbang airstrips are set for major rehabilitation. Yesterday’s Guyana Chronicle carried an Invitation for Bids from the Ministry of Public Works for rehabilitation of the Eteringbang Airstrip in Cuyuni/Mazaruni to the tune of $98m and the Mahdia airstrip in Potaro/Siparuni in the amount of $62m.

Dear Editor, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran SC, contends that the Prime Minister is entitled to sit in Parliament while performing the functions of President.

Bel Air Rubis emerged victorious over the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Under-13, in the first ever day/night feature Twenty20 cricket match played at the DCC ground, Lance Gibbs Street, Queenstown.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Ishant Sharma’s seventh five-wicket haul helped India bundle out Sri Lanka for 201 but the hosts fought back to take three quick wickets and leave the third and final test evenly poised yesterday.

Four hundred and ten men from across Guyana are currently undergoing training on the GDF Basic Recruit Course (BRC), with the aim of becoming soldiers, a release from the Guyana Defence Force said on Saturday.

Dear Editor, Last Saturday the Caribbean Voice honoured my work by awarding me the Victoria Regia Award.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Roger Federer and Andy Murray, two of the hottest players on the U.S.

Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton says that to bring the present rate of maternal, child and infant mortality down the country needs to break from its dependence on foreign specialists and instead train more Guyanese doctors in obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics.

Dear Editor, The words of the Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo are worth perusing.

Dear Editor, Peace be unto you. On August 24, SN carried a letter I shared about the performance of Marian in the CXC exams.

A collision between a car and a bicycle yesterday morning at Lamaha and East streets, Georgetown has left two persons hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

(Reuters) – Five-times major winner Maria Sharapova has pulled out of the U.S.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Two late goals by Mario Harte earned Barbados a come-from-behind 2-2 draw with St Vincent and the Grenadines in their international friendly at Victoria Park here Friday night.

Dear Editor, “By any objective measure, the amount of significant, often traumatic, change in organisations has grown tremendously over the past two decades.”

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Renan Calheiros took an Air Force jet to get hair implants and was accused of letting a lobbyist pay child support to a journalist he had an affair and a child with.

Members of the Uitvlugt Pasture Jamaat are distressed that residents have infringed on transported land belonging to the mosque and have started to erect a fence on a portion they claim is reserve land.

WASHINGTON, DC, CMC – Two losses in as many games for Montego Bay United in the CONCACAF Champions League is forcing the high-profile Jamaican outfit to regroup.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo., (Reuters) – Central bankers from around the world are telling their American counterparts that they are ready for a U.S.

A policeman has been discharged from the George-town Public Hospital (GPHC) after he was involved in an accident on Friday night on the Timehri Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

Dear Editor, How does a little dot on the globe dominate such a great space on the world stage?

Dear Editor, Monetary policy is an unintentionally complex subject, with changes in one economic variable typically affecting a number of factors, and these changes themselves being effected through time with secondary effects of the first set of variables on themselves, with other factors being affected at third and fourth levels. 

EDISON, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Red-hot PGA Championship winner Jason Day of Australia romped to victory at The Barclays yesterday, winning the opening event of the lucrative FedExCup Series by a whopping six strokes.

(Part II) Last Monday, the National Assembly resolved itself into the Committee of Supply to consider the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 2015.

A United Nations (UN) mission is here for talks with the government and others on options under the Geneva Agreement of 1966 for a resolution of the border controversy with Venezuela.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House is considering applying sanctions against companies and individuals in China it believes have benefited from Chinese hacking of U.S.

Dear Editor, I have heard several times the opposition telling the government to fulfill the campaign promise of giving rice farmers $9,000 per bag of paddy but I cannot recollect hearing such promise.

In his contribution to the debate on the 2015 budget, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo stated that his ministry will be producing a white paper on public information policy.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A Guatemalan congressional committee on Saturday recommended that President Otto Perez be stripped of immunity from prosecution over his suspected involvement in a customs racket, paving the way for a full vote in Congress in the coming days.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Captain and marquee striker, Kenwyne Jones, will sit out Trinidad and Tobago’s international friendly against Mexico on Friday, as he sorts out his future with English Championship club Cardiff City.

By Anthony Autar Anthony Autar is a New York-licensed attorney-at-law, with a background in mental health and healthcare law.

Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col)Terry Benn, formally handed command of Base Camp Stephenson to Lt Col Ramkarran Doodnauth, on August 28, a release from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said on Saturday.