Daily Archive: Thursday, September 17, 2015

The residents of Festival City & North Ruimveldt are tired with the crime that has descended on the community and are taking steps to rid our environment of the crimes of rape, robbery and murder, a release from a group of residents said today The first meeting to which they have invited representatives of “A” Division, The City Hall & The Ministry of Public Infrastructure will take place tomorrow at 6pm at The Lions Den , Festival City.

The People’s Progressive Party today said it is concerned at the delay of President David Granger in appointing Robeson Benn and Bibi Safora Shadick as the two new opposition Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has confirmed that there was an industrial death at the site of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project at Timehri earlier this afternoon.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has hired the United Kingdom-based company Pitch International in a multi-year deal to develop and implement a new commercial strategy, with the aim of boosting the organization’s revenue.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Strong aftershocks rippled through Chile today after a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that killed at least eight people and slammed powerful waves into coastal towns, forcing more than a million people from their homes.

There is a higher prevalence of drug use by students from private schools than those from public schools with use of drugs occurring at a younger age, according to a survey done in 2013.

A United Nations (UN) anti-corruption agency has proposed to assist Guyana with a UN prosecutor on corruption to ensure thorough investigations of such crimes in the future.

Agitation continues to grow in the rice sector as farmers have started to reap with little hope that paddy prices will be high enough to offset their debts.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) was yesterday applauded for its efforts at monitoring ozone depleting substances, while the need for continued vigilance was underscored.

Sums totalling over $100 million have been budgeted to clean and desilt street drains, alleyways and canals as the ‘Clean-up my Country’ campaign continues.

A woman and her 13-year-old son were held at gunpoint and robbed on Tuesday night minutes after arriving from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

If the number one world ranked female heavyweight boxer, Gwendolyn ‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil and her management team have their way, a world title bout involving her will take place here next Independence Day.

Career diplomat Marilyn Cheryl Miles has been identified to fill the post of Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela but Venezuelan media reports say that country’s President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the suspension of the process to accredit her.

With the weight of the East Coast of Demerara on their shoulders, head-coach of Buxton United Herbert McPherson said his team’s only aim is to be crowned champion at the end of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League.

Following a stellar amateur boxing career, Imran ‘Magic’ Khan is all set to make his professional debut on September 26 on the ‘Next Generation Boxing:The Giftland Showcase’ card.

Nineteen years after the first foray into the Cuyuni region in search for gold and US$249 million in capital costs, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) is now set for production of 3.29 million ounces of the precious metal over 17 years which will see at least 500 jobs and projected corporate income tax to the economy of US$509 million.

There is no word yet on the forensic audit into the Marriott Hotel with two government ministers giving conflicting positions on its completion.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Test and One-Day captain Jason Holder says West Indies must start winning games if they want to make any progress in the international rankings.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Former captain and batting star Brian Lara has warned not to expect any immediate turnaround in the West Indies fortunes.

A man is nursing two gunshot wounds to his leg, managing to dodge four other six bullets that were fired at him in Albouys-town yesterday.

An illegal race on the West Demerara near Vreed-en-Hoop last night, ended with two vehicles being slammed off the road, one of them flipping into a trench and left at least four persons injured.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea forgot their Premier League woes and got their Champions League campaign off to a flying start with a 4-0 thrashing of Israeli champions Maccabi Tel Aviv in their opening Group G match at Stamford Bridge yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Test captain Jason Holder says he used the break from international cricket during the summer to recharge himself and is now looking forward to performing at his optimum on the upcoming tours.holder

Two soldiers were shot last night on the seawall in the course of an attempted robbery.

Chairman of the Linden IMC Orrin Gordon is disappointed that since the current administration has been elected to office, the Linden municipality has not been able to discuss with the Ministry of Communities matters that are directly related to the town.

ZAGREB, (Reuters) – Dinamo Zagreb coach Zoran Mamic thanked his compatriot and West Ham manager Slaven Bilic for helping the Croatian title holders beat Arsenal 2-1 in their Champions League Group F match yesterday.

  LONDON, (Reuters) – Jose Mourinho was delighted that Chelsea made a winning start to their Champions League campaign yesterday, but said he was not happy that Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal had all lost their opening matches in this season’s competition.

The biggest issue of the local furniture manufacturing industry “is to get them equipment ready to complement their skills,” Canadian joiner Ralph Heading says.

Dear Editor, The previously chaotically disorganised and incomplete website of the Guyana Forestry Commission appears to have been re-launched without testing.

A high volume of road work tenders were opened on Tuesday for Ministry of Public Infrastructure for the Rehabilitation/Construction of Urban Roads, Regions 3, 4.

LAKE FOREST, Illinois, (Reuters) – With the ‘Big Three’ of Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day dominating golf at the top level, the latest chapter in their battle for supremacy will unfold at this week’s BMW Championship.

A Kitty man accused of breaking into a woman’s home and stealing, among other items, her underwear and slippers, was yesterday sentenced to 12 months in jail after changing his plea.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake hit off the coast of Chile yesterday, shaking buildings in the capital city of Santiago and generating a tsunami warning for Chile and Peru.

Dear Editor, I read the Stabroek News stories on a daily basis on my phone.

Over 40 households at Free and Easy, West Bank Demerara will shortly receive water for the first time, when the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) completes its new $10 million distribution network in the community.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Veteran Test left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul has been honoured with the Icon Award by the Indo-Caribbean Alliance.

Dear Editor, How is the new government doing? How is it really doing in some sensitive areas?

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Soldiers fired warning shots to disperse hundreds of protesters outside Burkina Faso’s presidential palace yesterday after the presidential guard burst into a Cabinet meeting and arrested the interim president, stirring fears of a military coup.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Two goals from Thomas Mueller and one from substitute Mario Goetze helped Bayern Munich kick off their Champions League campaign with an impressive 3-0 victory over Olympiakos Piraeus at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium yesterday.

Over a week after he was shot in the head, Michael Woolford has been moved to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) High Dependency Unit (HDU) with the bullet still lodged there.

Despite the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) and East Bank Football Association (EBFA) recently adopting their respective constitutions, the East Coast Football Association (ECFA) is yet to officially begin their constitutional reform process.

Chairman of the Linden IMC, Orrin Gordon, has described as an “eye pass” a proposed monthly sti-pend for municipal councillors.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economic powerhouse is slowing, destabilizing global markets.

Dear Editor, The position of Regional Executive Officer (REO) in the ten administrative regions was advertised by the Ministry of Communities, no doubt in a vain attempt by the APNU+AFC government, and more specifically its Minister of Communities, to convince the Guyanese people that this is part of the change leading to the good life.

(Reuters) – Pakistan recalled batsman Fawad Alam from test wilderness yesterday while paceman Wahab Riaz returned from a hand injury to find a place in the 15-man squad for the three-match series against England starting next month in the United Arab Emirates.

First Street, Alexander Village was a pond after a few hours of rain yesterday.

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador called on Latin American neighbours on Tuesday to help it battle forest fires that have forced families to flee some neighborhoods of the capital Quito and its outskirts.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has criticized the government for the appointment of ‘party hacks’ on the new National Communications Network (NCN) and the Guyana Chronicle boards saying that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo had backpedalled on his promise to professionalise the state media.

Dear Editor Gone are the days when a policeman could rely on physical brawn to maintain the peace and his political connections to keep the job.

Kevin Gomes, a teenager who was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal (GPH) more than one week ago after he was bitten by a snake is expected to be discharged soon, according to relatives.

Dear Editor, In 2006 then President Bush hired Tony Snow as his Press Secretary.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency is hoping to receive the much-awaited report on allegations of widespread doping in sport before its board meeting in mid-November, WADA Director General David Howman said on Tuesday.

By Gro Harlem Brundtland and Graça Machel   LONDON – When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote that “All that is solid melts into air,” they intended it as a metaphor for the disruptive transformations that the Industrial Revolution implied for established social norms.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday launched its annual campaign for a United Nations resolution condemning the US economic embargo while the White House and the Vatican added their own pressure on the US Congress to end the 53-year-old sanctions.

Digicel Sponsorship Executive Louanna Abrams (left) with the principals of RED Entertainment, Saskia Wyngaarde, Chelsea Fung and Kristina King.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A family which was preparing to celebrate a 96th birthday today was thrown into mourning when 2-year-old Gonzales schoolboy Yakini Charles was shot and killed on his way home from school.

A primary school head teacher from Region Three created a buzz at a seminar held on Tuesday when he announced his desire to have a cash crop farm, a recycling facility and a modern laboratory at his school.

SID, Serbia/ROSZKE, Hungary (Reuters) – Hungary yesterday detained 29 people including a “terrorist” as migrants demanding to be let through the country’s newly shut EU frontier clashed with riot police firing water cannon and tear gas while refugees searched for new ways to enter the bloc.

The Kaieteur National Park (KNP) has been reopened after the body of the dead tourist was retrieved and transported to Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Consensus politics is where we work together building trust, understanding and respect.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Former Leeward Islands Hurricanes captain Devon Thomas’s participation in the Professional Cricket League remained in doubt after the player confirmed this week he was still without a team for the upcoming first class season.