Daily Archive: Thursday, October 8, 2015

As President David Granger accepted Letters of Credence from the newly appointed Ambassador from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, he noted that as active members of the Non-Aligned Movement, both countries remain committed to its Principles, GINA reported.

President David Granger (right) says his administration will be looking  forward to working with the Representative of Indonesia to ensure that global solutions are found for the problems of developing nations, including problems that affect the security and survival of small states.

New Belgian Ambassador to Guyana, Guy Sevrin has commended Guyana’s strong advocacy for more regional and inter-regional integration.

Minister of the Presidency Joseph Harmon and a team from the Civil Defence Commission yesterday visited Rupununi to assess the dry conditions attributed to the El Nino weather phenomenon.

Farmers from the 10 Administrative Regions, along with several Ministry of Agriculture’s Researchers and Extension Officers are now benefitting from a two-week training workshop that is seeking to boost their capacity in the management of the Black Sigatoka disease, GINA said The capacity-building workshop commenced on September 28, and will end on October 9.

(Reuters) – Rockers Nine Inch Nails, pop icon Janet Jackson and top-selling 1970s band Chicago were among the nominees announced on Thursday for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.

At about 2300h. last night, police ranks confronted the occupants of a motor vehicle at Barr Street, Kitty, Georgetown.

Investigations are being conducted into the murder of Vaulda Britton of Hopetown, WCB, whose body was found in her home on Sunday October 04, 2015, the police say.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police believe contracts that were either stopped or were about to be stopped, thanks to the intervention of senior Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) executive Derek Hooker, may be the reason he was shot dead outside his Diego Martin home on Monday night.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his possible successor, European soccer chief UEFA Michel Platini, have been provisionally suspended for 90 days, the ethics committee of football’s global governing body said today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and Rihanna have teamed up to sue a Paris clothing retailer they say has been “brazenly” selling shirts, hats, backpacks, cellphone cases, and other items featuring their likenesses without permission.

A One Mile, Linden resident early yesterday morning shot and killed his fiancée before turning the gun on himself at her Pike Street, Kitty home.

Delon Henry, aka ‘Nasty Man’ was yesterday charged with the murder of East Ruimveldt resident, Dexter Griffith, who died after being shot three times about his body last week.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday condemned what it said was the “ugly decision” by the APNU+AFC administration to grant “whopping” salary increases to Vice Presidents, the Minister of State, Cabinet Ministers and Junior Ministers.

An argument between three fishermen at sea ended tragically on Tuesday afternoon after one of them whipped out a knife and inflicted a single, fatal stab to another.

Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday said that the evidence so far is that the 99-year leasing of the historic Red House to the Cheddi Jagan Research Inc.

The Government of Guyana will be looking forward to Canada’s support against the territorial claims by Venezuela even as it seeks to boost its ties and bilateral agreements with the country through new Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Pierre Giroux.

About three weeks after a horrific incident destroyed two cars and claimed the life of a West Demerara resident, his mother believes the police are being influenced to discard the case.

With three months left to go before he is to retire, the government has begun its search for a judge to replace Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang to ensure there is a smooth transition, Attorney General Basil Williams said yesterday.

In the lead up to the respective Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and Georgetown Football Association (GFA) presidential races, Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) President John Flores and Commander of A-Division Clifton Hicken are being suggested as candidates for the respective posts.

The Government of Guyana is seeking to have a major European airline enter the local market and is in advanced negotiations, according to a press release yesterday from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI).

Even at eight weeks out, the annual Flex Night International billed for December 6 have already garnered interest from some key sponsors and overseas athletes.

Guyana may have to immediately repay US$5m to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for a once-vaunted nutrition programme which the new government says has thrown up conflicting data and accountability problems.

Vice President and Mini-ster of State Khemraj Ramjattan recently visited the Camp Street prison and engaged inmates after recent “gang fights” with a promise to start the process of speedy trials and to address the issue of overcrowding.

The newly elected Executive Committee of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) already gotten the ball rolling.

Venezuela’s historic pattern of provocation and sabre-rattling in support of its spurious territorial claim against Guyana has manifested itself once again.

Starting this Sunday on the open roads of the city, athletes within the discipline forces will begin their quest for supremacy and the coveted Inter-Services Annual Athletics and Swimming Championship (ISAASC) trophy.

Andrew Albert who is accused of the August 2010 murder of 43-year-old Nandalall Bopat, yesterday denied the charge after being indicted before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

Every effort is being made by government to address challenges to development such as violent crime, high rates of unemployment, corruption, and prolonged ethnic divisions, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman recently told a United Nations (UN) rights committee.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC- West Indies captain Jason Holder says he hopes the conflict between suspended head coach Phil Simmons and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) could be resolved quickly allowing him to be reinstated.

Just how long the changed atmosphere in Guyana will last following the May 11 general elections and the removal of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration from office after twenty three years.

Talk about getting off on the wrong foot! The West Indies cricket team begins their tour of Sri Lanka tomorrow taking on a Sri Lanka President’s XI in a three-day fixture at Colombo with a new captain, an interim coach and the age-old problem of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at odds with one of its subjects.

By: Dr. Odeen Ishmael, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs   Guyana witnessed a change in administration after the ruling People’s Progressive Party-Civic (PPP) lost by a mere one percent of the votes to an alliance of opposition parties comprising A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) in the general elections held on May 11.

Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Address by Brigadier David Granger, MSS President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana  to the 11th Parliament, Georgetown, on 9th July 2015.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC- The start of the three-day practice match between West Indies and a Sri Lanka Cricket Board President’s X1 has been postponed because of bad weather in Colombo.

Attorney General Basil Williams led a delegation to a recently held oil and gas workshop in Barbados and among the issues discussed were overlapping oil claims and maritime zones.

Diamond Fire & General Insurance Inc through Raj Singh Insurance Brokers has settled in full a claim for $70 million to RNK Investments for the fire at Robb and Camp streets.

At 65 and generally felt to be in fairly good health one might have thought that Donald Ramotar departed the political centre stage far too early though, in as sense, it was he who ‘called time’ on his own presidency.

An eighteen-year-old was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he made a court appearance on charges of larceny and escaping custody.

Former President Ramotar, in his last days in office, granted a presidential pardon to a Ravindra Deo who had been convicted of the particularly gruesome murder of a little child.

In their pursuit of the inaugural Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League championship, Vergenoegen giant Slingerz FC will make a statement of intent as they are allegedly positioned to sign Golden Jaguars International Brandon Beresford.

The Australian Direct Aid Programme (DAP) is inviting persons to apply for its 2015-16 round of grants.

Introduction On April 11, 2015, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro shook hands at the Summit of the Americas in Panama, marking the first meeting between a U.S.

Dear Editor, The Walter Rodney Youth Move-ment wishes to state our dissatisfaction with the method and timing of the increase in the salaries of ministers and the members of parliament.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter faces an imminent 90 day suspension from football if the governing body’s ethics judge backs a prosecutor’s recommendation, a close friend and former advisor to Blatter told Reuters yesterday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – In a cafe lounge at the United Nations complex in Geneva, a Tibetan fugitive was waiting his turn earlier this year to tell diplomats his story of being imprisoned and tortured back home in China.

(Reuters) – Norway’s time has come after 16 years in the football wilderness and the enthusiasm infecting the team should carry them through to the Euro 2016 finals, midfielder Jo-Inge Berget says.

Dear Editor, As you might recall there was significant media coverage on the passing of my father Elvin McDavid last year, who was one of Guyana’s most distinguished public servants during the time of the post-colonial Burnham era.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s besieged President Dilma Rousseff lost a major battle yesterday when the federal audit court rejected her government’s accounts from last year, paving the way for her opponents to try to impeach her.

It wasn’t that close. Indeed, five seats is a Goldilocks-zone majority.

Dear Editor, On November 13, 2014, I filed an application with the Child Care and Protection Agency to legally adopt a 16-year-old child, who’s biological father had abandoned her since she was a two-year-old baby.

An educator for over forty years, Hazel Moses has had a lifelong love affair with words.

MIAMI/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The president of a top Honduras soccer club and two family members were charged by U.S.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC- Middle order batsman Marlon Samuels says he is anxious to put bat to ball when the test series between West Indies and Sri Lanka begin in earnest next Wednesday.

By Karen Boman | ExxonMobil’s Liza discovery offshore Guyana could put the country on the map as a player in the global oil and gas industry, Wood Mackenzie reports.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Australian batsman Chris Rogers, who retired from international cricket after this year’s Ashes series, has joined Somerset for the 2016 season, the English county announced yesterday.

Dear Editor, Could the President of Guyana, acting in his capacity as the Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana, explain the rationale and give justification to the Guyanese public for selecting Hamilton Green to be the recipient of the second highest national award?

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, (Reuters) – Three scientists from Sweden, the United States and Turkey won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for working out how cells repair damaged DNA, providing new ammunition in the war on cancer.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA’s ethics committee has convened and could soon take action on Sepp Blatter, head of the world soccer body, or UEFA head Michel Platini amid a widening corruption scandal, Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) TELECOMS Group Digicel has halted its plan to raise up to US$2.2 billion in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities should allow international investigators to interview soldiers who may have witnessed the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers last year, a top United Nations official said yesterday.

Caribbean Airlines is a top regional carrier. It and other Caribbean carriers had the lowest load factor among airlines operating from their bases to and from the US in 2014.

Dear Editor, The revelations that Carifesta X (2008) was estimated to have cost $1 billion, as opposed to the $500 million claimed by former minister of culture Dr Frank Anthony come as no surprise to me considering the studied and perennial reluctance of Dr Anthony to provide answers not only on this issue but several others.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao, a winner of world titles in eight different weight categories, said he is likely to retire from the sport after one more fight next year.

Dear Editor, In an incontrovertible period of economic slowdown in Guyana, the new Granger-led APNU+AFC government’s decision to increase their salaries by over 50% while other public servants got less than 5% has in one fell swoop converted itself from the incompetent to the incompetent and heartless.

WASHINGTON/GENEVA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday apologized to Medecins Sans Frontieres for the deadly bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, while the medical charity pressed its demand for an international commission to investigate what it calls a war crime.

Before she became a Minister in the current coalition government Simona Broomes had come to public attention as a crusader for reining in the vice of Trafficking in Persons (TIP).

So what is the big deal about the Caribbean Examination Council that it should want to have its history written?

PORT-OF- SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago’s new finance minister Colm Imbert has announced plans to establish a National Sports Institute as part of a renewed commitment to sport development across the twin-island republic.

Dear Editor, On Monday October 5, I decided to visit the National Communications Network (NCN) at the Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast government compound, since I was told that it was in a deplorable condition.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday ended its search for missing crew of the cargo ship El Faro that sank off the Bahamas last week after sailing into the path of Hurricane Joaquin.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has sought a report from its state unit on the crowd trouble during Monday’s Twenty20 match against South Africa which has prompted calls for a ban on the venue.

If you work in an office where the number of women employed is at least 12, then according to the most recent statistics for the region, four of them would have been or will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex, verbally, mentally or emotionally abused.

Dear Editor, The time is over-ripe for the establishment of a Behavioural Science Unit in the Guyana Police Force or to make such a facility available to the police.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday it was examining how donations were used from a foundation linked to one of six people charged by U.S.

After a third full week had passed without Samantha being able to raise enough money to buy what her son needed to start the new school year she had begun to wonder whether it was worth persisting.