Daily Archive: Thursday, November 5, 2015

Guyanese DJ Dwidth Ferguson has surrendered to law enforcement officials in Canada, Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh has confirmed.

China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Zhang Limin (second from right) says his government will be working closely with Guyana in the areas of renewable energy generation and infrastructural development.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan today began consultations for Budget 2016.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today advertised for expressions of interest in designing a new headquarters for it at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

BELIZE CITY, (Reuters) – Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow won a record third term in a snap general election in the tiny English-speaking Central American country yesterday, after his party gained a clear majority in parliament.

Two teenagers lost their lives on Tuesday night when the car they were in smashed into the concrete base of an arch on the Number 74 Village Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

“Absolutely not! It’s the law and I am only adhering to the law…the next thing they will ask me is they don’t want to pay taxes,” Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said in rejecting a call by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to ease the 2am curfew to 4am on weekends and holidays.

Ten micro-entrepreneurs from across the country yesterday received $1M each under a Chilean government-funded programme to start various projects, which, among other things aims to curb hunger in the areas where they live.

Amid a stream of road deaths President David Granger yesterday plugged a three-prong plan to curb the scourge and his Public Infrastructure Minister noted that the burgeoning number of vehicles with little or no increase in road capacity was a critical factor.

An eighty-four-year-old Rose Hall woman was yesterday rescued from her burning house during the mid-morning hours.

A $118m contract was yesterday signed for the renovation of the former Customs House to accommodate the Bureau of Statistics.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies’ disappointing tour of Sri Lanka continued here yesterday when they plunged to an eight-wicket loss in the second One-Day International to tamely concede the three-match series.

The defence yesterday presented closing arguments in the escaping custody and gun and ammunition possession case against Regan Rodrigues.

ST GEORGES, Grenada, CMC – CARICOM Heads of Government have requested an “urgent meeting” with the embattled West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), in a move aimed at to having the far-reaching recommendations of the Cricket Review Panel report implemented swiftly.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday said that a new born baby fell off the cot on which he was place an hour after his birth on November 3rd and he sustained injuries.

Despite the top brass of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) and the East Bank Football Association declining to participate and the failure of the Georgetown Football Association executive to respond to theirs, the Petra Organization in collaboration with the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company has decided to go ahead and yesterday officially launched the inaugural GT&T Knockout Football Championships.

The five member Cricket Review Panel appointed by the CARICOM Sub-committee of Cricket Governance, says an outmoded governance structure which does not make issues of transparency and accountability priority, are among the reasons responsible for their decision to call for the immediate dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board.

Former High Commissioner to Canada and longtime history teacher at Queen’s College and the University of Guyana, Robert James Moore died on Monday in Ottawa where he lived.

Swami Vidyanandaji Maharaj was remembered yesterday as a holy man who influenced everyone who he came in contact with positively, as hundreds flocked the Cove and John Ashram to pay their last respects.

Anton Corneal, a FIFA technical Development Officer is calling on the winner of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) upcoming presidential elections to demonstrate proper governance.

The trial of the men accused of killing 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris continued yesterday and the caution statement of one of the accused revealed a plot to kill the woman over a land dispute she was engaged in.

Despite being asked to provide transfer information by Buxton United on all the overseas players competing in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League, the GFF has not yet responded although they have officially ruled on a similar matter.

A day after a spine-tingling raid on America and Longden streets by gunmen on motor bikes, the police were yesterday working on several leads but no arrest has been made.

PARIS,(Reuters) – Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics, has been placed under formal investigation in France on suspicion of corruption and money laundering following a complaint from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Charmaine Wade was elected the President of the National Association for Women’s Football (NAWF) when the entity staged its electoral congress on Tuesday ahead of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Congress on November 14th.

BLOEMFONTEIN, (Reuters) – That South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp when he fired four shots through a locked toilet in his home is beyond doubt.

Post Offices at Meten-Meer-Zorg and Fellowship both on the West Coast of Demerara were commissioned on November 3rd after rehabilitation.

Hours after bandits stormed a supermarket in Mahaica yesterday and attempted to escape with the owner’s motor vehicle, one was later caught and reportedly badly beaten by residents.

(The Sports Xchange) – Coming off the best regular season in franchise history, the Toronto Raptors are 4-0 for the first time ever.

Dear Editor, I am writing to bring attention to a troubling interaction I had last week when I stopped at the Mahaica Hospital to make a routine inquiry.

The National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) hosted a two-day symposium for stakeholders to lay the foundation for the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) “as a key driver in re-tooling the education system.”

A man left the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday shackled and in tears after he was refused bail on a charge of robbery with aggravation.

Dear Editor, Characterizing the Geneva Agreement of February 17, 1966, as “the Lazarus Agreement,” attorney Lalu Hanuman lays the blame for Venezuela’s claim to Essequibo at the feet of late President Burnham in his November 3, letter in SN, titled ‘Geneva Agreement revived a dead claim.’

Dear Editor, The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) did immense work in the Berbice area during the last election campaign which ended in May.

The family of Keith Ross, who was involved in an accident on Tuesday at Number 46 Village, Corentyne yesterday vented their anger at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after there was a delay in a scheduled Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for him.

Dear Editor, I am delighted to read that a judge fined another officer of the court $10,000 for lateness.

Two brothers appeared in court yesterday on a joint charge of unlawful wounding of a man, who was also accused of wounding one of them.

Dear Editor, As the discussion continues with regard to whether Diwali is the 10th or the 11th, some have chosen to politicize the discussion and have become very abusive.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Liberal leader Justin Trudeau named a young, ethnically diverse and gender-equal Cabinet on Wednesday as he was sworn into office as Canada’s 23rd prime minister, marking the end of nearly a decade of Conservative rule.

Dear Editor, When the controversy about the sudden 50% raise for the higher echelons of the administration unfolded I wanted to see it in black and white, and I did so with calculator in hand.

NEW YORK/LONDON/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Evidence now suggests that a bomb planted by the Islamic State militant group is the likely cause of last weekend’s crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, U.S.

Dear Editor, A letter from Dr Baytoram Ramharack responds to my comments on his initial contribution decrying the paucity of Indian intellectuals articulating that group’s “dilemma” and asserting its “identity” (‘Indian intellectuals should advocate for an equal space in national dialogue which does not evoke charges of racism’ SN, November 3).

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court yesterday gave the green light to growing marijuana for recreational use in a landmark decision that could lead to legalization in a country with a bloody history of conflict with drug cartels.

Dear Editor, I just wanted to correct one item in Dr Ramharack’s letter (‘Indian intellectuals should provide guidance on potentially divisive matters’ SN, November 4).

The debate and focus on law reform have centred mainly on the civil side of the law.

Dear Editor, Just one minute, please. Is Diwali celebrated on the night of the New Moon, or on Amavasya?

BEIJING/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – In August, foreign ministers from 10 nations blasted China for building artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea.

YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reiterated yesterday she would run the government if her opposition National League for Democracy wins in the country’s historic general election this weekend, even though she is barred from becoming president by the junta-drafted constitution.

Dear Editor, I joined the AFC in 2005 after I left the PPP.

The perplexing deaths of 18-year-old Ramesh Beharry and 19-year-old Kavita Ackloo on Monday last, which followed closely on the heels of that of social activist Zenita Nicholson last week are a sure indication that efforts need to be redoubled where mental health strategies are concerned, with particular emphasis on depression and suicide.

(Reuters) – Colombia’s constitutional court lifted a restriction on adoptions by gay couples yesterday, overturning a previous ruling that banned same-sex partners from adopting unless one of the pair was a biological parent of the child.