Daily Archive: Friday, November 13, 2015

(Barbados Nation) A former long-standing West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director has given the thumbs down to the idea of a CARICOM- appointed committee putting forward recommendations aimed at improving the administrative and governance structure of the regional governing body.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The death toll from several attacks across Paris today could reach over 120, and at least five of the assailants have been killed, Paris Public Prosecutor Francois Molins said on television tonight.

Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally (right) was today paid a courtesy call by Special Envoy of the United Nations (UN) Secretary General in the Caribbean Region, Dr.

The Mexican Embassy in Guyana today facilitated a teleconference with Guyanese officials and Mexican public and private sector interests at the Mexican Embassy, Brickdam on paddy importation from Guyana, GINA said.

Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) has registered an after tax profit of $1.7b for the year ended September 30, 2015, an increase of 1.7% over the previous year.

Nearly eleven years after it was devastated by fire on Christmas Day, 2004, the historic Sacred Heart Church is set for reopening on December 6th.

YANGON, (Reuters) – The party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar’s parliament, the election commission said today, giving it enough seats to elect its chosen candidate to the presidency when the new legislature convenes next year.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday said that it had answered all of the issues raised by the opposition PPP/C in relation to the long-awaited upcoming local government elections and voiced consternation at the party’s continuing focus on the ethnicity of election workers.

Dhanram Ramdeo Ramlall, 26, was yesterday released on $1 million bail after denying a charge that he caused the death of his wife by dangerous driving along the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

The Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development and Rupununi communities on Tuesday rescued and relocated 27 arapaima (2 adults and 25 juveniles) trapped in a drying pond in Kurupukari, Essequibo River.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday complained that Speaker Barton Scotland denied its request for an extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly, which it suggested is part of a plot to “muzzle” the opposition.

Junior Social Protection Minister Simona Broomes yesterday said the labour department would be taking Baishanlin to court over alleged labour violations that have been reported by workers.

Seven students at the Bartica Secondary did not attempt suicide, according to Minister of Health Dr.

Brazilian Ambassador, Lineu Pupo De Paula, yesterday handed over $26M in equipment to GDF Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips, at Base Camp Stephenson, a release from the GDF said.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with drugging and raping a woman.

A police witness who was giving evidence in the Zulfikar Namdar murder inquiry at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday was threatened by one of the accused.

With only one day remaining before the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Electoral Congress, the Nigel Hughes-led ‘Team Unity’ has suffered their first casualty as Vice Presidential hopeful Odinga Lumumba has resigned from the outfit.

Ann’s Grove secured their first win in the inaugural Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) Knockout Football Championship, downing New Amsterdam United 2-1 on Wednesday at the Golden Grove Community ground.

Orwin Hinds admitted to being present when his friend shot 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, according to a caution statement read yesterday at his trial, which also heard that the men were hired to kill the woman over a land dispute.

A young boy will now lose sight in his left eye after a squib exploded close to his face on Wednesday night.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) says it will take its time in mulling over the normalising of relations with the West Indies Cricket Board.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Three players have been slapped with fines by the West Indies Cricket Board for breaches of the Code of Conduct, during the opening round of the Regional First Class Championship last weekend.

Dear Editor,   In an article which appeared in the news media on November 9, Bharrat Jagdeo, ex-President of the PPP government and now Opposition Leader continues to plug the dubious claim that development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) on the Potaro River will provide the best chance Guyanese will ever have to access affordable and reliable electricity.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is urging the government to put aside politics and swiftly address maternal deaths, which it says have increased since the new government took office in May.

The Government of Guy-ana has signed a US$2.4M loan with the Caricom Development Fund (CDF) which will be used in the agri sector to upgrade roads and agricultural lands.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – All-rounder Dwayne Bravo has defended the patient approach to his innings during Wednesday’s second Twenty20 International against Sri Lanka.

In a letter published in our edition of Wednesday, November 11 captioned ‘The Hindu College was preceded by the East Coast High School’ by Mr Nowrang Persaud, a name was incorrectly rendered.

Prolonged differences between and amongst operators in the country’s aviation sector based at the Ogle International Airport now seem set to degenerate into an open confrontation.

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote the sustainable use of energy in the Caribbean region.

The biggest and most competitive football tourney on local shores has returned as the 6th edition of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown tourney was officially launched yesterday at the Banks DIH Limited Boardroom.

The scorching hot sun of the past few weeks has been an economic boon for coconut vendors and 52-year-old Buxtonian Selwyn Rosamond openly admits that he has been cashing in on it.

Dear Editor, I refer to your Sunday editorial of November 8 titled, ‘Anti-democratic defence’ in the fifth paragraph, second sentence, “According to the PPP, Attorney General Basil Williams asked to meet the management committee of Red House on the matter, but apparently did not send anything in writing first from AG’s Chambers, which is surely not acceptable.”

The Wayne Forde-led ‘Team Integrity’ slate is gathering more support ahead of tomorrow’s Guyana Football Federation (GFF) congress as the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) General Council has mandated its President Clifton Hickens to support Forde.

By Marilyn Collins Environmental Health Specialist Report (EHS 2015) detailed a study in which 448 food managers in a focal group admitted that inadequate chicken preparation and improper cooking practices were common occurrences.

More than two weeks after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommended that two policemen be charged with shooting Junior Gulliver dead at Strathavon, Cane Grove, Mahaica, the ranks are yet to face court.

Dear Editor, As counsel for Aeshwar Deonarine, Deputy Chief Executive Officer GPL, I shall be grateful if you can publish the following which is in connection with the article in your last Sunday Stabroek at page 10 under the caption ‘Deputy GPL CEO should face charge over $27.8M transfer, Ramjattan says.’

Plans for a meeting between Junior Minister of Social Protection Simona Broomes and business owners are, she told Stabroek Business earlier this week, “part of the ministry’s wider strategy to develop a workable formula for a better labour relations environment,” between business owners and their employees and between business owners and the Ministry of Social Protection.

A 23-year-old woman of De Willem, West Coast Demerara who is pregnant with her fourth child is fearful about the condition of her unborn baby after she was badly beaten by nearby residents.

Dear Editor, Further to your article on page 3 of the Tuesday, November 10 edition, where the suggestion of an antidote to accidental or deliberate poisoning should be made known, is one that I had thought about.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain and India yesterday welcomed more than 9 billion pounds ($13.7 billion) in commercial deals during a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but his arrival was overshadowed by protests over a perceived rise in intolerance back home.

YANGON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called Myanmar President Thein Sein yesterday to congratulate him on successfully staging a historic general election in which democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi trounced the ruling camp.

Dear Editor,   Many years ago I read the book Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto, a former and late Prime Minister of Pakistan.

A woman found herself in court on Wednesday accused of stealing her boyfriend’s car.

Kabakaburi in the Pomeroon River is one of several typical Amerindian homesteads, populated by a few hundred people where logging has, over time, been the most reliable means by which the men earn a livelihood.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA has approved five candidates for its February presidential election amid the worst crisis in its history, after barring Liberia’s Musa Bility on integrity grounds and leaving out UEFA chief Michel Platini while he remains under suspension.

Dear Editor, I read an interesting letter written by Joyce Sinclair under the caption, ‘Let us help in any small way we can.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Daley Thompson has urged his fellow British luminary Sebastian Coe, the head of world athletics, to “stand up and show some leadership” with his sport embroiled in crisis.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro defended Venezuela’s human rights record in Geneva yesterday after the top United Nations rights official voiced serious concerns about the country’s judiciary and harassment of his critics.

On Tuesday, a public holiday, Debbie Weeks travelled from her home at Parika to Georgetown to paint the stall on which she sells on the stretch of Merriman Mall between East and Cummings streets.

“Unforgettable!” is how Kian Jabour describes his recent trip to Las Vegas, which he won in Heineken’s James Bond promotion.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Australia will be unchanged for the second test against New Zealand starting today at the WACA with seamer Peter Siddle again left out of the side, captain Steve Smith said yesterday.

Dear Editor,   I have trouble understanding the last letter by Dr Baytoram Ramharack (‘When does ethnicity transform into nationality?’

MARIANA, Brazil, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff yesterday announced preliminary fines worth 250 million reais ($66.2 million) against a mine in southeastern Brazil where two dams burst, killing at least seven people and coating a two-state area with mud and mine waste.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 641’s trading results showed consideration of $2,317,610 from 10,456 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 640’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,630,456 from 240,375 shares traded in 9 transactions.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian man who developed pains and a fever just days after returning from Guinea has tested negative for the deadly Ebola virus but does have malaria, Brazil’s healthy ministry said on Thursday.

Politikles

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Seamer Vernon Philander is to miss the remainder of South Africa’s test tour of India and will be replaced by fast bowler Kyle Abbott.

Business Cartoons

NEW YORK/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Two of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s relatives have been indicted in the United States for cocaine smuggling, according to court papers yesterday, following an international sting that Venezuela cast as an “imperialist” attack.

We hear the stories all the time. Woman battered to death.

Ignoring my preference for avoiding immediate comment on issues of simmering significance, sometimes better left to others blessed with sharper intellects, wider experience and more analytical attributes, I, never-the-less, plunge into two conversations today.

“May you live in interesting times” is thought to be an ancient Chinese curse although no textual evidence exists to support this.

BANGKOK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Only nine countries have achieved a U.N.

Dear Editor   Over the years, Toshaos and village councils have come and gone.

There is a deceptive simplicity to the premises that houses the enterprise trading at Lot 101 Regent Street, Bourda.

News that Guyana has invited the Director of the Hospitality Institute of Barbados to give support to the creation of a similar facility here in Guyana is welcome, even if it leaves us none the wiser as to a time frame for the creation of our own local centre of excellence as far as raising the bar in the hospitality sector is concerned.