Daily Archive: Friday, November 27, 2015

LONDON, (Reuters) – Nicole Kidman won the best actress award for her performance as a DNA researcher in the play “Photograph 51” at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Her cutting words were written by William Shakespeare, but the withering stare the straight-talking Paulina focuses on co-star Kenneth Branagh’s insanely jealous King Leontes in a new production of “The Winter’s Tale” is pure Judi Dench.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday  delivered the charge to the 2015 graduating class of the West Demerara Secondary School where he stressed the importance of information and communication technology in today’s world.

After days of assessing Guyana’s drainage system, the Dutch Risk Reduction (DRR) Team last evening, November 26, 2015, presented its recommendations on the way forward for Guyana, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure said.

Baroness Patricia Scotland was unveiled today as the  Commonwealth Secretary-General Designate at the Commonwealth summit in Malta, a release from the Commonwealth said.

Commonwealth Heads of Government with  Queen Elizabeth II, and Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma at their summit in Malta today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – British singer Adele has broken the single-week U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge will hear an application from the State today seeking to deem a US convicted national a terrorist and pave the way to freeze his assets.

Two persons are now dead and another is hospitalised in critical condition after the car they were travelling in crashed into a truck at Coverden, on the East Bank highway yesterday morning.

Government has come in for criticism for bypassing the public tendering process in its selection of Indian company Fedders Lloyd to resume construction of the controversial specialty hospital.

Michelle Bristol, the 27-year-old woman who collapsed and died at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was actively involved in the fight against bullying in schools, her mother says.

Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes yesterday called on Chinese firms to obey Guyana’s labour laws and ensure good practices to stave off xenophobia.

Security of small states will be a key issue for Guyana at today’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta in the backdrop of months of aggression by Venezuela over the border controversy between the two countries.

A West Coast Berbice man who suffers from a hearing impairment was killed on the Rising Sun Public Road yesterday afternoon.

A St. Lucian national was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined $1.2 million after he pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle 480 grammes of cocaine that he had ingested in pellet form out of the country.

The Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) is very concerned about how victims of violence, including women, are being treated by the police force, according to commissioner Renata Chuck-A-Sang.

An Essequibo businessman was shot when he decided to stand up to two bandits during a robbery on Wednesday evening.

Three men appeared before a city court yesterday on a charge that they robbed a man of a cellphone.

A European Union (EU)-organised forum has recommended the formalising of the unofficial moratorium on the death penalty in Caribbean countries and it has argued that public opinion is not a major impediment to the removal of capital punishment.

Before the end of next year, government hopes to lay legislation in the National Assembly to set up a sovereign wealth fund, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman has said.

A Paradise, Essequibo Coast fisherman is alleging that he was beaten up by a police officer stationed at the Anna Regina Police Station, at Essequibo Coast.

The People’s Republic of China has donated US$40,000 to the Global Friendships Foundation to aid in the restoration and enhancement of George-town, a release from the organisation said.

The retrial of Anthony Morrison commenced on Wednesday before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and a 12-member jury at the High Court, in Georgetown.

Two Mahdia residents were both remanded to prison yesterday on charges that they had marijuana for trafficking.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the hijacking of a fuel truck along the Mabura Road last Saturday.

Three men were yesterday charged with stealing nearly half of a million dollars’ worth of raw gold.

At about 1830h on Wednesday the police say they responded to a report of alleged larceny made against James Lamazon, 29 years.

Basking in what he says has been a protracted run of success under his leadership, Chief Executive Officer of Guyana Stockfeeds Inc Robert Badal has disclosed to the Stabroek Business that the company will be seeking to invest around US$10 million in further upgrading its operations and diversifying into new operations including unspecified “new banking services.

Three years ago A & H Kissoon Group of Companies cut trading ties with the city, closing down its well-known distribution outlet at the corners of Camp and Robb streets and shifting those operations to Industrial Site, Ruimveldt on the southern edge of the capital where its factory operations have been located for half a century.

Dear Editor, I am a senior citizen of Corriverton and I am very troubled and disgusted by the actions of a policeman at Springlands Police Station who instead of serving and protecting citizens, chose to violate the human rights of my grandson, Andrew Lewis, a decent, law-abiding citizen.

The Guyana Association for Professional Surveyors installed its new managerial body on Wednesday at the Herdmanston Lodge, before Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

Dear Editor, I am sad that my friend Dave Martins is so dismissive of Test cricket (his column ‘It makes no sense’ in Stabroek News of 22nd November).

The fastest female in Schools Track and Field history, Kenisha Phillips claimed her second record for the 55th annual Championships yesterday with an emphatic victory in the Girls 200m under-16 final.

The trial of the two police constables accused of assaulting detainee Colwyn Harding, who has accused police of using a baton to rape him, was adjourned again yesterday.

There would not have been a Small Business Exposition but for the fact—at least so we are told—that as far as the annual GuyExpo is concerned we are saving our effort for the 50th Anniversary of Guyana’s independence at which time we will stage what is likely to be the biggest GuyExpo ever.

Dear Editor, On May 10, 2015 our gold mining dredge in Konawaruk, Region 8 was illegally entered upon and shot up.

Slingerz clinched their berth in the League Genesis finale of the GFF Stag Beer Elite League, downing Fruta Conquerors 2-0 in a hard-fought semi-final contest at the Camp Ayanganna ground on Wednesday.

The United States Embassy in Georgetown this month hosted a career guidance seminar themed “Launching your global career with STEM” at the Theatre Guild in celebration of International Education Week.

By Marilyn Collins The US Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the sale of genetically-engineered (GM) salmon called AquAdvantage, produced by Aqua-Bounty Technologies, a Massachusetts company.

Dear Editor, Out of frustration I’ve decided to write this letter to highlight GPL’s apparent new mandate.

Bursting with excitement and eagerness, fifty primary school students recently participated in the Guyana Energy Agency’s (GEA) “Express Your Energy” activity held at the Transport and Harbours Sports Complex in Thomas Lands, a release from the GEA said.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Barbados Pride manager, Wendell Coppin, has been slapped with a hefty fine by the West Indies Cricket Board for criticizing match officials, following the third round of the Regional First Class Championship which concluded Monday.

MONACO, (Reuters) – American decathlete Ashton Eaton was named the IAAF’s male athlete of the year for 2015 yesterday after breaking the world record to win the world title.

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Councillors of the Toevlugt/ Patentia Neighbourhood are longing for the holding of local government elections so that the decision-making process can be reverted to the local government level thereby giving neighbourhoods the freedom in carrying out their fiduciary duty to rate payers.

Dear Editor, The entertainment body of RED has been revolutionizing entertainment in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I write to commend Pandit Ramdial Balbadar on his relentless efforts in defending the position of Diwali being November 10, 2015 ‒ a position the majority of Hindu organizations and leaders agreed to.

An 18-year-old was yesterday remanded to prison after he was brought before a city court on a robbery with violence charge.

ISTANBUL/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey yesterday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as “emotional” and “unfitting.”

The encouraging signs of corporate and public interest in the growth and development of the Tain Campus of the University of Guyana needs to be emulated at Turkeyen, the university’s Registrar Dr Nigel Gravesande has said.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Sam Billings played an inspired innings to help England to a comfortable 14-run victory in the first Twenty20 international against Pakistan yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela opened an investigation yesterday into the murder of a local opposition leader days before a legislative election, stirring fears of renewed political violence in the volatile South American OPEC nation.

A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail by a city court after he pleaded not guilty to conspiring with others to steal a gold chain.

Alpha United set up an intriguing showdown with fierce rival Slingerz FC in the League Genesis finale, downing Pele 3-1 in their semi-final showdown when the knockout round in the GFF Stag Beer Elite League continued on Wednesday.

Stock market updates GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 643’s trading results showed consideration of $10,070,476 from 331,668 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 642’s trading results, which showed consideration of $464,800 from 20,854 shares traded in 4 transactions.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s President Evo Morales leaves no doubt about who he blames for global warming.

Dear Editor, I’m not a pessimist but a realist. Before the 2015 elections, I enjoyed listening to Sam Cooke’s ‘Change is gonna come.’

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The destruction of Brazil’s Amazon forest, the world’s largest intact rainforest, increased by 16 percent in 2015 from a year ago as the government struggles to enforce legislation and stop illegal clearings.

Dear Editor, In terms of sensing the vibes, of seeing through and beyond things political in nature, I make bold to say I possess the spiritual vibrations of the mighty Mt Roraima.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Police Complaints Autho-rity (PCA) has recommended that the former head of Special Branch be charged for his role in the alleged cover-up of the discovery of a quantity of marijuana at the private residence of former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in 2013.

Dear Editor, Over the last few years I have become more and more depressed as West Indies cricket administration has steadily fallen into greater disarray and disrepute and the West Indies team has sunk lower and lower in international standings.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

The whole concept of the Guyana-brand of “junkies” is worth some additional study even though I suspect much has already been attempted with respect to this unwanted social phenomenon.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A senior Mexican government crime prevention figure and close ally of President Enrique Pena Nieto has resigned from his Interior Ministry post, after it emerged he is being investigated for electoral crimes.

On Sunday, the victory of the conservative mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, in Argentina’s presidential run-off election not only ended twelve years of populist rule by the Kirchners – Nestor Kirchner (2003-2007) followed by his widow Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) – but will also have serious implications for the advance of the so-called “pink tide” in Latin America and the geopolitical balance of the region.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Illegal levels of arsenic and mercury polluted the Rio Doce river in the days after a dam burst at an iron ore mine in early November in Brazil’s worst-ever environmental disaster, according to tests by a state water agency.

Dear Editor, The driver who killed little Jeyden Charles received the light sentence of 58 months.

            A fire hydrant on Robb Street is finally working after many years.

Workers employed by the majority Russian-owned bauxite mining company, Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) are now more hopeful of a comprehensive investigation into what they say are longstanding infractions on the part of the management of the company following last Tuesday’s visit to the operations at Aroaima in the Berbice River by a team from the Ministry of Social Protection led by Junior Minister Simona Broomes.

NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – India need eight wickets to clinch the four-test series against South Africa after their spinners, led by Ravichandran Ashwin, wreaked havoc on a turning track on the second day of the third test yesterday.

It has long been observed that women live longer than men, worldwide.