Daily Archive: Friday, December 4, 2015

(Reuters) – Robert Loggia, the gravelly voiced character actor who danced with Tom Hanks on a giant floor keyboard in “Big,” fought aliens in “Independence Day” and trafficked in drugs in “Scarface,” died on Friday at age 85, his widow said.

Acting on information received, police ranks recovered an unlicensed M16 Rifle and an unlicensed 20-gauge Shotgun at Apicka Landing, Middle Mazaruni, today.

The Ministry of Public Health’s National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) last evening hosted its annual appreciation ceremony for outstanding hinterland staff, GINA said.

First Lady Mrs. Sandra Granger, earlier today, met with Sheila Roseau, Director and Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Patrice La Fleur, Assistant Representative, to discuss new strategies to reduce teenage pregnancy.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana Jaguars, replying to Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s 210, were nine without loss in their first innings at the close on the opening day of their fourth round match in the Regional First Class Championship at Queen’s Park Oval today.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has begun work to rebuild the historic Umana Yana, which was destroyed by fire in 2014.

(US Embassy) GEORGETOWN – Effective December 07, 2015, the Consular Section of the U.S

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California posted an online statement pledging allegiance to a leader of the Islamic State militant group, CNN reported today, citing U.S.

Diligent investigations by the police led to the arrest of two suspects yesterday in connection with an armed robbery on a taxi-driver at Bachelor Adventure, ECD, on November 28, 2015.

About 2100h. last night, ranks of the Police Narcotics Section conducted a search on a motor vehicle on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, during  which 76.6 kilograms of marijuana were found.

About 1630h. yesterday, the police say that motor cyclist Khemraj Singh, 20 years, of Hampton Court, Essequibo Coast, was riding his motor cycle along the Exmouth Public Road, Essequibo Coast, when the driver of an oncoming motor car allegedly lost control of the vehicle and collided with him.

(Reuters) – A former girlfriend of Charlie Sheen on Thursday sued the actor for assault, negligence and emotional distress, saying they had sex at least five times before he revealed he was HIV-positive.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two today, Egyptian security officials said.

A no-confidence motion is to be moved against Chairman of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Board, Clinton Williams when it meets this morning, sources say.

Guyana’s government has asked Venezuela to explain why one of its helicopters landed at an airstrip at Kaikan, in Region Seven yesterday.

The executive of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is calling for the government of Guyana to grant those miners who have not been paying tributors’ tax an amnesty.

A Bent Street shopkeeper was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after she was found guilty of drug trafficking by a city court.

Scores of members of the Rastafarian community yesterday staged a demonstration outside of the Attorney General’s office to protest against the “unjust laws” against the possession of marijuana, which they want decriminalised.

In light of the increased shopping during the holidays and poor quality goods on the market, the Consumers Affairs Division of the Ministry of Tourism has launched a campaign to educate consumers about their right to receive quality goods and services.

According to the caution statement admitted into evidence yesterday at the trial of Balram Singh, the accused confessed that he and another man murdered taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukhdeo.

‘D’ Division (West Demerara) police have intensified their presence in commercial areas, such as markets, amidst heightened activity during the holiday season.

A Timehri teen was yesterday released on $100,000 bail by a city court after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of armed robbery.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) announced last evening that Medium and Small miners have declared just over 359,000 ounces of gold as of the end of November.

With both sides remaining firm on their Annual Production Incentive (API) submissions, the Guyana Sugar Corporation and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will enter into conciliation on Tuesday.

A Bachelor’s Adventure man was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to stealing a quantity of articles he claimed were rented to his company.

The new $30.8M Cummings Park Nursery School was commissioned by the Ministry of Education on   Wednesday.

Canadian firm Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) has produced over 21,000 ounces of gold over the last two months as it continues to ramp-up mining activities at its Aurora Gold Mine in Region Seven.

WASHINGTON/ZURICH, (Reuters) – Soccer bosses from across South and Central America were among 16 people charged yesterday with multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights, in a dismantling of a Latin American soccer network by U.S.

Parliament’s Committee on Appointments had its first meeting on Wednesday but discussion of the establishment of the required Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Authority was not on the agenda.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – West Indies head coach Phil Simmons said yesterday he was not too worried by his side’s ongoing challenges in the ongoing tour match against Cricket Australia XI, and has warned detractors not to underestimate the Caribbean side in the three-Test series starting next week.

Over 300 persons in Linden and Lethem municipalities were recently employed through the Community Infrastructure Improvement Project (CIIP) implemented by the Ministry of Communities.

Despite the earlier downpours, a mammoth crowd witnessed heavyweights Sparta Boss, North Ruimveldt, Back Circle and newcomer Channel-9 Warriors clinch their quarterfinal berths in the Guinness of the Streets’ Georgetown Champion-ship on Wednesday.

Even as reports surfaced on Wednesday that Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman had ordered that embattled Commissioner of the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) Rickford Vieira proceed on leave, sources intimate with the country’s mining industry have told Stabroek Business that the circumstances surrounding persistent rumours that Vieira might eventually be dismissed are “neither straightforward nor uncomplicated.”

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has established a Revenue Investigation Unit in the City Treasurer’s Department as it seeks to ensure property owners pay their contributions.

It was perhaps inevitable that comparisons would be made between what was officially billed as a one-off event, last weekend’s three-day Business Exposition and annual GuyExpo that was postponed, officials said, so that government of Guyana could throw its full weight behind using GuyExpo 2016 as one of the blue-ribbon events to mark the 50th year of Guyana’s attainment of independence.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) wishes to the address the concerns raised by Rev Gideon Cecil in his letter to the Stabroek News on December 2, 2015, captioned, ‘Overseas mail is always opened.’

Less than five years ago Jennel Pierre was a studious St Stanislaus College student contemplating the possible pursuit of a post-CSEC career in one branch or another of the Natural Sciences.

On December 3rd the Social Work Department of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC) observed International Day of Persons with Disabilities by hosting a Foot Care Workshop for the Diabetic patients of its Amputee Clinic, a release from the centre said.

BLOEMFONTEIN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius was found guilty yesterday of murdering his girlfriend, in an appeal court ruling that could see him sent back to prison for at least 15 years.

An ex-con was yesterday charged in a city court with stealing $1.2 million in cash and goods in a break-in after police said his fingerprint was found at the crime scene.

Dear Editor,   The reported move by Ivy league universities, Harvard and Princeton, to discontinue use of the title ‘Master’ as in ‘Master of the Residential College,’ instead of ‘Head of the College,’ on the grounds that terms like ‘Master’ are too poignant reminders of the distasteful history of slavery, is quite interesting.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA’s executive committee approved a package of planned reforms yesterday aimed at cleaning up soccer’s scandal-plagued world governing body, proposing integrity checks and term limits for senior officials and a new separation of policy and management positions.

By Valrie Grant, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Previous articles would have dealt with GIS in various aspect of economic development.

 Gold Prices for the three-day period ending  Thursday  December 3, 2015

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Ajinkya Rahane rescued India with a gutsy unbeaten 89, guiding the hosts to 231 for seven after off-spinner Dane Piedt made a memorable return to the South African test side on the opening day of the fourth and final test yesterday.

Guyanese born dentist, Dr Kenneth Jainandan of Lake Mary Florida, USA, recently presented the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central with dental and oral hygiene supplies for their Dental Outreach Programme.

Over time and the advent of modern medicine notwithstanding, Guyanese health-seekers continue to evince an interest in so-called ‘superfoods,’ said to be nutrient dense foods that are especially beneficial to health and well-being.

Dear Editor,   Here’s an interesting piece: A recently elected Prime Minister is coming under fire for using public money to pay for nannies to look after his children.

On Wednesday there was an air of earnestness about the manner in which Water Street vendors were going about luring the relative handful of walk-by potential customers that were glancing at the goods laid out on pallets.

Dear Editor, In his letter in the Stabroek News of November 16, Pandit Haresh Tewari is correct in pointing out that I was wrong to describe the Ramayan as a myth, and I apologize for that.

(The Sports Xchange) – Stephen Curry delivered one of the best shooting displays of his career as the Golden State Warriors maintained their perfect start to the season with a 116-99 victory over the Hornets in Charlotte on Wednesday.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – The couple suspected of killing 14 people at a holiday party in California amassed thousands of rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs, authorities said yesterday as they sought clues to the pair’s motives and whether they had links to Islamist militants.

CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – The Indian military evacuated more than 2,000 residents stranded in the southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday as the death toll from flooding rose to 269 after the heaviest cloudburst in over a century.

(Trinidad Guardian) Political legend, cultural icon, mentor to many. Those were among tributes which have poured in for longstanding political and cultural figure Dr Kamaluddin “Charch” Mohammed who died Tuesday night and who was laid to rest on Wednesday evening at the El Socorro cemetery.

Since its establishment in August this year, Amy’s Pomeroon Foods Inc may well have set a record in the local manufacturing sector.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Rising paceman Josh Hazlewood can expect to shoulder a heavy workload over the summer as a victim of his own success, according to Australia coach Darren Lehmann.

Dear Editor, It is amazing how the birth of a child can trigger global attention.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Abu Bakr’s letter ‘Has been looking at suicide phenomenon for years’ (SN, Nov 26) wherein he incorrectly concludes that Vishnu Bisram stated “[Bakr has] no right to explore the implications of the call by Dr [Baytoram] Ramharack for more activism by more Indian intellectuals.”

Esuan Crandon, the Guyana Jaguars Head Coach says the defending champions are rearing to go and will use their momentum from their three consecutive home wins as they face Trinidad & Tobago this morning in round four of the 2015/16 Professional Cricket League 4-Day tournament against the Red Force.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidadian national Kareem Ibrahim, who was convicted in the United States and sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up the JFK airport in New York, has been declared a terrorist by the local courts.

The products created Wooden Memories Inc were among those that captured the imagination of visitors to Guyana’s first ever Business Exposition held from Friday November 27 to Sunday November 29 at the Sophia Exhibition Complex.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Polarized Venezuela heads to the polls this weekend with a punishing recession forecast to rock the ruling Socialists and propel an optimistic opposition to its first legislative majority in 16 years.

The trial of the two police constables accused of assaulting detainee Colwyn Harding was adjourned again yesterday.

Dear Editor, We claim to be free from colonialism and that we are an independent country, but every day and in every way, we still demonstrate the politics and economics of colonial influences.

Guyana completed the sweep of their four-match international basketball series against Antigua, snatching a dramatic 71-69 win compliments of a Shane Webster dagger in the dying seconds on Wednesday.

(Barbados Nation) BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED (BHL) shareholders continue to inch closer to a massive payday as two conglomerates battle for control of the Barbadian company.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 644’s trading results showed consideration of $6,528,883 from 43,859 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 643’s trading results, which showed consideration of $10,070,476 from 331,668 shares traded in 17 transactions.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential chief of staff traded barbs with the speaker of the lower house of Congress yesterday as President Dilma Rousseff’s government marshaled its defense for the impeachment proceedings launched against her on Wednesday.

One assumes that (sooner rather than later) there will be some sort of official assessment of last weekend’s Business Exposition, the event being the first of its kind and the organisers, presumably, wanting to determine whether the event might have been sufficiently successful to warrant its annualisation.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Teenager Jake Carder stroked a half-century on first class debut as Cricket Australia XI put West Indies under pressure on the second day of their four-day match here yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Avianca flight 124 touched down in Barbados on Wednesday evening at the Grantley Adams Inter-national Airport.

Politikles

The motivation for these remarks comes from the stimulation I frequently get from the analyses and even advisories in some Sunday Stabroek editorials.

Dear Editor,   Two developments caught my attention recently. Both brought a chuckle on the way things are in Guyana.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. military will let women serve in all combat roles, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said yesterday in a historic move striking down gender barriers in the armed forces.

Wednesday’s editorial (The choice of Commonwealth Secretary-General) provided a rather good explanation and some useful insights into the machinations behind the campaign for the top job in the Commonwealth and the eventual election of Dominica’s nominee, Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal (a village in the county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom), at the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta.

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