Daily Archive: Wednesday, February 10, 2016

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has questioned the timing of the Twenty20 World Cup squad’s contract demands, and says if players refuse to sign by Sunday’s deadline, replacements will have to be found.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The Hero Caribbean Premier League will stage six matches in the United States during the upcoming season, a landmark move that will see the premier regional Twenty20 tournament unveiled in the Americas for the first time.

The Maritime Administration Department’s (MARAD) Hydrographic Surveyor, Darrell Fraser, age 22yrs, left Guyana in June 2015, and returned on December 20th, 2015 after successfully completing training in “Hydrography For Charting and Disaster Management” in Japan.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today said it has officially recognised the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) as the labour representative for its employees and has engaged in negotiations with the Union to arrive at a collective bargaining agreement.

The drug trade here cannot be crippled unless the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has the backing of the judiciary and the police and there is international cooperation, according to Regional Director Matthew Donahue who today expressed confidence in a successful tenure in Guyana.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb 10, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board and dissatisfied players have found themselves at odds over the legitimacy of the West Indies Players Association’s role in negotiating players’ contracts.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japanese actor Ken Watanabe, an Academy Award nominee for his performance in the movie “The Last Samurai” and lauded in the recent Broadway revival of “The King and I,” is fighting stomach cancer and will have to postpone plans to return to Broadway.

MANCHESTER, N.H./COLUMBIA, S.C., (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton made the prospect of her being elected the first woman U.S.

Five candidates are contesting to be the representative for Constituency Two (Kitty North, Central, South and Subryanville) in the Georgetown municipality at the March 18 elections and among their priorities are cleaner and safer communities.

Opposition parliamentarian Yvonne Pearson yesterday told government to quit whining about ills inherited from the previous administration and show the indigenous people of the country specific benefits of this year’s proposed budget.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Raphael Trotman and Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson over the weekend visited Kwakwani and Ituni in Region 10 and promised a range of improvements including a paved road come 2018.

A witness yesterday testified that he recognised murder accused Alvin Semple as one of the men who invaded his father’s home after a rag he used to hide his face fell off during the fatal attack.

In the wake of its planned closure later this year, groups of workers of the Wales Sugar Estate on Monday attended meetings with GuySuCo officials to discuss their fate and many were left displeased with the decisions made.

-Rajkumar cites $233m for education APNU+AFC regional representative Hemraj Rajkumar says government’s promised “good life for all” budget would see multi-million-dollar development and improvements in education, health and agriculture in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).

Three men charged with stealing an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) were on Monday granted $100,000 bail each on the charge, but two of the accused remain on remand on additional charges of unlawful gun and ammunition possession.

Junior Minister of Education Nicolette Henry yesterday defended the amounts allotted for education, sports and cultural development in the proposed 2016 national budget, while saying government would work to foster holistic youth development.

The trial of Berbice businessman Charles Henry, who is charged with fatally shooting a man whose home he had been dismantling, began yesterday before Justice Franklyn Holder at the Berbice Assizes.

A Bourda man is now a remanded prisoner after he appeared before a city court yesterday to face a robbery charge for the second time in three months Carl Hilliman, 27, was read a charge that stated that he, together with others,

An unidentified man died instantly yesterday morning after a John Fernandes Limited truck ran over his head in the vicinity of the Public Buildings in Georgetown.

A police witness yesterday recounted the identification of Premnauth Samaroo as one of the men who robbed Justice Nicola Pierre.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be restructured and will take on more of an enforcement role, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says.

One of the four men charged with the robbery of the Bank of Baroda branch at Mon Repos is on bail but a bid by another to win his pre-trial liberty was denied yesterday.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Clifton Gibson, Linton Eastman and Stancy Rodney, the men accused of killing Rubis accountant, Jason Cort, continued on Monday with the testimony of another police witness.

A Brazilian national, accused of chopping a friend’s hand and causing it to be amputated, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he pleaded guilty to the crime.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has accused the PPP of excluding him while he was a member of the party because he did not conform to what he said was its pro-Hindi and communist ideologies.

Just over a week after a wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest, alleged fraudster Dhanraj Raghubir on Monday turned up at a city court for a scheduled hearing.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, CMC- Fresh controversy appears to be brewing between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the regional squad preparing to participate in the T20 World Cup in India, Media reports in Trinidad and Tobago suggest.

Suspects in a number of murders this year have gone underground and Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum says that investigators are making every effort to apprehend them.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC- West Indies Under-19s coach Graeme West is hoping his players can use their knowledge of Bangladesh Under-19s to exploit them, when the two teams face-off in the semi-final of the Youth Cricket World Cup here tonight Caribbean time.

The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) is set to play a number of fundraising softball matches at Crabwood Creek during the Easter weekend.

Firefighters yesterday saved a Lamaha Springs home by quickly preventing the spread of a fire which originated in the downstairs kitchen area.

Chris McCalmont, who was accused of stealing a Samsung smartphone, was on Monday released on bail after denying the charge in a city court.

National Under-15 batsman Kevlon Anderson struck a match-winning century for Lower Corentyne Secondary who beat Port Mourant Secondary by 102 runs in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Digicel/ Banks DIH National Secondary School Cricket League (NSSCL) tournament.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday shortlisted the top performers in the ongoing GCB/Banks DIH Ltd/Digicel National Secondary Schools League in a squad which will commence training on Monday in an effort to select the East Coast Demerara 14 member squads.

(Cricinfo) India soared to the final of the Under-19 World Cup, for the fifth time, after their dominant 97-run win against Sri Lanka in the first semi-final in Mirpur yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC-Windward Islands Volcanoes are hoping that their performance in the recently concluded NAGICO Super 50 can help trigger a change of fortunes for them in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Professional Cricket League (PCL) which resumes this week.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Coach of the Leeward Islands Hurricanes, Reginald Benjamin says his players are more prepared mentally to make the most of opposition weaknesses when they resume their campaign in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Professional Cricket league (PCL) later this week.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major blow to President Barack Obama by putting on hold federal regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, the centerpiece of his administration’s strategy to combat climate change.

Dear Editor, Listening to the invited addresses and various comments from the floor at last Friday evening’s Moray House session on the Wales estate closure, has prompted me to now share with the general public a perspective from my own intimate knowledge of the industry going back to the early sixties.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Fans with long memories may disagree but West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic believes their last-gasp, extra-time win over Liverpool yesterday will go down as one of the London club’s greatest triumphs.

MANCHESTER, N.H., (Reuters) – Riding a wave of voter anger at traditional politicians, billionaire Donald Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential nominating contest on Tuesday and U.S.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya, with its stellar medal prospects for the Rio Games, caused a stir yesterday when the head of its Olympics committee said the team might withdraw because of Zika, but officials said later it was too soon to decide on the impact of the virus.

Dear Editor, The calls for care and caution put by the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) as the coalition government proceeds as announced, with the negotiations with Guyana Wind Farm Inc (GWFI) are well justified.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Europe’s biggest soccer clubs, keen to secure automatic entry into the Champions League, are working with UEFA to review the format of the continent’s elite competition.

Dear Editor, After reading about the murder of yet another Chinese national in a robbery attempt, I felt compelled to write.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Centuries from openers Quinton de Kock and Hashim Amla guided South Africa to a seven-wicket victory over England yesterday that kept alive their hopes of winning the five-match series of one-day internationals.

(Reuters) – The Katusha World Tour cycling team have escaped suspension despite two of their riders failing drugs tests in the space of a year, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said yesterday after a disciplinary commission hearing.

(Trinidad Guardian) After 11 attempts at trying to capture the Calypso Monarch crown, Devon Seale yesterday snatched the coveted title and $1 million first prize from his 11 rivals.

Dear Editor, Government should not have initiated or announced plans to close the Wales Estate before it had a viable alternative economic plan(s) for ensuring that any attempt to close the estate would not result in pervasive unemployment and economic ruin in the affected communities.

(Reuters) – New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner has been ruled out of the first test against Australia and replaced by spinner Mark Craig, the team said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Inexperienced Sri Lanka fast bowlers Kasun Rajitha and Dasun Shanaka took three wickets apiece to bundle out India for 101 and set up a five-wicket victory in the first Twenty20 international yesterday.

SAN ANTONIO DE LOS BANOS, Cuba, (Thom-son Reuters Foundation) – Long known for its cigars and rum, Cuba has added organic honey to its list of key agricultural exports, creating a buzz among farmers as pesticide use has been linked to declining bee populations elsewhere.

I’d bet my bottom dollar that a substantial number of those who wanted to see the PPP/C out of government and supported the coalition are now extremely disappointed with the performance of the latter.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two tennis umpires were banned last year, one for life, for breaches of the sport’s Code of Conduct for Officials, governing body the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank the Parliament of Guyana and its sponsors for carrying live coverage of the sessions in the National Assembly.

Part 2   The previous column argues that old-fashioned textbook Keynesian macroeconomics, in terms of budget stimulus, will not be very effective in a country like Guyana that exports most of what it produces and imports a large percentage of what it consumes.

Dear Editor, On Thursday 6th February, 2016 a visit was made to Region 2 by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of State Joseph Harmon and the Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix and of course other senior ministry officials.

It is almost natural that, for reasons of our historical and contemporary connections, Guyana and the other Caricom countries would have been closely following the latest stages, and now the recent agreement, on negotiations between the European Union authorities and Britain.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- Assistant Coach of the West Indies Women’s cricket team, Ezra Mosely, says Grenadian leg spinner Afi Fletcher will have a key role to play for the regional side during separate tournaments in South Africa and India.