Daily Archive: Friday, February 12, 2016

Articles published on Friday, February 12, 2016

New GGMC Chairman, Board in place

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman (standing fifth from right), today, charged the newly inducted Chairman and Board members of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to tackle the more demanding challenges hindering the mining sector, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

President David Granger (left) and Sir Shridath Ramphal (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

Granger to lobby again over Venezuela claim

As the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Agreement nears, President David Granger said that he will once again raise the issue of Venezuela’s claim on Guyana’s territory regionally and internationally, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said today. 

Davis Williams

Three die in Annai crash

(Photos by Samantha James) Three persons on their way to their farm died following a horrific collision between a car and their motorcycle at Annai, North Rupununi, yesterday morning, leaving residents of the indigenous community in shock and mourning.

President David Granger greets Member of Parliament of the Canadian House of Commons, Alexandra Mendѐs, at the Ministry of the Presidency.  (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

President meets Canadian MPs

President David Granger yesterday met with members of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), who are in Guyana seeking to foster closer ties  among Commonwealth Parliamentarians, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Police in ganja seizures

At about 1120h on Wednesday, police ranks, acting on information received, conducted a search on a camp at Belle Vue Village, East Bank Berbice, where 4 kilograms of marijuana were found, the police said in a release yesterday.

Robin Bacchus could make his four-day debut today against the Red Force and prepared himself with a good net session yesterday.

Bacchus delighted with four-day call up

Guyana Jaguars’ newest addition to their four-day team, Robin Bacchus says he will be looking to cement a place in the side once given a chance to perform during the final leg of the 2015/16 Professional Cricket League (PCL) competition which restarts today.

 Lady Jags trounced 5-0 by Canada

The Lady Jaguars CONCACAF 2016 Olympic qualifying campaign got off to the worst possible start, losing to giants Canada by a 5-0 score line yesterday at the BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas.

Josh Hazlewood

New Zealand dismissed for 183 before tea

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Australia’s Josh Hazlewood and Peter Siddle destroyed New Zealand’s batting lineup with a disciplined plan of bowling straight and full to skittle the hosts for 183 shortly before tea on the first day of the first test last night.

Consternation over jewellery regulations

Dear Editor, It is with great consternation and trepidation that I am now reading about the laws regarding the dollar value of jewellery that can legally be taken through the airport and what this to my mind means for the ordinary traveller, especially when that cost is added to the foreign currency that is on your person.

Brazil court freezes Vale, BHP, Samarco assets -report

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A judge in Brazil’s state of Minas Gerais has frozen 470 million reais ($118 million) of assets owned by Vale SA and 1.8 million reais linked to BHP Billiton Ltd to ensure payment of damages related to a deadly dam rupture, Rio de Janeiro’s O Globo newspaper said yesterday.

Drug cartel battle kills 49 in northeastern Mexican prison

MONTERREY, Mexico, (Reuters) – A battle between the feared Zetas drug cartel and rivals at a prison left 49 people dead in the northeastern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said yesterday, days ahead of a planned visit by Pope Francis to another jail in Mexico’s far north.

LIAT issues Zika travel advisory

(Barbados Nation) ST JOHN’S – LIAT, The Caribbean Airline, has issued a travel advisory for all customers with reservations booked on or before February 10 who are concerned about travelling to destinations with the Zika virus.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 654’s trading results showed consideration of $8,688,223 from 37,583 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 653’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,659,336 from 39,808 shares traded in 22 transactions.

‘Work’ is not Tropical House

Dear Editor, Understanding the world of popular music can be very challenging at times, particularly when there may be outright attempts by mainstream powers to either ignore and/or wrongly label sounds that they either do not understand or refuse to accept.

More green and yellow

More green and yellow: Tyres along the East Coast Highway which are protecting plants have been painted in yellow and green, the colours of the ruling APNU+AFC coalition.

Kirk Clarke conducting a seminar

Clarke’s Productions aims to offer ‘new experience’ in media services

Having served what he says was an instructive apprenticeship in the early days of the development of visual mass media in Guyana, Kirt Clarke is seeking to make a different kind of contribution to the development of an enhanced audio visual culture through his own privately-run facility, Clarke’s Production or Clarke’s Pro as it is described in the promotional material.