Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Albert Cromwell, an independent candidate contesting to be the representative for the Kitty/Subryanville constituency, was today charged with the unlawful wounding of a member of the Team Benschop for Mayor Campaign.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC-The chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Dave Richardson, is suggesting that young West Indies bowler Keemo Paul should have warned Zimbabwe batsman Richard Ngarava before removing his bails in an incident that sparked controversy during the recent ICC Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh.

Team Benschop which is fielding candidates for the Georgetown City Council election says a volunteer was assaulted last evening while putting up flags.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday afternoon took into custody a People’s Progressive Party (PPP) employee Jason Abdulla for unknown reasons, a release from the PPP said.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rapper Kendrick Lamar led the Grammy winners on Monday with five wins but was shut out of the night’s top categories as Taylor Swift nabbed album of the year in an upset victory.

Over the next five years, government will be working to integrate contract workers into the traditional public service, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who yesterday said the APNU+AFC administration inherited the system under which the workers were hired, forcing it to go with the flow for now.

The Ministry of Agriculture has challenged the severance pay figure of $675 million for Wales estate workers mooted at a recent Moray House Trust (MHT) forum and it has also cast doubt on a proposal that the sugar estate can be transformed into a public company.

A fire suspected to be electrical in origin completely destroyed a Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house, leaving a woman counting some $2 million in losses.

A teenager was shot on Sunday evening shot during a lime with his friends after he raised an alarm upon seeing another with a firearm.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has increased the capacity of nearby well stations in a bid to get water to residents of Diamond, East Bank Demerara and surrounding areas, who have been enduring a disruption in service.

By the end of this month, the National Communications Network (NCN) should be providing the uplink for the Guyana Learning Channel, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo told the National Assembly last evening.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce has deplored two recent murders in Berbice and says the people of the county are demanding protection from the government.

A 16-year-old of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, is the country’s second confirmed Zika virus case, while one US state has reported that a 56-year-old woman, who returned from a visit to Guyana, has also tested positive for the virus.

Some Rahaman’s Park, Greater Georgetown residents are upset over ongoing construction work by businessman Ray Rahaman that has left their main access road littered with dirt and broken bottles, which they say are a hazard.

Permanent secretaries and senior managers of government ministries and agencies will soon have a chance to enhance the delivery of public service under the Canada-funded $20 million Caribbean Leadership Project.

A 23-year-old man of Lot 64 Back Street, Affiance, Essequibo Coast is now dead after he fell and hit his head on February 14.

Selwyn Woodroffe, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant who was hit on Saturday morning by a speeding Route 45 minibus, remains hospitalised in a critical state.

Eleven contestants will vie to be the Calypso Monarch when the finals are held on Friday.

Spinners Veerasammy Permaul, Devendra Bishoo and Gudakesh Motie yesterday grabbed eight wickets among them to help the Guyana Jaguars defeat Trinidad and Tobago’s Red Force by 105 runs in their seventh round match of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Professional Cricket League four-day tournament at the Providence National Stadium.

A rematch involving welterweight prospect Kishawn ‘Special K’ Simon and Cassius ‘Classy’ Matthews has been added to the undercard of the ‘Hostile Territory’ event scheduled for February 27at the Giftland Mall.

No one has yet been charged over the traffic accident on January 30, 2016 that claimed the life of Ann Mohammed at Coverden.

A baby boy is in a critical condition at a city hospital, while his mother is recovering after they were chopped on Saturday evening during a domestic dispute.

From: Allan La Rose In Houston, Texas Compliments of GFF, Colours, Isotonix and Oasis Water Guyana’s Lady Jags and Trinidad’s Soca Princesses will meet this afternoon in the most crucial group ‘B’ fixture of the CONCACAF final round Women’s Olympic Qualifiers at the BBVA COMPASS Stadium with a prized semifinal spot at stake.

Dear Editor, As the Zika epidemic is spreading explosively around the world, and city officials particularly in towns and cities in the Americas have been implementing all sorts of methods to control it, including traditional mosquito control techniques such as spraying pesticides and emptying standing water receptacles where mosquitoes breed, etc.

Minibus and taxi drivers at the Moleson Creek Ferry Terminal have formed the Moleson Creek Bus and Taxi Drivers Association.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Russell Westbrook took a little bit of the focus away from West team mate and retiring great Kobe Bryant’s final NBA All-Star Game appearance when the Oklahoma City point guard claimed MVP honours for a second straight year on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Bartica will officially become a town on April 23, and it is imperative that we take a look in our rearview mirror to see how far we have come as a village, what some of our major challenges and successes were, and what best practices we can emulate as we forge a brighter future.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Australia secured an easy victory in the first test against New Zealand yesternday, thrashing the hosts by an innings and 52 runs after lunch on the fourth day to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

There have been no new reported cases of gastroenteritis in the North West District village of Baramita as the occurrence of the virus remains under control.

Dear Editor, President David Granger seems to be finding himself in some very precarious positions as he seeks to unite this divided country.

The donor community should be paying more interest in the work of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), according to PPP/C General Secretary Clement Rohee who yesterday said that there is continued misunderstanding of the unit’s role.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – The threat of West Indies being forced to field a second string side at the World Twenty20 was averted on Sunday when 12 of 13 players in the original squad signed the contracts which had caused a standoff with the board.

A Bartica dredge owner was yesterday denied bail on charges of firearm and ammunition possession.

Dear Editor, In an interview with the Guyana Times on Monday, January 25, Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine had indicated that most aspects of the Central Counselling Body had been finalized and all was to be implemented within 10 days.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Twenty20 series wins over Australia and Sri Lanka have given top-ranked India plenty of cause for optimism as they launch their bid for a second world crown in the sport’s shortest format on home soil next month.

Michael France, called “Mosquito,” was yesterday remanded to prison after he made an appearance before a city court for alleged cocaine trafficking.

Saying that the opposition is being subjected to “extremely partisan behaviour” by Speaker Barton Scotland, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday declared that the situation is becoming overbearing and that the PPP/C would fight future attempts to restrain its representation of the people.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Under-19 West Indies team, whose victory is all the sweeter for me because it was at the expense of the biggest of the so-called Big Three, who have hijacked the game to which the West Indies contributed more high quality cricketers in the second half of the twentieth century than any other country.

Milerock FC and Winners Connection claimed lopsided victories when the Upper Demerara Football Association First Division League continued on Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground.

An Amelia’s Ward youth was yesterday granted his release on $15,000 bail by a city court after he denied a charge of simple larceny.

Dear Editor, I make reference to an article captioned ‘Wales workers needed timelier info on estate closure, PM admits’ that was carried in your February 13 edition.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sunil Narine’s Indian Premier League franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders, has thrown its full backing behind the embattled off-spinner, following his abrupt withdrawal from the West Indies Twenty20 World Cup squad.

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Monedderlust FC battled to a scoreless draw when the Guyana Football Federation Stag Beer Elite League Finale continued on Sunday.

A Crane, West Coast Demerara woman accused of conspiring with others to fraudulently obtain $5.4 million under the pretence that she could deliver a Lexus vehicle, was granted $200,000 bail by a city court.

Dear Editor, First of all I want to congratulate the leaders of the Alliance for Change (AFC) who had the wisdom and foresight to broker the Cummingsburg Accord which is still going strong with APNU+AFC.

Dear Editor, The race for the White House is heating up and already there are indications that the front runners from both sides of the political divide are getting, as it were, a run for their money.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s ministry of labour has fined 340Brazilian companies for using slave labour, including forced labour and people working in degrading conditions for little or no pay in rural and urban areas, a leading anti-slavery group has said.

Urquhart Street, Kingston will be closed between Main and New Market streets today from 08:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs to facilitate emergency road works.

Retrieve Raiders and Amelia’s Ward Jets secured convincing victories when the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA)/104.3 POWER FM Mash Championships continued on Sunday.

Ideal for afternoon cycling: Children take advantage of the Mayor and City Council’s unused East Street parking lot to ride their bikes in safety.

Kuru-Kururu Warriors, Attention Family and Royal Youths were among the winners when the inaugural Guyana Beach Soccer Association (GBSA) National Championships continued on Sunday.

What irony! Just when Latin America is beginning to despise messianic autocrats, the United States and Europe seem to be embracing them.

Politikles

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Venezuela is talking to some OPEC members and Russia about the possibility of joint action to prop up oil prices, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said, while another diplomat said Moscow wanted better ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

KIEV/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey warned Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria yesterday they would face the “harshest reaction” if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border, and accused Russia of a missile attack there that killed at least 14 civilians.

Dear Editor, Over the last several days, greater New York area has been facing life-threatening freezing conditions approaching record low temperatures after a relatively warm Fall/Winter through the end of December.

A brief media release issued by the Office of the Presidency last Wednesday alluded to a meeting on the same day between President David Granger and University of Guyana Chancellor Professor Nigel Harris.