Daily Archive: Friday, May 13, 2016

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – When Jodie Foster wanted to explore the human relationship with technology and virtual intimacy in her latest directorial effort “Money Monster,” she opted to use Wall Street as her setting and raise the dramatic stakes by holding George Clooney hostage.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency today due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Sir Curtly Ambrose has been replaced as West Indies bowling consultant, just over a month after helping the regional team to the capture of the Twenty20 World Cup in India.

Taxi drivers displaced from Stabroek Market Square protesting outside of Parliament yesterday over their loss of work.

A delegation of rice farmers from the Essequibo Coast met with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today and discussed various problems, GINA said.

The Guyana Police Force is informing the general public that the Berbice Bridge Company Inc.

(Trinidad Guardian) Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke spent the night in police custody after being detained in relation to a rape allegation made by an attorney working with his organisation.

President David Granger yesterday declared that the nation’s future depends on wider political inclusiveness and challenged the National Assembly to take a lead in the process.

Former UG Professor Perry Mars died last night after being found beaten and tied in his Prashad Nagar residence.

A Haslington, East Coast Demerara shopkeeper was stabbed to death by his brother-in-law last night after a heated argument.

Preliminary investigations indicate that Monday’s devastating fire at the Gafoor’s Houston Com-plex was “accidental in nature”, according to Fire Chief Marlon Gentle.

A man was yesterday charged with shooting at policemen as well as forging a transport as part of a scheme to defraud another person of over $10 million.

Two men, who were held after allegedly committing a brazen robbery on Rose Hall cambio dealers on Monday, were yesterday charged and one of them was faced with multiple charges, including armed robbery and attempted murder.

Ex-policeman Waliaferro Joseph was last evening found guilty of attempting to murder his former lover, Uneatha McLean, at her Number 50 Village, Corentyne home, six years ago.

Promising incentives for businesses that invest in his government’s plan for a green and sustainable economy, President David Granger last evening restated that the country needs to wean off of its dependence on fossil fuel.

Loric Williams and Chris Douglas, former employees of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) who were charged last June with attempting to smuggle cocaine in rum to the United States of America, were yesterday found guilty of the crime.

Three persons including a woman are currently in police custody after ranks from the Major Crimes Unit yesterday afternoon conducted a search at a house in section A, block X Diamond, EBD during which one 9mm pistol and several rounds of ammunition were found.

At the Vreed-en-Hoop Court, Magistrate Crystal Lambert on Monday imposed four-year jail sentences on two accused on armed robbery charges while another was sentenced to three years  at the conclusion of a trial.

An attempt to charge three Sophia residents, who were victims of attacks on Election Day last year, was aborted yesterday after it was realised that the wrong charges were prepared.

Several parents of students enrolled in Grade Five of the Mae’s Primary School staged a protest outside the school yesterday, claiming that they paid for extra lessons that were not being delivered.

Puran Brothers Disposal Inc. and Cevons Waste Management are owed millions of dollars by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown for garbage collection in the city.

MONTREAL, (Reuters) – World sport is facing an unprecedented drug crisis as yet another in a string of doping bombshells dropped at the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) foundation board meeting yesterday, shocking officials.

Rico Persaud, who stole a cellphone from a shop owner that he has been acquainted with for years, was yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison after he pleaded guilty to the charge.

Golden Jaguars head-coach Jamal Shabazz said the management staff has yet to name a captain for Sunday’s fixture against the Canadian Olympic Team at the National Stadium at Providence.

A man was yesterday jailed for cuffing and threatening his common-law wife in the presence of their two children.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) is seeking a meeting with former members of the Rosinante Farmers’ Co-operative Society members next Friday, to discuss regularization of the state lands once held by the co-op.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) become the latest sponsor to throw its support behind the Canada and Guyana International Friendly, donating an undisclosed amount to the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, CMC – Ex-West Indies and Barbados speedster, Tino Best, says he plans to give his all during his ongoing stint for Hampshire in the English County Champion-ship.

While noting the positive impact the cleaning of the city’s drains has had on minimising flooding in the city recently, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is urging residents to dispose of their plastic garbage sensibly.

Even as Monday’s ceremony appears to have signalled an end to the battle by the National Air Transport Association (NATA) to prevent the former Ogle International Airport facility from being renamed the Eugene F Correia International Airport, there are clear signs that the feuding between the management of Ogle Airport Inc and several of the other operators there may persist for some while longer.

Thirty Guyanese immigration officers and customs inspectors have completed a Spanish familiarisation course conducted by the Mexican embassy in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – India’s Shashank Manohar has been elected unopposed as the first independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body said yesterday.

In the Pomeroon River, there continues to be an awareness that the coconut market can provide a lucrative entrepreneurial option, so much so that Pomeroon landowners, who had just a few years ago had turned their backs on the land and headed for the gold fields, are making the trek back.

A fair number of people – including some employees of the company with whom this newspaper spoke – have commented favourably on the grit and determination with which the Guyana Fire Service battled Monday’s conflagration at the Gafoors Houston Complex.

A Lacytown man, who was reportedly shot at when apprehended by the owner of a store it is alleged he broke and entered, was yesterday granted $100,000 bail by a city court.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Canadian businessman Victor Montagliani was elected president of CONCACAF, the embattled governing body for soccer in North, Central America and the Caribbean, yesterday.

The current rainfall is hindering the Sophia Ring Road project, but work is still continuing according to Community Coordinator, Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Neilson McKenzie.

Dear Editor, The Cooperative Republic of Guyana will celebrate 50 years of its liberation from colonialism on May 26.

The Business Cartoon

MONTREAL,  (Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency’s compliance review committee unanimously recommended yesterday that Kenya be found in non-compliance with the WADA Code with immediate effect.

By Valrie Grant Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Running your own business is a real career path, but in the Caribbean context traditional classrooms and curriculum aren’t set up for future entrepreneurs.

Accused of skipping out on his $5,000 taxi fare, a man yesterday told a city court that he had every intention of paying.

Dear Editor, Tony Cozier, the voice of West Indies cricket is silenced.

DERBY, England,  CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes opener, Chesney Hughes, extended his superb early-season form for Derbyshire with an unbeaten half-century in a drawn encounter with Sussex, on a rain-hit final day of their English County Championship fixture here Wednesday.

 (The Sports Xchange) – Stephen Curry bombed in a 3-pointer with 24.9 seconds remaining on Wednesday as the Golden State Warriors held off the Portland Trail Blazers 125-121 to seal the Western Conference semi-final playoff series four games to one.

Dear Editor, Over the past few weeks, some valid questions have been raised in the media and elsewhere, about the Ogle Inter-national Airport, a public utility and a national asset.

The challenges faced by medical personnel within South Rupununi, Region Nine were among matters raised by community leaders and residents during a Ministerial Outreach, from May 5 to 7, GINA said.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday May 12, 2016

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India wants to host a day-night test against Australia early next year, according to a report, as the world’s richest cricket board continues its backing of the concept which seems to be taking root in the subcontinent.

The E-Governance Unit within the Ministry of Public Telecommunications has received specialised training in several areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from the Governments of India and China.

The ongoing saga of the challenges associated with creating an enhanced sense of order in downtown Georgetown and creating convivial spaces in the country’s capital could take yet another turn shortly as city merchants seek to bring their concerns to the attention of the municipality.

Dear Editor, There is a famous saying “Charity begins at home” but for the residents of the Pomeroon River, there is no home.

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC – Cricket Australia has paid tribute to the late Tony Cozier, highlighting his key role in the ground-breaking World Series Cricket staged here during the late 1970s.

The driver involved in the Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo accident that claimed one life, has regained consciousness after spending almost two weeks in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Against the background of claims made by members of the National Air Transport Association (NATA) that the recently renamed Eugene F Correia Airport continued to be dominated by a single company through rigid control of the Board of Ogle Airport Inc (OAI), Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson used his presentation at the renaming ceremony to underscore the fact that the facility remains a state asset.

Dear Editor, On May 9 at 17:05 hrs I was about to enter Brickdam Cathedral for the Requiem Mass in memory of my late brother, who was interred in Maryland, USA on May 7, when the outstretched hand of a male greeted me, which I thought was someone expressing their condolences.

Even as most Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries continue to struggle for market access for their manufactured goods on European and North American markets, Jamaica, long the regional leader in brands that find favour on the shelves of some of the more popular metropolitan markets, continues to forge ahead.

Dear Editor, I am really happy that Tony Cozier lived to see the West Indies triple triumph in the latest World Cups.

 (Reuters) – Uncapped duo Jake Ball and James Vince have been named in England’s squad for their home test against Sri Lanka at Headingley on May 19, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced yesterday.

Dear Editor, The executives and staff of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) are deeply saddened by the passing of the legendary Winston Anthony Lloyd ‘Tony’ Cozier who died at age 75 the day before yesterday, following an illness.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found to have entered the country illegally, according to sources and an internal document seen by Reuters.

The efforts of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) to induct greater numbers of local small and medium enterprises into the mainstream business sector has led to its Membership Committee being accorded increasingly weighty responsibilities in the period ahead.

 (The Sports Xchange) – The Toronto Raptors All Star guards DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry have come in for criticism for not living up to their status during the playoffs but both stifled the talk on Wednesday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States will meet next week for a third round of talks on improving relations, Havana said yesterday, adding that the two former Cold War foes were not yet negotiating their multibillion-dollar claims against one another.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia’s cricket board will make it compulsory for players to wear helmets when facing fast and medium-paced bowling in line with recommendations from a review into the death of test batsman Phillip Hughes.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer called on his country to rally behind his government of “national salvation,” hours after the Senate voted to suspend and put on trial his leftist predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, for breaking budget laws.

Dear Editor, In 1966 at the time of Independence I was resident at the Palms.

Stock market updates

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Preparations for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which begin in less than three months, will not be affected by the Brazilian senate’s vote to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday.

Dear Editor, There is an interesting development in the US presidential race.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid immigration tensions between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, Finance Minister Audley Shaw yesterday highlighted trade as another area which represents serious imbalance between Jamaica and the republic.

No one in this country should feel comfortable about what is going on in Venezuela at the present time. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went on a charm offensive yesterday to try to win the party establishment’s support for his insurgent candidacy, but top Republican Paul Ryan stopped short of endorsing him.

 -‘It was always illegal’ Two small up-front points: I’m glad I actually purchased a Guyana Times this past Sunday (I’m not too much a regular); secondly, what follows is as much a testimony to my fascination with other people’s Indianness in Guyana, as it is a brief nano-summary of my continually-delayed enlightenment on the issue, the phenomenon, the complex matrix of (a) people’s origins, history, culture, religion, ethnicity and generational lifelong bond.

Politikles