Daily Archive: Monday, July 11, 2016

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Discarded West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin has been penalized by the West Indies Cricket Board for his Twitter rant last week announcing his sacking from the Test squad.

President David Granger, today, established the Department of National Events, under the Ministry of the Presidency.

Guyanese investigators have been lauded for the assistance they provided to the UK authorities which today saw the convictions of two Turks for the trafficking of 3.2 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of 512 million pounds sterling.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Energy minister Andrea Leadsom abruptly withdrew from the contest to succeed David Cameron as Britain’s prime minister today, leaving her rival Theresa May as the only candidate.

With around 400 people turning up each day, the Passport Office has been stretched to the limit and Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix has made a series of proposals to overhaul the system including making the office semi-autonomous and civilian-run.

A Kitty woman remained in a critical state last night at a city hospital after being stabbed multiple times and left for dead in front of her home by the father of her child.

An elderly man died following a boat collision in the Moruca River, North West District on Saturday morning.

A  5.5 kilometres road will soon be built at Kururu on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway in Region 4, paving the way for access to a site designated to destroy old and derelict vehicles and for the overall use of residents in the community.

The sudden death of a sixteen-year-old East Canje girl shook the county of Berbice on Saturday, as relatives and friends are still at a loss as to what could have triggered the teen’s action.

Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green on Friday said that a $25,000 tax will only be charged for containers that are parked outside of a business place.

Argentina is considering assistance to the security sector in Guyana, its Ambassador Luis Martino says.

While residents and farmers of the Mahaicony Creek are seeing a significant drop in water levels after two months of deep flooding, they are convinced that even tougher times are ahead when the land dries out.

Georgetown, Guyana – Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, yesterday received a donation of 50 bats and balls from the Caribbean Premier League’s Chief Operations Officer, Pete Russell, for distribution to communities across the country.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation has advertised for an intermediary to assist it with the sale of land to prospective buyers, The beleaguered and debt-ridden sugar corporation has resorted to land sales in the past to raise cash for its operations and to pay off bank loans.

A stylish fifty from Hashim Amla, coupled with some tight bowling allowed the Trinbago Knight Riders to hand the Guyana Amazon Warriors a narrow seven run defeat, their first of the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) played in front of another sold out Guyanese crowd at Providence last night.

The Ministry of Education ground will come alive tonight when the quarterfinal round in the Ministry of Health/Petra Organization Soft Shoe Championship commences from 21:00hrs.

Police yesterday acting on information picked up a human skull and several pieces of bone in the backlands of Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara.

The Region Executive Officer (REO) of Region Five has been transferred to Region Seven.

ARCALIS, Andorra,  (Reuters) – Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands attacked near the foot of the final climb to win the ninth stage of the Tour de France in extreme weather conditions as Alberto Contador pulled out of the race  yesterday.

A man was on Friday remanded to prison at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court over threatening behaviour towards his brother.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The IAAF’s Doping Review Board has turned down applications from 67 Russian athletes to compete internationally as “neutral” individuals, following a blanket ban on the country’s track and field athletes for systematic doping.

(Reuters) – Olympic champion Allyson Felix failed to make the U.S.

A Campbellville carpenter was on Friday granted bail after denying that he brutalised his common-law wife.

Today will mark two years since Panama’s Copa Airlines began serving  Guyana.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies right-hander Shai Hope stroked a superb unbeaten hundred as the two-day tour game against the touring Indians finished in tame draw at Warner Park here yesterday.

Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally on  Friday said that she was proud to honour 124 top performers from across five regions “who have done exceedingly well” at the 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Title-holders Barbados rebounded from their opening round loss to crush Jamaica by eight wickets but rain wrecked the Regional Women’s Championship for the second successive round here Saturday.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) wishes to respond to a former President in what he describes as a ‘missive’ in one of the political parties’ weekend newspaper publications.

American oil firm ExxonMobil is expected to sink one more exploratory well before drilling production wells at its Stabroek block offshore Guyana, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says.

Dear Editor, I am a worried citizen of Suriname who writes in relation to the statement that the President of my country delivered to the heads of government at the recent Caricom meeting in Georgetown. 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots left-arm seamer Krishmar Santokie will part with 75 per cent of his match fee after breaching the Caribbean Premier League’s Code of Conduct.

JUBA/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Renewed fighting erupted in South Sudan’s capital yesterday and forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar said his residence was attacked by the president’s troops, raising fears of a slide back into full-blown conflict in the five-year-old nation.

The Chairman of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Rawle Lucas says he is being paid a monthly stipend of $10,500.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Lancashire’s England ODI vice-captain Jos Buttler hit 57 off 22 balls with a fractured thumb in a T20 win over Worcestershire on Friday, the county club said X-rays had revealed.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – The U.S. military veteran who fatally shot five Dallas police officers was plotting a larger assault, authorities said yesterday, disclosing how he also taunted negotiators and wrote on a wall in his own blood before being killed.

The  Ministry of Education is  informing the public that schools in Georgetown will continue to distribute School Uniform Vouchers to Parents /Guardians until Thursday, July 14, 2016.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter from Mr Ralph Ramkarran captioned ‘It was the mistake of the WPA…’ published in the SN of July 9.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Cometh the hour, cometh the man — Andy Murray proved himself the bastion of British tennis once again as he outclassed Canadian powerhouse Milos Raonic to claim a second Wimbledon title in masterful fashion yesterday.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared victory yesterday in a marathon national election, with his coalition government retaining power and the opposition Labor Party conceding defeat.

(Trinidad Guardian) It will be a committed gesture to the legacy of late former prime minister Patrick Manning if the Prime Ministers and Presidents of the region resuscitate the Caricom and Caribbean integration charted by Manning’s vision of the Caribbean as a potent force on the world stage, said President Anthony Carmona on Saturday.

Access to information on government programmes and activities is a fundamental right of all citizens.

Dear Editor, Whether we like it or not, police killings in the US are a race problem.

EUGENE, Oregon, (Reuters) – Justin Gatlin won a 200 metres showdown with LaShawn Merritt and 41-year-old Bernard Lagat made his fifth Olympic team by winning the 5,000m at the U.S.

Dear Editor, For at least the last decade or so India has been among the most important cricket countries both in terms of the quality of its cricket, and its contribution to the financing of international cricket and cricketers.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition won a landslide victory yesterday in an election for parliament’s upper house, despite concerns about his economic policies and plans to revise the nation’s post-war pacifist constitution for the first time.

With photos by David Papannah   With Guyana having just co-hosted the Caricom Heads of Government Summit, we asked the man/ woman in the street what Caricom means to them as Guyanese, if they were aware of the recently concluded conference and whether they believe we are benefiting from being part of the community.

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) – An ecstatic Lewis Hamilton won his home British Grand Prix for the third year in a row yesterday and his Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg’s overall lead was slashed to a single point.

Friday morning’s tragic death by fire of two brothers at the state-run Drop-In Centre on Hadfield Street is a stark reminder of the dire circumstances of a prominent number of families and the state’s obligation to assist them.

Politikles

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday his government would consider giving Tanzania, where he’s visiting, a $500 million loan to finance water projects in the east African nation.

(Barbados Nation) The dust has settled on the fight for Banks Breweries and now the substantial legal costs in the bidding war falls to Banks Holdings and SLU Beverages.

Dear Editor, After ten years since it was inaugurated only four countries, Guyana, Barbados, Belize and recently Dominica have joined the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), and two countries, Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda have initiated steps to get on board.

  By Wendy Grenade   Dr. Wendy C. Grenade is a Grenadian who is a Lecturer in Political Science and the Deputy Dean (Outreach), Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus.