Daily Archive: Sunday, July 17, 2016

President David Granger and First Lady Mrs. Sandra Granger sang national songs and made merry with the children of the Hope Children’s Home at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, yesterday, as part of continuing celebrations for the President’s 71st birth anniversary, which was observed on Saturday.

PPP/C MP Charles Ramson Jnr yesterday made a fresh call for a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to be conducted into last year’s bungled Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) surveillance operation which left three persons dead and his wife and brother-in-law traumatised.

BATON ROUGE, La.,  (Reuters) – Three police officers were shot to death and three others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana today, in what authorities said was an ambush less than two weeks after a black man was killed by police, sparking nationwide protests.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Lowly St Kitts and Nevis Patriots slumped to their fourth straight defeat and their sixth in seven outings, as Jamaica Tallawahs crushed them by 108 runs here Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is a “tremendous shortage” of staff, especially skilled medical staff including both doctors and nurses, at the public health institutions in this country, the Sunday Guardian has learnt.

Saying the process was unfair, Cevons Waste Management has filed a protest with the newly-established Bid Protest Committee (BPC) over the award of the recently announced $221M contract to Puran Brothers Disposal Inc.

With photos by Keno George   It has only been a few days since schools closed for the August holidays, but the children of Buxton, East Coast Demerara have already assumed their rightful places in the niches of their community.

With business owners complaining of a reduction in sales, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce Inc (GCCI) Vishnu Doerga says the APNU+AFC government should “hold off on new forms of taxation.”

Introduction My recent columns have argued that, despite a relatively rich forest resource endowment, and relatedly a very high standing in the world of forests, Guyana has had historically one of the world’s lowest deforestation rates.

The parents of six-year-old Antonio George, and three-year-old Joshua George who died last week in a fire that raged at the Drop-In Centre on Hadfield Street, have since been granted access to their sons’ remains and death certificates.

Jeremy Corbyn is probably the first person to have won the leadership of the British Labour Party on a campaign that advanced a left agenda.

The construction company that built the Kato Secondary School says it is being wrongfully blamed for the school’s incompletion and alleged defects, as it met the required contractual obligations for the original sums provided.

Age has slowed me down but at least no day goes by without reading bringing me the fascinating and penetrating insights of other minds.

As the police in Berbice investigate the sexual assault of three young girls, ages four, seven and ten, their stepfather was arrested yesterday morning at his home.

Conclusion   Not easy Last week we identified the money supply, the credit provided by the private sector lending institutions and the interest rates associated with both savings and loans. 

A mysterious fire yesterday morning completely destroyed a wooden building at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara (ECD), leaving three persons homeless.

A new champion will be crowned tonight when Tucville oppose North East La Penitence in the Ministry of Health/Petra Organization Soft Shoe Championships at the Ministry of Education Ground.

Although the definition is quite loose, the expression millennial is usually used to mean those who were born between 1980 and the mid-2000s.

A fire on Friday afternoon, suspected to be electrical in origin, gutted a North Sophia home, leaving four persons counting millions of dollars in losses.

TROON, Scotland, (Reuters) – The British Open was fortified by the over-40s yesterday as Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson produced a ding-dong tussle to turn golf’s oldest major into a gripping two-man slugfest.

In a recent column I made a passing reference to a comment from Stabroek News writer Alan Fenty who had posed the question in his column whether “one could be Guyanese – spiritually and culturally – without being Indian, African, European or Chinese?”

From tomorrow, the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) will relocated the morning sessions of the annual P & P Insurance Brokers Tennis Camp for 6-11 year-olds to the National Gymnasium up until July 29.

For years, Wintress White was a victim of domestic violence. But even though her husband beat her at his every whim and fancy and she would leave him on her own or when he chased her she kept returning as she puts it “for love.”

In this week’s edition of In Search Of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at another season in which an elite batsman experiences a state of Nirvana.

With just one defeat on the opening day, Guyanese squash players were off to an excellent start on the opening day of the Caribbean junior squash championships in the Cayman Islands.

An amendment to existing police legislation is all that is required to cement the procedures that would govern the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), which is just another unit within the Guyana Police Force, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said last Friday.

With the commissioning of Radio Lethem in May and that of Radio Mabaruma several weeks later, residents of Lethem and Mabaruma are still anticipating the airing of local programmes on their respective stations.

There are no shortcuts to proper maintenance of ornamental plants in a garden.

Residents of Port Kaituma have given mixed reviews of the recent discussions with representatives of the Ministry of Communities on the deplorable state of the Matarkai Main Access Road.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan ended day three of the first test in a strong position but the match remained delicately poised as a magnificent bowling display by Chris Woakes kept England in the hunt at Lord’s yesterday.

Red-bellied Macaws are mainly green with a red belly patch and blue forewings and head. 

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Jermaine Blackwood gathered a patient half-century to find form ahead of next week’s first Test, as the WICB President XI’s three-day game against India finished in a draw here yesterday.

The Berbice Regional Health Services (BRHS) has administered in excess of 9,000 yellow fever vaccines to residents of Region Six, East Berbice and Rosignol, Region Five, West Coast Berbice in the last three weeks.

Interpersonal violence is at a crisis level and government will be working on a plan to address it, President David Granger says.

The market here (in Barbados) is rife with orange-flesh sweet potatoes.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Title-holders Trinbago Knight Riders capitalized on a ragged display from a lethargic Barbados Tridents, to power their way to a convincing seven-wicket victory here yesterday, and into third spot in the Caribbean Premier League standings.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish authorities rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters on Saturday and ordered thousands of judges detained after thwarting a coup by rebels using tanks and attack helicopters to try to topple President Tayyip Erdogan.

Dear Editor, Each generation has had its own indigenous revolution and this generation, ie the youth of today, must create theirs.

Six of the finest chess players on the planet, led by world champion Magnus Carlsen, are doing battle in the Masters Final in Bilbao, Spain.

Guyana’s top male and female badminton players Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani will compete at the Pan American junior badminton tournament to be held July 19-23 at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento Lima, Peru.

Mohamed Imrazie Alli, called “Panta,” turned himself over to the police on Thursday after a wanted bulletin was issued for him days earlier in connection with a drug bust at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, over which his two children were charged.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – As Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley arrives in Jamaica, new data is showing that the twin-island republic denied entry to 320 Jamaicans in 2015, almost two per cent of the total number of Jamaicans who sought entry into the oil-rich country over the period.

Dear Editor, For years Guyana has had innumerable economic and social challenges which have had resounding impacts on the lives of citizens.

Lusignan massacre accused James Anthony Hyles and Mark Royden Williams were on Wednesday granted the opportunity by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to apply for special leave to challenge a Guyana Court of Appeal (GCA) decision ordering a retrial of their case.

The pothole on this bridge linking Croal Street and South Road  at Alexander Street in the city has become treacherous.

Whilst guys are getting shredded or toned to show off our chests, arms and abs for the ‘summer,’ ladies are mostly concerned with their midsection, legs and their butts.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s infamous sex industry is under fire, with the tourism minister pushing to rid the country of its ubiquitous brothels and a spate of police raids in recent weeks on some of the largest establishments providing sex services in Bangkok.

Although checks were made using surveillance footage from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the passport of a United States-based Guyanese woman that went missing during her check-in was never found.

VILLARS-LES-DOMBES, France, (Reuters) – Manx Missile Mark Cavendish claimed his 30th Tour de France victory and fourth in this year’s race when he left sprint rival Marcel Kittel trailing at the end of the 14th stage yesterday.

Dear Editor, SN readers may be interested to know that cricket was once an Olympic sport.

The government’s inexplicable dress code is back in the news again, this time because a Guyana Chronicle columnist was refused access to the National Communications Network (NCN) compound because she was wearing a sleeveless dress.

The 14th Caribbean Cuboree was officially launched on Tuesday at the Scout Association of Guyana’s (SAG) Headquarters on Woolford Avenue.

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NICE, France (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility yesterday for the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice and police arrested three more people there in connection with the seafront carnage.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – An unbeaten half-century from Shakib al Hasan and a typically robust knock from captain Chris Gayle rescued Jamaica Tallawahs and lifted them to a five-wicket victory over leaders Guyana Amazon Warriors here Friday night.

VERSE 27:   Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!

A large crowd gathered on Friday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Brickdam to pay their respects to the late veteran engineer and advisor to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Walter Willis.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil has deported the Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist Adlene Hicheur, who was convicted in 2012 for his involvement in a French terror plot, after rejecting a request for an extension to his work visa, the Justice Ministry said late Friday.