Articles published on Friday, August 19, 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt drew down the curtain on his brilliant Olympic career by securing a sweep of the sprint titles for a third successive Games when Jamaica successfully defended the 4×100 metres relay crown on Friday.
Jamoon Drive transformed: Work has been ongoing over the past two weeks leading to the transformation of this green area along Jamoon Drive in Meadowbrook Gardens from its prior unsightly state.
A mining operation which was in April 2016 caught operating in the Kaieteur National Park area will pay a fine of $7 million to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), a release from the Ministry of Natural Resources said today.
Two men were this morning charged with murdering 13-year-old Daveanand Sanichar after a row over a woman at a wedding house at Triumph, East Coast Demerara.
The National Museum cannot be extended to house the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology and a proposal to use the top flat of the post office building has been found to be untenable, Director Jennifer Wishart said adding that she was informed that a search is now on for a new location.
Lethem may soon see the production of genip jelly if an idea by one of its youths catches on and finds support.
Gunplay unfolded yesterday afternoon in North Ruimveldt as police chased down and captured a man who reportedly had a quantity of marijuana in his possession.
Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has said that he will apologize to the National Assembly and by extension the nation of Guyana for providing the committee of supply with inaccurate information about a controversial contract for the storage of pharmaceuticals.
An argument over water has landed a man in the hospital, where he is nursing a wound to his leg that was inflicted with a pick-axe.
President David Granger has said that it is up to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to decide if the qualifications of attorney Zanna Frank satisfy the criteria which have been laid down for the post of Deputy Deeds Registrar.
Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Frederick Flatts has confirmed that the ongoing rehabilitation of two electric drainage pumps at Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice, was sole sourced and he said that recent severe flooding in the area forced the decision.
The prime suspect in the murder of the 14-year-old Malika Hamilton, was caught by ranks of the Guyana Police force, hiding in a barrel in the Ann’s Grove cemetery.
There are now 42 confirmed cases of the Zika virus in Guyana.
In documenting failures of state officials in wake of the fatal fire at the Drop-in Centre, the recently-concluded Commission of Inquiry (CoI) found that they failed to hire competent and qualified staff.
Against the backdrop of government’s assertive advocacy of entrepreneurship as an employment option for Guyanese, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vishnu Doerga has told Stabroek Business that it would be useful to secure a prior understanding of just what the incentives are for pursuing the entrepreneurial option.
Significant changes in the socio-economic landscape in Guyana demand that the country’s policy-makers at both the public and private sector levels begin to create a radical shift in the manner in which they perceive the importance of safety and health in the workplace.
Vendors from Lethem and the savannahs now have access to the recently rehabilitated market and vending tarmac, Mayor Carlton Beckles has said.
Noting that Guyana’s “horrifying” road fatality rate is the highest in the Caribbean, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan is calling on drivers and pedestrians to be more responsible in their use of the roadways.
The Stabroek News’ account of the ongoing brouhaha between City Hall and the two waste disposal contractors, Puran Brothers and Cevons Waste Management, over the former’s liabilities to the two service providers would surely have been hilarious had the whole sorry tale not graphically exposed the fact that the recent Local Government Elections that had been held forth in some quarters as a panacea for all the ills of the municipality will clearly not exorcise some of the long-standing demons that have haunted City Hall.
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Two suspects are likely to face charges today at a city court for the murder of Triumph teen Daveanand Sanichar.
By R F Trotz NSP Chairman, Guyana At the end of the last installment (SN August 05, 2016) I stated that the task at hand was “transforming the production base from illustration A to B as the basis for developing value chains.”
A police constable was yesterday granted $75,000 bail after she denied a charge that she stole a smartphone.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The incomparable Usain Bolt powered his way around the Rio track to win the Olympic 200 metres gold for the third straight Games in 19.78 seconds last night and remain on course for an extraordinary “triple-triple” of sprint titles.
By Louis Holder Stabroek Business Editor, Mr Arnon Adams, has repositioned the role of the newspaper “as a vehicle for sustaining a two-way flow of information with its various publics, not least with the government”.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC – Jamaica’s sprint relay teams easily qualified for their respective finals after posting impressive times – without Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson – in the preliminary rounds here yesterday.
A Guyana Police Force recruit with sticky fingers narrowly escaped a prison sentence yesterday after he was fined for stealing a cell phone.
The internationally renowned information technology equipment and services provider, Lenovo, places a high priority in working with countries in the developing world to improve capacity even as it continue to explore market access possibilities in those countries.
The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) was among five local institutions conferred with Baby-Friendly Hospital status yesterday.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) refers to those comments attributed to the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) on page 12 and 22 of the August 17, 2016 edition of Stabroek News in which the corporation asserted that no letters were received from the union requesting that GuySuCo engage GAWU on a number of issues.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The United States grasped their second chance to reach the Olympic women’s 4×100 meters final with both hands yesterday, racing alone around the Rio track in 41.77 seconds to knock China out of the last eight.
Guyanese-born sculptor William C Seepaul has designed a monument on commission for Synchrony Financial, formerly GE Capital Bank for the company’s corporate campus in Stamford, Connecticut.
A man was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison by Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court for the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
Dear Editor, It burned my heart when I read in your Thursday issue that our national Junior Table Tennis team may not make it to the Caribbean Champion-ships because of lack of funds.
Dear Editor, The recent press release from the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) needs to be read and understood in a national perspective.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medalist weightlifter Izzat Artykov was stripped of his medal yesterday after being found to have the rat poison strychnine in his system.
Businesses are becoming more responsive to the initiative to erect bus sheds in the city, according to Kwame Mentore, Director of Pyramid Sheds.
By Karen Abrams, MBA IT & Startup Business Consultant The respected publication, Harvard Business Review has declared that “Being forward-looking, envisioning exciting possibilities and enlisting others in a shared view of the future, are the attributes that most distinguishes leaders from non-leaders.”
Manager of the Guyana Senior Squash Team Ramon Chan-A-Sue says despite the challenges faced during the event, he is pleased with the unit’s showing at the recently concluded Caribbean Senior Squash Championship.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday August 18, 2016 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
Dear Editor, The 2016 CSEC results are out, and The Marian Academy did spectacularly, all things considered.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US State Department said yesterday it released $400 million in cash to Iran under a tribunal settlement only once it was assured that American prisoners had been freed and had boarded a plane.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police have recommended charging U.S.
Colts schooled the University of Guyana (UG) Trojans by a 54-37 scoreline in their U-23 matchup when the Turbo Hard-Court Basketball Championship continued at the Plaisance Community Court on Wednesday.
The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) has announced that effective September 1, all post offices will be open for business from 07:00 hrs to 15:00 hrs, Monday to Friday.
Rio Olympics – Day 13
(Reuters) – Mexican police arbitrarily executed nearly two dozen suspected gang members on a ranch last year, the government’s National Human Rights Commission said yesterday, one of the worst abuses by security forces in a decade of grisly drug violence.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti said on Wednesday it would spend $55 million on a new election after the results of the last vote were scrapped, with most of the money to be drawn from the poor Caribbean nation’s own coffers as foreign donors are reluctant to pay again.
Dear Editor, Qualifying for a final of any kind at the Olympic level to my mind is a great accomplishment.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A spike in the forced recruitment of child soldiers in South Sudan could be imminent, the United Nations’ children’s agency said today, amid fears that the world’s youngest nation is on the brink of renewed civil war.
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A five-member team is representing Guyana at the first Global Workshop on Oil Spill Response Planning in New Orleans.
Dear Editor, As a working-class law student who has just completed my three years at the University of Guyana, Law Department, I cannot allow the recent achievement of Minister of Legal Affairs/ Attorney General Basil Williams to go unheralded.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Rain allowed just 1-3/4 hours play on the opening day of the fourth and final Test between West Indies and India at Queen’s Park Oval here yesterday.
By Ali H Mokdad SEATTLE – Data can save lives.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan yesterday accused followers of a US-based Islamic cleric he blames for last month’s coup attempt of being complicit in attacks by Kurdish militants in Turkey’s southeast which killed 10 people.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lawyers seeking compensation for Haitians killed or sickened by cholera that they blame on United Nations peacekeepers said the UN’s admission on Thursday of its possible involvement in the outbreak was a breakthrough in their legal battle.
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Dear Editor, We are seeing that too much hatred and anger now exists in the society, either due to the general situation of dissatisfaction that humanity is experiencing, or because we are overwhelmed by a profound crisis of civilization, without anyone telling us how to overcome it or where this flight into the darkness will take us.
Last week’s announcement that vendors in the city’s municipal markets are to become unionized is an indication that working people in Guyana are beginning to bestir themselves against tendencies by institutions in authority to marginalize them and deny them their rights, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has said.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday broke new ground when the organisation officially launched its Jaguars Franchise League 3-day tournament which is set to bowl off its first round of matches from August 26-28.
Research Assistant at the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) Analesa Skeete is currently preparing to read for her Master of Biological Sciences in Mexico.
Attention Vice-President/Senior Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine. Attention Minister Nicolette Henry.
One year before the 2015 general elections were held, few Guyanese might have been familiar with the name ‘Sandra Granger’.
