Daily Archive: Thursday, September 1, 2016

The Board of Directors of the Guyana Water Incorporated, following a specially convened board meeting today, decided to terminate the services of Lear Goring as the entity’s Debt Recovery Manager.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall,” hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters flooded Venezuela’s capital on Thursday to press for an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s rule.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Martial arts expert and actor Jackie Chan will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Swiss federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer, they said on Thursday, confirming a German news report.

A majority of city councillors yesterday showed support for an amended contract for the controversial parking meters project,  including a much shorter duration and lower fines, but divisions persisted as the Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan charged that the changes were circulated an hour before the meeting which had been called only for discussion purposes.

Who in the David Granger administration recommended Larry Singh of Linden Holding for the controversial pharmaceutical bond contract or entertained his interest in such an arrangement?

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday said a new shipment of Yellow Fever vaccines arrived on Tuesday as expected.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) shopkeeper is in a critical condition in hospital after she was shot once last evening during an attempted robbery.

Darrel John, the man who was last Friday found guilty of illegal firearm and ammunition possession was yesterday sentenced to 48 months imprisonment.

Four Guyanese will participate in US President Barack Obama’s 2016  Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellows Program, a release from the US Embassy yesterday said.

The Board of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) is expected to convene a special meeting today on the hiring of the Debt Collection Manager Lear Goring, who has been sent on administrative leave following reports of his narcotics convictions in the United States.

There is need for more careful planning by the Ministries of the Government to ensure that annual budgetary allocations can be spent in a timely manner, says President David Granger.

The People’s National Congress Reform has unveiled its 15-member Central Executive Commit-tee (CEC) with women comprising sixty percent and there are three new faces.

Persons interested in acquiring prepaid electricity meters will soon be able to so as an adequate number of the devices are expected to be available, GINA said.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) in partnership with the New Building Society (NBS)  yesterday launched its limited overs second-division competition.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Two uncapped players have been named in a squad of 18 to attend a training camp in Jamaica next month, ahead of the One-day International Home Series between West Indies Women and England Women.

Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry  (GCCI) President Vishnu Doerga says that given the last four years of slumping business, there is need for a shift from revenue dependence on local commodities to value adding.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC- West Indies continue to languish at the bottom of the standings in the longest format of the game while cricketers from the region have made little progress in the player rankings.

The Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Three walked out of the Council’s statutory meeting yesterday along with nine councillors of the APNU+AFC coalition after the regional chairman asked for a report.

Distance ace, Cleveland Forde has won the Massy 10km road race on five consecutive occasions.

One of the five men who were captured by the police on Monday afternoon after robbing a Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) grocer has confessed to the crime and six  similar matters and is expected to be charged today.

An autopsy performed on the remains of Phillip Viveiros, the farmer whose body was found along the Adventure Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Monday revealed that he died as a result of multiple injuries sustained.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC- President of the Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC), Felix Wilson, has denied wrong doing after the local Olympic organisation received a “serious warning” from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) accusing it of breaching a Ticket Sales Agreement.

Dear Editor, I have been carefully following the recent media disclosures on a lot of important issues and matters, some of which have attracted the attention of the Guyana courts.

Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says he supports “on-going checks” of private security services to ensure that they are in conformity with the regulations that govern the sector, GINA said.

NYON, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Europe’s top coaches pondered the idea of abolishing extra-time after drawn matches in European competition and going straight to penalties at their annual meeting yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena Williams will try to take another step toward a record-setting 23rd grand slam title at the U.S.

Dear Editor, I wish to extend my tremendous gratitude to Mr John Mair for his confidence in my potential as per his letter ‘Barista to President’ (SN, Aug 31). 

A Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo man died last month after he was attacked by a swarm of bees while on his way to the shop in the village.

(Reuters) – Chelsea re-signed David Luiz and Premier League champions Leicester City broke their transfer record for striker Islam Slimani as Premier League clubs exceeded the one billion pounds barrier when the curtain fell on transfer deadline day yesterday.

Dear Editor, A few days before Attorney General Basil Williams told newsmen in Georgetown that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is to be completely separated from the Guyana Police Force so that it can perform its core functions, lawyers and former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) senior officers in the diaspora were discussing the possibility for the role of the GDF be modified so that the army can assist in investigations and other crime-solving activities.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of La Jalousie businessman Ganesh Ramlall, which was scheduled for Tuesday at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court, has been put off to September 9.

Dear Editor, As one reads the article titled ‘Chand says cooperation needed to resist any bid to reprivatize sugar’ that was published in the Sunday Stabroek on August 28, one gets the impression that Mr Komal Chand is saying some of the right things but in the wrong context.

(Cricinfo) Courtney Walsh, the former West Indies captain, is likely to become Bangladesh’s new bowling coach.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Beverley Persaud and Oswald Yaw, who are accused of killing block maker, Nathan Persaud continued yesterday with the testimony of two policemen.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – British 13th seed Johanna Konta felt “embarrassed” after recovering from a health scare at a humid U.S.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the nation’s supplier of water and sanitation services, wishes to state that it has launched an investigation to ascertain in whose name the well located in the compound of Sanata Textiles, Ruimveldt was registered.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Lawrence Rowe over the killing of Cuban national, Joel Perez Laffita began yesterday with the testimony of a police officer in the case.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Second seed Angelique Kerber stayed on track in her quest to unseat Serena Williams as world number one by beating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia 6-2 7-6(7) yesterday to reach the third round of the U.S.

Dear Editor, Recently, a number of car washes have been springing up in residential areas.

Three women were yesterday found guilty of fraudulently converting in excess of $48M from Telecom Solutions (Guyana) Inc.

Dear Editor, The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial & Industrial Employees (NAACIE), is alarmed at the fact that local bauxite workers’ interests and welfare are now increasingly dependent on the priorities of expatriate ownership and management.

Nine more Haitian nationals were yesterday fined by a city magistrate after they pleaded guilty to entering the country illegally.

  NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – American qualifier Ryan Harrison pulled off the biggest shock yet of the U.S.

Residents from the community of Warlock, East La Penitence, Georgetown were beneficiaries of a back-to-school drive hosted during last week by the Give Another Chance Foundation.

  NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, one point from falling behind 5-0 in the opening set, rallied to upset ninth-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets at the U.S.

Dear Editor, The 2016 Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro is now over, and each participating country would be doing analysis of their performance.

The hustle and bustle for the back-to-school shopping is in full swing around Georgetown as parents are busy picking up items to get their children ready for the new school term beginning on Monday.

Dear Editor, Allow me to congratulate Guyana’s Pre Cadet Table Tennis team on its good showing at the recent Caribbean Championship.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic received a free pass into the third round of the U.S.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee said yesterday it had disqualified six sportspeople, including three Russian medallists, for failing doping tests at the Beijing 2008 Games.

Dear Editor, Social cohesion is the unlived, un-sacrificed for Guyanese dream that also has been its long sweat-soaked nightmare.

Dear Editor, It is with utter dismay that I pen this letter about the harassment of drivers heading to the Timehri Airport by traffic ranks, although there have been many calls from the Traffic Chief and the Commissioner of Police denouncing this behaviour.

Guyana’s maiden voyage to European giant Portugal to participate in the inaugural Future’s Cup U17 football championships has been dashed as the tournament has been cancelled by the organizers- the ‘We Believe Organization’..

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC- The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will be played in the Caribbean for the first time, on the sands of Bahamas, one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations.

Dear Editor, On August 27th, a busy Saturday afternoon, on our journey back to Georgetown after a Justice and Peace Mission at Camp Kayuka, we witnessed the worst traffic jam that we have ever experienced in Guyana where traffic literally ground to a halt and engines were switched off in anger and disbelief as the police looked on helplessly.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff yesterday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America’s biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis.

Dear Editor, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be paid a salary of 1.5 million Swiss francs ($1.53 million) a year, less than a quarter of that received by his predecessor Sepp Blatter, soccer’s world governing body announced yesterday.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed yesterday that anyone who is in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation if he is elected, stressing his hardline position after flirting with a softer approach.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC– Antigua and Barbuda’s male and female volleyball teams have begun to step-up preparation for the preliminary round of the men’s and women’s Volleyball World Cup Qualifiers in September.

Dear Editor, I would just like to give my condolences to the family of playwright Mr Freddie Kissoon, who passed away a couple of days ago as reported by the Trinidad Express.

LIBREVILLE,  (Reuters) – Demonstrators in Gabon clashed with police and set part of the parliament building on fire yesterday as anger boiled over among opposition supporters at President Ali Bongo’s re-election in polls that his main rival, Jean Ping, claimed to have won.

Dear Editor, Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted to remove its first female President, Dilma Rousseff from office, the culmination of a year-long struggle that paralysed Latin America’s largest nation and exposed deep rifts among its people.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Australian Bernard Tomic courted controversy yet again when he fired lewd comments toward a heckler at the U.S.

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, (Reuters) – The first scheduled commercial passenger flight from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century landed yesterday, opening another chapter in the Obama administration’s efforts to improve ties and increase trade and travel with the former Cold War foe.

New Amsterdam United Tuesday edged Hopetown United 1-0 when the Berbice Football Association (BFA) leg of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/Namilco Thunderbolt Flour U17 championships continued at the Burnham Park ground, New Amsterdam.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto yesterday he would build a border wall to keep illegal migrants out if he wins the U.S.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a report in the Stabroek News of August 29, where it is said that “Guyanese writer and Cultural Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Ruel Johnson, has been selected to participate in the US’s International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency.”

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When 41-year-old Akola Wayne fell in her yard at Melanie Damishana and broke her leg just over a week ago, she possibly considered that she would be inactive for a while.

Once upon a time, a real long time ago, one of my two marvellous mothers, the much older one, used to scare the living daylights, dying night-dimmers and all bodily discharges out of me and my friends, often at the same time, by telling us what she would generically and euphemistically term, ‘jumbie stories.”