Daily Archive: Friday, October 7, 2016

A security advisor from the United Kingdom will be here next month to assist with security reforms, the Ministry of the Presidency says.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday grappled with a new bombshell after The Washington Post published a 2005 conversation in which Trump recounted in vulgar terms how he tried to have sex with an unnamed married woman.

    Chairman of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Board of Directors Nigel Hinds has resigned from the post, while saying that he could not perform in the best interest of the company as a “rubber stamp.”

CHANTAL, Haiti, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew’s trail of destruction in Haiti stunned those viewing the aftermath on Friday, with the number of dead soaring to 842, tens of thousands made homeless and crops destroyed in the impoverished Caribbean nation’s breadbasket region.

OSLO/BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist rebels, a surprise choice and a show of support after Colombians rejected a peace accord last Sunday.

Linden’s Town Clerk has been directed to go on administrative leave yesterday, pending the completion of an inquiry into her conduct.

A 49-year-old Berbice man was yesterday charged with raping an eight-year-old primary school student.

Following talks between GuySuCo and the Guyana Agricultural & General Workers’ Union (GAWU), cane harvesters of the Rose Hall Estate, who were on strike for six days, have returned to work.

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland and Senior Counsel Rex McKay were yesterday bestowed with the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second highest national award, while 84 other national awardees received honours in a ceremony held at the National Cultural Centre.

Major renovations slated for the Ministry of the Presidency are on hold pending a decision to relocate some offices to the National Trust building, located next to State House, on Carmichael Street “There has been no decision yet on the National Trust but as soon a decision is made in that regard, certainly, you will know,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday, when asked by Stabroek News for an update on government’s decision to move to the building.

The City Constabulary will be recommending that vending be discontinued under the Stabroek Market clock, following the discovery of a rifle there, according to Chief Constable Andrew Foo.

Government is seeking international assistance to improve the country’s ability to detect aircraft which enter its airspace illegally, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

A 24-year-old man is now in police custody after he was found with two illegal guns and ammunition.

The building that housed the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus is being repurposed as office space for the university’s Vice-Chancellor and his Cabinet.

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are investigating the discovery of a body that was found on the foreshore at Hague.

In an attempt to aid their preparation for the fifth annual Courts Pee-Wee Primary Schools Football Championship, tourney coordinators Petra Organization yesterday donated two balls to each of the participating schools.

Citizens who traverse the Demerara Harbour Bridge will see some relief of the morning congestion by the end of the month as the company announced that it will restart night retractions.

Despite the lack of resources during their preparation for CFU Caribbean Cup third round qualifiers, Golden Jaguars Head-Coach Jamal Shabazz said his squad has the attitude and determination to secure a positive result against Suriname.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with stealing raw gold from miners in the interior.

In effort to continue their youth development drive, the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) will stage its 4th Annual National Junior Indoor Championships from October 7th to the 9th at the National Gymnasium.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Rahkeem Cornwall secured career-best figures but West Indies A were slumping towards a heavy defeat after suffering another dramatic batting collapse in the opening four-day “Test” against Sri Lanka A here Thursday.

In a quite unexpected way, the Giftland Mall may have become a victim of its own success.

Plans for a brand new maternity unit for the New Amsterdam Hospital are included in the health budget estimate of $2.1 billion for 2017 which has already been prepared and submitted, according to Director of Public Health Services Region Six, Jevaughn Stephen.

The former reputed wife of Hamid Latiff, called ‘Crapo’ who is on trial before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow for the 2010 murder of her 16-year old brother, testified yesterday that she had seen Latiff and her brother on a dam, shortly before pulling her brother’s bloodied body from a nearby trench.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies will be part of history when they face England in the first-ever day/night Test to be played on English soil, during their tour there next year.

Exposure to international events that focus on current developments in the global gold-mining industry can help accelerate the growth of Guyana’s own mining sector particularly through the acquisition of technology and investment, Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources has noted the perspectives and opinions expressed by members of the public on how the country should be preparing for the oil and gas sector.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday announced several contracts that government gave its no objection to, at last Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.

STEMGuyana is a big idea whose time has come and it was created to expose Guyanese students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts) education in a fun and engaging way.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC government should have never put itself in the position where the PPP/C has to upbraid them for not appointing constitutional bodies.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian world champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber was at the Rio Olympics despite earlier testing positive for cocaine but the decision to allow him to compete was the right one, Athletics Canada said on Thursday.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday said that as soon as the National Assembly is reconvened and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) completes Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Public Procurement Commission, President David Granger will swear in its members.

Dear Editor, In his maiden New Year’s message to the nation as executive president in 1993, the late President Cheddi Jagan charged the nation to be “lean, clean and mean” in all their actions.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) lost the anti-doping battle at Rio but can redeem itself in time for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games, anti-doping officials said on Thursday.

Modest entrepreneurial initiatives arising out of a growing inclination towards self-employment has given rise to the need for appropriate business training for the investors.

Dear Editor, The Mayor and City Council continues to work in all local communities to improve the physical condition and image of the nation’s capital.

Government has selected its nominees and prepared the infrastructure for the establishment of the Local Government Commis-sion, according to State Minister Joseph Harmon, who said the constitutional body would be “established soon” but would not give a date.

LONDON,(Reuters) – A former team mate of Bradley Wiggins has called into question the British rider’s use of a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for triamcinolone before his 2012 Tour de France win.

Prohibitive tariff and non-tariff barriers for trade between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continue to seriously inhibit the prospects for the export of both agricultural and manufactured goods to the world’s single largest market, according to a recently concluded study done by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

A second person is being questioned by the police in connection with the murder of taxi driver Rolun Jodmie.

LES CAYES, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 283 people in Haiti, including dozens in one coastal town that authorities and rescue workers were only beginning to reach days after the storm, officials said yesterday.

It may take some time before efforts to focus the attention of women and young people on agriculture as an entrepreneurial option take traction, but Marissa Lowden, Gender Equity and Youth and Marketing Programme Officer for the Canadian-funded Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) believes that satisfying progress is being made.

BERLIN,(Reuters) – Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova was officially stripped of her 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal after she tested positive for banned substances in re-tests of samples, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday.

BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria’s largest city and recapture full control of the country.

Dear Editor, On TVG 28 on September 28, Pt Jagmohan Persaud sought to explain his rationale for celebrating Diwali on October 30.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan doctors yesterday warned of a diphtheria outbreak in the crisis-stricken country, calling on the government to boost availability of scarce vaccines and antibiotics to stem the disease which local media and the opposition report has killed some two dozen people.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to respond to a letter in your daily edition dated September 21, 2016, captioned ‘APNU is invisible in Region 9’.

BRIDGETOWN,CMC – Powerhouses Trinidad and Tobago made light work of the Dominican Republic, brushing them aside 4-0 in their opening third round game of the Caribbean Cup on Wednesday.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Americans were swindled out of tens of millions of dollars in an alleged tax scam that was run for about a year from call centres on the outskirts of Mumbai, a senior investigator said yesterday, predicting more arrests on top of the 70 made so far.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, has been adjourned until next year due to his erratic behaviour in court yesterday during a review of video footage.

A jury has been empanelled for the High Court trial of the five men accused of the massacre of 12 people at Bartica in 2008.

Reuters) – Second seed Rafael Nadal survived a late fightback from Adrian Mannarino as he beat the French qualifier 6-1 7-6(6) on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the China Open during a rain-hit day in Beijing.

LONDON (Reuters) – Officials from the US government’s health research agency are to be questioned by a congressional committee about why taxpayers are funding a World Health Organization cancer agency facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens.

Dear Editor, Would you ever have thought that Suddie Public Hospital after the change of government would be short of drugs and other medical supplies?

A man was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $5.7 million after being found guilty of possession of cannabis for trafficking.

A Barbadian man, Frederick Christopher Hawkesworth, who had been accused of involvement in a drug ring with several Guyanese in 2004 was found dead on the island on Saturday with a suspected bullet wound to the head.

A Nismes man, who is accused of abusing the mother of his child, was yesterday granted bail after his lawyer claimed that he was only trying to defend himself.

Dear Editor, Anna Correia’s letter titled ‘Guyanese fought for their Independence’ (SN, Oct 5) refers.

I often hesitate to jump into debates on issues of national significance when many other knowledgeable and eminently-qualified minds are weighing in on such matters.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top court has approved a request by prosecutors to split the investigation of dozens of politicians implicated in the sprawling Petrobras corruption scandal by grouping them by the main parties that prosecutors allege received kickbacks.

In two days’ time researchers studying suicidal behaviour will launch a mobile phone app that seeks to pool information on mental health and build an open data source for mental health professionals tasked with framing more effective strategies.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls between the ages of five and 14 are spending 40 per cent more time on unpaid domestic chores than boys their age, missing out on chances to learn and enjoy their childhood, according to a report today ahead of International Day of the Girl.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The influential Indian cricket board (BCCI) is facing a possible leadership crisis after the country’s Supreme Court demanded it accept sweeping changes by today.

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Those who know even a little about the career of recently appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana Professor Ivelaw Griffith, may well be persuaded that he is what one might call ‘the right fit’ for the job as Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana.