Articles published on Thursday, November 24, 2016
The Police Office of Professional Responsibility says it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of prisoner Maurice Summer, 19 years, of Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, who was found hanging in his cell at Mackenzie Police Station about 1445h.
A thirty-one year old resident of Aranaputa, North Rupununi, has been arrested for the murder of his father, which occurred last evening, the police say.
Saying that the local economy is not performing optimally, the Private Sector Commission today called for sweeping budget measures and urged lower corporation tax and an income tax threshold of $100,000 per month.
(Trinidad Express) A BUSINESSMAN has been committed to stand trial before the High Court on the charge of human trafficking.
One day after four men were charged with the murder of carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt, the Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for US based-Guyanese, Marcus Brian Bisram, who is said to be the mastermind and is wanted for questioning in connection with the crime.
President David Granger has had a list of judicial nominees from the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for several months and has not acted upon it.
The Government of Guyana yesterday signed a framework agreement with the People’s Republic of China for a US$45.5 million concessional loan for the completion of the widening and improvement of the East Coast Demerara Highway.
Sueria Manufacturing, along with as many as ten other importers took to the Ministry of Public Health yesterday to protest regulations instituted by Director of the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department Marlan Cole.
The minimum rate of pay for Private Sector employees is to be increased from two hundred and two dollars ($202) per hour to two hundred and fifty-five dollars ($255) per hour following a recommendation by the National Tripartite Committee.
A security guard attached to Hand-in-Hand Trust Corpora-tion, Middle Street, Georgetown branch was yesterday afternoon shot during a foiled robbery attempt on the financial institution and the police during a roadblock shortly after, managed to detain a man suspected to be the driver of the getaway car.
A father of three was shot in his abdomen yesterday morning in an apparent robbery in D’Urban Backlands just after 6 am.
As investigations continue into the shooting to death of West Ruimveldt resident, Paul Rodney which occurred earlier this week, a man who is nursing a gunshot injury to his leg along with a female staffer from a city pharmacy were yesterday arrested for questioning.
The Guyana Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has launched an investigation into the improper labeling and use of the chemical Antinfek to treat water at a local bottling company.
Steve Allicock one of the men accused of the murder of Albouystown resident Wendell Tappin, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.
A boat operator was yesterday brought before a city court where he was charged with the murder of Venezuelan Henry Mendonca.
The Mayor and City and Council (M&CC) has paid approximately $20 million, a fraction of what it owes, to the city’s two garbage disposal contractors after they threatened to suspend their collection services.
Police are said to be investigating an incident at the Camp Street Prison which resulted in an inmate being admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing chops to his upper body.
The wife of the Number 70 Village, Corentyne carpenter, whose lifeless body was discovered on the public road on November 1, is now scared for her life after receiving death threats to stop the investigation into her husband’s murder.
With Deputy Regional Executive Officer of Region 3 Ameena Marlyne Hinds behind bars in the US for allegedly attempting to smuggle 3 lbs of cocaine into that country, a vacancy for her position has now been created and the Ministry Communities is expected to make that appointment as the long awaited Local Government Commission (LGC) is yet to be established.
The fourth South Rupununi Safari is scheduled to start today and continues up to the 29th.
Following a meeting with incoming Secretary General (SG) of the United Nations, António Guterres, Guyana was told that he was satisfied with the process the incumbent Ban Ki-moon is undertaking pertaining to the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, CMC – Evin Lewis struck his first ODI century but his knock was in vain as West Indies panicked in the death overs to hand Sri Lanka a nail biting one run win in the fifth game of the Tri-Nation Series at Queen’s Club here on Wednesday.
A city magistrate on Tuesday set dates for the commencement of trials in relation to Anjanie Boodnarine, the reputed wife of convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram, who is facing charges of forgery, fleeing the jurisdiction and leaving the country illegally.
Champion student athletes, Kenisha Phillips and Compton Caesar claimed victories in the blue riband event yesterday at the National Stadium, sprinting away from their respective rivals over 100m to keep their hopes of recording sprint trebles alive.
A last minute Devin Hooper dagger earned GCC a hard-fought 2-2 result with Old Fort in the Men’s Division, in the opening fixture of the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival last evening, at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.
The Parliamentary opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) views the implementation of parking meters in the city as an indirect tax and as an added burden to the consumers.
Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to an article published in the Stabroek News on Tuesday November 21, 2016, headlined ‘PPP concerned over non-placement of Cuba-trained doctors.’
Junior Communities Minister Valerie Patterson on Tuesday defended government’s move to replace turn-key homes with condominiums and duplexes, saying that not only has multi-unit housing been tried and tested during the former PNC government but that it caters for the development of urban communities in a modern Guyana.
Dear Editor, When I was asked to become a member of the board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA), I was mandated to undo any irregularity which I found in Broadcast Act 17 of 2011, which was put there by Bharrat Jagdeo, especially when it had to do with the illegal issuance of radio and other licences.
Nineteen students of the Sophia Training Centre on Tuesday graduated from catering and entrepreneurship programmes, the initiative being part of Cuso International’s move to reintroduce the 4-H club to Guyana.
Dear Editor, The decision to pay Hamilton Green a pension for services between 1985 and 1992 equivalent to what the current Prime Minister would earn on retirement, is discriminatory when compared to the pittance of 50% on the minimum public service scale paid to those pensioners who gave over 33 years of faithful service within the public service, inclusive of the same period.
Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to point out that the Bill laid in the National Assembly on November 21 is to pay a pension to Hamilton Green specifically, not to former prime ministers generally.
More than 60 young people will benefit from training at the newly launched Bertram Collins College of the Public Service as part of efforts to improve the public service, GINA said.
Defending champion Magnus Carlsen last night survived a series of checks from the challenger Sergey Karjakin, in a long drawn out ninth game of the FIDE World Chess Championship title match, which mercifully for Carlsen ended in a draw after 74 nerve wracking moves.
MV Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair, is scheduled to dock at the La Penitence wharf next month.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC– Head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago national senior team Stephen Hart is refuting allegations that he used injured goalkeeper Jan-Michael Williams during the recent World Cup Qualifier against Honduras, against the advice of team doctor Terrence Babwah.
Dear Editor, I want to suggest that the National Communications Network (NCN) announcers take over the reading of the daily weather report.
Black Pearl overcame a 1-0 deficit to defeat Western Tigers by a 3-1 margin when the Turbo Energy Drink sponsored Fruta Conquerors U19 Academy League continued yesterday.
Dear Editor, It speaks volumes of Guyana’s sport department when a sport administrator has to attempt a hundred mile walk in order to raise funds for his association to send a team abroad.
St. Stanislaus College last Friday held its annual graduation and prize giving ceremony, where its recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) graduates were awarded.
The trial of Mark Thompson, who is accused of murdering Brazilian miner Jose Rodriguez De Oliveira is underway before Justice James Bovell-Drakes, and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter of the Guyana Medical Council (GMC) published in SN (Nov 22) in response to my last Friday column in which I asserted a previous position that many of the Cuban trained Guyanese doctors are not competent.
ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – South Africa captain Faf du Plessis said on Wednesday he had been made a ‘scapegoat’ by the International Cricket Council and denied any wrongdoing after being found guilty of ball-tampering during the second test against Australia.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump yesterday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic with little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S.
Trisco sealed their semi-final berth in the Banks DIH Limited Soft Ball Cricket Tournament, defeating Head Office by 26 runs, on Monday at the Thirst Park ground.
Dear Editor, I refer to an article published in the Guyana Times of Sunday, November 13, captioned, ‘Govt’s crime-fighting failures defy logic, commonsense -Jagdeo …says Army should have been deployed earlier.’
Guyana Defence Force (GDF) patrols have been deployed to Port Kaituma as investigations continue into claims made earlier this month of a mysterious aircraft hovering over that area.
ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton feels he faces “pretty impossible odds” going into Formula One’s Abu Dhabi title-decider while Mercedes team mate and rival Nico Rosberg says he will treat Sunday’s race like any other.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A loner obsessed with Nazis and extreme right-wing ideology was sentenced yesterday to spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering lawmaker Jo Cox in a frenzied street attack that stunned Britain a week before the European Union referendum.
Dear Editor, The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) wishes to express sincere thanks to Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and Superintendent Singh for the recovery of a passport seized unjustifiably since 2013 by a passport officer when the person in whose name the passport was issued went to renew it for the fourth time.
A teenager who was charged with armed robbery two weeks ago was yesterday sentenced to 24 months imprisonment for the crime.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency with less support from black and Hispanic voters than any president in at least 40 years, a Reuters review of polling data shows, highlighting deep national divisions that have fueled incidents of racial and political confrontation.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said yesterday talks with the government were “frozen” after officials failed to attend meetings, throwing cold water on Vatican-brokered attempts to bridge the country’s deep political crisis.
Dear Editor, On the issue of the pension and benefits for Mr Hamilton Green, I wish to point out that Mr Green was the Prime Minister of Guyana, and he served that office for a number of years to the best of his ability.
A Day of Activities will be hosted at Novar Beach on November 27, 2016.
WELLINGTON, Reuters) – Pakistan’s hopes of continuing their unbeaten run in seven consecutive test series will come under pressure when they face a resurgent New Zealand in the second and final test in Hamilton without inspirational skipper Misbah-ul-Haq.
Dear Editor, A man has extended his fence in front of my house and land at Lima Dam, Essequibo, where I go in and out of my yard.
MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippines’ police chief broke down before a Senate inquiry yesterday and vowed to stand by President Rodrigo Duterte and his deadly war on drugs, after a narcotics kingpin testified to entrenched police involvement in the illicit trade.
President visits national printers: The Guyana National Printers Limited which was once the primary printing source for all Government documents today is struggling to be competitive and profitable.
France (Reuters) FIFA president Gianni Infantino is hoping video replays will be used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia to help referees avoid serious mistakes during the tournament.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian engineering conglomerate Odebrecht SA has agreed to plea bargains and a massive leniency deal under which it would pay around 7 billion reais ($2.1 billion) in fines for its role in Brazil’s biggest corruption scandal, a person familiar with the matter said.
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, CMC– West Indies opener Dwayne Smith led a solid batting display to help Chittagong Vikings seal a 78-run win over Barisal Bulls in the 24th match of the Bangladesh Premier League on Tuesday.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma said yesterday an anti-corruption watchdog had no right to call for a judicial inquiry into alleged influence-peddling in his government, describing its report as unfair.
THE GUYANA and Venezuelan governments yesterday signed a 1992 cooperation pact but little details have been released on the programme.
Beautification: Palms being put down by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure along the East Bank yesterday.
Birds chirp cheerfully and the soothing sound of the waves softly swishing ashore hide the horrors that exploded here decades ago.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – Four workers at a Sherritt 45venture in Cuba died on Tuesday, when a municipal bridge they were repairing collapsed, the Canadian miner said yesterday.
Knicks 107, Trail Blazers 103 New York Knicks won its fifth consecutive game at home.
Last Sunday, when the world observed Universal Children’s Day, much of the focus was on children in conflict situations.
Dear Editor, When events and developments on the political front are looked at, it seems that almost every day the President surrenders willingly a sliver of precious goodwill.
