Daily Archive: Sunday, January 15, 2017

The Nand Persaud Group of Companies on Friday commissioned a $110m solar power system at its call centre in Tain, Corentyne.

Residents of Georgetown who live in areas where parking meters will be placed are being invited to apply for discounted parking.

(Trinidad Guardian) A police investigation has begun into the housing allowance paid to President Anthony Carmona.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an interesting development coming to hand is that the owners of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is allegedly looking for the buyer for the tournament.

Norway says the Norconsult report on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) is not a “decision document” but merely says that the project is worth another look.

Players from team ‘North’ defeated the ‘South’ outfit 38-31 when the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) kicked off its activities for the year yesterday at the National Park.

Commissioner of Information Charles Ramson SC strongly believes that efforts are being made to frustrate his work even as he has vowed that he will continue to function and will resist any attempt to force him out of office.

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG), the body tasked with promoting the discipline of Track and Field, will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in exactly one week at the National Racquet Centre, Woolford Avenue.

A 61-year-old watchman succumbed in a city hospital on Friday morning, two days after he was discovered with his throat slit at Pigeon Island, Corentyne River where he was working and his employer along with several others is being questioned by the police.

In an effort to promote transparency the Petra Organization staged its official draw for the second annual Limacol Football championship yesterday at the Brandsville Hotel in Prashad Nagar.

A Chinese family who fled Guyana two years ago and have attempted to gain refugee status in Canada on the basis of being targeted by bandits purely because of their ethnicity was late last month granted a reprieve when a Federal Court ruled that the initial denial of their application be reviewed.

Three of the four dailies on Friday headlined the second oil find by ExxonMobil at a well called Payara-1.

There was once a visitor to Dublin, lost somewhere near the city centre who stopped and asked a passer-by for directions.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Tom Latham scored his sixth test century as New Zealand made a steady 292 for three in reply to Bangladesh’s mammoth first innings total when bad light stopped play with three overs remaining on the third day of the first test yesterday.

The fire that gutted the Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara apartment complex on Friday night is suspected to have been electrical, says Operations Manager of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) Compton Sparman.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Captain Parthiv Patel hit an attacking 143 on the final day to lead Gujarat to a maiden Ranji Trophy title with a five-wicket victory over heavyweights Mumbai in Indore yesterday.

Much experience Sterling Products Limited (SPL) is a manufacturing company that produces a variety of products, including ice cream, margarine and laundry products.

Ed Caesar was re-elected as president of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) when the body held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday at the National Racquet Centre.

Following last week’s discussion of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) as a mechanism for avoiding and/or controlling the triad of crises typically associated with booms in oil and gas export revenues, I describe below the Government of Guyana’s declared intention with regards to its own SWF.

Having noted that the current drainage structure in Georgetown cannot cope with the intensity and volume of rainfall being recorded Cabinet has requested the formation of an entity which would oversee the maintenance of the existing structure while working to greatly increase its capacity by 2018.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, has renewed his commitment to making the embattled regional body profitable, even as he announced a name-change of the organization to Cricket West Indies.

I was in Miami airport recently, waiting to check in at Caribbean Airlines, and I ended up in an intriguing conversation with a Guyanese, living in Florida, who was travelling to Trinidad on business.

Acting Chancellor Carl Singh last Friday proceeded with the hearing of the appeal of the ruling made by now retired Chief Justice Ian Chang that the presidential term-limit is unconstitutional and has set February 15 for decision after giving specific time periods for each party involved to make written submissions.

A few days into the New Year, St Lucia’s Prime Minister, Allen Chastanet, suggested that all five of the Eastern Caribbean nations that sell Citizenship by Investment (CBI) should develop a joint approach through the OECS secretariat. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies batsman, Ryan Hinds, is one of six Barbadians included in a 14-man Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners squad for the Regional Super50 later this month.

Last week, we looked at the fact that you made the decision to pursue and achieve fitness goals in 2017.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite was brilliant with the ball as Sydney Thunder won their third straight with an eight-wicket triumph over crosstown rivals, Sydney Sixers, to keep alive their hopes of a playoff spot in the Big Bash League here yesterday.

The Mon Repos/La Reconnaissance Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) remains resolute in its drive to address the continued wanton dumping in the area, despite the challenges faced with uncooperative residents and market vendors.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Stafanie Taylor’s season-best half-century was nearly in vain but somehow Sydney Thunder managed to hang on and beat city rivals Sydney Sixers in a dramatic Women’s Big Bash League encounter here yesterday.

A breathtaking photograph of a benab with children standing around outside and the Pakaraima Mountains in the background planted a seed in young Odacy Davis’s mind and though it was not watered for many years it continued to grow and today it is a full-fledged tree; the love she developed for the environment is now her career.

Five weeks before acting Chancellor Carl Singh goes into retirement, the government has advertised for suitable persons to apply for the post as well as that of the Chief Justice.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa took 16 Sri Lanka wickets in a little over two sessions to secure a ruthless victory by an innings and 118 runs in the third and final test at the Wanderers yesterday.

A liqueur is a very sweet alcoholic beverage. It is made with a distilled spirit such as rum (white or dark), vodka etc, along with fruit and added sugar.

The police on Friday exhumed the body of Surujpaul Dindyal and while his family is certain that the remains are indeed his, they are awaiting the results of an autopsy.

(for khalam) Long, long have you held between your hands the black face                  of the warrior Held as if already there fell on it a twilight of death.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Cricket’s shortest Twenty20 format should be restricted to domestic franchises to maintain the relevance of one-day internationals, Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has said.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc yesterday and created a new account.

HONG KONG, CMC – Two-time Twenty20 World Cup-winning captain, Darren Sammy, will turn out for Hung Hom JD Jaguars in the second edition of the Hong Kong T20 Blitz in March.

The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) may get an additional seven investigators later this year through an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded project, according to Chairman retired Justice Cecil Kennard, who says this year would also see more outreaches and the establishment of regional offices.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Twenty years after Princess Diana’s iconic visit to a minefield in Angola, the world faces a new landmine crisis in Syria and Iraq on a scale not seen for decades, campaigners said today.

The Ministry of Education is urging teachers to embrace technology, repudiating the alleged demands by education officials that teachers prepare handwritten schemes and notes of lessons.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will use a major speech on Brexit next week to call on Britons to reject the acrimony of last year’s referendum and unite around the vision of a Britain more open to the world, her office said today.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Disgraced former CONCACAF president, Jack Warner, says nothing short of the axing of FA chief, David John-Williams, can atone for the embarrassment of Tom Saintfiet’s resignation after just five weeks as national head coach.

Dear Editor, With oil production projected for 2020, the coalition government would be foolish, both politically and economically, to wait until then to capitalize on its projected oil revenues.

CARACAS (Reuters) – His finger on a rifle trigger and wearing an olive green hat, President Nicolas Maduro yesterday oversaw military exercises in crisis-wrought Venezuela, which he says is under threat of “imperialist” invasion due to its oil wealth.

We must work to provide the knowledge and the surroundings which can enlarge the possibilities of every citizen.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that if US president-elect Donald Trump goes through with plans to transfer Washington’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem it will hurt the peace process.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump began a long holiday weekend that honours slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr by attacking another rights activist and politician who had said he doesn’t see Trump as a “legitimate president”.

Last month’s heavy rainfall brought unexpected flooding. Numerous people went to bed on December 22, 2016 and awakened on December 23, 2016 to the rising water around them, only to find out that some of the pumps were not working and the high tide did not help the situation either.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – With firebrand Nick Kyrgios Australia’s top hope at the year’s first grand slam, local fans may be set for a thrilling, if occasionally bumpy roller-coaster ride at Melbourne Park.

Dear Editor, We must remedy the flooding in South Ruimveldt, but a collective effort is needed for flood resiliency.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The desire to be the best in her studies may have caused 16-year-old Rachael Ramkissoon to wake up late on Friday morning after studying the night before and as a result she missed the school bus.

The Ministry of Communities is to approach the National Assembly to amend the provisions of the Municipal and District Councils Act so that the term for Mayors and Deputy Mayors will coincide with that of office holders in the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.

The present arrangements for selecting the Gecom chairman date back to 1991, and the intervention of the Carter Center and President Jimmy Carter himself in helping to forge agreements which made possible the first free and fair election for twenty-four years.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The state of Sao Paulo is considering transferring four leaders of Brazil’s most powerful drug cartel to federal prisons and stricter jail terms for 12 jailed leaders following an outbreak of gang-related violence across prisons, O Estado de S.

Dear Editor, After a relatively calm decade, the Guyanese banking system is suffering under Minister Winston Jordan.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – An emotional Gilles Muller clinched a first ATP Tour title in his 17th year as a professional when he beat Briton Dan Evans 7-6(5) 6-2 to win the Sydney International yesterday.

Pandemonium in Parliament By Anand Persaud Pandemonium broke out in the National As­sembly yesterday as the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) succeeded in disrupting the session during which a drinking glass was hurled in the direction of the Speaker, Sase Narain and the en­tire opposition walked out during debate.

A small community in the Klein/Pouderoyen area, Phoenix Park is home to approximately 300 residents.

A total of eight persons were arrested yesterday after the police swooped down on a popular ‘drug yard’ at North Road, Bourda, Georgetown.