Daily Archive: Sunday, March 19, 2017

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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers from both parties said today they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion.

The police say that an unidentified male suspect was mortally wounded this morning during an alleged exchange of gunfire with three occupants of a motor car, one of whom is a licensed firearm holder.

(Reuters) – Chuck Berry, who duck-walked his way into the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll pioneers as one of its most influential guitarists and lyricists, creating raucous anthems that defined the genre’s sound and heartbeat, died on Saturday at his Missouri home.

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With Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan having issued an order to suspend the Georgetown metered parking by-laws, city councillors will be called on to make a decision on the way forward for the project at an extraordinary statutory meeting on Monday.

(Continued from last week) In a yard filled with colourful flowers neatly displayed in pots lives Carlton Dornick and his wife.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday confirmed that President David Granger has written to him clarifying his criteria for nominees eligible to be appointed as the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) and disclosed that the information will be discussed with civil society members in the coming days before a new slate is submitted for consideration.

Introduction Today’s column concludes discussion on the institutional aspects of Guyana’s preparations for its coming petroleum industry.

Before the end of this month, Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May, will invoke article 50 of the European Treaty, starting a process that will lead to the UK leaving the European Union (EU) in 2019. 

Two months after important documents were discovered missing in the Nezaam Ali rape case, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has signalled the police’s intention to reinstitute the nine charges; a move which will result in a fresh Preliminary Inquiry (PI) being conducted.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC — Batting superstar Chris Gayle will take no part in the four-match Twenty20 series against Pakistan starting later this month, after being left out of 16-man squad announced yesterday.

Commodity markets Guyana exports many products to markets in the Caribbean and around the world. 

The police in ‘F’ Division have launched an investigation into the murder of a labourer whose body was found on Friday afternoon with an arrow in his chest at Kumu Village, Central Rupununi.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC — Assad Fudadin struck a half-century in his first game of the season while Raymon Reifer gathered his second and 10th overall, as Guyana Jaguars batted the entire second day to eke out a small lead over Trinidad and Tobago Red Force here yesterday.

The appalling failure rate at the 2016 Professional Nurses State Final Examination is a reflection of poor teaching methodology rather than any deficiency the students may have.

By what values should we strive to live in order to achieve a community in which differences are accommodated, a community where there is diversity of discourse but a recognition of the common good regardless of politics, religion, race and personal beliefs?

Acting Chief Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards last week granted provisional orders quashing the government’s decision to revoke an investment agreement with a Berbice businessman and the demand made by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for him to pay $212M in customs duties and taxes that were not applied due to concessions that he was granted with the expectation that he would engage in mining.

The stage is set for today’s Pagwah Horse Race Meet at the Kennard Memorial Turf Club, Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice.

The campaign against the unilateral and undemocratic imposition of parking meters in Georgetown is at last bearing fruit.

National cricketer Christopher Barnwell and off–spinner Cohen Ismond led the Demerara Cricket Club to an emphatic 142-run victory over the University of Guyana, yesterday as the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) first division T20 competition got underway.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned reports carried in Venezuelan press regarding the approval of a new resolution approved by the Energy and Petroleum Commission of the Venezuelan National Assembly.

In my time as a musician travelling about, one of the spin-offs was the development of friendships, in diverse places, that would not otherwise have come my way. 

Carmel Secondary, Sir Leon Lessons, Queenstown Secondary and South Ruimveldt sealed their respective berths to the knockout round when the fifth Milo U18 secondary schools football championships continued yesterday.

The New Guyana Pharma-ceutical Corporation (New GPC) has denied failing to deliver on a $1 billion contract for the supply of drugs to the Ministry of Public Health in 2015.

We present an article on the fine arts, reviewing the Guyana Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition which was revived in 2012.

The Little Blue Heron is commonly found at marshes and canals where they hunt shallow waters for small fish and amphibians.

At 21, Rosemarie Ramitt has already fought many battles and while she has tasted the sweetness of victory time and again, her struggles continue, not just for herself, but for many others in the same situation.

Transport Sports Club yesterday scampered to a five-run victory over Everest Cricket Club in the New Building Society (NBS) second division limited overs competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground, camp Road.

Daredevils and fans get ready, the local motor racing season gets off to an explosive start today with the staging of the ‘Reaction’ Dragz Meet at the South Dakota Circuit.

The University of Guyana (UG) and Ian Randle Publishers (IRP) of Jamaica have signed an agreement to establish a publishing arm of the university that will publish the scholarly work of faculty and student researchers.

Don’t drink your calories Here is why eating your calories is better than drinking them.

Dear Editor, In his epic work, Omeros, Derek Walcott wrote of “a quiet culture that…slowly but sure … will change us with the fluent sculpture of Time” – “strong as self-healing coral.”

She stopped at the stall on Bourda Street and looked around before quietly asking the price of a slice of pumpkin.

The cycling season continues today with the staging of the second in a series of road races organized by the Guyana Cycling Federation’s (GCF).

The United States Transporta-tion Security Administration (US-TSA) on Friday donated two state-of-the-art portable Explosive Trace Detection machines, which can detect a range of substances involved in the creation of explosive materials and devices, to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), through the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

Dear Editor, The letter in SN titled ‘The Auditor General must focus on Gecom’s heavily padded payroll’, dated March 15, 2017 was another example of a malicious missive against Gecom and the people who work within the organisation.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take “a different course,” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday, softening previous criticism of Beijing after talks with his Chinese counterpart.

A new company, Ramdihal and Haynes Chartered Accounting and Profes-sional Services Firm, has entered the local market with the aim of providing world-class services in anticipation of the country’s expected economic growth.

RANCHI, India, (Reuters) – Top order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara compiled an industrious unbeaten century to keep India on course to match Australia’s first-innings total of 451 in the third test yesterday.

Election of the executive officers of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will take place on Sunday, March 26 at its Annual General Meeting.

Dear Editor, It is not uncommon in many societies for blame to be placed on the individual who left the cheese to be eaten by the mouse and not make an effort to get rid of the mouse.

Two bandits pulled off a daring daylight robbery yesterday morning, invading a supermarket in Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara where they attacked the owner and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Keshav Maharaj took career best figures of 6-40 as South Africa romped to an eight-wicket victory over New Zealand on the extended third day of the second test yesterday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

ABERDEEN, Scotland (Reuters) – Refusal by Britain’s prime minister to discuss an independence referendum would “shatter beyond repair” the United Kingdom’s constitutional structure, Nicola Sturgeon told her Scottish National Party yesterday.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Forty-two Somali refugees were killed when a helicopter gunship attacked their boat off Yemen on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said, and Somalia called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country to investigate.

The month of March marks the centenary of the end of Indian indentureship.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Fifteen corpses, three of them headless, have been found in a mass grave at a Venezuelan prison and more may be discovered, investigators said yesterday.

Most of my bulb plants from last year began popping up since mid-February in a kaleidoscope of colours.

Like bread? Like corned beef? Don’t sandwich the two; roll them together.

Sea defences in shambles COASTLANDERS and residents in riverain areas are bracing themselves for extraordinary high tides predicted for this time of the month.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Seamer Mustafizur Rahman and spinner Shakib Al Hasan picked up three wickets apiece to help Bangladesh reduce Sri Lanka to 268-8 in their second innings for a lead of 139 on the fourth day of the second test yesterday.

Staff of the Mercy Wings Vocational School in Sophia are pleading with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to address a leaning telephone pole in front of their building.

Dear Editor, Well, after resitting, only 23 of the 179 candidates secured overall passes at the Nurses State Final Examination.