Daily Archive: Monday, May 1, 2017

New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation has agreed to supply to the GPHC, replacements for a defective batch of soda lime which is used to assist patients to breathe while under anaesthesia.

Workers from the TUC and FITUG marched together today in observance of May Day.

Workers from all sectors of society are participating in the annual May Day march today.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man accused of kidnapping a three-year-old girl 12 years ago is one of two men shot dead in separate killings in San Fernando and Moruga on Saturday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI) will meet on Sunday to consider an additional revenue offer from the game’s world governing body but regardless of what decision they come to, a Champions Trophy pullout by the holders looks unlikely.

On the eve of the second anniversary of the May 11, 2015 General Elections, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has appointed a team to review the Cummingsburg Accord which birthed the historic coalition that ended the PPP/C’s 23-year reign in office.

A 16-year-old boy was on Saturday night fatally stabbed in his chest by another teen while he was attending a school concert.

A security guard of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara, was killed in an accident at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara, (ECD) following a head-on collision between two minibuses.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Phlegmatic right-hander Roston Chase carved out a fluent unbeaten hundred to avert another West Indies catastrophe and frustrate Pakistan, on the opening day of the second Test at Kensington Oval here yesterday.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Opener Felicia Walters stroked a half-century as Trinidad and Tobago defeated Barbados by 21 runs here Sunday, to successfully defend their Women’s Regional Super50 title.

Plaisance Secondary overcame a 15-point deficit to defeat Marian Academy in overtime 57-52 when the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) Regional Conference continued Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Banks face increasing costs and changes to their software to comply with a slew of amendments to financial and business legislation, according to the Chairman of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry, Robin Stoby SC.

Gregory Gaspar is claiming victory over the incumbent President, Patrick Yarde based on unofficial results which show he is in the lead in the acrimonious Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) elections.

Against the third-best best attack of this IPL, David Warner scored a sensational 126 off 59 balls as Sunrisers Hyderabad served notice to the two table-toppers with a dominating win.

Fresh from major oil finds in the offshore Stabroek Block, ExxonMobil yesterday began a new round of exploration at the Kaieteur Block it shares with partner, Ratio Oil Exploration of Israel.

More than a year after the controversy over the construction of the D’Urban Park Development Project erupted, the facilities are still being grossly underutilized and the stands are mainly used by vagrants for shelter.

President of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Patrick Harding has congratulated Sherfane Rutherford and Keemo Paul on making their first-class debuts for the successful Guyana Jaguars team this season and is urging them to strive to represent the West Indies.

(The Sports Xchange) – Gordon Hayward scored 26 points and collected eight rebounds to lead seven Utah players in double figures, and the Jazz eliminated the Los Angeles Clippers from the Western Conference playoffs with a 104-91 road victory in Game Seven on Sunday at Staples Center.

Following the embarrassing collapse of the base for the proposed Indian immigration monument, at Palmyra, Berbice, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has solicited the help of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure for an investigation so as to guide the way forward.

The rental of two floors at Neil Sukhlal’s Camp and Lamaha streets, Georgetown building will continue to other agencies following the rejection by the University of Guyana’s Council of a proposal from Vice-Chancellor Dr Ivelaw Griffith to rent the building for $6M per month.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News recently reported on the government awarding contracts to upgrade the Maza-runi Penal Settlement (28th April 2017).

Undefeated Pepsi Hikers maintained their grip on the Farfan and Mendes men’s first division hockey league after crushing Old Fort 9-0 Saturday at the St.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday declared that it will make “strident” representation with the APNU+AFC governing coalition that the 14% VAT on private tuition not be continued in 2018.

Woodpecker Hikers overcame a 1-0 deficit to secure a 1-1 draw with rising force Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Spartans when the Woodpecker Products women’s first division hockey league continued Saturday.

Dear Editor, I am not superstitious but this week’s media reports of the sudden ‘inexplicable crash’ of the foundation being built at Palmyra to accommodate the replica of the ship which brought the first set of our forefathers from India to the Highbury sugar plantation is portentous of ‘cosmic justice’ against those who are bent on desecrating the sacred memory which Highbury represents.

The Boyce/Jefford Relay Festival and Family Fun Day which was scheduled to be staged yesterday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, was postponed due to the inclement weather.

First Lady Sandra Granger on Friday attended the closing ceremony of the Self-Reliance and Success in Business workshop in Mahaica-Berbice (Region Five) from which 44 persons graduated.

A cyclist was killed in an accident on Saturday night on the Beterverwagting Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and the driver of the motor car is currently in police custody.

Dear Editor, May Day is a time when workers celebrate their achievements and contemplate their future.

Whenever the calendar flips to May, local powerlifters gear up for the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) annual Claude Charles Memorial Intermediate and Master’s Championships.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House yesterday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to invite Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to Washington, saying his cooperation was needed to counter North Korea, even as the administration faced human rights criticism for its overture to Manila.

During the Alliance For Change’s National Executive Committee meeting in Linden on Saturday the party took time out to donate food hampers to three persons and their families who are experiencing difficult circumstances, a release from the party said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) wishes to respond to another of Dr.

Nesha Haniff, Guyanese, is on the faculty of the University of Michigan and director of the Pedagogy of Action which is now piloting a methodology for gender consciousness for girls in Jamaica and US communities of colour, called the Gender Consciousness Project.

An appeal was filed on Wednesday to challenge the recent ruling by Justice Dawn Gregory that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) acted lawfully when it seized $4M in jewellery from goldsmith Richard Ramjit last year.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s portion of the Barents Sea could contain twice as much undiscovered oil and gas as previously thought when a newly mapped area bordering Russia is included, raising the prospect of drilling in environmentally sensitive ice-covered waters.

Dear Editor, The Granger Administration has lost precious political capital at the hands of a number of Government Ministers.

… we are conscious of the disproportionate and unruly growth of many cities, which have become unhealthy to live in, not only because of pollution caused by toxic emissions but also as a result of urban chaos, poor transportation, and visual pollution and noise.

Onions were reaped on April 28, 2017 from a trial plot at Saint John, West Coast Berbice, Region 5 as part of a Canada-funded PROPEL programme.

OSLO/MELBOURNE/TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Norway and Australia are racing each other to show they can supply Japan with hydrogen, hoping to fulfil its ambition to become the first nation significantly fuelled by the super-clean energy source.

Acting president of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), Dhieranidranauth Somwaru said Saturday that despite recent criticisms, cricket in Berbice is on the move.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. congressional negotiators have hammered out a bipartisan agreement on a spending package to keep the federal government funded through the end of the current fiscal year on Sept.

(Reuters) – Eike Batista, the mining and oil magnate who was once Brazil’s richest man, left prison yesterday for house arrest ahead of a trial on corruption charges.

(Trinidad Express) The government has acquired two companies from collapsed insurance giant CLICO—Occidental Investments Ltd and Oceanic Properties Ltd—at no cost.

The Mayor and City Council is to meet with all designers and artists operating in the city on Friday May 19, 2017 at 16:30 hrs at the Promenade Gardens.

The Amelia’s Ward Basketball Tarmac will come alive tonight when the quarterfinal round of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden edition kicks off from 20:00hrs.

HAMBURG, Germany, (Reuters) – When port manager Axel Mattern looks out onto the Elbe River from his office in Hamburg’s historic warehouse district, he can literally count the rising number of container ships leaving Germany’s biggest harbour.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he expected delayed state polls to be held this year, although opponents have demanded a broader general election to replace him in protests that have sparked 29 deaths.

(Reuters) – Tornadoes ripped through an East Texas county on Saturday evening, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, while high winds, falling trees and floods killed five others in neighboring states, according to news reports.

Dear Editor, I deeply admire the spirit of the people of Guyana, a nation that has led the Caribbean on many social policy and protection issues, including ones related to sexuality.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street what they knew about the offshore oil find and whether they had any questions about it.

For the year 2016, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) again failed to meet pivotal benchmarks including those pertaining to overall systems losses and the number of blackouts and their duration.

TEPIC, Mexico,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mexico has become the first country in the Americas to eliminate trachoma, but the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness remains endemic in Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala, the World Health Organization said.