Daily Archive: Friday, May 19, 2017

Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin, recently presented to Brazilian farmer and investor, Nelson Itikawa, a lease for 5,000 acres of land through the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), GINA said.

In the wake of an embarrassing theft from the Diamond drug bond, the Ministry of Public Health says that more employees have resigned.

The Guyana Police Force is mourning the death of one of its members who died hours after being involved in an accident with a female who was said to be pushing a bicycle on the Borlam Public Road, East Coast Berbice about 23:330hrs last night.

A manhunt is underway in Linden for a man who is suspected to have fatally stabbed his wife this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men appeared in court yesterday charged with separate murders including a police officer who was suspension.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies remained rooted at eighth in the World Test Rankings released on Thursday following the annual update in which series results from 2013-14 are no longer included and outcomes from the 2015-16 series are weighted at 50 per cent.

One day after snaring a silver in the 400m final at the Islamic Solidarity Games currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, Winston George copped a bronze in the 200m event.

Six former members of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) were held for questioning by the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) yesterday afternoon for allegedly omitting to record a “particular inflow of money” and they are expected to face charges today.

The Guyana Darts Association (GDA) is set to host an international darts contest from 26th to 28th May, 2017, in a bold effort to popularize the sport, while also aiming to put on a good show in an effort to bid for the 2020 Caribbean Darts Championship.

Trisco and Water Plant sealed their berths to the second round in the Banks DIH Limited XM Inter-Department Domino Championship, edging out Banks Females on the opening night at the Thirst Park Sports Club.

President David Granger has ordered ”immediate relief” for hundreds of Region Eight residents  hit by heavy flooding that has submerged homes but up to press time it was unclear what actual aid  has been provided by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

Amid much fanfare and expectation, the inaugural ‘Xtreme Clean Gold Rush Futsal Championship’, was officially launched yesterday at the Windjammer Hotel, Kitty, featuring teams from the communities of Georgetown, Linden, East Coast of Demerara and West Demerara region.

Motor biker Stephen Vieira was last night taken into custody at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport for questioning into a cocaine find last Friday at Zeelugt.

The Guyana Curling Federation (GCF) had its official launch at the Giftland Mall on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday said an employee of its Materials Management Unit (MMU) has confessed to stealing an estimated $100,000 in medical supplies from its flagship Diamond bond, while another has resigned with immediate effect.

Strength athletes and enthusiasts, mark your calendars for June 5. On that day, the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) will team up with Bounty Farm Limited to stage an Open Deadlift Competition and a fund raising Bar-B-Q at the St.

With tears of joy, businessman Lawrence Wayne yesterday walked out of the High Court in Georgetown a free man after being acquitted of the murder of Dexter Lindo.

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association held its biennial electoral general meeting on Wednesday at the secretariat of the Guyana Olympic Association.

Ryan Van Lange was yesterday sentenced to nine years in jail for killing his cousin-in-law, Jason Ramotar, whom he stabbed on the night of May 31, 2015, at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara.

MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Russia could be banned from participating in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics if proposed changes to the World Anti-Doping Agency Code announced on Thursday are fast-tracked.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) school teacher and her boyfriend has been taken into custody by police.

Tracy-Ann Todd, the South Ruimveldt woman who police say was arrested after failing to declare over $9 million when she landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), was yesterday charged with the crime.

(Reuters) – Players will face a two-match retrospective ban for diving from the start of next season after the English Football Association (FA) approved a new rule to combat simulation in an annual general meeting on Thursday.

Two armed bandits yesterday afternoon attacked a Leonora, West Coast Demerara Supermarket and carted off cash and other valuables.

(The Sports Xchange): Cavaliers 117, Celtics 104 Defending champion Cleveland, playing their first game since May 7, put on a clinic, leading wire to wire and cruising to a 117-104 blowout of the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday.

An East Ruimveldt youth was yesterday remanded to prison on gun and ammunition possession charges, which were brought against him after he allegedly left a loaded gun in a taxi.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May CMC – Olympic double sprint champion Elaine Thompson will be the headline act for the Jamaica International Invitational tomorrow when she lines up for the women’s 200 metres, the final event on the schedule.

A Police Constable was yesterday placed on self-bail after denying an assault charge.

Dear Editor, I would be grateful if you could carry a retraction in your papers on the headline item, ‘AG owes no apology -President, Chancellor’ (SN May 18).

(Reuters) – Third seed Stan Wawrinka became the latest high-profile casualty at the Italian Open on Thursday when the Swiss was knocked out in the third round by American John Isner.

Dear Editor, I had intended to comment on the letter from Mr Christopher Ram, ‘Insensitive gift at DDL’s AGM’ that had appeared in SN on April 11, but I got caught up with other things.

A new Board of Directors has been appointed for the state-owned Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL), publishers of the Guyana Chronicle, with Geeta Chandan-Edmond being elected to serve as chairperson.

MUMBAI, India CMC – Legendary Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev said authorities should reconsider the rules of qualification for the ICC Champions Trophy, if it means West Indies will be out of the tournament.

Hinterland agriculture is expected to come into sharper focus this year as the country embraces production of onions, potatoes and other non-traditional crops.

Dear Editor, The award of Kato school repairs to Vikab and Kares Engineering is incorrect.

President David Granger would be among world leaders participating in the Arabic-Islamic- American Summit in Saudi Arabia that would address ways of countering and preventing terrorism and violent extremism around the globe.

(Reuters) – Australia coach Darren Lehmann hopes the ongoing pay dispute will not prompt the players to boycott this year’s Ashes series and urged both sides to resolve the matter.

In pursuit of the challenge of re-engineering its product line to ensure that the company meets the packaging needs of new and emerging industries in local and external markets, Carib-bean Container Inc.

(Reuters) – Venus Williams powered into the Italian Open quarter-finals on Thursday with a dominant 6-1 3-6 6-1 victory over fifth seed Johanna Konta.

Shelly-Ann’s story It wasn’t easy to get Shelly-Ann to talk with us.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to a Facebook Post the day before yesterday under the caption ‘Assistant Commissioner Marlon Chapman is a square peg in a round hole’.

Four candidates have been submitted to President David Granger to fill the vacancies that exist for puisne judges, acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards confirmed on Wednesday, while well-placed sources said that Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and former Guyana Association of Women Lawyers president Simone Morris-Ramlall are among them.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the article captioned, ‘No record of treatment of nearly 80% of cancer cases over 10-year period’ (SN, May 17). 

(Reuters) – Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz has been suspended for two months for failing to report a suspect approach to indulge in corruption, the country’s cricket board has said.

After withdrawing cleaning services from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) last week, the owner of Stain Masters Services and Products says he is willing to negotiate with the airport, but it must be willing to meet his company half way.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, striking a defiant tone yesterday after days of political tumult, denied asking former FBI Director James Comey to drop a probe into his former national security adviser and decried a “witch hunt” against him.

Following the conclusion of a three-day workshop, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), representatives of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), consultants and stakeholders will meet today to discuss the way forward for the formulation of a national cancer control plan.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday signed an agreement with the Matthews Ridge/Arakaka and Port Kaituma Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) for a $5.5 Million water supply improvement programme in Matthews Ridge, North West District.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Michel Temer yesterday defiantly said he would not resign after the Supreme Court authorized an investigation into allegations he condoned bribes to a potential witness in a major corruption probe.

(Reuters) – Wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik has been called up to India’s squad for next month’s Champions Trophy, replacing the injured Manish Pandey, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said on Thursday.

Coordinator of Guyana’s first ever National Robotics Exhibition, Karen Abrams has told Stabroek Business that the event provides the local private sector with “as good an opportunity as is available to the business community to make a meaningful investment in the qualitative growth of the country, not for this year and the next but for generations to come.

Dear Editor, Anand Sookram a champion ‘south paw’ tennis player and cricketer has passed on.

Fifty females and one male from Regions 3, 4 and 5, are undergoing training under the Patient Care Assistant Training Programme.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Mobs looted shops and fought security forces overnight in Venezuela’s restive western region, where three soldiers were being charged on Thursday with the fatal shooting of a man who was buying diapers for his baby, witnesses said.

(Reuters) – Roger Federer made a smart decision by pulling out of this month’s French Open, where he has less chance of adding to his 18 grand slam titles than on the sport’s quicker surfaces, world number two Novak Djokovic said on Thursday.

Dear Editor, Urgent distractions prevented my paying appropriate attention to the announced proceedings of the Commission of Inquiry into our education system (presumably exclusive of the ‘vatted’ component.)

Ageing coconut groves and a sharp reduction of investment in cultivation had caught the industry off guard in the wake of the increased regional demand for coconut and its by-products.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday May 18, 2017

Dear Editor, The Fort Wellington Cottage Hospital in Region 5 (Mahaica/Berbice) is now utilizing a fully computerized management system which tracks the use of items in its stores and provides replenishment orders at established re-order points.

– usages – and “mis-usages” Both old First World countries and newer emerging Third World States – especially the latter – proudly proclaim national mottoes.

LONDON, (Reuters) – With the title and relegation issues decided, three teams will scrap for the two remaining Champions League places on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday.

Earlier this week we received some uplifting news from the agricultural sector, through the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) regarding a breakthrough in the cultivation of some crops not previously known to have been cultivated on a sustained basis in commercial quantities in Guyana, including onion and potato.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 721’s trading results showed consideration of $8,876,776 from 247,472 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 720’s trading results, which showed consideration of $14,425,378 from 230,078 shares traded in 4 transactions. 

The Rotaract Club of Stabroek will be hosting a fundraising event tomorrow  filled with comedy, cocktails and catwalk-ready fashion pieces, as it tries to secure funding for its community development projects, including the rehabilitation of a Shirley Field-Ridley playground.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy veteran plowed his car into pedestrians in New York City’s packed Times Square yesterday, killing an 18-year-old woman and injuring 22 people.

Mention the phrase “consumer protection” in Guyana, and the name ‘Eileen Cox’ must immediately come to mind as her name had, over the years, become almost synonymous with the concept.

With the Government Analyst Food & Drug Department (GAFDD) now tasked with the weighty responsibility of effectively closing the door on the ‘dumping’ of food and drugs in the country that do not qualify for entry under the existing regulations, its Director Marlan Cole has told the Stabroek Business that unless systems are put in place to end the practice, it will, in the longer term, affect Guyana in more ways than one.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the chief judge and seven other members of Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday as punishment for annulling the opposition-led Congress earlier this year, U.S.