Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 16, 2017

  CASTRIES, St. Lucia, (Reuters) – The prime minister of the small Caribbean country of St.

Dear Editor, Kindly publish my response, as follows, with regard to an anonymous letter published by the Guyana Chronicle on Wednesday, August 16, 2017, under the caption ‘Will the Auditor General investigate the deputy chief elections officer?’

President David Granger, today, announced that Minister within the Ministry of Communities,  Dawn Hastings-Williams will assume the portfolio of Minister of Public Affairs in the Ministry of the Presidency with effect from September 1, 2017.

  President David Granger, earlier today, attended the wedding reception of Minister within the Ministry of Communities with responsibility for Housing, Valerie Patterson- Yearwood and .

  JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African police confirmed on Wednesday that Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe remained in the country and had applied for diplomatic immunity after being accused of assaulting a 20-year-old model in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel.

  LONDON, (Reuters) – British actor Daniel Craig has confirmed he will reprise the role of James Bond one last time, ending months of speculation.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts called on the United States today to combat rising racist violence and xenophobia and to prosecute perpetrators of hate crimes.

The twin-engine Beechcraft seized by authorities on an improvised airstrip on Sunday in the North Rupununi, Region Nine area, was yesterday confirmed as bearing a registration number belonging to an investment company in Brazil.

ExxonMobil yesterday signed a deal with Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI) for an onshore support facility at Houston on the East Bank of Demerara.

While students who sat Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) exams in May and June of this year will be able to access their results online on Friday, the Ministry of Education has already announced that Guyana has recorded a 7% increase in passes at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE).

A post-mortem examination is expected to be done today to determine the cause of death of a nine-month-old baby, who died on Monday after she was left in a car.

Ryan Singh, the man accused of killing his teenage girlfriend by slitting her throat, was yesterday charged with her murder and remanded to prison.

Gunmen posing as customers cornered a businessman and his driver in the Coffee Bean Café on Church Street just before midday yesterday and relieved them of an undisclosed amount of cash, shortly after they had left a city bank.

Unhealthy situation: This open back truck was seen in Norton Street yesterday collecting solid waste from homes and businesses.

A second police constable yesterday testified that Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Frank Thompson did use abusive language to a junior rank who was investigating his involvement in a vehicular accident.

Despite the disparity seen in recent sentences handed down for some prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison and a man who harboured an escapee, some legal minds say that the courts acted according to the law.

Chairman of the Guyana Gaming Authority Roysdale Forde yesterday confirmed that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) did reveal that hotelier Clifton Bacchus and several associates are under investigation for money laundering, but said that the information is yet to be used in the review of the businessman’s application for a casino licence.

A domestic worker of Success, East Coast Demerara, is now hospitalised after she was struck down by a car driven by a police constable yesterday morning.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Batsman Emmanuel Stewart returned from West Indies Under-19 duty to immediately stamp his authority, as he steered Windward Islands to a convincing seven-wicket victory over Jamaica in the opening round of the Regional Under-19 one-day championship here yesterday.

(ESPNCRICINFO) For the first 37 overs of the game, St Lucia Stars were ahead and cruising.

The Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Lt.

The Mayor and City Council has instructed the new owners of the Astor Cinema building to halt demolition until they put safety measures in place to protect both workers and members of the public.

The Guyana Amazon Warriors yesterday visited the St. John’s Bosco Boys Orphanage at Ben Profitt Drive, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara.

LONDON, CMC – Head coach Stuart Law has praised the character of Test captain Jason Holder and says he could be an effective leader over the next decade in West Indies cricket.

An inter-ministerial task force conducted a follow-up visit to the village of Baramita over the weekend, to ensure the successful implementation of plans to address the social problems which had been plaguing the community.

LONDON,  CMC – Team manager, Joel Garner, has warned pundits to write off West Indies “at their own peril” as the Caribbean side gear up for the opening Test of the three-match series against England starting tomorrow.

“Fruitful discussions” are currently ongoing between the National Air Transport Association (NATA) and the Ogle Airport Incorporated (OAI) over control of the Eugene F Correia International Airport and related issues, according to Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Director General (Ret’d) Col.

Residents of New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, are concerned over live wires that have been left exposed at the side of the road after recent road works.

Region Six is proposing a total allocation of $7.1 billion for its 2018 budget, representing an increase of one billion over the sum approved last year, according to Regional Chairman David Armogan.

The Georgetown city council on Monday passed a motion for the development of a comprehensive solid waste management plan.

Dear Editor, The Parliamentary Opposition, the Guyana Press Association, the owners of almost every media house in the country, the Private Sector Com-mission, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, the largest amalgam of trade unions in the country, FITUG, the Association of Caribbean Media Workers, Reporters without Borders and the International Press Institute, have all expressed their condemnation of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017, and the failure of the government to consult prior to its promulgation in the National Assembly.

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of an immigration building Tract ‘MC’, Ordinance, Fortlands, Region 6, under the Ministry of the Presidency.

Consultations have been embarked upon with stakeholders by the new Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Dela Britton and the regulatory body is enhancing its services which will include the annual work plan for the next year.

Dear Editor, I read with absolute shock the blazing and bold headlines in the Guyana Chronicle, on Tuesday,  August 15, 2017, ‘Tracking the Money… Sleepin boss, associates snared in money laundering probe… SOCU tells Gaming Authority investigation on since 2016’. 

Guyana’s winless record in the CONCACAF Boys U15 Championship continued, as they went down to Suriname by a 3-1 score-line yesterday at the IMG Academy Facility, Florida, United States of America.

The Ministry of Education, Department of  Culture, Youth and Sport is hosting an exhibition under the theme “Breaking the silence, Africa before the transatlantic enslavement,” to commemorate Emancipation Heritage month.

A 40-year-old driver is presently in police custody following the discovery of five pounds of compressed cannabis in a hire car on the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, We, the members of the Guyana American Patriotic Forum (GAPF), are seeking the immediate intervention of the Government of Guyana to halt the criminalization of Guyanese youths who are routinely incarcerated for smoking small amounts of marijuana.

(Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni is no longer an automatic choice in one-day internationals and the former India captain needs to keep performing to be involved in the 2019 World Cup, chief selector MSK Prasad has said.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Ms Audreyanna Thomas in SN, Aug 12, titled ‘Molasses would be the preferred raw material for ethanol production in Guyana’ in response to the ongoing conversation on ethanol here.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has said that he has had some setbacks with the finalisation of a third slate of nominees for the post of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Kingston pastor who was being sought by the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) for allegedly repeatedly having sex with a 12-year-old girl before impregnating her, is now in jail.

Guyana concluded its participation in the Individual event of the XXV NLA Senior CASA in St.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Players will face a much more intense Regional Four-Day Championship when the first class tournament bowls off in October, as the 10 rounds of competition is set to be completed in just three months.

Regional Chairman of Region One (Barima-Waini) Brentnol Ashley has denied that the Mabaruma Public Hospital has a shortage of any medication to treat snake bites and scorpion stings.

In the letter captioned ‘Government revenues from state forest permissions is 1/95 of what was earned in 1861 per hectare’ by Janette Bulkan, published in our edition yesterday, a paragraph was inadvertently omitted.

Dear Editor, I wish to seek clarity from the relevant authority responsible for the Better Hope/LBI Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC).

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday rolled back rules regarding environmental reviews and restrictions on government-funded building projects in flood-prone areas as part of his proposal to spend $1 trillion to fix aging U.S.

(Reuters) – The 3-0 whitewash to India at home was the worst series loss Dinesh Chandimal has ever experienced, Sri Lanka’s new test captain has said while apologising to the fans for the team’s performance.

JOHANNESBURG/ HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe returned home on Tuesday from South Africa after failing to turn herself in to police in Johannesburg to face accusations of assaulting a model in a hotel room.

(Trinidad Guardian) Double medallist at the just concluded IAAF World Championships has called on the public to come out in support of local track and field in the future.

Dear Editor, Guyanese Professor Clem Seecharan, well-known writer of several books on Indian, Caribbean and cricket history is to be honoured with a Doctor of Letters degree from the University of the West Indies (UWI) at the next graduation exercise in October at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s controversial Constituent Assembly yesterday ordered that cases of protesters detained this year be held in civilian rather than military courts, following complaints from various rights groups and the United Nations.

FREETOWN, (Reuters) – Rescue workers have recovered nearly 400 bodies from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, the chief coroner said yesterday, as morgues struggled to find space for all the dead.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia opening batsman David Warner was a victim of friendly fire when he was struck in the neck by a bouncer from team mate Josh Hazlewood and retired hurt during an intra-squad match in Darwin yesterday.

Dear Editor, Guyanese Venezuelans (the Guyanese diaspora in and/or from Venezuela and settled in other countries like the US and Canada) and Venezuelans in general tell of immediate human suffering and financial distress in their (former) homeland.

(Reuters) – England’s cricketers admit they will be taking a leap in the dark when the country hosts its first day-night test, with a pink ball, against the West Indies this week.

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Indian and Chinese soldiers were involved in an altercation in the western Himalayas on Tuesday, Indian sources said, further raising tensions between the two countries which are already locked in a two-month standoff in another part of the disputed border.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Zinedine Zidane showed his anger over a five-match ban imposed on Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo for pushing the referee in Sunday’s Spanish Super Cup first leg.

(Trinidad Express) Did mechanic Randy Ramkissoon scarifice his own life to save his wife and three young children when an intruder entered their home on Saturday night?

Dear Editor, It is obvious even to the most myopic observer that President Donald Trump is hell bent on breaking free of Obama’s policies.

Next Monday, August 21, a rare solar eclipse will occur. According to Space.com

(ICC) Openers Shikhar Dhawan and Lokesh Rahul have attained career-high positions in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings after figuring in an important partnership that helped India defeat Sri Lanka by an innings and 171 runs to complete a 3-0 rout of the home side.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump insisted yesterday that left- and right-wing extremists became violent during a weekend rally by white nationalists in Virginia, reigniting a political firestorm over U.S.

Unbeaten Rose Hall Town Jammers clinched their final’s berth in the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) League Championship, crushing Fyrish Black Sharks 71-52 on Sunday at the Fyrish Court.

‘[O]ptimum functioning or malfunctioning of the Public Service Commission … depends on the type and nature of the regime within which the institution operates.’.

Dear Editor, I was delighted to hear some great news. Professor Clem Seecharan, Guyana’s greatest historiographer, is to be granted an Honorary DLitt by the University of the West Indies later this year.