Daily Archive: Friday, August 25, 2017

  The Ministry of Education today notified of the passing of Guyanese craft producer Petal Frank in Barbados.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force, is informing the general public that from Monday to Friday, 6:30hrs to 9:30hrs, Queen Street (from Kitty Public Road to David Street) and David Street (from Alexander Street to Vlissengen Road) will become one-ways with two lanes heading south and west respectively.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo today submitted a list of six names of candidates for the chair of GECOM and it includes former Chairman Joe Singh.

Fourteen Guyanese have won UK Chevening scholarships for Master’s degrees in various areas.

PPP/C MP and parliamentary whip, Gail Teixeira says the Head of SOCU, Sydney James has no business appearing before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on lands and it appears to have strayed from its gazetted terms of reference.

Vania Legall, a Guyanese student, recently completed a summer internship at the Embassy of Guyana in Washington, DC, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

  PANCHKULA, India,  (Reuters) – Violent protests erupted in India’s Haryana state on Friday, killing at least 29 people, after a court convicted a self-styled “godman” of raping two women, angering thousands of his supporters who said he was innocent, the state chief minister said.

  BANGKOK,  (Reuters) – Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled the country ahead of a verdict against her in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to the Shinawatra family said on Friday.

While recognising the government for providing it with some room to grow, the National Toshaos Council (NTC) last night criticised the APNU+AFC administration for limiting funding to it and  failing to reconstitute key bodies such as the Indigenous Peoples Commission (IPC).

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday received a courtesy call from Executive members of the First Bauxite Corporation (FBX) during which he was updated on their project at Bonasika,   Cuyuni-Mazaruni  which is due to begin next year with an investment of approximately US$50M.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank was yesterday released on $1 million bail after he was charged with causing the death of a pensioner, who was struck down five months ago along the Soesdyke Public Road.

                   (Reuters) – A battling century from Ben Stokes rescued England on the first day of the second test at Headingley but West Indies still dismissed Joe Root’s side for 258 on a much better day for the tourists.

Chairman of the Forbes Burnham Foundation, Vincent Alexander, yesterday petitioned for the return of ancestral lands that were “unjustly” transferred from their rightful owners and for the administrative authority of local villages to once again be vested in the village councils.

The Ministry of Social Protection is warning private security companies to obey the law as it relates to the minimum wage or face the attendant penalties.

The man who was killed almost two weeks ago after being struck along the Soesdyke Public Road by a vehicle driven by a police constable is still to be identified.

A 38-year-old landmark in the community of Charity, Essequibo Coast is rapidly sinking into the Pomeroon River causing great concern for the residents and the Neighborhood Democratic Council (NDC) of the community.

Two residents of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) juvenile correctional centre on the  Essequibo Coast were yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment by Magistrate Esther Sam when they appeared at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court.

PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Akila Dananjaya’s career-best 6-54 was in vain as India beat Sri Lanka by three wickets in their second one-day international to go 2-0 up in the five-match series on Thursday.

One month after Odinga Wain Wickham, the prison warder who was gunned during the July 9 Camp Street jail-break, was laid to rest his family is yet to receive any sort of compensation, according to his mother.

(Reuters) – Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo was named UEFA’s Player of the Year, beating Lionel Messi and Gianluigi Buffon to the prize, European soccer’s governing body announced during the Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on Thursday.

The US Embassy yesterday announced that three young Guyanese entrepreneurs will be participating in the 2017 Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program.

(Reuters) – One of six African nations will bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships as the continent hopes to stage the global meet for a first time, the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) President Hamad Kalkaba Malboum has said.

The MV Torani took on water after it developed a hole and it later partially capsized in the Mazaruni River, according to Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Annette Ferguson.

Wholesale Liquor and Stores secured contrasting wins to seal their berths in the next round, when the annual Mike Pereira Inter-Department Domino Championship continued on Wednesday, at the Banks DIH Thirst Park Sports Club.

The Guyana Amazon Warriors have replaced their Captain and opening batsman, Martin Guptill with fellow New Zealander wicketkeeper/ batsman Luke Ronchi for the remainder of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) tournament.

Guyana completed their fourth successive win in the ongoing Regional One Day Under-19 tournament yesterday, with a commanding 10 – wicket over Barbados at the Conaree Cricket Club Ground in St Kitts.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC — Barbados Tridents stepped up their bid to make the playoffs of the Caribbean Premier League with the announcement that England star Eoin Morgan has been called up for the remainder of the competition.

The cyclist who was struck down by a taxi on the Grove Public Road on Wednesday has been identified as George Klass, 64, of Samatta Point, Grove, East Bank Demerara.

LAHORE, Pakistan, CMC — Darren Sammy and Samuel Badree were named in the 14-member World XI to contest three Twenty20 Internationals against Pakistan next month here.

Guyana Reparations Committee Chairman Dr Eric Phillips yesterday sought to make a case for 15,000 square miles of Guyana’s lands to be given to the descendants of enslaved Africans as reparations.

Four months after security guard Christopher Singh was fatally struck along the Rupert Craig Highway, no one has been charged and his family wants answers.

Colts grounded Eagles in the under-23 section, while Pacesetters downed Sonics in the 2nd Division, when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League Championship, continued on Wednesday at the Burnham Court at Carmichael and Middle streets.

Dear Editor, Certain impressions concerning remarks I made on the evening session on Wednesday 23rd August, 2017 to Toshaos were carried by your newspaper yesterday under the caption ‘Tension flares between Toshaos Council, Ministers’.

Lawyers and legal staff on the Essequibo Coast are set for training on the Supreme Court of Judicature’s new civil procedure rules.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Mo Farah won the final track race of his career by the skin of his teeth on Thursday, clinching a dramatic 5,000 metres win after three chasing rivals collided with each other in the last couple of metres.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC regime has been conspicuously silent on the progress, or lack thereof, on issues related to the Guyana-Norway Agreement.

A twenty-year-old man was found hanging in his Reef Section, Rose Hall Town house sometime around 2 pm on Tuesday, after he was involved in an altercation with his grandparents.

(Reuters) – Should an age-defying Roger Federer win the U.S. Open and capture his third grand slam title of the year, it would go down as one of the wondrous chapters in tennis, a trio of pundits said on Thursday.

Dear Editor, It is a source of personal pride, and it is now in the public domain, that for a period of time I made the boardroom of GNBA into a temporary office where I spent considerable hours.

The decision by Cevon’s Waste Manage-ment to lay off dozens of its workers with effect from September 1 was taken “as a matter of last resort” and only after it became clear that there was unlikely to be any immediate-term resolution arising out of City Hall’s mammoth unpaid debt of in excess of $300 million dollars to Cevon’s and Puran Brothers, the two garbage disposal companies that had had a protracted contract with City Hall to provide the service in sections of the capital.

Against the backdrop of uncertainties associated chiefly with the prospects for the future of locally manufactured food products, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) will stage its Fourth Annual Agro Processors Street Fair at the Stabroek Market Square today.

Dear Editor, It appears as though my letter captioned ‘I am a GNBA board member but I do not back Broadcasting Bill’ published in SN on August 19, clarifying an article carried in the Guyana Chronicle of August 18, seems to have hit a raw nerve in the Office of the Prime Minister, with the Prime Minister himself finding it necessary to author a whole page 2 article in the same newspaper, on Tuesday August 22, attacking my integrity, and going as far as to call me a hypocrite.

Arron Fraser, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state-run Power Producers and Distributors Inc.

LEEDS, England, CMC – Stroke-maker Jermaine Blackwood intends to continue his positive approach when he faces England’s strong bowling attack in the second Test at Headingley starting here Friday.

With tropical fruits having, over time, secured a fair measure of global popularity for what is widely believed to be their health-related benefits, Damien and Nicola Da Silva may well, in the fullness of time, make their names far beyond Guyana’s shores for the value which their experiment has added to an impressive range of local fruit.

Dear Editor, Touts pretending to be Justices of the Peace and lawyers infest the Maraj building.

The disclosure just over two years ago that significant deposits of oil had been found offshore Guyana created some discernible changes in public behaviour that had to do with what we anticipated would be a qualitative transformation which the advent of oil would bring to Guyana.

A Port Mourant house was broken into on Wednesday evening, during which the burglar (s) escaped with US$ 4,000 in cash.

Dear Editor, If I hear of or read one more word about oil I am liable to commit a capital offence. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A District of Columbia Superior Court judge yesterday approved a government warrant seeking data from an anti-Trump website related to Inauguration Day protests, but he added protections to safeguard “innocent users.”

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 735’s trading

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton will start the 200th grand prix of his Formula One career in Belgium this weekend but the triple world champion has smaller but more significant numbers on his mind.

(Trinidad Express) The man who Wendy Isahark falsely accused of raping her, saved her from going to prison today.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – As an influx of asylum seekers crossing from the United States strains Canada’s immigration system, the country is ramping up its deportation of migrants, government data shows.

With the underdevelopment of the country’s road network having long been identified as a major obstacle to the country’s socio-economic development, the Government of Guyana has used the recently released Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) publication, Guyana Invest to make key disclosures regarding the administration’s plans for critical road development works envisaged under its administration.

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 735 August 21, 2017

Maurice Price, 50, a hire car driver, of 24 Second Avenue, Bartica who was on Wednesday morning found guilty on three counts of driving under the influence of alcohol in Bartica, has been suspended from driving for a period of twelve months and also fined $7, 500.

(Jamaica Observer) President of the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employ-ees Vincent Morrison has characterised the conditions under which Jamaicans are working on various Chinese investment projects as a “total disgrace”, drawing reference to recent statements made by Opposition spokesman on national security Peter Bunting.

Dear Editor, The ferry boat, Torani, has capsized in the Essequibo River somewhere near Mazaruni.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Polish rider Tomasz Marczynski earned his first stage win at a grand tour by outsprinting two rivals at the finish to take an enthralling stage six of the Vuelta a Espana, as Chris Froome increased his lead in the general classification by one second.

The discovery of offshore oil in Guyana has the potential to radically change the economic landscape – for better or for worse.

Yes I concede. I have again succumbed to the people’s Emancipation Month to intrude with my comments.

More than forty youths, mainly from Regions Three, Four and Six, between the ages of two and 24, who have been diagnosed with type one diabetes are participating in a three- day ‘Diabetic Youth Camp’.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s attorney general and a United Nations-backed anti-corruption body will investigate the nation’s political parties on suspicion of illegal campaign financing during the 2015 presidential election campaign, the groups said on Thursday.

If you are keen to get a glimpse into the real fortunes of Tandy’s Manufacturing Company the physical presentation of their products is probably not the best indicator to go by.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court unanimously ruled yesterday that individual privacy is a fundamental right, a verdict that will impact everything from the way companies handle personal data to the roll-out of the world’s largest biometric ID card programme.

It is not our opinion that City Hall, on its own, intends to enter into an arrangement that allows for an expeditious settlement of its debts to its waste disposal contractors.

Parts of the embankment along the Merriman Mall are continuing their descent into the Church Street canal.

Dear Editor, I take this opportunity to congratulate all our students who excelled at the recent CSEC and CAPE examinations.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday August 24, 2017