Articles published on Friday, October 20, 2017
The Alliance For Change (AFC) this evening said that President David Granger’s appointment of a chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission “has averted a looming constitutional crisis”.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today said that the President’s decision to unilaterally appoint a Chairman of GECOM poses a clear threat to democracy.
HARARE, (Reuters) – A Belgian-based businessman on Friday challenged Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe’s accusation that he duped her of a $1.35 million diamond ring and asked her to provide the court with evidence to back her lawsuit.
LIMA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Wedged between the rubbish-choked Rimac river and lanes of traffic belching fumes, the Cantagallo slum in downtown Lima is a far cry from the Amazon rainforest land that the Shipibo-Konibo people were forced to flee two decades ago.
President David Granger yesterday unilaterally chose retired justice James Patterson, 84, to be Chairman of GECOM, rejecting a third list that had been submitted by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo and plunging the country into its worst political crisis since APNU+AFC came to power in 2015.
In the wake of President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of former Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that his party has immediately pulled back from co-operation with the APNU+AFC government.
President David Granger has made a disastrous decision by unilaterally appointing a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission.
For the third consecutive year, the APNU+AFC government has unilaterally imposed hikes in public service wages and salaries.
Less than a day before the High Court is scheduled to hear an application from the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) on the production of key documents, the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) yesterday charged the bank’s directors with contempt and they are to appear in a Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer.
Two former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) employees will today be arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates Court following charges of fraud by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).
More than two years after entering office, the APNU+AFC government yesterday finally named its three nominees for the long delayed Local Government Commission (LGC).
Stanley Barrow was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 45 years in jail for the fatal beating of Megan Jones, whom he sexually assaulted and then cut out a piece of her tongue.
Guyana recorded their worst showing yesterday in the Pan American Indoor Hockey Championship, losing to Canada in the Men’s division and Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America (USA) in the Women’s section.
A Sophia woman, who was doused with acid by her former partner almost two weeks ago, is calling on police to apprehend him as he has made threats to end her life, following her decision to leave the relationship after years of abuse.
FLORENCE HALL, Jamaica, CMC – Dasun Shanaka stroked an aggressive, unbeaten hundred but fast bowler Keon Joseph led a focussed bowling effort to help restrict Sri Lanka A on the opening day of the second four-day “Test” here Thursday.
Future Stars secured the coveted Street Vibes Entertainment ‘National Futsal Championship’, dismissing Gold is Money by a 4-1 score line on Wednesday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.
What is being promoted as the start of a major public/private sector initiative to create a wider domestic market for Guyana’s agro-processing sector will be staged next weekend at the National Exhibition Centre, Sophia under the title Uncapped.
A 24-year-old miner yesterday walked out of the High Court in Georgetown a free man after being found not guilty of murdering a fellow miner.
Tourney host, Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) was crowned as the inaugural GT Beer Intra-Association Football Champion, dismantling West Demerara 3-0 on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden.
A recently concluded mid-term review of the work of the Small Business Bureau has identified “challenges and gaps” in the agency’s operations though the Bureau’s Chief Executive Officer Dr.
Police last night said that 2011 prison escapee Rickford Le Fleur has been held in Suriname.
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, CMC – Though winning the upcoming two-Test series against Zimbabwe will be vital, head coach Stuart Law said Thursday continuing to make key improvements as a Test unit would be the overall objective.
Three Guyana Power and Light Company Inc (GPL) employees, who were charged in April with attempting to steal money from a customer, were cleared of the crime yesterday after the complainant dropped the case.
Dear Editor, The loss of five lives at one fell swoop on Sunday, 15th October, 2017 on the Corentyne Highway because of a pothole makes me recall the rhyme quoted by Benjamin Franklin, ‘For the want of a nail…’ The essence of its message is that the neglect of seemingly minor things can lead to colossal losses later.
There is a point where fashion and the arts meets business and the two collide head on with technology.
From its humble beginning in 1971 as a modest manufacturing establishment – trading at the time as Mohammed’s Manufacturing Enterprise in Sussex street Albouystown – Peppy’s Foods has gradually become a household name in the local Agro Processing sector.
Three gunmen attacked a grocery and beer garden at Canefield, East Canje Berbice on Tuesday evening and escaped with cash and jewellery.
The pools and playing format have been announced for the 2017 Rugby Americas North (RAN) scheduled to be held in Mexico City on November 25 and 26.
Dear Editor, I refer to an article I read recently in the Stabroek News headlined ‘Corentyne labourer gets life sentence for raping three-year-old’ Justice Jo Ann Barlow.
One of St Maarten’s leading daily newspapers was forced to close its printery earlier this month as its management could not justify the heavy costs to restart operations following the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.
Gone are the days when young, bright, ambitious Guyanese cling tenaciously to academic pursuits that equip them for distinguished careers in well-recognized disciplines, leaving entrepreneurial options to those who see greater merit in doing business.
Dear Editor, Past President and Past Prime Minister, Mr Samuel Hinds, who in his letter to the editor: ‘We African-Guyanese must free and empower ourselves’ (Sunday Stabroek, October 8, 2017) demonstrates why he could not have contributed to that process, even as he occupied high office that could have been used to contribute to enabling African-Guyanese freedom and empowerment.
Guyana’s leading cyclist, Jamal John will look to continue his torrid run of success on the local circuit, as he seeks to defend his title at the sixth edition of the Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness Road Race which will be staged on Sunday.
Dear Editor, As the leading researcher, analyst and writer for almost a decade in the still emerging field of Caribbean Intellectual Property law and policy, my work has catalogued the laws and policies related to intellectual property rights within the Caricom states and their relation to international IP regimes such as the WTO’s TRIPS agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).
Action in the annual Hamilton Green Football Championship will continue tomorrow at the Victoria Community ground with the start of the quarterfinal round.
A single parent mother of two is warning others to be wary of a scammer who managed to cheat her out of $50,000 in phone credit on the pretext that she had won $1 million through a Bank of Guyana (BoG) and Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) contest.
Guyana may not be anywhere close to the top of the regional pile as far as the high food import bill is concerned but Sterling Products Chief Executive Officer, Ramsey Ali says that should not diminish the focus on redirecting the country’s foreign exchange expenditure by taking advantage of what our agricultural sector has to offer.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday October 19, 2017
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Key members of Venezuela’s opposition, divided and dispirited after losing gubernatorial elections over the weekend, will travel abroad to denounce what it says is a “fraudulent” voting system under leftist President Nicolas Maduro.
Dear Editor, This government took over a country in which critical social services were found to be seriously deficient in their daily operations.
President David Granger on Monday urged Lindeners to invest in agriculture and propel food production to industrial scales.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Pele secured their berths to the quarterfinal round, when the Turbo Energy Drink Knockout Football Championship commenced on Wednesday.
There are a whole host of reasons why Guyana’s agro processing sector has been unable, up until now, to deliver to anywhere near its fullest potential.
Introduction Column 19 last week summarised how petroleum produced is shared between the Contractor and Guyana represented by the Minister.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Brian Lara Stadium will become the region’s newest first class venue when it hosts three of Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s home matches in the Regional first class campaign which bowls off next week.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) sees it necessary to respond to a letter by the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) which appeared in the October 11, 2017 Stabroek News under the title ‘GuySuCo has a challenge in its partnership with GAWU’.
Asian-Islamic America? Missing mosquitoes? I grew up in little old Alberttown in our capital with red ole grandmother sending me to the “doctor shop” for penny white or brown Vaseline.
(Reuters) – Black people in Canada’s most populous province spent longer behind bars awaiting trial than white people charged with many of the same categories of crimes in each of the past five years, according to data obtained by Reuters.
Just one week into the month of October, President David Granger while speaking to reporters at State House concerning the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged plot to assassinate the Head of State, put forward the view that it is important to ensure that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) can be trusted and is efficient in addressing crime.
Police are still feverishly trying to locate the suspect in the recent Newtown, Kitty arson, who set fire to a Da Silva Street house after trying to burn his wife.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 743’s trading results showed consideration of $3,227,483 from 37,385 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 742’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,869,575 from 10,948 shares traded in 8 transactions.
