Daily Archive: Friday, November 10, 2017

A statement from LIAT follows: LIAT regrets to advise the travelling public of industrial action by the members of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA).

The 84th Graduation Ceremony for the 2017 Graduands of the Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) and the Craft Production and Design Division of the Ministry of Education was held yesterday at the Princess Ramada Hotel, Providence.

In a searing attack, the Private Sector Commission today said that GPL doesn’t have the management or capacity to deliver reliable power to the public.

The police today said that an intelligence-led operation, yesterday afternoon in the city, has resulted in the arrest of a 52-year-old male of Church Street, Georgetown and the seizing of an unlicensed AR Rifle with magazine, a pair of handcuffs and one bulletproof vest from a motor car.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited registered an after-tax profit of $2.73b for the financial year ended September 30, 2017 – slightly above the previous year’s figure – and the institution is still reporting a significant level of bad debt.

  NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India plans to spray water over its capital, New Delhi, to try to combat toxic smog that has triggered a pollution emergency, officials said today, with conditions expected to get worse over the weekend.

An ex-partner of Kescia Branche, the school teacher who succumbed to injuries after being found unconscious on the side of a city street on Sunday, was arrested yesterday as police continued to investigate the circumstances that led to her death.

Less than a week after Director of Solid Waste Management Walter Narine announced that they were back on the streets, three of the city’s four garbage disposal trucks are down for repairs.

National swimmer Earlando Mc Rae was held in New York on November 4 with 2.5 kilogrammes of cocaine in his suitcase.

An accountant and a clerk of the Guyana Gold Board were yesterday sent home pending an investigation into allegations of “millions of dollars” in theft through a manipulation of the gold testing system.

PPP/C parliamentarian Anil Nandlall yesterday released a recent Cabinet procurement document, which lists former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Edward Persico as the Secretary to the Cabinet and he questioned why the appointment was not made public.

A truck driver was yesterday charged in a city court with causing the death of the pensioner, who was struck down on the Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD), Public Road in August.

Constable Shanice Fraser, who was shot by her fiancé and fellow colleague Constable Clement Cockfield before he took his own life, is showing signs of recovery, according to Commander of ‘D’ Division Leslie James.

A 33-year-old miner is currently at a city hospital after he was shot during a home invasion in East La Penitence, Georgetown.

Less than a year after $7 million was spent to construct a timber revetment at Baracara along the Canje Creek the structure is falling apart.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he trafficked four Venezuelan nationals.

The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) group yesterday led a protest against Mayor Patricia Chase-Green, Town Clerk Royston King and councillor Sherod Duncan, and called for their removal and arrest after their failure to immediately report an allegation of sexual assault on a minor to the police.

Covent Garden Secondary School emerged champion of the 2017 JOF Hayes Inter-Secondary Schools debating competition yesterday.

  Men crush Panama 9 – 0, Ladies defeat Bermuda 3 – 0Guyana’s Men’s and Women’s teams moved one step closer in qualifying for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games, when they secured wins against Panama and Bermuda, respectively, yesterday.

A logger was granted bail yesterday after he denied any involvement in two robberies.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA revived the Telstar, the first made-for-television football used at the 1970 World Cup, as it unveiled on Thursday the official match ball for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Pending the determination of its appeal of the $79 million awarded to dismissed manager Maurice Arjoon, the New Building Society (NBS) has asked the Guyana Court of Appeal to stay any payments.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany coach Joachim Loew has said he will experiment with his team when they take on England in a friendly today, as the world champions prepare for their title defence next year.

Courts Guyana yesterday launched what it calls Guyana’s first Sleep Centre, where customers can touch and lay on the mattresses before deciding on a purchase.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Switzerland made the most of a controversial penalty converted by Ricardo Rodriguez to secure a 1-0 win away to Northern Ireland in a pulsating and bruising first leg of their World Cup qualifying playoff on Thursday.

AGREB, (Reuters) – Croatia edged closer to next year’s World Cup with an emphatic 4-1 home win over Greece on Thursday in the first leg of their two-legged playoff.

In Berbice for two school graduations yesterday, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo faced protests by PPP/C protesters over the unilateral selection of a Chairman for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Italy arrived in Sweden for the first game of their two-legged World Cup playoff against Sweden with doubts about the fitness of striker Simone Zaza, who has knee injury which is likely to keep him out of today’s match.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will once again be hosting the George Subraj Family Foundation, New York, USA on their 26th Mission to Guyana this week.

Try as it has, the local manufacturing sector has, up until now, been unable to rise to the level of labeling and packaging necessary to secure that elusive edge on the international market.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Half-centuries from Montcin Hodge and Keacy Carty helped Leeward Islands Hurricanes control the opening day of their third round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship against leaders Guyana Jaguars here Thursday.

Rafeek Khan, a Kitty resident accused of attempting to break into his neighbour’s home, was granted his release on self-bail yesterday after he claimed that he was out of town when the alleged crime was committed.

If the local beekeeping industry is to make a more meaningful contribution to livelihoods and to the country’s economy as a whole, it is necessary that it receive a far more generous measure of support from government to help create infrastructure and to better position the sector to make a mark on both the local and external market, Treasurer of the Guyana Apiculture Society, Aubrey Roberts has told the Stabroek Business.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Hundreds from their current captain Denesh Ramdin and a former captain Jason Mohammed in a record, fourth-wicket stand gave Trinidad & Tobago Red Force the early leg up on Windward Islands Volcanoes in the Regional 4-Day Championship on Thursday.

The coincidence between what had appeared to be some distinct signs that the frosty relationship between the APNU-AFC administration and the private sector might have been moving in the direction of a gradual thaw and the recent sudden and dramatic reversal occasioned by the announcement by President David Granger that Justice James Patterson was his choice to be the next Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission is worrying in more ways than one.

With less than six days before the deadline of team submissions, a record turnout is expected for the Qualifying Tournament in the 2017 Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Zone.

Unbeaten Winners Connection climbed atop the standings in the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) 2017/2018 Senior League, crushing Blueberry Hill 3-0, on Wednesday.

Long seized of the critical importance of the role of labeling and packaging as a marketing tool, Umami, the Lusignan-based company last month used the occasion of the public/private-sector staged Uncapped event at the National Exhibition Centre to rebrand its range of sauces and condiments.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 09, 2017              Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition will resume efforts to hold dialogue, the third attempt in a year by the administration of President Nicolas Maduro and his adversaries to break up a bitter political stalemate.

Dear Editor, I noticed the November 6, 2017, Guyana Times’ article on `President reviewing names for new Police Service Commission….

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning is stepping down after 10 months in the job as part of governance reforms following recent bullying and doping scandals.

Dear Editor, It is not surprising to read the recent comments of the Hon.

(Reuters) – A woman has accused Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for the U.S.

Mindful of the heavy and mounting expenditure required to meet the continually growing demand for imported coconut products, Jamaica is embarking on an initiative aimed at tripling the existing 40,000 acres of land under coconut cultivation over the next ten years.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Felipe Massa hopes his home Brazilian Grand Prix can stay on the Formula One calendar despite a drought of local drivers and uncertainty about the long-term future of the Interlagos circuit.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping as “highly respected” on Friday as he left Beijing for Vietnam, ending a visit which Chinese media declared set a “new blueprint” for handling U.S.-China

Dear Editor, Through the swift and commendable efforts of the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Guyana the spread between the buying and selling rates of foreign currency has reduced significantly, particularly in the commercial banks.

MILAN,  (Reuters) – Some thought he was mad launching a tournament with radical rules claiming to be re-inventing tennis, but ATP chief Chris Kermode believes his Milan experiment has a future.

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(Reuters) – In early 2016, agri-business giant Monsanto faced a decision that would prove pivotal in what since has become a sprawling herbicide crisis, with millions of acres of crops damaged.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May should stop misleading voters and admit that Brexit can be avoided if Britain decides to unilaterally scrap divorce talks, the man who drafted Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will say today.

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Dear Editor, President David Granger, leader of the People’s National Congress Reform {PNCR), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the APNU+AFC coalition, while addressing the North American Chapter of the PNCR in Georgia, USA, made what is likely to be seen as one of the most important and, to some onlookers, disturbing political addresses to the PNCR party faithful since he became President of Guyana in 2015.

   (The Sports Xchange) – Highlights from National Basketball Association games on Wednesday: Celtics 107, Lakers 96 Aron Baynes matched his career high with 21 points and the Boston Celtics won their 10th straight game, holding off the Los Angeles Lakers 107-96 on Wednesday night.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – West Indies made light work of Northern Suburbs District Invitational XI but their two-day warm-up match finished in a predictable draw here Thursday.

BONN, Germany, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Haiti, which was hit last year by its strongest hurricane in 50 years, has been ranked the country worst-affected by extreme weather in 2016, in an index published yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. foreign service has seen its top ranks shrink under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to a letter written by the head of the union representing U.S.

 -“Neither here nor there” – Harmon   Of course, it depends on your political perspective and affiliation or sympathy; even your subjective tribal kith-and-kin links and loyalties, combined perhaps with your reasonably thought-out strategy for personal survival, then progress, which easily or eventually colours your assessments of our current national leaders.

(LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Five women detailed sexual misconduct allegations against Emmy-winning comedian Louis C.K.

It was only in October that we editorialised on the Guyana Police Force and the high number of crimes and negative incidents being reported in the press in relation to the actions of a few of its senior officers and many of its rank and file members.

Dear Editor It was interesting to read in the Stabroek News of Thursday Nov 2nd an article titled `Contractor defends structural integrity of Parfaite Harmonie access road’.

From the outset, she wanted to expand the boundaries of our interview beyond the issues that we had settled on earlier.

Indonesia explores new model  Indonesia, the country that is credited with giving the petroleum world the petroleum production sharing agreement (PSC) in the nineteen sixties, now seems to be walking away from the model.