Daily Archive: Friday, November 24, 2017

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – “I know Aussies are not known for leaving the party at the right time but (after) 17 years, it’s time to leave the party,” Hugh Jackman quipped as he discussed his last time playing X-Men superhero Wolverine in this year’s gritty action hit “Logan.”

WPA nominee Desmond Trotman was today sworn in as the new commissioner on the Guyana Elections Commission at State House.

Police yesterday arrested three male suspects who on  Wednesday allegedly robbed a pastor a sum of cash, on Church Street, Georgetown, shortly after he left a city bank.

Under pressure from within and without the party over what has been seen as capitulation to APNU on key issues, the Alliance For Change today said in a statement that it was disturbed that it could not be represented on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

The Ministry of Education today said it has handed over the matter of allegations against Bishops’ High School teacher Coen Jackson to the police and said it has also been determined that the headmistress of the school be reprimanded over her conduct in the matter.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch Cabinet called today for the caretaker prime minister of the Caribbean island nation of St.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Militants killed 235 people at a mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai region today, detonating a bomb and shooting at fleeing worshippers and ambulances, state media and witnesses said.

President David Granger will this midday swear-in longstanding Working People’s Alliance (WPA) activist Desmond Trotman as the new Commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s Supreme Court increased Oscar Pistorius’ murder sentence today to 13 years and five months after the state argued his original sentence of six years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was “shockingly lenient”.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that the large number prisoners on remand is costing the nation a fortune annually and alternatives to pre-trial methods must be utilised.

Joshua Payne was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 12 years in prison for the unlawful killing of Kelvin Canes, whom he knifed to death at the Stabroek Market on December 19, 2012.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand,  CMC – Captain Jason Holder says West Indies are under no illusions about the massive threat posed by the powerful Black Caps side but stressed the Caribbean side would be looking to execute their game plan clinically, in the two-Test series starting here next month.

Over a month after his appointment as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), retired judge James Patterson will today convene a statutory meeting with the other members of the commission.

For almost a decade, ‘Boxing Day’ in Guyana has been void of a Boxing Day card.

A porter was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Thursday after he was found guilty of murder.

General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Coretta McDonald says that it is too early to pronounce on the allegations made against Bishops’ High School teacher Coen Jackson and she has criticised the very public means used in the reporting of the claims.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Australia fought back with two late wickets to restrict England to 196 for four and leave the Ashes series-opener delicately poised on Thursday after the tourists’ unheralded batsmen threatened to dominate an intriguing first day.

Pepsi Hikers, Woodpecker Hikers and Pizza Hut Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) were amongst the wins, on Wednesday, opening night of the 13th Annual Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Set to face sentencing on an attempted murder charge, Stafrei Alexander yesterday learned that he will have to be retried after the court incorrectly accepted a guilty verdict instead of declaring a hung jury.

Fruta Conquerors rising star and Golden Jaguar international Jeremy Garrett, has secured two overseas football trials in the United States of America (USA).

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine yesterday said that while a lot is being done to prosecute criminals, more will be done in the area of crime prevention.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, CMC – Stuart Law may have only been at the helm of West Indies for nine months but the Australian says he is already pleased with the development of the side.

The new multi-million dollar Mattai Food Market officially opened a week ago today provides, perhaps above everything else, encouraging signs of a measure of investor confidence in the country’s economy at a time when the soundings from local Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) are by no means excitedly upbeat.

It is a race to zero as the Ministry of Public Health and the Pan American Health Organisation have set a goal of eliminating lymphatic filariasis in Guyana by the year 2027.

After calls by the relatives of missing Corentyne cane harvester Reginald Ramswamey, a body suspected to be his will be exhumed and an autopsy will be conducted as part of a police investigation.

Dear Editor, With the reduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 16 per cent to 14 per cent, has the consumer benefited?

(Reuters) – AC Milan, Villarreal and Nice reached the knockout stage of the Europa League after posting wins on Thursday in the penultimate round of the group stage.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has begun its approximately $745 million electrification project in some sixteen government-led communities across the country.

Managing Director of the local consulting company CERULEAN, Lindel Danzie-Black has told the Stabroek Business that business relations between Guyana and China must, at the earliest possible time, begin to proceed on a paradigm shift that banishes the notion that those relations are only sustainable on the basis of Guyana’s role as an importer from the global manufacturing giant.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Formula One’s four-times world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel engaged in some light-hearted end-of-season banter on Thursday, already looking beyond the final race of the season and ahead to the next big battle in 2018.

Dear Editor, Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre wrote, “Prejudices, it is well known are the most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones”.

A Mocha businessman was yesterday granted $1,000,000 bail after he denied causing the death of a woman, whom he struck along the Herstelling Public Road, through dangerous driving.

A year into owning and operating what is almost certainly the first local company to manufacture such a broad range of detergents and sanitizers, Melissa Younge readily admits that her efforts to secure significant market recognition against a product base long dominated by better-known foreign brands has been no proverbial ‘walk in the park.’

  West Berbice and Lower Corentyne yesterday recorded victories in second round action of the Guyana Cricket Board Jaguars 50 Overs League.

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member and former Junior Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Ally Baksh passed away yesterday after a brief illness.

Dear Editor, No one can rationally dispute that emails, whether hacked, leaked, deleted or concealed, played a formidable role in determining the presidency of the most powerful nation on earth, USA, in 2016.

Come December 1, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited celebrates the 180th Anniversary of its operating presence in Guyana and a release from the Bank issued earlier this week highlighted the high points of its operations here, ranging from its humble start in 1836 with the founding of the British Guiana Bank in November of that year, to its contemporary significant operations under the name  Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited from twelve locations across Guyana in Berbice, Essequibo, East Bank Demerara, East Coast Demerara, West Coast Demerara, Georgetown, Linden and Lethem as well as what the management says are “plans for further expansion, providing a range of financial services for every stage and phase of life.”

LINCOLN, New Zealand, CMC – West Indies will have one less worry in their three-day tour match starting here Saturday, after fast bowler Adam Milne was forced out of the New Zealand A squad through injury.

In Part 23 this column noted that Indonesia which had taken a lead role in the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) had moved to the Gross Sharing Production Sharing Contract.

Dear Editor, What did the top brass of the AFC say privately about President Granger’s unilateral appointment of 84-year-old Judge Patterson to the chairmanship of Gecom?

(Trinidad Guardian) Bring your platform blueprints and come. That’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s invitation to BP, seeking to have the company build its Cassia oil drilling platform in La Brea.

Guyana will headline Pool A of the Rugby America’s North (RAN) 7s Champion-ships which kicks off tomorrow in Mexico.

The trial of Mark Royden Williams, called, ‘Smallie’ and Sherwin Nero, called ‘Catty,’ for the 2007 murder of Kumar Singh, also known as ‘Mango Man,’ is no longer likely to commence during the current criminal session of the Demerara Assizes.

Dear Editor, It is encouraging that a few Bishops’ High School (BHS) alumni have dared to confront the totally abhorrent cultures of wilful blindness and silence, in the face of all sorts of abuses, which pervade life in Guyana today (Stabroek News November 22).

(Barbados Nation) Barbados was one of the destinations taking centre stage at Sandals Resorts International Overdrive Unveiling Tour which travelled to over 21 cities in North America, the most recent of which were Toronto and Montreal, reaching a combined audience of nearly 750 Canadian travel agents.

A post-mortem examination will be done on the decomposed body of the missing Newtown, Kitty resident, which was discovered on Wednesday in the backlands of Brighton Village, Corentyne.

LUANDA/LONDON,  (Reuters) – On Oct. 6, with the dust still settling on Angola’s first change of power in 38 years, new President João Lourenço sat down with international oil majors at the presidential palace in Luanda.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz have regained top spot in the Caribbean Football Union rankings, taking over from French Caribbean neighbours Haiti in the latest release on Thursday.

-coming quite soon – development, increases… Yes. Keen observers and readers of this space are correct: I did use a very similar sentiment for my lead caption four (4) years ago.

Dear Editor, When you listen to President Granger’s messages to the nation, they are extremely cryptic, so much so that only the expert can decipher his tone, which ranges from didactic to plain old empty sloganeering. 

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India plan to groom rookie Vijay Shankar as a back-up pace bowling all-rounder with an eye on future overseas tours, skipper Virat Kohli said on the eve of the second test against Sri Lanka beginning in Nagpur on Friday.

PACARAIMA, Brazil, (Reuters) – An indigenous tribe that journeyed hundreds of kilometers to flee the economic crisis in Venezuela has been trapped in limbo near the border in Brazil, after it was moved off the streets of the Amazon city of Manaus.

Dear Editor, Guyanese and other Caribbean diasporas in America join with other Americans in giving thanks for being in America by celebrating the traditional Thanksgiving Day holiday with family, church service reunions, feasts, and charitable offerings.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 748’s trading results showed consideration of $1,305,450 from 2,901 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 747’s trading results which showed consideration of $29,974,843 from 820,991 shares traded in 11 transactions.

CALGARY, Alberta,  (Reuters) – Low oil and gas prices have spurred an exodus on foreign oil companies from Canada’s energy sector over the last year.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC), through a partnership with GTT, on Tuesday launched its Mobile Money payment platform, which now allows rate payers to pay rates and taxes using the application.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Emmerson Mnangagwa will cap a stunning political comeback when he is sworn in as Zimbabwe’s president on Friday, bringing the final curtain down on the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Wednesday’s National Basketball Association games: Heat 104, Celtics 98 Goran Dragic scored 27 points as the Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics 104-98, snapping the Celtics’ 16-game winning streak on Wednesday.

One of the stories published in this issue of the Stabroek Business recounts the persistence in the face of considerable obstacles of a young mother and budding entrepreneur who would appear to have chosen a business path that aligns with her academic studies and her work experiences and who, in her exchange with this newspaper, served as a voice for a considerably larger number of small and medium sized manufacturers whose enterprises continue to be squeezed by constraints which, given the application of the appropriate initiatives, are eminently remediable.

As technology advances generally, and developments in information technology in particular, continue to refine the way we live, it is no surprise that the concept of e-Learning has taken hold in classrooms of many countries of the world.

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Canada’s move to recognise housing as a fundamental right in its new national housing strategy marks a historic step towards ending homelessness, a senior United Nations official said.

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Dear Editor, I was never one of those people who was in favour of tinkering with the Guyana Constitution to suit our own needs.