Daily Archive: Friday, January 5, 2018

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Dozens of passengers were evacuated at Toronto’s Pearson Airport today, after a plane pushing back from a gate struck an arriving jet, causing a fire, WestJet Airlines said in a statement.

Following a Stabroek News report yesterday on the months-old pothole on Camp Street, it was immediately repaired as evidenced below in these Orlando Charles photos taken today.

Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, making it ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015.

(Trinidad Guardian) A timely intervention by Cricket West Indies (CWI) saved the Eighth round match of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Digicel PCL tournament, between T&T Red Force and the Leewards Hurricanes.

-Gov’t `scraping together’ $5b severance President of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce, Mohamad Raffik yesterday blasted the government for the retrenching of 4,000 sugar workers without there being an alternative for them.

Businessman Brian Tiwarie, former owner of housing project Sunset Lakes, is seeking damages in excess of $300 million for what he says is the unlawful transfer of the 100 acres of land valued at US$8 million by the Registrar of Lands to Precious Metal Mines.

The Guyana National Broad-casting Authority (GNBA) will this morning be issuing radio licences to several new applicants, including television broadcaster Chandra Narine Sharma and the Kaieteur News newspaper.

Nine persons are currently in the custody of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) following a huge cocaine bust in the Waini River over the weekend.

Sherwin Roberts, the Sophia man charged with murdering his niece, was yesterday deemed fit to stand trial after an evaluation by psychiatrist Dr Bhiro Harry.

A family of thirteen is now homeless after their home in Mahdia (Potaro-Siparuni) went up in flames yesterday afternoon.

Following a relatively quiet 2017, professional boxing is back with a bang in 2018.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has described the $2.9 billion budgetary allocation to the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) for the holding of Local Government Elections as the government’s unequivocal commitment to ensuring there is democratic governance.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Leaders Guyana Jaguars resumed the Regional Four-Day Championship in the same manner they ended it at the Christmas Break, by dominating the opening day of the eighth round match against Jamaica Scorpions here yesterday.

By Noelle Smith Three months after he took over the sport portfolio as part of his remit in the Ministry of Social Cohesion, Dr.

Caribbean Airlines is advising that due to the winter storm affecting New York and its environs, the following Caribbean Airlines flights are cancelled.

The attorney for Zamani Archibald, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank charged with causing the death of a pensioner who was struck down along the Soesdyke Public Road last March, yesterday told a city court that the victim perished due to his own actions and not as a result of the way in which his client was driving.

-after overpowering Edinburgh Gunners Beacons tackles Georgetown Police in the GT Beer Berbice 8-aside Football Championship match today from 21:00hrs at the Scott’s School ground, New Amsterdam (NA), following a 7-2 semi-final win over Edinburgh Gunners on Wednesday.

The semi-final round in the inaugural GT Beer Yearend Football Championship will kick-off today at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground.

Public Telecommunications Minister, Catherine Hughes says that before the end of the year, Region One (Barima-Waini), Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) are expected to have internet access.

In an effort to assist the Rose Hall Estate sugar workers who would have entered the new year without jobs, the owner of D.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force produced a steady batting effort and an incisive burst with the ball late on, to take honours on the opening day of their eighth round match against Leeward Islands Hurricanes.

Dewan Dahri, who allegedly caused the death of his mother after he set her mattress on fire, has been charged with murder.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Roston Chase announced his return to the domestic scene with his seventh first-class hundred which propped up Barbados Pride’s batting against Windward Islands Volcanoes in the Regional 4-Day Championship on Thursday here.

(Field Level Media) Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, not LeBron James, is the leading vote-getter in the first NBA All-Star ballot update, released Thursday.

Investigators are wrapping up their preliminary investigation of the alleged rape committed on a Sophia woman by two policemen at the Turkeyen Police Station on New Year’s Day.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article published on January 4th in Stabroek News captioned ‘DDL eying Enmore estate in bid to ensure molasses supply’ where it is reported on page 21 “Banks DIH officials said that the estate closures have no direct impact on their operations as they purchase molasses from Panama and they “are not as big on rum production as DDL.”

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North and South Korea will hold official talks next week for the first time in more than two years after Pyongyang accepted Seoul’s offer for dialogue, just hours after the United States and South Korea delayed a joint military exercise.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams reluctantly pulled out of this year’s Australian Open yesterday, the American saying that while she was close to regaining full fitness after giving birth to her first child in September, she was not fully ready to defend her title.

With the time frame for central government’s bailout initiative designed to rescue City Hall from a mountain of outstanding debt to its two major garbage collection contractors having expired on December 31 there appears to exist the very real fear that the capital may return to the proverbial square one insofar as the service is concerned.

An eight-year-old girl is presently hospitalised in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was struck by a car along the Number 68 Village Public Road on Wednesday afternoon.

Dear Editor, The Region Three Chamber of Commerce and Industry would like to draw attention to the failure of the authorities to act responsibly, as a result of which Canal No1 was flooded.

BOSTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A powerful blizzard battered the U.S. Northeast hursday, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people and snarling travel amid a cold snap that has gripped much of the United States for over a week and killed more than a dozen people.

The Government Analyst Food & Drugs Department will be significantly stepping up its efforts to ensure that Guyanese benefit from an enhanced food safety regime in 2018 and beyond, in keeping with the global shift by countries the world over towards raising food safety standards.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Cameron Bancroft departed early and David Warner just before tea as Australia reached the second break on 96 for two in reply to England’s 346 on the second day of the fifth Ashes test last night.

Two Corentyne men, linked to the Christmas Eve shooting at a wedding house in Hampshire Village, which left three persons injured, surrendered to police at the Albion Police Station yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The European Union’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini met Cuban President Raul Castro yesterday as she ended a two-day visit to the Communist country aimed at strengthening engagement even as the Trump administration backtracks on a fragile detente.

Dear Editor, Perhaps it was the first amusement for me in 2018 after witnessing quite an unusual occurrence.

With no definite indication of when the remaining laid off sugar workers will be paid their severance, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) says it will be meeting with workers to decide on their next course of action.

To the extreme east of the enclosure that is Stabroek Market there are a handful of intrepid survivors of the incident in March 2015 when the roof above the wharf collapsed without warning, crushing a stall below and rendering the rest of what had been the trading area unsuitable for doing business.

 (Reuters) – Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has dismissed speculation about his future at the Premier League club, saying he would like a long-term stay at Old Trafford provided the team’s owners are happy with his input.

Making the argument for pavement vendors in downtown Georgetown being the most resilient group of businesspeople in urban Guyana is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News in my humble opinion remains the better of the two major independent dailies.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa are backing AB de Villiers to show his class and score heavily as he continues his return to the test arena, captain Faf du Plessis said ahead of their three-test series against India.

Farmers yesterday seized the opportunity during a meeting with Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder to plead for construction of a bridge to facilitate heavy-duty machinery in Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder.

Dear Editor, I learnt of the passing of Ms Sybil Patterson by way of a letter appearing in a newspaper written by my friend and mentor, Mr Michael Parris.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Dow industrials broke above the 25,000 level for the first time yesterday and other major indexes hit closing record highs again, propelled by strong global economic data that extended the New Year’s rally for the stock market.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is ramping up calls on the U.S.

With City Hall still hammering out a new collection arrangement with Cevon’s and Puran Bros.

(Trinidad Guardian) The board of Petrotrin has handed in a status report to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on the planned restructuring of the cash-strapped energy company.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former world number one Andy Murray will miss this month’s Australian Open after failing to recover from the hip injury that has kept him out of action for nearly six months.

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) plans to expand the establishment of safety centres in 2018, the Department of Public Information reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, It has long been my belief (and experience) that Guyanese engage in a protracted go-slow during the entire month of December. 

The works for the East Coast Demerara Road Widening and Improvement Project which began last year August are expected to be completed in August 2019, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

(Trinidad Express) A single gunshot to the head ended the life of a mother of two found dumped in bushes in Barrackpore yesterday.

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Dear Editor, I had posited the view in an earlier letter that race and ethnicity, even though critical variables in terms of voting preferences, should not be considered immutable and a permanent fixture in our political landscape.

(Field Level Media) Stephen Curry scored 29 points and Klay Thompson added 28 as the Golden State Warriors recorded a 124-114 victory over the Houston Rockets on Thursday at Toyota Center in Houston.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s lawyer said on Thursday he would try to stop publication of a book that portrays an inept president in a fumbling White House and threatened legal action against former top aide Steve Bannon over “defamatory” comments in the book.

Many will argue that Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham, the two foremost leaders in Guyanese history since Independence, have left an indelible mark on the political landscape of our country, and continue to affect the way we are governed.

Today’s column continues a review of the Esso/Hess/Nexen Petroleum Agreement signed on June 27, 2016 and publicly released by the Government of Guyana on December 29, 2017.

How criminal enterprise pays Some may recall that I did a somewhat provocative piece a few months ago challenging the usage – and aspirations – found in our national motto.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 4, 2018 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

OSLO, (Reuters) – An Oslo court approved Norway’s plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic yesterday, dismissing a lawsuit by environmentalists who had said it violated people’s right to a healthy environment.

Dear Editor, There were two news items recently which caught my attention: One has to do with the possibility of Guyana securing the rights to be a host venue of this year’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup; and the other tells of the Ministry of Social Cohesion and the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport’s plans to take Mash events countrywide  into the various Regions.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 754’s trading results showed consideration of $5,719,787 from 38,419 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 753’s trading results which showed consideration of $3,546,225 from 24,080 shares traded in 6 transactions. 

(Reuters) – Indian Premier League (IPL) side Delhi Daredevils have appointed former Australian captain Ricky Ponting as their new head coach for the 2018 season, the franchise said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department yesterday rescinded an Obama administration policy that had eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that legalized the drug, instead giving federal prosecutors wide latitude to pursue criminal charges.

The breathing space afforded City Hall in the wake of central government’s intervention to liquidate the City’s indebtedness to Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers and to foot the bill for services up to the end of December last year, is over.