Daily Archive: Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Attorney, Dr Arif Bulkan is to be sworn in as an acting Justice of Appeal tomorrow.

GPL says that some of its customers on the West Coast and East Bank of Demerara experienced unusually lengthy power cuts as a result of heavy winds and rain last evening and early this morning.

Alliance for Change (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman yesterday said the diversion of billions to the security sector after the destruction of the Camp Street prison was partly responsible for the government not budgeting the full sum for severance payments to laid off sugar workers.

  The police were up to yesterday afternoon still working to ascertain the motive behind the murders of Ambrose Baharally and Martin Godette, the Pomeroon farmers who were shot dead on Sunday and a potential witness was taken into custody to assist with the investigation.

Former President Donald Ramotar has accused the current government of accepting loans from India that he initiated except those pertaining to the rehabilitation of the sugar industry but State Minister Joseph Harmon says he is unaware of the claim and has urged that the former head of state prove it.

Omadat Persaud, who was on trial for raping a five-year-old girl in 2015, was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 45 years in jail after a jury unanimously convicted him of the crime.

The mother of Marlon Fredericks, the mentally-challenged vendor who was fatally shot by a member of the city constabulary on Sunday, yesterday called for justice for her son, while saying that an autopsy found that he died of a gunshot wound to his chest.

Jermaine Savory was yesterday morning sentenced to 15 years in jail for the murder of Melissa Payne, the woman who was fatally shot in a robbery on the Agricola Public Road in 2008.

Commissioner of Police (ag) David Ramnarine is currently overseas on duty and Crime Chief, Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Williams will temporarily hold his post.

Restoration of the Kitty Market should resume next week, following the signing of a $25 million contract yesterday between the Ministry of Communities and BML Architects and Engineers Consultancy and Construction Services to have the first phase of works completed.

Domestic Airways Incorporated became the first airline in two years to enter the local market after receiving its operator’s certificate from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) yesterday began its mission here to value the assets of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) which would lead to the issuing of prospectuses that potential investors can mull.

After days of flight delays, cancellations and criticisms from stranded passengers, Fly Jamaica says it has been able to resume normal operations after clearing its backlog over the weekend.

With Local Government Elections (LGE) on the horizon the Alliance for Change (AFC) is still to decide whether they will compete as part of the governing coalition or attempt to resurrect their identity as an independent party by competing alone.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is satisfied with its achievement during its time in government although it acknowledges that more could have been done, according to party leader Raphael Trotman, who yesterday said he believes that it has not lost any support.

Nine Venezuelan women were yesterday fined by a city magistrate after they pleaded guilty to entering Guyana illegally.

A 17-year-old was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he was charged with robbing a schoolboy of a phone.

Dear Editor, We regret that our statement on sugar, published in the Stabroek News Diaspora Column on Monday January 8, communicated the idea that the government was closing the sugar industry.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies will go head-to-head with nemesis Ireland in their quest reach the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2019 Cricket World Cup, after being installed in Group A of the World Cup qualifiers in Zimbabwe starting in March.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) and the  Ministry of Business are to hold business and investment forums for workers who were made redundant at the end of last year.

Dear Editor, The National Procurement and Tender Administration (NPTA) placed advertisements spanning 9 pages on their new Supplier Registration Form, which advised that the forms could be obtained from the NPTA page of the Ministry of Finance website, at the NPTA or by email request to SPO_Compliance@Finance.gov.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies captain Jason Holder says planning has already begun for the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup qualifiers in March as the Caribbean side looks to book its spot in the 2019 one-day showpiece in England.

A Corentyne labourer is in a critical condition after he fell from the building which once housed the National Psychiatric Hospital located in Fort Canje, Berbice.

Dear Editor, It has been three years since the Guyana Women Miners Organisation has held their Annual General Meeting in contravention of their charter and constitution.

The Parking Meter Renegotiation Committee yesterday handed over its final report of recommendations for the amendment of the contract and bylaws governing the parking meter agreement between the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and Smart City Solutions.

National lightweight champion, Dexter ‘Cobra’ Gonsalves will look to shake off some rust when he returns to the ring Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on the ‘Bad Blood’ card.

Dear Editor, President Trump’s latest derogatory outburst with which he tends to litter his rants and twitter drive-bys managed to provoke condemnation around the world as usual.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be grading hotels and similar businesses in a bid to ensure that they abide by city bylaws and regulations, Town Clerk Royston King has announced.

With his historic 2017 campaign officially in the rear view mirror, star athlete Daniel Williams and his coach, Johnny Gravesande have their sights set on an even better 2018 season.

On February 5th, Neville France will be sentenced for the unlawful killing of his brother, Richard France, whom he stabbed in the back.

A High Court judge has granted an interim injunction restraining the TT Table Tennis Association (TTTTA) from taking any further action pursuant to its decision to select players Aaron Wilson and Yuvraaj Dookram for the Commonwealth Games.

Dear Editor, I refer to the call embedded in the article titled, ‘Guyana needs a new political party –Ramkarran’ (SN, Jan 15). 

Medical personnel and social workers from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) graduated on Friday from a four-day training course in mental health, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – CoCo Vandeweghe’s petulant standoff over a shortage of bananas was the low point on a horror day for the United States at the Australian Open yesterday as a procession of American players skidded out of the season’s first grand slam in the first round.

Dear Editor, I am most perturbed and disappointed by our Prime Minister, Mr Moses Nagamootoo.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Carillion collapsed yesterday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain’s biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

Dear Editor, Several years ago, you kindly printed my letter requesting a refund of my income tax payments.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday blamed Senator Dick Durbin for blowing up talks on a deal to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and said the Democratic lawmaker misrepresented his comments about Haiti and African countries.“Senator

(Reuters) Giannis Antetokounmpo had 27 points with a career-high 20 rebounds and the Milwaukee Bucks snapped a two-game skid with a 104-95 victory over the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena yesterday.

A city court last Friday fined a shoplifter a total of $40,000 after he admitted to stealing and also wounding a security officer who caught him.

Dear Editor, The primary school system has a programme designated IRI, or Interactive Radio Instruction with regard to Mathematics curricula implementation for Grades 1-3.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli blazed a magnificent century, but South Africa held the upper hand as they reached 90 for two in their second innings on a difficult wicket after rain and then bad light curtailed day three of the second test yesterday.

A South Central Rupununi teen was remanded to prison last Friday, after he was accused of breaking into a store and stealing over $500,000 in items.

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Andhra Pradesh will become the first state in India to target people who purchase sex in brothels as part of a crackdown on the sexual slavery of women and children, authorities said.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka reimposed a decades-old law banning the selling of alcohol to women and preventing women from working in liquor stores on Monday – just days after it was lifted.

Dear Editor, I have seen nothing to change my thinking that the three formats of cricket as currently played are all attractive entertainment events for those who understand the game, and ought to be nurtured.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities yesterday arrested five members of a “terrorist cell” linked to self-proclaimed rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Perez, and killed several other militants during a shootout in a poor area outside Caracas.

A miner, accused of being in possession of an unlicensed firearm with matching rounds as well as armed robbery, was charged and remanded to prison last Friday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force have slumped to the bottom of the Regional Four-Day Championship standings, after suffering their third straight defeat on Sunday.

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India’s ambitious biometric identity project could lead to millions of people being denied access to essential services and benefits in violation of their human rights, campaigners said, ahead of key court hearings on the legitimacy of the programme.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Malcolm Harripaul’s missive captioned ‘Why did PPP go to India?’

After an intense in house judging session, fifteen competitors were selected from a total of eighteen entries as semi–finalists for the 2018 edition of the Carib Soca Monarch, a release from the Ministry of Social Cohesion said yesterday.

HOBART, Tasmania, CMC – Barbadian seamer Jofra Archer’s brace helped resurgent Hobart Hurricanes to their fifth win of the Big Bash League, as they cooled Brisbane Heat by six wickets here yesterday.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union officials have proposed removing eight jurisdictions from the blacklist of tax havens the bloc adopted in December, in what critics may see as a blow to its campaign against tax avoidance.

Outgoing Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s visit to Cuba last week was a disgrace to her legacy as a democratic leader.

If it seems as though public comment on the protracted failure of the Georgetown Municipality to competently manage the affairs of the capital bears the resemblance of a witch hunt, that is only because successive municipal administrations have, in myriad ways, proven themselves not nearly up to the task of capably managing the affairs of the capital.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England cricketer Ben Stokes has been charged with affray following an incident in the city of Bristol last September, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said yesterday.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda’s leading lawyers sought yesterday to overturn a law that critics say would allow incumbent leader Yoweri Museveni to effectively become president for life.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A Brazilian court yesterday ordered the world’s largest iron ore miner Vale SA to repair environmental damages its operations caused in land belonging to a community of descendants of escaped slaves in northern Brazil.

Dear Editor, Every day we can hear our citizens behaving in a very vile manner by using curse words in their speech.