Articles published on Friday, March 9, 2018
Having been terminated as a columnist with the state-owned Guyana Chronicle, political commentator David Hinds today said he feels the newspaper has reverted to the type of behaviour that characterized the Jagdeo years.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today condemned the police for intervening and stopping the flag-raising at Corriverton on February 22nd.
Members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) recently benefited from US training on case management and interviewing suspects and witnesses.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Saint Kitts and Nevis are set to be added next week to a European Union blacklist of tax havens, raising to nine the number of jurisdictions on it, an EU document seen by Reuters shows.
A US$100M expansion plan for the Pegasus Hotel was last evening launched with Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin in agreement with proprietor Robert Badal that taxes levied on start-up investors are too stiff.
World renowned Guyanese author, Sir Wilson Harris has died at 96.
Bishops’ High School teacher Coen Jackson was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with sexual activity with a child.
A proposal to minimise “political intrusion” in the University of Guyana’s Council through a revision of the overarching legislation was brought to the newly-appointed body yesterday.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Skipper Jason Holder agonisingly missed out on a maiden one-day hundred but helped to spare West Indies blushes, as they turned back a plucky Papua New Guinea by six wickets, to post their second win of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers here Thursday.
Three Berbice men have now been charged for the Potoko Creek, Berbice River robbery last Friday, which left two bandits dead after a shootout with the police.
Members of the family of a foreigner working in Guyana’s emerging oil sector are expected to leave the country following a home invasion and armed robbery on Wednesday that left them deeply traumatized.
-Scotland storm into Super Six ICC Media: Afghanistan’s dreams of qualifying for the second successive ICC Cricket World Cup were left hanging by a thread when Hong Kong defeated them by 30 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method in a Group B fixture of the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018, while defending champions Scotland became the first side to progress to the Super Six after notching up their third successive victory in Bulawayo.
Firefighter Dwayne Waldron, who rushed into a burning Pike Street, Kitty house on Wednesday morning without safety gear to rescue a family, says that the only thing that came to mind at the time was getting the family to safety.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Pacer Carlos Brathwaite said rediscovered rhythm had been behind his career-best five-wicket haul in the Group A contest of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers against Papua New Guinea here Thursday.
LINCOLN, New Zealand, CMC – Captain Stafanie Taylor once again proved her worth but lacked support, as West Indies Women suffered an eight-wicket thrashing at the hands of New Zealand Women to concede the three-match One-Day International series here Thursday.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called for transparency during the Lindo Creek massacre Commission of Inquiry (CoI), while warning that in-camera hearings present an opportunity for false stories to be created.
The University of Guyana has allocated 10 acres of land to serve as the site for the proposed JOF Haynes Law School, Vice Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith announced yesterday.
St. Johns College disposed of the defending champions, Cummings Lodge in the Forbes Burnham Easter Term Windball competition yesterday.
Dear Editor, As has been obvious to many in literary circles, I’ve never been able to buy into the mythos surrounding Wilson Harris and I probably never will.
As teams prepare for the 2018 National Race of Champions, Team Tucker has garnered sponsorship from Choke Gas Station which will assist in super biker, Raverio Tucker’s effort to claim the title this year.
Dear Editor, This PNC led APNU+AFC regime continues to mislead the public in relation to the real situation in the sugar industry.
Business Minister Dominic Gaskin has told a local private sector oil and gas forum that the Government of Guyana will not follow opponents of the prevailing contract with an ExxonMobil subsidiary down the road of calling for it to be undone and renegotiated.
Major General (Rtd) Joe Singh has been appointed the University of Guyana’s new Pro-Chancellor, by a unanimous vote.
Aiming to position the manufacturing sector to significantly increase its market share locally, regionally and internationally, the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) this week disclosed plans to stage a follow-up to last October’s UNCAPPED event aimed, this time at bringing local manufacturers and wholesale and retail customers together in what is being seen as an important test of both product quality and consumer demand.
The Guyana Oil Company Ltd (Guyoil) yesterday announced a reduction in prices for Gasoline, Gasoil (LSD) and Kerosene with effect from today as follows; “These price reductions were possible due to declining acquisition cost and we are proud to pass on these reductions to our valued customers”, Guyoil said.
Plaisance Guardians clip Eagles Kobras dismantled Univer-sity of Guyana (UG) Trojans in the First Division, while Plaisance Guardians grounded Eagles in the Second Division, when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Federation (GABA) Knockout Championship, continued on Wednesday.
Dear Editor, Kaieteur News, abandoning all pretence at publishing a professional newspaper, over this past week, has published a series of stories based on half-truths, invention and just plain lies, masquerading as facts, attributed to unnamed sources identified only as “domestic operators”, to attack the management and operations of Ogle Airport Inc and libelling Michael Correia and his family.
While calling the government’s legislative agenda “thin,” Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira is convinced that the absence of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who recently underwent a cardiac bypass surgery, will see a holdup of parliamentary sittings.
The production of potatoes sufficient to meet consumer demand could still be as many as “three to five years away,” despite the considerable success of field trials up to this time.
One of the female referees who recently signed a complaint against Head of Referees, Stanley Lancaster says that President of the GFF had been aware of the allegations since February 2017, but nothing has been done.
Dear Editor, I make reference to a letter by Mr Freddie Kissoon, titled ‘I have no control over the publication of letters’ (Sunday Stabroek, Mar 4).
Dear Editor, Most of us may not be aware of the relationship that exists between states that maintain publicly funded education systems and their citizens.
An Albouystown woman was yesterday granted bail after she denied being in possession of half a pound of cannabis, which police say was found at her house.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican global telematics company, Amber Connect, through its South African operations, embarked on installing its state-of-the-art vehicle telematics and software systems in a wide array of law enforcement vehicles and motorcycles during December 2017.
The nation’s cyclists will unchain their competitive juices and renew their 2018 rivalry with back-to-back events this weekend.
Dear Editor, For some time now, police officers have been stationed in front of Queen’s College compound on Camp Street, indiscriminately pulling over busy citizens during the week and on weekends and holidays.
Curtis Edwards, who police say brutally assaulted his ex-girlfriend at her workplace after she refused to reconcile with him, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of malicious wounding.
Ogle defeated Better Hope while Paradise brushed aside Golden Achivers to advance to the semifinals of the Enmore Community Centre Cricket Club/ D&E Tent Rental 10/10 tournament last Sunday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) There is strong public support for the Government to move beyond education campaigns to taking action on obesity, including, support for a sugary drinks tax.
Dear Editor, I have been an NIS pensioner for three years now after rendering 39 years of arduous service to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).
Three months after taxi driver Matthew Munroe was charged with the murder of Kescia Branche, the police yesterday reported to a city court that the investigation is still incomplete.
The Season Three of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League, resumes today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda with a doubleheader.
Dear Editor, This letter serves to express my heartfelt thanks to those responsible for the clean-up action taken at the corner of Princes and Russell streets, on February 14th.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead yesterday with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier “no-exceptions” stance.
Two witnesses yesterday testified at the trial of baker Colin Denny and his wife Malika Softleigh, who are accused of trafficking cannabis.
Every year on March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated the world over with thousands of events held by women’s networks which include global gatherings, conferences, award ceremonies, exhibitions, festivals, fun runs, corporate events, concert performances etc.
Dear Editor, During the previous administration’s tenure, many abuses were meted out to the working class, and because of the scarcity of jobs, lots of the workers were forced to accept these.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May in response to Kim’s invitation to hold the first-ever U.S.-North
While the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) should continue to perform its service-related functions to the country’s agricultural sector including its role in providing valuable technical support to privately-run projects, there exists a case for attaching fees to services provided by the Institute, Chief Executive Officer of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) Dr.
(Trinidad Express) As pressure mounts for Chief Justice Ivor Archie to defend himself against damning allegations or step down instead of taking a break, another judge is telling colleagues that it’s time for Archie to go.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. energy secretary blasted renewable fuels champions on Wednesday while the head of Royal Dutch Shell Plc urged the energy sector to focus on global efforts to cut carbon emissions, reflecting a yawning trans-Atlantic gap on climate issues.
Dear Editor, I wish to salute all the women of Guyana on the occasion of International Women’s Day which was observed on March 8.
A 17-year-old girl was yesterday remanded to prison after she was accused of robbing a man and using violence in the process.
The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will clash tomorrow in the Carib Beer T20 First Division final at Bourda, starting at 13:00 hrs.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Moravian pastor Rupert Clarke has been sentenced to eight years in prison on two counts of having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 years old.
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday that African countries should be careful not to forfeit their sovereignty when they accept loans from China, the continent’s biggest trading partner.
Sourcing funds for business ventures could become easier for women-owned businesses in the Caribbean following the signing late last month of an agreement between the European Union-funded regional business support organization, Caribbean Export Development Agency (Carib-bean Export) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to collaboratively pursue a new initiative titled Women Empowered through Export (WE-Xport) designed to support capacity-building for women-owned businesses to facilitate their access to finance, a release from Caribbean Export says.
(Barbados Nation) The Freundel Stuart administration is in danger of losing control of the BD$2 to US$1 exchange rate, says former Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell.
Dear Editor, Notwithstanding the attempts by administrators and journalists to convince the rest of us that the five day version is the ‘ultimate’ form of cricket, I suspect the three hour game at Lords on May 31 between the two-time reigning world champions West Indies, versus the Rest of the World will be watched and listened to by more people than any other cricket match, if marketed properly.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday March 8, 2018
A 33-year-old vendor was on Wednesday placed on $75,000 bail for allegedly stealing a woman’s gold chain.
NEW DELHI/COLOMBO, March 7 (Reuters) – A Chinese naval combat force that entered the Indian Ocean for the first time in four years may have helped deter an Indian intervention in the Maldives after its pro-China president imposed a state of emergency, according to military and diplomatic sources and analysts.
Strange numbers Size Column 36 published on Friday February 16, concluded the comparison of the 1999 and the 2016 Agreements proper.
In yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News, this house at Lot 375 Republic Park, EBD was mistakenly identified as the site of the robbery of a family.
In what is being seen here as a response to last January’s seizure by the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago of a consignment of coconut water from Guyana on the grounds that it failed to meet the requisite food safety standard and therefore could not be sold there, Director of the Govern-ment Analyst-Food & Drugs Department (GA-FDD)Marlan Cole has told Stabroek Business that the agency has secured the services of a Jamaican consulting agency The Jamaican consulting entity will conduct what he says will be “hands on training for Laboratory Technicians, Inspectors and other technical personnel designed to upgrade their food safety testing capabilities”.
The announcement this February by Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC), Mr Trevor Benn, that the Commission was preparing a code of ethics intended to guide the work and conduct of land surveyors across the country, is another in a growing list of organisations that is seeking to upgrade or lay down standards by which they conduct their operations.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 763’s trading results showed consideration of $14,329,514 from 71,589 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 762’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,685,043 from 25,094 shares traded in 18 transactions.
-Dear City Hall, let’s celebrate with $500,000 Of course the entire lead caption is really “Lawlessness and homicides on our roads- a lack of discipline, education and enforcement.”
(Barbados Nation) Just two weeks into its lifespan, Resolution Life Assurance Company has already paid out almost $1 million to Barbadians who were policyholders with the collapsed Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO).
MIAMI, CMC – Continental governing body, CONCACAF, will expand the Gold Cup to 16 teams starting next year, and are also considering hosting matches outside of North America for the first time.
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.
One of the regrettable features of the unfolding discourse on Guyana’s oil find and its implications for the country’s future has been the shift in the focus of the public discourse from the portents of becoming an ‘oil economy’ for the development of the people and the enhancement of the welfare of the people to the issue of the division of the spoils between Guyana as the owners of the resource and the entity that undertook the investment and the risk associated with confirming the presence of oil and undertaking the recovery effort.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies star Andre Russell could face up to two months on the sidelines after being ruled out of the ongoing Pakistan Super League with a hamstring injury.
Dear Editor, The well-presented course of action presented by the Chartered Engineer, Charles Sohan (SN March 8) available to the owner of the North Road business property over alleged damage by ongoing construction work of an adjacent property, is also the same course of action available to property owners in Kingston over the same alleged grievance.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina has issued an international capture order for five Chinese boats it says were illegally fishing in its waters, the coast guard said in a statement yesterday, following a failed attempt to detain one of the boats at sea.
