Daily Archive: Sunday, April 22, 2018

(Trinidad Guardian) A Venezuelan military aircraft landed at Piarco International Airport yesterday to take back 82 nationals to their homeland.

Bethany is a charming little village in the Pomeroon/Supenaam region. According to a recent census, it has approximately 406 residents, who thrive mainly on logging and farming activities.

Just before swerving off of the Klien-Pouderoyen, West Bank Public Road and crashing into a resident’s house early this morning, a drunk driver struck and killed a 60-year-old cyclist.

Three companies, including two regional conglomerates, have expressed interest in taking over the shuttered Wales, West Bank Demerara sugar estate in a deal that is expected to see the development of significant agro-processing operations here.

Twenty-three Guyanese, including a doctor, have been working on a drill ship contracted to ExxonMobil for oil operations and yesterday the company flew seven journalists to the site for a firsthand look at operations.

In the first public exercise of its powers, the Local Government Commission (LGC) has instructed the Rose Hall Town Council to rescind its recent hiring of a Town Clerk, while saying that it exceeded the authority given to it to recruit candidates for the post.

Tit for tat politics have arrived with a vengeance. The APNU+AFC police has charged PPP supporters and the PPP has struck back by charging APNU supporters.

While government has committed to relocating the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) laboratory from the Brickdam compound housing the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) “within the shortest possible time,” workers who walked out last Friday due to safety concerns remain opposed to its operations continuing in the interim.

Suddenly I am 85 years old.  I find that ridiculous but chronologically  it is a fact. 

Initially it was announced that Guyana will borrow US$900 million credit from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).

Retired Justices BS Roy, William Ramlal and Claudette La Bennett have been recommended to head the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), which has been without a chairperson for more than a year.

National powerlifters, John ‘Big John’ Edwards, Colin ‘Mr Clean’ Chesney and Jacqueline Toney were among the participants who chalked up their hands and competed in yesterday’s bench press showdown at the 704 Sports Bar Sky Lounge.

The telephone on my desk rang. I answered and was informed that I had a visitor.

The Police Sports Club (PSC) continued their impressive run in this year’s Noble House Seafoods second-division, two-day tournament, after compiling 323 before being dismissed on the stroke of stumps on day one in their final group match against the University of Guyana (UG) at the Gandhi Youth Organization ground, yesterday.

Almost four months have passed since British security expert Lt Col (rtd) Russell Combe delivered a highly anticipated security reform plan to President David Granger, who is still to say when or even if it will be made public.

Some time back in this space, I posed the ‘Why we stay’ question for Guyanese choosing to live here while mentioning some of the magnets that hold us to the homeland.

NK Ballers, Silver Bullets, Wisroc, Swag Entertainment, Assassa Ballers and Cherokee Park secured wins when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship continued on Friday.

With the loss of bagasse following the closure of the Skeldon sugar estate, Skeldon Energy Inc (SEI) is seeking new sources of biomass for its co-generation plant but a consultation it held on Thursday did not yield much success.

If Laurel Gittins had her way, 36 years ago she would have become a nurse as that was her dream.

cbagged 6-51 as Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) restricted the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to 151 all out in their first innings of the Georgetown Cricket Assoc-iation/GISE/Star Party Rental/Trophy Stall first-division, two-day tournament at the GDF ground, Camp Ayanganna yesterday.

We Guyanese love our bread. For many people, bread of some sort is a breakfast staple, while some even have it for dinner.

Newly minted Commonwealth Games triple jump gold medalist Troy Doris is hoping that his historic leap creates more opportunities for himself, Guyana and local sportsmen and women.

A 26-year-old miner is now feared dead after the metal boat he was travelling in sank in the Mazaruni River last Wednesday evening.

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has released an image which they say might be of the person who killed Otis James, a New York bus driver originally from Guyana.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – One of India’s best known politicians, former finance and foreign minister Yashwant Sinha, quit the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party was undermining democratic institutions.

The Grand Coastal golf tournament will take place Saturday after the Grand Coastal International Hotel and Restaurant renewed its sponsorship of the tournament with the Lusignan Golf Club.

On Friday last, April 20, Chinese Language Day was observed by the United Nations, one of seven such annual observances.

Attorney-General Basil Williams SC yesterday said government expects Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to review the “political” private charges brought by opposition members against ministers Volda Lawrence and Dr.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s cabinet yesterday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an emergency meeting in response to nationwide outrage in the wake of a series of cases.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Talismanic West Indies opener Chris Gayle uncorked another gem of a half-century as Kings XI Punjab beat Kolkata Knight Riders by nine wickets under Duckworth/Lewis, to storm to the top of the Indian Premier League standings here yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility has completed its investigation of the March 15th fatal shooting of three men, who ranks claimed were robbery suspects, along the Kitty seawall, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, It is very understandable why the GGMC workers are doubly frustrated that the Guyana Gold Board cannot condense the mercury vapour out of the environment.

Introduction Last week’s column addressed two of five topics singled out earlier for comment in order to highlight their significance from an economic perspective; namely 1) Government take/developmental benefits/economic profit; and 2) accounting for costs.

  Vinca commonly called Periwinkle or Never Done originated in Madagascar and comes from the Catharanthus family; it is different from Catharanthus pusillus which originated in India and Sri Lanka.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Kolkata Knight Riders bowling coach, Heath Streak, believes West Indies players are “bored” with Test cricket, resulting in their increasing numbers in the multiple Twenty20 leagues across the world.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Former first lady Barbara Bush was remembered at her funeral yesterday as a formidable but caring figure whose devotion to her family was matched only by her commitment to public service.

Rainsford Benfield, the father of the teenage girl who was found murdered in the Triumph, East Coast Demerara cemetery last December, is not satisfied with the pace of the investigation, which he hoped would have been able to ensure justice for his daughter.

Dear Editor, In the year 2014, the New Amsterdam Technical Institute implemented the Competency Based Education (CBE) programme for some of the courses offered by the institute.

Part III Born to lead …………………………….. Friday, 23rd, March, 1962, West Indies v India, Third Test, Kensington Oval, Barbados Frank Worrell, the West Indies Captain and his Indian counterpart, the Ninth Nawab of Pataudi strode down the steps of the Pickwick Pavilion, and headed out on to the pitch to spin the toss. 

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine, Traffic Chief Ramesh Ashram and other senior police officers met on Friday with the heads of the force’s divisional traffic units on road fatalities, which continue to occur at the same rate as last year.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian authorities will be empowered to seize properties of super-rich fugitives whose economic offences or crimes involve sums over 1 billion rupees ($15 million), according to a government document seen by Reuters yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Fresh from being named one of Wisden’s five Cricketers-of-the-Year at Lord’s earlier this month, Shai Hope earned another prestigious award on home soil when he received the President’s Award at Barbados Cricket Association  annual dinner at Kensington Oval here Friday night.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to commend writers Karen Abrams and Ima Christian, re article ‘In rich or poor countries innovation is hard work’, Stabroek Business, Friday, April 20.

PUNE, India, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo had only a minor role but it was strong enough to help drive Chennai Super Kings to an emphatic 64-run win over Rajasthan Royals here Friday.

John London, a Berbician father of two teenage sons, Marley, 17, and Darwin, 16, in a letter published on April 11 in the Stabroek News, expressed some dissatisfaction with the manner in which the Junior Team was chosen to represent Guyana at the 7th Carifta Chess Tournament in Suriname.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said yesterday he was ready to consider changing an unpopular social security overhaul that has sparked days of deadly protests and one of the biggest crises of his leadership.

Dear Editor, Incessant noise nuisance from Mon Repos North, a neighbouring village, the flooding of yards and streets when it rains, a poor telephone service, and pile driving-collapsing homes, more?

For years now, Caribbean High Commissioners, activists, church organisations and community oriented Caribbean companies have been raising with the British government and parliamentarians the shocking way in which undocumented members of the Caribbean diaspora who came to Britain between 1948 and 1971 have been treated.

Sugar has defined us. Barring those interludes when crops like cotton, coffee and cacao were grown here, sugar until recently was our primary crop, our primary employer and our primary export.

CUCUTA, Colombia  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Outside a church in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, Martha Carbajalino flips nervously through a pile of papers in her hands, standing with dozens of other migrant Venezuelan parents hoping to enroll their undocumented children into school.

The American Golden-Plover can be found in the Arctic tundra from northern Canada  and Alaska.

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) remained unchanged during the third period of trading in April 2018.