Daily Archive: Friday, May 11, 2018

Articles published on Friday, May 11, 2018

Attorney General Basil Williams (second from left) with members of the UN team and members of his ministry. (Attorney General’s Chambers photo)

UN team evaluating electoral aid needs

Following a request by the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM), a team from the United Nation is here evaluating what electoral assistance may be needed for the Local Government Elections due by the end of this year and the 2020 General Elections.

Ireland makes Test debut today

(Reuters) – Ireland captain William Porterfield hailed the contributions made by the team’s former players as they prepare to make their test debut against Pakistan in Malahide today.

Celtics slip past Sixers 114 – 112

Field Level Media: Jayson Tatum’s go-ahead basket with 22.5 seconds left sent the Boston Celtics back to the Eastern Conference finals with a 114-112 win against the visiting Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series Wednesday night.

Lance  McPherson

What to do about Guyana’s craft industry

At fifty-three, work and family having long been at the very centre of his existence, Lancelot McPherson says that the time is long overdue for a frank, open and decidedly public conversation on the local craft industry if it is ever to come even remotely close to fulfilling its potential as much as a viable sector of the country’s economy as well as a vehicle for satisfying both the economic and the creative cravings of the nation’s huge army of largely talented craftspeople.

Princess’ teas

Princess Cosbert’s Herbal Teas

Thirty-two-year-old Princess Cosbert’s story of how, about two years ago, she came to establish an enterprise that is beginning to make its name as a manufacturer of what is commonly referred to in Guyana as ‘bush’ tea (teas brewed from an assortment of leaves, vines, barks, berries and flowers that grow randomly in various parts of the country) is not one that you are likely to forget easily.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 10, 2018Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 772’s trading results showed consideration of $33,064,349 from 252,766 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 771’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,098,604 from 69,362 shares traded in 10 transactions.

Sugar, Arrival and `Indianness

-Free education very expensive! Expectedly, all the pronouncements from political and trade union leaders, the commentaries from Rights Activists, the “sensitivities” aroused, conspired to stimulate almost national debate about the May fifth “arrival” of Indentured Immigrants from the Indian sub-continent.

Market Prices

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation andpublished 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.

Arresting corruption in food safety system

The announcement last week that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) had intercepted a boat containing cargo (foreign chicken and mosquito coils) seemingly intended for illegal placement on the local market, makes two points; first that the GRA, through its enforcement mechanisms, now appears more determined to thwart customs evasion by smugglers and to improve on the collection of such revenues as accrue to the state.

Defective detention facilities

When Paul Arjune, a father of eight, appeared before a city magistrate charged with escaping from police custody his explanation was as simple as it was profound: “I escape out of frustration,” was his telling retort.

Gas

Part 43   One feature of the Esso/Hess/CNOOC 2016 Agreement – as indeed the 1999 Esso Agreement signed by President Janet Jagan – which has received little public attention is Gas which is addressed in Article 12 of both Agreements.

Haiti tackle World Cup-bound Argentina

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – French Caribbean side Haiti will provide Lionel Messi’s Argentina with their final home warm-up match before next month’s World Cup in Russia, when the two teams meet on May 29 in Buenos Aires.