Daily Archive: Sunday, June 17, 2018

The island of Wakenaam, Essequibo Islands- West Demerara (Region Three) is returning to normalcy after experiencing flooding early this morning due to high tides and a breach in the sea defence at Melville and Sans Souci. 

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today responded to claims of red tape surrounding the MovieTowne entertainment complex.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Germany were stunned 1-0 by Mexico in the opening game of their World Cup defence today as Hirving Lozano finished off a sharp counter-attack that exposed the ragged defending that the four-times winners had displayed in their warm-up games.

(ICC) Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal has pleaded not guilty to breaching Article 2.2.9 of the ICC Code of Conduct and, as such, Javagal Srinath of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees will hold a hearing following the conclusion of the St Lucia Test against the Windies.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A leading pro-European Union lawmaker in Britain’s ruling Conservative Party warned today that a row over parliament’s influence on the Brexit process could collapse the government, but said he hoped to find a way to avoid that.

Former Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit head Deputy Superintendent Motie Dookie has moved to the court to challenge the decision made last month to send him on special leave in the public interest, arguing that it was unlawful.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is continuing to assess dozens of Investment Development Agreements (IDAs) signed before the tenure of Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia in 2016 and has found that many individuals and companies have robbed the state of hundreds of millions in taxes.

Clean-up works began yesterday in preparation for the recapping of the Diamond Housing Scheme well, which caused an eruption of mud, water and suspected methane gas on Thursday evening, after being illegally dug by a resident.

Impressed by the talents that exist within the local Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, one overseas based Guyanese, who has demonstrated prowess on the world stage, has committed his efforts toward the development of the sector locally.

The Georgetown municipality stands to lose at least $6 million in annual earnings from the licensing of eating houses if the government’s proposed Food Safety Bill is passed in its current form, Town Clerk Royston King has warned.

Belle West Housing Scheme sits in the heart of Canal Number Two, bordered by the village of Clay Brick (west), sugarcane fields (east and south) and the main canal to the north.

Amidst concerns raised by a group of residents of Moraikobai, Mahaicony Creek, that the recently held Toshao elections were not “free and fair.”

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tiny Iceland made a stunning impact in their first-ever World Cup yesterday when they held 2014 runners-up Argentina to a pulsating 1-1 draw but Lionel Messi’s tournament began wretchedly as he saw his penalty saved by Hannes Halldorsson.

Two members of the Guyana Police Force are among seven men who were arrested on Friday evening after a gun was found at Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara.

The late Anthony Bourdain captured my attention and enraptured me several years ago by his brilliant storytelling.

Delmar Headley recorded three tries as the Panthers mauled the Yamaha Caribs 41-11 when the 2018 Bounty Farm 15s League continued yesterday at the National Park.

One of the realities of modern life is the amount of time we spend waiting – for the telephone technician to come; for the traffic jam ahead of you to clear; for the part you ordered from overseas to arrive, and, particularly taxing for me, the amount of time we spend in various customer lines or waiting-rooms. 

By Ras Wadada The Greatest mono-mania show is well underway in Eastern Europe and closely captured  around the Globe as the 21st edition of the World Cup football tournament kicked-off in Moscow City in record-breaking style for the home side, followed by the ‘Ronaldo Show’, before VAR and own-goal took center stage in three days of absorbing competition.

First Bauxite Corporation (FBX) has signed a second bridge loan agreement for additional financing of up to US$10 million to start construction of its mining and processing facilities at its Bonasika project site on the Essequibo River.

The police were on Thursday granted an extension to further detain the boyfriend of now dead teen Sasia Adams, who succumbed last Tuesday, two days after he claims she jumped from his moving car, along Lamaha Street, Georgetown.

Work has started on the upgrade of the Barrack Retreat Road in the Lethem as part of the planned rehabilitation of the Region Nine township’s road network, which will boast first local underground drainage system.

Led by half centuries from Shaheed Mohamed and Sahadeo Hardaiow, Everest Masters defeated the visting Central All Stars of Trinidad and Tobago by 147 runs at Everest Cricket Club yesterday.

“I got pregnant when I was 12 and my mother was angry, and she would beat me.

The police in ‘D’ Division have launched an investigation into the death of a 46-year-old labourer, whose lifeless body was discovered in his Prospect, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home on Friday.

An administrative delay in the paperwork has been blamed for the non-issuance of matches to Guyana following the release of the fixtures for the 2018 HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) last week.

The world is terror-stricken. A condition of advanced paranoia is spreading everywhere.

A West La Penitence businessman was held at gunpoint and robbed of over $200,000 in cash and phone cards during an attack by masked bandits at his home on Friday evening.

The previous column showed that both the Bank of Guyana and the commercial banks need foreign currency assets.

Traditionally, excelling in sport enables athletes to reap rewards and incentives of some kind. 

The most recent revision of the annual comedy series “Nothing to Laugh About” by Signature Productions provided another very good opportunity to do a further study of comedy theatre in Guyana.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association on Saturday selected an 18-member team which will head to the Dominican Republic in August for the 2018 Pre-Cadet Table Tennis Championships.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, struggling to avert a crisis within her coalition on migrant policy, is trying to set up a meeting of some EU states to discuss the issue before a leaders summit on June 28-29, a German newspaper reported on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson has made my point, emphatically, about the perverse ethnic and political domination, and lack of diversity and racial exclusion in the make-up and hiring practices of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), in his considered – but irrational –  decision to reject the top ranked candidate, Vishnu Persaud, for the post of Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) of GECOM.

Today’s column continues with my critiques of Open Oil’s financial modeling of Guyana’s 2016 Production Sharing Agreement, PSA.

The May/June rains are here and with them come the common cold, the flu and flu-like symptoms.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said on Saturday that President Donald Trump will pick Kathy Kraninger, an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official, to head the U.S.

For years, Clonel Samuels-Boston has seen the struggles and pain teenage mothers endure on a daily basis as she has been assisting them, and though there have been times she wanted to give up, she kept pressing on.

41.3.4 If the umpires consider that the condition of the ball has been unfairly changed by a member or members of either side, they shall ask the captain of the opposing side if he/she would like the ball to be replaced.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes have struck a meeting of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq’s Qandil Mountains, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, adding that Ankara believed high-profile militants had been hit.

After living on the streets for many years, Anthony Daniels is now a resident of the Salvation Army hostel after he was removed from the area he called ‘home.’

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – A late strike by speedster Shannon Gabriel gave West Indies control of the second Test against Sri Lanka but a ball-change controversy marred proceedings, headlining the third day and threatening to disrupt the series here yesterday.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter I indicated that in 2013, on the eve of GECOM`s consideration of Mr.

Dear Editor, This issue of race that some seek to trivialise while others use as a wedge in this society must make us all intolerant of such behaviour because what such action set out to do is to keep us divided and underdeveloped as a few rape and reap of this nation’s bounties.

(Reuters) – Explosive batting from Jason Roy and Jos Buttler helped England record their highest ever ODI score against Australia and fire them to a second successive win by 38 runs at Cardiff.

The Court of Appeal on Friday rejected a bid by the state to stay orders made by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George SC giving several aggrieved Seafield, West Coast Berbice rice farmers rights to their lands.

Dear Editor,  From my childhood I can clearly remember that the words “Psychiatry” and “Mental Health Issues” were not popular.

(CPL) David Warner will join the St Lucia Stars for the 2018 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

Upper Corentyne rice farmers are in need of an intervention by regional authorities for the clearing of a blockage in the Seaforth Canal as they start to prepare their lands for the next crop, according to Chairman of the Number 52 to 74 Water Users Association Ahmad Rajab.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge a cash boost to the National Health Service, to be funded partly from tax hikes and partly from money that will no longer be going to the European Union after Brexit, newspapers reported on Saturday.

Trinidad Guardian: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Friday advised people with concerns that the Carnival terror plot had been fabricated to take up that issue with the government of Jordan.

Dear Editor,  In my letter, which was published in your Saturday, June 16, 2018 edition, I inadvertently said that the incumbent Human Resources Manager (HRM) was employed by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in early 2017. This

Odessa Newton, who was charged earlier this year with damaging the windshield of another woman’s car, was cleared of the offence last Monday after the complainant decided not to pursue the case.

The Gay Pride March which was held earlier this month in Georgetown was less significant in terms of what it represented in and of itself, than for the fact that it generated yet again the fundamental debate on the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

(Barbados Nation): A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be back on the island for more talks next month.

This hummingbird has a shiny green plumage, with a forked metallic blue tail and blue upper throat.

Forbes Burnham (a former president of Guyana) used to say local chess was not meant for the upper echelons of society, although it was originally proclaimed as the game of kings.

Haemanthus commonly called Blood Lily is an exotic, tropical perennial that is grown from bulbs.

BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Afghanistan have a long way to go before they can challenge the leading test nations and the best way to bridge the gap is to play regularly against their ‘A’ teams, coach Phil Simmons said after the team’s deflating long-form debut against India.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria called on Germany to fully clarify allegations that German intelligence agents systematically spied on politicians, international organisations and companies on Austrian territory, as reported by two newspapers on Saturday.

It is the images that remain. First it was a photo of the political leadership of the West trying to face down an intransigent Donald Trump, and then two days later the extraordinary sight of a smiling US President standing beside an equally pleased Kim Jong Un; making it easy to forget that just a few months before, the former were close allies, while the latter was in conflict with the US.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua,  (Reuters) – Eight people died on Saturday in a shoot-out and fire that shattered a truce struck hours earlier between President Daniel Ortega and protesters, and civic leaders condemned the violence while vowing to continue talks with the government.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – Sri Lanka cricket authorities have thrown their support behind their team in the ball-change controversy that marred the third day of the second Test against West Indies, and have vowed to “take all necessary steps to defend any player”, unfairly accused of any wrongdoing.