Daily Archive: Sunday, September 16, 2018

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC -Trinbago Knight Riders defeated the Guyana Amazon Warriors by eight wickets in the final of the Caribbean Premier League at the Brian Lara Stadium here today.

While other politicians glossed over the island’s problems, Trump lays colonialism’s cruelty bare.

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago,  Dr. Keith Rowley, is scheduled to visit Guyana on Wednesday and Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) State-owned Petrotrin will re­trench all its work­ers and not just those in the re­fin­ery as was pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced.

With the country’s limited capacity to audit pre-contract costs for oil recovery, Head of the Department of Energy, Dr Mark Bynoe, says that an international firm will be hired to aid both the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the state audit office to discharge their obligations.

A manhunt was still underway last evening for the suspect in the fatal beating of a man in Linden.

With the world’s focus changing from fossil fuels to renewable energy, one of Guyana’s first priorities should be a similar transition of its own energy sector as it establishes itself as a model green state, Arizona State Sustainable Development Professor Gary Dirks says.

The driver who fatally struck seven-year-old Sunil Sukhnandan and left his sister critically injured last Thursday evening at Ogle Public Road, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday released on $75,000 station bail pending further investigations of the accident.

The curtain will come down on the sixth annual HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with either the Guyana Amazon Warriors winning their maiden title or Trinbago Knight Riders recording their third title.

Residents of Santa Rosa Village and its immediate environs, in Region One, have voiced growing concerns over the current state of the San Jose-Kumaka Bridge, which was expected to be dismantled to make way for a new bridge, which was promised by government.

Sixteen years ago, Kavita Singh (now known as Rose Park-Bennett) fled an abusive husband who was hooked on drugs and having no family support she turned to the state for help which resulted in her three sons being placed in an orphanage; she initially sought accommodation at the Night Shelter.

Badminton may not be the most popular sport in Guyana but over the last year the sport has improved leaps and bounds.

The third annual Ralph Green-sponsored East Bank Football Association [EBFA] Under-11 League was officially launched yesterday at the Timehri Red Ground.

During his teenage years, Abdul Masud Khan was swept off his feet by samosas, when they were brought to his home from Trinidad by his mother.

Studley Park is a quiet little village on the Canal Number One Public Road, 15.5 miles from Vreed-en-Hoop.

An Albouystown woman, who was an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, was arrested early yesterday morning after Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers discovered a quantity of suspected cocaine concealed in a false wall of her suitcase.

Wayne Dover, former head-coach of the Golden Jaguars Senior squad has been appointed to the Guyana U20 coach for the  CONCACAF Men’s U20 Championship in Florida, USA from November 1st-22nd.

A gutsy solo escape with three laps to go by Walter Grant-Stuart was enough to win him yesterday’s feature 35-lap event of the Rainforest Waters 11-race programme. 

A resident of Blairmont, West Bank Berbice, was on Friday evening arrested after the police intercepted his fielder wagon at D’Edward Village, and unearthed a large quantity of cannabis.

Ryan Crawford, whose middle name you will have to guess, is an attorney-at-law in practice in Berbice, and the son of the late Marcel Crawford, one of the Ancient County’s distinguished lawyers.

An autopsy performed on the remains of the one-year-old child who died last Wednesday after he reportedly consumed rat poison while in the care of a young relative at La Grange, West Bank Demerara, was inconclusive.

As I write this, Florence, a massive hurricane, is approaching the US mainland, taking dead aim at North Carolina, and it sends me back to my experience with such storms.

Chief Executive Officer of the HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Damien O’ Donohoe has expressed his satisfaction with this year’s tournament, stating that the attendance is up by 20 percent.

The passage of Local Content Legislation and adoption of a Local Content Policy to guide the development of local businesses in the Oil and Gas Industry were among several recommendations made by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) for the 2019 national budget.

SINGAPORE, CMC – Reigning World champion Lewis Hamilton produced a “magic lap” to grab pole position and install himself as early favourite for today’s Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Circuit.

“I don’t love him. Let me tell you that man treat me like nothing.

Dear Editor, My fellow Alumnus of the University of Guyana, now residing in the UK, Dr.

The Regional Administration of Region Six is currently executing $5 million in rehabilitative works to the main access road at Moleson Creek.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – Barbadian fast bowlers Jofra Archer and Chris Jordan both shone in the semi-final but had no such luck in the final, as Sussex suffered a five-wicket defeat to see Worcestershire lift the English T20 title here yesterday.

WILSON, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Florence dumped “epic” amounts of rain on North and South Carolina as it trudged inland yesterday, triggering dangerous flooding, knocking out power in nearly 900,000 homes and businesses, and causing at least eight deaths.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump plans to announce new tariffs of about $200 billion on Chinese imports as early as tomorrow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

(Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) emphasised yesterday that Russian officials will have to submit a copy of the former Moscow laboratory database and raw data if the country’s anti-doping agency RUSADA is to be reinstated later this month.

Three weeks ago, Trinidad and Venezuela reached an agreement on the supply of gas from the latter’s Dragon Field through the creation of a 17km undersea pipeline that will link it to the National Gas Company of Trinidad’s offshore Hibiscus Platform.

Dear Editor, Even as the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that in 2016 alone, more than 3.3M people died around the world because of alcohol-use, the Ministry of Public Health in Guyana appears to have no strategy to deal with the rising alcohol-use problem in Guyana.

In the old Soviet Russia one of the more outrageous features of life was that their greatest creative writers for years were barred from publishing in their own native land.

With Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams finally having complied with a court order to operationalise the Judicial Review Act (JRA), his predecessor Anil Nandlall on Friday officially withdrew contempt proceedings he had filed against him.

A specially arranged T20 dominoes competition is set to take place this afternoon at the Turning Point Snackette and Bar, Arapaima and Jackson Streets, Tucville, Georgetown.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s Department of Justice said Supreme Court judge Ranjan Gogoi will become chief justice on Oct.

Most people do not have trouble getting started working out. You start off psyched, enthusiastic, and ready to go, buy the products, sign up to the plan and are ready to makeover your life.

Introduction Today’s column starts with a wrap-up of the discussion on intergenerational equity.

President David Granger has said the proposed disbursement of cash transfers from oil revenues would not be discussed at Cabinet until recommendations are made on the issue by the new Department of Energy.

Dear Editor, There has been a farcical entrapment of the Government of Guyana into being liable for Pre-Contract Costs, costs that under normal conditions are wholly the responsibility of the Contractor Partners in the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement re: Exxon, Hess and Nexen.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies Women’s head coach, Henderson Springer, hopes the squad’s ongoing preparation over the last few months will pay dividends in the upcoming limited overs series against South Africa starting here today.

Dear Editor, I write to raise a few points that must be raised on the question of how someone who was sanctioned multiple times ended up as a corruption investigator at the Special Organised Crimes Unit.

KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo,  (Reuters) – T he prime minister of Democratic Republic of Congo will sign a decree in the coming days to designate cobalt and other minerals as “strategic” and therefore subject to higher royalties, Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu said yesterday.

A 52-year-old housekeeper was robbed of almost $100,000 in valuables on Friday afternoon after she was pounced upon by two bandits at Stone Avenue, Campbellville, in Georgetown.

(Trinidad Express) A debate on Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s description of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley as an “oreo” continues to be the centre of debate on social media.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration will send a test message to all U.S.

Dear Editor, I saw on Facebook a lawyer using profane language to a police officer.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been selected to be an ambassador by Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the upcoming ICC Women’s World T20.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia are to seek clarification from their English counterparts about an incident in which England all-rounder Moeen Ali says he was called “Osama” by an Australian player during an Ashes test in 2015.

We have a habit of describing Guyana as multicultural – which it is.

Kumarie Sookdeo, the 63-year-old woman who died last Tuesday morning after reportedly running into the path of a vehicle along the Goedverwagting Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara, died as a result of multiple injuries sustained, an autopsy has confirmed.

Cassia fistula, commonly called the golden shower tree, is native to India, Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

The Institute of Creative Arts (ICA) will celebrate its fifth Convocation on Thursday, September 20, 2018. 

Dear Editor, We read from Stabroek News on Friday the news alert that `China envoy in meeting with Ramjattan on security of Chinese community’.

DAKAR,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Large-scale wind and solar farms could more than double rainfall in the Sahara desert, “shocked” scientists said as the region grapples with widespread hunger caused by recurrent drought.

The World Junior Chess Championships end today in Gebze, Turkey, and Iran is set to make its presence felt in an unforgettable manner.

The White-winged Becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus) is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.