Daily Archive: Friday, April 26, 2019

Transparency Institute Guyana Inc today said that conflict of interest here is  a huge problem.

  Four new APNU+AFC coalition Members of Parliament (MPs) were sworn in this afternoon, when the National Assembly reconvened.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings of churches and hotels that killed 253 people, President Maithripala Sirisena said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Coast Guard of­fi­cers and fish­er­men were up to late yes­ter­day as­sist­ing their Venezue­lan coun­ter­parts in a mas­sive search and res­cue mis­sion for 25 Venezue­lan mi­grants who re­mained miss­ing af­ter their boat sank on the way to Trinidad and To­ba­go on Tues­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 47-year-old taxi dri­ver was killed dur­ing an ap­par­ent rob­bery,on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An elec­tri­cal black­out at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal left pa­tients hun­gry and in tears yes­ter­day.

Troy Thomas, 33, was charged with murder by NYPD detectives in the 106th Precinct yesterday as part of the first extradition case between the U.S.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has dismissed an application filed by attorney Sanjeev Datadin on behalf of former government parliamentarian Charrandass Persaud to prevent today’s planned sitting of the National Assembly.

Following more charges against it by the opposition PPP,  the media company owned by Public Telecommunications Minister Catherine Hughes appears to have confirmed that it placed advertisements on behalf of her ministry and others.

President David Granger yesterday named two new members of Cabinet and reassigned four others following the resignation of those Ministers who hold dual citizenship.

A 22-year-old cabbage farmer was yesterday charged with the murder of 18-year-old David Toney, who he is accused of fatally stabbing during an altercation over payment at the Timehri docks for loading produce onto a truck last week.

A Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo youth succumbed on Thursday morning to injuries he sustained  in an early morning vehicular accident.

Plans are in the pipeline to reward standout athletes with scholarships and grants following a record medal haul from the 48th edition of the CARIFTA Games, which was staged in the Cayman Islands.

Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) Brian Mullis has labelled the newly implemented fees on travellers at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) as excessive and has called on the government and the CJIA’s management to reexamine them.

The opening night of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship was one of upsets, as former champions Dave & Celina’s All-Stars and Amelia’s Ward Russians as well as contender, NK Ballers, incurred unlikely defeats on Wednesday.

The Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, will be launching a full value-for-money audit into the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project.

Defending champion Fruta Conquerors recorded the largest margin of victory in the GFF Elite League thus far, dismantling Ann’s Grove 10-0 on Wednesday at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Two of the men that put the doping crisis in the global spotlight say the integrity of sport now faces a greater threat from match-fixing than drug cheats.

After a night of heavy rainfall, sections of the city experienced flooding, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) stated yesterday.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – The North West can claim to be the current capital of English football but while Liverpool and Manchester City head into the finale of an extraordinary Premier League title race, the biggest brand of all, Manchester United, are in crisis.

Convicted for the rape of a nine-year-old girl, Gingish Khan, 51, now awaits his sentence pending the presentation of a probation report on him and a victim impact statement.

Long before last weekend’s Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo at Lethem had started the six hotels whose accommodation amount to approximately 150 rooms had all been taken. 

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Off-spinner Sunil Narine has rued missing the ICC World Cup in England starting next month, but has not given up hope of returning to West Indies colours.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday assured that mechanisms are being put in place to deal with potential oil spills offshore Guyana.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Barcelona can clinch the Liga title with victory at home to relegation-threatened Levante tomorrow – the first step in what they hope will be a clean sweep of trophies this season.

Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Products Ltd Ramsay Ali on Wednesday evening told the Stabroek Business that local manufacturing is likely to continue to perform below its potential unless government moves decisively to address the taxation of fuel and by extension, the enhancement of the competitiveness of the sector.

A probe has been launched into the activities of prisoners at the Lusignan Prison after a video of a fight between two prisoners that was staged to mimic a dog fight, surfaced on social media.

A 58-year-old man is feared drowned in the Demerara River after going to take a bath on Wednesday afternoon.

With the multi-billion dollar fake drugs industry now having set its sights deliberately on making further inroads into the churning out of brands associated with children’s illnesses, medical experts and reputable international organizations are becoming increasingly concerned that poor countries where environmental conditions render children more vulnerable to diseases may have little if any real defence against ‘cures’ that could exacerbate rather than ease their child welfare headaches.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Real Madrid dropped points for the third time in seven games since Zinedine Zidane’s return as they were held to a 0-0 draw away to Getafe in La Liga yesterday, which harmed their neighbours’ hopes of a top-four finish.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said after holding his first face-to-face talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday that U.S.

A Dominican Republic businesswoman seeking to make her travels between her homeland and Guyana less frustrating is among the latest applicants for Guyanese citizenship.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 yesterday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body parts at bomb scenes for the earlier inaccurate number.

MIAMI, United States, CMC – Jamaica’s Stadium East will play host to next month’s CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship, the confederation has announced.

ExxonMobil’s announcement a week ago that it had   made a new oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Yellowtail-1 well, marking the 13th discovery on the Stabroek Block, was not the only recent indication of the consolidation of its hold on the oil and gas sector in the hemisphere.

Dear Editor, I have been observing the actions of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) in recent months and am  being led to believe that the body, set up as a bipartisan entity to ensure broadcasters comply with the Broadcasting Act, Number 17 of 2011, has been politically contaminated and has now been given a mandate to go after broadcasters, who are not pushing the government’s propaganda and those who are reporting information coming out of the political opposition.

Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), Trevor Benn, is in Hanoi, Vietnam as a participant in the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Working Week conference currently underway According to a GL&SC press release, the FIG Working Week conference which started on April 22 nd  and ends today, brings the international community of surveying and spatial professionals together to discuss key challenges within the surveying profession.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – A huge crowd massed outside Sudan’s Defence Ministry yesterday to demand civilian rule, a Reuters witness said, challenging the Transitional Military Council that removed President Omar al-Bashir earlier this month to cede power.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Andre Russell will be utilised as a batting all-rounder at the upcoming ICC World Cup in England, and interim head coach Floyd Reifer says there is a plan to manage the player’s workload during the six-week tournament.

As the quality of the urban public transport service comes increasingly under the glare of the public spotlight the Stabroek Business, two weeks ago, spent two consecutive weekdays canvassing the opinions of regular users on the quality of the service being provided.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. federal prosecutors yesterday charged a Massachusetts judge and court officer with conspiracy and obstruction, saying they blocked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer from arresting an illegal immigrant at a 2018 court proceeding.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Cricket’s world governing body, the ICC, has praised the career of Merissa Aguilleira, following Wednesday’s announcement of the former West Indies women’s captain retirement.

For two days last week, Starr Computers  pressed its recently elaborately re-designed second floor display space now designated its Innovation Centre to introduce what the company’s Chief Executive Officer Mike Mohan describes as “technology in the age of Robotization”.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government of Jamaica hopes to access US$100 million ($13.4 billion) in grant funding from China to improve the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee line of products, and on a larger scale, the local coffee industry.

Dear Editor, The Forestry Commission has been by far, one of the most progressive State agencies, and one that has attracted continuous donor support over the last two decades. 

A fire of unknown origin yesterday gutted the home of a local broadcaster and her family and a probe is underway to determine the cause.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) yesterday issued a statement welcoming the remarks made by President David Granger that the Coalition Government sees “adherence to the Constitution…an essential element of democratic governance and the maintenance of public trust.”

(Trinidad Express) The bullet-riddled bodies of a man and woman found in a parked car off Pashley Street, Laventille, on Easter Monday were identified yesterday as those of Devon Jones and Erin Ali.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 25, 2019Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – At the first major news conference of his presidency, Emmanuel Macron pledged to cut taxes yesterday and said the French would have to work longer as he outlined his response to months of anti-government protests that have shaken his authority.

(Reuters) – Manchester City’s England forward Raheem Sterling has been awarded The Integrity and Impact Award at this year’s BT Sport Industry Awards for speaking out on a range of social issues, including racism.

Dear Editor, We, the undersigned, note with concern the circulation of videos on the social networking site, Facebook, which shows a social media personality recording himself walking up to strangers in public places and holding their hands.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister with responsibility for education Karl Samuda has expressed shock at the murder of St Joseph’s Teachers’ College lecturer Samuel Martin.

Guyana men’s rugby team will mean business when the players take the field against Guadeloupe tomorrow at the GDF Ground.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump approved payment of a $2 million bill presented by North Korea to cover its care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, a college student who died shortly after being returned home from 17 months in a North Korean prison, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

A push cart operator was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with robbing a man who refused his request for a cigarette.

Dear Editor, Much has been said over the past few weeks on the GFC restructuring and the dark cloud that staff have been placed under with this exercise.

Dear Editor, The government-owned and controlled Guyana Chronicle recently carried a story announcing the grant of $6.5 million to 130 Rupununi youths involved in the APNU+AFC sponsored Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) Programme.

The new Guyana Marketing Corportation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

The 4th edition of the Corona Beer Futsal Championship was officially launched yesterday at the Top Brandz Distributors headquarters, Broad Street, Charlestown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden entered the 2020 Democratic presidential field yesterday as an instant front-runner, drawing momentum away from other leading candidates and putting new pressure on underperformers to find ways to stay relevant.

(Trinidad Express) What began as the kidnapping of a Carapichaima man and his girlfriend at the Waterloo cremation site on Tuesday night ended in his murder.

A shutdown of the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) resulted in lengthy power outages around the country yesterday, the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) said.

Dear Editor, In his letter `Chris Ram should be one of the leaders of a new government, President Granger has been a disappointment and Ali is loaded with negatives’ (SN, 25th April 2019), Mr Emile Mervin makes some interestingly good points.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Shai Hope and Shane Dowrich missed out on half-centuries while left-arm seamer Raymon Reifer extended his wicket-taking form, as West Indies completed their final warm-up match here yesterday in preparation for the Tri-Nations Series in Ireland starting next week.

Competence and academic qualifications are not one and the same. There are many competent people who have no formal certificates, just as there are those who if anything are over-certified, but are nevertheless quite incompetent in their field.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 822’s trading results showed consideration of $7,818,749 from 83,737 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 821’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,220,138 from 19,625 shares traded in 22 transactions.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – In April 2017, a group of Mexican executives filed into the Texas governor’s mansion in Austin for a meeting they hoped would help save a trillion-dollar trade deal.

-Should “Skibby” Critchlow cry? I thank you all for allowing me this one-day break today.

The president of the Lusig-nan Golf Club Aleem Hussain and one of the promoters of a private event that was held on the premises are denying knowledge of a patron indiscriminately discharging rounds on Easter Sunday.

OCHO RIOS, Jamaica,  (Reuters) – Oscar winner Rami Malek will play the international villain who Daniel Craig’s James Bond must battle in the British spy franchise’s 25th film set for release next year, the producers announced on Thursday.

However hard we contemplate the issue it is difficult to think of any single development in the post-independence history of Guyana that has impacted the national psyche in quite the manner that the May 2015 ExxonMobil oil discovery did.