Daily Archive: Friday, July 26, 2019

(Trinidad Express) A man who broke into his wife’s home and stole more than $5,000 in items has been sent to prison.

(Trinidad Express) A box of adult novelty goods that was imported into this country by sexologist Dr Raj Ramnanan but seized by the Comptroller of Customs in 2017 is to be returned to the businessman, a High Court judge has ruled.

(Trinidad Express) Police need help in locating 24-year-old Marilyn Del Velle Espinoza.

The US, UK and Canada this afternoon welcomed the appointment of the new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice of Appeal (rtd) Claudette Singh.

Following a meeting with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, President David Granger has selected retired judge Claudette Singh as the new Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

(Jamaica Observer) Two Jamaican men have received prison time in separate cases for trying to smuggle cocaine through North Carolina in their suitcases.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Sweden today dismissed an angry outburst from U.S.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The hot air that smashed European weather records this week looks set to move towards Greenland and could cause record melting of the world’s second largest ice sheet, the United Nations said today.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) hosted its third annual Bursary Award ceremony yesterday at its Head Office.

GTT mobile coverage will be downgraded in the Diamond, East Bank Demerara Highway.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice shot dead well-known Sea Lots gang­ster, Aki­ni “Dole” Adams and in­jured an­oth­er man dur­ing an ex­er­cise on Thurs­day evening.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) says that about 45 per cent of Jamaicans suffered from the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) during the outbreak in 2014.

(Trinidad Guardian) Web­sites be­long­ing to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and the Min­is­ter of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al were among sev­er­al gov­ern­ment web­sites tar­get­ted by Brazil­ian hack­ers Thursday.

Members of civil society were yesterday left flabbergasted when a promised engagement with President David Granger proved to be less than expected as he delivered a prepared speech to make the case that his government is not delaying the holding of due elections and then abruptly left those who had gathered at his request.

As more police officers undergo training to curb noise pollution, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan has said that their efforts would be supported by a move to revoke the licences of businesses that break the law.

President David Granger yesterday maintained that he has a role in identifying nominees for chairmanship of GECOM and in a sign of the international dimension to the current political stalemate he said that he had made the government’s case twice by phone to the Commonwealth Secretary General.

With no short-term end to the long-standing problem of limited access to affordable financing to support the development of the country’s construction and engineering sub-sector in sight, the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) says it wants “a comprehensive overhaul” of the country’s financial system on the back of the emergence of an oil and gas economy that will bring with it a Development Bank that will help to overcome what it describes as “this key challenge” facing manufacturers.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has confirmed that the vessel seized with a large amount of cocaine in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) last Thursday, is a Guyanese registered vessel.

The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) has confirmed that there is a shortage of chicken meat on the market and the shortage can be attributed to the reduction of hatching eggs imported as of June this year.

Planning is underway for the staging by the Small Business Bureau (SBB) of a Client Expo at D’Urban Park later this year, as the state-run agency responsible for providing technical and financial support for local small and micro enterprises seeks to draw greater public attention to the underexploited potential in the small business sector and particularly in the agro-processing sub-sector.

Tournament heavyweights Net-Rockers and Eagles sealed their knockout berths in the inaugural Divine Entertainment Summer Super Cup Football tournament, defeating Blueberry Hill and Coomacka respectively on Wednesday.

Even as optimism abounds that Local Content can serve as “a key tool to help developing countries to reap, in a sustainable manner, the economic and social benefits from their natural resources” there exists a deep-rooted concern that if not implemented and managed carefully and if not subjected to  public scrutiny, Local Content can offer “significant corruption opportunities,” according to an article published in the 2019 issue of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Souvenir Magazine.

Efforts by Reginald Daniels through the local courts to recover a US$15,000 loan he made to former friend Ronald Backer more than a decade ago have proven futile as High Court judge Gino Persaud has ruled that his lawsuit was statute-barred.

Alexander Village and Broad Street secured contrasting wins, when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Championship group stage concluded yesterday at the Berlin Tarmac.

By Lance Hinds Since the late 1990s Caribbean governments and stakeholders have in principle, recognised and articulated that a highly functioning Information Society was critical to the long-term development of the region and its citizens. 

The Opposition People’s Progressive Party  (PPP) has accused President David Granger of “mouthing political rhetoric” rather than acting to operationalize the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the December 21 no confidence vote and the appointment of a chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Test pacer Miguel Cummins struck twice in the day’s final over as West Indies A clawed their way back into the opening four-day “Test” after India A had taken the upper hand on day two of the contest here yesterday.

Just weeks after an article in the 2018 Annual Report of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) voiced a thinly veiled criticism of the lending policy of local commercial banks, describing their interest rates as “notoriously high,” a Jamaican-born global economic expert, David Marston, appears to be making a similar case to the effect that lenders and financiers in the sister CARICOM country are “too narrowly focused on the types of assets they are willing to back,” according to a report in the Jamaica Gleaner.

Despite the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) performing below standards for the operating year of 2018, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has decided not to impose a further penalty on the company.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Mayor and Town Council of New Amsterdam (NA) have inked a 30-year land lease for the Vryman’s Erven ground, which will serve as the site for the region’s first football facility.

It would seem that Guyana is not the only country in the region that has issues with used tyres, even though in one other CARICOM country a company is seeking to respond to the problem by turning its piles of tyres into something useful…cement.

A sister’s compassion yesterday resulted in a youth being spared possible incarceration for assault.

Guyana Rush Saints FC and Sky Kings Sports Club clinched the Men’s and Women’s Futsal Champion title respectively when the Rupununi Football Association (RFA) five-a-side tournament concluded on Saturday at the Tabatinga Sports Ground, Lethem.

We may have come a long way from the days of the old American ‘west’ when bank robberies were committed by bands of brigands ‘toting’ guns and barking orders to terrified tellers to ‘open the safe’ and making off with bags of money.

Guyana’s squash duo Ashley Khalil and Mary Fung-A-Fat suffered first-round defeats on the opening day of the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru yesterday.

Works are expected to be undertaken to rectify a developing depression on the eastern side of the Kitty roundabout, according to Ministry of Public Infrastructure engineer Sherod Parkinson.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of the main suspects held in connection with yesterday morning’s quadruple murder in Las Cuevas of reputed drug and gun smuggler, Vaughn ‘Sandman’ Mieres, his wife, Alika “Letty” Dehere and two others, has been identified as one of Mieres’ key associates.

The prevalence of overweight school-age children, including children in the Caribbean, arising out of ill-advised food consumption habits and less than adequate exercise regimes could be one of the major health challenges looming on the global horizon according to UNICEF’s recently released report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions yesterday on 10 people and 13 groups in a Venezuelan food subsidy scheme the U.S.

LONDON (Reuters) – Ireland moved tantalisingly within sight of an historic test win over England as they reduced the hosts to 303-9 in their second innings to trail by 181 at a sweltering Lord’s yesterday.

As investigations into the murder of Leon Duncan continue, police are on the hunt for several persons of interest according to Commander of ‘A’ Division, Marlon Chapman.

Dear Editor, I write to you in the midst of an ongoing debate concerning the Guyana Elections Commission’s “readiness” to do what it must do to be in compliance with the three months mandate to hold an election after the successful passing of the December 21st 2018 no-confidence vote.

As investigations continue into the fatal shooting of Terry Ault, the South Sophia man who was killed during the wee hours of Sunday morning, two persons remain in police custody.

In its own modest way, the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) continues to make a noteworthy contribution to one of the most eye-catching developments in the country’s business sector in recent years, and that is, the aggressive emergence of a new and determined generation of entrepreneurial aspirants in the country’s agro- processing sector.

GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) – American Caeleb Dressel almost set a world record in the 100 freestyle at the world championships yesterday, and said he could not have done it without being pushed to the very end by his Australian rival Kyle Chalmers.

Dear Editor,  I noted an article appearing in the Tuesday edition of the Guyana Chronicle, 2019.07.23, captioned `M&CC money found in Chief Constable vehicle’.

VALLOIRE, France (Reuters) – Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe cracked at the top of the ascent to the Col du Galibier yesterday, but a high-speed final descent in the 18th stage helped him regain contact with most of the big guns and retain the overall lead in the Tour de France.

SEOUL/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired two new short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, South Korean and U.S.

With the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) less than a month away, officials attached to the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport are reluctant to identify the names of the “100 Guyanese” who were selected to represent the country at the event in Trinidad and Tobago.

*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 25, 2019

(Trinidad Guardian) The death toll from a violent bandit attack at sea continues to rise this morning as the bodies of two more missing fishermen surfaced along the Cedros coastline this morning.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Sixteen U.S. Marines were arrested yesterday at their base in Southern California on suspicion of drug-related offenses and the smuggling of undocumented migrants along the U.S.-Mexico

(Reuters) – Professional boxing suffered its second death this week after 23-year-old Argentine super lightweight Hugo Santillan died yesterday from injuries suffered in the ring five days ago.

Dear Editor, I begin this letter with the following excerpt from the Constitution of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana: ‘The principal objective of the political system of the State is to establish an inclusionary democracy by providing increasing opportunities for the participation of citizens, and their organizations in the management of decision making processes of the State, with particular emphasis on those areas of decision-making that directly affect their well-being.’

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There can be no head of state since 1980 who has displayed more of a capacity for temporising than President David Granger.

When former Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin announced late last year that the 20 per cent ‘set aside’ provision that would allow small businesses to secure access to various types of state contracts worth up to $30 million would come on stream from January this year, the announcement, it seemed at the time, had come more out of a sense of unbridled optimism than against the background of any real certainty that that deadline could actually be met.

Dear Editor, When Superman was forced to answer a riddle to save Lois from the Sphinx, he was asked the question “What happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object?”

BAN NONG CHAN, Thailand, (Reuters) – By this time of year, the Mekong River should have been rising steadily with the monsoon rains, bringing fishermen a bounty of fat fish.

Maintaining relevance: Reasonings and groundings (Reasonably certain that today’s offering will finally be among the most brief.)

LONDON (Reuters) – Mesut Ozil and Arsenal team mate Sead Kolasinac escaped unhurt after an attempted carjacking by knife-wielding attackers in North London yesterday, British media reported.

You might be familiar with the oft-used phrase, “children should be seen and not heard.”

IntroductionToday’s column summarises some of the principal information extracted from the auditedfinancial statements of the three Contractors to the Petroleum Agreement signed on June 27, 2016.

(Barbados Nation) A six-member team will leave Barbados next month to start the recruitment of nurses in Ghana.