Daily Archive: Friday, August 23, 2019

The opposition PPP today accused GECOM of procrastinating as it is still to make a decision on the fate of the current house-to-house registration and a date for general elections.

An innocent Jamaican man spent months in jail for bringing honey back to the U.S. Customs agents thought the three jars of honey he had brought from Jamaica were actually meth.

The PNCR today defended the record of the APMU+AFC government on crime.

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Andre Kellman was this morning charged with the sexual assault of a worker at the airport.

LEEDS, England,  (Reuters) – Australia ripped through England to bowl the hosts out for 67 in their first innings on day two of the third Ashes test at Headingley — their lowest test innings score against Australia since 1948.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Sexual violence committed by Myanmar troops against Rohingya women and girls in 2017 indicated the military’s genocidal intent to destroy the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, United Nations investigators said in a report released on Thursday.

The third draft of Guyana’s Local Content Policy has received mixed reviews from the private sector, with some hailing the proposed measures to ensure that Guyanese benefit from the oil and gas sector, while others say more needs to be done.

If the Guyana Elections Commissions (GECOM) suspends the current national house-to-house registration process by the end of this month, the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) believes that there will be enough time to facilitate elections by the end of October.

Part 74 Introduction A couple of weeks ago, Column 73 examined a statement by Dr.

That B.A.M.N. PNC Victory! Sophia, Capoey, Greenheart and Papcaan! De-emphasising politics and other national headaches today, I return, however briefly, to that modern day social phenomenon that both intrigues and irritates me.

The Ministry of Natural Resources will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (PTCCB) and other stakeholders to make it harder for persons to import mercury as the country aims to reduce its wanton use in the mining sector.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) has agreed to do some heavy lifting for the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) ahead of the 17th FESUPO/NAPF Pan American Powerlifting Championships next month in Uruguay.  

There are over 25,000 active applications for house lots and the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is working to clear the backlog, according to its Chief Executive Officer Lelon Saul.

Once referred to as “white gold,” sugar has been facing some tough times lately.

The second edition of the Hercules Basketball Academy’s (HBA) Bartica Basketball Camp, was officially launched yesterday at the Water Street location of premier sponsor GraceKennedy Money Services.

The newly-commissioned Valmiki College for Business and Technology is aiming to equip youths with the skills needed to enter the working world.

Local regulatory and enforcement bodies must fashion “a collective strategy” to ensure that the country’s environmental and workplace safety laws are efficiently and effectively enforced ahead of the anticipated arrival here of greater numbers of foreign investors seeking to do business with the country in areas related to the country’s emerging oil and gas sector, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.

The Petra Organization officially launched the 4th Annual Limacol Football Championship yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The Guyana Prison Service last night said prison wardens were forced to put out a fire that was set in the security block of the New Amsterdam Prison. 

A $1.8 million facility for triage has been commissioned at the Port Mourant Hospital earlier this week so as to improve the comfort of visitors to the institution.

Almost thirty years ago he turned the lights out on what he says was a professionally rewarding job as a Financial Analyst with Citi Bank in New York to build, over time, what, arguably, is the country’s most successful information technology business enterprises, Starr Computers.

Henrietta United mauled FC Castle 11-2 when the Essequibo/Pomeroon leg of the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 Football League continued yesterday.  

With funding from the Ministry of Communities, Georgetown’s City Council has commenced rehabilitation of main access road and the internal road network for the East Ruimveldt Market.

Guyana is coasting along in the team’s category of the Senior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships, which is ongoing at the Georgetown Club’s squash court.

With what the institution’s  Chief Executive Officer James Bovell says is an “eye to the country’s  evolving skills needs,” the Brickdam-based The Business School (TBS) has unveiled a suite of courses that seeks, it says, to respond to current and emerging workplace requirements in both the public and private sectors.

A collaborative initiative between the West Indies Rum & Spirits Association (WIRSPA) and the Open University Campus of the University of the West Indies has realized the signing of a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) that will provide a framework for cooperation between the rum industry in the Caribbean and the University arising out of which will come, in the first instance an online certification in rum and spirits production which will be offered to members of the regional rum and spirits industry and internationally “in several languages, WIRSPA has said.

Luther Orlando Charles, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Domestic Airways Incorporated, was yesterday given a week to pay a $200,000 fine for failing to provide an Occupational Safety and Health Officer with information about the accident that led to the death of pilot Randy Liverpool.

The Lady Jaguars Under-17 team got off to the perfect start in the CONCACAF Girls U-17 Championship first-round qualifiers, defeating hosts Curacao in their Group D opener at the Stadion Ergilio Hato in Willemstad on Wednesday.

Two new ambulances, expected to be put into operation immediately, were officially handed over to the Regional Health Officers (RHOs) of Region Three and Region Four on Wednesday.

Developing countries are likely to come under increasing pressure to make significant adjustments to the commodity choices in their agricultural production as radical changes in consumer choices continue to reduce demand for food crops once considered to be unchanging staples in the diets of many millions of people around the world, according to a European Commission study titled “Food Safety and Agricultural Health Standards: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Country Exports” published earlier this year.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Veteran seamer Kemar Roach inspired an incisive West Indies display to leave India rattled and searching for stability on a rain-hit opening day of the first Test here yesterday.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Amid growing international criticism over the wildfires raging through the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday admitted farmers could be illegally setting the rainforest ablaze but told foreign powers not to interfere.

As the legal barriers to the cultivation of marijuana around the world either fall like dominoes or are in the process of being dismantled and as users in potential major markets continue to warm to the prospects likely to derive therefrom, Jamaica, the Caribbean country most commonly associated with the herb, continues to push ahead in positioning itself to take advantage of the expected opportunities.

(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental HIV injection is as effective when given every other month as monthly, according to a study, a convenience that could help the British drugmaker in its battle against a rival drug from Gilead Sciences.GSK’s

Dear Editor, For the purpose of maintaining an objective view of the Sugar Industry I would encourage an unemotional view be taken to the profit and loss (P&L).

Eleven Guyana Defence Force (GDF) scholarship awardees are due to travel soon to the People’s Republic of China to begin their studies.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian state oil major Rosneft has become the main trader of Venezuelan crude, shipping oil to buyers in China and India and helping Caracas offset the loss of traditional dealers who are avoiding it for fear of breaching U.S.

LEEDS, England (Reuters) – Jofra Archer’s first five-wicket haul in test cricket put England in command on a weather-affected opening day of the third Ashes test at Headingley yesterday as they bowled Australia out for 179.

Dear Editor, Please permit me a space in your letter pages to address the balderdash about myself and son’s departure from the PNCR that was reportedly uttered by PNCR Executive Member Aubrey Norton in the Guyana Chronicle, Sunday, August 18, 2019.

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.

Nine companies have bid to provide security services for schools in Georgetown.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Action movie hero Dwayne Johnson, star of the “Jumanji” and “Fast and Furious” franchises, topped the annual list of the world’s highest-paid actors, Forbes magazine reported on Wednesday.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Debutant right-hander Shamarh Brooks says he will be looking to cash in on the “good batting track” at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, as he looks to make his first taste of Test cricket a memorable one.

(Trinidad Express) Gunmen showed no regard for the cries of four children to spare their father when they came after 30-year-old Akil Sutherland on Tuesday evening.

Dear Editor,  I am writing this letter at a politically sensitive time.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday morning on an indictment in connection with his upcoming criminal trial, a spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney said on Thursday.

Two Bourda Market vendors have each been ordered to serve 10 hours of community service after a long simmering dispute erupted into physical violence.

MANCHESTER (Reuters) – Football’s lawmaking body has urged the Premier League and other competitions to all follow the same rules on the involvement of video review (VAR) technology.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 22, 2019

Dear Editor, Since the successful passage of the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) of December 21, 2018, there should have been early elections in our country, 15-18 months earlier than otherwise.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 839’s trading results showed consideration of $6,079,950 from 23,100 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 838’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,158,856 from 11,830 shares traded in 14 transactions.

As SN editorialised on Tuesday, the allegation by the Russians that Britain is completing a military base on one of the islands in the Essequibo River with a view to training Venezuelan refugees for reconnaissance and sabotage in the neighbouring state is total fantasy.

An Independence Boulevard youth was granted bail on Monday after he denied a charge of robbing a man of almost $300,000 worth of cash and items.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House will not move forward with plans to cut billions of dollars in foreign aid, U.S.

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Barcelona forward Antoine Griezmann is under pressure to deliver in his home bow against Real Betis on Sunday with the La Liga champions facing an injury crisis in attack as they look to respond to last week’s surprise defeat at Athletic Bilbao.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – In December 2007, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez suffered his first defeat at the polls.

Hopefully the recent Nalco Champion episode, not least the protest by residents over plans to create a facility for the storage of chemicals at the JFL Inland Terminal, at 4055 Industrial Site, a location in immediate proximity to a residential area, will be sufficient to provide an enduring lesson for Guyana insofar as the onshore environmental implications of the country’s oil and gas pursuits are concerned.

(Trinidad Express) Pastor Christopher Parriera has been placed on $75,000 bail charged with sex crimes against a man who worshiped at his church.