Daily Archive: Friday, October 18, 2019

Businessman Robert Badal and Chartered Accountant Nigel Hinds are launching a political party called Change Guyana.

A drug treatment court is set for launch on Monday and those persons with substance abuse disorders  will have a chance for rehabilitation rather than being sent off to prison.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is imposing new sanctions on Cuba over its human rights record and its support for Venezuela’s government, the U.S.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China has banned the bulk shipment of black clothing and other items popularly used by Hong Kong protesters to the city, staff at Chinese courier firms said, as authorities grapple with often violent anti-government protests that have gripped the city.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – While traditionally formidable on home soil, India’s cricket teams have been known to struggle on their travels but West Indies batting great Brian Lara has said the current side are a force to be reckoned with anywhere in the world.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The pri­vate sec­tor must play a big­ger role in dri­ving the na­tion’s econ­o­my said Ryan Lewis, Di­rec­tor, Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA).

With Minister of Social Protection Amna Ally rescinding a cease work order issued to Australian gold mining company Troy Resources, the way has been paved for the company to restart operations at Karouni, Region Seven, which will likely be by early November.

The continued absence of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Prosecutor yesterday prompted a city magistrate to dismiss several charges against six former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) members, who were accused of failing to record entries for funds amounting to over $200 million in total in the agency’s general ledger.

A fiery spell of fast bowling from 23-year-old Nial Smith condemned Georgetown to their third successive defeat, falling to Lower Corentyne by seven wickets in the third round of the ongoing SBF Petroleum Jaguars One-Day League at Bourda, yesterday. 

A Special Forces Squad of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday afternoon rescued a local pilot after he crashed just after taking off from Aricheng, in Region Seven.

Anthony and Ricardo Adams pulled off stunning bowling performances to see Essequibo beat West Berbice by six runs in a low-scoring third round contest at Bush Lot yesterday in the SBF Petroleum/ Cricket Guy Inc Jaguars 50-over Franchise League.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) yesterday commissioned a US$1.4 million fireboat, which Fire Chief Marlon Gentle said would better equip the service to battle onshore fires and offer humanitarian assistance.

If he didn’t say you would probably not guess that Chris Persaud has built one of Guyana’s most successful agro-processing companies “from scratch.”

The 2nd edition of the ‘GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary Schools Football League’ was officially launched yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

With alarm bells now pealing deafeningly in response to a continuous wave of road accidents and attendant multiple casualties, a local training company has signalled its intention to intervene shortly with a view to working with road users in an effort to roll back the carnage.

The Citizenship Initiative, Guyana’s newest political party, launched last evening promising an unwavering posture in demanding constitutional reform, campaign financing legislation and shared governance, while shunning any possibility of coalescing with the major parties.

(Reuters) – NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said yesterday that the fallout following a tweet from a Houston Rockets official who backed the Hong Kong democracy protests has already cost the league substantial financial losses in China.

Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield yesterday informed a city court that the police case file on the murder of four-year-old Alex Prince is not yet complete.

Regional participants in the September 26th – 28th 4th CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum held in Frankfurt, Germany are reportedly rating the event as a considerable success particularly in the light of what, reportedly was the strong Caribbean presence at the event.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has accepted assistance from the Canadian Government in the form of their former Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Jean-Pierre Kingsley, who will provide GECOM Chair Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh with advice on best practices on operational matters.

Dear Editor, There must be something about Guyana’s political and academic elites that makes us afraid of big ideas.

Having long endured the stigma of being associated with one of the world’s worst man-made disasters, the March 24, 1989, oil spill during which its recovery ship, the Exxon Valdez, emptied  almost eleven million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, it has taken years for ExxonMobil, one of the world’s unquestioned oil exploration and recovery powerhouses to work its way back to some measure of global respectability as far as its global safety reputation is concerned; and while, even now, the jury is still out in some quarters on the environmental bona fides of the company, the reality is that the global significance of oil coupled with ExxonMobil’s credentials in what is arguably one of the world’s most critical economic sectors, means that whatever the purist perspective of the hard-core environmentalists, the company’s strategic importance to the overall well-being of the global oil and gas industry cannot be wished away.

-Fiedtkou scores hat trick Defending Men’s champion Pepsi Hikers, GCC Tigers and GCC Spice recorded wins when the GTT National Indoor Hockey Championship continued on Wednesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Dear Editor, With reference to a Stabroek News article captioned `Cancer patients suffering due to lack of access to oral morphine – Beacon Foundation head’ published on October 15 2019, in which the President of that foundation is reported to have said that the organization’s inability to access oral morphine through the Ministry of Public Health has resulted in many of its cancer patients suffering in pain, the Ministry would like to clarify the issue.

The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is to engage foreign assistance towards establishing a mechanism to monitor the country’s airways during the coming general and regional elections scheduled for March 2, 2020.

Over the seven years of its existence the Guyana Shop has, perhaps surprisingly,  positioned itself as arguably, the foremost promoter of the nation’s agricultural sector, not least, the spinoffs that derive from the agro- processing sub sector.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowling legend Sir Andy Roberts has questioned the appointment of Miles Bascombe to the West Indies men’s selection panel, and believes the former Windward Islands batsman should have withdrawn himself from consideration after having been a member of the recent Cricket West Indies Task Force which led an overhaul of regional selection policy.

Armed bandits invaded a Liverpool, Corentyne, business on Wednesday evening and assaulted one of the owners and her son, leaving them both with injuries. 

(Trinidad Express) A Cedros woman who was snatched by criminals during a power outage on Wednesday, has been found dead.

Dear Editor, At the head of 7th Field in Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara is a scrap metal business which is continuously causing inconvenience to the residents of the area.

Anyone thinking of joining the PPP/C must do so without expecting any ministerial or other positions, according to Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, who says no decision has been taken as yet on a Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate for the upcoming general elections.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s withholding of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine was linked to his request that the Ukrainians look into a claim – debunked as a conspiracy theory – about the 2016 U.S.

The global measures implemented under the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on money laundering, well-intentioned though they may be, are beginning to have a constricting effect on the operations of some key and critical social support measures in the Caribbean, not least non-profit organisations designed to provide timely responses to emergency circumstances arising out of natural disasters in the region.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s Virat Kohli is captaining an enormously talented team, but the players need to adjust their mentality to win big tournaments, having failed in the last seven, ex-captain Sourav Ganguly said as he prepares to head the national cricket board.

The opposition PPP/C believes that the Guyana Office for Investment and Department of Energy sponsorship of the second annual Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit & Exhibition (GIPEX) is a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and is mulling protesting the event.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday,  acting Chief Justice (CJ) Roxane George-Wiltshire SC ruled on the case brought by the Opposition regarding the resignation of the Cabinet following a successful no-confidence vote, it is time to restore sanity and decency in political discourse and action.

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BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders unanimously backed a new Brexit deal with Britain yesterday, leaving Prime Minister Boris Johnson facing a battle to secure the UK parliament’s backing for the agreement if he is to take Britain out of Europe on Oct.

(Trinidad Express) A police officer was found dead near a primary school this afternoon, shortly after he called his wife and said he loved her.

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.

Dear Editor, Will Mr John Mair disclose whether British ethnic groups – White British being the largest (and includes the Scots, Irish and Welsh who like to identify themselves as such), Asian British (4%), Black British (nearly 5%), Gypsies, etc.

MAPUTO, (Reuters) – A European Union observer mission to Mozambique’s election raised the alarm yesterday over unfair conditions and unjustified use of state resources by the ruling party, as well as widespread violence.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Cricket West Indies on Wednesday named Gus Logie as the interim head coach of the West Indies women’s team, and said it would immediately begin the recruitment process to fill the role permanently.

(Trinidad Express) Some lucky citizens were on Tuesday night treated to what appeared to be a meteor blazing its way into Earth’s atmosphere, looking much like a comet as it streaked across the sky.

It is not often that the country’s major Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) pay focussed attention specifically to women in business.

(Trinidad Guardian) BHP, the Australian outfit drilling in T&Ts deep water has announced that its latest well, Carnival-1 failed and was a dry hole.

Our 2020 Prime Minister? Believe it or not fellow-citizens it was a news–item about the evening/night-time hazards and criminality around Georgetown’s Stabroek Square which motivated my lead captions – and issue – shared here.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to sentiments expressed by the leader of the LJP in your article on Wednesday captioned `Shuman in talks with APNU’. 

(Field Level Media) The Los Angeles Clippers will win the 2019-20 NBA title, 46 percent of league general managers said in the 18th annual NBA.com

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 847’s trading results showed consideration of $7,551,714 from 41,287 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 846’s trading results which showed consideration of $26,599,166 from 88,068 shares traded in 12 transactions.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Demonstrators and police clashed in Lebanon yesterday as thousands of people rallied against the government’s handling of an economic crisis, in one of the biggest protests the country has seen in years.

A horrendous accident took place two days ago when two vehicles crashed on the Friendship public road on the East Bank.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is here, can you tell? If you have somehow managed to miss its announcement through the bombardment of pink ribbons, promotions and fundraising events, chances are that you live in an area where bringing awareness to you might not necessarily be economical to those involved.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Veteran all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has backed the decision by selectors to drop his younger brother, Darren Bravo, for the upcoming Afghanistan series.