Daily Archive: Sunday, December 8, 2019

(Trinidad Express) As he realised the brakes on his truck were failing, driver Johnald Smith told his 18-year-old loader to jump out before the vehicle went over a cliff along the Lady Young Road in Morvant.

Health experts warn of emerging threat of Nipah virus      LONDON, (Reuters) – A deadly virus called Nipah carried by bats has already caused human outbreaks across South and South East Asia and has “serious epidemic potential”, global health and infectious disease specialists said on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) There are 80 million $100 bills (valued at $8 billion) currently in circulation in Trinidad and Tobago, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion ex­tends deep­est con­do­lences and sym­pa­thy to the fam­i­ly of our for­mer Pres­i­dent Ray­mond Tim Kee fol­low­ing his pass­ing on Sat­ur­day night at his home in Port-of-Spain.

(Jamaica Observer) Flight, the short film by local directors Kia Moses and Adrian McDonald,continues to rake in awards on the international film festival circuit.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – West Indies opener Lendl Simmons smashed a breezy 67 not out to help secure a series-levelling eight-wicket victory over India in the second Twenty20 International today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic lawmakers could vote this week on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the House Judiciary Committee chairman said today as lawmakers sharpened their focus on charges of wrongdoing in his dealings with Ukraine.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal incident which occurred yesterday at about 7 pm  on the Ituni Trail involving motor car # PPP 651 owned and driven by a forty-seven-year old mechanic of Kwakwani Park, Berbice River, Upper Demerara and motorcycle # CG 8386 owned and driven by Godfrey Willis, age unknown of Goat Farm, Ituni who died.

(Jamaica Observer) When Ade Ellis, now 29 years old, emigrated to Florida 14 years ago, he had already made up his mind that cooking would be his career path.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite solemn promises given six years ago by the previous administration to wipe from the books a section of the Child Care and Protection Act, which allows judges in the Family Court to deem a child uncontrollable and commit them to the custody of the Department of Correctional Services, the law still remains.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today promised lower immigration if he wins power in an election on Thursday, but said he was not hostile to allowing foreigners to work and live in Britain overall.

(Trinidad Guardian) The new poly­mer $100 ban­knotes have been print­ed and are ready for dis­tri­b­u­tion, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has an­nounced.

At the recent preview of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) manifesto just over a week ago, General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said his party would put into effect campaign finance reforms if it wins elections in 2020.

According to the current property manager Roshan Khan, all developmental plans for the land surrounding the Chateau Margot chimney currently include the preservation of the historic landmark.

The Childcare and Protection Agency (C&PA) is spearheading the investigation of the alleged rape of a six-year-old student at an East Coast Demerara primary school earlier this week and preparations are being made for him to be interviewed tomorrow.

A partnership sealed this year between National Hardware Guyana Limited and the Trinidadian firm Concepts and Services Company Limited (CSCL), an oil and gas support company, is an example of what local content capacity building should be, President of the Georgetown Chamber and Commerce and partner in the company Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer says.

Putting a greater focus on sports in schools and the question of the use of the funds of the Guyana Lottery Company were among the talking points when the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) hosted its annual Christmas Social on Friday night.

As Guyana’s private sector calls for the implementation of power purchasing agreement (PPA) legislation here that would cater to individual homes moving to solar and supplying the grid, the Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) has voiced its support for such a move.

Anna Regina Secondary was on Thursday recognised as the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) School of the Year, while Queen’s College (QC) was similarly awarded for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) at the Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) 2019 Award ceremony.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd spearheaded a brilliant come-from-behind effort as West Indies Under-19 defended a small total to beat England Under-19s by 36 runs in the opening match of the Tri-Nations Series here Friday.

When Simone Poole was seven-years-old, she had a collision with a schoolmate that left her immobile for more than a day and after she regained movement in her legs, her gait was never the same.

With her first ever solo art exhibition, which is now open at Castellani House, artist Elodie Cage-Smith is seeking to portray the struggles of her Caribbean ancestors as well as the appreciation she feels for the aesthetic value of the Caribbean.

A visually-impaired pianist has graduated as the Foundation 7 Music School’s top student this year.

-Albion, Tucber Park, YWCC in control after first day Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolts defeated Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC) by an innings and 135 runs with a day to spare while Albion, Tucber Park and Young Warriors head into the second day in strong positions in their Berbice Cricket Board/ Banks Beer two-day first-division third round yesterday.

In Clifton Settlement, which was once known as Port Mourant, then Tain, located along the Corentyne highway in Region Six, fish vendor Angela Naidu wakes at 2 am to head to work on most days.

Traditionally known for organising softball cricket in and out of Guyana, the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) has turned its attention to promoting youth cricket in Guyana.

Trinidadian Rondelle Keller, 26, and Barbadian Maria Collins, 47, are the latest attorneys-at-law to be admitted to the Guyana bar.

Guyana national men’s basketball team drew first blood in their three-match Goodwill International Series, defeating Grenada on Friday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

By Nadia Sagar   Aback the cane-field Along lusty fields of mottled stalk and punt trench dam Houses stilted and unstilted Blue green mud thick against walls of concrete and decaying wood Ant trails like swollen veins Crisscrossing greyed greenheart posts   Women washing clothes in cracked plastic tubs Under the not yet sharp morning sun Gabardine pants hung on paling staves Banana suckers Hanging low with unpicked fruit Bird vine covering unclaimed spaces   Women on steps thinned by scrubbing Picking lice from little heads bent Lashes passing at every fidget   Brother Paul preaches the gospel The congregation swells, the spirit descends   Chowtal and puja in Temple on Sunday morn Mother Lakshmi, Mother Durga and Lord Shiva, Pandit reads Sanskrit, fingers tracing faded words Prasad and mittai bagged, folded legs catching cramp   In polyester briefs and panties, the children play War break and tyres burning, tinnin cup knocking Thief man coming And black pudding lady basket piled high With chicken foot souse and plantain chips   Pit latrines rank The wiri–wiri tree by neighbour Nelly yard exploding Gloriously Rain and sun and gravel and mud And days washed clean and smelling ripe And the breeze cutting through the fields of cane Slamming doors and drying beads of sweat Births and deaths and beatings

Ahead of last Friday’s general elections in Dominica, the Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations (OCCBA) joined with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Bar Association in condemning recent sustained attacks on High Court judge Birnie Stephenson, a sitting High Court Judge in the Commonwealth of Dominica. 

Nadia Sagar is an attorney-at-law. In her spare time, she writes short stories and is currently working on a collection she hopes to one day publish.

North Georgetown was crowned the new Smalta Girls Pee Wee U11 Football champions after dethroning defending champions West Ruimveldt 2-1 yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The Ruimveldt Children’s Home and Care Centre (RCHCC) in collaboration with the Foundation 7 Music School hosted a fundraising event for “Project Hope,” which will see the construction of a home for vulnerable children 11 years and under.

Lodge Secondary, Marian Academy and President’s College secured contrasting victories, when the GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary School U18 Football League resumed yesterday at the National Training Center, Providence.

Sometimes In The Middle Of The Story (For the drowned Africans of the Middle Passage) Sometimes in the middle of the story something move outside the house, like it could be the wind, but is not the wind and the story-teller hesitate so slight you hardly notice it, and the children hold their breath, and look at one another.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives met behind closed doors yesterday to prepare for what could be the final week of their months-old impeachment inquiry that has imperiled Donald Trump’s presidency.

With Christmas approaching, Banks DIH has once again launched “Santa’s Enchanted Christmas Village” at Demerara Park, Ruimveldt, with a host of attractions for children.

Anthony Davis delivered 39 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots as the Los Angeles Lakers rolled to a 136-113 victory over the host Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night.

“I have been living 22 years with HIV and if you look at me you cannot tell but I would not tell any and everybody that I have HIV because the stigma and discrimination is not nice and so I just trying to live my life,” the 46-year-old mother of six told me.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading into Britain’s election on Thursday with a lead in opinion polls, but some of the surveys also suggest that his chance of winning a parliamentary majority could be too close to call.

Dear Minerva, My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years.

Dear Editor, As member organisations of the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF), we are deeply concerned about increasingly visible incidents of school violence and bullying in our country.

The Golden Grove Community Centre ground will be a hive of activity tonight when the inaugural ‘592 Beer Inter-Village Football Championship’ resumes with a pivotal doubleheader from 19:00hrs.

In the absence of clear behaviour suggesting that a person may self-harm or commit suicide, there is no way for officers of the prison service to know whether a person who has been arrested is likely to engage in either action, according to Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels.

Dear Editor, Monday, 9th December will mark a decade of the Russian-controlled Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) not wanting to deal with the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and we will not relent.

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Thursday arrested a West Coast Demerara resident, who along with three others, who are yet to be arrested, were said to have been in possession over 68 pounds of cannabis.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s fit-again seamer James Anderson has been included in their 17-man test squad for the four-match tour of South Africa starting on Dec.

The rainy season is here once again in the 592. And with it has come the common cold and the flu.

UNNAO, India (Reuters) – A 23-year-old rape victim set on fire by a gang of men, which included her alleged rapists, has died in a New Delhi hospital, prompting protests from opposition leaders who blamed the ruling party for failing to check incidents of violence against women.

Dear Editor, We are now approaching one year since the shooting in my home.

2019 has almost come to an end and the usual hustle bustle of the holiday season has begun.

A resident of Georgetown is currently in the custody of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) after he was caught trying to smuggle a quantity of narcotics into the country on Friday.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley yesterday accepted, on behalf of her regional colleagues, space in an ultra-modern business complex in Nairobi, Kenya, to be the home of a joint diplomatic mission.

President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Wayne Forde is set to travel to Zurich, Switzerland to be a part of a several high profile FIFA meetings with Director of Member Association Veron Mosenga-Omba and the General Secretary Fatima Samoura.

MADRID (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – With young climate activists taking to the streets of Madrid on Friday, the U.N.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Two indigenous men, members of the Guajajara tribe in northeastern Brazil, were shot dead yesterday, and two others were hurt, not far from where a prominent tribesman who defended the Amazon rainforest was also killed last month, authorities said.

In 1987, then President Desmond Hoyte introduced the Guyana Prize for Literature.

Organiser James Lewis’s novelty event, the bat your own ball tapeball competition will get underway from 9am today at the Durban Park Tarmac.

The police in Region One (Barima-Waini) have launched an investigation into an alleged pirate attack in the Waini River on Friday morning during which a group of fishermen were robbed.

Global malaria eradication efforts should focus on children and pregnant women to fight the most persistent pockets of the disease, a World Health Organization (WHO) report has urged.

GTT’s Anthony Drayton avenged a recent defeat by Wendell Meusa to take the Berbice Chess Association’s one-day, rapid chess tournament last Sunday.

Last Update: 591.91                             Movement: 0.89% Current Update” 597.91                       YTD Movement: 15.99%                                       LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.89 percent during the first period of trading in December 2019.

Introduction At the start of 2019, I had set about the long task of portraying for this series of columns the systematic delineation of a strategic road map for both the “getting and spending” of Guyana’s expected Government Take, arising from its fast-emerging oil and gas sector.

Sugar Sugar workers in countrywide strike for pay hikes: Over 3,000 sugar workers across the country began a strike last week for increased wages, which they have not been granted over the past five years as a result of what they believe is clear discrimination.

With the Conservative Party polling at 42 per cent and the Labour Party at 32 per cent, the results on December 12 appear to be a likely Conservative Party victory.

Dear Editor, In my opinion, the tragedy we see unfolding between the government, the opposition, NICIL and the Guyana Sugar Corporation, is like watching a train wreck happen in slow motion.

By what values should we strive to live in order to achieve a community in which differences are accommodated, a community where there is diversity of discourse but a recognition of the common good regardless of politics, religion, race and personal beliefs?

MADRID (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Marshall Islands has challenged all 184 countries with a national climate action plan under the 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming to join a social media campaign to say they will strengthen that plan in 2020.

Sometimes things seem to happen in pairs.  Right now, for instance, we are going through a tempestuous time in Guyana with a range of voices and concerns connected with the country’s looming development as a producer of oil, with the back and forth an almost daily experience. 

Currently, campaign financing in Guyana is regulated by the Representation of the People Act.,