Daily Archive: Sunday, March 1, 2009

Dear Editor, In reference to your article dated February 26, 2009 captioned ‘Jagdeo: Protectionist steps major concern,’ it is a fact that protectionism is dangerous for the world economy and for small state economies in particular. Mr

– review As the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) begins restructuring to improve its “weak” tax administration, a recent study has proposed comprehensive reforms to strengthen enforcement and ensure greater compliance.

A 60-year-old man is now dead and another man seriously injured following a gruesome accident which occurred last evening on the Agricola Public Road.

Commissioner of Insurance ‘acting in best interest of policyholders’ The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance yesterday moved to clear the air on the CLICO Guyana issue, in the light of “misleading and misinformed comments currently being made on the matter…” In a press release issued through the Government Information Agency (GINA) yesterday, Com-missioner of Insurance Maria van Beek noted that as regulator of the insurance sector, the commissioner has a responsibility to act in the interest of the long-term stability and strength of the sector and in particular in the interest of policyholders and the public.

Three men are in police custody in connection with Thursday’s murder/robbery at D’Urban Backlands in which a 76-year-old UK-based Guyanese was beaten in the head before being strangled to death.

The Caricom Single Economy has suffered within the past year because of an inertia that has virtually suspended the programme even as the region confronts a global crisis, former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur has said.

Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn on Friday cautioned persons against rushing to the banks to withdraw their money as this could trigger a similar situation as obtained in the United States and other countries where banks had failed.

PNCR leader Robert Corbin is denying holding talks with party executive Dr Aubrey Armstrong to facilitate a transfer of leadership.

After coming second to Shellon ‘Shelly G’ Garraway in this year’s Carib Soca Monarch competition, Melissa ‘Vanilla’ Roberts bounced back to take the 2009 Road March title with her song “Rude”.

Thirteen people were arrested yesterday when the police conducted raids at Bare Root and Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara.

Youmun Nabi, the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad, will be celebrated on March 10, which will be a national holiday.

A police officer was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing a broken leg, following an accident that took place shortly after 2:30 pm yesterday.

A 38-year-old Jamaican national is under guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was held at the airport on the suspicion that he had ingested cocaine in the form of pellets.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds fielded several questions on Tuesday last about the budgetary allotments set aside for the Guyana Elections Commissions (GECOM), as the National Assembly was resolved into a committee of supply to discuss the particulars of the 2009 Budget.

Minister of Local Govern-ment Kellawan Lall told the National Assembly last week that the construction of the new landfill site at Haags Bosch during this year will result in the partial closure of the Mandela landfill site.

Pegasus Hotel Guyana has appointed a new executive chef. Paul Hamilton who was born in Scotland and schooled in England where he obtained his diploma in Hotel and Culinary studies, has been appointed to the post, the hotel said in a press release.

If a loss of public moneys should occur and, at the time of that loss, a Minister or official has caused or contributed to that loss through misconduct or through deliberate or serious disregard of reasonable standards of care, that Minister or official shall be personally liable to the Government for the amount of the loss.

By Andres Oppenheimer When I told a friend from Latin America recently that I had just seen a new movie called Slumdog Millionaire, he looked at me as if I were living in the Stone Age − he had seen it a long time ago, on a pirated DVD.

Recession proof! The grimness of the global economic environment is so intense that those who shout “make-believe” economics will sooner, rather than later as the saying goes: “have to eat their words.”

(Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) The global order is changing. 

At Kensington Oval The evidence has been growing for some time and the flaws so starkly exposed at Kensington yesterday provided further proof that Test cricket’s latest technological innovation, the umpires’ referral system, is an experiment that needs urgent review, even scrapping altogether.

The world is bankrupt. The Great Regulator in the Sky for some good reason has put His people everywhere into receivership and the impact will be more devastating and more universal than the Flood.

– becomes first Guyanese to sign MLS contract Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson became the first Guyana to land a contract in the USA’s Major League Soccer (MLS) after landing a deal with the Colorado Rapids on Friday last.

The year 2009 has seen the very important return of The Link Show to the Guyanese stage. 

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors badly need a win to boost their FIFA World Cup qualifying hopes but history does not favour a successful outing against the USA in their CONCACAF showdown tonight.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A combative President Barack  Obama warned yesterday he was bracing for a fight against  powerful lobbyists and special interests who sought to pick  apart the $3.55 trillion budget he wants to advance his agenda  of reform.

The 2009 Rifle Shooting programme will fire off today with a Record Shoot  at the Timehri Rifle Ranges as local shooters prepare to defend the Caribbean Fullbore championships  in three months time in  Trinidad and Tobago.

Last quarterfinal to be decided tonight The first round of the annual Mayor’s Cup Competition concludes tonight with what promises to be a thrilling double header at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground with the victors advancing to meet each other in the quarterfinals.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez yesterday sent troops to temporarily take over rice  processing plants in the South American nation, his toughest  move against industry since a referendum win this month.

The end of February saw the heaviest snowfalls in England for 18years, and there is more to come.

Athletes will invade the Police Sports Club ground at Eve Leary today when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AGG) sanctioned third and final Development Meet of 2009 gets underway with a scheduled 10:30am start.

Continued Cataracts If the lens of the eye loses its transparency, for whatever reason, one can speak of a cataract. 

KHAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani forces have  defeated Islamist militants in a strategically important region  on the Afghan border and expect to clear militants out of other  areas by the end of the year, a commander said yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – British banking giant HSBC  will try to raise $18 billion to quell investor concerns as a  worsening global economy punished famed investor Warren  Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway with a 96 per cent plunge in  profits.

Rain had the final say on the opening day of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Castrol sponsored Inter-county Under-15 cricket competition at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground in Essequibo yesterday.

A weekly column by Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc By Dr Balwant Singh Jr Perhaps the principal reason male menopause has never been in the public spotlight is because men who experience the characteristic decline in virility during middle age are reluctant or even unwilling to acknowledge the condition.

The winners of the National Sports Commission junior singles competition were presented with their prizes on Friday at the Queen’s College Auditorium.

The Obama era Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.

So the global financial turmoil has finally reached these shores. If the government really believed all those reassuring words they have been plying us with all this time, they should now be in a state of total shock.

On February 14, Parliament Office published an invitation to the public for written and oral submissions on the ‘Impact of Global Food Price Increases.’

(Trinidad Guardian) The US company which sold 6,000 acres of land in Florida to British American has sued the insurance company, a subsidiary of the beleaguered CL Financial group, to recover US$38.2 million in a move which could end with the lender owning British American Trinidad.

Dear Editor, Following the order by Chief Justice Ian Chang appointing Ms Maria Van Beek, the Commissioner of Insurance as Judicial Manager of the Clico Life and General Insurance Company (SA) Inc, Ram & McRae has been receiving enquiries from a range of persons who have various types of relationships with the company.

Grove Hi Tech maintains unbeaten run Only one of three scheduled matches was contested when the Fruta East Bank Football Association Under-13 league competition resumed yesterday at the Grove ground.