Daily Archive: Friday, September 11, 2009

Members of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) last Friday swooped on the New Line Aquaculture Farm at Canal Number Two and conducted exercises which resulted in them seizing an undocumented boat and three vehicles.

Five persons, including three stepchildren of US-based Guyanese, Motilall Singh appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged in relation to his murder and they were remanded to prison.

Three more men said to be involved in the kidnapping of Mahaicony rice farmer Parasaram Ramnarace and an employee on Wednesday, have been arrested.

A probe has been launched into a fire yesterday morning which completely destroyed a three-storey building at Plantain Walk, Pouderoyen which housed the Education and Probation Office of the Ministry of Education as well as other government departments.

A tip which police received yesterday that the body of missing US-based Guyanese Kwame Rumel Jobronewet was buried in the Friendship backdam, East Coast Demerara fell through as their excavation of a section of the area bore no fruit.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said the issue involving 50 Mormons here without permits could have been “better handled” as there was no need for the missionaries to be rounded up and taken into custody even though the police had a right to do so.

Protestors led by the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) continued to picket yesterday outside of the Brickdam office of Education Minister Shaik Baksh, calling for the confirmation of the current Acting Chief Education Officer (CEO), Genevieve Whyte-Nedd.

The delivery of health care in the East La Penitence area and its environs was given a shot in the arm yesterday with the opening of a US$35,000 health centre which was built through a partnership between the government and the US-based New Horizons Guyana programme.

–ranked at 101 of 183 countries in World Bank report Guyana ranked 101 out of 183 economies surveyed in this year’s Doing Business report, the seventh in a series of annual reports prepared under the auspices of the World Bank.

-court told A 32-year-old man, who allegedly obtained $1.5M from a woman by purporting to be in a position to obtain two US student visas for her, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Government is backing the recent decision by the Police Service Commission to dismiss former Police Superintendent Simon Mc Bean, calling it most reasonable and predictable.

A Guyanese woman accused of wounding a man in Barbados had the charge against her dismissed on Tuesday, but was subsequently handed over to immigration authorities.

A 20-year-old Brazilian man, who allegedly conspired with others to forge a Brazilian passport, was yesterday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Amelia’s Ward, Linden will soon be home to a new $5 million police station, a project to be undertaken by the Linden Police Station Management Committee (LPSMC).

It seems as though Guyana’s heavyweight champion Mitchell Rogers has finally found an opponent who is not worried about his hard hitting ability and more so his size.

Everest and the Guyana National Industrial Corpora-tion cricket teams will clash from today in the final of the Cellink Plus Cup first division three day cricket competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is inviting applications for Wushu martial arts training.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Regional cricket chief Julian Hunte said Tuesday indiscipline and player accountability were two of the “severe” challenges facing West Indies cricket.

`There is no way Test cricket is dying.Twenty20 cricket is the dessert and you can’t survive on that.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has identified November as a possible date for the realization of the Cricket Stakeholders’ Council, a body which will function in an advisory capacity to the region’s governing body for the sport.

…but final touches being held up by City Council cash woes More than four months after the May scheduled opening of the new Water Street Vendors Arcade neither the Georgetown City Council nor the occupants of the ‘new look’ facility can say with any degree of certainty when the formal ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place.

More than $500m needed for creation of fundMore than three years after the establishment of the Guyana Small Business Council (GSBC) under the Small Business Act of 2004, the Council is yet to accomplish even a small measure of the functions for which it was set up and which are regarded as crucial to the charting of a course for the country’s small business sector.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Former West Indies batsman Keith Arthurton does not believe the region’s top coaching post should be given to another non-West Indian.

Constraints to the growth of Guyana’s art and craft industry  have, over the years, included lack of access to funding for capacity building, scarcity of raw materials and weak and largely ineffective international marketing.

Parks and Primo steal spotlight Peter Parks and Manessah Primo played vital roles for the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Fruta Conquerors as they led their teams to victory in the latest double header of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus Premier League on Wednesday at the Tucville playfield.

Dear Editor, On March 6 and 10, 1778 the first Great Durbar of Indians was held at Fort Island between Amerindian and government representatives.

-DCC throws down gauntlet to Floodlights XI They have made their names in the traditional form of the game but tonight fans will be able to see whether they can transform their success at hardball cricket to the softer version.

Decline in Dollar Reports emanating from the global financial circles on Wednesday September 9, 2009 revealed that the value of the US dollar had fallen against the currencies of its major economic partners. 

Two teenaged boys, one charged with the murder of a man at Norton Street, Werk-en-Rust last Saturday and the other charged with aiding and abetting the murder, were both remanded to prison shortly after they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Twenty-eight-year-old Ronaldo Faria of David Street, Kitty, was on Wednesday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly converting money given to him by a man for the purchase of a four-wheel All Terrain Vehicle (ATV), to his own use.

McGill Superstars continue to star in the West Demerara zone of the Hand-in-Hand limited overs knockout competition.

Dear Editor, I have said all there is to be said, in previous letters, on the subject of Mavado performing in Guyana. 

Brian Persaud, IT Engineer – itbrian@gmail.ccom Gerhard Ramsaroop, Manager, GuyanaNet – gerhard.ramsaroop@gmail.ccom

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Europe could pay poor  countries up to 15 billion euros ($22 billion) a year by 2020 to  persuade them to help battle climate change, the European  Union’s executive arm said yesterday.

-looking to expand to city With $20,000 and a strong determination to become self-employed, a clothing and accessory designer earned himself the nickname ‘travelling salesman’ – and learnt that success is achievable through focus.

LONDON, England, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul slammed his second century in three matches for Durham and the 50th hundred of his first class career, as he continued to revel in heavy run-scoring form away from West Indies duty.

Dear Editor, I am not in the habit of writing letters to the press but occasionally, just occasionally, one sees an item which makes a response imperative.

A thirty-four-year-old man was granted bail on Wednesday in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a chainsaw from his employer.

How to optimize production and productivity through the enhancement of human resource capacity is arguably the most compelling preoccupation of the vocational education curriculum in Guyana.

-paper WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Iran has proposed a global  system to eliminate nuclear weapons, as well as cooperation on  Afghanistan and fighting terrorism, but will not discuss  halting its uranium enrichment programme, an Iranian official was  quoted as saying yesterday.

Dear Editor, US, World and Olympic medalist, Allison Felix’s photo was posted in your September 9 issue of the sports section when it should have been the image of Jamaican Veronica Campbell Brown.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Wednesday ordered that a 38-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly being found with a quantity of cannabis in his possession at the Berbice bus park for the purpose of trafficking.

Scotia Bank as a corporate entity showed support to the Guyana Tape Ball League when they handed over an undisclosed amount of money to the organizers of the inaugural ‘The Companies’ 10/10 cricket tournament which will be played this weekend at the GNS and NIS grounds.

Funding, training, marketing key agenda items Local art and craft producers are upbeat about the prospects for the outcome of the September 18 national art and craft ‘summit’ where they plan to mount a lobby for a significantly increased   measure of both public and private sector support for the industry.

Nineteen-year-old Wilford Heyligar, whose body was found in a trench in North Ruimveldt last Sunday morning, died as a result of drowning even though his body bore a gunshot wound to the face.

Dear Editor, The residents of Strathspey, Area ‘G,’ East Coast Demerara have not been receiving water through their pipes since July 2009 and there seem to be no answers coming forth from the management of the GWI Melanie office.

BARVIKHA, Russia, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President  Hugo Chavez cemented a closer alliance with Russia yesterday,  recognising two pro-Russian rebel regions of Georgia as  independent and securing arms supplies and loans in return.

Touted as one of the prime favourites to win the inaugural Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports nationwide inter-block basketball tournament, Central Mackenzie crushed Watooka/Richmond Hill 91-52 when the tournament continued at the Mackenzie hard court on Wednesday.

A Linden man who was incarcerated since 2007 facing a murder charge ran out of the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court after being freed by Magistrate Ann McLennan on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, The PNCR says it relationship with the American created Mormon Church is one that helps the destitute in Guyanese society.

Some of the country’s top tapeball players will be in action this weekend in the Guyana Tapeball League in collaboration with the Guyana Softball League inaugural companies ten/10 tapeball tournament.

-some wary of gov’t role in successor body Linden entrepreneurs say they have been set back by the halt in Linden Economic Advancement Fund (LEAF) disbursements and there is also concern that the government’s lead role in the successor body will work against free enterprise.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Scores of tax officials  raided Argentina’s biggest newspaper yesterday, intensifying a  fierce battle between the government and one of Latin America’s  largest media groups.

(Antigua Sun) – An aspiring politician and another man have appeared before the court on charges relating to a sexual offence.

Consul ‘murdered’ in Jamaica Police in Jamaica say a British honorary consul has been found dead at his home in Montego Bay, the victim of an apparent murder.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 320’s trading results showed consideration of $1,338,942 from 33,906 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 319 which showed consideration of $617,059 from 25,509 shares traded in 8 transactions. 

Dear Editor, It does not have to be this way. But who cares?

As the de facto regime in Honduras battens down the hatches in the face of international opprobrium, refusing to yield in its opposition to the return of President Manuel Zelaya, and presses ahead with the presidential elections scheduled for November 29, it appears that the rest of the hemisphere is gathering itself for another effort aimed at the restoration of constitutional order in that country.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal will come  face-to-face with swashbuckling Chilean Fernando Gonzalez in a  quarter-final contest at the U.S.

Lee Marvin Hales, 33, of no fixed place of abode was on Wednesday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on a larceny charge.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered how  bacteria fend off a wide range of antibiotics, and blocking  that defense mechanism could give existing antibiotics more  power to fight dangerous infections.

-Or guilty by association? Frankly Speaking Just a (seemingly) trivial query from me to you about those who can impact upon our daily lives.