Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

A World Bank team is here to engage stakeholders and determine whether Guyana is sufficiently ready to initiate an active phase of preparation that would enable it to receive financial incentives from the international community to reduce deforestation.

-Ramotar says may just be mischief A group calling itself the Guyanese Coalition For Jagdeo Third Term (GCFJTT) has been campaigning for a third term for President Bharrat Jagdeo by distributing flyers and buttons amid growing public concerns that a move may be afoot to amend the constitution to remove term limits.

A Guyanese man who claims he fled to Canada a decade ago to escape assaults on his family by persons affiliated with the PNC has been refused a judicial review of an order for his removal that was made a year ago. 

$5.5m snatched A Bloomfield, Corentyne woman is nursing severe head and body injuries after four bandits converged on her home around 6 pm on Sunday, terrorized her family and carted off over $5.5 million in cash and jewellery.

Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) and subsidiary TCL Guyana Inc. (TGI) yesterday filed an application in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) against the Guyana government requesting the CCJ to hold this country in contempt of court for failing to implement the Common External Tariff (CET) on cement from non-CARICOM sources as ordered by the court.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington told a business forum in Mexico last Friday that Mexicans establishing a business in any CARICOM Single Market and Economy member state would benefit from some key elements of the CSME.

Private Sector Commission Chairman Gerry Gouveia on Monday called for the “full brunt of the law” to be applied to private sector employers who neglect to remit National Insurance Scheme (NIS) funds deducted from their employees’ pay to the Scheme.   

The Ministry of Agriculture’s export diversification programme was given a $190M shot in the arm with the signing yesterday of a contract aimed at developing the health and food safety services of the Ministry.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) is currently strengthening its response capacity through the procurement of additional fire tenders and equipment and training for its staff.

Marking 33 years since  73 persons including 11 Guyanese were killed in the Cubana air disaster, the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Guyana yesterday reiterated the call for those culpable to be brought to justice.

The state-of-the-art Doppler Weather Radar facility at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri which is expected to significantly boost the capacity of the Guyana Hydrometeorological Service, was officially commissioned on Monday.

-five without shelter A storm swept across the Yarrowkabra community on the Linden/Soesdyke High-way on Monday felling trees, fences and a house which was occupied by a single-parent and her four children.

The three bullet-riddled and degutted bodies found last week were yesterday morning exhumed and DNA samples taken after which relatives were allowed to perform final rites before they were reburied.

A 50-year-old security guard attached to the RK’s security firm who allegedly had a quantity of cannabis in his possession was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Forty-year-old Gopaul Tiwari of 73 Second Street, Craig Village, East Bank Demerara was remanded to prison last Friday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly obtaining over $400,000 from a woman under the pretext that he could import a car for her.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) recently held an appreciation ceremony to honour persons who contributed to the building fund for its North Road, Bourda office.

A 37-year-old farmer who allegedly stole a motor car valued $2M was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A rice farmer accused of making a false statement in order to acquire a passport was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Five officers attached to the Ministry of Labour (MoL) are in Barbados for a week-long attachment, as the ministry strives to strengthen the capacity of its labour department by exposing labour officers to various training programmes and seminars overseas.

The National Trust of Guyana opened Heritage Week 2009 with a pictorial exhibition on Monday at the Guyana National Museum.

De Abreau, Greene grab sprint doubles By Marlon Munroe Tutorial High School (THS), in its 70th year, saw B House, formerly Bynoe House, retaining its title after a two-year wait from defending champions E House at the Eve Leary Ground yesterday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Serena Williams returned to the  top of the world with a routine win at the China Open yesterday  but Andy Roddick and Jelena Jankovic plumbed the depths when  their title defences ended in their opening matches.  

HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Fidel Edwards believes the West Indies tour of Australia next month could represent a fresh start for the regional side.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A convicted drug smuggler gave envelopes stuffed with cash to former South African police chief Jackie Selebi and bought expensive handbags for his wife  and secretary, a court was told yesterday.  

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Health officials have isolated 10 members of San Juan Jabloteh suspected of contracting the H1N1 (swine flu) virus while on club duty in the CONCACAF Champions League last month.

Britany van Lange broke a total of four records at the weekend’s Inter-Club Distance Meet hosted each year by the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA).

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – A pioneer in fibre optics and  two scientists who figured out how to turn light into electronic  signals — work that paved the way for the Internet age — were  awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics yesterday.

North Essequibo, Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB), Albion Community Centre and Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) will all be in action today when the national semi-final of the Neal and Massy first division 40-over club tournament bowls off.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea yesterday signaled it  could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead  six months ago, but a report it was near restoring its atomic  plant underlined the secretive state would keep the stakes  high.  

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Golf and rugby sevens are  eyeing the pot of gold at the end of the Olympic rainbow, hoping  the International Olympic Committee will admit them to the Games  on Friday.  

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Diego Maradona, unhappy  with interference in his job as Argentina coach, will review  his position after their final World Cup qualifier away to  Uruguay in Montevideo next week, he said yesterday.  

Dear Editor, I am truly troubled by the caption and contents of a letter which appeared in the SN of September 9, which read ‘There should be a civilian review board for all police killings.’

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – The United States, criticized  for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run  jails, yesterday announced plans to convert hotels to detain  some noncriminal immigrants.  

Dear Editor, I wonder whether, if Mr R Ravie Ramcharitar had understood the terms “benefit from” and “subsidized,” he would have written a letter (‘The Guyana Times competes in an open market for advertising, including government advertising’ SN, September 30 ), so laced with misplaced venom and ill-advised reasoning.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rookie James Johnson’s last second  basket lifted the Chicago Bulls to a 102-101 pre-season win over  the Utah Jazz in London and overshadowed British-born Luol  Deng’s homecoming yesterday.  

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Police in Uganda have arrested  one of the four most wanted suspects from Rwanda’s 1994  genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, after he entered the country by  bus last week from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.  

Pupils at a primary school in the southern county of Cork  are being asked to bring their own toilet paper to school to  help save money, one of the starkest examples yet of the death  of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” economy.  

Dear Editor, Guyana is a plantation. Yes, it is the twenty-first century and many years removed from the past, but a closer look at the realities of today provides irrefutable parallels to a once harsh and bitter time that no amount of present-day mythmaking can dissipate or overcome.

Dear Editor, The September issue of the Guyana Review carried two intellectually stimulating articles entitled ‘Bharrat Jagdeo and the future of the PPP’ and ‘Robert Corbin and the future of the PNC.’

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss authorities rejected yesterday an appeal by lawyers for Roman Polanski, arrested in  September after fleeing America in 1978 from an underage sex  charge, to release the film director from prison.

Nicholas Ali opened up the first day of action at the Queen’s College Badminton Courts when he defeated Dwayne Edward during the QC Annual Lower and Upper School Boys and Girls Singles Tournament which commenced on October 5.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Bookmak-ers’ favourite Hilary  Mantel won the coveted Man Booker Prize yesterday for the  historical novel “Wolf Hall”, edging out her nearest rival by  three votes to two in the final phase of judging. 

Dear Editor, Both Guysuco and the MMA/ADA are government holdings. The President of GAWU is a PPP/C member of parliament and is on the Guysuco board; the General Secretary of the PPP/C is also a member of the board.

(Trinidad Guardian) The “underground economy” in T&T from illicit operations is valued at TT$60 billion, according to two-year old estimates by the Royal Bank, UNC Senator Wade Mark said on Monday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – WBA light-welterweight champion  Amir Khan will make the first defence of his title against  unbeaten Dmitriy Salita in Newcastle on Dec.

Last week’s editorial on this theme focused on the meetings that took place among the traditional post-war powers and their partners among the emerging economic powers, leading significantly to a reconstitution of the G8 into a G20.

Taylor, 77, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure  five years ago and also has endured severe back problems and a  benign brain tumor operation.

Dear Editor, Cell-phone manufacturers should devise a way to avoid cell-phone users from transferring cash from the cell phones of others to theirs.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The NBA is opening at least five  new international offices, including around three in Africa by  2012, NBA Commissioner David Stern said yesterday.  

(Barbados Nation) The centuries old tradition of preliminary inquiries as a precursor to High Court trials could soon be a thing of the past.