Daily Archive: Friday, November 12, 2010

President Bharrat Jagdeo today visited the railway embankment at Plaisance to survey the area earmarked for a market tarmac.

Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud today commissioned a state of the art kiln drying facility at Land of Plenty, Essequibo.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Soldiers are hunting a  12-year-old suspected drug gang hitman accused of helping wage  a gruesome turf war in central Mexico, a state prosecutor and  Mexican media said yesterday.

The police this afternoon said that resulting from diligent investigations a team of ranks and officials from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) searched a Ruimveldt fish plant and found fuel markers that were stolen during a robbery at the GEA’s Quamina Street office recently.

-Commonwealth group Strong parliamentary action to air grievances and expose bad government is required to prevent or resolve serious conflicts that destabilize entire nations, according to representatives from eight Commonwealth Parliaments including Guyana.

Hello, I am a Guyanese living in Venezuela and I am looking for my family.

Guyanese/Canadian professor and biomaterials expert Dr. Suresh Narine has been awarded a CDN $3 million Senior Industrial Research Chair in Biomaterials at Trent University , from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada along with Elevance Renewable Sciences Incorporated and the Grain Farmers of Ontario.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc today said it is “extremely disturbed” by reports from retailers, who are alleging that they are being forced to pay an increase for bagged sugar by a wholesaler.

New Chairman of the Medical Council of Guyana, Dr Sheik Amir says that a full probe will have to be conducted into sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud as the council was unaware of his US conviction.

Businessman and host of the Eye on the Issues programme Yesu Persaud has apologised to Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud over a statement made on the November 7 programme by businessman Peter Ramsaroop.

By Wilberne Persaud Financial Gleaner Columnist (Jamaica Gleaner) In Georgetown, Guyana, I take a moment to contemplate what I have seen and experienced these last few days.

The New York Post says a Trinidadian bank worker has filed a discrimination lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase on Liberty Avenue, Queens NY following a series of incidents including an alleged taunt by her Guyanese superior that Trinis are lazy compared to Guyanese “You come to the land of opportunity and then you have to face discrimination,” Trinidad native Shivana Persad, 26, told The Post.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday denied that journalist Fazeer Mohammed was fired from State-owned Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG).

(Barbados Nation) The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has moved a step closer to finding a full-time team manager.

PNCR executive Winston Murray was up to 9 pm listed as critical with a poor prognosis and remains  on respiratory life support at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

Government was yesterday unable to provide details on a fund which was to be set up since 2006 for royalties accruing to indigenous peoples from mining activities on their lands.

Police officers yesterday afternoon fired shots at a fleeing prisoner outside of the Camp Street prison, wounding him and a bystander and raising questions about the way they reacted.

-murder warrant out for Mark Gobin On Saturday a man reportedly dealt a carpenter a beating following an argument and then took the injured man to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and left him.

-Ramjattan floats ministerial code The National Assembly unanimously approved the first set of written rules for the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) yesterday to guide the conduct of officers, among other provisions.

The Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers Union (GPTWU) says it has notified the Ministry of Labour of its intention to pursue industrial action if outstanding matters affecting its membership at the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) are not resolved.

The newly-elected members of the Medical Council of Guyana were up to press time in a meeting and one of the items up for discussion was the granting of a licence to Dr Vishwamintra Persaud to practice locally even though he is a convicted child sex felon whose New York licence was revoked late in 2008.

A driver and attendant were injured after the brakes of the ambulance they were in stopped working and collided with a truck on the East Coast Highway yesterday around 11 am.

The Golden Grove Primary school has finally received a much needed water pump following two days of protest action by parents.

Berbice continued their dominance over the Rest Team on day two of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Senior Four-Day tournament at the Blairmont Community Centre ground by securing a 190-run first innings lead yesterday.

Upper Demerara/Kwakwani (District 10) rallied to the number one position in the Boys Under-12 High Jump and the Boys Under-16 Javelin competitions of the 50th Annual National Schools Track and Field, Cycling and Swimming Championships at the Providence National Stadium yesterday.

“A significant amount of overpayments” to private contractors recruited to undertake works on behalf of state agencies, breaches of Stores Regulations, failure by Ministerial Tender Boards to comply with the requirements of the Procurement Act (2003) and a preponderance of “bogus” receipts and vouchers documented in the Auditor General’s 2009 Report point to “possible collusion between private contractors and people in government agencies” to defraud the public treasury, according to an Audit Office source.

A Canadian consultant with more than 40 years experience in the international wine-making industry has praised the efforts of local wine-maker Warren Douglas and his Pandama brand, describing the wines manufactured from a range of local fruit as “having the potential to be world class” products.

The recently released Auditor General’s Report for 2009 reads – as it customarily does like a corruption catalogue.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s deep cover  U.S. spying operations has betrayed the network and defected, a  Russian paper said yesterday, potentially giving the West one of  its biggest intelligence coups since the end of the Cold War.    The newspaper, Kommersant, identified the man as Colonel  Shcherbakov and said he was responsible for unmasking a Russian  spy ring in the United States in June whose arrests humiliated  Moscow and clouded a “reset” in ties with Washington.  

Already a record holder, Michael Walcott yesterday chronicled another in the male teachers 21 – 30 javelin throw when he cleared a distance of 48.87m to win the category in the National Schools’ Championships currently being held at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Not a ball was bowled in the tour match between Sri Lanka Cricket President’s XI and West Indies yesterday due to rain.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki was  re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious  politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of  renewed sectarian warfare.  

Dear Editor, With this belated reply I am fortunately able to answer both Jorge Bowen-Forbes’ first letter (Guyana Chronicle October 22), and his second (‘An enjoyable show with confusing results’ Stabroek News November 6), re “a recently judged competition” at the National Gallery – this being our 8th Biennial National Drawing Competition – his recent effort containing even more outrageous inaccuracies of ‘fact’ than the first.

Bank Chairman hints at ‘expanded network of branches’ Demerara Bank Ltd is reporting a “very good” performance for the year ended September 30th, 2010 and the Bank’s Chairman, Yesu Persaud is citing the bank’s approach and its “greater understanding of the changes in the world of finance” as some of the contributory factors to its success.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – The Group of 20 laboured to agree  how to put the world economy on a sounder footing yesterday  as fears about Ireland’s ability to pay its debts underscored  lingering fallout from the global financial crisis.  

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – An inexplicable batting collapse condemned West Indies-A to a 71-run defeat in the second One-day match against Pakistan-A yesterday.

Dear Editor, On reading your news story, ‘Fraudulent Gecom $25M contract creates uproar at PAC,’ (November 10), I couldn’t help getting the impression that there may be a concerted effort to push back the 2011 elections. 

DUBAI, (Reuters Life!) – Forget the henna and flashy  jewellery, the latest accessory trend for the fashion-conscious  party-goer in Dubai is a temporary tattoo made of real gold.  

Last October, Starr Computers opened the doors of its new Business Centre and the company’s General Manager Rehman Majeed says that its primary objective is to equip small and growing businesses to enhance their operational procedures and, by extension, their efficiency and competitiveness.

High Jump athlete Shakeem Gentle set a new record for the boys under 16 category when he cleared a height of 180cm in the National Schools’ Championships held at the Guyana National Stadium on Wednesday.

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Dear Editor, I wish to reply to a notice published in the Stabroek News (November 8) and Kaieteur News sent by the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A cat’s delicate lapping  does not scoop up water but uses inertia to create kind of a  backward waterfall, U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The death toll in  Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed yesterday, reaching 800,  according to a U.S.

A training model for owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) developed and successfully applied by EMPRETEC-Guyana in communities across the country is to be shared with small business representatives from several countries when UNCTAD/EMPRETEC stages its 2010 Inter-national Directors Meeting in Brasilia later this month.

North Georgetown District 11 is the indisputable winner in the swimming segment of the National Schools’ Championships held on Tuesday at the Castellani Swimming Pool.

(Barbados Nation) A delinquent court system. That’s how the Barbados Bar Association described the justice system in Barbados in a stinging letter sent to the Acting Chief Justice Sherman Moore earlier this week.

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to some points made in a letter by M Maxwell published in SN under the title ‘Both the PNC and PPP belong in the same boat’ (November 11).

-Boxing for recognition and reward Frankly Speaking…     Away with issues of crime, HIV-AIDS, traffic accidents and fires!

Membership The Guyana Stock Exchange opened for business in July 2003 and by November 8, 2010, it had completed 381 trading sessions. 

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Oscar-winning Italian film  producer Dino De Laurentiis, a master movie showman who brought  some 500 films to the big screen including “La Strada,”  “Serpico,” and “Three Days of the Condor,” has died at age 91.    The producer of Italian classics such as Federico Fellini’s  “La Strada,” for which he won an Oscar, and Hollywood fare such  as “Barbarella” and a “King Kong” remake, died at his Beverly  Hills home late on Wednesday night, surrounded by his family.  

MEMPHIS, (Reuters) – The Dallas Mavericks rode the  hot shooting of Jason Terry to pull away from the Memphis  Grizzlies in a 106-91 victory on Wednesday.    Terry scored a game-high 25 points and made 11 of 16 shots  as the Mavericks (5-2) improved to 3-0 on the road for the  first time since they won seven straight away from home to  start the 2002-03 NBA season. 

Just a couple of months ago, a group of individuals called the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Committee, held an event in Trinidad, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Frank Worrell becoming the first long-term black captain of the West Indies cricket team.