Articles published on Thursday, August 18, 2011
President Bharrat Jagdeo today approved a grant of $10 million to the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) to support its activities to mark the International Year for People of African Descent (IYPAD), the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
A father and son were brutally hacked to death at Konawak, Region Eight yesterday and a police team has been dispatched to the area to investigate.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Rising fears of another recession hammered U.S.
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has agreed to accept a 5% pay raise for sugar workers, retroactive to January 1st, 2011, in light of GuySuCo’s “cash-strapped” state, which includes over $6B in debts.
APNU’s presidential candidate David Granger this morning called for an independent and impartial inquiry to probe the alleged links between senior policemen and drug lords, saying that the police cannot be depended on to investigate themselves.
(Trinidad Express) It’s official! All-rounders Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo will not represent Trinidad and Tobago at the 2011 Nokia Champions League T20 tournament in India in September.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad is in the middle of a dengue outbreak, Dr Rai Ragbir, the chairman of a special purpose State-board involved in the Government’s fight against dengue, has said.
(Barbados Nation) Opposition leader Owen Arthur has taken Minister of Finance Christopher Sinckler to task for his silence on the “CLICO matter”.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname will receive a hospital as a gift from China.
(Barbados Nation) About 50 people from 13 community-based organizations staged a pro-Libya demonstration yesterday and denounced Britain and the United States for their involvement in the conflict in the North African state.
AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that alleged links between senior policemen and drug lords is an extremely dangerous development that warrants the resignation of the Minister of Home Affairs, the Commissioner of Police and all ranks involved.
The discovery of 72 kilogrammes of cocaine at a house at Block 20 Haslington/Enmore New Scheme, East Coast Demerara has shocked residents, who said the couple that has been arrested had been struggling to make ends meet and there was no indication of illegal activity.
The battered body of a 64-year-old security guard was yesterday morning found at his work site at Providence, East Bank Demerara.
Government’s ramped up support to farmers under Phase Two of the Grow More Food campaign will not solve all the problems in agriculture but hopefully make the sector more resilient to challenges, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud has said.
Several members of the police force hierarchy are under investigation as a result of allegations of ties between them and the drug trade and police yesterday confirmed that a junior officer has tendered his resignation after being transferred following questioning.
Lowell Hope and Sherlund Joseph called ‘Rudolph’ who are accused of murdering 19-year-old Kenny Creame at Monessee Backdam were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.
USAID-sponsored radio drama Merundoi returned to the airwaves of the National Communication Network (NCN) yesterday, but there has still been no official word on why the broadcast of the serial was abruptly suspended.
The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will pay all monies owed to Ronald Collins, the former sugar worker it declared dead after a mix up.
The police have issued a wanted bulletin for Kwame Crosse in connection with trafficking
Corentyne farmer Bernard Matheson, who was found dismembered on Monday, had been arrested but later released this year in connection with missing fisherman Ringo Hassan Bidasy.
The Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) intends to appoint approximately 22,000 local observers to monitor the upcoming General and Regional Elections, according to Project Director of the Bureau, Abbas Mancey.
More than three dozen persons lost their homes in an early morning fire on Lombard Street, in the city, which destroyed two buildings and five shacks yesterday.
The police have issued wanted bulletins for three persons in connection with fraud.
“Meh worship, I de trying to get a passage fuh go back to Berbice,” was the explanation given to Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton when she enquired from a man his reason for stealing four kitchen knives from Guyana Stores Limited.
A prisoner was yesterday morning stabbed by another inmate at the Camp Street jail and had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) where he was admitted.
Their inexperience showed but the national under-17 female footballers held on for a 1-1 draw against Curacao in their first match of the CONCACAF Under-17 World Cup Qualifiers at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground yesterday.
A 30-year-old security guard who is accused of unlawfully and maliciously wounding a woman was yesterday placed on $60,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus.
A man accused of trafficking in five grammes of cocaine was on Tuesday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has extended heartfelt congratulations to the Berbice Universal DVD Titans on being crowned champions of the inaugural Hits & Jams Jam Zone 20/20 Tournament.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall said on Tuesday that work to the Good Hope/Lusignan Bridge which recently came to a halt was due to the contract being withdrawn from Bovell Construction Company for substandard work, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
The Queensway-sponsored 2011 Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Open 50 overs Knockout Cricket competition was launched yesterday during a small ceremony at Value Maxx office on Regent Road and Oronoque Street, Bourda.
Dear Editor, Stabroek News of Tuesday 16 (p2) reports the Crime Chief as stating “We can’t charge without evidence.”
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica Under-19 coach Robert Samuels wants more limited overs cricket played in the country, if the side is to improve from their dismal showing in the WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day Championship in Guyana last week.
The Paradise, Bachelors Adventure and Melanie Damishana (PARBAMEL) Community Development Youth Group will host a week of activities to commemorate the 1823 Demerara slave revolt beginning August 20th.
A 22-year-old man accused of stealing his ex-girlfriend’s gold chain was yesterday admitted to $30,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England have already set new goals after reaching the coveted number one spot in the world rankings at the expense of India who face an unenviable task in the fourth test starting today.
Dear Editor, It is extremely annoying and painful for whole areas to be without a telephone service.
Fifty-five Grade Six students graduated from the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC)/Republic Bank training camp Monday last.
Dear Editor, I have been working at Toolsie Persaud for the past 33 years.
Three young men accused of assaulting another at the Brickdam Police Station were yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $25,000 each when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.
Indian national, Groopanan Kumar, who admitted to overstaying his time in Guyana was yesterday remanded to prison until today when sentence will be handed down.
Dear Editor, I write in relation to correspondence by M Maxwell (KN, August 15 and SN, August 16) with very similar titles requesting both papers to desist from publishing polls claimed to have been done by Mr Vishnu Bisram.
Following a briefing on the swimmers performance at the recent Goodwill Games swim meet in Trinidad and Tobago by the team’s manager, Jean La Rose, Minister responsible for sports Dr.
Some 145 teachers in several key subject areas are set to graduate from the Education Ministry’s non-graduate certificate progamme offered by the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), the ministry said in a press release Tuesday.
Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on one aspect of a letter titled ‘Most Guyanese will welcome the observer missions’ which was published in the Guyana Chronicle of August 13 under the name “T.
(Jamaica Observer) The management and workforce of the sugar factories sold to the Chinese company COMPLANT will be largely Jamaican, with China only providing key managers and experts, the company disclosed on Tuesday.
At the recent 9th Caribbean Karate Championships held from August 12-14 in Grenada, Guyanese karetekas came away with a total of eighteen medals.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s seven-month-old government sunk further into crisis yesterday as a fourth minister quit and another top aide publicly questioned whether the leader would seek reelection or step aside in 2014 for her much more popular predecessor.
(Jamaica Observer) The quietness of Frankfield, a community in the central parish of Clarendon, was shaken on Tuesday morning when men armed with machetes invaded a house and attacked its three male occupants as they slept, hacking them to death.
Dear Editor, While it is obvious that many clubs in Guyana have produced outstanding cricketers, such as Albion in Berbice and the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in Demerara, I must recognize the little village of Reliance on the Essequibo Coast that perhaps has created history in producing the most national cricketers in a single village at various levels.
A handyman accused of robbing an RK’s Security Services guard of $145,000 worth of items while being armed with a cutlass was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Estranged West Indies opener Chris Gayle will meet with West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire next Tuesday, to hash out lingering issues that have kept the Jamaican out of the regional side.
The Guyana Cycling Federation is gearing up to send their top riders as part of male and female teams to participate in competitions in Suriname and Jamaica in September.
Dear Editor, Many employees particularly in the junior staff category at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are disheartened by the protracted delays in issuing pension refunds when an employee has resigned or is being paid off for some reason.
The Home Affairs Ministry on Monday received several pieces of hardware and software from Country Repre-sentative of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Dennis Moses, and the equipment will be used to gather and accept information on public security in Guyana.
(Jamaica Observer) Joel Chin of VP Records was shot and killed Tuesday night at his home in Stony Hill.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian anti-graft campaigner whose jailing sparked mass protests and fierce criticism of the government has accepted a police offer to fast in a New Delhi park for two weeks, an aide said last night, prompting euphoria from his followers.
(Barbados Nation) Government will construct a centre for the performing arts, and has called on radio stations to play no less than 60 per cent of local music, while it pledged Bds$50 million to promote, market and distribute local entertainers’ products and services from next year.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies will do battle in Group B of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2011 as they compete among 10 teams for four spots at the 2013 Cricket World Cup.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will nationalize its gold industry and is moving its international reserves out of Western countries, President Hugo Chavez said yesterday in a combative step ahead of his re-election bid next year.
The St. Barnabas Church will be completely demolished by this weekend, according to Errol Cush of Cush Contracting Service.
Dear Editor, In this perilous election season of historical revisionism and fable-making by our politicians, our president-economist turned historian has been playing dangerous games with our history.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said he was deeply saddened at news of the passing on Sunday of Sir Paul Reeves, former New Zealand Archbishop and Governor-General.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Four Hezbollah suspects in the killing of Rafik al-Hariri were linked to the attack largely by circumstantial evidence gleaned from phone records, according to an indictment published yesterday after a six-year investigation which polarised Lebanon.
Dear Editor, As I always said, the MMA ADA project was designed for dry weather and not the rainy season.
The under-21 category spelt some success for Guyana as national player Nigel Bryan along with his female counterpart Trenace Lowe picked up a bronze and silver medal respectively when the Caribbean Table Tennis Championships continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Tuesday.
In the time since this nation achieved political independence from Britain – over the past 50 years – several nations saw their people lifted out of gross poverty.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean Cement Company Limited made a loss of J$608 million in the second quarter, even while cement sales appeared to have stabilised in the period.
ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels to the west and east of Libya’s increasingly isolated capital fought forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi yesterday for control of oil facilities vital to winning the six-month-old civil war.
Dear Editor, I am a divorced mother with three children aged 6, 12, and 14 who all attend school.
Insularity
Skippa
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines’ chairman George Nicholas has tendered his resignation from the state-owned national carrier. Minister
History is replete with examples of inventions that ought to have been used specifically for the betterment of mankind being hijacked, misused and abused.
After the unfortunate Caribbean Airlines crash at Cheddi Jagan International airport on July 30, questions have come up as to the role of the US Embassy in a crisis.
The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will host its Inter-Guiana Games trials on August 28 at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary from 10:00hrs.
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A mason accused of stealing a woman’s gold chain was on Tuesday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Despite the fact that the public service minimum wage is $32,207, sweepers/cleaners of schools across Guyana only receive $15,800 per month and they are not paid during any of the school holiday breaks.
(Trinidad Express) Farmer Terry Bahal was shot dead as he attempted to escape bandits who ambushed him as he drove into his garage on Tuesday night.
