Daily Archive: Friday, December 7, 2012

(de Ware Tijd) AMSTERDAM -The gold deal to be signed with Newmont and Iamgold will most likely yield a US$ 2.5 billion investment, former President and presidential advisor Jules Wijdenbosch said in Amsterdam on Friday.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Be it drugs, arms, fake goods or even people, smuggling via the Paramaribo Port facilities, Nieuwe Haven, has become much more difficult now that Suriname has officially been connected to the International Container Control Network (CCP) an affiliate of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The Ministry of Education today issued a statement notifying all Queen’s College Students, Teachers and Stakeholders that they can return to their rightful classrooms with effect from Monday December 10, 2012 to resume studies as fleas have been exterminated from Queen’s College Compound.

At about 1400h today, Police say that the body of Brazilian National Antonio Jose Dearaujo, 51 years, was found in his home at Baboon Backdam, Eteringbang, with suspected stab wounds.

A large amount of cocaine was discovered in fish food this morning in a container destined for China at the Guyana National Shipping Company (GNSC), sources have confirmed.

Police say that at about 0615h today, police ranks conducted a search on a residence at Port Mourant, Corentyne, during which a total of 90 grams of cocaine was found wrapped in foil paper and hidden among some plants.

Troy Liverpool, 38 years of Courtland Public Road, Corentyne, succumbed to his injuries at about 0015h today, at the GPHC, police said.

DHAKA,  ( Reuters) – A fine all-round performance from Darren Sammy helped West Indies crush Bangladesh by 75 runs in the fourth one-day international in Dhaka today to square the five-match series 2-2.

(Jamaica Observer) TURKS AND CAICOS — Michael Misick former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) was arrested today at the Santos Dumond airport in Rio de Janeiro by the Brazilian Federal Police.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Vere Technical High School student Odale Planters, 14, has succumbed to injuries sustained last night when the robot taxi in which he was traveling was shot up on the Comfort Road in Osbourne Store, Clarendon.

(Barbados Nation) Dave Searles remained hospitalised yesterday but in stable condition. The father of three collapsed on Wednesday after discovering his five-month-old baby boy dead after he forgot the child in the back seat of his car.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ drug treatment court is to become a reality in the first half of 2013, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite said yesterday.

GAZA, (Reuters) – Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal arrived in the Gaza Strip today, ending 45 years of exile from Palestinian land with a visit that underscored the Islamist group’s growing confidence following a recent conflict with Israel.

(Reuters) – Twenty20 cricket heralded another illuminating innovation today with the introduction of stumps and bails that light-up when dislodged during an Australian Big Bash League (BBL) match in Melbourne.

(Trinidad Express) If the Central Bank intervened in the affairs of CLICO in 2006, when there were early warning signs that things were amiss, then more than TT$10 billion of policy-holder funds could have been protected, Queen’s Counsel Peter Carter said yesterday.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – A strong quake centred off northeastern Japan shook buildings as far away as Tokyo today and triggered a one-metre tsunami in an area devastated by last year’s Fukushima disaster, but there were no reports of deaths or serious damage.

(Trinidad Express) A nineteen-year-old University of the West Indies (UWI) student was raped twice early yesterday morning by a man who broke into her apartment in St Augustine.

(BBC) England tightened their grip on the third Test against India, although Alastair Cook missed out on a double century on day three in Kolkata.

(Trinidad Express) Insurance giant CLICO was a “ponzi scheme”, former chief executive officer (CEO) Gene Dziadyk stated in an internal e-mail to top executives three years before the company’s collapse.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez returned from Cuba today following cancer-related medical treatment, walking and joking at the airport in a first public appearance in three weeks that quashed rumors he might have been at death’s door.

The ingenuity of drug traffickers was on display again yesterday at the Timehri airport when 46 pounds of cocaine was found in drinking straws which were made to look like macaroni and then hidden in boxes of mangoes destined for Canada.

‘All you need is a blowtorch, borax and the gold and you melt it and pour it into whatever form.’

In what is a clear sign that the government has given up on options for an indigenous airline, Guyana on Wednesday conferred flag carrier status for the country on Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines, the Government information Agency reported.

-feel abandoned by gov’t By Iva Wharton Members of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) set up by the government to run cricket here will make a decision over the weekend as to whether they will resign from the body.

-No. 43 koker silted up By David Papannah Residents of Black Bush Polder were “punishing” for water for their rice crop due to a broken pump but with the rainy season on they were yesterday flooded because of mud blocking a key koker.

By Emmerson Campbell In keeping with its vision to develop the sport of football at the grass roots level, Petra Organization, has once again collaborated with a corporate entity to stage a schools tournament.

-after hung jury By Mandy Thompson Cyon ‘Picture Boy’ Collier will have to face a new trial for the murders of two Victoria brothers, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on his guilt yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Tomorrow’s non-title welterweight bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez has all the makings of a classic as the two fighters prepare to meet for a fourth and, almost certainly, final time in the ring.

Several groups picketed outside the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday to press for the 1823 Demerara Slave Rebellion monument to be erected at Parade Ground, the site where those who participated in the insurrection were killed.

court told A man was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge that he was found with a quantity of marijuana at the Stabroek Market.

A Stabroek Market jewellery stall was on Wednesday evening robbed of $3.8 million and an undisclosed quantity of gold and diamond jewellery and it is believed that it may have been an inside job.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Ross Taylor will take a break from cricket after rejecting an offer to remain captain of New Zealand’s test team but give up the role in the shorter forms of the game, New Zealand Cricket said yesterday.

Boxing fans will now have the opportunity to see Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry and Rudolph Hedge cuff off in the ring on December 28th when the two clash on a card organized by Hurry Up Promotions in collaboration with Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry and Pearl Vodka.

 -some handsets going for 70% off Digicel customers will be racing to win themselves three Samsung smartphones during their Christmas promotion which runs from today to December 21.

By Javon Vickerie Residents of Hill Street, Albouystown are enduring low water pressure and at times receive no water, which the Guyana Water Incorporat-ed (GWI) says is due to a clogged main in the area.

Minister of Natural Re-sources and the Environment Robert Persaud has said that the recently-announced Guyana Mining School and Training Centre Incorporated will launch courses in January.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – FIFA’s ethics committee has completed its latest investigation into former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam and extended his provisional ban pending a final verdict, soccer’s world governing body said yesterday.

Guyana and Brazil on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Under-standing which will see a working group established on an upgraded Linden-Lethem road, a port and a hydro project.

Middle Road, La Penitence goldsmith Zahir Salaru was yesterday charged with fraudulently converting a gold and diamond necklace entrusted to him to his own use.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Nicholas ‘The axeman’ Walters is seeking to become the first Jamaican to win a world title on home soil when he fights with Daulis Prescott of Colombia in a World Boxing Association featherweight bout tomorrow night.

Bronze medallist at this year’s Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding Championships and reigning overall and welterweight champion of this year’s Hugh Ross Classic, Kerwin Clarke, intends to pose and flex his way to supremacy at tomorrow’s Flex Night International.

An East Ruimveldt man accused of robbing a man at gunpoint at a wash bay in the area was yesterday remanded to prison.

Dozens of nurses yesterday continued to protest for two of their colleagues to be reinstated after they were dismissed by the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) in an investigation over missing morphine and they are currently on a go-slow.

The Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) has organised the ‘Scrabblers Give Back Charity Open Tournament’ on Sunday at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

– regeneration distant A succession of hard knocks in recent years has set the country’s timber industry on a downward slide from which it is unlikely to recover in the short term, President of the Guyana Forest Producers Association (GFPA) Khellawan told Stabroek Business in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.

Thieves robbed an electronic store on Tuesday evening of appliances reportedly worth over $6 million.

Over 100 students were successful when the Guyana Karate College (GKC) held its end of year grading examinations last Friday.

(BBC) Captain Alastair Cook set a record for England Test centuries with his 23rd as the tourists assumed control of the third Test against India yesterday.

A 16-year-old student of Golden Grove Secondary School was stabbed in the back with an ice-pick by another student in the school yard yesterday after a row over gambling.

– manager points to ‘reasonable’ Miami market share Suriname Airways could enter the Georgetown –New York market as early as the first half of 2013, once the company completes its planned January acquisition of an additional 737 aircraft to the two currently serving Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean, Guyana Station Manager Rudi Westerborg said.

The Business Cartoon

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC– Bangladesh yesterday called up left-armer Elias Sunny in an attempt to bolster their spin attack for the final two one-day internationals against West Indies.

Qualfon, a business process outsourcing (BPO) and call centre service provider in Guyana recently celebrated its seventh anniversary of operations in Guyana.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC-Former Trinidad and Tobago defender, Brian Williams, says a good performance for the soca warriors at the Caribbean Cup finals in Antigua will help restore pride and rekindle a struggling sport.

Chamber awards: The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry last night held its annual awards ceremony at the Pegasus Hotel.

Dear Editor, I have noticed in the print media, that concerns have been expressed by independent engineers on the integrity of timber piles for a project on the East Coast of Demerara, Guyana.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) will be holding a one-day workshop on January 15, 2013 at the Regency Suites Hotel,

Earlier this week the Stabroek Business conducted an interview with two officials of the Forest Products Association (FPA) in order to secure a perspective on the state of the sector.

Dear Editor, Today lovers of jazz mourn the passing of a legendary jazz innovator, musician and band leader, Dave Brubeck.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC- Host country Dominica and St. Lucia were locked in battle after day one Wednesday of their two-day third and final round encounter of the 2012 Windward Islands senior cricket championship.

Shiv gets practice: No. 1 ranked Test batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul plays a shot during a practice session yesterday at the Everest Cricket Ground.

Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Gerry Gouveia says that his company’s collaboration with four other entities in the local aviation sector to re-invent the Ogle Airport in a manner that allows it to respond effectively to the changing needs of the country’s aviation ranks among its more important missions at this time.

Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza proposed on Wednesday to the Organisation of American States (OAS) Permanent Council the creation of a capital fund with US$100 million to finance the operations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH), with funds from a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Andean Development Corporation.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Jamal Crawford once again sizzled off the bench as the Los Angeles Clippers pounded the struggling Dallas Mavericks 112-90 with a commanding display on their home court on Wednesday.

PARKUPIK, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Veteran gold and diamond buyers sit on a small metal boat gliding down a river in southern Venezuela that brushes the borders of Brazil and Guyana.

Dear Editor, NCN radio should have the following defects rectified: 1.

Infamous Offenders Even as a reconfigured parliament begins the slow but necessary process of forcing changes to the bad management practices of the government and bringing increased accountability to the use of public funds, Guyanese must again endure the embarrassment of being among some of the worst perpetrators of corruption. 

A “Walk for Equality,” organized by Red Thread, Justice Institute Guyana, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination of the Guyana Equality Forum will be held tomorrow, in observance of Human Rights Day.

BRASILIA/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will not attend a regional trade summit in Brazil today, sources said, an absence sure to heighten speculation over the leftist leader’s health.

Ten lucky customers were rewarded yesterday for taking up the challenge of Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited’s first Electronic Banking Products Promotion which was conducted for six months to popularize paperless spending for individuals’ safety and convenience.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, called yesterday for a national dialogue after deadly clashes around his palace, where demonstrators responded by demanding the “downfall of the regime”, using the chants that brought down Hosni Mubarak.

Dear Editor, On November 15, 2012, Muslims celebrated their New Year and many people are not aware of that. 

The second phase of an extensive local agricultural project aimed at popularising shade house farming technology in communities across the country is likely to kick off by March 2013, following the injection of a US$1.175 million grant from the Japanese Government, Head of the Partners of the Americas (Guyana) Project Myrtle Richards said.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Shane Warne has done it again. One of the most successful slow bowlers of all time, Warne has consistently shown since his retirement from international cricket in 2007 that he is also the master of a different type of spin.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia recalled top order batsman Phillip Hughes to replace the retired Ricky Ponting yesterday for next week’s first match in a three-test series against Sri Lanka.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Sweating and trembling as he fielded questions about last month’s killer fire at one of his factories in Bangladesh, Delwar Hossain insisted he had no idea the workshop was making clothes for Wal-Mart Stores Inc when it went up in flames.

Dear Editor, Prior to the cancellation of the Chris Brown show, the Minister of Tourism, Mr Ifraan Ali held a joint press conference with Hits and Jams, the promoters of the show and informed the public about how the Christmas package, which was apparently centred around this mega show, would be of tremendous value to the local economy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite an investment of US$610 million to complete the North-South leg of Highway 2000, the Jamaican Government says contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) will be required to comply with all regulatory requirements.

Gloria Adams, Deborah Fraser and Beverley Halley are among more than a dozen members of the Central Mahaicony Perth Village Farmers Association, who have spent several years of their lives in one of the most arduous pursuits in the farming sector.

YOKOHAMA, Japan, (Reuters) – Japan’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima beat part-timers Auckland City 1-0 in the opening game of the Club World Cup yesterday when FIFA used goal-line technology for the first time.

GBTI makes donations: The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry yesterday made its annual donation of cash to several charitable organizations.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Norway has agreed to give $180 million to Brazil as part of a broader $1 billion deal for slowing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Oslo’s environment minister said yesterday.

BEIRUT/DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – The two superpowers divided by Syria’s civil war met head to head yesterday, with signs emerging that Russia might curb its support for President Bashar al-Assad and Washington saying events were gathering speed on the ground.

Dear Editor, The parliamentary Privileges Committee, of which Clement Rohee is a member, will meet to participate in a process to determine the powers of the National Assembly to take away the privileges of a minister.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBCHA) joined with the National AIDS Programme Secretariat to set up HIV testing sites for National Week of Testing which ended on Saturday.

“You need to do some tests” Again this week I avoid – and leave to the many others – those current “national issues of (sordid) significance”.

Dear Editor, Guyanese New Yorkers, like so many other communities, are still feeling the after-effects from the natural disaster that blasted the city.

Politikles

      GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 488’s trading results showed consideration of $1,970,394 from 87,598 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 487 which showed consideration of $1,878,612 from 80,165 shares traded in 11 transactions. 

YOKOHAMA, Japan, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has expressed his “sadness and distress” after a linesman died following an incident during a youth competition earlier this week.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said yesterday that Nicaragua would not grant oil drilling licenses in ecologically sensitive Caribbean waters that belonged until recently to Colombia.

–Rodrigues-Birkett Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett says Cariforum values its partnership with the European Union and has questioned why it appears as though the region is being penalized for adhering to the partnership and agreements while other regions are being granted more concessions.

Despite a new methodology and scoring system, Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has once again given Guyana an extremely low mark (28 out of 100 points) on its annual report card.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Software guru John McAfee, fighting deportation to Belize, was rushed to a hospital in Guatemala yesterday shortly after his asylum request was rejected, but a suspected heart attack turned out to be stress in a fresh twist to the saga.

(Trinidad Express) Former government minister Verna St Rose Greaves was fired because she tried to force the Cabinet into accepting her own position of pro-gay rights and pro-abortion with respect to the national gender policy, says Sport Minister Anil Roberts.