Daily Archive: Friday, January 18, 2013

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Guyana held off Windward Islands to win a nerve-jangling encounter off the last ball and force their way into Saturday’s playoff final of the Caribbean Twenty20.

The 6th publication of ‘Guyana Where and What’, a  guide on the country’s history, culture and events  was launched today at the Ministry of Tourism in the presence of its Publisher Gem Madhoo-Nascimento of GEMS Inc.,

(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear four new cases, addressing matters as diverse as the reach of a law designed to combat chemical weapons, and whether lawyers could be sued for having once represented convicted swindler Allen Stanford.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Jamaica defeated Combined Campuses and Colleges by seven wickets in the penultimate preliminary round game of the Caribbean Twenty20 at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium here today.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud (right) showing his garbage cleaning moves.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Manager Omar Khan says defending champions Trinidad and Tobago have achieved their goal thus far ahead of the finals of the Caribbean T20 tournament scheduled for Sunday.

The police today conducted a raid at the Stabroek Market Square, Georgetown and 36 men have been held in relation to various investigations.

The Guyana Police Force is seeking the assistance of licenced firearm holders who bought their firearms licences during August and December 2012, at the Brickdam Police Registry as they intensify a probe of a policewoman who was suspected of illegal sales.

A twenty-eight-year-old soldier of the Guyana Defence Force died this morning after complaining of chest pains during his Annual Fitness Run, the army said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After 14 months of working assiduously to meet rigorous regulatory aviation requirements, Fly Jamaica Airways will officially take to the skies on Friday, January 25, with its inaugural flight scheduled to depart for the John F.

The leadership council of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) met yesterday and said that the government has failed to honour any of the promises it made on August 21 with the Region Ten administration to end a power tariff shutdown of the region.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of Youth and Culture has confirmed that its Director of Corporate Services Sean Thompson was shot and killed at his home in Spanish Town St.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – A scintillating Darren Sammy cameo helped Windward Islands overpower beleaguered Barbados and keep alive their chances of reaching the playoffs of the Caribbean Twenty20.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – About 60 foreigners were still being held hostage or missing inside a gas plant today after Algerian forces stormed the desert complex to free hundreds of captives taken by Islamist militants, who threatened to attack other energy installations.

(Barbados Nation) Melanie Fiona, coming in to  perform Sunday at the Naniki Jazz Safari, speaks about her music and her life during an exclusive interview with the WEEKEND NATION.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Minister of Finance, Adeline Wijnerman, has suspended five top Customs officials, effective immediately in an effort to push through radical reforms aimed at improving the service’s image.

(Trinidad Express) France-based aviation company ATR and regional airline LIAT (Leeward Islands Air Transport) have signed an agreement for the purchase of three 48-seater ATR 42-600 aircraft.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Lance Armstrong finally confessed to using performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career yesterday, admitting he cheated to win all seven of his Tour de France titles.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) will soon be launching a “mobile money” service, which will allow its customers to use their phones for a wide range of financial services, including paying bills and transferring cash.

Relatives of Tyron Emmanuel Achaia, the 28-year-old Guyanese national shot dead in front of his residence in Trinidad, say that a Post Mortem Examination (PME) carried out Wednesday evening determined that he died after the bullet pierced his heart.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday ruled that Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s proposed amendments to Leader of the Opposition David Granger’s Motion calling for a Commission of Inquiry on criminal violence from 2004 to 2010 were unacceptable.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Guyana withstood a late charge from Leeward Islands to carve out a 14-run win and take a huge stride towards a spot in the playoffs of the Caribbean Twenty20 here Thursday night.

A miner yesterday won a court battle against the Isseneru Village Council and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), preventing them from stopping operations on lands in the village.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA), on the final night of the Banks Beer/GFA Cup, had gate receipts of over $20 million, according to President Vernon Burnett.

Murder accused Latiff Mohammed walked out a free man from the High Court yesterday after Justice Navindra Singh upheld a no-case submission made by the defence, while his son and co-accused Arif Mohammed led his defence after the prosecution closed its case.

The auto industry is booming, but so are complaints about dealers, especially those specialising in second-hand vehicles, who have been told to expect penalties if found guilty of breaking the laws.

Tempers flared when members of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) met with Region Three residents on Wednesday to discuss land issues.

Small miners in the Rupununi are petitioning the Ministry of Natural Resources to be allowed to mine on the Prospecting Licence of Romanex, saying that the company is occupying state lands while failing to execute the terms of the mining licence granted to it in April 2009.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC- Former West Indies cricket captain Carl Hooper says he has no interest in becoming the next head coach of the Bangladesh cricket team.

Guyana’s labour laws have now been translated into Chinese and the government hopes that this step will pave the way for fewer complaints about alleged labour violations.

Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Develop-ment Ganga Persaud has warned again of government’s zero-tolerance of overpayments on contracts, signing off on substandard work and extortion.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Chris Gayle, one of the most destructive batsmen in world cricket, was due to fly into St.

Casimir Capital raised its price target on Guyana Goldfields following the release of a long-awaited feasibility study update for the Aurora project in Guyana late last week, according to a Proactive Investors article.

The Canada-based gold mining company Guyana Goldfields, which has been working to advance and develop its Aurora Gold Project here since 1996, last week committed to a time frame of “the first quarter of 2015” for the production of gold in Guyana.

The PETRA organisation in partnership with Beepat’s Trading launched the Milo U-20 school football competition at the Ministry of Education’s sports ground Carifesta Avenue yesterday The tournament is scheduled to commence on January 19 with 24 competing teams.

Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) President and Vice President of the Guyana Police Service football team Colin Boyce has indicated that he has no intention of contesting the presidency of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA)

Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran said education is key to reducing the incidence of malaria, when he presented 5,000 Long Lasting Impregnated Nets (LLINs) to acting Region Seven health officer Merlene Ferrier.

The Chinese company Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc, which last week announced that it was seeking to recruit 700 Guyanese workers to kick-start a number of major investment projects in Guyana is aiming to provide jobs for up to 10,000 Guyanese in the longer term, Whenze Chu, Chairman of the company’s parent entity China Forest Industry Group Company Ltd, said.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Leeward Islands held their nerve in a tense finish to beat Combined Campuses and Colleges and gather their first win of the Caribbean Twenty20 here Wednesday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Defending champions Trinidad and Tobago cruised into the final of the Caribbean Twenty20 after nonchalantly dismissing a timid challenge from Barbados here Wednesday night.

Eagle Mountain Gold is comfortable that its flagship project would be constructed within the next 18 months, as it aggressively pushes ahead to achieve production by 2014, President and CEO Ioannis Tsitos told Mining Weekly Online in an interview.

The fatigue and tedium associated with having to continually focus public attention on the problems of garbage collection and disposal in the city and its environs is outweighed only by the importance of getting on top of the problem.

(Reuters) – The San Antonio Spurs made light of Manu Ginobili’s absence to overwhelm Memphis 103-82 on Wednesday, piling on the misery for the struggling Grizzlies.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development and several other Ministries are on a three-day exercise to address the solid waste problem in Georgetown, a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your letter dated January 7, 2013, seeking a comment in relation to a letter to the editor published in Stabroek News on January 3 and captioned ‘Newly appointed teachers not paid after five months.’ 

(Reuters) – LeBron James became the youngest player to reach 20,000 career points on Wednesday, picking up 25 in Miami’s 92-75 win over the Golden State Warriors.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony handed over a number of tennis tables to the REOs of various hinterland communities as it advances its sport development programme in schools.

Every year, since 2000, the clothing, jewellery and trinkets bearing both the distinctive style and colours of Rastafari have been a feature of David Samuel James Morrison’s participation in GuyExpo.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Roger Federer and Serena Williams showed there was plenty of life left in their relatively old legs by easing into the third round of the Australian Open on a day when sweltering heat tested the stamina of thirtysomething and teenager alike.

Dear Editor, I am certain that many Guyanese are familiar with the saying: ‘Train up a child in the way he should grow, so that when he grows old, he shall not depart from it.’ 

The Debate The issue of budget deficits has been a hot topic of debate in the business, academic and international financial community for some time now.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has commenced registration of common lodging houses and hair-dressing salons operating in Georgetown.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Windward Islands defeated Barbados by four wickets in the 19th game of the Caribbean Twenty20 at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium here last night.

The latest deferral of the second reading of the Telecommunications Bill has drawn comments from three senior private sector umbrella organisation officials, all of whom have told Stabroek Business that a point has been reached where the passage of the legislation ending the extant Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) monopoly had to be significantly accelerated.

New Chinese Ambassador to Guyana Zhang Limin on Tuesday paid his first visit to the Office of Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best, during which the two took the opportunity to sign a protocol for the delivery of  5 Million RMB (approximately US$80,000) in military equipment to the Guyana Defence Force, a press release from the army said.

Dear Editor, It is always a pity when a good Guyanese dies.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – Algerian forces stormed a desert gas complex to free hundreds of hostages but 30, including several Westerners, were killed in the assault along with at least 11 of their Islamist captors, an Algerian security source told Reuters.

(Jamaica Observer) The assets of former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke were on Wednesday ordered forfeited to the State.

Late last year the Ministry of Agriculture announced that it had met its counterpart agency in Suriname and discussions on “fishing issues” had led to an understanding that an agreement would be hammered out between the two countries.

The local protected areas system received a boost on Wednesday with the exchange of notes to  initiate a grant from the German Government to the Guyana Government via the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Government Information Agency reported.

Dear Editor, The jury will still be out when it comes to deciding whether capital punishment should be taken off our statute books.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Non-U.S. pension funds and mutual funds were spared the full brunt of new U.S.

Dear Editor, In life it is always in our interest to have a game plan for the purpose of giving structure to our thoughts. 

More persons are being encouraged to appreciate and capture Guyana’s beauty through the Guyana Tourism Authority’s (GTA) amateur ‘See it, snap it’ photo competition.

(Trinidad Express) Magistrate Maureen Baboolal-Gafoor intends to sentence soca superstar Machel Montano on five criminal charges on February 25.

Banks DIH Ltd and Demerara Distillers Ltd the country’s two major beverage manufacturers are on a committee set up by the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) to prepare a position paper on the proposed amendment to the Customs Act that will see local drinks’ manufacturers having to pay a tax on receptacles.

On the human level, there is a lot of sympathy for Hugo Chávez in his battle against an unspecified cancer in a Cuban hospital.

Dear Editor, Like David Dabydeen, I have my own writing to do and this issue of the Caribbean Press is proving tedious, particularly in the willingness of certain players to either remain silent in what is a clear cut issue, or to bend over backward to accommodate the most absurdly facile rationalisations. 

Adult literacy in Tobago Hill: Residents from Tobago Hill, Region One on Friday graduated from an adult literacy programme, according to a release from the Canadian High Commission.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – More than 100 people were shot, stabbed or possibly burned to death by government forces in the Syrian city of Homs, a monitoring group said yesterday, and fierce fighting raged across the country.

-Fighting Crime: Some Simple Steps On Wednesday morning I decided that I would use this theme (above) to, lazily but appropriately repeat some views.

(Barbados Nation) Thirty-three-year-old Kari Cumberbatch, a line chef at the upscale CinCin By The Sea Restaurant at Prospect, St James, was gunned down Wednesday morning in the restaurant’s car park while dropping off his girlfriend to work.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 494’s trading results showed consideration of $14,421,381 from 486,358 shares traded in 27 transactions as compared to session 493 which showed consideration of $1,205,921 from 24,508 shares traded in 10 transactions. 

Big shot: Vishal Singh during his innings of 82 yesterday in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior Inter County four-day match between Demerara and the President’s XI at the Demerara Cricket Club ground, Queenstown.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company is once again giving Guyanese the opportunity to showcase their talent and live their dream through the Jingle and Song Competition which will be launched in February, a release from the company said.

The police conducted an early morning raid yesterday, in the areas of East and West Ruimveldt and East La Penitence, Georgetown, during which ten buildings were cordoned and searched.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC- Injured West Indies middle order batsman, Marlon Samuels, who was ruled out of the 15 man squad to Australia is to return to the Caribbean, media reports in Kingston have said.