Daily Archive: Friday, April 12, 2013

(Jamaica Gleaner) Passengers aboard British Airways flight 2263 had to intervene to bring an end to a fight between a man and a woman about three hours before landing at the Norman Manley International Airport late this evening.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government said today it foiled a plot to destabilize Sunday’s presidential election, the latest in a flurry of claims that the opposition has derided as crude attempts to distract voters from the country’s problems.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – One of Bollywood’s most famous villains, Pran, will receive the highest award in Indian cinema to honour the actor whose career has spanned about 350 films over nearly 60 years, the government said today.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Spinners Nikita Miller and Odean Brown wrecked Guyana to propel five-time repeat champions Jamaica to their fifth straight win in the Regional Four-Day Championship here Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner)  A massive police operation is now underway in East Kingston following this morning’s murder of a Jamaica Public Service contractor and his assistant on Lynford Avenue, off Lyndhurst Road in St Andrew.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Gold fell below $1,500 per ounce today, a drop of more than 20 percent from its record 2011 highs, putting it in bear market territory for the first time after 12 years of gains.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Tax dodging causes the European Union to lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European Council said today as he announced that EU leaders would discuss the issue at a summit next month.

A 92-year-old woman was this morning discovered dead, a stone’s throw away from her Cove & John, East Coast Demerara home underneath an abandoned house and it is believed that she was beaten and molested as the bottom half of her body was unclothed.

(Trinidad Express) Nephrologist at West Shore Medical Centre, Dr Emile Mohammed, has predicted that the number of dialysis patients globally will double over the next decade.

(Trinidad Express) KINGSTON Head of Communications at Caribbean Airlines, Clint Williams.

Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud was cremated yesterday after he was remembered as a humble man, who devoted his time and energy to the Hindu religion and politics for the betterment of all Guyanese.

A week after they disappeared on an ill-fated boat trip to Morgenstond, Berbice River, the bodies of Shondell Anthony Plass and his brother-in-law Bate Bender were found yesterday.

A 25-year-old man was beaten to death by a group of men over an allegation of theft at a mining camp in Cuyuni/ Mazaruni on Wednesday.

With the commencement of the consideration of the estimates of expenditure days away, both Government and Opposition are hopeful that compromises could be reached to stave off difficulties in approving the various allocations as announced in the budget speech some weeks ago.

An ex-policeman was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with twice fraudulently obtaining a radio by  pretending that he was a serving member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The much anticipated Guyana Football Federation (GFF) electoral congress will be held today at the Pegasus Hotel from 17:00 hrs with four candidates set to vie for the coveted presidential post.

By Clifton Ross Hostile fast bowling from Jamaican left armer, Sheldon Cotterell, with a four-wicket haul, saw Guyana stumbling to a tournament low 96 all out in 30.5 overs on the second day as the seventh-round Regional Four-day tournament continued at the Providence National Stadium.

The five men implicated in the Mortice Mandir scam appeared at the Weldaad Court yesterday before Magistrate Roby Benn with one entering a guilty plea and being fined $35,000.

Former APNU MP Richard Allen who collapsed in the National Assembly last Thursday was yesterday discharged from hospital.

Two men were yesterday fined $25,000 each or an alternative of six months imprisonment, while a bus conductor was granted bail in the sum of $20,000, after they were charged with selling pornographic material.

The 75 nurses and health care professionals on strike from the Linden Hospital Complex will return to work today after being paid approximately $6.6M in outstanding gratuities.

A fire of unknown origin yesterday ripped through two buildings at Montrose, East Coast Demerara leaving over 20 people, including 14 children, homeless and millions of dollars in losses.

The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) is calling on the authorities to improve security in the mining districts, in the wake of the two recent murders in the North West District.

Government back-bencher, Odinga Lumumba has sought to justify keeping the Value Added Tax (VAT) at 16 percent, saying it is a vital source of revenue that has helped provide tax-breaks and increase in old age pension, among other benefits in this year’s proposed $208.8B budget.

The Guyana Medical Relief organisation this week donated an emergency air shipment of medication valued about US$400,000 to

The geotechnical works at the site for the planned US$18M specialty hospital have been completed and the contracting company is preparing to deliver the report to the firm awarded the contract for the construction, Surendra Engineering, which is due in Guyana shortly.

Ever since the local speed aces drove away with their first and only Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) overall title in 2010, they have not repeated that achievement.

Murder accused Ramchand Persaud was freed yesterday after he was found not guilty by a jury of the murder of Victor Antony Persaud, called “Tony.”

Chief Executive Officer and Medical Superinten-dent of the Woodlands Hospital Dr.

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday dismissed a case against two men charged with stealing items valued over $5 million from Geddes Grant after one of the two accused offered to make compensation.

A statement of murder accused Adjodha Persaud, in which he admitted to stabbing his nephew Chaitram Gooroodiyal, was admitted as evidence at his trial yesterday.

Alpha United, compliments of a six-goal burst by striker Manasseh “Ziggy” Primo hammered Uitvlugt FC 8-0 as the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground Bourda on Wednesday.

Acting Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali said that the imminent activation of the Small Business Bureau and the attendant disbursement to the small business sector of funds from Guyana REDD+ Trust Fund created to support projects identified under the Government of Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) should not be perceived as an indication that “easy money” will now be available.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the International Transport Forum (ITF) are embarking on a new initiative to reduce road deaths in the Caribbean, starting with a twinning venture between Jamaica and the United Kingdom (UK).

Managing Director of the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company’s (GT&T) Mobile Money Guyana service Shawn Thakurdin concedes that the company’s new mobile financial service launched here last month is yet to set the business community alight or to create a wave of registrations

This newspaper has commented in previous weeks on the air of expectancy which, in recent months, appears to have enveloped the small business sector, a circumstance which is being attributed to the advent of the Small Business Bureau and more recently the release by the IDB of the first tranche of funding

Dear Editor, Rev Dr Dale Arlington Ramnauth Bisnauth was born on 30th December 1936 to Lionel and Phulmati Bisnauth at Plantation Better Success, Essequibo Coast.

Dear Editor, I am once more forced to correct an inaccuracy which appeared in an article in SN on April 9, captioned ‘GFF elections campaign heats up,’ by Iva Wharton.

LONDON,  CMC – Ramnaresh Sarwan’s stint as Leicestershire captain got off to a rocky start as the visitors were forced to follow on to Hampshire on the second day of their opening match of the new English County season here yesterday.

Commendable Changes Commendable changes to the Guyana economy go beyond the behaviour of physical output.  

In excess of 60 boxers from 10 gyms across the country will compete for trophies and medals when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) boxes off its three-day National Novices Championships tonight at the National Gymnasium tarmac.

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CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China – typically the first step in making a flu vaccine – government-backed researchers had already begun testing a “seed” strain of the virus made from the genetic code posted on the Internet.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The late Hugo Chavez’s self-declared socialist revolution will be put to the test at a presidential election on Sunday that pits his chosen successor against a younger rival promising change in the nation he polarized.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – Leeward Islands were hanging by a thread after they were undermined by a strong all-round performance from Windward Islands captain Liam Sebastien here yesterday.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Mired in gloom following a test drubbing in India, Australian cricket has turned to Canberra’s halls of power for succour, asking the country’s top immigration official to act as a de facto selector ahead of back-to-back Ashes series this year.

Dear Editor, I note with interest the letter by the Registrar of Lands, Ms Juliet Sattaur, in the Guyana Chronicle dated April 10, 2013.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has proffered a mixed review of the government’s 2013 budget proposal, describing it as a consumer budget but bemoaning the fact that little provision has been made for the financing of critical infrastructural work and declaring that this year ought to have seen a more significant

Dear Editor, If one is a defensive driver one would have been aware of the impending danger  of the blind spots we encounter in our daily travels, especially when crossing major roads in the city. 

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, (CMC) – Emmanuel Stewart of Carriacou has been named captain of the Windward Islands Under 15 Cricket team.

If the Partners of the Americas Farmer to Farmer programme has its way, the age-old farming practice of container gardening would make a huge comeback in Guyana.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Pentagon spy agency report concluded for the first time that North Korea likely has a nuclear bomb that can be launched on a missile, but U.S.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Barbados crushed an out-of-sorts Trinidad and Tobago by ten wickets inside two days here yesterday, to give themselves a huge confidence boost ahead of next month’s semi-finals of the Regional Four-Day Championship.

Fitzroy Valentine is one of the more than 60 members of the Mar Friends Cooperative Society who have been cultivating crops on land bordering Cuffy Dam at Friendship, East Coast Demerara for more than 30 years.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-Olympic and World 400-metre hurdles champion Melaine Walker says her decision to sever ties with the MVP track club was prompted by her coach’s refusal to train her for sprint events.

Dear Editor, Admittedly the experience of my own development biases me towards the ‘old- fashioned’ model wherein managers sought to support the growth of potentials ‒ not by ‘molly-coddling,’ but by challenging and testing them ‒ in those very ‘halcyon days,’  the recollecting of which still serves to rejuvenate both Nowrang Persaud and myself.

Dear Editor, In wrapping up the budget debate in Parliament, Minister of Finance Ashni Singh was arrogant, rude and insulting to the opposition, especially AFC member Moses Nagamootoo and APNU shadow finance minister Carl Greenidge, the very group of people he depends on to pass the budget.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC-The Dominican government has offered two of the country’s CARIFTA gold medalists, Luan Gabriel and Shanee Angol, scholarships through to university education.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff will make the first formal state visit by a Brazilian leader to the United States in nearly two decades, a diplomatic breakthrough for an emerging power that has clashed with Washington but is hungry for closer ties and recognition of its growing prestige.

GASCI MARKET JOURNAL GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 506’s trading results showed consideration of $197,368 from 5,750 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to

AUGUSTA, Georgia,  (Reuters) – Tiger Woods got his Masters campaign off to a solid start yesterday but the world number one was forced to share the Augusta spotlight.

(Barbados Nation) Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has made it clear that his country is not pumping any funds into LIAT until the regional airline gets “its act together” and reduces its wastage.

Children at Wakapoa Primary, in the Pomeroon, Region 2, show off their new shoes.

Hugo Chávez may be dead but chavismo is very much alive in the highly charged Venezuelan election campaign, due to come to a head on Sunday.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service) The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us

A farewell to Reepu Daman Persaud outside of Freedom House (GINA photo) Reepu Daman Persaud’s two children Vindhya and Vishok accompanied the doli The doli with the remains of Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud on Robb Street for a tribute at Freedom House.

Dear Editor, Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud was the most popular and respected pandit in Guyana and the Caribbean and among the Guyanese and Indo-Caribbean diasporas.

BANGALORE, India,  CMC – West Indies opener Chris Gayle blasted his second half-century in three innings as Royal Challengers Bangalore trounced Sunil Narine’s Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

I suppose that, sub-consciously, it is one of my pastimes: paying attention to the criticisms by individuals and groups against their former colleagues and organisations.

(Trinidad Express) KINGSTON Head of Communications at Caribbean Airlines, Clint Williams.