Daily Archive: Monday, August 26, 2013

(Trinidad Express) An 84-year-old great grandmother was yesterday mauled to death by a family pitbull.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – She’s still the Material Girl. Pop diva Madonna, 55, is the world’s top-earning celebrity, according to a Forbes list released on Monday, raking in an estimated $125 million in the past year, mainly from her $305 million-grossing MDNA tour, but helped by sales of clothing, fragrance and various investments.

The Government of Canada today announced the opening of a new visa application centre (VAC) in Georgetown to make the process of applying for a visa to enter Canada easier and more convenient.

During Friday, police say that the body of chain-saw operator Chandradat Hussain, 39 years of Goed Bananen Land, East Canje, Berbice, was found hanging in a logging camp at Kurduni, Berbice River.

A Commission from the OAS Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) will conduct, from October 8 to 10, an on-site visit to Guyana, with the consent of the host country.

Minister of Natural Resources, Robert Persaud yesterday said that illegal mining will soon be tracked by satellite imagery and there would be instant deployments to deal with the problem.

(Trinidad Express) If soldiers were present near the home of the pregnant teenager who was shot and killed in East Port of Spain earlier this month, there was a possibility she might have been alive today.

Two children were burnt to death during a fire which gutted their home at Pollydore Drive, Georgetown early yesterday morning.

A twenty-three-year-old mother of two and a six-week-old baby died after an accident on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway yesterday.

A government-commissioned study in 2009 on the economic benefits of the Amaila hydropower project itself raised concerns that the hydrology of the falls could be a problem for year-round generation of power.

CEO of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) Ramesh Ghir says that works should have started last week on the airport runway upgrade as part of the larger expansion project but design snags have proven difficult to overcome.

A woman and her two children are today homeless after the father of the children reportedly burnt her `C’ Field, Sophia residence to the ground following a quarrel.

A wedding celebration at No 4 Settlement, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice ended abruptly around 2 pm yesterday when it was learnt that the home of the bride’s grandparents was on fire a short distance away.

IDB Representative in Guyana Sophie Makonnen said last week that talks with Sithe Global and with Government are still ongoing on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project and the due diligence on the venture which started months ago is still to be completed.

Students attending the University of Guyana (UG) Turkeyen Campus for the academic year 2013/2014 were on Friday encouraged to challenge the university but asked to stop saying negative things about the institution on social media.

By Jairo Rodrigues in Paramaribo, Suriname   Guyana wrapped up its participation at Carifesta XI with an adaptation of Harold Bascom’s award- winning play Makantali, but the production suffered from poor audience turnout as the event clashed with the well-publicised concert by Grammy Award-winning Haitian-American artiste Wyclef Jean.

Fire of unknown origin raced through a two-flat, four-bedroom concrete house at No 5 Village, West Coast Berbice around 9 am on Saturday leaving a family of five homeless.

It has been two years since pharmacist Harold Rachpaul was found bound and gagged in his living quarters behind his Robb Street pharmacy and police seem no closer to finding the killer.

The 44th Annual General Assembly of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) from August 19-22 concluded here with the re-election of Shida Bolai as President and saw concerns ventilated about the cost of the digital switchover.

The team from the forest consulting company, Indufor, here to engage with stakeholders as part of the independent verification for Guyana’s fourth year’s performance under the forests partnership with Norway is inviting stakeholders to make inputs.

Police say that Investigations are being conducted into an incident that occurred at about 0600h yesterday at Waimu, Cuyuni River, in which Brazilian national Radiel Silva Lima, 29 years, was shot in his left leg.

Over 200 persons were treated when the US Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) teamed up with the Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana, St Joseph Mercy Hospital and the health ministry’s community officers to conduct a medical outreach in Region Nine.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – The inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League has been hailed by organisers and players as a “massive success.”

Dear Editor, On Monday August 5, and Saturday August 24, 2013 I saw articles pertaining to the Kara-Kara toll scenario in your newspaper.

Dear Editor, An article in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday of August 23 stated, “Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday declared the State is at war with criminals, as she announced more than a dozen new initiatives for which consensus had been reached in principle, in talks with the Opposition.”

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) last night confirmed the participation of representative men and women’s teams to the 55th senior Caribbean TT championships scheduled to serve off tomorrow morning at the Beausejour Indoor Stadium in St Lucia.

Dear Editor, Recent events in Guyana suggest that only in this republic can certain things happen.

Guyana’s Pan American Gold Medalist power lifter Gumendra Shewdas (Sub junior/U18) will taking to the World stage today at the World Championships in Killeen Texas USA where he is favoured to create history by winning the event.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – His back is feeling better and now Roger Federer wants to show everyone he is back.

Dear Editor, We saw the statement from President Donald Ramotar concerning the Amaila Fall Hydro Project and did not know whether to laugh or cry since his arguments for support of this now dead deal are premised on two things: no debt on the taxpayers (untrue – we will only be able to announce this after 20 years have elapsed); and a reduction in the consumer tariff  (although he quite skilfully drifted away from this and replaced it with “the tariff paid by GPL to Sithe for electricity will reduce by 40 per cent” – as different as chalk and cheese).

(Jamaica Observer) Relatives and forces loyal to two of West Kingston’s notorious gangsters have been waging a deadly battle for turf in that section of Kingston, but the police are adamant that the area will not again be controlled by criminals.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – U.N. weapons experts are due today to inspect a site where poison gas killed many hundreds of people in Damascus suburbs, amid calls from Western capitals for military action to punish the world’s worst apparent chemical weapons attack in 25 years.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) has certainly exposed itself in a recent media statement where at a meeting with President Donald Ramotar it called for the appointment of the acting Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Mr Rickford Vieira to be confirmed as Commissioner.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, (Reuters) – Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel stamped his authority on a processional Belgian Grand Prix yesterday to chalk up his fifth win in 11 races and stretch his overall lead to 46 points.

Toronto-based professional Ruchika Arora is an aspiring non-fiction writer with a particular interest in examining contemporary issues through a social-political lens.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England, inspired by Kevin Pietersen’s brilliant 62, fell just short of a dramatic victory as the fifth Ashes test ended in a draw on an enthralling final day at The Oval yesterday.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Three leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and the movement’s former arch-foe Hosni Mubarak faced separate trials yesterday on similar charges of involvement in the killing of protesters.

Fancy cart: Who said a donkey cart couldn’t be a fancy ride? 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been ranked as possibly the worst place for women to do business in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Two weeks ago, we began an examination of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (IACAC) which was signed on 29 March 1996 and which came into force on 6 March 1997. 

Dear Editor, It is good to know that our hinterland schools are putting out students who are fully matriculated, as in the case of sixteen-year-old Mary Parker who got passes in ten subjects at this year’s CXC examinations.

HOUSTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – With Texas one of the few bright spots in the U.S.

Dear Editor, Guyana has lost a brilliant mind, a doyen in the legal profession with the passing of Shri Doodnauth Singh. 

 This week Stabroek News asked several vendors about their back to school bargains and what their sales have been like:Photos and interviews by Rayon Harrinandan and Tifaine RutherfordNalo and Ricky/Y and N Variety Store, Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling Road: `We sell mostly bags, so if you are buying bags depending on the price we will give you a discount.

This is our invention: These One Mile, Linden girls were having fun with their makeshift cart on Thursday.

If nothing else, the last 18 months must make crystal clear to the government that accountability with public funds and the highest standards of financial probity must be adhered to. 

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Alastair Cook described winning the Ashes series as the “proudest moment of my life” after the hosts narrowly failed to win the final test at The Oval yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A St Catherine businessman was robbed and killed at his home in Montague Heights in the parish Saturday night.