Daily Archive: Friday, October 4, 2013

The Ministry of Home Affairs today said that seven experts from the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate will be visiting Guyana from Monday 7th October 2013 to Tuesday 8th October 2013.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that Jamaican Shanique Myrie  is to be awarded J$3.6m (US$35,000).

Trumpeting the need for a cheap energy source to support investment and development, President Donald Ramotar yesterday said that the millions spent so far on the stalled Amaila Falls Hydropower Project have not been wasted and once again pledged to make it a reality.

A mother of four was yesterday stabbed multiple times at her home by two persons, one of whom was apprehended and confessed that her male accomplice was paid to commit the act.

First Secretary in the Chinese Embassy in Guyana, Jason Zhang yesterday urged Guyanese businessmen to exercise more diligence when trading with suppliers in China to avoid becoming victims of fraud.

A 14-year-old student of the South Ruimveldt Secondary School was stabbed with a scissors by a schoolmate yesterday after he refused to give him $20.

Guyana is leading the region in nursery education, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday boasted as she commissioned the new $19M Turkeyen Nursery School.

Approval for the formation of a SWAT team is just the government’s attempt to look good in its response to the current crime situation, according to former police commissioner Winston Felix.

As the Bangladesh under-19 team prepares for their seven ODI matches  against the West Indies U-19 boys, the tourists got some much needed practice in yesterday at the Providence stadium ahead of tomorrow’s warm-up match.

Guyanese businessman Alfred Ramsaran yesterday complained that goods he procured from Chinese merchants in Guyana and shipped to Brazil for sale were refused due to the fact that they were below the required quality standards.

(WICB) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board announced yesterday that its Selection Committee has named a 15-member Test squad for the West Indies tour of India, starting later this month.

APNU Shadow Works Minister Joseph Harmon yesterday warned inves-tors/financiers, including banks, taking part in the Marriott Guyana Project that the party may not honour any commitments made by the principals here.

Gunmen opened fire along Second Street, Agricola yesterday in response to a reported robbery attempt at the Two Brothers Gas Station.

A minibus conductor was yesterday accused of being found with a Kel-Tec rifle in his possession.

Motorcyclist Revon Austin, 22, who has been hospitalised after hitting two persons on Tuesday evening, has been charged with vehicular homicide.

Cabinet this week cleared a contract for $464.2M for the national school feeding programme for the year 2013-14.

Jamaican Professor Norman Girvan has been reappointed to the United Nations Good Offices process for finding a solution to the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela.

The People’s National Congress Reform will be celebrating the 56th anniversary of the founding of the party on 5th October 1957, a release from Congress Place said.

(BBC) Worcestershire’s Moeen Ali has been named Player of the Year by the Professional Cricketers’ Association.

The Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) of the United States Embassy in Guyana collaborated last weekend with the Ministry of Health and the Linden Care Foundation to conduct a medical outreach and humanitarian donation in Ituni and Kwakwani, Region 10.

Retrieve Raiders defeated Wismar Pistons 53-43 when action in the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA)/Trophy Stall Championships continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) hard court on Wednesday night.

DUBLIN, Ohio, (Reuters) – As much as players and officials like to talk up the competitive nature of the Presidents Cup there was also an end-of-season party atmosphere at Muirfield Village yesterday with even Tiger Woods joining in the fun.

Former prison officer Quacy Collins was yesterday sentenced to 25 months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to fraudulent conversion.

Banks DIH Limited yesterday appointed six sport ambassadors from several disciplines in recognition of their outstanding achievements and potential.

President Donald Ramotar has conceded that there has been a decline in the performance of the manufacturing sector, pointing to the continual fall in the sector’s contribution to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the years.

Dear Editor, On September 17 last, I was booked on a Caribbean Airlines flight bound for North America, when a most disturbing at the same time revealing incident took place at the Piarco International Airport.

Small, hardworking Guyanese businessmen who have consistently paid their bills on time but have, nonetheless, been largely shut out of the formal credit system are likely to benefit significantly from last week’s launch of the country’s first ever Credit Bureau.

Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Affairs and

The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) in collaboration with BOSAI Minerals Group Guyana Inc has installed three new lamps at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) hard court in Linden.

Much of what Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Clinton Urling had to say last weekend in his address at a Chamber dinner held to mark the launch of its 2013 Business Directory had to do with crime, its impact on the business community and what could or should be done to address the problem.

With just over a week remaining before he faces David Thomas, light welterweight prospect Kishawn ‘Special K’ Simon is brimming with confidence ahead of his bout at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the nation’s supplier of water and sanitation services, wishes to address the statements in Stabroek News, October 2, 2013 in the letter titled ‘Low water pressure at Uitvlugt Sideline Dam.’

NEW YORK,  CMC- Jamaica’s martial artists have captured two gold and a silver to stamp their class at the New York Taekwondo Open for a second straight year.

Dear Editor, The article captioned ‘Politics still holding back UG  -Ramotar’ (Stabroek News, October 2, 2013) states, “In her remarks to the gathering, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand read the speech made by the late president Cheddi Jagan at the institution’s inauguration in 1963.”

PALERMO, Italy,  (Reuters) – More than 300 people drowned or were feared dead after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa yesterday, one of the worst disasters of Europe’s chronic immigration crisis.

(Reuters) – The shutdown of the U.S. government appeared likely to drag on for another week and possibly longer as lawmakers consumed day three of the shutdown with a stalling game and there was no end in sight until the next crisis hits Washington around Oct.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to comments, purportedly made by Alliance For Change (AFC) spokesperson(s) who the Kaieteur News (September 27) identified as Mr Michael Carrington and the Stabroek News (September 27) as Mr David Patterson. 

(BBC) International cricket’s top run-scorer Sachin Tendulkar believes sub-continent teams will be hard to beat in the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Plans to enhance the levels of professionalism and raise service delivery standards among the country’s electricians and electrical contractors will be discussed at an October 12 meeting being held to resuscitate the currently defunct Guyana Electrical Contractors Association.

  Missed turn: The driver of this Audi A4, PNN 5813 apparently missed the turn at Borlam around 3 pm yesterday and landed in the trench.

Dear Editor, I hate to state the obvious but a SWAT team will not prevent or reduce crime.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)            *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

SHIMOGA, India,  CMC- Leon Johnson missed his century by nine runs as the West Indies A built a formidable total of 406 against India A on the second day of their unofficial four-day test match here yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A dramatic car chase through the streets of Washington from near the White House to the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States brought criminal charges against 13 suspected members of the hacking group Anonymous yesterday for allegedly attacking government, credit card and lobbying websites in a campaign in support of internet file-sharing.

GuyExpo: The gathering at the launching of GuyExpo last evening at the Sophia Exhibition Centre.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-West Indies Women head coach Sherwin Campbell has expressed disappointment with the batting performance of his team on the eve of their home series against New Zealand.

Dear Editor, We note the lengthy letter written by the Attorney General, Mr Anil Nandlall, dealing with the assent to Bills in the National Assembly (‘The President has untrammelled freedom …’ SN, September 30). 

A man was yesterday fined $10,000 for assaulting his common-law wife.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The first cyclone to threaten the U.S. coast this year formed over the Gulf of Mexico yesterday and was forecast to sweep through offshore oil installations before hitting the mainland between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, the U.S.

With post-harvest losses accounting for an estimated 40 per cent of the region’s agricultural produce, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is collaborating with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to roll out a plan that will see experts working with the region’s farmers to ensure that greater volumes of farming produce get to markets.

Dear Editor, It is very gratifying to see the US Ambassador sharing his thoughts on the Amaila Falls issue. 

DELHI, India, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago all-rounder Lendl Simmons says the presence of cricket legend Brian Lara has raised team morale in the Red Force campaign for the Champions League T20 title in India.

I’ll understand if some readers are saturated with this issue of Guyana’s now-entrenched narco-trans-shipment and trafficking status. 

     Upgrading… Hospitality Consultant Marcus Buek with members of staff of the Jerries Snackette chain during a recent training exercise.

 Welcome: Education Minister Priya Manickchand being welcomed yesterday at the commissioning of the new Turkeyen Nursery School at a ceremony  in the school’s compound.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban government appeared headed for its first serious clash with the island’s newly created “non-state” sector of small businesses over a prohibition on the sale of imported clothing and other goods.

Dear Editor, After months of hiding from the people, the so-called ‘pollster’ has resurfaced to announce another duplicitous poll in Guyana in September 2013.

Director of the Guyana Metal Recyclers Association Desmond Sears on Wednesday distanced the membership of the organisation at the alleged recent discovery of 3,000 ft of service wire belonging to the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) from the premises of what was described in another section of the media as a ‘dealership’ located at Princes and Bishop streets.

Professor Norman Girvan, in an address entitled, ‘Reinventing the CSME,’ to the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO) in Barbados, last Friday, assessed the crisis in the regional economic integration process, focusing on the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME), and proposed a possible way out.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago,  CMC- Swedish cyclist Johan Svensson has won the second stage of the division one race at the annual Tobago International Classic on Wednesday.