Daily Archive: Friday, November 8, 2013

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Tom Cruise called reports that he had abandoned his daughter Suri after his divorce from actress Katie Holmes “patently false” in court documents for a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit against a German media company.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A son of Suriname’s president invited people he thought were from the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah to set up a base in his country to attack Americans in exchange for millions of U.S.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2350h.

During yesterday, the police say they conducted a drug eradication operation at 15 Miles, Ituni Backdam.

Around 150 persons graduated on Wednesday from Port Mourant, Region 6, and Golden Grove, Enmore, Buxton and Mon Repos in Region 4, after completing the Information and Communication Technology programme, which was conducted over a seven-week period, by the Caribbean Development Bank-funded Basic Needs Trust Fund in collaboration with the Board of Industrial Training .

A delegation from Guyana, led by Robert M. Persaud, Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, consisting of both private and public sector representatives participated in the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the World Gold Council (WGC) Seminar on Gold and Sustainability that was held from November 7 – 8, 2013 at the United Nations Secretariat, New York, U.SA,

The deal under which the Chinese forestry company Bai Shan Lin is building a car-park for the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) reeks of impropriety and should be terminated, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA).

(Jamaica Gleaner) It took Mark Simmonds, the new British minister with responsibility for the Caribbean, mere seconds of his 24-hour visit to Jamaica to scorch the hope of local reparation agitators clamouring for compensation for slavery.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Fifty-two packages of cocaine weighing 57.5 kg, with an estimated street value of US$57,000 or J$57 million, were seized yesterday in a joint operation by Jamaica Customs and the Trans-national Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) at Kingston Freezone.

At about 1930h. last night, the police say that the body of Balkissoon Dachan called “Boyo”, 42 years, of Rosignol, WBB, was found hanging in his cell at the Blairmont Police Station.

(Cricinfo) West Indies collapsed from 101 for 1 to 168 all out, plummeting to an innings defeat inside three days at Eden Gardens.

APNU and the AFC effectively killed the government’s hopes of passing the anti-money laundering bill before a November 18th deadline  set by the CFATF when they voted against its third reading last night in the National Assembly.

Government yesterday tabled a new Bill intended to retain Cabinet’s role in granting no-objections to procurement following the creation of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) but the Opposition is not likely to offer its support.

The National Assembly last evening committed the Telecommunications Bill and the Public Utilities Commission (Amendment) Bill to a special select committee with the Opposition saying that while they supported the Bills, they had concerns over the power of the Minister among other things.

The setting of a process to define the maritime boundary between Guyana and Venezuela was a satisfactory outcome of the October 17 talks between the two states following Caracas’ seizure of the research vessel RV Teknik Perdana, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has said.

There continues to be overpayments to contractors with several ministries and regions facing serious challenges in being able to recover amounts overpaid on various contracts, according to the Auditor General’s report for 2012 which was tabled in the National Assembly yesterday.

The UK Home Office last week announced arrangements for the introduction of pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening in Guyana for those applying for long-term visas.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee was yesterday admitted to the Woodlands Hospital.

Murder accused Cyon Collier, called ‘Picture Boy,’ yesterday denied the fatal shooting of brothers Ray Walcott, called ‘Sugar,’ and his younger brother, Carl Andrews, called ‘Alo,’ at Victoria, East Coast Demerara in September 2006 In an unsworn statement in the High Court, Collier once again maintained his innocence in the murders, for which he is being retried.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is now hosting a job bank on its website to facilitate job placement for at-risk youths.

Ahead of today’s action in the 2013 edition of the Guyana Softball Cup 111, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony last evening said that he hoped the tournament will be used as a medium of binding people together while promoting healthy living lifestyles.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes yesterday quashed the committal of murder accused Leon Paul and granted him $250,000 bail, after upholding submissions that his committal was bad in law.

The mother of Koodesh Daljit, 22, who was remanded to prison for murdering a teenager at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice (WBB) is living in fear after threats to burn her son’s house were apparently carried out.

The Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Organization received a shot in the arm for its 24th annual year-end football tournament yesterday when the Bushy Park Sawmills became a major sponsor.

A second accident on the Essequibo Coast in less than eight hours claimed the life of another man on Wednesday night.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has signaled its non-support of the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill 2012 citing several reasons, sparking a response by three major local cricketing bodies who made clear their backing of the Bill and who urged the regional body to also support it.

Cabinet has given its no-objection to five contracts, three of which are for road rehabilitation and construction in Region Four to the tune of $143 million.

MONTREAL, Canada,  CMC- A report on the state of Jamaica’s drug testing programme is expected to be examined next week during a meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in South Africa.

A clash of titanic proportions is expected when St Pius tackles West Ruimveldt in the final of the Pee Wee U11 football tourney tomorrow at the Thirst Park ground at 4.00 pm.

KOLKATA, India ,CMC- Shane Shillingford grabbed four wickets to lead a West Indies fightback but a seventh-wicket stand between Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin erased those gains as India remained ahead in the first test match here yesterday.

National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed has organized back-to-back events this weekend to keep the competitive juices of the nation’s wheelsmen flowing ahead of next week’s seventh annual Ride For Life five-stage road race.

A West Ruimveldt man was yesterday remanded on an attempted murder charge after a court heard that his alleged victim had to have one his kidneys removed.

(BBC) Michael Carberry is in line to complete a remarkable turnaround in his career if he is chosen for England in the opening Ashes Test.

West Coast Berbice resident Ian Fraser will be spending the next two years in jail after he admitted to stealing from his cousin.

Machinery Corporat-ion of Guyana Ltd (MACORP) in collaboration with the Lusignan Golf Club, yesterday launched its 7th Annual Invitational Golf tournament, scheduled to tee-off tomorrow at the Lusignan Golf Course.

KINGSTOWN, St.Vincent,  CMC- Lloyd Small has resigned as First Vice-President of the St.Vincent

A flurry of punches will be thrown today when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) stages its annual national Open championships at the National Gymn-asium.

Despite significant strides in the fight against the spread of malaria, Vector Control Services faces several difficulties, ignorance by the general public about the disease as well as a shortage of equipment.

The Machinery Corporation of Guyana Ltd (Macorp) is further consolidating its already considerable investment in providing critical technical support and services to the country’s mining sector with a $100 million investment in the establishment of a mining support facility at Port Kaituma.

Murshid (leader) of the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) Haseeb Yusuf is well on his way to recovery at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), a family member said yesterday.

Five years after the signing of a trade and development agreement between the Cariforum member states and the European Union aimed at adjusting the trading regime between the two regions, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling believes the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) has been underperforming as a tool for enhancing trading relations between Europe and the region.

NEW YORK, CMC – The fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, wants to run the 200 metres in under 19 seconds and possibly as early as 2014.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on Wednesday announced that Cabinet has offered no objections to an MoU between Guyana and a Canadian firm to recycle solid waste.

The Government of Guyana has signed on to a complex agreement with the Government of Norway under which Guyana is to receive from Norway significant sums of money, in fact, tens of millions of US dollars, based on verifiable evidence of Guyana’s  preservation of its rainforests.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) awarded four young women awards valued at least $100,000 at its 2012/2013 Chief-of-Staff Awards.

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands,  CMC- Trinidad and Tobago have been drawn in Group B along with host and seeded team Cayman Islands, Honduras and Mexico for the 2014 CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship to be hosted in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, from January 9 to 19.

APNU MP Joseph Harmon is questioning whether government is using funding approved by the National Assembly to move ahead with the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion, while saying the opposition is still to receive word from government on its concerns about the project.

Second Instalment This series of articles is being published by the Stabroek Business in support of the initiative being undertaken by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) to enhance public awareness of the mining sector’s thrust to reduce and eventually remove mercury from local gold-mining operations Many technologies exist that do not involve the use of mercury in the gold recovery process.

Queenstown FC hammered the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) 8-0 when action in the Interim Management Committee of the Essequibo/Pomeroon Football Association (EPFA) Premier League continued at the NOC ground on Wednesday.

Dear Editor,   The seizure and sacrifices of our Capital City, Georgetown continue unabated- all with a clear, narrow, harmful, political objective.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) commissioned its new state-of-the-art Yo’great Yogurt manufacturing plant last Friday and it is examining entry into two key Caribbean markets by the first quarter of next year.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will join nuclear talks between major powers and Iran in Geneva today in an attempt to nail down a long-elusive accord to start resolving a decade-old standoff over Tehran’s atomic aims.

Public Relations Officer of the recently established Guyana Fashion Council (GFC) Andrea Braithwaite is optimistic about what the new organisation can do for the sector in Guyana.

Dear Editor,   The increase of vehicles in and around the city will continue and also the traffic congestion if we do not fix the problem.

Inadequate education and health provisions, as well a problematic market system were some of the issues heard by Minister within the Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker during a recent visit to communities in Region Ten.

MIRANSHAH/PESHAWAR, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban rejected the idea of peace talks with the government after electing hardline commander Mullah Fazlullah, whose men shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last year, as their new leader yesterday.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) believes that in the matter of the approximately US$20 million which the country will probably not be able to collect under its forest protection agreement with Norway on account of increased levels of deforestation, the mining sector may have a virtually clear conscience.

The Gandhi Youth Organization on Woolford Avenue on Tuesday held a satsangh to commemorate its 60th anniversary.

Dear Editor, My attention has been directed to a report in the newspapers over the week-end that the National Road Safety Council organized the National Road Safety Month emphasizing the importance of education and vigorous campaigning toward the reduction of road accidents in the country. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 536’s trading results showed consideration of $13,360,923 from 322,086 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 535 which showed consideration of $3,388,135 from 8,673 shares traded in 3 transactions. 

BOSTON/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday proposed banning artificial trans fats in processed food ranging from cookies to frozen pizza, citing the risk of heart disease.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The hardest nut in men’s tennis again proved resistant to the heaviest of sledgehammers as Novak Djokovic absorbed the brute force of Juan Martin del Potro to book his place in the last four of the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday.

Ongoing initiatives to boost local honey production by promoting the development of more urban hives continue to manifest themselves in an increasing number of honey shows across in Georgetown and its environs President of the Guyana Apiculture Society (GAS) Linden Stewart told Stabroek Business on Monday that GAS Honey Day, which is being staged from 10:00 hrs today outside the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) is designed to create a greater awareness of the role bees play in economies beyond their widely-known production of honey.

(Reuters) – Lance Armstrong believes he was treated unfairly and singled out for punishment by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) after being banned for life for doping.

Dear Editor, I live in the Forshaw Street, Queenstown area within the boundaries of New Garden and Oronoque streets and was subjected to an onslaught of squibs from Saturday evening November 2nd and again on Sunday, November 3rd from 5 pm to 12 midnight non-stop.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Twitter Inc shares rose 73 percent in a frenzied trading debut that drove the seven-year-old company’s value to $25 billion and evoked the heady days of the dot-com bubble.

More than forty years after Pandit Bhola Ojah pioneered a family business selling cooking spices from door to door in villages on the West Coast Deme-rara, his grandson, Ram Prashad, is keeping the tradition alive.

Dear Editor, Mr. Andrew Campbell in Wednesday’s edition of your newspaper `All the Region One swimmers can’t be drawn from Moruca’ sought to pacify me and failed miserably.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – – Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said yesterday.

Just over a year ago, our interest was piqued by  the peace process initiated by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with his country’s revolutionary Marxist-Leninist guerrillas, the FARC, in which Cuba and Norway were playing key mediating roles (October 26, 2012, Colombia and the FARC).

(Trinidad Express) An Arima man was killed in a drive-by shooting during rush hour traffic in Couva yesterday afternoon.