Daily Archive: Monday, January 27, 2014

The Ministry of Health today, presented the keys to seven semi-equipped ambulances to hospitals in Regions Two, Three, Five, Six and Ten.

Protesters carrying placards and chanting their concerns during the opening of the PPP/C office in Linden on Saturday.

Police arrayed in front of protesters at Saturday’s opening of the PPP/C office in Linden.

PPP/C Region 10 Representative Neil Kumar speaking at the opening of the PPP/C office in Linden on Saturday.

The second Summit of leaders of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) will officially open today in the Capital of Cuba, Havana.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC-A controversial proposal designed to put more power in international cricket in the hands of India, Australia and England has been re-drafted for presentation before the ICC meeting in Dubai tomorrow, reports indicate.

Today, Surinamese Ambassador to Guyana, Nisha Kurban-Baboe, made a courtesy call on Guyana’s Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, and a number of important issues were discussed.

Ryan Brown 34 years old of Bartica, Essequibo River is missing after he fell into the Mazaruni River at an area called Itakie Falls, according to a release today from Marad.

LOS ANGELES  (Reuters) – Two unconventional acts, French electronic music DJs Daft Punk and New Zealand teen Lorde, took home the top Grammy awards on Sunday in a night that rewarded robots and newcomers, and recognized marriage equality.

Steve Richard Bacchus, 21,  is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the death of Police Special Constable Quincy Wright which occurred in Guyhoc Park, Georgetown, on January 24, 2014.

Popular designer and entertainment promoter Trevor Rose was yesterday morning shot dead and two other occupants of the car he was in were injured in what police later said could have been the result of road rage on the Eccles Access Road, East Bank Demerara.

Corentyne residents incensed over a  spate of robberies blocked the main road at No.48 Village yesterday after the latest attack and accused the police of involvement.

Given the seriousness of the alleged offences by the police against Colwyn Harding and its wide coverage in the media, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Saturday said that an independent inquiry should be held into the matter.

Budget talks between the government and opposition appear to be effectively dead with APNU spokesman on finance Carl Greenidge saying that the time available between now and the laying of the budget leaves no opportunity for meaningful and full discussions even as the government accused the coalition of being “dishonest” about proposed talks.

The St Joseph Mercy Hospital says it will release a statement today on the recent deaths of a young mother and her newborn baby.

Three persons are in custody following the Saturday morning robbery and killing of security guard Chandrabhan Persaud who was found bound and gagged at the Lucky Dollar Rose Hall branch.

One hundred and three residents from several housing areas in Region Three were on Saturday presented with keys to their homes under the Government’s core home initiative which targets single parents, the differently abled and the elderly.

An arch in memory of the 11 Lusignan residents murdered in January 2008 was last night commissioned in the East Coast village.

A serving member of the Guyana Police Force has faced various hardships after trying to get to the bottom of the fatal shooting of her son by police last October at Dundee, Mahaicony.

Score’s Even was billed to win yesterday’s feature A and Lower 1400m (seven furlongs) event of the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Race Meet.

The fishermen who were arrested and kept at the Anna Regina Police Station in relation to cargo found on their boat believed to have been taken from the sunken vessel Stollie 1, have been released.

The verification of Guyana’s deforestation rate for Year 3 of the Guyana-Norway forests protection partnership has been completed and is expected to be released soon.

Anand Sanasie, Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday said that he was satisfied with the national team’s preparatory camp ahead of the 2014 NAGICO Super50 tournament and expects the team to return home with their 10th Regional 50-over title when the tournament bowls off on Thursday in Trinidad and Tobago.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Saturday said that it will move to have every act of torture or shooting by the police over the last 20 years investigated.

President of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Alfred Mentore has praised all-rounder and skipper of the national team for this year’s NAGICO Super50 tournament Christopher Barnwell for being named captain and said that he hopes the team successfully hunts down its 10th regional title when the tournament bowls off on Thursday in Trinidad and Tobago.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Stanislas Wawrinka held firm in a match of high drama to defeat an injured Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3 and win his maiden grand slam title at the Australian Open  yesterday.

Dear Editor, I believe that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) should issue a statement setting out its position on Mr.

Permanent Secretary of the Culture Ministry Alfred King says that he was not aware of an annual subvention for Lichas Hall in the Ministry’s budget, weeks after committee members of the theatre said that the hall was receiving a subvention since 2008.

Dear Editor, APNU/AFC have recently proposed that the PPP/C Government initiate a National Flood Control Plan funded by the Government and possibly International Agencies/Donors to come up with solutions to solve the recurring flooding of coastal Guyana and other areas which has brought so much suffering to the people living in the low-lying areas prone to flooding with resulting damage to their properties at every cloud burst.

(The Sports Xchange) – Jamal Crawford scored a season-best 37 points and had 11 assists, and Blake Griffin scored 30 points, as the Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Toronto Raptors 126-118.

The renovated People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) office in Linden will be an active on.

Dear Editor, The action of the Deputy Mayor of the Georgetown City Council in addressing the Town Clerk of the city council as Acting Town Clerk could at best be described as an act of disdain and disrespect on the part of the Deputy Mayor who should be guiding and not misleading the council.

(Reuters) – England wilted under pressure as Australia edged home by five runs in a low-scoring thriller in Adelaide yesterday to win the five-match series 4-1.

In just over two weeks’ time, international and local musicians will perform in what is billed as the first world musical festival in the Rupununi.

Dear Editor, I pen these words firstly to congratulate publicly the owner/s of 104.3 FM radio station in the mining town.

BANGUI,  (Reuters) – At least eight people were killed in mob violence in Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, yesterday as senior officers from the Seleka rebel movement fled the city, according to the country’s Red Cross and a rights group.

Appointments made overseas, such as in the case with the Honorary Consul for Guyana in Mumbai, Dr Ajeenkya DY Patil, are usually not publicised locally but the information is updated on the Foreign Ministry’s website, an official said.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Newly-appointed Jamaica vice-captain Nikita Miller says it will be a big blow playing without opener Chris Gayle in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) NAGICO Super50 Regional cricket tournament, however the team is prepared to fight on without him.

Dear Editor, A few questions for the Linden Chamber of Commerce: (1) Has the government’s tax regime of 16% VAT imposed on top of a 33% rate of income tax, the reduction in government spending and the practice of large injections of money in the town being monopolized by persons not resident here, not been factors in the severe reduction in Lindeners’ incomes and the town’s economic strangulation? 

(Trinidad Express) Captured on camera. This is what National Security Minister Gary Griffith hopes to achieve with a now-functioning network of CCTV cameras that has been in active use since last October to monitor roads, highways and the activity of Trinidadians across the country.

Head of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes has called for greater protection and more responsive law enforcement for women miners.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – Hungarians collaborated with Nazis in sending nearly half a million Jews to their deaths, Hungary’s president said yesterday in a rare public acknowledgement of a war-time past that Jewish groups say is often glossed over.

Dear Editor, I must inform the Guyanese public of my continued victimization by officers within the Department of Education in New Amsterdam, one in particular, and an overall agenda by this vindictive government, who I voted for during the last election. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out a missile strike in Somalia yesterday targeting a suspected militant leader with ties to al Qaeda and al Shabaab, a U.S.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – About 100 golfers are expected to tee off at the Caribbean Association of Neurosurgeons (CANS) annual golf tournament in Montego Bay on Saturday.

LONDON, CMC – England cricket captain Alastair Cook will miss his team’s tour of the Caribbean, starting next month.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ziggy Marley won his second solo Best Reggae Album Grammy yesterday for his live In Concert set.

(Part I) During the last week or so, the purchase of drugs and medical supplies for the Ministry of Health and the Georgetown Hospital once again made headline news in the print media.

Politikles

This week we asked ten men and women living along the Essequibo Coast to talk about the issues affecting them the most and what they would like to see improved.

Dear Editor, GTUC calls on the Director of Public Prosecutions to subpoena all medical records related to Colwyn Harding’s surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital and strongly condemns what appears to be an attempt to cover up a crime committed by members of law enforcement.

(Trinidad Guardian) New India Assurance Company Ltd is planning to expand to Guyana from its T&T subsidiary’s head office in Port-of-Spain, the company’s global chairman said on Thursday evening.

COLUMBIA, Md., (Reuters) – A gunman who shot and killed two people at a Maryland mall was a 19-year-old who lived with his mother in a nearby Washington suburb and arrived at the shopping center in a taxi about an hour before opening fire, police said yesterday.

Ivan Persaud, a vice president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), says that a perusal of the GFF Constitution has found several irregularities in the ruling by the GFF Congress which recently suspended executives of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) for deliberately ignoring its directive.

Tomorrow, the Board of the International Cricket Council (ICC) will begin deliberations on a proposal by its Finance & Commercial Affairs (FCA) committee for sweeping and astonishing changes in the way the game is run and how tours are scheduled.