Articles published on Sunday, February 9, 2014
The US Embassy today took the unprecedented step of issuing a warning to its citizens here to avoid travelling to the US on Caribbean Airlines flights here from tomorrow through to Wednesday.
Two passengers were nabbed separately yesterday at the Timehri airport with approximately 20 kilogrammes of suspected cocaine in tamarind achar.
These huge machines broke down yesterday along Saffon Street and created traffic chaos.
Cheering for schoolmates at the schools’ Mashramani competition on Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Reigning Road March King Adrian Dutchin (seventh, right) joined a few of this year’s Carib Soca Monarch contenders and other performers for a concert in the Main Street Avenue yesterday as Court Guyana Inc launched its Mashramani 2014 promotion, ‘The Courts Boom Mash,’ in which customers will receive 5% off any audio purchase made this month.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) says that the anti-money laundering bill must be rid of all of its weaknesses in crucial talks today prior to its consideration in Parliament tomorrow.
During continuing investigations into armed robberies on the Upper Corentyne, Berbice, the police say that at about 2030h last night, police ranks went to a house at No.
AUCKLAND, (Reuters) – Neil Wagner captured four wickets at crucial times as New Zealand held off a counter-attacking India to win the first test at Eden Park by 40 runs after tea on the fourth day today.
(Trinidad Express) The chief executive of a small company which recovers vehicles using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology was shot on Friday night and later died at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
(Trinidad Express) A principal of a Tobago school is expected to appear before a Scarborough Magistrate tomorrow facing 75 sex charges.
Just over a year after being completed, the $77.7 million Sand Creek Secondary School in south central Rupununi has developed major cracks in the building and parents fear that the building could collapse, a resident of the area has said.
Story and photos by Kenesha Fraser In the early years, according to residents, a white man named Daniel, who owned the sugar factory in the village of Sparta on the Essequibo coast, bought land in the area nearby, and the place was later called ‘Danielstown’.
Some progress was made by government and APNU members of the parliamentary select committee examining the Anti-Money Laundering/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill during a six-hour meeting yesterday, but the talks will continue today to iron out two outstanding issues, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said last evening.
Police on the West Demerara are investigating the sexual molestation of a five-year-old girl and up to late yesterday afternoon, three persons were being questioned.
GPL’s Chinese-funded US$45 million Transmission Upgrade programme will not put an end to the company’s technical losses says Prime Minister Samuel Hinds who adds that about US$100 million more will be needed to work on secondary distribution circuits and feeders.
A 33-year-old Berbice man was taken into police custody for reportedly abducting a schoolgirl and sexually assaulting her on Thursday morning.
Guyana suffered their first defeat in their final preliminary round match of this year’s NAGICO Super50 Regional limited overs competition when they went under to Jamaica by 10 runs in their top of the table Group A clash at the Queen’s Park Oval last night.
Budget season There are 49 days left within which the 2014 budget must be presented to parliament.
Following a three-day ‘awareness’ trip to the Cuyuni area, Region 7, the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) said it remains concerned about the conditions under which women in the interior are forced to work and about the number of young girls who are still being trafficked.
Political parties should be included under the ambit of new anti-money laundering laws, Accountant Christopher Ram has urged a parliamentary committee.
King Sugar As indicated previously, several analysts view the EC’s legal denunciation of the Sugar Protocol (SP) in 2009 as the “final nail in the coffin of Guyana and the rest of Caricom’s sugar industry.”
SINGAPORE CITY, Singapore, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has supported a new proposal from the International Cricket Council (ICC) which was approved at the Board’s meeting in Singapore yesterday.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall has rejected a charge by Opposition Leader David Granger that the anti-money laundering amendment bill gives excessive powers to the Executive, saying that it is no different from similar legislation around the world.
Things haven’t gone to plan for either the West Indies or England as they prepare to contest the strange combination of three ODIs in Antigua and three Twenty20s in Barbados February 28 to March 15.
Particularly in the Caribbean the subject of drumming becomes very pertinent whenever African culture or the Month of Black History is celebrated.
The opposition has brought about real change, according to Opposition Leader David Granger, who says there has been a strengthened National Assembly and greater scrutiny of the executive despite constraints.
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) which will celebrate its 75th anniversary this year, has plans to stage a number of memorable events as part of its Golden Jubilee celebrations.
It is generally accepted that self-righteousness is a most unpleasant personality trait and character flaw.
No clear government policy has yet been articulated as it relates to possible activities at the New River Triangle in southern Guyana.
The Chief Justice’s decision in the budget case will not necessarily lead to what Opposition Leader David Granger, said might be a “car crash” or “unintended consequences.”
Ten teams are lined up to compete in the Citizen’s Bank Players Cup/GT Beer Golf championship today at the Lusignan Golf Club.
Among the number of significant social forces in the apparatus of daily life one encounters in the more developed world (US, Canada, Europe, etc) is the array of institutions functioning in those societies that serve, ultimately, to convey the opinions or positions of the average citizen to the persons and political parties in positions of rule.
In an effort to reignite the basketball flame, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) on Friday launched what is billed to be the nation’s biggest basketball tournament.
Damaged fuel injectors for a generator that supplies electricity to Port Kaituma residents have resulted in a series of outages in the area over the past two weeks, but Regional Vice Chairman Fermin Singh said power will be restored by Wednesday the latest.
The city and several communities on the outskirts were yesterday afternoon hit by blackout and the electricity for most areas was not fully restored until almost four hours later.
Each year since 1971 the powerful and influential of the world, the global super elite, have met in Davos in Switzerland to discuss the challenges facing the world economy.
The Athletic Association of Guyana’s (AAG) National Senior Championships, which was expected to be staged yesterday will now be held on February 24 at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An aid convoy came under fire in a besieged rebel district of Homs yesterday, threatening a United Nations-led operation to bring food and medicine to 2,500 people and evacuate civilians trapped by months of fighting in the Syrian city.
A joke making the rounds on the Internet says that if Argentina were a celebrity, it would be Justin Bieber — a rich, spoiled, irresponsible teenager, who always repeats the same mistakes, and always blames others for them.
The cream of the nation’s wheelsmen will once again turn the roadways of West Demerara into their battleground today when Hassan Mohamed continues his cycling calendar.
Relatives of an Anna Catherina man who was found floating face-down in the Cornelia Ida koker around 6 am on Friday say that they do not suspect foul play in his death.
The police say that at about 2100h on Friday evening, police ranks conducted a search on a residence at YY, North East La Penitence, Georgetown, during which an unlicensed 9mm pistol with five rounds was found.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla (Reuters) – One of Miami Beach’s most notorious pieces of real estate is back on the block: the asking price is almost $8.5 million.
Dear Editor, I write in reference to your article of Friday February 7, 2014 titled ‘Alarm sounded over lack of professionals for construction sector.’
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen played and won his first tournament, the Zurich Chess Challenge 2014, last week, following his famous victory over beaten Indian grandmaster and previous champ, Viswanathan Anand.
The final of the 2013 New Building Society (NBS) second division 40-overs-a-side competition between Young Warriors and No.
After an absence of three years, French Guiana will renew its rivalry with Guyana and Suriname for top honours in the Inter-Guiana Games this year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Attorney General Eric Holder plans widespread changes within the US Justice Department to benefit same-sex married couples, such as recognizing a legal right for them not to testify against each other in civil and criminal cases, according to excerpts of a speech yesterday.
Dear Editor, It is regrettable that our politicians continue to use the machinery of threat to execute their control tactics over the masses.
A KFC delivery man was yesterday afternoon rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was involved in an accident with a minibus on Mandela Avenue.
Dear Editor, I enclose a duplicate of a letter that three of us sent to the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, dated October 5, 2013, outlining the numerous flaws associated with the selected design for the proposed 1838 Indian Arrival Day monument.
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach US maritime borders as a response to the stationing of US vessels in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported yesterday.
(Continued from last week) The physical examination Look at and in the pup’s mouth.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Former West Indies cricket captain Courtney Walsh said he is happy to support the initiative of former wicketkeeper Junior Murray to start a cricket academy.
ALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (Reuters) – Spain’s Princess Cristina was questioned by a judge yesterday in a corruption case that has deepened public anger over graft among the ruling class and discontent with the royal family.
The political contortions in relation to the failure to pass the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill have left the public in a state of bewilderment.
Bromeliads belong to a family called Bromeliacea and originate from South and Central America.
Dear Editor, On February 5, I received a call from animal lover, Shalinii Singh (at 4.50 pm), telling me of an injured horse standing in the median on the Rupert Craig Highway (near Bel Air village).
