Daily Archive: Thursday, February 13, 2014

(WICB) Port of Spain, Trinidad – Barbados defeated Guyana by seven wickets to book a date with Trinidad & Tobago in the NAGICO Super50 final in Port of Spain.

(WICB) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board advised on Thursday that its Selection Panel has named 13-member squads for a brief series against ICC Associate nation Ireland.

The police are probing the death of an East Canje man, who was found dead this morning at his work site.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s parliament erupted in mayhem today when a legislator fired pepper spray in the lower house in protest against a bill on a new state.

(Barbados Nation) The workers’ unions may not know the lay-off numbers, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) surely does.

Independent medical examinations of Colwyn Harding, a former detainee who has alleged that a policeman raped him with a baton, have found that his rectum was damaged as a result of the insertion of a foreign object, his lawyer said yesterday.

Alarmed over a reported plot by organized crime groups in the United States and Italy to smuggle as much as 1,000 pounds of cocaine from Guyana to the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, leaders of the main opposition APNU yesterday met with senior army officers.

Prominent Essequibo rice farmer and miller, Kayman Sankar passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 87.

From Clifton Ross in Trinidad Man-of-the-match and Trinidad skipper Dwayne Bravo treated the “Trini Posse” with an appetizer ahead of the Saturday’s final as their team crucified Jamaica by seven wickets at the Queen’s Park Oval Ground in the first semi-final of the NAGICO Regional Super50 tournament.

The anti-money laundering committee is to seek a teleconference with the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) as it continues a laborious process towards settling a bill which could rescue the country from the repercussions of blacklisting.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC- Tagenarine Chanderpaul compiled a powerful half century to guide West Indies to a comfortable six wicket win over New Zealand in a warm-up match yesterday before the start of their campaign in the ICC Under 19 World Cup here tomorrow.

A report into the investigations into Santa Rosa Primary school students being made to fetch water has been completed and is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly soon, according to Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker.

From Clifton Ross in Trinidad   Malta Supreme Guyana will today look to take one more step towards lifting the Regional 50-over title for the 10th time when they face Barbados in the final semi-final of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/NAGICO Super-50 tournament.

Laparkan Trading’s future plans to introduce air cargo service to Jamaica and to use the island as a hub for the reconsolidation and transport of ocean cargo from the US destined to the smaller countries of the Caribbean region, were discussed when a team from the Consulate of Jamaica in Miami, Florida led by Consul General Franz Hall met last Friday for a working lunch with Laparkan Trading senior executives headed by Chairman Glen Khan.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has expressed regret for the delay in the payment of benefits to survivors of the Camp Groomes explosion in 2000.

A 44-year-old psychiatric patient reportedly burnt her house down around 7:30 am yesterday at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice and has been taken into police custody.

The National Assembly on Monday night unanimously agreed to increase the membership of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) from seven to ten, in order to make room for representatives of cultural and ethnic organisations.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) received a timely shot in the arm yesterday when regional conglomerate Ansa McAL pledged its support for the International Goodwill tournament which boxes off tomorrow.

The police at Charity, Essequibo Coast are investigating the alleged abduction of a 14-year-old girl from Tenez Ferme, Lower Pomeroon River.

Accused of chopping his neighbour after a night of binge drinking, Mark Peters, 18, of Kwebanna Village in the North West District, was on Monday remanded to prison on a wounding charge.

Dear Editor,   Taking into consideration the ongoing debates in Guyana on the Anti-Money Laundering Bill, please see attached a copy of the letter from HE Nikolay Smirnov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana to the Leader of the Opposition Mr David Granger.

Latchmansingh and Rosignol Primary Schools topped their respective zones in the latest action of the Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket Festival.

Dear Editor, Please let me from the outset make it pellucid, that I have no interest in the internal decision-making mechanisms of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) neither do I have any intention of challenging the same.

A man was sentenced to nine months in prison on Tuesday, after he admitted to snatching $5,000 from a passenger in a taxi at the Demico House car park last October.

Beepat’s Trading, sponsors of the second annual Milo U-20 school tournament boosted the preparation of the 24 competing schools yesterday when its representatives provided two footballs to each team.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) last Friday initiated a new system for randomly examining imports and Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur is hopeful that it will result in fewer false declarations.

 Dear Editor, As Guyanese in Lethem continue to endure lengthy blackouts, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds declared in an open letter published by the press, that the government has kept its side of the bargain so the people of that community must pay a higher electricity tariff.

An Eccles woman was on Monday accused of attempting to blackmail another woman, claiming that she had a DVD showing the woman’s husband engaged in sexual activity.

Dear Editor, I am a resident of Annai Village, North Rupununi who recently visited Stabroek TV’s office on Robb Street to make enquiries as to the process involved in signing up for DIRECTV.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) annual Sports Admin-istrators’ Course will get underway today at Olympic House, 76 High Street, Kingston, Georgetown.

There are 25 new additions to the ranks of the Guyana Prison Service with the conclusion of its latest Basic Recruit Training Course and Home Minister Clement Rohee has warned them to be wary of their behaviour due to media scrutiny of the security sector.

Dear Editor, As Executive Chairman of the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) I would like to call for better judgment and a sense of patriotism to prevail among Guyana’s parliamentarians, especially those in the opposition, so as to allow for the much anticipated and expeditious passage of the Anti-Money Laundering/ Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) legislation.

Merundoi Inc on Monday received funding from the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) for an edutainment project aimed at combating domestic violence.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – At least two people were shot dead yesterday during anti-government protests in Caracas, escalating the worst bout of unrest in Venezuela since turmoil after President Nicolas Maduro’s election last year.

Dear Editor, For several days now there have been umpteen hours of power outage on a daily basis in Cumberland and other areas in East Canje, Berbice.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC-The Barbados Men’s Rugby Sevens team has qualified for the XX Common-wealth Games set for Glasgow Scotland in July, following the withdrawal of Nigeria.

Yuvraj Singh was the most expensive buy on the first day of the IPL 2014 auction, a relatively conservative exercise in which 70 players were bought for a total of Rs 212.35 crores (approx.

Republic Bank has again thrown its support behind the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s steel band competition, donating a cheque valued $2.8M for the hosting of the event set for this weekend.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Late call-up Shaun Marsh scored an unbeaten century in his first test in two years to lead a middle-order recovery as Australia closed at 297 for four on the first day of the first test against South Africa yesterday.

Dear Editor, When will Messrs Ramjattan, Trotman, Nagamootoo, Patterson et al show the testicular fortitude to ask Nigel Hughes to leave?

PANAMA/MADRID,  (Reuters) – The Panama Canal Authority said yesterday it had reached an initial agreement to resolve a weeks-long dispute over cost overruns on a project to widen the 100-year-old waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is observing its 125th anniversary this year with a roster of activities, including a lecture series in collaboration with the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Dozens of legal luminaries throughout the Caribbean including several chief justices will attend the special sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday February 19, to say farewell to one of its judges, Desiree Bernard, the lone female on the court.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former test players Angus Fraser and Paul Collingwood have been brought back into the England fold as a selector and coach respectively.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday told a contentious sitting of the House of Representatives that her administration spent a total of J$117.825 million on travels for Cabinet members between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2013.

The Children’s Mashramani Competitions 2014 were declared open yesterday by  Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand at the National Cultural Centre.

Dear Editor, I write on behalf of Maranatha Ministries International Inc of which I am the chief executive.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) is showing its support for this year’s Republic Day celebrations by sponsoring a Spelling Bee competition in Region Six.

The recent admission in Parliament that Guyana has just 3 working breathalyzer kits in the entire country, which would obviously negatively impact on the functioning of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) as regards road safety should be of serious concern to all of us.

Dear Editor, I note with interest Republic Bank’s sponsorship of the Mashramani Panorama, now in its sixth year according the captioned picture, provided by GINA, and published in the Guyana Times yesterday.

Ironic, isn’t it, that on the same day news flared up in the United States and Europe that the Italian mafia connects with Guyana to smuggle narcotics across the world, General Secretary of the ruling political party, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, was launching a verbal attack against the free, independent press?

A man was on Tuesday sentenced to one year in jail after being found guilty of breaking and entering a vendor’s stall at Merriman Mall and stealing a quantity of articles.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Group made a net loss of US$198 million last year, as disclosed by Fitch ratings agency in its most recent report on the telecom.