Daily Archive: Thursday, March 6, 2014

On February 28, the Education Ministry’s Schools Welfare Department in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security and the Guyana Police Force visited ‘E’ Field, South Sophia investigating the absence of school-aged children from school.

Police say that at about 1030h  today, they were alerted concerning four men along with a parked motor car and motor cycle in the vicinity the Rubis Gas Station at Mc Doom, EBD.

Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy Bryan Hunt (left) recently met with Devanand Ramdatt upon his return from the United States after participating in the Embassy-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) exchange.

Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General Anil Nandlall (right) yesterday handed over two sets of books to Professor Jacob Opadeyi, Vice Chancellor of UG, at the Ministry of Legal Affairs.

The U.S. Embassy brought together leaders of the World Wildlife Fund Guianas and the Guyana Wildlife Division with faculty and students from the University of Guyana to celebrate World Wildlife Day, according to a release from the US embassy. 

The Guyana Human Rights Association today said it won’t be participating in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the killing of Dr Walter Rodney.

As part the coverage of the Guyana leg of the Queen’s Baton Relay ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer, the BBC World News selected German’s Restaurant for a video feature.

At about 0515h.  today,  the police say that Inshan Ramlakhan, 21 years, of Mon Repos, ECD, was walking along the Railway Embankment, Blygezight, Georgetown, when he was attacked by a man armed with a handgun.

Although the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is confident that it will be ready to hold local government polls 180 days after a date is set by the local government minister, sources say it is unlikely that it can meet the August 1 deadline recently set by the National Assembly.

Caricom Heads of Government have agreed to discuss UWI’s decision to not guarantee UG’s 2014 batch of law graduates placement at the Hugh Wooding Law School when they meet this weekend, GINA says.

-boat owner’s membership suspended, workers banned from complex The owner of a Corentyne boat that was robbed by a Guyanese fishing crew in Coronie, Suriname last month is denying that she has accepted compensation, although no report was made in the neighbouring country.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) has identified $200M to start works on the construction of a two-storey maternity hospital for women and children.

The body of a 14-year-old boy was discovered on a street at Foulis, East Coast Demerara yesterday and it is believed that he was the victim of a vehicular accident.

A businessman was fined $20,000 by a city magistrate yesterday after he admitted to verbally abusing and threatening alleged police rape victim Colwyn Harding.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is back home from the United States where he sought medical treatment for an ailment.

The main opposition APNU is convinced that government is sabotaging the work of the select committee on the anti-money laundering amendment bill after Chief Parliamentary Counsel (CPC) Cecil Dhurjon again failed produce a legal draft of the coalition’s proposed amendments.

Del Monte Foods in California has hired a local attorney to file charges against the company that has allegedly been manufacturing counterfeit Del Monte gold and white corn, said Andrew King, Managing Director of official distributor, Toucan Industries.

A single mother of three, fingered by her friend for an alleged gunpoint robbery, was yesterday remanded to prison along with two others despite indications from the prosecutor that she had been wrongfully charged with the crime.

An Indian national escaped punishment for assaulting his Guyanese partner yesterday after she decided to offer no evidence against him.

Senior citizens may be able to uplift their pensions using their machine readable identification by 2016 as the Human Services and Social Security Ministry plans to scale-back the Pension Scheme’s dependence on the coupon system.

A fire of unknown origin on Tuesday gutted the home of a Lower Pomeroon River woman destroying all her belongings.

Works on a section of the Canal No.2 Polder road, which runs parallel to the village access road, have been completed and engineers, are awaiting the results of its compaction test, said the Chief Road and Bridges Officer Ron Rahaman.

The Permanent Represen-tatives of Guyana and Norway have been appointed by the  President of the United Nations General Assembly to heada UN process on financing for development, a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs  said yesterday.

Members of the public who are interested in testifying before the Commis-sion of Inquiry into the death of Dr Walter Rodney are being invited to submit witness statements.

Tamika Miller, the Goed Fortuin woman who was stabbed 27 times by her husband on Monday, is now breathing from a damaged left lung.

On February 28, Moray House Trust (MHT) hosted an event where poet/writer Ras Michael Jeune traced the development of poetry in Guyana.

NORTH STAND, Antigua, CMC –England survived a threatening century from Denish Ramdin to beat West Indies by 25 runs and clinch the series two-one at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium yesterday.

NVERCARGILL, New Zealand, CMC- West Indies Women, hounded by medium pacer Suzie Bates, lost to New Zealand Women by 24 runs in the third T20 of the five match series at Queen’s Park here yesterday.

The Ministry of Education has announced that children born on or before June 30, 2011 are now eligible for placement at nursery school.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius told a friend to take the blame for him accidentally firing a pistol under the table in a packed Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013, a month before he killed his girlfriend, his murder trial heard yesterday.

A short tempered labourer was sentenced to seven months in jail yesterday after he was found guilty of assaulting a vendor and damaging her spectacles.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC– Captain Tamar Lambert has applauded the efforts of young batsmen Nkrumah Bonner and John Campbell in leading Jamaica to victory over Guyana in their opening match of the Regional Four-Day tournament.

An Uitvlugt man, who was allegedly caught with 374 grammes of cannabis during a stop and search by a river patrol at Aranka, was remanded to prison yesterday.

The East Bank Demerara Cricket Association’s (EBDCA) Neville Sarjoo Memorial T20 Competition 2013/14, resumes this weekend with matches at Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Laluni Cricket Ground (LCG).

A rice farmer, who allegedly assaulted a police officer, found himself before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Anna Regina Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to answer that charge.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC- Veteran sprinter Kim Collins has been left off of the St Kitts and Nevis team for the upcoming World Indoor Championships in Poland, track and field officials in the country have confirmed.

Dear Editor, I wish to join the Attorney-General in condemning those members of the Bar who photocopy the law reports rather than buy same; a rather ironic state of affairs given recent government policy.

An abandoned apartment in the South Ruimveldt Shopping Plaza was on Monday morning mysteriously razed and residents of the area are suspecting arson as its cause.

Destructive bowling by Jaush Paul and aggressive batting by Edmond Pearson guaranteed Enterprise a quarterfinals spot in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket, played yesterday at Enterprise ground East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, While Guyanese are clamouring for an unbiased and fearless judiciary, a brilliant jurist from the Co-operative Republic is dispensing fearless justice in the Central American country of Belize.

The Mahaicony Hospital was admired and complimented for its “beautiful ambience” when a team from the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services visited last Friday.

The East Bank Demerara Cricket Association’s (EBDCA) Neville Sarjoo Memorial T20 Competition 2013/14, resumes this weekend with matches at Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Laluni Cricket Ground (LCG).

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Australia’s Ryan Harris took the last two wickets as South Africa came within five overs of saving the third test on a dramatic day in which a third umpire decision came close to deciding the outcome of the match.

A Kitty man, who was allegedly found with 19 grammes of cocaine at his house, was remanded to prison on Tuesday after he appeared in a city court.

PARIS/KIEV,  (Reuters) – High-level diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Ukraine made little apparent headway at talks in Paris yesterday, with Moscow and Washington at odds and Russia’s foreign minister refusing to recognise his Ukrainian counterpart.

Dear Editor, I was extremely inspired by Mr Laurie Greenidge’s poignant, but refreshing letter ‘Independent living’ which was published in the March 1 edition of the Stabroek News.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – When Ryan Harris hobbled into Newlands for the final day of the third test against South Africa yesterday, it seemed unlikely he would end up being the man to clinch the series for Australia.

Dear Editor, One comment, among others, sharply stands out in Mr Eusi Kwayana’s missive ‘Why can’t the opposition get the benefit of proportional representation in the cabinet?’

A labourer was yesterday granted bail when he appeared in the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding another man.

On the first UN World Wildlife Day, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment along with the regulatory agency, the Wildlife Management Authority signalled their continued commitment toward ensuring the protection of Guyana’s biodiversity, particularly the traded species.

BEIJING/HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China announced its biggest rise in military spending in three years yesterday, a strong signal from President Xi Jinping that Beijing is not about to back away from its growing assertiveness in Asia, especially in disputed waters.

Dear Editor, I see that Ruel Johnson, who has an unhealthy obsession with the Carib-bean Press, has written a letter to SN criticising me yet again.

(Reuters) – Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in one of North America’s four major professional sports, signed a second 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets, the NBA team said yesterday.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is hopeful that findings of the long overdue  Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of the late Dr Walter Rodney, will bring closure to a very painful and embarrassing episode in the national and political history.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Street clashes erupted in India after an announcement yesterday that parliamentary elections will start on April 7 in a race that pits Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi against the unpopular Nehru-Gandhi family’s ruling party.

Amid a blaze of green and shamrock leaves, the Head of Political, Press and Information, Delegation of the EU to Guyana, Derek Lambe and his wife Christina hosted a St Patrick’s Day celebration on Saturday at their New Haven residence.

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – Europe’s Ryder Cup skipper Paul McGinley is expected to announce Sam Torrance and Des Smyth as his vice-captains today for the biennial clash with the United States in Scotland later this year.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Adults should eat less than the equivalent of 6 teaspoons of sugar a day if they are to avoid health risks such as weight gain and tooth decay linked to sugary diets, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday March 3, the hire car in which I was travelling entered a deep pothole in the vicinity of La Grange, West Bank Demerara.

DORAL, Florida, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods will defend his WGC-Cadillac Championship title and world number one ranking after confirming  yesterday he had recovered from back spasms that forced him to withdraw from last week’s Honda Classic.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – A 9-month-old baby who was born in California with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS may have been cured as a result of treatments that doctors began just four hours after her birth, medical researchers said on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, I was not surprised when I read KN of February 22, under the caption ‘Essequibo Coast set for power outage as engine goes for maintenance.’

RIYADH/DOHA,  (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar yesterday in an unprecedented public split between Gulf Arab allies who have fallen out over the role of Islamists in a region in turmoil.

Dear Editor, I still cannot believe that Guyanese are this slow and thick in the head. 

A Partnership for National Unity column Local government is about local democracy.

(The Sports Xchange) — Kevin Durant scored 42 points and guard Russell Westbrook collected his eighth career triple-double in leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 125-92 win over the Philadelphia 76ers.

Dear Editor, I do concur with most of what was published in the letter under the heading ‘Mashramani is destroying the moral fabric of our society’ (SN, March 3).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has frozen more than $458 million that former Nigerian leader Sani Abacha and his conspirators obtained through corruption and hid in bank accounts around the world, the U.S.

Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover, coach of Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United says that preparations for the 2014 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club championships have been progressing positively.

Caricom is deeply concerned by the recent developments in Ukraine and calls on all parties involved, to act with self-restraint and responsibility in order to reduce tensions and avoid destabilisation in that region, a release from the Secretariat said yesterday.

Monster pick-up: This monster pick-up at right towered over this woman recently at Camp and Regent streets.

Dear Editor, Dr Walter Rodney died 33 years ago, and from then to now despite an inquest and inquiry there has been no conclusive evidence to clear up misconceptions and assumptions relative to the factors which contributed to his death.

Nursery registration: Parents and guardians lined up at the Starters Nursery School, Camp Street, Georgetown yesterday to register their children.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Ontario authorities have agreed to a request from Toronto’s police chief to supervise an investigation that has already resulted in extortion charges against an alleged drug dealer and associate of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, a probe the mayor contends is politically motivated.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – It was not the result he wanted but Graeme Smith’s final day as South African test captain ended with his side showing grit and dogged resilience, mirroring his 12-year international career.

As Mashramani recedes and carnival season unfurls in the Caribbean, few who see the floats can fail to admire our capacity for creativity and ingenuity.

We must solve two challenges facing us as we work to develop our nation.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Followers of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez flooded the streets of Venezuela yesterday for the anniversary of his death, an emotional but welcome distraction for his successor from violent protests raging for the last month.