Daily Archive: Monday, March 10, 2014

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Libya’s parliament has ordered a special force to be sent within one week to “liberate” all rebel-held ports in the volatile east, officials said on Monday, raising the stakes over a blockage that has cut off vital oil revenue.

The Ministry of Public Works this evening said that an investigation is being conducted by senior personnel of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) following the incident of an Air Traffic Control Officer vacating his post on Saturday March 8, 2014.

Caricom Heads meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines today are expected to discuss the impasse here over the anti-money laundering bill.

The Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) receiving their prize for gaining first place in the semi costume category on Friday at the Umana Yana.

Designer of Digicel’s costume, Olympia Small-Sonoram receiving her prize from Permanent Secretary, Alfred King for Designer of the year.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Detectives from the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) arrested four men and a woman for breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act on February 27 and March 3.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony handing over a prize on Friday at the Umana Yana to Onika Mentor of Region 6 for winning first place in the Mash essay competition.

Road March Queen, Melissa “Vanilla” Roberts receiving her prize on Friday at the Umana Yana.

Dancers at the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s Phagwah Mela and Bazaar on the lawns of the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC), Liliendaal on Saturday.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha on Saturday evening hosted its Phagwah Mela and Bazaar on the lawns of the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC), Liliendaal.

On Saturday March 8th , Leader of the Parliamentary Majority Brigadier David Granger led a team comprising members of A Partnership for National Unity on an Outreach Exercise to the East Berbice- Corentyne Region (Region 6). 

The Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand (third from right) in observance of International Women’s Day on March 8, hosted a luncheon to celebrate women in Berbice.

With a large amount of rice on hand from bumper harvests, Guyana is trying to sew up a small market in Belize and aiming elsewhere.

KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, Vietnam,  (Reuters) – T he disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an “unprecedented mystery”, the civil aviation chief said today, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board.

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee said people are growing restless and uncomfortable politically and only general elections can change the situation.

The meeting between technical teams from George-town and Caracas to discuss delimitation of the maritime boundaries of Guyana and Venezuela has not been held due to the ongoing protests in the neighbouring country.

With five months left before its projected opening, the Marriott Hotel project is still without an investor and work appears to have slowed down.

Although the use of parapets by persons is illegal unless permission is granted by the city council, land grabbing continues along Georgetown’s roadways in the absence of enforcement by the city Recently attorney Leon Rockliffe, in a letter published in Stabroek News, highlighted the situation and several parapets that need to be addressed, including “The Survival traffic imbroglio at Vlissengen and Duncan Streets; Campbell Avenue, east of Middleton Street;

A Guyanese man is among five baggage handlers at the JFK Airport in New York who were busted last week, charged with stealing credit cards, cheques and money orders from US mail destined for international flights.

A decision to increase the student intake of the University of the West Indies (UWI) without increasing the capacity of the Hugh Wooding Law School led to the decision to deny guaranteed placement to this year’s University of Guyana law graduates, Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall has said.

Port Kaituma residents are now once again receiving a daily power supply, following an intervention by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds.

The Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) on Friday lamented the high failure rate at the last State Final Examination written in October and APNU Leader David Granger is calling for a complete re-evaluation of nurse training in order to improve patient care.

Presenting an array of research on Caricom’s uneven development, former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Basdeo Panday repeated Sir Ronald Sanders’ calls for T&T, Guyana and Suriname to look to new partners to enhance trade relations and aid their own economical development.

Justice Franklyn Holder is set to rule today on a no-case submission made by defence attorneys for the two men charged with the 2010 murder of Lakeram Bishundial during a robbery.

Works to the $43 million Moruca Bridge are finally complete and engineers will soon perform an inspection to ensure that contractual specifications were met, Region One’s Regional Executive Officer (REO) Nigel Fisher says.

Dear Editor, Please refer to an article which appeared in your Stabroek News issue of Friday, March 7, 2014, headlined: ‘City Engineer says plan approved for five-story Camp and Robb Sts building -Vice Chairman of works committee differs.

Family members of Claude McPherson, who was fatally hit by a Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) driver, staged a protest in front of the company’s Corporate Complex along Vlissengen Road on Thursday and demanded that it accept some amount of responsibility for the man’s death.

Dear Editor, After reading Sir Ronald Sanders’ sobering column, “In Guyana: political negotiations an opportunity for real democracy,” (KN, March 9, 2014), I think Guyanese need to know the history and the truth about the delay in passing the amended version of the 2009 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Law, and stop believing the lying PPP regime that the opposition is holding up the amended law’s passage.

Team Roraima’s Alanzo Greaves put on an extraordinary display of speed and stamina to emerge winner of the second leg of the 17th annual Cheddi Jagan Memorial road race yesterday.

Dear Editor, Two items, ‘Stretched Out Magazine’ and ‘No Big Thing’ produced annually as a treat for the Christmas season on the radio and television have lost their sting. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Marlon Samuels provided a support act to openers Dwayne Smith and Chris Gayle to help West Indies to a 27-run win over England to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match Twenty20 International series at Kensington Oval yesterday.

Dear Editor, We read in this newspaper that Satrohan Madray who operated a Kali Temple at his home at D’Edward, West Bank Berbice, was arrested and subsequently charged with murdering his friend, Dinesh ‘Kevin’ Harrylall.

Several Members of Parliament were on Friday engaged in an outreach programme in Region Two (Pomeroon/ Supenaam) aimed at educating students about the role and work of the Parliament.

Guyana yesterday crashed to a disastrous 94 all out compliments of a cohesive bowling performance by defending champions Barbados who romped to a comfortable 136-run win on day three in round two of the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Regional 4-day tournament played at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Dear Editor, Wake up Guyana, Wake up! Many of us grow up with a dream; it is a dream that relates to either transforming Guyana into a better place or running far away from this country and never looking back. 

Dear Editor, With reference to a letter of March 5 captioned ‘Pleas about chicken pen fall on deaf ears’  in your popular and widely read newspaper which is known for championing the cause of the voiceless and beleaguered taxpayers in this country, one blogger known as ‘angry resident’ wrote the following: “My sympathy to that taxpayer in Chateau Margot.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein had a match haul of 11 for 67 to steer Trinidad and Tobago to a comprehensive 186-run victory over Windward Islands in their second round Regional Four-Day Championship at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday.

Dear Editor, My letter in your paper with the caption ‘Why can’t the opposition get the benefit of proportional representation in the cabinet?’

Cummings Lodge Secondary edged Christ Church Secondary 4-3 when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Dear Editor, In these modern times the world’s peoples, including Guyanese, are becoming increasingly dependent on technology.

(The Sports Xchange) – – -Tony Parker scored 30 points as the San Antonio Spurs battled to beat the lowly Orlando Magic 121-112 at home.

SOPOT, Poland, CMC – Reigning World and Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica won her first World Indoor medal when she ran a world leading time of 6.98 seconds to capture the gold in the women’s 60m final here yesterday.

Dear Editor, This is in response to Mr M Maxwell’s ‘Will Bisram provide his findings concerning the 20% of voters who vanished from the electoral landscape in 2006?’

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand, CMC – New Zealand Women beat West Indies by 34 runs to complete a clean sweep over the West Indies in their Twenty20 series in Mount Maunganui here yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, Vietnam,  (Reuters) – Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board suspect it may have disintegrated in mid-flight, a senior source said yesterday, as Vietnam reported a possible sighting of wreckage from the plane.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna is not backing down from her position that cultural expert Sydney Bartley cannot continue as the permanent secretary (PS) in her ministry.

Dear Editor, I am completely baffled as to why a reputable paper such as Stabroek News would publish bogus polls by Vishnu Bisram. 

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – Torrential rain forced the abandonment of the first Twenty20 match between South Africa and Australia without a ball being bowled at St George’s Park yesterday.

By Shenella Charles  Shenella Charles is Guyanese of Afro-Guyanese and Indigenous parentage, who currently resides in Canada.

Dear Editor, Because I make a yearly trip to this country I may be in a better position than most Guyanese to look at what is going on in our society and make an objective evaluation.

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Germany’s Angela Merkel delivered a rebuke to President Vladimir Putin yesterday, telling him that a planned Moscow-backed referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia was illegal and violated Ukraine’s constitution.

(Jamaica Observer) Chinese-owned Pan- Caribbean Sugar continued to incur losses in the second half of the year, following a bad start in 2013.

Two weeks ago, we began a discussion of the 2012 annual report of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) that the Minister of Finance had presented to the National Assembly.

Freeburg Secondary upset North Georgetown Secondary by a 2-1 margin when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Thousands of proud Haitians packed the national soccer stadium in the capital yesterday for a special outdoor Mass by the country’s first Roman Catholic Cardinal, appointed last month by Pope Francis.

Interviews and photos by Kenesha Fraser Having just observed International Women’s Day on Saturday last, we took the opportunity this week to ask some women along the Essequibo Coast whether they felt enough was being done to promote gender equality.

Dear Editor, Mr Bisram (‘Poll results show 46% would vote for PPP, 38% for PNC…’ SN, March 4) continues to produce poll results which have their origin in the propaganda machine of the PPP.

(Barbados Nation) Des-pite LIAT’s desperation for investor dollars, it wants no “buccaneers” coming to buy any part of its fleet.

In last Monday’s editorial we reflected on the negative view  of the PPP’s General Secretary Mr Clement Rohee on the readiness of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) for the holding of elections and the latter’s own official silence on whether it could meet the August 1, 2014 deadline for the polls which have not been held since 1994.