Daily Archive: Friday, March 28, 2014

At about 0320h today, police say that Linus La Cruz, 50 years, of Port Kaituma, NWD, succumbed at the GPHC where he had been admitted suffering from burns to his body.

(BBC) Veteran Bollywood star Nanda has died of a heart attack aged 75.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Skipper Darren Sammy produced an electrifying, unbeaten cameo to propel West Indies to an exciting six-wicket win over Australia, and keep alive their hopes of a semi-final spot at the World Twenty20 Championship here today.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Batting great Sunil Gavaskar was installed as interim head of the Indian Premier League (IPL) today after India’s top court temporarily relieved N.

Two children are dead after their troubled mother allegedly poisoned them at their home in Perth Mahaicony, yesterday.

The controversial Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) is once again being examined by the board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and they will hopefully be wrapping up soon, President Donald Ramotar says.

Government is yet to decide when it will issue the order for GECOM to prepare for local government elections, President Donald Ramotar says.

Two persons are in custody assisting the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) after six kilos of cocaine was found in a shipment of fake awara, a bright orange fruit, destined for Canada yesterday morning.

An accident at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) on Wednesday night has left a United States-based Guyanese, who was vacationing in Guyana, dead.

Almost two years after an inquiry uncovered financial irregularities at the state broadcaster NCN, President Donald Ramotar had no answer yesterday when asked why he had not done anything about the findings.

Exhibits that focused on alternative energy, clean energy and energy efficiency stole the spotlight yesterday when the Science, Mathematics and Technology fair opened at the Queen’s College Auditorium.

As he defended the 2014 budget yesterday, President Donald Ramotar says that he cannot say if his government was prepared to amend the estimates and will “cross that bridge” when it comes to it.

Guyana Stockfeeds Inc (GSI) yesterday called again on the Guyana Securities Council (GSC) to retract an advisory on the non-payment of dividends which GSI said was based on an erroneous conclusion.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry election of members of the council for 2014 and 2015 was held yesterday.

Several communities across the country may have more convenient access to purified water if government’s allocation of $2.5 billion to the sector is approved.

A Grove labourer, who admitted that he had stolen over $100,000 worth of items and had then attempted to escape from police custody after his capture, was yesterday sentenced to 30 months in prison after begging for leniency from the magistrate.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Title-holders West Indies face a stern test of their form and character when they face perennial archrivals Australia in their third game of the World Twenty Championship here today.

An Albouystown duo, charged with assaulting and obstructing a police officer were yesterday released on $15,000 bail each when they appeared in Court 2 of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

A Guyana Police Force officer is in a critical state at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after his vehicle crashed into a donkey on the West Coast Berbice public road yesterday.

Inaugural floodlight cricket matches will be held at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) today.

A 19-year-old youth was yesterday fined and released on bail after he admitted to using abusive language to his mother, but denied that he threatened to kill her.

About $1.6 billion is to be spent during 2014 to improve solid waste and sewer management in and around Georgetown.

The 2014 cycling season will resume tomorrow in the National Park with the staging of the inaugural Star Party Rental 11-race programme.

Accused of hitting his reputed wife to the mouth with a gun, a Charlotte Street welder was yesterday remanded to prison despite requests from the woman to have the matter dismissed.

Defending champions St. George’s High defeated the Bishops’ High 4-2 to seal their semi-final spot when the quarterfinal round of the Milo/Petra Organization U-20 school football tourney concluded yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

Carl Bennett, who was on trial for the murder of Marvin Boston, who was stabbed in a family feud in Albouystown in October 2009, was freed yesterday in the High Court after a 12-member jury found him not guilty.

BK Western Tigers overcame Buxton United 12-11 on sudden death kicks following a nil-all score at the end of normal and extra time when the Fruta Conquerors Football Club/Namilco sponsored One Love Knockout Festival continued on Wednesday.

Kerwin ‘Chisel’ Clarke is the man to beat and he knows it.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) says that it welcomes those measures in the $220B national budget of 2014 that would further improve the social conditions of thousands of ordinary Guyanese but believes that much more could be done.

(Reuters) – Alex Hales became the first Englishman to score a Twenty20 International century as the 2010 champions kept alive their World Cup semi-final hopes with a dramatic six-wicket win over Sri Lanka yesterday.

Guyana’s Gladwin ‘Tiger’ Dorway lost via split decision to Jamaican, Richard ‘Frog’ Holmes in the second bout of this season’s Wray and Nephew Caribbean Contender Series on Wednesday night in Jamaica.

Supply and South Ruimveldt Primary Schools were crowned champions of their respective districts as Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Scotia Bank’s Kiddies Cricket tournament concluded in the Georgetown and East Bank districts.

Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn says the object found near the Mahaica River yesterday is likely part of a rocket booster from a satellite launching on March 22 in French Guiana.

Three local pugilists, Ron Smith (69kg), Bert Braithwaite (64kg) and Delon Charles (56kg) winged out to St.

Two men who targeted the same Shell gas station for their shoplifting activities were yesterday fined with the alternative of time in jail when they appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan.

Eagles FC will face off against Young Achievers FC when the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Under-17 football tournament starts tomorrow at the Pouderoyen community ground.

Strong, officially backed ‘buy local’ advocacy is one of the recommendations which the Head of the Guyana Agro Processors Association, the umbrella body for at least 25 small and medium-sized local food manufacturing entities, is expected to make in his presentation at today’s National Agro-processing Forum at the Inter-national Conference Centre, Liliendaal.

Two men who appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan on separate charges of robbery were both remanded to prison and ordered to return to court on April 9.

Dear Editor, We read from the Trinidad newspapers that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Tuesday night announced that she had dismissed her Minister of the People and Social Development, Dr Glen Ramadharsingh, following his disorderly conduct on board a Caribbean Airlines domestic flight from Tobago to Trinidad earlier this month.

(Reuters) – World Twenty20 Super 10 group standings on Thursday.   GROUP ONE P       W        L       T        NR       Pts       Run rate Sri Lanka                                3        2         1       0         0           4           +2.199 South Africa                          3        2         1       0         0           4            +0.050 New Zealand                         2        1         1       0         0           2             +0.276 England                                  2        1          1      0          0           2             -0.067 Netherlands                          2        0          2      0         0            0             -2.950   GROUP TWO India                                        2        2          0      0          0            4           +0.363 West Indies                            2        1          1      0           0           2             +1.752 Pakistan                                   2        1          1      0           0           2            +0.077 Australia                                   1        0          1      0           0           0           -0.800 Bangladesh                              1        0          1      0           0            0          -3.650   The top two teams advance to the semi-finals

The Mayor and City Council has instructed its administration to advertise for tenders for garbage collection and disposal service to clear the numerous piles of waste accumulating in local communities.

Dear Editor, A few days ago, we were struck with the very sad news of the passing of Ms Deborah Jan Backer. 

Today’s national agro-processing event being held at the International Conference Centre, Liliendaal is important for several reasons, perhaps the key one being that it provides a stage on which many small manufacturing enterprises – some, first the first time – can bring their products to the attention of a relatively large potential market.

Dear Editor, On March 27, it was reported by the local press that the members of the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team of the Guyana Police Force, have completed initial training.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – West Indies Twenty20 stars Dwayne Bravo and Dwayne Smith have had their participation in the lucrative Indian Premier League thrown into doubt, after the Supreme Court said here yesterday it would consider banning the Chennai Super Kings from the 2014 edition of the tournament.

The state of the country’s sugar industry is a microcosm of its weak agro processing sector, President of the National Agro Processors Association Ram Prashad has told Stabroek Business.

Dear Editor, I wonder if any of $13.7B to be spent on roads and bridges, will include Middle Road and Independence Boulevard?

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard will make a return to first class cricket today, after nearly six months out of action with a knee injury.

MIAMI, CMC – General Secretary Enrique Sanz will undergo treatment for leukemia, CONCACAF announced here yesterday.

The Small Business Bureau (SBB) could begin disbursements of grants of up to $300,000 each for start-up small business projects and re-tooling of existing ones as early as next month under the Low Carbon Micro and Small Enterprise Development Project (LCMSEDP), Stabroek Business has learnt.

(Reuters) – World Twenty20 powerhouses South Africa survived a major scare when they scrambled past rank outsiders Netherlands by six runs in a Group One Super 10 match in Bangladesh yesterday.

SYDNEY/PERTH,  (Reuters) – Australian authorities said today they were shifting the focus of their Indian Ocean search for the wreckage of Malaysia’s missing jet, moving it 1,100 km (685 miles) to the northeast after receiving new information from Malaysia.

Dear Editor, It is appalling that we are callously treated to the butchery of our language by those who are supposed to be among the role models in its proper use.

Dear Editor, I noticed that the PPP propaganda machine despite gross misrepresentation failed to vilify me and the APNU opposition for allegedly saying that we want the sugar Industry to close down; in fact what I had proposed was a way to keep it alive.

(Trinidad Express) Police officers have shot and killed four men in two separate incidents.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Wednesday’s National Basketball Association games.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – James Schlesinger, who served three U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, in the top posts at the Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon and Energy Department in the 1970s, died yesterday at age 85.

By Joycelyn Williams Joycelyn Williams is a Lecturer at the University of Guyana and a Programme Management Consultant Industrial policy has been used by all the high performing Asian countries and the BRICS to deliberately push forward structural transformation and industrial development.

Dear Editor, March 27, 2014, marks 53 years since the late LFS Burnham, a former Minister of Education, and Prime Minister of Guyana in a radio address to this nation said: “For us education is the cornerstone of equality and one of the chief instruments for … the removal of discrimination, the development of creative beings and the production of … men who will never surrender to mediocrity or dictatorship of any kind.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – N. Srinivasan, regarded as the world’s most powerful cricket administrator, offered to step down as the Indian board president yesterday in the wake of a fixing and betting scandal surrounding the Indian Premier League (IPL).

(Trinidad Express) In addition to her duties as Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Wednesday assumed a new ministerial portfolio—that of Minister of the People and Social Development.

MISSOULA, Mont.,  (Reuters) – A Montana bride who shoved her husband off a cliff at Glacier National Park was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday after a federal judge denied her request to withdraw her guilty plea to a charge of second-degree murder.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 556’s trading results showed consideration of $5,276,113 from 40,540 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 555’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,860,530 from 60,880 shares traded

El Salvador has a new president-elect, former guerilla commander, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the party founded by Marxist revolutionaries from the 1980-1992 civil war.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Adidja “Vybz Kartel” Palmer’s sentencing was postponed in the Supreme Court yesterday morning after Justice Lennox Campbell and the lawyers agreed that certain guidelines regarding sentencing were not ironed out.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A tireless Kei Nishikori shocked 17-time grand slam winner Roger Federer 3-6 7-5 6-4 on Wednesday to claim his second top five scalp in two days and reach the semi-finals of the Sony Open.

Dear Editor, I am somewhat amazed and perturbed by the manner in which the government and opposition of this land deal with important issues.

It is my habit to leave weightier issues like National Budget Analyses to those much better qualified.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Russian aluminium producer Rusal dealt a stunning setback to London Metal Exchange plans to cut logjams in warehouses, winning a court decision to halt the reform because consultations had been “unfair and unlawful”.

Yesterday marked the official end of the two-year term of Clinton Urling as President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

President Donald Ramotar (left) greets Steve Backer, husband of the late former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Debra Backer at his Meadow Brook Gardens home.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — International police organization Interpol will help Suriname to guard its borders.

Not for the first time in recent years government is talking up tourism as a focus of accelerated attention, presenting the sector as Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh described in this year’s budget speech, potentially “a major driver of growth and job-creation in Guyana.”