Daily Archive: Friday, May 2, 2014

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Destina Basil, 25 years, of Baramita NWD, whose body was found in a camp at Baramita at about 0700h.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Chetram Bharrat, 40 years, of Haslington New Scheme, ECD, which occurred at about 0400h.

The US embassy today said that the government’s decision to revoke the permit of the head of a controversial democracy project here was contrary to the government’s commitment for a review of the project.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s best-known celebrity publicist was jailed for eight years today for indecently assaulting teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s, the first conviction from an inquiry into sex abuse triggered by revelations that the late BBC TV presenter Jimmy Savile had been a prolific sex offender over decades.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A Los Angeles judge on Thursday said R&B singer Chris Brown will remain in jail for at least another week as the pop star deals with dual cases on both sides of the country.

(Barbados Nation) One day after the National Conservation Commission (NCC) sent home almost 200 employees, lifeguard stations on at least six popular beaches went unmanned.

A man was stabbed to death by a security guard last night after he dumped garbage on the premises where the guard was employed.

-beaten by lawmen during questioning about robbery, mother says By Dacia Whaul   Held for questioning about a robbery, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the mouth by a policeman after being beaten late Wednesday night.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit will be conducting its own investigation here after a Guyanese was caught trying to smuggle just under 18 pounds of cocaine in custard power at the JFK International Airport in New York on April 22.

-urges members’ solidarity with sugar workers The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) yesterday passed a motion to press government for a comprehensive plan for the ailing Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and a call was made to its membership to unite with sugar workers in their struggle.

The parliamentary opposition is surprised at the Donald Ramotar administration’s decision to revoke the work permit of the head of the contentious USAID-funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project Glen Bradbury, which APNU MP Joseph Harmon says will test diplomatic relations with the US.

– Chand Saying that a “silver lining” is beginning to emerge for the struggling sugar industry, President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) Komal Chand yesterday said GuySuCo’s viability is contingent on its ability to grow a good quantity and quality cane.

– Women’s Advisory Committee chair Although women make up over 50% of the workforce, trade union leaders are not doing enough to address issues affecting them in the work place and the wider society, Chairman of the Women’s Advisory Com-mittee Kathy Fowler said yesterday.

The parliamentary committee preparing the bill to reform the anti-money laundering law has concluded its scrutiny of amendments proposed by main opposition APNU and will now move on to consider the counter amendments proposed by Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall.

-foreign minister affirms Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett says that the commencement point for Guyana’s maritime boundary with Venezuela is Punta Playa (Point Playa).

The PNCR says the disclosure by the media of an article in the Barbados Advocate newspaper dated June 30th 1980 in which Sir Richard Cheltenham paid tribute to Dr Walter Rodney will raise questions about his impartiality as he is now the Head of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the historian’s death.

Government has approved duty and tax-free concessions for equipment and other goods to be brought into the country by the Australian gold mining company Troy Resources Limited for its Karouni Gold Project.

Cabinet has offered no objections to seven contracts including one for the Mosquito Hall sea defence, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon said on Wednesday.

The Inter-American Dev-elopment Bank (IDB) is working with Guyana on the implementation of a major project on renewable energy which will see Guyana receiving about 90 percent of its energy from renewable sources, President Donald Ramotar has reiterated.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will have up until the end of 2014 to verify and enter a whopping 15 million backlogged records into its system, Chairman of the NIS Board Dr Roger Luncheon said earlier this week.

TravelSpan has announced that it has added a second aircraft to ply its Guyana route and is offering extra flights for July and August, including an all-inclusive vacation package to the Dominican Republic.

Home side Fruta Conquerors extended their unbeaten tourney run to four games, downing arch-rivals BK Western Tigers 2-0 when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) u-17 football league continued at the Tucville Community ground yesterday.

Stag Beer football Sunburst Camptown swamped Flamingo by a 4-1 margin when the Stag Beer sponsored Georgetown Football Association (GFA) first division league continued on Wednesday at the Tucville Community ground.

– tests of new equipment set for Quartz Hill this month Gold mining could become mercury-free in as little as a year if the sector is determined to see it happen, a Venezuelan-born Geological Engineer who works as a consultant in the local mining sector has told Stabroek Business.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Veteran Guyanese boxer Howard Eastman has emerged as the favourite to win the 2014 Wray & Nephew Contender series.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) arrested the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) by a 3-1 score line when the Stag Beer-sponsored Georgetown Football Association (GFA) first division league continued at the Tucville Community Ground on Wednesday.

U-19 Inter County Competition -after President’s XI collapses Berbice ended the opening day of the Guyana Cricket Board’s three-day Under-19 Inter County Competition in a commanding position against the President’s XI yesterday, at the Enmore Community Development Centre Ground, East Coast Demerara.

Guinness Greatest of the StreetsDefending champions Silver Bullets got their campaign off to the perfect start, dismantling High Stars by a 7-0 margin when the Linden edition of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets continued at the Mackenzie Bus Park on Wednesday.

After 81 years of serving as the country’s principal training institution for women in the various disciplines in the field of home-making the Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) is reinventing itself to make a more central contribution to the country’s hospitality and service sector and by extension to the country’s economy.

One of the weaknesses that Guyana will have to overcome if it is to stake a persuasive claim as a tourism destination is the absence of the high service standards which, these days, are increasingly demanded by international travellers.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Segregating Muslims in Central African Republic to protect them from Christian militia shows the world’s failure to tackle a deepening sectarian crisis, a U.N.

(Trinidad Express) Republic Bank has submitted its Offeror’s Statement to HFC Bank and the Ghana Securities and Exchange Commis-sion (SEC) detailing its offer to all shareholders of HFC Bank, the bank said in a release on Wednesday.

In volleyball… The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) last Saturday successfully hosted their third division volleyball competition at the National Gymnasium which saw Achievers B emerging victorious.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – When Michael Clarke took over as Australia captain from Ricky Ponting in the wake of a 3-1 Ashes humbling in March 2011, his stated goal of taking his country back to the top of the test rankings looked optimistic to say the least.

BOSTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The arrest of Irish politician Gerry Adams may have its roots in a closed archive of taped interviews with former paramilitaries in Northern Ireland that researchers now fear could be used to charge others over sectarian violence from decades ago.

Dear Editor, I join Mr Clinton Urling in congratulating Stabroek News for its initiative to give daily front page coverage to the need for the early convening of local government elections and for issues relating to local democracy.

LONDON, England, CMC – Veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul failed for the first time this season as his Derbyshire crashed to an innings and 64-run defeat to Worcestershire in the County Championship on Wednesday.

By Clinton Urling   Last week, Mr Keith Burrowes was appointed the non-executive Chief Executive Officer of the struggling national investment agency Go-Invest.

(ICC) India has swapped places with ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 champion Sri Lanka.

Dear Editor, Given recent reports in the nation’s dailies regarding the plight of owners of broadcasting stations meeting the prohibitive licence fee to the Guyana National Broadcast Authority  (GNBA), I think it an opportune moment to address the attempt by the State to dictate or silence the voices of ordinary citizens and put the small man out of business.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British judge hailed as a role model was facing jail yesterday after being convicted of lying to police about her role in a revenge plot that landed a cabinet minister in jail.

(Reuters) – All the signs indicate that five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.

LONDON, CMC – Jamaican sprint star Yohan Blake will headline the Glasgow Grand Prix, the ninth meet of the prestigious IAAF Diamond League at Hampden Park, organisers confirmed yesterday.

IMOLA, Italy, (Reuters) – Thousands of fans joined Formula One drivers past and present yesterday in marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Ayrton Senna at the Italian circuit where the triple champion crashed 20 years ago.

Dear Editor, It was with utter shock and awe that I read your news story, `Gov’t revokes work permit of LEAD project head,’ (April 30).

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association yesterday launched its bid to oust Donald Sterling as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers for racist comments as a panel of 10 fellow team owners or their proxies unanimously agreed to proceed “as expeditiously as possible,” the NBA said.

(Jamaica Observer) – The International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to lend US$120 million ($13.2 billion) to small businesses by 2018 under the latest country partnership strategy (CPS) with the World Bank.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Graham Gooch has been sacked as England’s batting coach with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday, as the fallout from the Ashes drubbing continued.

Chastened it seems by sustained criticism of what is widely felt to be the underperformance of the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest), the Government of Guyana late last month named Presidential Advisor Keith Burrowes Chief Executive Officer.

Dear Editor,   The mandate of delegates who represent various associations and affiliates at the GFF congress should be given from the very clubs who elect them to serve their interest.

(Reuters) – The troubles at BlackBerry Ltd, which fired more than half its staff and lost more than 90 per cent of its market value as consumers shunned its smart phones, might have spelled disaster for the company’s hometown of Waterloo, Ontario.

LONDON. (Reuters) – New England director of cricket Peter Moores named uncapped fast bowler Harry Gurney yesterday in the squad for this month’s one-day international against Scotland.

Dear Editor, I note, with continued surprise, that the May Day Parades were even more fragmented this year than they were before, with seemingly different routes, and swarms of space between one group and the next.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Toronto’s deputy mayor started running the city yesterday, a day after Mayor Rob Ford said he would take a leave of absence from his job and his re-election campaign to seek treatment for an alcohol problem.

Dear Editor,   Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves, the current chair of CARICOM (Caribbean Community Secretariat) along with other Caribbean leaders are helping to mortgage the region’s future with atrophy by not doing more for their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens.

(Reuters) – Hoppertunity, one of the favourites to win tomorrow’s 140th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, has been scratched from the race because of a minor injury.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Bugan Wigan could handle the hard work packing fruit and cleaning hotel rooms, and the crushing debt she owed recruiters who found her jobs.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 561’s trading results showed consideration of $7,912,971 from 401,233 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to 560’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,464,870 from 53,967 shares traded in 18 transactions.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – An El Salvador judge yesterday issued an arrest warrant for former President Francisco Flores, who is wanted on corruption charges including embezzlement and illicit gains.

(Reuters) – The 140th Kentucky Derby takes place at Churchill Downs tomorrow and the early favourite has American race fans giddy with excitement.

In an extraordinary editorial, last Saturday, the Trinidad Guardian excoriated the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, for calling on those countries that have not yet accepted the CCJ as their final court of appeal, “to fully realise our independence by acceding to the appellate jurisdiction of the CCJ.”

“It is ridiculous that local government elections have only been held twice in fifty years.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., (Reuters) – A former Black Panther, who returned voluntarily to the United States nearly 30 years after he hijacked a plane to Cuba, pleaded guilty to kidnapping yesterday to avoid a more serious charge of air piracy and a minimum 20-year sentence, his lawyer said.

DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Pro-Russian protesters stormed the prosecutor’s office in the separatist-held city of Donetsk yesterday, hurling rocks, firecrackers and teargas at riot police defending officials the rebels accused of working for Kiev’s Western-backed leaders.

Dear Editor,   Over the past eight months or so Gaiutra Bahadur’s book, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 2013 has received some good publicity in Guyana and in the United States.

More than two decades after its establishment, the Urban Dairy Cattle Farmers Association has not been able to accomplish the primary task for which it was created: to bring a sense of order to urban cattle farming.

Seven Self-Employed Bandits, Crime as “Employment” Not with an actual “heavy heart” but with some deliberation, I restrained myself from personal commentary on yesterday’s Labour Day or on Monday’s Arrival Day.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Wednesday’s NBA playoffs games.   – – –   Spurs 109, Mavericks 103   San Antonio center Tiago Splitter produced nine of his 17 points in the fourth quarter to help the Spurs defeat the Dallas Mavericks and regain control of their Western Conference first-round playoff series.