Daily Archive: Saturday, May 17, 2014

President Donald Ramotar(right) Opposition Leader David Granger (centre) and APNU Member of Parliament Amna Ally at the funeral service of the late Bank of Guyana Governor, Lawrence Williams today at the St George’s Cathedral.

The police say they conducted a drug eradication operation at Hararuni, Upper Demerara River, yesterday.

The motion passed by the Parliamentary Opposition on Thursday, calling for a reduction in the Berbice River Bridge tolls is “populist politicking and irresponsible”, according to President Donald Ramotar.

By Marianne Flach, UNICEF Representative Guyana & Suriname   No violence against children is justifiable, and all violence against children is preventable.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reggae artiste and matriarch of the Marley family, Rita Marley, has joined the worldwide campaign to secure the safe return of almost 300 Nigerian girls kidnapped at school on April 15.

-could be dry-run for countrywide local polls, says Gecom commissionerThe Donald Ramotar administration has not considered calling separate elections for Georgetown, which Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) commissioner Vincent Alexander says could be used as a dry-run for the holding of polls in the remaining local authorities.

A woman is now battling for her life after she was shot twice during an attack by armed men for which the motive is not yet known.

-Benn says gov’t won’t complyWhile the opposition early yesterday morning passed a motion in Parliament for a steep reduction in the Berbice River Bridge tolls, government rejected the move with Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn saying that an economic analysis of the initiative would be necessary first.

A Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara man died on the spot yesterday after he was struck down by a speeding car driven by an off-duty traffic policeman, on the Public Road at Bee Hive.

A Port Kaituma-based probation officer was yesterday charged with raping a 13-year-girl and following a court appearance was released on $250,000 bail, according to Crime Chief Leslie James.

The Married Persons (Property) (Amendment) Bill 2013 was on Thursday evening unanimously approved by parliament and will see persons being given a three-year timeframe to claim property after the dissolution of their marriage.

City Hall’s Royston King on Tuesday made an application in the High Court which could lead to the formal removal of his Town Clerk rival Carol Sooba in line with a ruling that was made last month by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang.

Alarmed over recurring reports of unlawful killings by members of the police force, main opposition coalition APNU yesterday called for an independent judicial inquiry into all such cases over the past eight years.

— three-stage cycle road race wheels off today Guyana’s premier and longest tenured cycling event, the Independence Three-Stage Road Race rolls off this morning in Berbice with a record entry of 79 cyclists.

A senior citizen is now counting his losses after his home at Sparta, Essequibo Coast was destroyed by a fire that started around 5.30 pm yesterday.

Shawn Edinboro, accused of murdering a taxi driver, was yesterday charged with a second murder of a similar nature.

The Combined Colleges and Campuses captain, Steven Jacobs returns to local cricket today as the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) continues its cricket tournaments at various venues in the city.

By Delvon McEwan After two defeats and one win, Demerara managed to qualify by points for tomorrow’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-19 limited overs final against the President’s XI after defeating Essequibo by six wickets yesterday.

– abandoned gov’t building also guttedA differently abled Corentyne woman is now homeless after a fire gutted her home on Wednesday, while an abandoned government building, also on the Corentyne, was completely destroyed on Thursday.

– sees heartening response to selfie pitchSASOD yesterday launched its Cine Campaign, which it hopes will erode phobias towards the LGBT community, thereby curtailing the stigma attached to such persons and encouraging them to seek critical services, particularly health, they usually shy away from out of fear.

Makeda Harding showed that her victory over Sarah Lewis in the Kraft Skill level tournament was no fluke as she again was victorious over her opponent Thursday night as the Guyana Squash Association/Woodpecker Products National Junior championships continued at the Georgetown Club.

One year after it was launched, Social Life Issues Guidance and Counselling Service is calling on public and private businesses to support its efforts to host workshops on drug prevention in workplaces in an effort to curb this and other social ills.

-De Santos named captain; Puran is vice captain The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), yesterday selected their Presidential U19 basketball team to oppose Georgetown second division champions, Republic Bank Nets at the National Sports Hall from 6.30pm today in a supporting game of the GABF Inter-Association 2014 Series which brings together teams from Linden, Georgetown and Berbice.

Courts Guyana Incorporated yesterday donated $2 million to the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce for the upcoming Guyana Festival.

  Ashma John is a Guyanese fashion blogger with a colourful style to expressing what’s on her mind.

In form ex-West Indies batsman Ryan Ramdass slammed back-to-back centuries for First Citizen Clarke Road this last week in the ongoing Trinidad and Tobago two-day cricket tournament.

It’s that time of the year again when the air grows thick with competition and rivalry as a magnitude of pageants unroll.

After being viciously attacked by four men in an attack during which his nose was sliced off, a Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara man is now in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Last year’s Southern Zone runners-up Guyana will kickstart its North American and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) 15s championship campaign today in Barbados.

Hi Everyone,  There was a period of time when I was going to secondary school that chickpeas (aka channa, garbanzo beans) were scarce.

A couple at Belladrum, West Coast Berbice almost lost their home during a pummeling by heavy winds yesterday morning.

Universal DVD Young Warriors have lodged a protest to the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) regarding their loss to Police in the semi-final of the 2013 Ramcharitar Construction Services 50-overs-a-side knockout cricket competition.

(Reuters) – The attorney for Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has told the NBA his client won’t pay a league-issued $2.5 million fine, and that he will fight league punishment over his racist comments, Sports Illustrated reported.

A former Toolsie Persaud Limited employee was yesterday accused of stealing over $1.5 million dollars in cement from the company.

A hire car driver of Perth on the Essequibo Coast escaped a collision with minor injuries after the car he was driving slammed into a tractor on the Jibb Public Road.

ROME, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic stayed on course for his third Rome Masters title although he was forced to dig deep to beat a tenacious David Ferrer 7-5 4-6 6-3 in a high-quality quarter-final yesterday.

Since releasing his debut solo album ‘Heart to Heart’ in 2012, nothing but success has followed Guyanese gospel artiste Samuel Medas.

BALTIMORE, (Reuters) – When Rosie Napravnik first became a jockey, she went by the name A.R.

A La Penitence man, allegedly caught during a break-in at a Ruimveldt residence, was yesterday released on $150,000 bail after denying the charge.

Local Soca star Jumo Primo yesterday released his brand new single, “No More Love”.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – High Performance Centre head coach, Graeme West believes the presence of legendary West Indies captain Sir Vivian Richards in the training camp for the upcoming Bangladesh A series can help create a culture of winning in the young group.

John Legend’s “All of Me” leads the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week, while Paramore, which has been charting on the Hot 100 for seven years, notches its first top 10 at last, as “Ain’t It Fun” ascends 13-10.

A Covent Garden man, who told a city magistrate that he was “the acting Christ” was yesterday released on self-bail and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Narendra Modi thundered to victory yesterday in India’s election, trouncing the ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in a seismic political shift that gives the Hindu nationalist and his party a mandate for sweeping economic reform.

The Marriott logo has now been affixed to the controversial Kingston hotel.

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Despite the absence of national captain Leon Johnson the Georgetown Cricket Club will still start as favourites to defeat the Police Sports Club in the final of the Georgetown Cricket Association/Ansa McAl Carib Beer T20 first division competition today.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The ‘Frozen’ Disney princesses were toppled from the top spot on the weekly Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday by the latest installment of the ‘Now That’s What I Call Music!’

HAVANA/BOGOTA, Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebels reached an agreement with the government on eliminating the illegal drug trade and called a weeklong ceasefire yesterday, giving a political boost to President Juan Manuel Santos in his re-election bid.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Proposed legislation offering a path to citizenship for tens of thousands of Dominican-born children of immigrants met mixed reactions yesterday from human rights groups, with some saying it does not protect enough people who could lose citizenship due to a court ruling.

The Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC) led by Joshua Ramsammy’s 95 defeated the Letter Kenny Club by 88 runs in last Sunday’s third round of the 2014 Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/NBS second division 40-overs-a-side competition.

Ovid Garraway, who was piloting one of two boats in the Pomeroon which crashed River in December 2010 resulting in the death of 13-year-old Jason Abrams, testified on Wednesday that the second boat had been speeding.

Dear Editor, This is the plain truth. The People’s Progressive Party is afraid of elections.

(Billboard) Go ahead and call Seth MacFarlane a renaissance man because no one fits the description better than he does.

A major power failure that left customers on the Demerara Interconnected System (DIS) in darkness for nearly two hours on Thursday evening.

(Reuters) – David West delivered his strongest game of the playoffs with 29 points to help guide the Indiana Pacers into Eastern Conference finals with a series-clinching 93-80 Game Six win over the Washington Wizards on Thursday.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Diplomatic postings make for some of the cushiest jobs in many poor countries, but the Dominican Republic’s foreign service appears to have few rivals in the Americas when it comes to political cronyism and wasted taxpayers’ money.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Music’s power couple Jay Z and Beyonce, and rapper Drake led the BET Awards nominations announced on Wednesday with five nods each, followed by R&B singer Pharrell Williams and hip-hop singer August Alsina with four.

A Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) Britten Norman Islander aircraft hard landed during its approach yesterday at Kurupung Bottom airstrip, Region Seven.

Farewell: Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (at left) hosted a farewell reception yesterday for Brazilian Ambassador Luiz Gilberto Seixas de Andrade, who has ended his tour of duty as ambassador of Brazil to Guyana.

A French Guiana national was yesterday fined after entering into Guyana without the permission of immigration authorities.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (Reuters) – Costa Rica hoisted the gay pride flag at the presidential palace yesterday in a landmark act of solidarity with the gay, lesbian and transgender community in the Americas.

Dear Editor, In December 2013, Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy stated that he was unaware of any relationship between the DY Patil group of companies and Surendra Engineering.

Politikles

(Reuters) – Kevin Durant shook off a cold start to score 39 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Clippers 104-98 on Thursday to clinch a place in the Western Conference finals.

In The Magic Mountain, his fictional masterpiece, Thomas Mann asks, “Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present?”

By Marianne Flach, UNICEF Representative Guyana & Suriname No violence against children is justifiable, and all violence against children is preventable.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (Reuters) – A trendy South Beach restaurant has pulled liquid nitrogen cocktails off its menu after a woman was served a drink with too much of the sub-zero liquid and was rushed to the hospital with a burned esophagus.

Winning: University students Subjraj Singh and Sara Bharrat were the inaugural winners of the Walter Rodney Foundation Awards for Creative Writing, which were announced on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Bob Dylan has released a version of “Full Moon and Empty Arms”, a hit for Frank Sinatra in 1945, and will follow it with a new album later this year.

 OTTAWA/TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada broke with the United States and did not impose sanctions on two key allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin because the pair had Canadian business interests, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ campaign is unsurprisingly trending here. We are expressing our outrage on social media, sharing countless images that have gone viral and organising vigils in support of the international movement to ensure the safe return of the abducted Nigerian school girls.

Dear Editor, May Day in Linden came and went as per usual, since the advent of Town Week – there was nothing especially noticeable, it all went by like a gentle breeze overshadowed by Town Week activities.