Daily Archive: Thursday, June 12, 2014

(Trinidad Express) In a bid to ensure compliance with private members clubs, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has  obtained court orders against two such clubs.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – The Jamaican government has decided to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, joining the trickle of countries moving to soften laws on the drug known on the Caribbean island as “ganja.”

Top Grade Six student Jorrel De Santos (centre) from the New Guyana School with his parents and other relatives today.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s poster boy Neymar scored twice and the outstanding Oscar added a late third as the hosts came from behind to beat Croatia 3-1 in a thrilling World Cup opening match today.

This Dynamic Airways Boeing 767 aircraft touched down in Guyana today at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and will be one of two serving the Georgetown to New York route.

Scotiabank’s Robb Street branch yesterday played host to a flash mob organised by the Sonia Noel Foundation for Creative Arts in collaboration with the Guyana Sickle Cell Association (GSA) in an effort to raise awareness about the incurable sickle-cell disease.

Scotiabank’s Robb Street branch yesterday played host to a flash mob organised by the Sonia Noel Foundation for Creative Arts in collaboration with the Guyana Sickle Cell Association (GSA) in an effort to raise awareness about the incurable sickle-cell disease.

Students of the New Amsterdam Multilateral during a dramatic performance on the impact of flooding in Region 6.

NEW YORK  (Reuters) – Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim on stage, film and television and became a notable figure in the US civil rights movement, died peacefully at home, a friend of the family said today.

New Guyana School pupil Jorrel De Santos has topped this year’s Grade Six examination, it was announced this morning.

(Trinidad Express) The use of body cameras for police officers is expected to be implemented officially in September.

A No 51 village car driver is in police custody assisting with investigations following a series of accidents on the Corentyne Public Road last evening that left three persons dead.

Hotel Tower says it has found a buyer and all remaining workers will be laid off as part of the sale agreement—a move that has left workers with mixed feelings.

Shelly Persaud, the young mother discovered early Tuesday morning with her head submerged in a half-filled bucket of water, died from drowning.

The youth found with a fatal stab wound on Monday evening along the Ogle Access Road, East Coast Demerara, has been identified as 17-year-old Bhaker Azeez.

Nineteen-year-old Junior Thornton, who alleges that police officers at the Sparendaam police station burnt his hands, has been released from the George-town Public Hospital (GPH) Burn Care Unit and is asking for swift justice.

Government is going ahead with a $19.6M confinement area for youths of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) amid ongoing concerns about conditions there.

Executive Director of the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) Reverend Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth says Pastor Ronald McGarrell, a board member of the organisation, will be asked to resign his post in light of his recent anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgen-der and Intersex (LGBTI) comments.

An armed man managed to escape with roughly $1.3 million in cash after robbing the Campbellville Post Office yesterday morning.

The Guyana Manufactur-ing and Services Asso-ciation (GMSA) says that government must make available adequate resour-ces to the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department and the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) to stem the flow of counterfeit and uncustomed goods on the local market as this could erode the gains made to promote products manufactured locally.

An Anna Regina labourer, who allegedly stabbed a man and killed him on June 1, was remanded to prison until June 18, when he appeared before Magis-trate Sunil Scarce at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court on Thursday last.

“The relationship has come to an end. Accept and move on,” Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond yesterday admonished a man who appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of threatening his wife’s life.

A Guyana Power and Light (GPL) electricity pole is on the verge of falling into the yard of the St.

The Walter Rodney Com-mission of Inquiry (RCOI) is resembling more of a farce and is patently lacking in evidence, according to APNU’s Basil Williams who is also the Chairman of the PNCR.

A jury was empanelled yesterday before Justice William Ramlal to preside over the trial of Ramsohai Boodhoo, who is accused of killing his friend over a drug deal gone wrong.

A Ministry of Public Works employee was attacked and wounded with a meat saw last Friday when he attempted to remove a roadside meat vendor located on Government reserves at New Hope, East Coast Demerara.

A Pomeroon River man is now a guest of the state for the next 16 months after he was convicted of break and enter and larceny and simple larceny.

Motorists are being advised that as of Monday June 16, 2014 – east and west- bound traffic on Lamaha Street will be barred from turning right into Albert Street, according to a release from the Ministry of Public Works.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies suffered a humiliating defeat in the first Test here yesterday, as New Zealand crushed them by 186 runs inside four days at Sabina Park to claim only their second ever win in the Caribbean.

The murder trial of Quaison Jones, who is accused of killing a fish vendor at the Meadowbank wharf in 2011, is scheduled to begin today in the High Court.

The cash-strapped Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) may have to forfeit its NACRA 15s final fixture unless it garners government and corporate support to offset the team’s travel expenses.

Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker has said that government’s Town Clerk appointee Carol Sooba did not improperly use city funds to hire a lawyer, contending that established City Council procedures were followed.

At last! The greatest sporting spectacle of the World is finally upon us.

An 11-member Electoral Observer Mission from the Caribbean Community is in Antigua and Barbuda to monitor national elections set for today.

Accused of assaulting and threatening to kill the mother of his children, an Albouystown man was yesterday released on bail after denying the charges and promising to leave the woman alone.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday all but confirmed he would run for re-election despite criticism that the game and organisation have been tarnished by accusations of corruption during his long reign.

Dear Editor,   By the publication of Ministerial Order No 17 of 2014, the Official Gazette of April 30, 2014 announced the coming into operation from that date of the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority Act 2013.

With the World’s biggest football tournament set to kick off in Brazil today,

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green on Tuesday agreed that the City Hall is a disaster but laid the blame on what he dubbed the unceasing assault by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on the council.

Dear Editor, It was with great consternation that I have read in the Stabroek News (June 9, 2014), a statement attributed to Pastor Ronald McGarrell to the effect that, “homosexuals and other persons with alternative sexual orientation should reside on an island by themselves.”

Overseas-based basketball player Tyler Persaud said Guyana’s many talented and quality players makes it a virtual shoo-in to qualify for the final four of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship set for Tortola, British Virgin Islands in July.

Dear Editor,   The current Commission of Inquiry into the death of WPA’s Walter Rodney, 34 years ago, has aroused passionate responses from the range of its ‘witnesses’ as well as other observers.

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett told the 44th Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) that discourses on issues that impair the development of the Caribbean cannot exclude considerations pertaining to the environment.

Dear Editor, The WICB, in retaliation against the Cricket Administration Bill, pulled the third Test match from Guyana.

Susan Trapp, 17, who admitted to making off with $140,000 from a salon to buy herself food and needed personal items, was yesterday remanded to prison, pending repayment of the cash by next Monday.

National star cyclist Alanzo Greaves announced Tuesday that he will be joining Team Mengoni and will race for the unit for the rest of the season.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The San Antonio Spurs routed the Miami Heat 111-92 to seize a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals on Tuesday and deal the two-time defending champion Heat their first home loss of the playoffs.

TIKRIT, Iraq, (Reuters) – Sunni rebels from an al Qaeda splinter group overran the Iraqi city of Tikrit yesterday and closed in on the biggest oil refinery in the country, making further gains in their rapid military advance against the Shi’ite-led government in Baghdad.

Dear Editor, The call by Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer for a joint referendum of the OECS states to seek the green light from electorates to join the appellate jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has raised eyebrows.

Magistrate Faith McGusty yesterday fined Gerald Warde $5,000 after he admitted that a small amount of cannabis found at his home was his.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Governments in West Africa should decriminalise drug use and treat the issue as a health problem, because a “war on drugs” will fail in the region as it has elsewhere, a new report by regional experts said on Thursday.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday said that it was postponing the start of its National T20 Franchise League which was scheduled to commence this month.

We see the impact, across the Guyanese nation, of that devastating, world-record brain drain of 87 percent of our skilled knowledge workers migrating to societies where they could fast achieve their dreams.

(Trinidad Guardian) The autopsies of teenage cousins—Hakeem, 16, and Tevin Alexander, 15—disprove some eyewitness accounts that the boys were kneeling when they were shot by police. According

Dear Editor,   I read, with bemused interest and not a small amount of disdain, the article ‘Culture Ministry hands over Guyana Classics to libraries’ (SN, June 6).

Cartoons

President Donald Ramotar’s statement at the press conference he held last Saturday was surprising in its candour, while at the same time raising questions that his party needs to answer.

St Lucian Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony has told public sector unions that their members should take a 5% wage cut and agree to a series of other measures to aid the debt-wracked economy otherwise retrenchment would follow.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A shock primary election defeat for Eric Cantor, the No.

Clement Rohee – General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party and Minister of Home Affairs – informed the nation at a press conference at Freedom House, 2nd June, 2014, reportedly (Guyana Chronicle 3rd June, 2014) that the country was not in a “mood” for local government elections.

Politikles

Sinking: The centre portion of the foundation of this dwelling along Independence Boulevard, Albouystown appears to be sinking.

Dear Editor,   I was delighted when I met David Granger for the first time in Richmond Hill Queens, New York.

After a one-week break, the Wray and Nephew Contender Series will resume June 18 with second seed Tsetsi “Lights Out” Davis facing third seed Howard “Battersea Bomber” Eastman for a ring date in the final.

“We cannot prevent or stop a natural disaster, but we can reduce its impact on our lives – and we can only do so through preparation”.