Daily Archive: Thursday, June 26, 2014

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0930h.

The U.S Embassy’s Public Affairs Section held its second annual Youth Action Network (YAN) Conference June 21-22, 2014 at the Splashmin’s Fun Park, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

The U.S. Embassy partnered with the Ministry of Health to conduct a blood drive at the Embassy on Thursday, June 19, 2014.

New Brazilian Ambassador to Guyana, Lineu Pupo de Paula (right) yesterday presented his Letters of Credence to President Donald Ramotar, and pledged to focus on strengthening relations, and to foster ongoing projects between the two South American nations.

On Monday, the Ministry of Education launched its Hinterland Education Improvement Project (HEIP) at the St.

On Monday, the Ministry of Education launched its Hinterland Education Improvement Project (HEIP) at the St.

On Monday, the Ministry of Education launched its Hinterland Education Improvement Project (HEIP) at the St.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF)  pilot Gerry Gouveia this morning said that after seeing a photograph of Gregory Smith in the newspapers he suspected that he was the man he had transported to Kwakwani a day after Dr.

Guyana and the United States announced this morning the establishment of a US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office here.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Uruguay’s Luis Suarez’s World Cup dream was left in tatters when he was handed a record nine-match ban today by FIFA for biting an Italy defender during a group match.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will shift further south in the Indian Ocean, Australian authorities said today, ushering in yet another new phase of the long, costly and so far fruitless search.

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) member Tacuma Ogunseye yesterday testified that the WPA planned to overthrow the then PNC government in the late 1970s through a civil rebellion and attempted to win over the army as part of its efforts.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday dared the opposition to move a no-confidence vote against his government.

As announced recently by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), the IDB and the EU have put together a US$64M financing programme to cut the utility’s losses among other areas.

The man found dead in Le Repentir Cemetery on Tuesday has been identified as Jermaine Marshall and although police suspect that he took his own life by ingesting a pesticide, his family is rejecting the notion of suicide.

Azeem Khan, the Assistant to Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon and a staffer of the Office of the President (OP), was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after being charged with stealing $1M from a shop.

A sale of the long-languishing Casique Hotel and Banquet Hall at Providence, East Bank Demerara to Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin is being finalised, multiple sources have confirmed.

Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday announced that a major drainage project will be undertaken in the Mahaicony area, essentially, phase two of the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Scheme.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday lashed out at the diplomatic community over the contention that the absence of local government elections is undermining democracy in the country.

A former co-worker of Odel Downer and Winston Johashen, the Berbice cousins who have been reported missing after nearly a month with no word from them from the interior, has disputed claims by a mining camp supervisor that the two young men absconded from their work site.

The serial arsonist who terrorized a Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice family was finally arrested last evening; he sustained a shot to his hand in the process.

Another one of the Surendra Engineering pumps was commissioned yesterday at Patentia, West Bank Demerara with a final cost of $265 million.

After a drunk driver slammed into her car and persons pretending to render assistance robbed her while she was unconscious, Lorna Johnson is now recuperating in the Georgetown Public Hospital.

University of Guyana (UG) Vice-Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi believes banks, credit unions and other financial institutions should be responsible for administering loans for university students because they are better positioned to collect repayments.

Chairman of the ongoing Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI), Sir Richard Cheltenham yesterday announced that the life of the inquiry has been extended to September.

The $11.3 million Rehabi-litation Department at Suddie Public Hospital, Essequibo Coast was formally declared open yesterday, with Health Minis-ter Dr Bheri Ramsaran stressing the importance of family members in the lives of patients requiring therapy.

ATVs and navigation and communication equipment were yesterday handed over to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) along with the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA).

By Delvon Mc Ewan   Following several private meetings involving the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on Monday and Tuesday, a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) will be prepared regarding the Cricket Administration Bill and released by noon Monday.

After 14 bouts and fresh off a world title fight last month, the fighting pride of Guyana, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell has announced his retirement.

Guyana takes on USA South on Saturday in the final of the NACRA 15s Championships in Atlanta, Ga.

Sherona Latchman, a 25-year-old cosmetologist, yesterday paid over more than $20,000 to a representative of DSL Cash and Carry after admitting that she stole two bottles of alcohol from the supermarket by concealing them in her umbrella.

Chase Academy utterly defeated Tutorial High by an 8-0 score line when the fourth annual Digicel national under-18 knockout football championship continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

An 18-year-old Charity youth was on Monday fined at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court after he was found on his neighbour’s verandah and could not give a plausible explanation as to why he was there.

With government and the opposition making little progress in reaching consensus on national issues, Private Sector Commission (PSC) Chairman Ramesh Persaud yesterday said the prevailing disadvantages of the current political dispensation are “poisonous” to the growth of businesses and the economy.

A vendor is facing trial after being accused of assaulting a pregnant woman.

East Ruimveldt, St Johns and Buxton secondary schools emerged victorious over their opponents when the when the fourth annual Digicel national under-18 knockout football championship continued yesterday.

Dear Editor, Though I am currently on leave from the National Gallery, I am obliged to respond, as the gallery’s Curator and Director of programmes, to the article in your Sunday, May 25 last edition and your extraordinary supporting editorial of Thursday, May 29, which prominently gave vent to the sensational but unfounded claims of the distinguished artist Bernadette Persaud; unfounded because these are based not on any current knowledge or verified facts that she may have regarding the National Gallery’s operations, or the state of storage and conservation of our art collection, but on selective editing of the facts at her disposal.

PARIS, France, CMC- Former world record holder in the 100 metres Asafa Powell plans to compete in France early next month, organizers of the Paris Diamond League have announced.

Mahaicony resident Kelvon Hodge claimed self defence when he appeared before a court yesterday charged with chopping another man.

A minibus driver and two other persons were injured in an accident late Monday night, after the bus they were in crashed into a tree then toppled.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Militants attacked one of Iraq’s largest air bases and seized control of several small oilfields yesterday as U.S.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC– Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori was yesterday confirmed as the replacement for Muttiah Muralitharan in the Jamaica Tallawahs for the upcoming Caribbean Premier League.

Dear Editor, Now the dust from the UG-Hugh Wooding Law School sandstorm has temporarily settled, it behooves me as a quondam participant in the recurrent imbroglio to set the record straight based on historical reflections.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Lionel Messi continued his World Cup dual with Neymar by scoring twice in a 3-2 win over Nigeria while Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri got in on the act with a magnificent hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Honduras yesterday.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has advised that the inclement weather is affecting the planned activation of the force and delivery mains recently rehabilitated under the Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme.

Dear Editor, I attended the ‘National Conversation on a Clean Guyana’ on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Amerindian Village, Sophia Exhibition Site.

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Fewer than half of the eligible Libyans voted in a parliamentary election yesterday overshadowed by violence, officials said, with the paltry turnout reflecting disillusion with chaos pervading since Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow in 2011.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Argentina is being pushed toward a new default after a U.S.

Newly crowned Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ Champions West Front Road were officially presented with the championship trophy and the $300,000 first prize at a simple presentation ceremony yesterday at the Ansa McAl Headquarters at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, Since the Christian leader’s anti-gay comments, only one person has come out and expressed condemnation and dissatisfaction.

A Canadian man and a local insurance broker were on Tuesday evening robbed of over $100,000 in cash, a BlackBerry cellphone and other valuables as they were about to enter a restaurant on Sheriff Street.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – At least 21 people were killed when a suspected bomb tore through a crowded shopping district in the Nigerian capital Abuja during rush hour yesterday, police said, adding to the toll of hundreds killed in attacks this year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Special state prosecutor Dana Seetahal was murdered by a trans-national drug organisation with operations in T&T, says the United States Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield. Speaking

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC– The West Indies, heartened by a series leveling victory, will take on New Zealand in the third and deciding test match starting here today.

The Aditya Kids Trust Fund Foundation (AKTFF) made life easy for an elderly Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice resident when they presented him with a wheelchair during a Father’s Day celebration.

Dear Editor, As June 30 approaches I have to search for several thousand dollars to pay city taxes for the third quarter.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party has suspended one of its directors for echoing a former official’s recent criticism over corruption, local media reported yesterday, a sign President Nicolas Maduro is facing growing dissent from his own ranks.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled that police officers usually need a warrant before they can search the cellphone of an arrested suspect, a major decision in favor of privacy rights at a time of increasing concern over government encroachment in digital communications.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The champagne cork that popped in the first game of Andy Murray’s thrashing of Blaz Rola may have been premature, but the defending Wimbledon champion has already thrown down the gauntlet to his rivals.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Eli Wallach, an early practitioner of method acting who made a lasting impression as the scuzzy bandit Tuco in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, died on Tuesday at the age of 98, the New York Times reported.

Non-Immigrant Visa Holders: No Interview Required for Renewals! Interview Waiver Program (IWP) Q: What is the Interview Waiver Program (IWP)?

The students of the Carnegie School of Economics yesterday hosted a presentation of food and garments which reflected Caribbean countries they would have chosen in their Commercial Food Preparation Programme.

Dear Editor, Guyanese are on Facebook and Twitter and many read letters in the newspapers.

(Jamaica Observer) Caribbean Airlines saw its share of the US-Jamaica market plunge 27 per cent in 2013.

Guyana’s special landscape, its lush forests, rolling savannahs, white sand plains, vast muddy rivers and that yawning Atlantic Ocean lapping at the edge of Georgetown, plays a role in shaping the individual Guyanese.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – In 1993 at the age of 12, Jose Antonio Vargas said goodbye to his mother and boarded a plane in the Philippines to join his grandparents in California.

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Shelly Daly-Ramdyan and Leyland Leacock lost to Anthony Downes and Rebecca Mitchell in a mixed doubles match of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA)/ Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Open tournament Monday at the GBTI Recreational Facility, Bel Air.

Dear Editor, The funniest of story coming out of Guyana was to read about a reporter who quit his/her job in 2012 just after receiving a supposedly rare British Guiana 1832 coin from the owner, and was then pressured into returning the coin.

Politikles

This electricity pole along the Public Road at Jibb, Essequibo Coast has been leaning since Saturday last after a car slammed into it just after 9.30 pm.

Commuters around Georgetown may have seen him – a young man, possibly in his early 20s, dressed in a dirty neon green t-shirt, neon green lens-less plastic eyewear and torn pants.

MADRID, (Reuters) – A Spanish court yesterday upheld corruption charges against Cristina de Borbon, sister of newly-crowned King Felipe VI, and her husband in one of the last steps before a trial that could cloud the monarchy’s bid to rebuild its reputation.