Daily Archive: Friday, August 22, 2014

Work in progress on the Lamaha Street canal as part a government clean-up of Georgetown.

The Downer canal in Sophia almost completely cleaned as part of a government clean-up of the city.

A section of Le Repentir cemetery along Sussex Street that has been cleaned by the government as part of its clean-up campaign.

A portion of the Princes Street canal today that has been cleaned by the Government as part of a citywide campaign.

The man who was found dead on the roadway at Susannah Village, Corentyne, on August 20, 2014, has been identified as Pooran Shewprashad, 64 years, of Fyrish Village, Corentyne, police said in a release today.

The main opposition APNU today said that President Donald Ramotar has to become personally involved in piloting the fight against illegal drugs and it hammered the PPP/C record on this front.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC An opposition politician in St.Kitts, Chesley Hamilton, has criticized Prime Minister Denzil Douglas after a piece of land valued at US 400,000 dollars was presented to the player of the series in the just ended Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

(Trinidad Guardian photo) The man who pumped five bullets, at close range, into the head and body of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal has been identified as one of three men killed in a police shootout at Freeport on Wednesday. Senior

DONETSK-IZVARINO BORDER CROSSING, Russia, (Reuters) – Ukraine declared today that Russia had launched a “direct invasion” of its territory after Moscow sent a convoy of aid trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels are fighting government forces.

Alieshaw Barker, the woman at the centre of the Congress Place shooting last month has denied that she wilfully did not turn up to testify in the court case and she is unhappy at the freeing of the accused.

The People’s Progressive Party does not believe that the current period for claims and objections to the preliminary voter’s list is sufficient and has written to the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) asking for a seven-day extension.

(Trinidad Express) It has been six days since the Limacol Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 final and the Guyana Amazon Warriors are still seeking answers.

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is yet to respond to a request from the local manufacturer’s group for access to the agreements between government and foreign logging companies, including Bai Shan Lin.

Defending male and female champions Guyana continued their dominant showing in defence of their titles, defeating Jamaica when the team section of the 22nd Senior Caribbean Squash Championships continued in Barbados yesterday.

New suspected cases of Chikungunya have been reported in Aurora, Essequibo, where residents say three persons came down with symptoms of the virus two weeks ago.

Air traffic management in Guyana is expected to be significantly enhanced with the implementation of a new communication, navigation and surveillance system set to cost up to US$3M.

DNA samples taken from the skeletal remains of a woman found along the Turkeyen Road last month and from the parents of missing teacher Nyozi Goodman, have been sent overseas for analysis, Crime Chief Leslie James revealed yesterday.

Ten top players in the first leg of the GCB/Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket Summer Camp received trophies for their efforts when the camp closed with a presentation ceremony held at Banks/DIH Thirst Park ground yesterday.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Kieron Pollard said he wants to become a more consistent match-winner for West Indies in the future.

The shortage of skilled obstetricians is one of the biggest problems in maternal health, Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health Dr.

A teenager now stands accused of threatening to kill his mother with a gun and then escaping from police custody.

The National Under-12 lawn tennis team is travelling to St Lucia on Sunday to participate in the International Tennis Federation (ITF)/Grand Slam Development Championships which starts on Monday.

The East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) has announced that registration for the 14th edition of its Annual Cricket Academy starts today at the Lusignan Community Centre.

Pensioners were forced to wait five hours yesterday to collect their monthly pension at the Bourda Post Office because of an internal lapse of the administration yesterday.

Days after businessman Ashok Raghoo, 43, was shot to death during a daytime robbery on Vlissengen Road, police are still seeking a second suspect, while one remains in custody.

A Leguan farmer and the captain of a small passenger boat were rescued around 3pm yesterday after their boat laden with agricultural produce capsized in the Essequibo River.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) 10s league continues tomorrow with another double header at the National Park.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, CMC – Veterans Nesta Carter and Novlene Williams-Mills kept the Jamaica flag flying high with impressive wins in their pet events at the DN Galan Diamond League meet yesterday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article published in the Tuesday, August 19, 2014 edition of the Kaieteur News titled ‘Logging scandal…GFC defends delays in processing facilities…’ in which the newspaper pointed to questions asked during a press conference hosted by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) and the latter’s referral of such queries to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

The flood-prone Parika stelling will soon undergo rehabilitative works as cabinet yesterday announced that it had granted its no-objection for the $31.4M project.

An Essequibo family is pleading for the public’s assistance in raising more than $3M for surgery to save the dying patriarch of the home.

Dear Editor, The West Indies does not need a foreign coach.

BULAWAYO, (Reuters) – Opener Quinton de Kock smashed 84 as a weakened South Africa crushed Zimbabwe by seven wickets to complete a whitewash in their three-match ODI series at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo yesterday.

Accused of stealing over $400,000 worth of items from a home, twenty-one-year old Colwyn St Helen was yesterday granted bail after denying the charge.

Dear Editor, I paid $5,000 last Tuesday to a SurePay outlet in Georgetown for my DSL internet and to date the service has not been connected.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – American teenager Catherine Bellis provided the biggest jolt in the U.S.

By Vaneisa Baksh   (Trinidad Express) Perhaps the biggest failing of the ongoing Caribbean Premier League cricket tournament is the quality of radio commentary.

A Port Kaituma resident was yesterday air-dashed to the city after he was repeatedly stabbed by a friend.

Dear Editor, The House of Representatives in Trinidad passed a constitutional amendment bill that would empower voters to recall their Member of Parliament if they are dissatisfied with the MP’s performance.

The handful of fishermen who had congregated on the Number 44 wharf on Tuesday were sitting under a shed sheltering from a brisk drizzle.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – In-form Delray Rawlings struck 87, as Bermuda came up seven runs short under the Duckworth-Lewis Method against unbeaten Canada in the ICC Americas Under-17 Match Play Tournament on Wednesday here.

A security guard, accused of stealing fish he was supposed to be watching over, yesterday told a city court that it was given to him.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Kevin Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari, who were sent home from the World Cup in disgrace, have been dropped from the Ghana squad for next month’s African Nations Cup qualifiers.

With the beginning of the new school year now just over a week away, the Stabroek Business this week took its customary ‘test’ of the commercial temperature in downtown Georgetown as parents continue to ‘cough up’ the millions of dollars that it will take to get their children back into the classroom.

Dear Editor, I observe a Guyana transformed on some of the issues that impact life heavily and negatively.

It would have been a complete waste of effort and resources unless the organizers of The Guyana Festival pursue an evaluation of the event with a view to determining the extent to which its outcomes were consistent with the goals that it set itself in the first place.

(Trinidad Express) All past, present and future money laundering transactions will be caught under the Miscellaneous Provisions (Proceeds of Crime Anti-Terrorism, Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago) (No 2) Bill, 2014, Leader of Government Business in the Senate Ganga Singh has said.

Twenty-year-old Nickel Leacock, who was knifed to death along a trail in the Blackwater Backdam, Region Eight on Tuesday, died of shock and haemorrhaging due to internal bleeding, his sister said.

(ICC) Ever wonder what it takes to be a top cricket umpire?

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The sophistication, wealth and military might of Islamic State militants represent a major threat to the United States that may surpass that once posed by al Qaeda, U.S.

Dear Editor, The public has been calling for serious police reform to no avail.

Now Mail Packaging and Postal Service celebrated its second anniversary in March.  

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel killed three senior Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip in an air strike yesterday and said it would continue to target the group’s armed leadership after a ceasefire failed.

Dear Editor, Despite the daily grim news which features so often in the media, (gun crimes, murders, domestic violence, vehicle-manslaughter, etc) one cannot help feeling saddened at the recent murder of a businessman and injury to his wife by bandits.

(BBC) England beat India by 42 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis method in the first one-day international at Scarborough.

A labourer yesterday appeared before city magistrate Fabayo Azore to answer a charge of stealing three cows.

(Trinidad Express) Five days after two alleged car thieves were killed by police in Central Trinidad, three more suspected bandits have been shot dead.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Efforts to curb the deadly Ebola epidemic that swept across four West African states are being undermined by a lack of leadership and emergency management skills, the international head of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 577’s trading results showed consideration of $5,814,061 from 100,250 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 576’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,672,849 from 39,432 shares traded in 21 transactions.

Dear Editor, Guyana abolished British awards after it became a republic, and a few knights who were named in the colonial days were not too happy that they were not allowed to use their ‘Sirs’ while they were affiliated to the Forbes Burnham administration.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad Cement Ltd chief executive Dr Rollin Bertrand was suspended on Wednesday by the newly-installed board of directors of the Claxton Bay producer.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Matt Prior has dismissed suggestions his England career is over and has targeted April’s series in the West Indies for his return from a long-standing Achilles problem.

The state of health of municipal markets is often a useful barometer of the economic outlook in the community in which that market is located.

There are some countries in the Caribbean that have responded seriously to the warning signs that have been sent by the United States about ensuring that the foods that it consumes – whether locally produced or imported – meet certain minimum standards.

I tire truly of the world’s and Guyana’s sordid goings-on. These days I often wonder whether I could have been a media reporter required to write those daily new-stories of tragedy and misery – murder, other crimes, assaults, arson, accidents, corruption, etcetera.

The rise of the grass: The grass in the canal outside of the Uncle Eddie’s Home in Tucville is exceedingly high.

Business Cartoons

Dear Editor, As regional and general elections are in the air, Berbicians are once more beginning to get the political circus that normally comes around only when there is need for votes.

(Reuters) – Roger Federer is the form player going into next week’s U.S.

HOUSTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s shipments of crude oil and fuel to its allies have fallen to a five-year low as a weak economy hits its ability to uphold accords that former President Hugo Chavez struck to lower energy costs for friends and expand his diplomatic clout.

(Jamaica Gleaner) KINGSTON, Jamaica: Four persons were shot and killed by masked gunmen in Linstead, St Catherine on Wednesday night.

It was a pity that this year’s Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) had to come to such an unsatisfactory conclusion last Sunday.