Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 2, 2014

An Amerindian group doing a cultural item during yesterday’s launch of Amerindian Heritage Month at the Sophia Exhibition Centre.

Local lobby group Blue CAPS today issued a press release drawing the attention of the Ministry of Local Government’s Clean-up Committee to the unsightly state of Church and Waterloo Sts.

European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs today signed Development programmes for 21 ACP countries and  Guyana’s allocation is Euro 34 Million ($9.28B).

At about 1230h. today, the police say that farmer Balkissoon, 52 years, of Helena No.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Celebrity representatives and security experts used the online posting of intimate photos of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and other female entertainers to sound new warnings on Tuesday about the dangers of storing data on the Internet.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is advising that the Post Office Training Centre (located at Lamaha and Carmichael streets) is temporarily closed to the public until further notice.

European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs today signed Development programmes for 21 ACP countries and Guyana’s allocation is Euro 34 Million ($9.7B) A release from the European Union today said that the funds will focus mainly on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, including sea defences.

(Trinidad Express) Well-known pan arranger Eddie Quarless, 60, died yesterday in New York, USA where he had gone for medical treatment.

(Trinidad Express) Colourful floats, elaborate costumes, politicians and merrymakers filled the streets yesterday for the annual West Indian Day Parade, a Caribbean celebration and political see-and-be-seen event that was marred by a fatal shooting nearby before the official festivities got under way.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A reported comment by President Vladimir Putin that Russia could capture Ukraine’s capital Kiev within two weeks was taken out of context, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a Kremlin foreign policy aide as saying today.

Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud yesterday announced that $2 billion in revenues from mining will be channelled to the National Protected Areas Trust Fund (NPATF).

A 46-year-old gold miner was yesterday stabbed to death during an argument with a man at 4 Miles, Arakaka, North West District.

A truck driver escaped unharmed after ploughing through a number of obstacles, including a billboard, along the East Bank Demerara Public Road yesterday afternoon.

Six weeks after he was reportedly hit from behind as he journeyed on a lonely dark road off the Linden/Soesdyke Highway 50-year-old Elton Headley died on Sunday and his family is calling on the police to conduct a thorough investigation.

A teenager, accused of using a cutlass to rob two sisters in the city on Saturday night, got a reprieve yesterday when one of the women told a court that she would not be offering any evidence against him.

A labourer was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he was one of two persons who robbed a man.

The National Accreditation Council (NAC) of Guyana has listed the Ajeenkya D Y Patil University at Turkeyen (Guyana) Inc as registered even though its planned medical school has not even broken ground here as yet.

A questionable identification parade conducted by the police resulted in two teenaged boys walking free of an armed robbery charge yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

President of the Republic of Guyana, Donald Ramotar during his feature address at the 75th annual Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Jubilee celebration, deemed the board’s contribution as invaluable as well as an “integral part of cricket in Guyana” while confirming the government’s future support for the board.

Starr Computers Inc on Saturday unveiled a new computer sharing device called “The Virtual Computer” at an Information Communications Technology (ICT)/Women’s Empowerment seminar hosted with the S4 Foundation, a women’s support network.

The driver who crashed into the under-construction house at Bagotstown on Saturday morning has agreed to pay the owner, Debbie Kaladeen, for the damage caused.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul issued a stern warning to Bangladesh ahead of Saturday’s start of the first Test, when he hammered a top class hundred in the Tour Match here yesterday.

Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters survived a fourth quarter offensive surge from Pepsi Sonics to clinch the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Trifecta First Division title winning 75-71 Saturday at the Burnham Court.

A New Amsterdam man was yesterday accused of stealing over $400,000 in fuel in the North West District Nkhaomi King, 35, also known as “Bun Up,” of lot 55 New Amsterdam, Berbice, was placed on bail by Magistrate Judy Latchman after he denied the charge against him.

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee was yesterday tight-lipped on who the ruling party is engaging to formulate its touted “National Democratic Front” alliance.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Dr. Frank Anthony as part of his feature speech at the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) 75th anniversary, called on Guyanese to ‘Take a page out of the book of the past,” in order to reignite the passion for cricket which has seemingly faded over the years.

A truck driver was yesterday charged with causing the death of an elderly woman, who he allegedly hit after she managed to push her grandson out of the way of the vehicle.

More than two weeks after he was accused of disseminating falsehoods following the publication of export data that contradicted his statements regarding forestry exports, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh remains silent on the charge.

BERNE, (Reuters) – Brazil and Colombia, the dust barely settled following their brutal World Cup quarter-final, clash again and there will also be a replay of the final as Germany host Argentina in this week’s international friendlies.

No suspects have yet been charged in relation to the murder of Delicious Restaurant employee Debra Blackman.

Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur is denying that the agency’s seizure of two vehicles belonging to family friends of Kaieteur News publisher Glen Lall is an act of persecution, while saying it is part of a wider investigation into the use of vehicles imported by remigrants that began since the start of the year.

(Reuters) – Hosts Spain passed their first real test at the basketball World Cup with flying colours yesterday when they beat Brazil 82-63 to book a last 16 berth alongside a Greek team who brushed aside Puerto Rico 90-79.

Dear Editor, Our attention having been captured by the headline of the Sunday Stabroek report of August 31 (‘Parents of home alone children will be charged…’), we read the article carefully to check that the caption was not out of step with the context of the Minister’s remarks.

CANTERBURY, England, CMC – Former West Indies vice-captain Brendan Nash passed 700 league runs for the season when he scored 40 for Kent, on the second day of their County Championship game against Glamorgan yesterday.

Dear Editor,        I am very sad to learn of the passing of Victor Ramraj, Professor of English at the University of Calgary in Canada, where he taught for over four decades.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Russian Ekaterina Makarova moved into the quarter-finals of the U.S.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Hull City forward Calaum Jahraldo-Martin is one of eight players expected to represent Antigua and Barbuda in the first round of Caribbean Cup qualifiers starting here tomorrow.

Dear Editor, I do not propose the introduction of “the Suriname system to Guyana,” a misconception upon which much of Mr Mike Persaud’s presentation ‘Consociationalism cannot work’ (SN, August 25) rests.

Shawn Atkinson, 18, who drowned during the Barama Company Limited’s fun day on Friday, was under the water for more than six hours prior to his body’s discovery.

This is how you do it! The young lady (right) holds a plastic cup and looks on as her friend demonstrates the proper (and sustainable) way to enjoy Fly (Potato) wine:  in a calabash.

Dear Editor, News of Victor Ramraj’s death stilled me. I reflected upon his generosity as a scholar (Professor of English at Calgary).

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka fought off two set points in the pivotal third set on the way to a 7-5 4-6 7-6(7) 6-2 win over Spain’s Tommy Robredo yesterday to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S.

KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia yesterday of “direct and undisguised aggression” which he said had radically changed the battlefield balance as Kiev’s forces suffered a further reverse in their war with pro-Moscow separatists.

Dear Editor,  Doesn’t it seem odd that Bai Shin Lin has remained silent during the national debates concerning misuse use of their forestry concessions and Guyana’s forestry resources?

Soldiers from our first people: Some of the Amerindian members of the Guyana Defence Force at the Amerindian Village yesterday. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US military forces carried out an operation yesterday against al Shabaab militants in Somalia, a US Department of Defense spokesman said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena Williams gave a premature victory leap in her fourth-round match and later allowed herself a self-deprecating celebration after beating Kaia Kanepi to reach the U.S.

The man who allegedly caused the death of five-year-old Renel Roberts of Good Hope, Essequibo Coast yesterday appeared in the Charity Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Sunil Scarce.

Dear Editor, From the time the 1980 constitution was promulgated the then opposition political parties and some commentators dubbed it repugnant.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Nearly 18,000 geese died on a poultry farm in northeast China after being stricken by the H5N6 bird flu virus last month, the agriculture ministry said.

Clifton Graham shone the brightest of all the up and coming stars of the fistic sport by punching his way to the best boxer award of this year’s two-night Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) National Intermediate Championship.

From Waramuri: The Waramnuri Cultural Group performing a dance at the Amerindian Village to herald the start of Amerindian Heritage Month yesterday.

LONDON, CMC – Former Grenada international Delroy Facey has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, media reports here have said.

General Secretary of the ruling PPP Clement Rohee was not forthcoming about the party’s possible rejection of the Official List of Electors (OLE) before national or local government elections are called and brushed off the General Register’s Office’s (GRO) role in presenting information that would lead to an acceptable OLE.

Dear Editor, The First Peoples of Guyana are enjoying an entire month of heritage celebrations as we open our wonderful communities to Guyanese of all walks of life so they can participate in the many national heritage events that will be taking place from coast to the hinterland during September.

Headdress: President Donald Ramotar receives a traditional headdress from a young indigenous boy at the opening of the Amerindian Village and Amerindian Heritage Month at the Sophia Exhibition Site yesterday. 

MASERU (Reuters) – Lesotho’s prime minister has asked southern African states to send peacekeepers into his mountain kingdom to restore order after an apparent coup over the weekend, his aide said yesterday.

Show Stoppers defeated Georgetown unit Broad Street by a 3-1 margin to top Group-C when the Stag Beer West Side 5-aside football tournament continued on Sunday at the Vergenoegen Rice Mill Tarmac.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations agreed yesterday to send investigators to Iraq to examine crimes being committed by Islamic State militants on “an unimaginable scale”, with a view to holding perpetrators to account.

Back to school in unity: Pupils of Rama Krishna Primary reconnect on their first day back at school yesterday after the long August vacation.

More than two years on, the `hit’-style murder of then Pest Control Plus boss, Mohammed Baksh remains unsolved.

Dear Editor, I note that a letter published in SN on September 1 captioned ‘We should return to the earlier constitution,’ by Vishnu Bisram was intended as a response to a letter I had written earlier (‘Consociationalism cannot work,’ SN, August 25).

Amid a 31.3% rise in traffic deaths this year compared to last year, the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) yesterday again appealed to road users to be more responsible.

Dear Editor, Soon after my arrival in Guyana in April, I visited the New Amsterdam Office of GT&T to inquire as to the latest developments involving telephone service 333-4645.

It has been confirmed that Elizabeth Henry, the Bartica woman struck by lightning on Friday died of heart failure, while her daughter remains hospitalized after also being struck.

DAKAR/LAGOS (Reuters) – The world’s “disastrously inadequate response” to West Africa’s Ebola outbreak means many people are dying needlessly, the head of the World Bank said yesterday, as Nigeria confirmed another case of the virus.

Vidyawattie Looknauth, Carvil Duncan, Patrick Yarde, Patricia Went and Mohammed Akeel were yesterday afternoon sworn in as members of the Public Sector Commission before President Donald Ramotar at the Office of the President.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Popular environmentalist Marina Silva looks capable of winning Brazil’s presidential election in October but a major campaign gaffe and mounting attacks from other candidates and the media suggest the race is still wide open.

The Leo Club of Ruimveldt has assisted nine children with stationery for their return to school.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba has raised duties and restricted imports on consumer goods brought in by air travellers or sent by mail, imposing greater hardship for a fledgling private sector and angering people looking to counter chronic shortages.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s shock one-day international defeat to minnows Zimbabwe has raised alarm bells five months before the country co-hosts the World Cup while exposing the team’s continued struggles to master spin bowling.

Pity indeed that our education system is not afforded the luxury of leaving the previous year’s difficulties behind at the start of a new academic year.

Dear Editor, The Chinese philosopher and poet Lao Tzu famously said, “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.”

This is a continuation of last week’s article on the above subject.

Politikles

The autopsy of the Grove, East Bank Demerara man who was beaten to death by a mob of bystanders on August 29, after he allegedly tried to steal a purse from a woman, revealed that he died of a fractured skull and brain haemorrhage.