Daily Archive: Thursday, October 16, 2014

In commemoration of World Food Day, the School of the Nations held a food art exhibition at its school today.

In commemoration of World Food Day, the School of the Nations held a food art exhibition at its school today.

In commemoration of World Food Day, the School of the Nations held a food art exhibition at its school today.

In commemoration of World Food Day, the School of the Nations held a food art exhibition at its school today.

In commemoration of World Food Day, the School of the Nations held a food art exhibition at its school today.

In commemoration of World Food Day, the School of the Nations held a food art exhibition at its school today.

In commemoration of World Food Day, the School of the Nations held a food art exhibition at its school today.

(Trinidad Express) Martial arts instructor Anthony Charles was yesterday denied bail on sex charges against three teenage boys.

Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran today said that there are stringent restrictions on entry to Guyana of persons who may present a threat to the health of the nation via the Ebola virus.

(Trinidad Express) The Kamla Persad-Bissessar-led Cabinet, out of an abundance of caution and acting on advice from Health Ministry officials, vetoed a trip by a Trini­dad and Tobago delegation to attend the annual Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference which took place in Cameroon, Africa.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Gonzalo regained strength today, again reaching Category 4, as it swirled towards Bermuda, the U.S.

Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs yesterday said it was up to the government to set a date for the next parliamentary sitting, after the Chief Whips for both the government and opposition could not find consensus.

The father of Alex Persaud, the 16-year-old who committed suicide after being expelled from the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) over a relationship with a teacher, has alleged that teachers at the school knew about the relationship and did nothing.

By Desilon Daniels A Falmouth woman is dead after a collision in the Essequibo River on Tuesday evening, which has prompted another call for increased caution amongst river users.

Delon Gordon, the man charged with killing his wife by setting her afire in their Better Hope, East Coast Demerara home, was yesterday found guilty of her murder.

GuySuCo has rejected a recommendation from the Chief Labour Officer that a suspended Skeldon estate worker be reinstated with full pay and this has angered the main sugar union, GAWU.

Minister in the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill yesterday said that the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) only this week received formal notification of Cabinet’s ‘no objection’ to the prequalification of the New GPC to supply drugs for the health sector and it will in turn be notifying the Ministry of Health.

Chile is to open an embassy in Guyana it was announced yesterday when its new envoy presented his credentials to President Donald Ramotar.

A poultry farmer was yesterday released on $400,000 bail after denying that he caused the death of a pedestrian through dangerous driving.

A pregnant 12-year-old girl, who claimed that she was impregnated by her stepfather, was yesterday released from a city hospital and is now in the care of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA).

Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque has called for a data revolution to strengthen national statistical systems in his message to mark the sixth Caribbean Statistics Day.

Three men yesterday found themselves charged with the theft of almost $4M in items from a contractor at Central Rupununi.

Two men were yesterday accused of converting millions worth of mercury to their own use instead of selling it and returning its proceeds to the rightful owner.

Assistant Commissioner of National Registration (ACNR) Nolan Jervis took the oath of office at a simple ceremony held in the Chambers of Chief Justice (Ag) Ian Chang on Tuesday.

Four days of international cycling at its very best in beautiful Guyana starts today in the Ancient County.

By Delvon Mc Ewan  The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) remained ahead after accumulating 157 points on day two of the Inter Service Athletics Championships (ISAC) at the GDF, Camp Ayanganna ground.

Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on Monday dismissed the charge of indecent exposure against a regional development officer after the virtual complainant (VC) accepted $130,000 to settle the matter.

Bridgetown, Barbados – Ramnaresh Sarwan is far from washed up and can still feature in future West Indies’ Test teams.

A travelling production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet will make its way to Guyana next week for a staging at the National Cultural Centre (NCC).

An elderly Kitty man, who claimed he has hearing problems, has been fined for playing loud music which disturbed his neighbors.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board says it fully endorses the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) as the sole body to negotiate on behalf of the region’s players, and says it will only get involved in the ongoing impasse between the players union and the West Indies squad in India, if invited to do so.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – World number one Twenty20 bowler, Samuel Badree, will campaign in this year’s Twenty20 Australia Big Bash, after penning a deal with Brisbane Heat.

A former paralegal at the Fraser, Housty and Yearwood law firm, Shantel Scott was admitted to the local bar last Tuesday after attorney-at-law and partner at the said firm Stephen GN Fraser presented her petition to Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – While a glitzy new league may inspire youngsters to take up the sport, India’s hopes of becoming a soccer power rest with its development at a grassroots level, according to FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke.

A labourer was yesterday charged with stealing a length of cable belonging to the still under construction Marriott Hotel.

To mark this year’s World Post Day, which was observed last Thursday, the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) has honoured members of its staff and their children who have excelled academically this year.

A Parfaite Harmonie man is being accused of cheating a woman of $350,000 by pretending he could get her a house lot.

Threats to the environment make hemispheric cooperation more necessary, according to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 15, CMC – Expect Antigua and Barbuda to spring a surprise in next month’s CFU Caribbean Cup Finals, head coach Rolston Williams has warned.

The Guyana Cooperative Credit Union League (GCCUL) is reminding members to be vigilant as it joins the world body in commemorating International Credit Union Day today.

Dear Editor, I would like to highlight an incident I experienced recently.

The 2014 edition of the annual Mayor’s Cup knock-out football tournament will officially commence on Sunday October 19th with a doubleheader slated to be contested at the Den Amstel community ground, West Demerara.

President Donald Ramotar said now is an exciting time in Guyana to be a young student as he celebrated the success of 64 graduating students at the 2014 convocation ceremony of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) School on the West Coast Demerara on Sunday evening.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius “ruined” Reeva Steenkamp’s family when he shot her dead, her cousin told a sentencing hearing yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is with absolute dismay, shock and amazement that I read online that a 16-year-old male student of a private school in Guyana committed suicide, after it was alleged that he was romantically involved with a female teacher at the same educational institution.

Protestors yesterday again withstood the mid-morning heat as they continued to press for better protections for the many victims of sexual abuse in the interior whose plights are often suppressed and forgotten.

Dear Editor, I can just imagine Mr Rafiq Khan’s response if he was told that the Guyana Post Office Corporation would honour him on a stamp.

Kingston, Jamaica – Enterprising opener Horace Miller has expressed pleasure at being one of five players drafted by Jamaica’s franchise for the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board Four-day Tournament season, which commences next month.

(BBC) A clash between India’s top newspaper and a Bollywood actress shows no signs of abating.

MONROVIA, (Reuters) – A total of 4,493 people have died from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

Dear Editor, No one is certain of the specific reasons countries are allowing people in from West Africa, but it probably has to do with maintaining international trade and diplomatic relations.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Five years after his death, singer Michael Jackson is generating a fortune and is the top-earning dead celebrity, raking in an estimated $140 million in the past year for his estate, Forbes said yesterday.

Dear Editor, My wife Lorna and I were shocked and dismayed when we came home last evening to receive a message on our machine that Rafiq had died on Friday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Private Sec-tor Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is estimating that about 13 million man hours may have been lost to the chikungunya epidemic, potentially resulting in economic losses of more than J$6 billion as workers stay off the job while recovering.

WDFA President Nigel Garraway, said that in keeping with his association’s mandate and following discussions with the body’s executives and general council, his association will be hosting an inaugural yearend tournament.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – A second Texas nurse who has contracted Ebola told a U.S.

Director of Studies at National School of Drama and Theatre Arts Al Creighton said the National Drama Festival is in a unique position of leadership in drama in the Caribbean, even as it continues to expand countrywide.

A secondary school student was stabbed twice by another student at their Woolford Avenue lessons place yesterday during an argument.

Dear Editor, It was reported that the Minister in the Ministry of Finance gave instructions to the Chairman of the NPTAB to remind procuring entities of an apparently unfilled obligation of theirs under the Procurement Ac, in other words to ensure that they comply with the law.

By Ned Parker, Isabel Coles and Raheem Salman   BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Lieutenant General Mahdi Gharawi knew an attack was coming.

An ANSA McAl Berbice employee was beaten and robbed of his motor vehicle on Monday evening at around 19:00hrs in the vicinity of the East Canje turn on the public road.

President Donald Ramotar has extended felicitations to President Evo Morales on his overwhelming victory at the presidential elections held in Bolivia on Sunday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will look into comments made by stand-in skipper Shahid Afridi which fuelled speculation about the future of captain Misbah-ul-Haq, board chairman Shaharyar Khan said yesterday.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) Alcoa is selling its 55 per cent interest in the Jamalco refinery to Noble Group Limited, the parties announced yesterday morning.

When we think of the enormous sacrifices and hardships our foreparents made to carve this blessed land into the Guyanese nation, we ought to hang our heads in shame at the way we insist on being as a people of the 21st century global village.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistani selectors have named experienced opener Taufeeq Umar and senior batsman Younus Khan in a 19-member squad for the two-test series against Australia in the United Arab Emirates, starting next week.

Dear Editor, While a USA hospital deals with its third Ebola patient, the situation in West Africa is getting increasingly dire and worrying for us here in Guyana More than 4,000 people have died from Ebola this year in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

  (Jamaica Gleaner) The leader of the Trinidadian muslim group Jamaat Al Muslimeen, Yasin Abu Bakr, has been denied entry into Jamaica.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police used pepper spray early today to stop pro-democracy protesters from blocking a major road near the office of the city’s embattled leader amid public anger over the police beating of a protester a day earlier.

Torginol Paints Inc and Continental Group of Companies donated 25 gallons of paint to Miss World Guyana Rafieya Hussain for her planned US$10,000 Domestic Violence Outreach Centre in Essequibo.

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(Jamaica Gleaner) KINGSTON, Jamaica: Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Minister Gary Griffith has invited Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson to visit Port of Spain for talks on immigration issues between the two countries.

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Dear Editor In the past few days, some news media have been reporting the suicide of Alex Persaud, a Fifth Form student of Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN), a private secondary school, located at Cornelia Ida, WCD.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former Pakistan off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq believes Saeed Ajmal has rectified his action to permissible limits and is ready to undergo a test to return to cricket, the country’s board said Tuesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) approved guidelines yesterday urging countries to increase cigarette taxes to help discourage smoking.

Congratulations are in order for the 30 groups of students who conceptualised, cooked and presented healthy food made from local products at this year’s Secondary Schools Home Economics Competition which was held on Tuesday last.

Residents of the East Bank Demerara communities of Peters Hall and Providence and parts of Republic Park and Nandy Park came face to face, one week ago, with the effects of a broken local government system.