Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today said following an emergency meeting that it will request a meeting with its Indian counterpart, the BCCI, following the abandoning of the tour of India by West Indian players over a pay dispute.

Training officers from the Pennsylvania State Police in the United States delivered a symposium to 34 members of the Guyana Police Force from October 13-17 at the Guyana Police Force Training Centre, a release from the US Embassy said today.

Patricia Rodney, the widow of Walter Rodney, greeting Father Malcolm Rodrigues today at the Commission of Inquiry into Walter Rodney’s death.

(Jamaica Observer) THE life, music and legacy of veteran Jamaican artiste, John Holt, was on many-a-lip at National Honours and Awards ceremony at King’s House in St Andrew, yesterday.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC-The chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Ranjib Biswal, has said that West Indies’ cricketers would not face any ban from the tournament after pulling out midway through their tour of India.

(Reuters) – Oscar de la Renta, one of the most sought-after fashion designers of the last half century, dressing American first ladies and Hollywood stars in his classic silhouettes, died on Monday at the age of 82.

A team from A Partnership for National Unity yesterday met with President Donald Ramotar and his team and discussed the coalition’s demand for a date for local government elections and for a clutch of rejected bills to be signed into law.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – West Indies cricket was plunged into a major crisis today after India, the world’s richest board, suspended all future tours with them following the Caribbean team’s abrupt withdrawal from a series in India last week.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison today for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ending a trial that has gripped South Africa and the world.

Despite being faced with extreme harassment and the murder of close friends, Walter Rodney was not driven to violence, according to his widow Dr Patricia Rodney, who also testified yesterday that she had never heard of any links between her husband and guns for 30 years.

An autopsy performed yesterday on a decapitated body, suspected to be that of businessman Mohamed Khan, was inconclusive, although the man’s family is even more convinced that it is him.

The police are reviewing video footage which captured the fatal attack on electrical engineer Saleem Azeez Abdool, who was shot dead near his Prashad Nagar Home during a robbery on Sunday morning.

Shellon Hopkinson, a young pregnant mother of one, was reduced to tears yesterday after being informed by city magistrate Judy Latchman that she will be spending the next 48 months of her life behind bars for trafficking marijuana.

Opposition Chief Whip Amna Ally yesterday said that since the Parliamen-tary Management Commit-tee meeting last Wednesday she has proposed multiple dates to government Chief Whip Gail Teixeira for Parliament to be reconvened but to no avail.

Chairman of the national cricket selectors Rayon Griffith yesterday said that he was very impressed after the first day of the Cricket Guyana Inc.

Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) rattled up an after-tax profit of $1.67B for the year ended September 30, 2014, 29% above the previous year.

One of the men suspected of robbing an Alexander Village jewellery business and its employees of in excess of $30M worth of jewels, cash and other items, was charged yesterday.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Christopher Matthias said CONCACAF’s Director of Legal Affairs Marco Leal and FIFA’s Head of Member Associations Primo Calvalho, will be arriving on local shores today to begin the process of creating a normalization committee.

Jimmy Myers, accused of robbing a man at gunpoint of $2M just after he left a city bank, is now a remanded prisoner after being denied bail.

President of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF), Cheryl Thompson is calling for a written apology from Team Coco’s owner Ian ‘QB’ Davis after he allegedly made disparaging remarks about the federation.

Defending champs Monedderlust Football Club and Victoria Kings reached the final of the Starlite Generation/Monedderlust FC second annual Berbice Cup after defeating Cougars FC and Ann’s Grove respectively in the semi-final round on Saturday.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will meet with the labour ministry today to finalize arrangements for an arbitrator to be appointed in the case of a Skeldon estate employee who was sacked after an altercation with the manager.

During investigations in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara yesterday, the police say they arrested six men in a vehicle.

Four years ago, the United States Coaching Committee had a dream to bring the ITTF Coaching Development Programme to the USA Table Tennis Association and to use that programme to bring about a new professional culture for American Coaches.

The cost to rebuild the historic Umana Yana, which was gutted by fire last month, has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance to be included in 2015 budget following an estimate given by a Wai Wai group, According to Permanent Secretary of the Culture Ministry Alfred King, who spoke with Stabroek News at his Main Street Office yesterday, members of the Wai Wai tribe visited and looked at the remains of the Umana Yana and developed a framework.

A three runs thriller between the University of Guyana (UG) and the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) ended in favor of MYO as action in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/New Building Society (NBS) second-division 40-overs-a-side competition continued Sunday at various venues in the city.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Just as he did in the recent one-day series against India, stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has again provided the only bright spark for West Indies in the latest International Cricket Council’s rankings released yesterday.

The Guyana Government has delivered a letter to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) committing to remedy gaps in the country’s anti-laundering legislation, GINA said last evening.

The biennial National Conference of the Alliance For Change (AFC) which was to be held on October 25th has been deferred as the party’s no-confidence motion against the government is still to be debated.

Results of the post-mortem examination performed on the remains of Abdool Hassim of Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo proved that he died as a result of six stab wounds to neck.

Two lucky cricket fans attending the final of the fourth annual Guyana Cricket Cup softball tournament which is being held later this month by the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) will win tickets to Aruba.

Former Guyana T20 batting star Imran Khan slammed a pugnacious century, steering Chesney to a massive 157-run win over Jai Hind in the ongoing 2014 New Building Society (NBS) second division limited overs competition in Berbice.

Tickets for the Shakespeare’s Globe staging of Hamlet, which will be performed at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) on Friday, have gone on sale.

MATARA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Part-time off-spinner Jermaine Blackwood snapped up two late wickets to peg back Sri Lanka A, and set up a tense finish to the second four-day “Test” on today’s final day.

An accused carjacker was yesterday refused bail after a court heard that he allegedly wrapped a seat belt around his victim’s neck before dumping him out of his car The charge against Trayon Anderson was that he, in the company of two other persons, on April 4, robbed taxi driver Mortimer Trim of a car, valued $2.6 million along with a quantity of cash, a wristwatch and a cell phone.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell says he is prepared to act as a mediator in the ongoing pay dispute between West Indies players and their representative, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) that led the one-day team to abandon their tour of India last week.

Two Camp Street Prison inmates yesterday found themselves back in court a lot sooner than expected when they were faced with separate charges of drug possession.

A Helena Number One, Mahaica man was sentenced to death on Friday for murdering his common-law wife.

Pele FC maintained their lead at the top of the standings, humbling Sunburst Camptown 4-0 when the second round of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division league continued today at the Tucville Community centre ground.

Dear Editor   Interpretation of Standing Order No. 8(2) On October 14, 2014, I was asked by Speaker Trotman whether he has the power, in accordance with the Standing Orders, to convene the next Sitting of the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, We, the members of the Guyana Trans United (GTU), wish to publicly condemn the Guyana Police Force for their continued discrimination against our community.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia says it is “deeply concerned” over the West Indies players’ decision to abandon the tour of India, especially with the Aussies scheduled to tour the Caribbean next year.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says Guyana is considering joining the Islamic Development Bank, after meeting with the Bank’s leadership during a visit to the US capital recently.

The mother of 20-year-old Suresh ‘Black Boy’ Ramnarine who was murdered at Zeelugt following an argument with a friend said she has not just lost her eldest child but her financial provider.

Dear Editor, This is what happens when lawlessness spirals and becomes out of control.

Dear Editor, The “No Confidence Motion,” soon to be tabled in Parliament, against the PPP Government, is part of a long tradition of attempts (sometimes subversive) to remove the said Party whenever they are in Government.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Joko Widodo took over as president of the world’s third-largest democracy yesterday with supporters’ hopes high, but pressing economic problems and sceptical rivals set to test the former furniture salesman.

Three hundred and twenty-five secondary school students from several Region Nine communities benefited from an awareness session on people trafficking conducted by the Ministry of Home Affairs Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons.

Dear Editor, In response to your news article, “AFC to press Speaker on Parliament date – Ramjattan cites Ramkarran opinion, separation of powers,” (October 20), I believe that although the country continues to sail uncharted waters since November 28, 2011, the AFC appears to be doing the toughest part of the work trying to prevent the country from continuing to sail in a direction certain local political pirates want to take it for further plundering.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board seems unlikely to escape a lawsuit over its players’ sudden abandonment of the Indian tour, after Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) interim president N.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – The United States is issuing new protocols for health workers treating Ebola patients and a rapid-response military medical team will start training even as Americans’ anxiety about the spread of the virus abates with 43 people declared risk free.

By Jeff Trotman   Twenty-seven Linden youths graduated from the USAID Skills and Know-ledge for Youth Employ-ment (SKYE) Project on October 10th and several lauded it for building their self-esteem and helping them to speak effectively.

Dear Editor, On October 6, 2014, the Guyana Times published an article captioned “PNCR not finished with Vanessa Kissoon.”

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Iran is taking further action to comply with an interim nuclear agreement with six world powers, a monthly U.N.

The Miss Guyana Universe pageant heats up with the Question and Answer (Q&A) Segment on tonight.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The world must confront Ebola in West Africa to prevent what could become one of the worst pandemics in human history, Cuban President Raul Castro told his closest allies yesterday.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – A Panamanian supreme court judge who previously headed the tribunal has been placed under house arrest and suspended from his post pending an investigation into suspected corruption, a congressional committee said yesterday.

Dear Editor, NIS and Guysuco continue to collaborate to shut out workers from the benefits they earn through years of toiling in the fields.

A Craig, East Bank Demerara man was yesterday arraigned on charges of unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition after lawmen noticed a bulge in his waist and decided to search him.

Head of the Human Resources department of the PNCR, Volda Lawrence, Assistant General Secretary, Amna Ally, MP and a team travelled to Linden on Saturday to celebrate with senior citizens of the mining town in observance of senior citizens month.

Two New Amsterdam teachers were on Sunday morning robbed of a number of items after thieves broke and entered their homes while they were sleeping.

One of the positives about the annual Secondary Schools Home Economics Competition sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in conjunction with the Ministries of Agriculture and Education is that it provides opportunity for schools possessing children with varying levels of academic acumen and located in far flung corners of the country to match skills in a discipline where the playing field is more or less level.

Dear Editor, I read Friday’s Stabroek News where a kind lady wrote of dogs being mistreated.

MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Uruguay is struggling to roll out the commercial production and sale of marijuana and its ground-breaking experiment could be dropped or watered down if an opposition candidate wins this month’s presidential election.

OTTAWA/MONTREAL, (Reuters) – A man who ran down two Canadian soldiers in his car at a Quebec mall on Monday and was later shot dead by police, “had become radicalized,” the Canadian government said.

(Jamaica Observer) Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan on Sunday criticised Jamaican governments over the years for not adequately building on efforts made by the country’s late national heroes to create an independent Jamaica.