Articles published on Saturday, November 8, 2014
President Donald Ramotar may face a heavy political price if he decides to prorogue Parliament on Monday, giving him as much as 10 more months whereas the opposition’s motion of no confidence would force an immediate election.
A beaming President Donald Ramotar and First Lady, Deolatchmee Ramotar on the observance of their 40 years of wedded bliss.
A high level delegation from the Government of Norway visited Guyana and met with Donald Ramotar, President of the Republic of Guyana, the Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and officials from the Office of the President over the forest partnership between the two countries.
Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 2030h.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — The Bouterse administration should face the facts: there is no more money.
(Trinidad Express) Ralph Thorne QC is urging the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to “publicly make the pledge against victimisation that they made behind closed doors”.
The government and opposition remain on a collision course ahead of Monday’s parliamentary sitting as President Donald Ramotar appears set to follow through on a threat to either prorogue or dissolve parliament to avoid the combined opposition’s planned attempt to pass a no-confidence motion to force general elections.
An ex-policeman was sentenced to four years in jail yesterday after being found guilty of taking a 14-year-old girl into Region Seven to be a sex worker.
Mayor and City Council (M&CC) workers were on Wednesday caught dumping garbage on the junction of Schumacker and Water streets.
Welton Edwards and Sherwin Hamilton, the two men who were shot by a Land of Canaan businessman earlier this week, have denied claims that they were attempting to rob him.
Labour Minister Dr. Nanda K Gopaul yesterday stated that Dr. Walter Rodney never gave any impression that he was planning a “violent overthrow” of the then PNC government.
Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) attorney Selwyn Pieters yesterday apologised for an erroneous statement which the organisation released stating that it was disgusted with former Attorney General Charles Ramson’s testimony concerning policemen, at the Com-mission of Inquiry into Dr.
The report `PPP had requested extradition of Gregory Smith – Ramson tells Rodney CoI’ in the November 4th edition of Stabroek News, inaccurately quoted former Attorney General Charles Ramson as referring to policemen deployed at a WPA political meeting as monkeys.
Scores of persons yesterday flocked the Marriott Hotel’s Pre-Opening Office in Georgetown with the hope of securing a job at the new hotel.
Commander of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), US Marine Corps General John F Kelly visited Guyana earlier this week to discuss bilateral security.
Forty-two surgeries were completed by a team of doctors visiting from the George Washington University in Washington DC, including the removal of a tumour which one doctor said was the size of basketball.
New writer Hans Gaskin’s first published book, spy thriller The Ashgabat Verdict, was officially launched yesterday.
The two unions representing Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) workers are threatening industrial action over the company’s refusal to meet with them jointly to negotiate wages and better working conditions.
Guyana is hoping to make its mark on the world as a tourism destination when it participates in this year’s Commonwealth Fair in London today.
After wrapping up her maiden three-day visit yesterday by taking some student athletes through pre-race warm up drills, U.
Quacy McPherson, the man who was shot by police on Sunday at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was remanded to prison yesterday after being arraigned on six charges, including attempted robbery and shooting at lawmen.
The driver accused of causing the death of hotel employee Lovina Williams was sentenced to five years in jail at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s court on Wednesday in his absence.
Days after she was caught on camera shoplifting from a city electronics store, a woman’s luck ran out when she made a second attempt at the same store yesterday, only to be nabbed by alert employees.
Women directors dominated last Friday night when the awards for the fourth National Drama Festival were handed out at the National Cultural Centre.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico has revoked a $3.75 billion high-speed rail contract from a Chinese-led consortium after its uncontested bid prompted an outcry from lawmakers, souring a state visit to China next week by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The closing ceremony of the fourth National Drama Festival was truly “The Night of Stars” as it was dubbed and shining brightest of them all for her successful direction of the festival and choreography of the closing ceremony was Colette Jones-Chin.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Kenyan middle distance runner David Rudisha was named as the best male athlete of the 2012 London Olympics at the inaugural Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) awards ceremony yesterday.
A United States-based woman on Thursday testified that before she ended a vacation in Guyana, she was approached by accused drug trafficker Deon Layne to deliver SSS tonic and other items to his girlfriend in the United States.
The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) will be bringing the curtain down tomorrow on what can be described as an outstanding year for the sport both nationally and internationally with the hosting of its premier event, the senior national championships.
GENEVA/COLOMBO, (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday accused Sri Lanka of trying to “sabotage” a war crimes inquiry, creating a “wall of fear” to prevent witnesses from giving evidence.
Hi Everyone, Have you ever had Okra Slush? No? Man you missing out, especially, if like me, you can’t get enough of the slender, green-apple-coloured vegetable called okra (ochroes).
Andrew Williams, charged with possession of marijuana for trafficking, was remanded to prison on Thursday after a court learned that he had allegedly confessed to police.
In a matchup that feels similar to a final, defending champs St.
The Cameron brothers, Nicholas and Dimitri of the Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC) scored half-centuries which steered their team to a to three-wicket win over Rose Hall Town Pepsi when the two sides met in a Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/Elizabeth Styles Under-19 limited overs match last Saturday.
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was sent packing from the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer Futsal tourney as they went down Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United by a 5-1 margin on Thursday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.
“Meh worship is not something that normally happens and I begging yuh fuh get some mercy on me,” Collin Boston pleaded when he appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with simple larceny.
Dear Editor, If Forbes Burnham had not died unexpectedly on August 6, 1985 the Peoples’ National Congress (PNC) and the People’s Progressive Party would have merged or at least have had a national front government in order to work in the interest of the Guyanese community.
Centre Stage Productions, a new drama group, won several awards in the Junior Category of the National Drama Festival last week with its play What If.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Forty-three missing students abducted by corrupt police in southwest Mexico six weeks ago were apparently incinerated by drug gang henchmen and their remains tipped in a garbage dump and a river, the government said yesterday.
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – A superb, attacking half-century by Player-of-the-Match Stafanie Taylor was not enough as West Indies Women went under by four-wickets to Australia Women in the third Twenty20 International, to extend their losing skid here yesterday.
A man accused of stealing from his employer was yesterday placed on bail after he recanted a guilty plea following needed legal advice.
DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania yesterday denied allegations by a campaign group that Chinese officials smuggled out large amounts of illegal ivory during a state visit by President Xi Jinping last year.
When Lisa Punch was on centre stage a few months ago, a lot of questions were asked in connection with the local support given to local artists.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers have formally opposed an appeal by the state against the South African athlete’s culpable homicide verdict and five-year jail sentence handed down last month, prosecutors said yesterday.
In an effort to fast track Carlsberg Beer as a household name, Southland International Inc.
Dear Editor, On the morning of Wednesday, November 5, 2014, I witnessed a most bizarre incident, even by our ludicrous standards here in Guyana.
Expressions 2, the second in the new production series staged by GEMS Theatre Productions, is set for tomorrow evening at the Theatre Guild playhouse in Kingston.
(KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – A Malaysian court on Friday gave transgender Muslims the right to cross-dress in a landmark decision overturning an Islamic law ban that could trigger similar challenges.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council imposed targeted sanctions yesterday on Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and two senior Houthi rebel leaders for threatening the peace and stability of the country and obstructing the political process.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin has again accused the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of axing him as national captain because of his role in the abandoned tour of India, and says their actions are a breach of his rights.
(Reuters) – All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan became the third man to hit a hundred and take 10-wickets in the same match as Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 162 runs in the second test to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
Dear Editor, This is a response to Ms A Ally’s letter published in Stabroek News of November 6 captioned ‘Slogan is in bad taste.’
Dear Editor, All three political parties are misguided in their focus on the no-confidence motion when it is among the least of the concerns of the population.
Former journalist Annalisa Bahadur has published her first volume of poetry A Flower’s Envy.
(Trinidad Guardian) Concerns have been expressed that Cable & Wireless Communication’s (CWC) proposed US$3 billion acquisition of regional cable provider Columbus International (also known as FLOW) could lead to a decline in telecommunications competition across the region and anti-competitive behaviour in T&T. The
LONDON, (Reuters) – A former newspaper executive whose emails led to the exposure of widespread phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct British tabloid, the News of the World, was jailed for eight months yesterday.
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – South Sudan’s warring parties committed to stop fighting and bring their months-long conflict to an end without conditions, the chief mediator for regional African group IGAD said on Saturday after two days of talks in the Ethiopian capital.
(Billboard) – Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ should easily lock up a second week at No 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week.
Dear Editor, Please permit me space to respond to Mr Nowrang Persaud’s letter dated October 30, 2014 captioned, ‘Diminishing output from private cane farmers is disturbing.’
She may only be 22 but Selena Gomez has loved, lost and loved again – and has done so with the world looking on.
When the Republican Party assumes control of both houses in the US Congress in January 2015, it is expected to press for expedited construction of the TransCanada Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s selectors have included two new players in their 13-man squad for the opening match of the WICB Professional Cricket League against Windward Island Volcanoes starting next week Friday.
Dear Editor, I wish to commend Minister of Labour Dr Nanda Gopaul for taking the stand and highlighting the several atrocities that took place under the PNC during the Rodney Commission of Inquiry.
Veerasammy Permaul’s 13-wicket match-haul was not enough to take the Leon Johnson’s XI to victory against the Vishaul Singh’s XI as the final Cricket Guyana Inc.
