Daily Archive: Friday, January 16, 2015

(Trinidad Express) None of the 40 songs carded to perform at the Chutney Soca Monarch semi-final competition last night would have had lyrics glorifying either alcohol or domestic abuse, Southex chief executive officer George Singh said yesterday.

The Caricom community council of ministers meeting today in Georgetown was told by Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett that an announcement on general elections is `imminent’.

In an effort to further enhance health care services, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), and Yang Zhou-Subei People’s Hospital located in Jiangsu Province, China signed a friendship agreement yesterday which will see the two hospitals benefiting from each other’s services.

In an effort to further enhance health care services, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), and Yang Zhou-Subei People’s Hospital located in Jiangsu Province, China signed a friendship agreement yesterday which will see the two hospitals benefiting from each other’s services.

In an effort to further enhance health care services, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), and Yang Zhou-Subei People’s Hospital located in Jiangsu Province, China signed a friendship agreement yesterday which will see the two hospitals benefiting from each other’s services.

DURBAN, South Africa, CMC – West Indies failed to negotiate a tricky run chase and lost the rain-hit opening One-day International against South Africa by 61 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method here today.

The Management/Ownership Team of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Franchise today announced the appointment of former West Indies and Guyana cricketer, Carl Hooper as the Head Coach of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Team for the 2015 edition of the Caribbean Premier League.

The Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) says it is conducting investigations into an allegation that two police ranks attached to the Kurupung Police Station arrested twelve men on January 12, 2015, in relation to the possession of an unlicensed shotgun and nine cartridges and were involved in a corrupt transaction with a view to having the men released from police custody.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian film that features a self-styled spiritual leader in jewel-studded costume riding motorbikes and sending the bad guys flying has prompted the chief of the country’s censor panel to quit, citing government interference.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday a legal victory was scored against Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley for what he said was his failure to file a defence in a defamation case against him, involving the allegations made in the emailgate fiasco.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia rode David Warner’s belligerent 127 to chase down a modest target and beat England by three wickets with 10 overs to spare in the first match of a tri-series also involving India on Friday.

With no indication as to when the suspension of the National Assembly will be lifted, the top American diplomat here yesterday said that the primary focus at this stage needs to be on moving towards general elections, ensuring a return to parliamentary democracy.

In the face of increasing calls for him to name a date for general elections, President Donald Ramotar last evening said that he has not yet decided when he will make the announcement.

Surinamese business representatives are upbeat about the prospects for increasing their trade in goods and services in Guyana and hope that a three-day conference which began yesterday will further foster bilateral relations.

Cadet Officer Franz Paul, who is charged with shooting 15-year-old Alex Griffith in the mouth during a game of Russian roulette, was yesterday cleared of a charge of perverting the course of justice due to insufficient evidence.

A whale, measuring between 10 and 12 feet, was found early yesterday morning entangled in a fisherman’s seine at No.37 Village, West Coast Berbice and died during attempts to return it to the ocean.

Guyana and Suriname are to meet urgently to resolve problems that minibus operators here are experiencing on their journeys to Paramaribo.

Auto dealer Deokarran ‘Ram’ Sanasie is not being looked at as a suspect in the murder of his wife, Patricia Sanasie, who was gunned down on Monday night in front of her home at Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara.

A prison officer is now among the inmates he once guarded after being jailed yesterday for smuggling cigarettes and a SIM card into the Georgetown Prison.

Sixteen years after the Kanuku Mountains was first proposed as a potential protected area, its management plan will soon be implemented.

In the wake of a statement by the British High Com-missioner here that Guyana is in breach of the Commonwealth Charter by virtue of its suspension of Parliament among other things and could therefore come up for critical review, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here says it has established with the Commonwealth Secretary General that there has been no discussion about the situation in Guyana.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Windward Islands Volcanoes crumbled under spin as Guyana Jaguars hammered them by 142 runs in the second game of the NAGICO Super50 at Queen’s Park Oval here yesterday.

Passengers on the MV Sabanto, one of the Chinese ferries that ply the Essequibo River between Supenaam and Parika, were left stranded yesterday after it ran aground in the vicinity of Hog Island.

The AFC has lauded the opposition by Aishalton residents to their village council’s decision to remove schoolteacher John Adams from the community, while saying Amerin-dians need to know their rights.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Hosts Jamaica and Caribbean champions Trinidad and Tobago suffered damaging results in the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship when they both slumped to defeats on day five of the tournament here Wednesday.

A Meadow Bank Wharf fishery worker was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison after he was found guilty of a gun-point robbery.

DURBAN, South Africa, CMC- West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy says he would not be drawn into the controversy surrounding the omission of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard from the regional squad for next month’s World Cup.

The British High Commission yesterday announced that Leroy Phillips from Guyana is one of 60 young people from across the Commonwealth who are being recognised as exceptional leaders in their community.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Wet conditions forced the abandonment of play in the opening match of the NAGICO Super50 between defending champions Barbados Pride and Combined Campuses and Colleges here yesterday.

Businessman Rovindranauth Rampersaud, allegedly found with an unlicensed gun and ammunition during an early morning police raid yesterday, believes the charges laid against him are the result of his wife.

Police have not yet identified another suspect in the death of Natasha Jacobs, the woman who was pulled out of the Blacka Canal at ‘B’ Field, Sophia three weeks ago, a senior police officer says.

The newly elected Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has made good on their promise to facilitate more tournaments in 2015 by securing sponsorship for the Secondary School Under-17 Cricket Competition for schools in Berbice.

A businessman, allegedly found with small bags of marijuana, was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared in a city court charged with possession of narcotics for trafficking.

The continued decline in the price of gold on the world market sends a clear signal to countries like Guyana that a point has long been reached where assurances of economic growth can only be realized by embarking on programmes aimed at significantly encouraging the growth of value-added industries.

A man was yesterday sentenced to two years and ten months behind bars after being found guilty of ganja trafficking Andrew Williams had denied the charge at his arraignment on November 6 last year.

National tennis player Shemar Britton is the champion of the inaugural South View Tavern (SVT) Knockout Tennis Challenge which was hosted on Tuesday at the entity’s location at Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former France winger David Ginola will announce today that he is entering the race to become president of world soccer’s governing body FIFA, The Sun reported yesterday.

The government yesterday said that outgoing UK High Commissioner Andrew Ayre should be considered a “pariah” over his recent statements that the suspension of Parliament here was a violation of the Commonwealth Charter and sanctions by London could be in the pipeline.

With the Caribbean under pressure not only to significantly reduce its multi-billion-dollar food import bill but also to increase its market share for food exports to North America and Europe a new partnership would appear to be emerging to help propel the region’s food and beverage industry.

Dear Editor, Several months ago the Clean Up my Country team held a consultation with residents of Lodge regarding the cleaning up of our community.

The Office of the President has said the suggestion by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) that Norway and the Inter-American Development (IDB) are “colluding” with the government of Guyana to illegally spend funds for the Amaila Falls project is “ridiculous,” while calling on the opposition party to apologise.

(Trinidad Express)  “I want to be quite positive in what I do.

The portents, even this early in the year, suggest that 2015 could be an even tougher year for the gold-mining industry than 2014.

(Trinidad Express) All eyes will be on the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force today as they start their Nagico Super50 campaign against the West Indies Under-19 at Shaw Park in Tobago.

Home Safe Security workers are yet to receive salaries for November and December 2014 The security service is contracted by Region Six to provide protection to several government entities and to date,

Dear Editor, In an interview with the Government Information Agency (GINA) on January12, Geoffrey Vaughn, Coordinator of the Work Services Group (WSG) of the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) expressed MPW’s dissatisfaction with the pace of construction of the East Bank, Demerara four-lane road extension after its three contracts ended on December 31, 2014.

As economic turmoil in Venezuela grows, the Guyana government’s reticence on the future of the PetroCaribe agreement is passing strange, observers say.

Recently crowned Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer champs Alpha United, officially received their prizes yesterday from Banks DIH Limited at a team presentation ceremony held at the company’s Thirst Park headquarters.

Dear Editor, With reference to the cartoon published in the Sunday Stabroek of January 11, the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) wishes to bring to your attention its observation regarding same.

Dear Editor, The editor of the Stabroek News in responding to a letter from the Chairman of Atlantic Hotel Inc, Mr Winston Brassington, published on 11th January, 2015, introduced a new practice of journalism, the reporting of “informed speculation”, to justify unsubstantiated, undocumented, unsupported reporting published as fact by his newspaper.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States announced sweeping new rules yesterday that will significantly ease sanctions on Cuba, opening up the communist-ruled island to expanded U.S.

(ICC) No cricketing contest can ever match the thrill and excitement of what a Pakistan versus India contest offers.

NEW YORK/SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics recently offered to buy BlackBerry Ltd for as much as $7.5 billion, seeking its valuable patents as it battles Apple in the corporate market, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents seen by Reuters.

(Reuters) – Tillikaratane Dilshan eased to his 19th one-day international century to anchor his side to a six-wicket victory over New Zealand in the second game of their seven-match series at Seddon Park in Hamilton yesterday.

Dear Editor, On the 17th January, 2014 at the re-commissioning of the Leonora Magistrate’s Court, President Donald Ramoutar said that the magistrate would now have a more comfortable environment to work in.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday January 15, 2015 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Rory McIlroy overcame a slow start to shoot a five-under 67 in the opening round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship yesterday, three strokes behind leader Martyn Kaymer.

Dear Editor, The awful assassinations of the French Charlie Hebdo journalists have shown us, once again, that sacredness means something profound – and something very different – to just about everyone.

The Guyana Association of Home Econo-mists (GAHE) is urging local hotels, restaurants and other business houses to “come on board” in an effort to make the March-April 21st Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Association of Home Economists “a national showpiece” that can leave a permanent memory of Guyana as a country of high standards.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Science Technology Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell has approved the transfer of control of FLOW and Columbus Networks Jamaica Limited from their parent company Columbus International Inc to Cable and Wireless Communica-tions Plc (CWC).

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu yesterday compared his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to the Islamist militants who killed 17 people in Paris last week, saying both had committed crimes against humanity.

Dear Editor, I am at my wits end right now. I have been without my internet connection for two days.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro’s comeback from a lengthy injury layoff was cut short by Kazakhstan qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin in the quarter-finals of the Sydney international yesterday.

I loved – and still do like – our national Song of the Republic.

Local small businesses facing product-packaging deficiencies will benefit from an engagement with the well-known Jamaican marketing communication agency Prism Communications Ltd, which the entity says will better position beneficiaries’ products to find favour with export markets.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank shocked financial markets yesterday by scrapping a three-year-old cap on the franc, sending the currency soaring against the euro and stocks plunging on fears for the export-reliant Swiss economy.

ESTORIL, Portugal (Reuters) – UEFA’s refereeing chief Pierluigi Collina has thrown his support behind the idea of implementing sin bins as a form of punishment to help curtail player’s simulation and over-zealous protesting of refereeing decisions.

VERVIERS, Belgium, (Reuters) – Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids yesterday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch “terrorist attacks on a grand scale”.

Dear Editor, It is so amusing that those who deliberately attempt to distort the PPP’s record on press freedom and freedom of expression are perhaps the most vocal and outspoken in our society.

(Trinidad Express) Posts and opinions from users of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are being monitored by the Government.

The Government Information Agency (GINA) recently released a statement saying that garbage was a sign of development, accompanied by a picture of a grinning Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker next to a large trash pile.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 598’s trading results showed consideration of $170,670 from 4,190 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 597’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,283,010 from 33,170 shares traded in 22 transactions.

The East Coast Cricket Committee and the Lusignan Cricket Club in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), and the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) are hosting the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Over-40 20-Overs Round Robin Competition this month end.

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar   (Reuters) In an industry that typically sidelines actresses as they age, Bipasha Basu has reinvented herself, going from sex symbol to the queen of Bollywood horror movies, a genre that most mainstream stars avoid.

The recent release by Cuban authorities of the last of 53 political prisoners in accordance with the terms of the historic deal announced by President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro, on December 17, 2014, after 18 months of secret negotiations, marked another step forward in the process of rapprochement between Cuba and the United States of America.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s constitution will include the term “third gender” for the first time, a member of a panel drafting a new charter said yesterday, in a move to empower transgender and gay communities and ensure them fairer legal treatment.

Dear Editor, If one looks at the main constitutions of the nations in the British Commonwealth, one struggles to find any case for the executive to have unlimited powers or unfettered access to these kinds of powers so that the executive can use them to undermine Parliament’s ability to represent the people who elected them.

After almost four decades in Canada Jackie Sue-Kam-Ling returns to Linden to sustain her father’s entrepreneurial tradition Thirty-eight years after migrating to Canada, Jackie Sue-Kam-Ling has returned to Guyana, more specifically to Linden,

Surinamese Minister of Trade, Don Tosendjojo (left) President Donald Ramotar (centre) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett at the welcoming reception held at the Princess Hotel last evening.