Daily Archive: Thursday, February 12, 2015

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- The man attempting to dethrone Dave Cameron as president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Joel Garner, says cricket development, performance and governance of the sport will be his top priority if he wins elections carded for March 7.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 1600h.

At about 2240h. last night, the police say that ranks of a mobile police patrol conducted a search on a motor vehicle at Sussex Street, Georgetown, during which an M15 rifle along with thirty .223 rounds were found.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Reigning stars of the music world, from Beyonce to Tony Bennett to Pharrell Williams, on Tuesday saluted Stevie Wonder, the singer, songwriter and musician they called a genius and inspiration to their careers.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC-The Antigua and Barbuda Cricket Association (ABCA) is complaining that it was left out of a decision taken by the Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA) to support incumbents Dave Cameron and Emmanuel Nanthan for the positions of president and vice-president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

(Trinidad Express) THE region—and possibly Trinidad and Tobago—are still “long overdue” for a “great earthquake” and the population must catch up on preparedness, Dr Joan Latchman, director of Seismic Research at the University of the West Indies, warned yesterday.

MINSK, (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine have agreed a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, participants at the summit talks said today.

(Reuters) – West Indies’ preparations for the World Cup went from bad to worse on Thursday when minnows Scotland came up just four runs short of a famous upset in a warm-up match at Sydney Cricket Ground.

With consensus on many of the proposals drafted still elusive, it seems that talks between APNU and the AFC will run into their Saturday, 14th February deadline.

Students of the St. John’s Secondary School at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara who have been displaced for the past two years demanded a new school during a picketing exercise yesterday.

The Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) is advising farmers that the water level in the Abary Conservancy is “dangerously low”.

With the commissioning of a US$35M 26 MW power plant by the Guyana Power & Light Inc.

Marcel Griffith, the mother of Alex Griffith who was shot in the mouth, allegedly by a Police Cadet Officer, took the stand yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and testified before Magistrate Fabayo Azore that she saw the policeman pull a gun on her son.

Three weeks after the commencement of industrial action by University of Guyana (UG) staff over stalemated salary talks with UG’s Vice-Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi, the decision was made to strike indefinitely until an acceptable offer is made.

At yesterday’s continuation of the trial into the murder of Neesa Gopaul, the defence disputed claims by Assistant Police Commissioner Marlon Chapman that Jarvis Small had offered to reveal to investigators, who killed Neesa.

A Jamaican woman who allegedly swallowed a quantity of cocaine pellets with the intention of exporting the illegal substance was yesterday remanded to prison when she made her first appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Another company has been identified to replace Blackstone/Sithe Global as the developer for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP), President Donald Ramotar has said.

Eighteen years after the passing of the Domestic Violence Act, its regulations were finally gazetted last month and officially launched yesterday by Human Services and Society Security Minister Jennifer Webster.

At the launching of the GRDB’s brand of aromatic rice held at the Guyana International Conference Centre yesterday, Deputy General Manager Ricky Ramraj noted that the local rice sector was in need of value added products.

A self-proclaimed do-gooder was yesterday placed on $10,000 bail after a city court heard that he allegedly chopped a woman.

After ordering the arrests of drivers who were incessantly tooting their horns outside the Supreme Court yesterday while a trial was underway, Justice Navindra Singh was shocked to learn that the policeman who made the arrests had left to attend classes.

In a bid to raise awareness of tax obligations and reduce errors on submission, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is offering free workshops to self-employed persons on Mondays to Fridays from 09:00h to 12:00h with an expected conclusion on February 20, 2015.

Dead lifting four times one’s body weight is a herculean task for the world’s strongest men.

An 18-year-old Mocha man will be performing six months of community service after he admitted to the possession of cannabis.

Eleven days after he fell off a boat while at sea, the badly decomposed body of fisherman Sadeia Sanchara, called ‘Old Dog,’ was recovered on Sunday at Ruimzigt, West Coast Demerara (WCD).

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Outstanding former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has cautioned critics not to write of the Caribbean side’s World Cup chances just yet.

A mother, accused of scalding her 12-year-old daughter with hot water after finding her on the telephone, has been charged.

It seems the nation’s senior football programme will be taking a familiar course as Trinidadian Jamaal Shabazz is considered the favourite by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) to retain his position as Head-Coach of the Golden Jaguars.

Newly commissioned Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officers were yesterday urged by Commander-in -Chief, President Donald Ramotar to maintain their integrity and professionalism as he delivered the feature address at their passing out parade at Base Camp Ayanganna.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies opening batsman, Lendl Simmons, who argued that he had a one-time affair with an account executive, is scheduled to appear in court on March 23, for the start of a lawsuit relating to the dissemination of intimate photographs of the woman.

In an effort to prepare Guyana for their impending 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Normalization Committee Chairman Clinton Urling said the entity is in discussions with other FIFA affiliates to participate in international fixtures.

Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus granted $1.8M bail to a Corriverton woman charged with 18 counts of embezzlement amounting to over $8 million from Unicomer Guyana Inc when she was last week arraigned in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.

Alika Morgan and Cleveland Thomas were the top open female and male athletes respectively at Sunday’s Cross Country event which took place in Linden.

In the February 11, 2015 issue of Stabroek News, in a story headlined ‘Biker held with ganja led cops to bigger stash at home – court hears’, Stabroek News published a photograph erroneously captioned Ohyama Gomez, which was in fact the image of a defendant involved in a different matter.

Dear Editor, Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to respond to the Stabroek News front-page photograph, titled ‘Fetching water’ dated Tuesday February 10, 2015. 

Dear Editor, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as mandated by the Environmental Protection Act, 1996, has a responsibility to prevent or control environmental pollution and has been executing this function assiduously since its establishment in 1996, through authorization, education and awareness, compliance and enforcement interventions.

Dear Editor, It appears as though the crisis at the University of Guyana has only caught the attention of your editorial page and a few letter writers.

Dear Editor, The sale of ‘spots’ for Mash Day vending, a revenue-earning activity of the city council ought not to be executed/managed from the Mayor’s office.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday sent Congress his long-awaited formal request to authorize military force against Islamic State, meeting swift resistance from Republicans as well as his fellow Democrats wary of another war in the Middle East.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., (Reuters) – A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook and quarreled with neighbours was charged with killing three young Muslims in what police said yesterday was a dispute over parking and possibly a hate crime.

Dear Editor, In my personal and official capacities, I have over time written to, and pleaded with the government, to save one of our historic wooden buildings – City Hall.

Dear Editor, The emergence of the Alliance For Change brought a lot of hope to Guyana and it was expected that all of the old political posturing would have been a thing of the past.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Former West Indies captain Sir Richie Richardson says cricket’s revival in the Caribbean will pivot on how much emphasis in place on development at the grassroots level.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Willian’s late strike snatched a 1-0 home win for Chelsea over a stubborn Everton side to maintain their seven-point lead over Manchester City who crushed Stoke City 4-1 in the Premier League yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Acknowledging it was “an enormously difficult story” to report, “NBC Nightly News” aired a segment on its broadcast yesterday about the six-month suspension of its anchor Brian Williams and pledged to make itself worthy of viewers’ trust.

YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar’s president has approved a law allowing a referendum on changes to the constitution, lawmakers said on Wednesday, a move that could eventually lift what amounts to a ban on opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from the presidency.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Greece’s new leftist government and its international creditors failed to agree on a way forward on the country’s unpopular bailout and will try again on Monday, with time running out for a financing deal.

(Barbados Nation) Two individuals who recently entered the island from Ebola-affected countries are being monitored by the Ministry of Health.

Dear Editor, I have been a resident of Alliance Road, Timehri, for fifteen years, and it was only in the last two years that portions of the roadway have been asphalted and maintained.

Clifton Ross continues his preview of the World Cup With 10 wins from 51 matches and a record 37 losses, the most by any team in Cricket World Cup (CWC) history, underdogs Zimbabwe will make qualifying out of Group B their number one priority.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd on Tuesday remembered Richard Austin as a “talented and fanatic cricketer and wonderful team man”.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilians are hoarding water in their apartments, drilling homemade wells and taking other emergency measures to prepare for forced rationing that appears likely and could leave taps dry for up to five days a week because of a drought.

Introduction: Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) to submit a weekly column on governance and related matters.

MINSK, (Reuters) – The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine held peace talks in Belarus deep into the night, while in Ukraine pro-Moscow separatists tightened the pressure on Kiev by launching some of the war’s worst fighting.

Dear Editor, Let’s try to help the Kissoon family get their own water connection and meter in their yard.

Dear Editor,   As a Guyanese with the ‘sugar industry in my blood’ as it were, having regard to my antecedents, I could not believe my eyes when I read, re-read and reflected on the lengthy statement by the Minister of Agriculture on the paradigm shift in GuySuCo, as reported in yesterday’s Guyana Chronicle.

  After the recent move by local Professional Cricket league (PCL) franchise, Cricket Guyana Inc.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – At least three workers were killed and 10 injured yesterday by an explosion on an offshore oil and gas platform operated by state-run Petrobras , a disaster that could further hurt the reputation of a company struggling with a corruption scandal and safety concerns.

Human development is the foundation of A Partnership for National Unity’s policy for governance.

Starting March 1 and continuing for at least the next 3 months, Guyanese will pay 10% less for the electricity they consume.