Daily Archive: Friday, February 27, 2015

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Top order batsman Darren Bravo has been ruled out of the ICC Cricket World Cup after failing to recover in time from a hamstring injury.

A warm-up pool was commissioned today by President Donald Ramotar at the now fully completed National Aquatic Centre at Liliendaal.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition politician and former deputy prime minister, has been shot dead in central Moscow, the Interior Ministry said early on Saturday.

(Reuters) – A man shot and killed seven people in a house-to-house shooting spree in a sparsely populated part of Missouri before shooting himself, the state Highway Patrol said today.

(Reuters) – Leonard Nimoy, who won fame and fans with his portrayal of logic-bound, half-alien Mr.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is staking out Mandela Avenue to thwart the dumping of garbage.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, on Wednesday, handed over three, 65 HSP-Double wheel drive tractors, along with three Bison Hydraulic lift trailers, to three Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) in Region Four, Demerara/Mahaica.

The Health Ministry’s Food and Drug Department on Thursday organised an awareness session at the National Library, where the discussions focused on requirements for the importation of drugs, cosmetics, devices and food packaging, and sale regulations.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, has handed over the approved budgets for the 14 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) in Region Three, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara.

A Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) engineer was gunned down around 11 am today on the Little Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara in a drive-by shooting.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former British pop singer Gary Glitter, who shot to fame in the 1970s as a “glam-rock” star but was later convicted of child sex crimes, was sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of indecently assaulting three girls.

The police say that a post-mortem examination (PME) was today conducted by Pathologist Dr.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers confirmed his status as the most destructive batsman in cricket with a magnificent unbeaten 162 from just 66 balls to lead South Africa to a record 257-run victory over West Indies in the World Cup today.

Several ministers of government and prominent persons have benefitted significantly from financial aid for medical expenses over the years and the2012-13 list includes over $116M spent in 1 year on cancer treatment for now deceased presidential advisor Navin Chandarpal.

A former cellmate yesterday testified that Bibi Sharima-Gopaul had confided that it was her lover and now co-accused, Jarvis Small, who murdered her daughter Neesa Gopaul by bashing her head in with a piece of wood.

The University of Guyana (UG) administration and workers’ unions met yesterday after a prolonged standoff, while students burnt tyres in front of the Turkeyen Campus’s gates as they continued to demand the resumption of classes.

A bus conductor who was in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) last evening, after he was shot in the gut died later that night.

A medical certificate for teenager Alex Griffith, who was allegedly shot in the mouth by a policeman, was admitted into evidence yesterday when the trial of the accused Franz Paul continued.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday accused the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) of disrespecting Guyanese by refusing to declare whether a US$17.2m environmental loan to Guyana has been disbursed.

The eight-year-old girl who was raped on Tuesday afternoon by a relative has stopped haemorrhaging and is recovering in the hospital.

The father of Zaharudeen ‘Fazil’ Rozan, 38, who died on Wednesday after being in police custody was disappointed that the officers failed in their agreement to allow him to re-examine the body yesterday.

The Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) may not have time to do a physical check of persons on the Official List of Electors (OLE) because the final List has not been compiled as yet.

Food for the Poor (FFTP) has announced that 10 needy families from three regions are now home-owners through its General Housing Programme.

A total of 703 junior teachers were added to the teaching service last year, while 113 teachers were dismissed, according to the Teaching Service Commis-sion (TSC).

By Jeff Trotman   The February statutory meeting of the Linden Interim Management Committee (IMC) came to an abrupt end on Wednesday when IMC members engaged in a squabble over the validity of a contract that was signed by the Chairman of the Social Development Committee, Winston Caesar and the promoter, VYBZ Entertainment.

On Tuesday, the new 175-room US$45M Marriott Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti was opened on budget, on time and without government funding while Guyana’s hotel project is yet to be inaugurated and has been heavily dependent on financing from the state.

A child care assessment has uncovered dysfunction in the family of the rescued Good Hope girl, who was denied treatment for almost two weeks after suffering severe burns while attempting to strain a pot of rice.

The Guyana government on Wednesday defended the Chinese firm selected to construct the Amaila Falls hydropower scheme saying it is misleading to draw a comparison with its parent company which has been blacklisted by a Norwegian ethics council after being involved in corruption.

Edward B. Beharry and Company has once again answered the call of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU).

A gold miner was yesterday granted $75,000 bail after he denied having a quantity of ecstasy in his possession.

Two porters were jailed yesterday after admitting to stealing five bags of rice from a city market.

The split decision victory by Clive Atwell over Jamaica’s Sakima Mullings will stand following a review undertaken by a committee appointed by the Supervisor of Bouts and President of the WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation, Peter Abdool After losing the CABOFE light welterweight bout on February 21 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall

A teenager made his first court appearance yesterday after he was accused of committing a robbery on Mashramani Day before being arrested by the victim.

At the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana’s (FITUG) fifth delegates’ congress on Wednesday, its four affiliate unions unanimously agreed for an inquiry into the sugar industry.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) says it is disgusted at the gruesome murder of elderly Essequibo resident Surspattie Ramlakhan, while noting that a return to the values that respect the sanctity of life must be inculcated in the youth.

As the WICB Professional Cricket League 4-day tournament nears its finish with the Guyana Jaguars sitting comfortably atop, the current leading wicket taker, left-arm spinner and 2014 National Sportsman of the Year Veerasammy Permaul says he wants to remain in his current position in addition to his team being crowned title winners.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka veterans Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara smashed imperious centuries to punish a wasteful Bangladesh and set up an emphatic 92-run win in their World Cup clash in Melbourne yesterday.

The cream of the nation’s cyclists will transform the roadways of West Demerara into their battleground when the first of three legs of the Cheddi Jagan Memorial road race pedals off on Sunday.

“Guyana has all of the ingredients necessary to reclaim its position as the bread basket of the Caribbean and the region needs to focus on cultivating high-yielding varieties of [cassava] as well as addressing the processing and commercialization considerations associated with [its] popularization,” newly appointed Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Resident Representative in Guyana, Reuben Robertson has told Stabroek Business.

A porter is being accused of converting over $1M in valuables entrusted to him to his own use.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC- Former West Indies captain Sir Viv Richards says Chris Gayle’s double century against Zimbabwe has “lifted the spirits” of the team and relieved pressure on young captain Jason Holder.

President Donald Ramotar and a team of government officials on Wednesday visited the Essequibo Coast and it was clear that campaigning for the May 11 General and Regional Elections was getting into full swing.

The semi-finalists for the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) ‘Road to Mecca II’ National Club Championship will be decided tonight when the quarterfinal round begins at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue.

Dear Editor, OMG Restaurant: I can’t believe that I was just denied entry to the buffet at lunch time because I was wearing a vest.

Stabroek Business has learnt that the region’s first ever credit-rating agency, the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Ltd (CARICRIS) is currently engaging the Bank of Guyana (BoG) with a view to the local entity becoming a member of its Board of Directors.

The European Union has committed 25,000 Euros to support the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) in re-establishing its Media Monitoring Unit and has provided an additional sum for capacity-building.

Dear Editor, I just happened upon the latter part of the press conference hosted by a team representing APNU-AFC, so that I might have missed positives contained in the earlier presentations.

All sorts of stories have circulated about the practice of offering expired and counterfeit brands of food and drugs for sale on the local market.

A Linden man is now partially paralysed after being stabbed in the back by his girlfriend’s 15-year-old son.

Dear Editor, The Alliance for Change (AFC) has taken a big political gamble in entering a pre-election coalition with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).

LONDON/ANKARA/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – At least $1 billion in cash has been smuggled into Iran as it seeks to avoid Western sanctions, a bigger figure than previously reported, Iranian officials and Western intelligence and diplomatic sources say.

(Trinidad Express) Republic Bank has donated CDN$1 million (TT$5.3 million) to the Canadian Hospital for Sick Children to assist in the provision of treatment to children across the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I admire and learn a lot from the prolific writings of our Dr Henry Jeffrey who must be congratulated and thanked for his comprehensive offering in SN of February 25 titled: ‘A time-bound coalition programme is essential.’

(Trinidad Express) Minister of The Environment and Water Resources Ganga Singh yesterday afternoon announced that the water coming from the Caroni Water Treatment Plant, was now safe, according to World Health organisation Standards.

Dear Editor, It is with some regret that I am forced to pen this letter.

Cricket lovers are in for a treat this weekend with 11 Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) matches planned for various venues in the city, including Banks Malta Supreme Under-13 semi-finals.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US consumer prices fell over the past year for the first time since 2009 as gasoline prices continued to tumble, which could allow a cautious Federal Reserve more room to hold off on raising interest rates.

Jason-Ray Khalil, Raphael DeGroot and Nicholas Narain numbered among the victors in the Open Category when the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) Bounty Farm Handicap Squash tourney continued on Wednesday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia and the United States, two of the world’s biggest wheat exporters, are racing to become mass producers of the South American “super food” quinoa and tap a gluten-free market expected to be worth more than $6 billion by 2018.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The masked “Jihadi John” killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British computer programming graduate from a well-to-do London family who was known to the security services.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – There is no evidence that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran’s purported involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing, an Argentine judge told Reuters in an interview yesterday after dismissing the case.

(Reuters) – Samiullah Shenwari produced a brilliant rearguard action to guide Afghanistan to their first World Cup victory with a dramatic one-wicket win over Scotland in their Pool A clash in Dunedin yesterday.

Dear Editor, Mr Stephen Campbell was formally inducted into the national political life in 1957.

Ryan Braithwaite is one of a growing number of young Guyanese professionals who have slipped into the world of business.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives were planning to pursue today a temporary funding bill to keep the lights on at the U.S.

Dear Editor, The President of Guyana was caught again talking about 4.5 per cent growth, yet close to 40 per cent of the population lives in poverty, a marginal decline from 43 per cent from a decade ago.

(Trinidad Express) – Although Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela are working together to develop the energy sector in both countries, more issues could be addressed that would be mutually beneficial.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives were planning to pursue today a temporary funding bill to keep the lights on at the U.S.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – A Quebec judge told a Muslim woman appearing in a Montreal courtroom she would not hear her case until she removed her head scarf, CBC news reported yesterday.

Three Guyanese-American siblings, Ima, Asha and Caleb Christian, who created the FIVE-O mobile app that allows citizens to rate, review and rank police officers, woke up to the uplifting news that their creation was selected as one of the three finalists for the 2015 Innovating Justice Challenge in The Hague, Netherlands.

Whack! The sound of an object forcibly landing on flesh was clear, penetrating the walls of both houses and the yard in between.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s top court has urged officials from the ruling Communist Party to shun Western-style judicial independence and reject “erroneous Western thought”, state media said yesterday, as controls over the media, dissent and the Internet are tightened.

Dear Editor,   The more revelations from other letter contributors are scrutinized, the more it becomes apparent that Mrs Elizabeth Harper should not be considered a true “surprise” PM candidate.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 604’s trading results showed consideration of $29,316,743 from 262,239 shares traded in 30 transactions as compared to session 603’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,327,173 from 58,745 shares traded in 27 transactions.

Since Sunday, after the PPP’s announcement identifying President Ramotar’s Prime Ministerial running mate, speculation has been vigorously rife on two fronts: Why and how was that quiet-spoken, charming professional chosen?

Chowtal singing at State House: President Donald Ramotar and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds taking part in the chowtal singing at the Chowtal Samelan hosted by the President and First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar at State House to usher in the season of Holi (Phagwah) last evening.

Dear Editor, Immigration activists and relatives of undocumented immigrants are up in arms over a Texas court ruling blocking the implementation of President Obama’s executive order granting temporary relief to them.

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Chris and Chanchal Persaud believe that Umami, their nearly two-year-old local enterprise has some distinct competitive advantages over similar businesses here in Guyana and almost certainly elsewhere in the region.

There is, understandably, a lot of fuss surrounding the surprise selection by the PPP (independent of the Civic component) of Ambassador Elisabeth Harper as the prime ministerial running mate for President Donald Ramotar in the forthcoming elections.

President Donald Ramotar, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar, PPP/C Prime Ministerial Candidate Elisabeth Harper and Minister of Amerindian affairs at the Chowtal Samelan last evening at State House to usher in the season of Holi (Phagwah).