Daily Archive: Friday, March 6, 2015

A miner was yesterday found dead with what appeared to be several chop wounds at a camp at Mahdia, leaving his family in a state of shock while questioning the motive behind his murder.

President Donald Ramotar (left) and Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo (right) during the Phagwah celebration at the Guyana National Stadium today.

President Donald Ramotar and First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar joined Guyanese in Phagwah celebrations today, at the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) in Bel Air, Georgetown.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Test players Jermaine Blackwood and Chadwick Walton stroked half-centuries to propel Jamaica Franchise but leaders Guyana Jaguars hit back strongly to take a share of the honours on the opening day of their WICB PCL eighth round match here today.

Government has assured that it will continue its support to the mining sector at various levels.

At about 0600h. today, police say that the body of miner Charles Major, 57 years, of Victoria, ECD, was found along a trail at Dickman Hill, Mahdia, with several lacerations.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Shem Padmore, 28 years, of Kaneville, EBD, who was taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, EBD, at about 2200h last night by two men who hurriedly left the medical facility in a motor vehicle.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni made a calm unbeaten 45 to guide India to a four-wicket victory over West Indies today which sent the holders into the World Cup quarter-finals.

Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her former lover Jarvis Small were yesterday found guilty of the brutal murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul and both received sentences that will see them spend the rest of their natural lives behind bars.

A furtive bid by the government for the transfer of $3b to the housing authority suffered another setback yesterday after the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) received legal advice saying that it couldn’t be directed to move money to another agency.

Dear Editor, There has been a big furor as to medical and dental expenses incurred by government officials.

DNA testing has confirmed that the decapitated corpse found at Cummings Lodge last year is that of missing businessman Mohamed Khan, the former owner of MFK Trading.

Dear Editor, I write to express my support for the ‘Vote Like A Boss’ campaign.

(Trinidad Express) St Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony says that all the players who quit the tour of India in October last year should have been fired.

Dear Editor, First of all I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank Mr Anand Persaud for opening a branch of his National Television Network, NTN Ch 26, Cable 77 in Berbice.

Guyanese are gloomy about the economy while confidence in politics, political parties, and satisfaction with the way democracy works have declined since 2012, according to a survey last year for the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP).

Under 18 and under 20 athletes hopeful for places in Guyana’s team to the 44th CARIFTA Games in St.

Guyana Jaguars head coach Esuan Crandon says the local side will be looking to put pressure on the out-of-form Jamaicans when the two sides meet today at the Guyana National Stadium in the eighth round of the Professional Cricket League’s (PCL) four-day tourney.

Dear Editor, With respect to the interview with Mr Khemraj Ramjattan’s on March 4 in the Stabroek News, I would like to say that the AFC membership was not consulted for the party to join APNU.

Payments to rice farmers owed by millers on the Essequibo Coast were expected to start on Wednesday, according to Regional Chairman of Region Two Parmanand Persaud.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday announced that it was introducing laser treatment for Open Angle Glaucoma.

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate the coalition—APNU-AFC, on their launching of their election campaign.

In what can be described as a huge upset, tourney hosts Sparta Boss were sent packing from the Sparta Boss 32-team First Anniversary Football tourney after losing to Pike Street 2-1 via penalty kicks on Wednesday at the Sparta Boss Tarmac in East La Penitence.

By Rae Wiltshire Two days before they shot and robbed a vendor at his Vereeniging, Mahaica home, the bandits who carried out the attack visited the area on the pretext of doing prospecting work.

(Reuters) – The superfight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is expected to be the highest grossing bout in history but will do nothing to resuscitate a sport that has been in perpetual decline for years, according to experts.

Dear Editor, When Maria Sharapova was recently beaten by Serena Williams in the Australian Open final, there were the expected pronouncements by the usual suspects about the former having lost again to the latter.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Younger than some professional footballers, Swiss attorney Cornel Borbely is at first sight an unlikely choice as the man to step into Michael Garcia’s shoes and try to keep corruption out of FIFA.

A Pandit yesterday found himself before a city court facing a charge that he fraudulently converted US$8,000 that was entrusted to him.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Horse Racing Authority (GHRA), in its most gutted form, has issued an invitation to race-horse owners to a couple of meetings scheduled for Saturday March 7, 2015.

PERTH, Australia, CMC- Chairman of selectors Clive Lloyd says West Indies are desperately missing the spin heroics of game changer Sunil Narine to strengthen their campaign in the ICC World Cup currently underway in New Zealand and Australia.

Former Precision Wood-working Limited employees yesterday continued a protest in front of Republic Bank on Camp Street, demanding money owed to them after the furniture company closed and workers were laid off.

Dear Editor, The Enmore police have recently embarked on a bicycle campaign in relation to lights and bells.

Dear Editor, While driving in Georgetown during the after-lunch period on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, I heard part of a very interesting programme on 560 Radio dealing with tides.

Burning coals were the only things left of a Beterverwagting man’s house after it was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning.

NAPIER, (Reuters) – The influence of Daniel Vettori on New Zealand’s World Cup chances was never more evident than in his bowling in a tense trans-Tasman clash with Australia at a heaving Eden Park last Saturday.

Dear Editor, As all Guyanese join with our Hindu brothers and sisters to observe Holi, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi’s wise counsel that “civilisation is the encouragement of differences.”

PERTH, (Reuters) – Restricting scoring to any one side of the wicket could be an effective ploy to tame big-hitting batsmen like Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers at the World Cup, Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said yesterday.

The proportion of Guyanese in a representative sample who identified themselves as being Indo-Guyanese was 39.5%, Afro-Guyanese 27.2% and of ‘mixed’ race 24.5%, according to a survey done last year for the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP).

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter of mine, ‘An incredibly foolish analysis,’ Kaieteur News, Feb 15, 2015 that responded to an editorial in the KN rubbishing the eligibility of Baroness Scotland for the post of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat and giving generous praise to the application of Ronald Sanders.

A former city court worker, who only recently completed a four-year prison sentence for attempting to smuggle cocaine on a flight out of the country, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged again with the same crime.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-The Jamaica government has cut its funding to the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) by J$14 million, the country’s minister with responsibility for Sports Natalie Neita-Headley has announced.

The challenges to the country’s gold mining industry arising out of a drop in the price of gold and pressures to mitigate the environmental hazards linked to the use of mercury appear to be priority areas in the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre’s efforts to deliver an intensive regime of training for the country’s miners this year.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) says it expects political parties contesting the May 11 general elections to focus less on rhetoric and invective and more on the policies and specific initiatives they intend to pursue if elected to office to advance the economic interests of the nation.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC- West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy has agreed a short-term deal with Nottinghamshire to play in this season’s NatWest T20 blast, county officials have announced.

Four new tractors and trailers along with a number of bins were on Wednesday handed over to Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) on the Essequibo Coast by the Local Government and Regional Development Ministry.

Dear Editor, The Commonwealth of Dominica will today be formally admitted as a member of the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice.

By Dale Beresford   One expects that whenever workplace accidents occur there will be an expectation that management of the workplace has to account for the accident and its consequences.

(Reuters) – Tamim Iqbal came agonisingly close to scoring Bangladesh’s first World Cup century as his side completed a six-wicket win over Scotland in their Pool A clash at Saxton Oval in Nelson yesterday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka suspended a $1.5-billion Chinese luxury real estate project in Colombo yesterday until it obtains required government approvals, a move that risks a diplomatic row with its biggest foreign investor.

Dear Editor, On the 45th anniversary of the National Insurance Scheme, the Chairman revealed assets exceeding $30B and said that the scheme meets monthly benefit expenditure of $1B.

The owner of a car rental service was yesterday refused bail after being charged with cocaine possession.

NAPIER, (Reuters) – With unbeaten New Zealand having already qualified for the World Cup quarter-finals, attention is focussing on the side’s four players who have not appeared so far at the tournament.

A couple was yesterday remanded to prison on a cocaine possession charge after a court was told that one of them tried to flush the drug down a sink while the other held narcotics agents in conversation.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to the editorial published in Stabroek News yesterday under the caption `Make it happen.’

Guyana is among a number of Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries benefiting from the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the development of a viable small ruminant industry in the region.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – It may have been the last note Boris Nemtsov ever wrote, a hurried scrawl in blue pen on a plain white sheet of A4 paper.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration asked a federal judge in Texas to decide by Monday whether he will put on hold his prior decision to block the White House’s executive orders on immigration, or at least limit the impact to Texas.

The Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security (MOLHSS) is still to complete reports on four private sector workplace accidents that occurred in various parts of the country between December last year and February, a circumstance which a safety and health consultant has told this newspaper is “unacceptable in the circumstances.”

La Grange, West Bank Demerara resident Randolph Sanasie was yesterday remanded to prison on a wounding charge after a court heard that his alleged victim was still hospitalised.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Shane Watson’s spectacular decline as Australia’s premier all-rounder has not yet robbed him of his self-belief and the 33-year-old blond is still hopeful of making a comeback in the World Cup team.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – A former head of the Panamanian supreme court was sentenced to five years in prison on corruption charges yesterday, the first time an active judge in the country has been sent to jail.

Dear Editor, Extolling the virtues of a long dead President and parading his image on banners and billboards to garner votes is not only an indication of how desperate the PPP is, it’s also really sad.  

By Wayne Dass, CFA Chief Executive Officer Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS) CariCRIS’ is pleased to report that its February 24-27 inaugural Credit Risk Workshop in Guyana held at the Pegasus Hotel was – based on feedback received from the attendees – a successful and value-adding exercise.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras has entered a volatile new phase that could lead to jail for some of Brazil’s best-known politicians and business leaders while making a likely recession even worse.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A wall of debris stretching about 30 miles (50 km) may be the remnants of a natural disaster that struck Mexico’s Caribbean coast more than 1,000 years ago in an area where tourists now flock to beach resorts and ancient Maya ruins.

Dear Editor, I was saddened and disappointed when I learnt that the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) announced its support for Dave Cameron, the current WICB president.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s batting mainstay Virat Kohli has been censured for his ugly outburst against a travelling Indian journalist in Perth and has been advised to maintain dignity, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

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LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Star Wars” star Harrison Ford was seriously injured yesterday when the actor crashed his vintage plane on a Los Angeles golf course shortly after taking off from a local airport, a source told Reuters.

Dear Editor, The time has come for all Guyanese to reject racial discrimination and political disunity, learn to break free from ethnic voting and choose a political party based on merit.

I trust I’m not guilty, today, of editorial laziness, content-wise. Because I know I’ll be guilty of using Elizabeth Anne (Lis) Harper’s Prime Ministerial candidacy as a kind of reminiscence relevant to female Guyanese who dared to enter the robust world of both routine and electoral politics over the years.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 605’s trading results showed consideration of $711,622 from 16,487 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 604’s trading results, which showed consideration of $29,316,743 from 262,239 shares traded in 30 transactions.

This newspaper has been doing as much as any other section of the media to publicise the manufacturing sector, its challenges and such accomplishments as it has realized.

(Reuters) – A federal judge said investors who lost money in Allen Stanford’s $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme may pursue most of their lawsuit accusing two large law firms that once represented the now-imprisoned financier of being partially at fault for their losses.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and contestants of the Ms Renaissance pageant.

Eight athletes from Region Nine will represent that area in the upcoming CARIFTA games trials over the weekend at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Base Camp Ayanganna ground.

In a guest editorial in this newspaper last December dealing with the competition for the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General, it was opined that, at a time when the Commonwealth is in need of assertive leadership and revitalization, a strong regional candidate, with the unambiguous endorsement of Caricom, would have an excellent chance of success.