Daily Archive: Monday, March 16, 2015

Parking woes continue to beset the Guyana Revenue Authority at its Camp Street HQ and it has reversed plans to allow taxpayers to use a lot opposite for parking and the sprawling car park along Lamaha St will now be made available to other users.

A team from opposition alliance APNU+AFC today met with Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and top police commanders to discuss the security situation.

President Donald Ramotar recently met with the Indian High Commissioner to Guyana, Venkatachalam Mahalingam, Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs of India, Riva Ganguly and Under Secretary Animes Choudhury, at the Presidential Complex, GINA said on Saturday.

Under the Government of Guyana Clean-Up My Country Programme, the Bartica Interim Management Committee received equipment for the sustaining of the clean-up programme within Bartica and its environs, a release from the Ministry of Local Government said on Saturday.

Manoel ‘King Perai’Ferreira, who was crowned the 2015 adult Calypso Monarch, with his song “King Perai,” received $100,000 from the Ministry of Amerindians Affairs, for being the first Amerindian to win the title since 2002.

The police today said they are probing two stabbing deaths at Yarrowkabra on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway and at Port Mourant, Corentyne.

The two UG unions today warned that they will give the university administration one more chance for reasonable talks on salaries and other issues failing which they would return to industrial action which lasted five weeks at the start of this semester.

The police today said that Jermaine Simon called ‘Lapsy’, 24, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to investigations into the murder of Ryan Sooklall which occurred on March 01, 2015, at Providence, EBD.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand will not be shelving the aggressive game that has taken them through the pool stage at the World Cup unbeaten despite the stakes now being that much higher in the knock-out rounds, batsman Kane Williamson said today.

The mother of murdered activist Courtney Crum-Ewing yesterday ex-pressed fear of a ‘cover-up’ saying that police are not treating the death threat reports made by her son against two prominent members of government when he was alive, seriously.

Ex President Bharrat Jagdeo’s use of Cheddi Jagan’s name to defend his ‘Cadillac’ lifestyle has been blasted by former PPP insider Ralph Ramkarran.

APNU+AFC Prime Ministerial Candidate Moses Nagamootoo on Saturday night fired up supporters of his party as he urged them to move past old political hatreds and create a better future for Guyana that generations to come will be proud of.

The Ministry of Health has produced evidence that in October last year it formally notified all bidders who were interested in supplying drugs to the health sector of the status of their tenders in the highly controversial process that resulted in only the New GPC being cleared.

The environmental permitting process to allow logging firm Baishanlin to begin operations at its forest concessions in regions Six and Nine has not yet been completed.

A Black Bush Polder couple was held hostage last Monday by a gang of would-be kidnappers who robbed them of over $1M in jewellery, cash and other valuables during a two-hour raid of their home.

At about 1930h on Saturday, the police say that Hafaz Ali, 24 years, along with two other men of Annandale, ECD, were in a shop at Annandale when they were held up by two men armed with a firearm and a chopper.

Calvin Stacy was remanded to prison on Friday on a wounding charge after the court heard the victim was still hospitalized in a critical condition.

Dear Editor, I am extremely disappointed that Bharrat Jagdeo would try to compare his lifestyle to that of my parents, former Presidents Dr.

Dear Editor, It is clear from the media coverage and commentary in the Government and PPP-supported media of the so called police warning to me that the police force is being used by the political directorate to try to intimidate me and by extension other activists.

The National Parks Commission is moving to install security cameras and have more off duty police officers in its environs following a report of an armed robbery last Friday morning on a jogger.

Dear Editor, Recently in the media, Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shamdeo Persaud is reported to have said that the National Suicide Prevention Plan should be launched soon, but the reintroduction of the suicide hotline is highly unlikely.

NAPIER, New Zealand, CMC – West Indies put to rest the anxiety over their participation in the next round of the ICC Cricket World Cup by brushing aside United Arab Emirates by six wickets, to set up a quarter-final clash with red hot New Zealand next Saturday.

At the end of February 2015 the Guyana Police Force says it recorded a 4% drop in serious crimes in comparison to the same period in 2014 and armed robberies with guns were down by 33%.

Dear Editor, Below is an edited version of a letter sent to Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud on the application of the Racial Hostility Act, Chapter 23.01: “I wish to draw to your attention several publications in the media in recent times which constitute a clear violation of the Racial Hostility Act, Chapter 23:01.

Score’s Even presented owner, Dennis Deoroop with the perfect birthday gift yesterday at the Kennard Memorial Turf Club.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago I was stopped on what is commonly called Public Road Kitty by an officer of the Guyana Police Force, and advised that I was over the speed limit.

Hundreds of persons turned up at State House to be a part of the fun day yesterday to celebrate the life and work of the late president, Dr.

Tourney hosts Fruta Conquerors maintained their unbeaten record in the inaugural Massy United Insurance Company sponsored U-15 League, hammering arch-rivals Pele FC 4-0 yesterday at the Tucville Community ground.

Davendra Bishoo snatched six wickets and Assad Fudadin scored his 20th First-Class fifty to give the Guyana Jaguars a slim 71-run lead over the Trinidad & Tobago Red Force, setting up a thrilling final day of cricket in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Professional Cricket League (PCL) 4-day tournament.

Thieves yesterday carted off about $500,000 in cash, jewellery and other articles when they broke into a home at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara in broad daylight.

Dear Editor, In October 2014, the media released a private conversation in which the current Attorney-General Anil Nandlall is heard making threats against the Kaieteur News for critical coverage, discussing how to get the sexual services of a young woman for a relative and admitting to taking government money for private purposes.

The Guiana Shield Priority Setting Platform (GSPSP) has been launched in Guyana, and will help countries within the Guiana Shield, through satellite images, to focus on how to save the Amazon forest.

Newcomers St. Joseph’s High came from a goal down to upset former champs St.

Dear Editor, The letter from Police Public Relations Officer Ivelaw Whittaker which appeared in Stabroek News (March 14) is as shocking as it is revealing of the premise on which the police are investigating the assassination of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing.

Dear Editor, I don’t know who killed Courtney Crum-Ewing or who ordered his death. 

Dear Editor, Following an article in Kaieteur News of March 14, ‘Seelall’s appointment as Top Cop is unconstitutional – Granger’ I have a few questions for Mr Granger.

Police Sports Club and Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) played to a draw with the former taking first innings points in the latest contest of Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/ Hadi’s World Incorporated first division two-day competition.

Dear Editor, Today there is disgust, outrage, and sadness following the horror of Courtney Crum-Ewing’s death.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Pakistan grabbed a World Cup quarter-final berth yesterday following their seven-wicket victory against Ireland that also cleared West Indies’ last eight passage from Pool B.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Over one million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across Brazil yesterday to protest a sluggish economy, rising prices and corruption – and to call for the impeachment of leftist President Dilma Rousseff.

Dear Editor, In recent months despite the continuing drop in the price of oil and the fact that in Guyana the petrol station owners have lowered their prices, minibus drivers and conductors are still charging their passengers the fare they used to charge when the price for gasoline was higher.

By Sherlina Nageer  Sherlina Nageer is a Guyanese feminist, activist, educator, and writer who pens a bi-weekly Friday column.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq admitted being under tremendous pressure to qualify for the World Cup quarter-finals but felt the burden now shifts to their last-eight opponents and tournament co-hosts Australia.

So far, we have carried two articles on the Administration’s efforts to access $3 billion from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to accelerate its housing programme in an apparent attempt to secure a political advantage in the run-up to the national elections.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – The first reports from the outer islands of Vanuatu yesterday painted a picture of utter destruction after a monster cyclone tore through the Pacific island nation.

Dear Editor, Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. With 21 years of Forbes Burnham and now 22 years of the present government along with political assassinations, the more things change, the more they remain the same.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton’s world championship defence got off to a flying start yesterday with a crushing victory for Mercedes in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix as Formula One rivals succumbed to a farcical rash of reliability problems.

(Reuters) – Jamaican Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt cruised to victory in his first individual race of the season, clocking 46.37 seconds over 400 metres at the GC Foster Classic in Kingston on Saturday.

Dear Editor,  As a parliamentary political party and member of APNU the WPA is not aware when ex-president Bharrat Jagdeo became the spokesperson for the Ramotar government on financial management.

(Trinidad Guardian) Contractor China Jiangsu International Corp T&T Ltd has issued a pre-action protocol letter threatening litigation against the Las Alturas Towers Commis-sion of Enquiry (CoE) if the firm is not removed as a party in the probe into the failed multi-million dollar project. 

Does President Ramotar believe that the laying out of 15 measures for the security sector two months before general elections will assuage the concerns of the public about safety?

Interviews and photos by Rae Wiltshire With general and regional elections less than two months away and political campaigns picking up steam, this week we asked the man and woman in the street how they felt about the upcoming period.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s parliament granted President Nicolas Maduro decree powers yesterday for the rest of 2015 in a move he says is to defend the country from U.S.