Daily Archive: Friday, March 27, 2015

(BBC) Bollywood star Salman Khan has told an Indian court that he was not driving on the night he is accused of running over five men sleeping on a pavement, killing one of them.

President Donald Ramotar on March 25th visited East Berbice as part of his outreach to several communities.

A delegation of four organizations representing the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF) presented on “Discrimination in the enjoyment of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Guyana” at a thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) at its 154th session of hearings in Washington, DC, last Friday, March 20, 2015, a release from the groups said.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Two more women came forward today accusing veteran comedian Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them decades ago, when they were in their teens.

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) yesterday launched a gold-plated silver coin minted in Norway, to mark its 50th anniversary, GINA said.

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) yesterday launched a gold-plated silver coin minted in Norway, to mark its 50th anniversary, GINA said.

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) yesterday launched a gold-plated silver coin minted in Norway, to mark its 50th anniversary, GINA said.

The police today said that investigations are ongoing into the murder of Courtney Crum-Ewing which occurred on March 10, 2015, at Diamond, EBD.

Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips received the British and Canadian High Commissioners to Guyana, Greg Quinn and Dr.

The Ministry of Home Affairs today announced that a new passport with upgraded security features will be issued from Monday.

A post mortem examination was today performed on the body of Alicia Ali, of Cummings Lodge, ECD, by Pathologist Dr.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has written to President Donald Ramotar asking him as Minister of Information to urgently address the question of equitable access to the broadcast media.

MONTABAUR, Germany, (Reuters) – The German pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps killing 150 people broke off his training six years ago due to depression and spent over a year in psychiatric treatment, a German newspaper reported today.

With Guyana recognised as a “real contender” in the region for the outsourcing industry, President Donald Ramotar yesterday said his administration is working on creating a highly-educated workforce that is second to none in order to assure investors that world class service is available for their companies.

The dismembered body of an unidentified woman was found at the Annandale foreshore yesterday morning.

Eleven years ago, a young woman journeyed from Mexico to Guyana to determine the feasibility of opening an office for the business process outsourcing company with which she worked.

Police yesterday continued to comb the area where the body of schoolgirl Alicia Alli, 15, was found in hopes of finding out more about her death, Crime Chief Leslie James said.

The new multi-million dollar Giftland Mall, which is nearing completion at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, is set to be opened on Independence Day May 26, 2015.

Charles Albert, who killed his daughter in 2011 at Corriverton was sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment yesterday by Justice Brassington Reynolds.

Giftland signed a deal yesterday to house their first “stand alone concept store” in the Caribbean for internationally-known brands Levi’s and Dockers.

After admitting to fatally bludgeoning a fellow inmate at the New Amsterdam Prison, Jason Orlando McKenzie, known as “Psycho,” was sentenced to 12 years in jail yesterday.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) missed several key targets in 2014 including in relation to the number of blackouts and the utilities commission will be reviewing the company’s performance and deciding whether its explanations are acceptable.

Rudolph London, 43, will be spending the next 14 years in jail for killing his former partner, Shaunell Warrick.

Marsha Maria de Caires, accused of trying to smuggle cocaine onto a flight to Barbados, was yesterday remanded to prison after she appeared in court facing a charge of cocaine trafficking.

APNU parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon has denied being arrested for disrupting a PPP meeting and has called on Guyanese to denounce the intolerance of freedom of expression in Linden and Guyana even as the opposition alliance appears to have chastised her for her behaviour.

Gregory Smith, the man long implicated in the murder of Dr Walter Rodney, was not an agent of the then PNC government or then Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, according to his sister, Anne Wagner.

A 17-year-old boy of Canal No 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara sustained gunshot injuries to his foot while rendering assistance during an accident involving a truck and a car early yesterday morning in the area.

The parents of slain political activist, Courtney Crum- Ewing yesterday continued protests outside of the Attorney General’s Chambers on Carmichael Street.

(ICC) India’s ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 campaign, colourful and vibrant and fearless, ended with a whimper yesterday, allowing Australia to set up a title clash against trans-Tasman neighbours and co-host New Zealand at the MCG tomorrow night.

Dolphin Secondary and Chase Academy will contest the finale of the third annual Milo Secondary Schools u-20 football tourney, defeating champion Lodge Secondary and Morgan Learning Centre respectively in the semi-finals yesterday.

Guyana Jaguars skipper Leon Johnson who now joins an elite cadre of Guyanese cricketers that have won a Regional four-day title, said the discipline and hard work displayed by his team throughout the season has finally paid off with victory in the 2014/15 Professional Cricket League (PCL) tournament.

Senior Guyana Jaguars batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul heaped praise on his young teammates for their performance which allowed Guyana to capture its seventh West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four-day title, after a 17-year drought.

A desperate last minute extra-time Devon Millington goal propelled an uninspiring Bakewell Slingerz into the quarterfinal round, defeating Victoria Kings 2-1 when the 25th edition of the Kashif and Shanghai Football Tourney continued on Wednesday.

A Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Management and Systems Review undertaken in February and targeting the its Mines, Land Management and Geological Services Division has alluded to what a mining source has described as “evidence of outrageous irregularities” in the mining sector including a “tendency towards landlordism,” which the report says “has taken over the mining industry.”

Dear Editor, Mr Winston Brassington has chosen defamatory words to respond to my blog post concerning a feasibility study of the Kingston Hotel, the report of which was submitted after the signing of the contract for the construction.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities yesterday said they uncovered a tax fraud scheme at the Finance Ministry’s tax appeals board that may have cost taxpayers up to 19 billion reais ($5.96 billion).

SANAA/ADEN, Yemen, (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi left his refuge in Aden for Saudi Arabia yesterday as Houthi rebels battled with his forces on the outskirts of the southern port city.

Dear Editor, In a letter which appeared in the media on March 22, Prime Minister Hinds stated that failure to implement the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) on the Potaro River will stunt the growth of the economy and continue to keep Guyanese poor.

Extensive capital dredging of the harbour facility at Port Georgetown to enable access for larger vessels remains a critical issue on the local maritime agenda, Executive Secretary of the Shipping Association of Guyana Ian D’Anjou said.

In relatively recent years—at least as far as we know—a range of our food exports have been used as conduits for the movement of illicit drugs to export markets, a practice that has begun to negatively affect the country’s reputation as a legitimate exporter.

PARIS/SEYNE-LES-ALPES, (Reuters) – A young German co-pilot barricaded himself alone in the cockpit of Germanwings flight 9525 and apparently set it on course to crash into an Alpine mountain, killing all 150 people on board including himself, French prosecutors said yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is with much sadness that I read the about the plight of the Critchlows at the East Coast of Demerara Health Centre which resulted in the death of their infant son.

(Trinidad Express) In response to widespread condemnation over her contribution in Parliament on Wednesday in which she decried Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley as a child of rape, Minister in the Ministry of the People and Social Development, Vernella Alleyne-Toppin yesterday issued a release in which she apologised for some of the things she said.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, March 24, I decided to go down on the ground to get a first-hand look at the rice fields and hear complaints from farmers, and the reasons they are suffering at this time.

Dear Editor, Amidst the sharp controversies and dull, brittle evasions surrounding the royal lifestyles of the grasping political greedy in this country, an old man died far away.

(Article and photos provided by the Forest Products Development Marketing Council)   Of all the timber harvested in Guyana, exports of logs now stand at approximately 35% of the quantity harvested.

Dear Editor,   On March 24, the President of Guyana, Mr Donald Ramotar finally expressed his true views about the late Mr Courtney Crum-Ewing at a forum for the business community in Berbice.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan believes that world soccer’s governing body is taking the wrong approach to development of the sport, leaving many national associations without basics such as kit and pitches.

Fear is a fascinating thing. Some degree of fear is essential to our survival – in fact, a major part of the training of all living creatures after birth is in figuring out how to keep themselves safe and secure from danger.

Starr Computers is reporting “very positive responses” from the University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS) to what it says is an initiative by the company intended to help open up new career paths for students attending the university.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rica fired its ambassador in Venezuela after the diplomat gave an interview in which he defended the Venezuelan government, the Central American country said on Wednesday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Losing to New Zealand in the World Cup pool stage was the kick up the backside Australia needed and the subsequent improvement was on show in their semi-final victory over India on Thursday, captain Michael Clarke said.

Winston Waddle and Natasha Goodrich are not at all nervous about picking up their $2 million ‘Race to the Altar’ wedding prize at the Roraima Duke Lodge this weekend.

Dear Editor   Admittedly the PNC made countless errors during their tenure in government, the main one being that they allowed the late President Burnham unchecked political and governmental power similar to that which the PPP government has had since 1992, most notably in the case of Bharrat Jagdeo from 1999 to 2010.

Months before the 2011 elections, I wrote a very short piece in this column which carried the same caption as the lead today.

Setting aside the highly-entertaining public spectacle which the Roraima Group of Companies’ Wedding Expo has become, its organisers are holding it up as a worthwhile business venture for other equally important reasons.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Four apartment buildings in New York’s East Village neighborhood caught fire from an apparent gas explosion on Thursday and three collapsed, causing 19 injuries, authorities said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former West Indies paceman Ottis Gibson will return for a second spell as England’s fast bowling coach for next month’s tour of the West Indies, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 26, 2015

Dear Editor, In July, 2011 the Government of Guyana signed an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the establishment of the revolving fund for financing wastewater management projects in Guyana.

Following on from last Friday’s editorial focus on corruption in Latin America, we believe that it would be clear to most people that, although many things have changed for the better in Latin America in the last few decades, profound problems of democracy and governance remain.