Daily Archive: Sunday, May 31, 2015

(Georgetown, May 31, 2015) The Ministry of Education wishes to advise parents and CSEC/CAPE candidates of the Bishops’ High School that there has been a change in the venue for the sitting of examinations timetabled for Monday, June 1, 2015.

The Government has put into effect short term solutions to alleviate flooding in sections of Georgetown and lower East Coast Demerara (ECD), the Ministry of Public Works said today.

The Ministry of Education today said that some schools will be closed tomorrow for cleaning and sanitizing following flooding today.

Heavy rain is expected to continue over the next few days, the Ministry of Agriculture says.

Photo Gallery:  Many city streets have been flooded as trenches have spilled over.

At about 0030h. today,  police say that taxi-driver Dennis Narine, 26 years, of Onderneeming, WBD, was aroused by noise at a glass window in his home.

At about 0300h. today, police said that Darson Ramatar, 23 years, of Kaneville, EBD, along with four other men, is reported to have attempted to break into a home at Kaneville during which he was stabbed to his throat.

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of miner Raychand Mangal, 46 years, of Buddy’s Housing Scheme, Providence, EBD, whose body was found at his home at about 2000h.

An uprooted tree on Takuba Road in the vicinity Meadowbrook Gardens, between Meadowbrook Drive and Jamoon Drive following heavy rain and flooding today.

Heavy, persistent rain today has flooded parts of Georgetown and the lower East Coast.

Team Evolution’s Orville Hinds (4hr:00m:35s) will roll into the hills of Linden this morning for the final leg of the Independence Three-Stage road race with the yellow jersey and a one-second lead on teammate Michael Anthony.

National opener Rajendra Chandrika said yesterday that it was an honor to be selected for the West Indies Test Team for the upcoming home series against Australia adding that he planned to make the fullest use of the opportunity.

Guyanese born, world renowned bodybuilding legend, Laura Creavalle returned home last Friday after 15 years to host a fitness seminar and to celebrate the first anniversary of the Maximum Sports Combat and Strength Show.

Social Protection Minister Volda Lawrence yesterday defended her decision to send Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) Director Ann Greene home on leave, while stating that she verbally attacked Junior Minister Simona Broomes during a meeting on Wednesday last.

Aleka Persaud, Amy Grant, Leon Seaton and Onika George were among the winners at yesterday’s opening of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) National Long Course Swimming Championships at the National Aquatic Centre.

Established on a portion of the Ordnance Fortlands on the right bank of the Canje Creek in East Canje, Berbice, Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme is said to be sixteen years old.

Guyana’s five-member team of athletes that were scheduled to compete in this weekend’s South America Association of Pan Am Youth Athletics Championships remained grounded in Guyana on Friday after failing to board their flight to Colombia after a series of unfortunate events.

Anglican Bishop of Guyana the Venerable Cornell Jerome Moss died yesterday in Miami while recovering from heart surgery.

Political economy fragility Today’s column elaborates on organizational elements, briefly portrayed last week, which are needed for establishing Guyana’s stolen public assets recovery initiative.

Among the many items on the varied ‘to do’ list for Guyana’s new government, the problem of falling standards in our society is being raised frequently by social commentators, and in the very early days following the election President Granger has raised this matter, both specifically and by alluding to it, in several of his speeches.

Prominent attorneys Stephen Fraser and Roysdale Forde have been nominated for the post of the Speaker of the National Assembly, according to sources in the Alliance for Change (AFC) party who say that a definitive decision has to be reached before the end of this week.

Three toucan chicks are currently recuperating at the Guyana Amazon Tropical Birds Society (GATBS) after they were successfully confiscated from someone who reportedly stole them from the bird sanctuary in the Botanical Gardens.

(Part 1) Equally worrisome The first part of this article considered what oil would mean for the production structure of Guyana.

Guyana’s greenheart, purpleheart and more recently, wamara and itikiboroballi species are overharvested and are extinct or approaching commercial extinction in accessible forests, according to forestry expert Janette Bulkan, despite denials by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

The recent wave of lethal crime will have heightened the sense of life’s fragility in all of us.

Arguments in the appeal of the 2012 budget cuts ruling have started but the future of the case is uncertain following the recent change in government.

Ahead of a planned “Mega Clean-up” this week, environmental activist Sherod Duncan took to the streets of Georgetown yesterday to recruit citizens in the ongoing campaign to clean the city and keep it that way.

By Tony Cozier   Chief selector Clive Lloyd offered two reasons last Sunday for Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s omission from the West Indies squad for the two forthcoming Tests against Australia, effectively ending the longest career of any West Indian.

The end of the Jagan leadership of the PPP terminated the era of real, as opposed to formal, internal democracy.

Despite promises from the previous government that Market Road, a key access road, would be repaired prior to the May 11 elections, residents of Triumph are still waiting.

For a woman who nine years ago had life as she knew it destroyed, 33-year-old Jo-Ann Lynch is a pillar of strength and perseverance but justice continues to elude in her quest to ensure that the woman whose action changed her life forever, faces the consequences.

Earlier this year, Owen Arthur, the former Prime Minister of Barbados, described the malaise that now affects much of the anglophone Caribbean.

The police will not be charging anyone in relation to the Pepper Creek, Konawaruk, mining disaster, which claimed the lives of 10 men, according to Commander of ‘F’ Divi-sion Courtney Ramsey.

One day as I sat enjoying a small bowl of Lucian-style (St Lucia) fig (green banana) salad, I began to wonder how salt fish (a key ingredient in Lucian fig salad) would taste in a regular potato salad.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) says it is worried that the current scandal rocking football’s governing body could have an adverse effect on the sport.

Benjamin Meckdeci and Shomari Wiltshire continued their impressive form in the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) sanctioned Woodpecker Products Junior National Championships, securing multiple wins on Saturday morning at the Georgetown Club Facility on Camp Street.

In spite of the many debates that there have always been about it, there is generally fair consensus about what constitutes a national literature.

A taxi driver was robbed of his motor car at gunpoint by four ‘passengers” on Friday night and the quick response of the police led to the capture of three.

You may recall that we had described the retina as the innermost and light sensitive lining at the back of the eyeball.

Gunmen on Friday night robbed a businessman of his licensed firearm and a sum of money moments after he and a relative arrived at their Kitty residence.

Two Americans, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, blasted their way into the 2015 Candidates elimination chess tournament with an opportunity to oppose Magnus Carlsen for the world championship title.

The In Time Dominoes Club of Golden grove will run off a two round teams points system dominoes competition at its venue from 2pm today.

Two airport technicians are now in police custody assisting with investigations after more than 6 kilogrammes of cocaine was found in bottles of rum carried by an outgoing CJIA passenger.

This week’s decision by a federal appeals court to continue blocking President Barack Obama’s order to stop deportations of more than 4 million undocumented immigrants was almost universally seen as a major setback for the administration’s immigration policy.

Dear Editor,   As a PPP/C candidate at the recently concluded general and regional elections, I have had many opportunities to observe and to interact with several members regarding the party’s inner workings and infrastructure.

Dear Editor,   When I heard that our brand-new President had embarked upon the course of establishing his constitutional office as our country’s principal ‘Cabinet-maker,’ I reached for my favourite daily and there he was, not the Chief in all his excellence as you ought to expect – but that reassuring presence, the white haired eminence, the Prince of Protocol Mr ‘Vic’ Persaud, doing his thing.

Tabebuia pentaphylla commonly called Pink Poui is a member of the Bignoniaceae family and originated in South America.

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At 3.59 pm EDT today, the National Security Agency and telecommunications companies will begin mothballing a once-secret system that collected Americans’ bulk telephone records, shutting down computers and sealing off warehouses of digital data.

A resident of Bitoon in South Central Rupununi is now in police custody assisting with investigations after ranks found a weapon and ammunition at a house in the community.

The father of an Anna Catherina businesswoman who along with her two small children was brutally murdered in 2012, is adamant that there was political interference in the investigation and is optimistic that the new government would ensure that it is steered back on course.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore police shot and killed one person and detained two others early in the morning after the car they were traveling in crashed past police barricades near a hotel where US Defense Secretary Ash Carter was staying.

Dear Editor,   For over a week now the residents of Bartica have been experiencing erratic electrical power from GPL.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman was praised for the leadership he showed in office when the Office of the Parliament hosted a farewell ceremony for him in the MPs’ lounge at the Public Buildings, Brickdam last week.

UNITED NATIONS  (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights chief yesterday urged several countries to intensify their investigations of alleged sexual abuse of young children in the Central African Republic by French and African soldiers posted in the conflict-torn nation.

Dear Editor,   First, Guyanese clamouring for heads to roll still have not gained the full measure of the new President.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) calls on citizens communities and businesses engaged in wanton disposal of garbage, to desist and join its clean-up the city movement.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) Thousands gathered in the main square of Guatemala’s capital yesterday to protest against corruption after a wave of graft scandals prompted a Cabinet shake-up and the resignation of the vice president.

BERLIN 30 (Reuters) – Russia has imposed an entry ban on 89 European politicians and military leaders, according to a list seen by Reuters, a move that has angered Europe and worsened its standoff with the West over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine conflict.

Dear Editor,   I am so disappointed that Shiv Chanderpaul was dropped in the way he was.

This large structure is being built at Providence in the Bai Shan Lin housing development.

A lot of talk about unity is being thrown around, although there is little evidence of that on the ground.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelan opposition sympathizers rallied yesterday in support of leaders jailed last year in connection with months of violent protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said yesterday that China’s island-building in the South China Sea was undermining security in the Asia-Pacific, drawing a scathing response from the foreign ministry in Beijing.

Dear Editor,   Three years ago, at a public forum at the new Hope Secondary School, I expressed the view that GuySuCo would not survive another four years.

(Reuters Health) – People’s estimates of how much they drink are much higher when they include weekends and holidays, according to a new survey from the UK.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Uncapped Shane Dowrich and Rajindra Chandrika were poised for Test debuts after they were named yesterday in a 14-man West Indies squad to face Australia in the opening Test of the two-match series starting next week.