Daily Archive: Friday, June 19, 2015

Thursday’s second sitting of the 11th Parliament will see two pieces of legislation which were at the centre of a titanic standoff between the government and the opposition in 2012: the anti-money laundering bill and another to slash the benefits of former presidents.

Joseph Peters (third from right) received his prize from Sherry Singh – Customer Service Manager (left) in the presence of other Laparkan representatives.

(GINA) Today mainly cloudy skies will continue throughout coastal and near inland areas, with occasional light to moderate, and at times, heavy showers, between Regions 2 to Northern 6, during the morning, becoming fair, but cloudy in the afternoon.

At about 1245h. today, the police say that Reginald Manbodh, 67 years, had just returned home in his motor vehicle at North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, when he was attacked and held at gunpoint by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, and who had driven up on a motor cycle.

Two employees of the Public Service Ministry were on Tuesday sent on leave after it was unearthed that they reportedly forged documents as part of a scheme to transfer state-owned vehicles to certain individuals, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said last evening, adding that the police have since been notified.

A mining pit cave in at Tiger River, Mahdia, Region 8 has claimed the life of one man and injured another, just one month after a similar tragedy at Pepper Creek resulted in the deaths of 10 men.

A fishing boat captain of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice is feared dead after he was tossed overboard in the Corentyne River by masked pirates when they attacked his boat.

An accountant at Rubis Guyana was shot dead on Wednesday night by bandits during a robbery at his house.

  Clive Knights was yesterday jailed for 57 years after he was found guilty of murdering GTM Executive Bert Whyte.

Two editors attached to the National Communications Network (NCN) were fired yesterday following an investigation into a “financial irregularity”, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Molly Hassan confirmed last evening.

The ongoing implementation of parallel parking on Regent and Robb streets is being blasted by the citizens who regularly park on these roads.

Kevin O’Neil denied clubbing Colleen Forrester to death with his co-accused Anthony De Paul Hope and Ralph Tyndall in his caution statement, but did admit to dumping her body in a septic tank at the house in William Street, Campbellville.

Bishop Juan Edghill yesterday singled out the media for failing to highlight what he said was the grave injustice of the new government’s firing of Kwame Mc Coy, the press and publicity liaison officer in the Office of the President of the previous government “I find this to be strange because of the robustness that existed in the media and among the justice institute and the transparency international…not a word”, he said.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has threatened withdrawal of its involvement in the Haags Bosch Landfill project on the East Bank over several non-compliances.

A Queenstown man was yesterday re-leased on $400,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on charges of discharging a loaded firearm and wounding with intent to murder.

The Bureau of Consular Affairs in the United States continues to experience technical problems with its visa systems, a release from the US Embassy said yesterday.

The GFF Normalization Committee has filed a complaint with regional confederation CONCACAF against St.

An East Ruimveldt man who the police accused of having in his possession an unlicensed firearm with matching rounds and of robbing a woman at gunpoint was yesterday remanded to prison.

Friendship Secondary dismantled Xenon Secondary by an 8-1 score line when the 5th edition of the Digicel Secondary Schools Championship continued yesterday at the Grove Community ground.

A woman who works as a cook in the interior was yesterday released on $125,000 bail after she was charged with arson in a Georgetown Court.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says that at 05:53 hours yesterday, a burst conductor on a 69Kv transmission line stretching from Canefield to Skeldon caused the line to trip resulting in a total shutdown in the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System.

At a recently held gathering by the Guyana Youth Council, the new Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine vowed to transform the education system to a “rich and rewarding experience.”

As of Wednesday, 1321 sugar workers of roughly 5000 had flocked the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union Co-operative Credit Union Society Limited offices in Georgetown and Berbice to make withdrawals over concerns about money owed by GuySuCo.

Bundled out in the first round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (WCQ), GFF Normalization Committee (NC) Chief Clinton Urling yesterday said that tens of millions of dollars were plugged into the Guyana programme over the two qualifying matches.

A businessman from the West Bank of Demerara (WBD) is expressing his dissatisfaction over the increase in the frequency of robberies occurring in the Parfait Harmonie neighbourhood, the area in which he conducts business.

CHARLESTON, S.C., (Reuters) – A young white man suspected of shooting nine black people dead after spending an hour with them in Bible study at a historic African-American church in South Carolina was arrested yesterday, a day after a massacre authorities say was motivated by racial hatred.

A United States-based Guyanese woman was robbed at gunpoint of cash and valuables on Wednesday morning soon after she arrived at the East Coast Demerara (ECD) home where she was expecting to stay while here.

(Reuters) – Kaushal Silva stayed on course for his second test hundred after featuring in a century-plus stand with Kumar Sangakkara to help Sri Lanka to 178 for three on day two of the first test against Pakistan at Galle yesterday.

Dear Editor, Mr Tacuma Ogunseye, arguing the case for Africans, has raised the issue of power-sharing as it can play a part in the governance of Guyana.

Tucville Secondary School players Calvin Peters and Orwyn Garraway each scored a brace to give their school a convincing 7-1 victory over David Rose Secondary yesterday during the second day of competition in the Digicel Secondary Schools Championship 2015 at the Fruta Conquerors ground in Tucville.

Dear Editor, One of the tenets of good governance is the timely delivery of accurate information that is generated from publicly funded enterprises using taxpayer money.

Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green met with city vendors on Tuesday and charged them to “improve the way you ply your trade.”

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC- Former Australia batsman Mark Waugh says the beleaguered West Indies must learn the art of improving on their fundamentals if they are to climb to the top of the ICC test rankings again.

Dear Editor, The rice industry has gone from strength to strength, in terms of acres under cultivation and yield per acre, now averaging two tons per acre, that is, 32 bags at 140 lbs per bag per crop, due mainly to higher yielding varieties produced at the Burma Rice Research Station, and improved cultivation and husbandry practices.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- International players Narsingh Deonarine, Kirk Edwards and Ryan Hinds headed the list of imported draft choices, when the Player Draft of the WICB Professional Cricket League took place yesterday here.

Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Dr Nicole Giles has given the assurance that Canada will continue to provide support to Guyana’s health system and revealed plans to improve the Canada-Guyana Medical Partnership.

A grocer was released on bail after a city court was told that he had fraudulently converted a quantity groceries entrusted to him to his own use and benefit.

Dear Editor, The call by the PPP for Dr Steve Surjubally to demit office as Chairman of Gecom is neither surprising nor shocking, for it speaks to the mindset of the leadership of this party which believes that it must be their way or no way.

Team Guyana suffered another defeat in the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Men’s championship, going down to Bermuda 74-65 in their third group fixture on Wednesday at the Multi Sports Complex in Tortola.

Four matches are slated for the opening of the Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry Open Tennis Tournament later today at the entity’s recreational facility at Bel Air.

Managing Director of AH&L Kissoon, Hemraj Kissoon has volunteered to share his knowledge of construction techniques and developing lands with technical staff at the housing department.

(Reuters) – A little under two weeks ago Neymar netted the goal that wrapped up Barcelona’s Champions League triumph against Juventus but his needless sending off at the Copa America on Wednesday means the Brazil forward may have played his last game at the tournament.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Mustafizur Rahman made a dream ODI debut as Bangladesh crushed two-time world champions India by 79 runs yesterday in the first of three one-day internationals to underline their progress in the 50-over format.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Uncapped Derbyshire left-arm seamer Mark Footitt has been included in England’s 14-man squad for a four-day pre-Ashes training camp in Spain, the England and Wales cricket board said yesterday.

Dear Editor, There is scarcely any gainsaying the fact of how many persons have reservations (some more articulate than others) about the number of obvious newcomers to the management scene amongst the array of recently appointed ministers, a disproportionate percentage of whom has been assigned either to newly created portfolios or reconstructed ones – apparently without explicit descriptions (at least to the public) of the programmes or projects for which they have been assigned responsibility.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington, (Reuters) – Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson moved into a tie for the early U.S.

After receiving information about heavy rainfall and flooding in some sections of the Mahaicony Creek, Minister of Health Dr.

Dear Editor, In response to the letter titled ‘Mr Latiff saved the community from the smell of a decomposing whale’ (SN, June 15) signed by a Nadiera Springer aka Donna and published in your newspaper, I would like to make it publicly known that I, Nadiera Donna Springer of Maria’s Lodge, did not write or sign any such letter, nor did I give anyone permission to use my name.

A man who admitted to stealing his colleague’s $105,000 Galaxy S4 Smartphone and attempting to deceive the police, earned himself a $115,000 fine yesterday.

Dear Editor, The attached picture is not of sections of the Georgetown-Mahdia/Lethem trails.

(Reuters) – Before their recent two-test series, West Indies chief selector Clive Lloyd said he wanted his young players to gain “exposure” and be “tested” against Australia.

Dear Editor, The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) expresses deep dismay at what can only be described as scandalous musings published by the Guyana Chronicle on May 22, 2015 under the headline ‘God Can Change the Most Wretched Soul.’

VALPARAISO, Chile, (Reuters) – Peru beat 10-man Venezuela 1-0 at the Copa America yesterday to leave all four Group C teams level on points with one more first-round match left to play.

A thief who apologized for pouncing on two women in Georgetown and grabbing a handbag containing valuables and cash along with two cellphones was yesterday jailed for 15 months after he admitted to the offence.

CARACAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Brazilian senators seeking to visit jailed opposition leaders in Venezuela said their minibus was stoned and blocked, forcing them to return to the airport yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC-A one million US dollar pay-out is up for grabs for a lucky fan of the third edition of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) starting this weekend.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – A Tanzanian government minister described elephant poaching on Thursday as a national disaster, and urged China to curb its appetite for ivory.

Dear Editor, Governance typically embodies the overarching set of policies, procedures, rules and systems which set the tone and direction governing the modus operandi of organizations.

(The Sports Xchange) – Coach Mike Budenholzer will hold a joint title of coach and team president in a shakeup of the Atlanta Hawks that includes the dismissal of general manager Danny Ferry.

In the letter captioned ‘Venezuela is a bully’ by B O Osogbo published in our edition of June 17, there were two editing errors for which SN apologises.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis demanded swift action yesterday to save the planet from environmental ruin, urging world leaders to hear “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” and plunging the Catholic Church into political controversy over climate change.

SPIELBERG, Austria, (Reuters) – Formula One is failing both fans and drivers and needs to become more gladiatorial and less artificial, former Red Bull racer Mark Webber has warned as the sport considers its future direction.

(Reuters) – The Nasdaq Composite yesterday erased its last standing milestone from the dot-com era as it set a record intraday high, with stocks on Wall Street in rally mode boosted by strong economic data.

Dear Editor, ‘Diaspora will only return if crime is tacked,’ according to Shamim Ibrahim (SN, June 18).

Dear Editor, Congratulations to President David Granger and the entire new government.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Manager of the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel Colin Borde is reporting an upbeat mood among his players as they prepare to launch their campaign in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) against St.Lucia

LONDON, (Reuters) – The England and Wales Cricket Board has made its biggest ever investment in the women’s game by bankrolling a new six-team Super League to the tune of three million pounds, it was announced yesterday.

While the norm in most places nowadays is to run into a pharmacy and pick up some medication if one is feeling ill, the truth is that pharmacies, as we know them, have only been around for a couple hundred years.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – Africa’s richest man, Nigerian Aliko Dangote, announced on Thursday that he wanted to buy English soccer team Arsenal and would make a bid “at the right time”.

There were, perhaps still are, some world leaders who, besides being (some level of) politician, either love(d) the arts, aesthetics and life’s finer things.

What were Clive Lloyd, fellow selectors Courtney Walsh, Eldine Baptiste and coach Phil Simmons thinking when they asked 21-year old, middle-order batsman, Shai Hope, with just 14 first class matches under his belt, to open the batting in his maiden Test against England last month and then again, in the First Test against Australia, earlier this month?

Charitable donations: Canada-based Guyanese investor Dean Hassan yesterday presented a total of $10M dollars to 18 Guyanese charities including, the Palms Geriatric Institution, the Dharm Shala, the Uncle Eddie’s Home, St.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Father Time, the weather vane featuring a cloaked figure holding a scythe while bending over cricket stumps, has returned to the Mound Stand clock at Lord’s after undergoing repairs.

Dear Editor,   As I travel across the country and more so the Essequibo Coast, I can see the difficulties faced by disabled people.

BARCELONA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Urgent plans to help the world’s poorest people become more resilient to extreme weather and rising seas are on hold because of a lack of cash in a U.N.