Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 8, 2015

On Tuesday, 42 young hopefuls for tennis success started out at the annual P&P Insurance Brokers Junior Tennis Camp hosted by the Guyana Tennis Association (GLTA).

The Ministry of Education, Department of Culture, Youth and Sport today handed over two sets of steel bands to the Berbice High School and President’s College.

President David Granger today told attendees at a Stakeholders’ Consultation Meeting on Road Safety, that his participation in the forum was a clear indication of the importance his government places on the issue.

Government is yet to decide on the way forward with the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) but Minister of State Joseph Harmon today said that the project continues to be under review and that a definitive statement would be made at a later stage.

President David Granger will be attending Parliament tomorrow at 14:45hrs, where he will address the National Assembly, Parliament Office said today.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The predecessor and mentor to Brazil’s president says she is running on empty.

The $1B Farfan and Mendes Limited (FML) headquarters at Providence, East Bank Demerara was commissioned last evening and promises more space and security for customers.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is on a list of 31 names released by the PPP/C yesterday to take up their seats in Parliament, virtually sealing his anointment as Opposition Leader.

The Police in ‘B’ Division are presently investigating an armed robbery which occurred on Monday evening in East Canje, Berbice leaving businesswoman Angela Hussain, 39 years, nursing a gunshot wound to the head.

A United States citizen broke down in tears at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday after she was sentenced to five years jail for supplying cocaine to be smuggled out of the country.

Major delays and other problems were reported by the Office of the Auditor General on the East Bank Demerara road improvement project, one of the major initiatives of the former PPP/C government.

President David Granger yesterday convened a high-level security meeting on developing a strategy to address the recent upsurge in crimes and government afterward emphasised that it would be going after criminals.

The suspect in the murder of Nandy Park resident Travis Rudder, who was arrested over the weekend, was yesterday positively identified as being involved in another murder, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.

Former Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has criticised the new government’s initiative to curb the sale of alcohol after 2AM, saying there is no evidence that suggests the hours of operations of nightspots have any correlation to crime rates.

A policeman was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with misusing his service weapon.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has returned the file on the vehicle transfer scandal involving former Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford and several others but there is silence on what advice was given.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) has expressed dismay at the exclusion of women from the Commission of Inquiry into the sugar industry.

Courts (Guyana) Inc is branching out into Optical Stores. In an advertisement in the July 5th Sunday Stabroek, UNICOMER (Guyana) Inc, the parent company for home furnishers, Courts is seeking an Optical Chain Manager whose purpose will be to roll out and oversee the operations of the Optical Stores.

Mere months after her entry into active politics, it appears as if former PPP/C prime ministerial candidate Elisabeth Harper is making a hasty retreat as her name was not on the list of 32 names released yesterday by the PPP/C to take up its Parliament seats.

CineGuyana, a film organisation that was founded by local artists, will be seeking to promote Guyana’s culture through film, according to its new President Phillip Williams, who says training local content makers will also be pursued.

The Indian Action Committee (IAC)—formerly the Indian Arrival Committee—has voiced concern over the “numerous incidents of crime” in many parts of Guyana.

In what will be a rematch of last year’s final, Santa Rosa will faceoff with Port Kaituma after the former edged North West Secondary 7-6 on sudden death kicks in their semi-final affair when the Digicel Secondary Schools Football Championship continued yesterday.

The Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) will ost a medical outreach and health fair at its grounds on August 1st.

Dear Editor,   In February 2015 two female students aged 13 and 15 were flogged with a cowskin whip by teachers at a school in the Rupununi.

Dear Editor,   I am cognizant of the fact that there is much remedial and reconstructive work that needs to be done within governmental departments by this new administration and particularly by the Minister of Public Security, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan.

A young couple was yesterday accused of stealing over $1M in jewellery.

The last time the Guyana Amazon Warriors and the St Kitts Patriots met Warriors skipper Denesh Ramdin struck a match-winning 50 to help his team thump the Marlon Samuels-led team by seven wickets.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The heavy hitting shook the ground and the volume would have raised the Centre Court roof, had it been closed, as Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka traded blows like a couple of prizefighters at Wimbledon yesterday.

An East Coast hotelier and a bartender were yesterday accused of renting a hotel room that was allegedly later used for prostitution.

Dear Editor,   Caricom has issued a press release following the conclusion of its confab last weekend.

Scotiabank yesterday teamed up with the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) to provide gear for DCC players that make the national youth teams.

The need for a better system of governance, were among concerns raised by residents of Rockstone, during a ministerial outreach conducted on Sunday by the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs.

Dear Editor,   I note with some alarm the media handling of this border matter with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

CAMBRAI, France, (Reuters) – Chris Froome lost his yellow jersey but retained his grip on his rivals after surviving a day on the cobbles in the Tour de France yesterday.

Dear Editor, Since the night of Saturday 4th of July, 2015, as depicted in the pictures, a GPL post is leaning dangerously, straining the wires on the post to the point of bursting.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged over cocaine found in shoe soles in the toilet area at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

Dear Editor, My study window looks out directly onto the Railway Embankment.

National Smallbore captain Dale Hing amassed 139.59 points to win last Sunday’s Practical Pistol Shoot at the Timehri ranges.

The trial of Omeka Henry, who is accused of the fatal stabbing of her partner Wilkinson Halley, called ‘Winkie,’ began yesterday before Justice Dawn Gregory at the High Court.

Dear Editor, Minister Ramjattan must be commended for his sincere effort against crime and we know he does not have a double standard.

Berbice romped to a comprehensive seven-wicket win over Demerara to retain their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior female Inter County One-Day title in the final round played at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ground on Monday.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Euro zone members have given Greece until the end of the week to come up with a proposal for sweeping reforms in return for loans that will keep the country from crashing out of Europe’s currency bloc and into economic ruin.

The sentencing of Anthony De Paul Hope and Ralph Tyndall, the two men found guilty of murdering caretaker Colleen Forrester and dumping her body in a septic tank, has been deferred until probation reports on the men are presented.

IOWA CITY, Iowa, (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton yesterday joined calls for changes in U.S.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday said protecting the planet was no longer a choice but a duty and called for a new “social justice” where access to the earth’s resources would be based on equality instead of economic interests.

A taxi driver was yesterday released on $2M bail after he denied a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Dear Editor,   Your Sunday July 5 paper carried a story about a mentally ill man being shot dead by the police.

National cyclist Geron Williams showed his fine form in Monday’s CARICOM Day ‘Wheat Up Classic’, winning three events including the 30-lap feature.

A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he denied misusing money given to him to buy a car engine.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Bill Cosby’s forthright views on black parenting came back to haunt him this week when a U.S.

Guyana’s Lady Jags, as the national female soccer team is called, will play their first international match in almost five years when they take on either Jamaica or Puerto Rico at the Leonora Track and Field Facility.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Carnival Corp has won U.S. approval to operate culturally-themed cruises to Cuba and plans to start taking travelers there next May, joining a growing list of maritime companies hoping to profit from a thaw in relations between Washington and Havana.

Dear Editor, I am wondering how profitable the new rice cereal mill will be which is being built at Anna Regina, and where the markets will come from.

A four-member Draughts swept a two match series against Suriname winning both encounters by 4-0 margins last weekend at the Kweesi School, Nickerie, Suriname.

Dear Editor,   On this the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 atrocity in London it’s time to remember Guyana’s own Michael Brotherson who was at Edgware Road when one of the bombs went off.

Anti-crime meeting: President David Granger (third from left) yesterday meeting with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo (third from right), Minister of State Joseph Harmon (left), Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan (second from left), Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud (2nd right) and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Colonel Kemraj Persaud at the Ministry of the Presidency.(GINA

MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – South American OPEC nation Venezuela will allow Uruguay to pay off a $400 million energy debt at a 35 percent discount, Uruguay said on Monday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The deaths of a number of witnesses in a massive fraud case surrounding cheating at college and government jobs has become the latest source of discomfort for India’s ruling party, already on the defensive over influence trafficking allegations.

Dear Editor,   The decision to establish Caricom was taken by Heads of Government on July 4, 1972, and the following year, the Treaty of Chaguara-mas was signed replacing Carifta to have a more “togetherness” not only in terms of free trade and free movement, but to “enhance levels of international competiveness” and “enhance co-ordination.”

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile took a step forward in decriminalizing the use of cannabis yesterday after the lower house of Congress approved by a wide margin a bill that seeks to change the law in the South American country.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday that a recently created diplomatic back-channel with the United States is “working very well” at improving communication between the two countries following more than a decade of tensions.

A 2010 McKinsey follow-up study, ‘How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better’ made the obvious but yet noteworthy point that improvements in the education system are possible from any level of development.

Politikles

Students of the Guyana Karate College yesterday morning paid a courtesy call on The Honourable Minister of Education, Dr.

About two weeks ago we thought it useful to comment on the parlous financial situation of Greece, and the encounters which the government of that country was having in relation to seeking assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as from the countries of the European Union that are members of what is now described as the Eurozone.

The Flying Ace Cycling Club (FACC) will Sunday stage the first APNU/AFC coalition victory cycle race in Berbice.