Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 29, 2015

President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. William Warren Smith says the bank will continue to consolidate its position with Guyana in an effort to improve the quality of life for all citizens.

  The Vatican has reaffirmed its commitment to working with Guyana in the area of promoting peace and unity, GINA said.

  President David Granger today met with Colonel Nigel Dransfield, the Finance Controller of the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League, which looks into the welfare of World War 11 veterans in Commonwealth countries.

Former Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran who verbally abused rights activist Sherlina Nageer earlier this year during a confrontation outside the Whim Magistrate’s Court is to be charged.

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman this morning announced that the Berbice Bridge toll will be reduced in keeping with the administration’s one hundred-days plan.

The police say they are conducting investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of miner Rasharda Dusrah, 29 years, of Station Street, Kitty, whose body was found in an abandoned mining pit at Oku Backdam, Puruni, yesterday, with a wound to his throat.

The Ministry of Public Security today urged full public support for its initiative to enforce the closing of night clubs and other places of entertainment at 2 am saying it was being done in the interest of citizens’ security.

(Reuters) – UEFA head Michel Platini announced today his intention to stand for presidency of FIFA in place of Sepp Blatter.

Former Public Service Minister Dr Jennifer Westford, who was under investigation over an alleged attempt to transfer state vehicles to herself and persons close to her after the May 11th general elections, will face a criminal charge following advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack.

As calls continued for an extension of the work of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of Dr Walter Rodney, lawyers for the politician’s family and party yesterday argued that the Forbes Burnham-led PNC government and agents of the state were culpable.

Another young mother has died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

After robbing a businesswoman of over $200,000 at gun-point yesterday, a bandit was struck by a car while making his escape, resulting in him dropping both the money and the weapon he had used to carry out the attack.

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman has been named Chairman of the Lottery Control Commission.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon last night rubbished a claim by the opposition People’s Progres-sive Party that the APNU+AFC Government is “investing some $1B to purchase 52 new Luxury Land Cruisers to be used by their ministers and advisers.”

Members of the Guyana Fire Service managed to contain a small blaze of unknown origin at a meat stall located in Stabroek Market last evening.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro yesterday said he had asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for U.N.

After years of studying medicine and engineering in Cuba, 101 Guyanese students returned home yesterday.

Following concerns by tourists and overseas-based Guyanese about animal welfare in the country, a team of regional and international veterinarians volunteered their services and is performing surgeries for the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA).

In what could be described as one of the worst performances in Regional youth cricket history, Jamaica were shot down for an embarrassing 27 courtesy of the defending WICB U15 champs Guyana, who strolled to their second win in this year’s West Indies Cricket Board’s Regional limited overs tourney played at the Albion Sports Complex Ground yesterday.

Presidential Advisor on National Security, Brigadier (ret’d) Edward Collins says his activities have not encroached upon the mandate of the Minister of Public Security and that he has received full support from the minister.

Dominic Morris, 18, will be spending the next two years in jail after being found guilty of robbing a woman of her smartphone.

A monumental rivalry will be renewed and a highly-anticipated showdown will be on display when the fifth annual Digicel Secondary Schools football championships continue today with the semi-final round at the Leonora Sports Facility, West Demerara.

The new Giftland Sports Maxx, located at the Giftland Mall at Liliendaal, which recently opened its doors to the public yesterday opened its arms to the Boyce/Jefford Classic event which is billed for next month in Linden with the announcement of lucrative prizes for the winners of the 800m and 1500m events.

The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday received tenders for a consultancy to design and implement a public awareness strategy for the Houses of Justice.

The Ministry of Public Health is continuing to emphasise the importance of vaccination and immunisation in an effort to have healthier babies.

Azad Hassan and Vyvian Crandon were declared winners in the senior and junior divisions when the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) smallbore section ran off a .22 Precision Pistol shooting competition over the weekend at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) ranges.

  The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday said it has written to Minis-ter of Finance Winston Jordan advising that its contribution to the soon to be presented national budget should include the new administration’s 100-day plan that it had set out to be accomplished on its accession to office.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel coach Simon Helmot has praised the fighting spirit of his players after they rebounded from the bottom of the table to win the third edition of the Caribbean Premier League.

The APNU+AFC administration, through the Ministry of Education’s KuruKuru Training Centre, is currently recruiting youths between the ages of 16 and 25 years to commence skills training in October 2015.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Captain of Barbados Tridents Kieron Pollard says his team lost the Caribbean Premier League title because of inconsistency at the back end of tournament.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Michel Platini, the head of European soccer’s governing body UEFA, is to announce in the next few days that he will stand for the presidency of FIFA, a source close to the former France international told Reuters yesterday.

At about 1830h on Monday, the police say that miner Morvin James, 40 years, of Baramita, North West District, was involved in an argument with another man at Baramita, during which he was fatally stabbed to his chest.

The Mayor and City Council yesterday said that a number of leases of its reserves have expired but those concerned are still occupying them and it warned that it will tighten up on the process.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Peter Nevill has got the nod ahead of Brad Haddin as Australia’s wicketkeeper for the third Ashes test against England at Edgbaston starting today.

St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, CMC – Middle order batsman Emmanuel Stewart scored a patient 43 to pull Windward Islands out of a slump on their way to a five wicket win over Barbados in their fifth round game of the Regional Under-19 Championship at St.

Dear Editor, We, who have been working for over a decade at realizing our national dream of harnessing one of our waterfalls to provide our electricity, welcome the questions on Amaila put by Mr Puran in his letter appearing in Stabroek News and the Chronicle on July 23.

By the end of last year, the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) was attempting to recover data that it lost access to after an “electrical anomaly” resulted in all of its servers becoming either “non-functional” or “mal-functional.”

JAMALCO, Jamaica, CMC- Half centuries from Cephas Cooper and Amir Jangoo and an impressive all-round effort from Anderson Phillip set the stage for Trinidad and Tobago to register a commanding 138 run win over Canada in the fourth round of the WICB Under 19 tournament here Monday.

Dear Editor, I was surprised to encounter a mounted police patrol in Bel Air Park and then a different one in Campbellville on the same day and within the space of 20 minutes.

A St Lawrence coconut farmer is seeking help to stop the destruction of his farm, which is continuing to be devastated by an unknown cause.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia’s opening batsman Chris Rogers has survived a stiff examination from his bowling team mates in the nets but expects England’s pacemen to come even harder at him in the wake of his dizzy spell that forced him to retire at Lord’s.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the statement in the Sunday Stabroek news item titled ‘Venezuela plotted overthrow, kidnap of Jagan in 1964, US document says’ (July 26).

Dear Editor Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s recent article entitled ‘Sean Hinds’ should be taken seriously by the coalition government and umbrella cultural organizations in Guyana, and they should not speculate about his integrity or reasons for writing.

ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Judging by the applause at the African Union headquarters, Barack Obama hit a chord when he took aim at the continent’s ‘Big Men’, telling them they should quit when their time was up – especially since most have the cash to retire comfortably.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s first captain of the post-isolation era Clive Rice died yesterday after battling a brain tumour, local media reported.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday the nuclear deal reached between Tehran and major world powers this month will help fight terrorism and bloodshed in the Middle East, Iran’s state TV reported.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Social Cohesion had a regional consultation on social cohesion at Belladrum Primary School, West Coast Berbice on July 25.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England want to bounce back from a disastrous showing at Lord’s by playing well enough to get a special Edgbaston crowd on their side in the third Ashes test against Australia, said captain Alastair Cook.

(Trinidad Guardian) All prisons throughout T&T are currently on a “lockdown” as security measures are increased, including the installation of body scanners.

Dear Editor, With reference to talks on the 2015 budget between the government and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), I read in the press Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan’s report on the meeting.

PENNSYLVANIA, United States, CMC- Jamaica defender Michael Hector has accepted responsibility for the errors that caused the Reggae Boyz to lose out on a chance to make history, in the finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Sunday.

ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – A Florida man who was called the nation’s youngest convicted murderer at age 12 walked out of prison yesterday morning after serving almost 16 years behind bars.

The Venezuelan government is now at loggerheads with ‘U.S. imperialism’, which they accuse of all kinds of infamy.

(Trinidad Express) Corruption-accused Jack Warner has written to ­several ­officials that Prime Minister ­Kamla Persad-Bissessar received ­multi-million-dollar payments to thwart the extradition of businessmen and United National Congress financiers Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – A Libyan court yesterday sentenced Muammar Gaddafi’s most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, and eight others to death over war crimes including killings of protesters during the 2011 revolution that ended his father’s rule.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Five men in northern Mexico were sentenced to an unprecedented 697 years in prison for the gender-driven killing of 11 women, in a state where hundreds of young women have been murdered since 1990.

The campaign towards general elections in Trinidad & Tobago, announced in mid-June to be held on September 7, appears to be getting more and more truculent, leading some observers to wonder what the atmosphere will be like by the time the scheduled date arrives.

Dear Editor, Dave Martins ‘So it go’ in Sunday Stabroek of the 28th, was indeed correctly titled ‘For the last time’, because as we all know complaints that “todays music is garbage!”