Daily Archive: Sunday, August 9, 2015

Cemetery improvement: A new fence at Le Repentir cemetery.

Crabs for sale at Crane, West Demerara on Saturday.

Clear the way: Debris from last month’s fire at Camp and Robb streets being cleared on Saturday

President David Granger today reiterated his intention to see a motion passed in Parliament to appoint a Commission of Inquiry which would probe a large number of killings during the tenure of former President Bharrat Jagdeo between 2000 and 2008.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) wants to create a commercial entity to increase the board’s revenue intake.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s cricket board has promised a review of the Ashes debacle after the dead rubber test at The Oval and will seek answers to the team’s continued flops on foreign pitches.

Cabinet has given provisional approval for the continuation of the contentious Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project and Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson yesterday said it would not exceed its initial US$150M cost and completion is expected by the second quarter on 2017.

Story and photos by Jannelle Williams   As The World Beyond Georgetown made its way to the Berbice Bridge access road which intersects the village, 19-year-old Darren Stuart was seen plying his trade, selling chips and other homemade snacks to passersby.

An elderly woman died after her house caught fire yesterday morning trapping her inside.

Cash smuggler Khemraj Lall is facing the forfeiture of US$7.5m, several properties and aircraft.

Regan Rodrigues was charged with the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing based on the advice of the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), which returned the case file to the police prior to the man’s arraignment.

State broadcaster National Communications Network (NCN) has requested emergency funding from the government, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman.

Almost €1.8 million in European Union (EU) funding for the proposed Kato Hydropower Project expired in February.

With Chile’s establishment of a resident embassy in Georgetown, more opportunities are expected to be available for dialogue and cooperation between the two countries, deputy-director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile Patricio Powell says.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson says he will seek Cabinet’s position on polygraph testing after receiving complaints by employees of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA).

A Chinese businessman was shot last evening when bandits attacked his supermarket at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara.

Attorney General Basil Williams, while remaining adamant that government cannot stand the cost of the increased tuition fees for Guyanese law students at the Hugh Wooding Law School, on Thursday said that it will now seek to approach the Council of Legal Education in an attempt to have the issue resolved.

A hospital patient and a second person were injured when the ambulance in which they were being transported was involved in an accident with another vehicle at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Policing in Berbice is being boosted with the deployment of ranks of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit to the division, the Guyana Police Force announced yesterday.

Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) Aeshwar Deonarine has promised to repay some $27.8M which he had transferred from the PetroCaribe fund to his personal bank account.

Embedding Last week’s column concluded discussion of the hypothesis, which states, there is an ongoing paradigm shift in international mechanisms generating financing for development.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart met today with Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Replacement Some 33 years ago, global politics and economics combined to force Guyana into searching for a replacement for wheat flour.

Over time, numerous experts in a range of fields have come to Guyana and contributed expertise, training and sometimes equipment to various sectors of our economy.

Ten of Guyana’s top bodybuilders including three-time Mr Guyana Kerwin Clarke, Mr Guyana Men’s Physique Champion Emmerson Campbell, former Mr Guyana Devon Davis and Alisha Fortune

Alonzo Ambrose’s sprinting prowess was on full display yesterday at the National Park as he sped past his rivals to take the Seven Seas cycling winner’s trophy.

In Guyana, there is a pervasive anxiety about the state of things in general which currently focuses on the seemingly unstoppable spread of criminal activity and violent crime in society.

By Tony Cozier   The astonishing fluctuations in the on-going Ashes series have defied even the most qualified observers to explain the inexplicable.

LEICESTER, ENGLAND (Reuters) – Shakespeare portrayed King Richard III as a “poisonous bunch-backed toad” who was reduced to offering his kingdom for a horse before he was killed by the forces of Henry Tudor, crowned Henry VII soon after, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

A report appeared in the press last week of a meeting between the Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman and AFC executive and prominent attorney, Mr Nigel Hughes to discuss constitutional reform.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies pacer Colin Croft believes West Indies could win the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Twenty20 in India next year.

Granola is a breakfast food and a snack. The main ingredient is rolled oats.

(Reuters) – Netflix Inc is offering up to a year of paid maternity and paternity leave for employees to care for a newborn or newly adopted child, significantly raising the bar for parental benefits in corporate America.

NOTTINGHAM, England, Aug 8 (Reuters) – England ripped out the last three Australia wickets for 12 runs to win the fourth test by a crushing innings and 78 runs and regain the Ashes at a euphoric Trent Bridge yesterday.

Guyana’s junior men’s hockey team qualified for the semi-final round of the Players Tournament in Trinidad and Tobago, coming from behind to defeat Queens Park 3-2 on penalty kicks in their final preliminary match on Thursday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England’s comprehensive Ashes victory over Australia was built on a purposeful and well-drilled team that combined the perfect blend of youth and experience.

Organization of American States’ Secretary General Luis Almagro has announced a worthy plan to create a new agency within the 34-country OAS to clean up the corruption-ridden soccer business in the region.

Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former defence minister and national security adviser, was Chairwoman of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party’s General Council and currently is a member of the National Diet.

The Republic of Haiti holds an exceedingly significant place in the Caribbean.

SEOUL (Reuters) – After work on a recent Friday, 53-year-old Lee Jin-soo headed for the “Happy Guys Cooking Class,” where he joined six other mostly middle-aged men in tall white hats and aprons.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – FIFA has suspended Grenada’s senior men’s national football coach Anthony Modeste for four games and fined him more than US$10,000 for misconduct against match officials.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke, described by Cricket Australia (CA) as one of the “all-time greats,” will retire after the final Ashes test against England this month.

KAZAN, Russia, (Reuters) – South African Chad le Clos threw down the gauntlet to rival Michael Phelps with a cheeky grin after powering to the 100 metres butterfly gold at the world championships yesterday.

Hardly a day passes without a new twist in the increasingly tense and acrimonious legal battle over the unfinished US$3.5 billion Baha Mar resort on New Providence in the Bahamas.

Swollen ear flap (othematoma)   If the inner surface of the ear (usually, but not always, one side only) of your dog suddenly becomes swollen, then 99 times out of 100 it is because small blood vessels in the ear flap have ruptured and the blood has oozed out.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rival Republican presidential candidates piled on Donald Trump yesterday for his caustic remarks about a female debate moderator, and the billionaire celebrity candidate backpedalled in an effort to keep his campaign from unraveling.

Casuarina equisetifolia commonly called Mile Tree or Christmas Pine originated in Australia and Southeast Asia. Casuarina

Dear Editor, The motion before the High Court contending that Messrs Winston Felix and Keith Scott are not lawful members of the National Assembly and therefore cannot be appointed “technocrat ministers” says that the plain language and intention of Articles 60, 103, 105, 160 and 232 of the constitution are clear enough to resolve the matter.

KAZAN, Russia, (Reuters) – American Katie Ledecky entered the record books as she smashed the women’s 800 metres world record to claim her fifth gold medal of a remarkable world championships yesterday.

KABUL (Reuters) – A wave of attacks on the Afghan army and police and US special forces in Kabul have killed at least 50 people and wounded hundreds, dimming hopes that the Taliban might be weakened by a leadership struggle after their longtime leader’s death.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Prize for Litera-ture has had cause to reschedule its timetable this year, and will not announce the shortlist until after Carifesta XII, mainly because of the scheduling of the regional festival itself.

London (Reuters) – The IAAF has continued its fightback against widespread allegations that it failed to act on hundreds of suspicious blood tests by highlighting a strong message of support from one of the “pioneers” of the anti-doping movement.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter, signed by Norman Whittaker, captioned, ‘There must be adequate preparations for local government elections’ (SN, August 7), in which Mr Whittaker attempted to make a case for the further delay in the holding of local government elections (LGE).

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Selection Panel of the West Indies Cricket Board has announced a 14-member WICB Under-15 Invitational squad for a tour of the United Kingdom later this month.

TAIPEI/YILAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan yesterday with strong wind and torrential rain, cutting power to 3.62 million households as the death toll rose to six.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – All three Caribbean teams were beaten on the second day of competition in the Netball World Cup in Sydney yesterday.

Dear Editor, My pursuits since the 2015 elections campaign have taken me on a different course and thus I do not pay much attention to verbal emissions from Freedom House or in particular the pedantic nonsense associated with their leader Bharrat Jagdeo.

It is clear that there needs to be a parliamentary committee set up in relation to the Venezuela border controversy as soon as possible.

Policeman with his police dog on the Demerara River yesterday (Photo by Keno George)

The mysterious game of royalty, chess, was given a plaudit over the weekend as a seven-round, Swiss-system, two-day chess tournament was conducted from yesterday, Saturday, at Congress Place, and will conclude today, Sunday.

Dear Editor, It is encouraging to learn that the new government, as articulated by Minister Raphael Trotman, is listening; that it is prepared to make ‘adjustments’ to the state boards, as recently constructed; and that alarms over pay increases should be stilled.