Articles published on Friday, August 21, 2015
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon today alleged that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has privatized the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre and has been leasing the property for a mere $1000 per month, GINA reported.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today said it was concerned at the “many” dismissals in the public sector and the climate of fear which now exists as a result.
Guyana’s delegation of one hundred and eighteen persons arrived in Haiti yesterday morning, a day ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the Caribbean Festival of Arts in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
(Trinidad Guardian) The newly-formed Children’s Authority has been given one week (next Friday) to find a suitable location for the detention of a 14-year-old murder accused from Diego Martin.
A cash crop farmer died last night after she was shot in the face by a bandit in an attempted robbery.
Government yesterday passed a motion to restrict the consideration of the budget estimates to three days, which led to accusations by the PPP/C that it seeking to avoid scrutiny of proposed spending.
Patricia Walcott, 29, the pregnant woman who died in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday, had been in pain for days before she was eventually hospitalised but kept it to herself.
The Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System was hit by a series of power failures last night which left householders fuming and wondering about the extent of the problem.
The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation is tipped to be awarded the management contract for the recently established Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League following a tendering process.
The operations of the Inter Agency Suicide Prevention Help Line which was launched by the Guyana Police Force on August 06, 2015, was yesterday boosted through the donation of a complete desk top computer by the Management of the Innovative Mining Company of Garnett Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, a release from the police said yesterday.
Guyana got the defence of their female team title off to the perfect start, sweeping hosts the Cayman Islands 5-0 in their opening group encounter when the Caribbean Squash Association Championships Team Tourney continued yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) CONCACAF has given the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) a bailout loan to cover its administration expenses, following notification on Monday from world football’s governing body FIFA, that it had halted funding to the local body until yearly audited accounts are presented.
While welcoming the “modest increase” in wages and salaries for public servants proposed in this year’s national budget, former union leader Gillian Burton-Persaud on Wednesday accused the government of attempting to deceive workers by not making the increases retroactive to the start of the year.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Football’s world governing body, FIFA, has confirmed that it has halted funding to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) over its failure to produce audited statements.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) met with a team from the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday, August 14, 2015 for a discussion on a two-week professional course it is running for the Guyana Police Force and related matters.
The National Assembly yesterday selected nine members to serve on the Committee of Selection.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA discussed reforms with some of its leading commercial partners yesterday during a secretive meeting at the headquarters of world soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Senators conducting a special inquiry into possible corruption inside the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) agreed on Thursday to probe the private financial records of its president Marco Polo Del Nero.
After robbing a taxi driver almost a month ago, Jermaine Sealy sealed his fate when he happened to hire another driver who knew about his crime and took him straight to the police.
Outgoing Head of the European Union Delegation to Guyana, Ambassador Robert Kopecký says he is very optimistic about the future development of Guyana.
Even as the government announced a limited package of measures in last week Monday’s budget presentation aimed at bringing a measure of relief to a gold-mining sector struggling under the weight of continually falling prices on the global market, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has said that it is unsure as to whether the measures announced in the budget will relieve the strain on the sector.
Dear Editor, Cognisant of an article published in the Stabroek News of Thursday, August 20, 2015, under the caption ‘Woman says Linden police beat nephew to confess murder,’ the Commissioner of Police, Mr Seelall Persaud, has directed the Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to conduct investigations into the allegations stated.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Legendary U.S. boxer Roy Jones Jr. has filed for Russian citizenship, state TV reported yesterday, a day after the multiple champion met President Vladimir Putin and said he wanted to build bridges between Russia and the United States.
Dear Editors, I refer to an article in the Stabroek News of Tuesday July 28 headlined ‘Roopnaraine promises to work with WICB to find a solution.’
Two young miners were yesterday charged with killing an unidentified man in the North West District.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s parole review board has up to four months to conclude its decision on when Oscar Pistorius can be released from prison, a Justice Ministry spokesman said yesterday.
Currently in its 65th year of operation, the highly diversified Affiance-based enterprise Imam Bacchus & Sons is one of the best-known businesses on the Essequibo Coast and when Stabroek Business visited the Cinderella County last week, we thought it would be useful to engage the proprietors in our quest to ‘test’ the temperature of the Essequibo economy.
Dear Editor, Prior to the election of a new executive of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) in March this year, news had circulated of a culture of abuse entrenched in a local newsroom.
By: Valrie Grant, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Over the past two weeks, this column has focused on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).
LONDON, (Reuters) – Steve Smith made a brave unbeaten 78 to lift Australia to 287 for three on the first day of the fifth and final test against England at The Oval yesterday.
An Enterprise shop owner was beaten and robbed of over $1M in cash and other valuables on Wednesday, when three bandits, including a notorious customer, attacked him at his business.
For the fourth consecutive year, local conglomerate Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under its Pepsi brand will sponsor the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Under-16 tournaments.
Dear Editor, Accusations are mounting against a farmer in Region 2 for violating the law by cutting the canal dam to drain his some 50 acres of a virgin plot in the backlands of the Middlesex-Vilvoorden area.
A mechanic was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail after being found guilty of stealing a minibus and stripping it of its parts.
(Trinidad Guardian) Between TT$19 million and TT$33 million were being siphoned off annually from the Government’s Food Card Programme, Minister of the People and Social Development Christine Newallo-Hosein admitted on Wednesday. She
A senior official in the local Ministry of Agriculture has gone on the attack against non-tariff barriers instituted by some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that are working counter to efforts to realise regional food security, according to Monday’s edition of the Jamaica Gleaner.
Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC continues to dabble in semantics as the government seeks to create the impression that they have a plan for hinterland development which is different from and better than anything the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic government ever had in place.
The University of Guyana (UG) Trojans’ disappointing run in the University Games Championship continued on Wednesday, losing to hosts Panama by a 72-49 score line in their second encounter of the event.
Ex-policeman Ruel Brandon was further remanded when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday over the murder of Davonan Sookram of Philadelphia, East Bank Essequibo.
A Lethem man who admitted to being found with close to a kilogramme of cannabis in his house was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Opener Lokesh Rahul struck his second test century and combined with skipper Virat Kohli to help India recover from a shaky start and reach 319 for six at stumps on the opening day of the second test against Sri Lanka yesterday.
A local company has been selected by the World Bank group InfoDev as a ”business enabler” to provide training and mentorship for Guyanese entrepreneurs and start-ups under a tailored package of instructions being offered by the World Bank’s Accelerate Caribbean Programme.
Dear Editor, Allow me to compliment you and your publisher for making it possible for ordinary citizens to get their views across to the wider population and to the wheelers and dealers in the corridors of power.
At 60, Sam Barakat has ‘been around the block’ as far as business is concerned.
A mason who is accused of stealing a smartphone was yesterday placed on bail and a bond after proclaiming his innocence.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – An increasingly bitter rift between FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA chief Michel Platini looks set to define the campaign to elect the next leader of soccer’s corruption-plagued world governing body.
Dear Editor, Reading the news story in yesterday’s SN on Rawle Lucas’s testimony before the Parvatan Commission of Inquiry into the sugar industry, I note that Lucas is really calling for a shut-down and not a phase-out of the industry.
Dear Editor, While government lawmakers in Guyana are demanding prosecution for any officials who were guilty of malfeasance under the PPP/C government, the acting Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands has charged former Governor John de Jongh Jr of embezzlement involving nearly half a million dollars.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Energy Chamber of T&T is calling on the country to “plan accordingly” as oil prices continue to tumble.
London, (Reuters) – American and Swiss criminal investigations into corruption in global soccer are unlikely to lead to any threat to Russia retaining the hosting rights for the 2018 World Cup, according to U.S.
On Wednesday, the National Museum’s eighth annual Taxidermy Children’s Camp hosted a graduation ceremony for its 46 participants.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – News that a patient’s cancer has spread to the brain typically is a sign the end is near.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – To many, sprinter Justin Gatlin will forever be the bad guy of track and field: a drug cheat forced to serve not one but two doping bans.
Dear Editor, When I wrote the following comments in 2013, I could hardly have had a clue as to their being prophetic enough to relate as closely as they did to some of the remarks the Minister of Finance made in a very informative interview conducted on Channel 11, on Tuesday evening, August 11.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress was charged by prosecutors with corruption and money laundering yesterday, becoming the first sitting politician to be charged in a burgeoning kickback and bribery scandal.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea fired a barrage of artillery rounds into North Korea yesterday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Seoul, moves that raised tensions on the divided peninsula.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 629’s trading results showed consideration of $4,409,880 from 66,008 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 628’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,830,101 from 31,637 shares traded in 14 transactions.
With an action packed start highlighting the opening night, the inaugural GT Beer Futsal Championship will continue tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue with four fixtures.
Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine has been named to chair the National Commemoration Commission (NCC), comprising representatives from government agencies, civil society and the diaspora, to oversee planning for Guyana’s golden jubilee next year.
The dissatisfaction, expressed publicly, by the former Alliance For Change Berbician activist and one line in a recent Stabroek editorial have given rise to the following comments today.
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Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned ‘Ramjattan implores PPP to cease promoting ethnic division –says it will do no good for Guyana’ (KN, August 20).
{This column is in commemoration of Carifesta which first took place in Guyana in 1972.}
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress unanimously passed legislation yesterday that would allow the military to shoot down unauthorized aircraft suspected of smuggling narcotics, a policy banned in 2001 that the United States has opposed.
ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece’s main opposition party leader Vangelis Meimarakis will meet the country’s president Prokopis Pavlopoulos this morning to receive a mandate to form a new government, an official from Meimarakis’ New Democracy party said.
The announcement by Finance Minister Winston Jordan in his budget presentation that government intends to activate a provision of the Small Business Act of 2004 that allows for medium and small enterprises to access up to 20 percent of government contracts will be music to the ears of those smaller goods and service providers who have been complaining for years about being locked out of access to contracts for services to the state even in circumstances where they say they are capable of providing those services.
Inevitably, the transformation that has all but completely altered the face of the old Georgetown has made its presence felt on Brickdam, one of the few streets where huge, shady trees and colonial-style wooden buildings used to dominate the quiet stretch that extended for the majority of the length of the capital.
Sister of Kwakwani Hospital, Jennifer Nelson (left), flanked by Doctor Sheneeze Peter-Thomas and nurses, recently received a Nebulizer Compressor from Gulliana Jacobs (right) donated by Jennifer Wilson-Williams.
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