Daily Archive: Friday, September 25, 2015

The Government is still reviewing the operations and financial stability of the Marriott Hotel with a view to determining its future role with the entity.

President David Granger (left) greeting Prime Minister of India, Narendra Damodardas Modi, during a meeting yesteray in New York.

The opposition PPP today pilloried the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Dr Steve Surujbally for a statement to Stabroek News that it would be impossible to prove who inserted fake statements of poll into the verification process at GECOM headquarters during the May 11 General Elections.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, who has repeatedly been challenged by the conservative wing of his Republican Party, told members on Friday that he will resign from the House at the end of October.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hugh Howard, attorney-at-law and former executive at Shell and Trintoc, believes the discovery of large oil reserves in Guyana earlier this year could be a positive development for T&T’s industry.

(Trinidad Guardian) Northern Division police believe they may have uncovered a human trafficking ring after raiding an illegal brothel in Tacarigua on Wednesday night.

The new U.S. Ambassador designate, Perry Holloway arrived in Guyana yesterday.

The Guyana Sugar Cor-poration (GuySuCo) is effectively bankrupt and its total debt stood at $82 billion at the end of July, according to Chairman of the Board Dr Clive Thomas.

Minister of Health Dr George Norton says international standards will be adhered to when the ministry moves to open tendering for the procurement of pharmaceuticals.

Even as Guyanese soldiers begin two days of military manoeuvres Venezuela’s Congress Speaker Diosdado Cabello yesterday said that President Nicolas Maduro is willing to meet President David Granger in New York.

Four Berbice-based police officers are under close arrest and a senior rank has been transferred to police headquarters in Georgetown after they were implicated in the payment $6 million in exchange for the release of a large quantity of cocaine.

Government is awaiting the conclusion of a forensic audit before any further attention is paid to the persons who have been identified as having fraudulently accessed fuel from the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil), Minister of State Joseph Harmon says.

A sublime Gregory Richardson free kick in the dying minutes secured Pele FC a hard-fought 2-2 draw with arch-rivals Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League continued on Wednesday.

The police found drugs in a house in the North West District on Wednesday night after a shootout with the suspected drug traffickers.

Guyana is moving to raise the quality of post-secondary and tertiary education through the establishment of the Guyana Core Group of the Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (CANQATE).

A profligate Slingerz FC continued their disappointing showing in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League as they were held to a scoreless draw by the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) on Wednesday.

A seminar held last week to celebrate Software Freedom Day, saw presenters demonstrating active working solutions using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), including for Geographic Infor-mation Systems (GIS).

Madrid (Reuters) – Celta Vigo achieved something few, if any, clubs have managed in recent times when they thumped Barcelona 4-1 in La Liga on Wednesday, giving the Spanish and European champions a lesson in how to play football.

The Budget Supermarket on Sheriff Street, Georgetown was robbed on Wednesday night by two armed bandits.

Three youths were brutalised and robbed after they tried to confront one of the persons who robbed their friend in Sophia on Wednesday night.

St. John’s, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board says it will make every resource available to newly appointed captains Jason Holder and Stafanie Taylor, in order to ensure the success of their tenures.

Following the death of one worker and injury to another at the airport, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) will have to submit an engineer’s report to the Labour Department of the Ministry of Social Protection declaring the area safe, before work can recommence, according to junior Minister Simona Broomes who also revealed that in the company’s agreement no provision was made for the safety of workers.

Crime, coupled with concerns over the future of the sugar and rice industries are perhaps highest on the list of concerns of those residents of Berbice who put in an appearance at last weekend’s 11th Berbice Expo.

Dear Editor, There will be a lunar eclipse on Sunday evening, September 27, 2015.

Every year, for the past 11 years, the Berbice rice giants Nand Persaud and Company put in an appearance at the Berbice Expo.

Sao Paulo (Reuters) – Manchester United made a late attempt to sign Brazilian striker Alexandre Pato just before the January transfer window shut, according to the Sao Paulo player.

Dear Editor, In celebrating Indigenous peoples heritage and also education month this September, I would like to wish all my fellow Indigenous people and all Guyanese a happy heritage and education month.

It seems likely that the Berbice River water taxi pilot that started last Monday will continue as there has been an overwhelming response from residents.

Dear Editor, Further to my SN letter of September 21(‘Remittances are responsible for about 17% of GDP’), I would like to conclude the discussion of remittances by looking at two issues: why do migrants send remittances back home, and how do recipients use the remittances they receive?

President of the Guyana Public Service Union Patrick Yarde has said that state-funded projects offering income-generating pursuits for public servants could be a possible option in circumstances where government, over the years, has failed to get around the issue of less than adequate wages and salaries for its employees.

Tenders were opened on Tuesday for the acquisition of spares for the Transport and Harbours Department’s fleet of aged vessels.

Zurich (Reuters) – Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter told his scandal-plagued federation’s 209 member associations yesterday that failure to support reform would amount to a betrayal of millions of soccer fans.

Bridgetown, Barbados, CMC – All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite expects a challenging tour of Sri Lanka and wants to be prepared both physically and mentally if he gets his first call-up to the Test side.

MINA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – At least 717 pilgrims from around the world were killed yesterday in a crush outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi authorities said, in the worst disaster to strike the annual haj pilgrimage for 25 years.

Dear Editor, It is clear from the actions and attitude of some Regional Education Officers that they are geared to frustrate the parents and teachers in Kwakwani.

By Marilyn Collins Marilyn Collins is a former Director of the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department.

Up to 300 booths run by vendors drawn from local small and medium-sized enterprises are likely to be set up at the National Exhibition Centre, Sophia to host the one-off Business Exposition 2015.

Dear Editor,   Some of the self-serving decisions made in terms of priorities and relationships are coming back to haunt this nation in the worst possible way.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will push Russian President Vladimir Putin to explain how his country’s military presence in Syria will contribute to the defeat the Islamic State when the two leaders meet next week, White House officials said yesterday.

BOGOTA/HAVANA (Reuters) – A breakthrough in talks between Colombia’s government and Marxist guerrillas has raised hopes for a peace deal within six months and it may mean rebel leaders will avoid being extradited to face drug trafficking charges in the United States.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) yesterday became the latest Guyana Football Federation (GFF) affiliate to officially adopt their new constitution, in the process setting their electoral congress for October 17th.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court voted on Wednesday to move part of the country’s largest-ever corruption probe to another judge, challenging the notion that all pieces of a case that initially focused on state-run oil firm Petrobras are legally linked.

Bridgetown, Barbados, CMC – Principal of the University of West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Professor Eudine Barriteau, says tomorrow’s Celebrity Twenty20 game will be a fitting way for the educational institution and the West Indies Cricket Board, to throw their support behind embattled Dominica.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 634’s trading results showed consideration of $3,894,157 from 198,520 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 633’s trading results, which showed consideration of $3,703,901 from 149,420 shares traded in 9 transactions.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Bolivia won the first round of its battle against Chile to gain unfettered access to the Pacific Ocean, as an International Court of Justice decision went in its favour, disappointing Chileans who had hoped the case would end yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Chief Education Officer, Mr Olato Sam in a recent address to stakeholders in education is reported to have asserted that “…the weaknesses we see in the children are a reflection of our teachers’ failings.”

A week ago the Head of Trans Guyana Airways Mr Michael Correia introduced a Rayethon Beechcraft 1900D aircraft into the country’s aviation sector.

Politikles

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Congress early yesterday upheld key presidential vetoes to avert a surge in public expenditure and postponed a decision on a possible salary increase for judiciary employees, in a rare victory for an embattled government struggling to rebalance its fiscal accounts.

A group of Indigenous people who were hailed by many as they toured the Botanical Gardens in their traditional wear and later posed for photographs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For about an hour, the deeply divided lawmakers of the US Congress closed ranks yesterday behind Pope Francis, the powerful and popular leader of the world’s Catholics.

Exactly what President Nicolás Maduro thinks he is doing has everyone perplexed.

(but did she disappoint him?) In my earlier life, or a phase thereof, both as a young professional and a more activist political Party member, I was obliged to attend most, if not all, of the Congresses and General Council gatherings of the “paramount” People’s National Congress (PNC) – my party of choice.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the latest police catastrophe, which has claimed the life of yet another young officer, traumatized his colleagues and has further devastated the already tattered morale of the Guyana Police Force.

Business Cartoons

London (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen says England cricket director Andrew Strauss was right to overlook him for this year’s Ashes test series victory over Australia.

The British Birdwatching Fair is held in August on the shores of Rutland Waters in the county of Rutland.