Daily Archive: Sunday, October 11, 2015

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Pan” walked the plank over the Columbus Day Weekend.

At about 1440h. today, ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch arrested a sixty-year-old Guyanese national who was an outgoing passenger at the Ogle Airport after 3 kilograms 826 grams of marijuana and 4 kilograms 612 grams of cocaine were found in her baggage.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has condemned the 50% wage hike approved by the Granger administration for its Cabinet ministers and called for its rescinding.

KANPUR, India, (Reuters) – AB de Villiers and Rohit Sharma enhanced personal reputations with scintillating centuries but it was the timely interventions of South African bowlers that secured the visitors’ five-run win over India in the first one-dayer today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former CL Financial executive chairman Lawrence Duprey and his wife, Sylvia Baldini, have once again found themselves trying to prevent foreclosure by a Florida bank.

When the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) sets up its long-awaited office here in January, it will begin establishing facts on the drug trade here followed by recommendations and programmes.

Story and photos by Roger Wong Hidden behind thick forest, about eleven miles off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway St Cuthbert’s Mission sits amid a vast display of flora and fauna and is home to more than 1,200 Indigenous Guyanese.

A vigilant city constable yesterday afternoon stumbled upon a box containing 15 grenades and a small quantity of live ammunition near the Lamaha canal on Sheriff Street.

President David Granger on Friday shrugged off criticisms over his pardoning of dozens of persons convicted of minor offences, while saying he will do so again.

A planned US$233 million manganese mine at Matthews Ridge, Region One by Canadian firm Reunion Gold Corporation is at a standstill having been affected by the economic slowdown in Asia and other parts of the world making it difficult for the company to find financing.

– mom was shot dead years ago in DV incident Diagnosed with bone cancer several months ago which later resulted in her left arm being amputated, 13-year-old Shakiva Clements has faced more hardship than many adults yet she has learned to be grateful for each day and says she would not give up on life.

Former employees of the Hotel Tower expressed relief and elation as a court last week ordered the payment of over $10 million in wages, salaries and severance owed to them after the hotel abruptly closed last year.

A route 32 minibus driver is now hospitalised after he was shot to his back just before midday yesterday at Flour Mill Public Road, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, by two men who posed as passengers.

A pregnant woman is now hospitalised with burns on most of her body after she and a friend were shocked by live wires at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara (WBD), when an off-duty police officer fired shots in the air and severed a power cable.

Former murder accused Shawn Thom, who is suspected to be part of a crew trailing travellers from the Cheddi Jagan airport into the city, says he he is being framed by the police.

Two Russian diplomats were rushed to the Woodlands Hospital yesterday after their vehicle collided with a car at the corner of Main and New Market streets.

Residents and motorists are still adjusting to the recent conversion of several Kitty streets to one-way traffic.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) on Friday joined 192 countries in commemorating World Post Day 2015 which was celebrated under the theme ‘Innovation, Integration and Inclusion are the key drivers for the Future of the Post.’

Building a local law school is not a priority for the current government in the light of “the type of economy” it inherited, according to Attorney-General Basil Williams.

Enterprise Primary, South Ruimveldt and St. Angela’s were winners when the fourth annual Petra Organisation/Courts Pee-Wee Under-11 football continued yesterday at the Thirst Park ground.

Attorney-General Basil Williams says acting Chancellor Carl Singh is fine-tuning the rules for the Family Court so that they can be taken to the National Assembly for approval.

During last week Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams, reminded us that the current Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang is due to retire shortly.

Alpha United and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) battled to a 1-1 draw when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League continued Friday at the Tucville Community Centre ground.

Guyanese under 30 years of age will likely have no knowledge of it, but there was a time in our country when there was a ritual, common in many of the middle class homes, that involved the process of bringing wood floors to a shine by buffing them by hand using wax.

Pronouncements on leave for acting Chief Justice Ian Chang and matters relating to his office ought to be made by the Chancellor and not the Attorney-General, according to the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), which said yesterday that any deviation from this borders on the violation of the independence of the judiciary.

I have been thinking of my father. Since he died in 1995 at the age of 89 I have not written very much about him.

Pele FC maintained their unbeaten run in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League, downing fierce rivals Fruta Conquerors 2-1 Friday at the Tucville Community Centre ground to climb atop the points standings.

Is it helpful to describe Latin America and the Caribbean as if it were a single entity?

The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) continued to lobby for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people to an adequate standard of living at the recent Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), in Geneva, Switzerland.

Fully supportive This column is the last in a series of nine successive columns devoted to addressing the United Nations (UN) Post-2015 Development Agenda and its related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Wide-ranging powers The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) was formed in July 1990.

National cyclist Raynauth Jeffrey returned to the local circuit with a bang yesterday.

Scores of primary school pupils turned out yesterday to paint murals on the walls at the back of the Botanical Gardens as the Environmental Commu-nity Health Organisation (ECHO) continues to do its bit to raise awareness and beautify Guyana.

International Pharmaceu-tical Agency (IPA), sole importer of the Universal Nutrition supplement line is proud to welcome Guyana’s Men’s Physique champion, Emmerson Campbell as its latest Brand Ambassador.

The effect of the 2 am closure of nightclubs on the tourism industry is being evaluated and according to Minister of Tourism, Catherine Hughes, her findings will be released in two weeks’ time.

There are various cuts of lamb from which we get chops – shoulder, leg, loin and rib.

Allamanda commonly called Buttercup or Golden Trumpet originated in Brazil and comes from the Apocynaceae family.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Carlos Brathwaite belted a cameo half-century and seamer Kemar Roach picked up two early wickets but West Indies were made to toil against the Sri Lanka Cricket President’s XI on the second day of their three-day tour match here yesterday.

ANKARA (Reuters) – At least 95 people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers struck a rally of pro-Kurdish and labour activists outside Ankara’s main train station just weeks before elections, in the worst attack of its kind on Turkish soil.

Dear Editor, The recent move by the government to increase ministers’ salaries by exorbitant amounts (50%) has sparked much debate and has caused disheartenment among the populace.

The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) organisers of the fifth annual Guyana Softball Cup competition which gets cracking at month end has teamed up with Survival Travel Agency to make available for lucky spectators return airline tickets to Barbados.

Allergies associated with Rhinitis and Sinusitis Last week we dealt with Sinusitis and Rhinitis (in Greek, Rhis means nose) as being the result of nose infections, or as an accompaniment to special viral diseases of Canine Distemper, Parainfluenza, etc.

Concerns were raised over the display of the skin of a Jaguar in the office of Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan.

Rugby fans are being reminded that the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU)/Trophy Stall-sponsored 7s tournament gets underway today at the University of Guyana Campus ground from 10:00hrs.

Major repairs to Regional administrative buildings are set to begin in early 2016, as the government steps up measures to enhance working and living conditions in the hinterland regions.

BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had stepped up its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, while local observers said several of the air strikes had hit areas in western Syria where the hardline group has little presence.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Prime Minister will earn $20,580,000 or US $102,900 per annum.

We have already commented that the ‘summer’ of 2015 was like a field lying fallow in the production of theatre in Guyana.

This man photographed lying on the jetty and letting the waves wash over him told Stabroek News photographer Keno George that he wanted to “be at one with the sea.”

Dear Editor, Now that Ministers have increased their salaries will they now be in a position to pay their electricity bills?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Department of Defense will seek to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of a US air strike that mistakenly hit a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 22 people, the Pentagon said yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Discarded West Indies gloveman Carlton Baugh stroked an unbeaten, even hundred to extend his rich vein of form, on Friday’s final day of the drawn three-day warm-up game in preparation for next month’s Professional Cricket League.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – A Jamaican man believed to be a major supplier of guns and ammunition to the local criminal underworld was reportedly killed during a confrontation with police in Haiti on Friday, local law enforcement officials have revealed.

MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussians head to the polls today to cast their vote in presidential elections all but certain to re-elect authoritarian incumbent Alexander Lukashenko for a fifth term.

When the chess history of the year 2015 is written, the FIDE World Cup must be mentioned.

Dear Editor, Those of us who reflect on the past while contemplating current institutional behaviour, cannot help noting the substantive difference in some employment procedures, moreso in the public sector which is obviously more exposed than the private sector counterpart.

LIMA (Reuters) – Finance Minister Joaquim Levy told Reuters yesterday that he enjoys the total backing of Brazil’s beleaguered President Dilma Rousseff and intends to stay on the job as long as needed to put the books in order and pull the economy out of its slump.

 Sunday Cartoon

ON their four previous tours of Sri Lanka, the West Indies have been blighted by one setback or another.

Power does strange things to office-holders. When they are sitting on the opposition benches they see with great clarity the need for transparency and accountability; they promote the virtues of the meritocratic state, criticising nepotism and patronage, and promise value for money to taxpayers should they ever be voted into government.

A view of the transformed D’Urban Park, where work is ongoing to create a green space for recreational activity.