Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 28, 2015

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Thousands of police officers waited in the rain to pay their respects at today’s funeral for slain New York City Police Officer Randolph Holder, who was shot and killed while on patrol a week ago.

Minister within the Ministry of Education – Department of Culture, Youth and Sport, Nicolette Henry yesterday received a courtesy call from renowned West Indian Cricketer Colin Croft.

Members of the Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) paid a courtesy call on President David Granger at the Ministry of the Presidency this afternoon, GINA said.

First Lady Sandra Granger, earlier today, met with Ann Geer, Executive Committee member of the United Women for Special Children, along with other members of the organisation.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) today apprehended two persons in the Farm community, East Bank Demerara for illegally excavating government reserves, GINA said.

President David Granger was today paid a courtesy call by Members of the Queen’s College Alumni Association of New York.

An 11-year-old child was among several girls that were picked up from a bar in Baramita, north west district on Saturday night following a visit by Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes and other high-level government officials, GINA said today.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – World Soccer’s governing body FIFA, shaken by the worst corruption crisis in its history, confirmed today that seven candidates had registered as candidates for its presidency, with former Trinidad and Tobago international David Nakhid the only surprise omission.

While Guyana ultimately wants a juridical settlement of the decades-old border controversy with Vene-zuela, Georgetown also believes that a legal opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Arbitral Tribunal Award of 1899 would be beneficial.

A 28-year-old mother of five was beaten to death on Friday allegedly by her partner of six years.

As the time creeps closer to when Bartica is to be proclaimed a town, Regional Chairman Gordon Bradford has disclosed that an application has been made to extend the community’s borders to almost three times the current size as they want to be “as independent as possible.”

Following a recent ‘fact-finding’ mission on 24-25 October 2015, to Baramita in Region One, the government plans to design an action plan to transform the community.

Police witness Sailesh Roopnarine yesterday testified that prints found at the scene where 84-year-old drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul was murdered matched the fingerprints of the accused Orvin Kevin Roberts.

At the Vreed-en-Hoop court yesterday, two women were denied their pre-trial freedom when they appeared before Magistrate Crystal Lambert to answer robbery charges.

A solemn Mayor de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner William Bratton led thousands of mourners at an emotional wake yesterday for slain city cop Randolph Holder, according to the New York Daily News.

Johnny Welshman found himself before a city court yesterday, accused of falsely obtaining $40,000 from a woman after he pretended to be a lawyer.

A group calling itself Stakeholders of Guyana’s Cricket is upset with the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) decision to do away with the rights the WICB once enjoyed as a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in favour of voting for the Big Three.

A bus conductor was yesterday denied bail after appearing at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with robbing a police constable.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul grafted a patient half-century to give the Leon Johnson XI a 60-run lead over the Robin Bacchus XI on day two of the final Guyana Jaguars 4-day practice match played yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

October has been designated Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Ministry of Social Protection has scheduled a walk and a candle light vigil tomorrow to raise awareness of and in memory of persons who died as a result the disease.

The owner of a variety store was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after denying that he used a forged cheque to buy over $100, 000 worth of groceries.

The Ministry of Health will host a mental health conference for seven schools at Queen’s College on October 29 with assistance from clinical psychologist Dr Nathilee Caldeira and team.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Captain Jason Holder said he remained hopeful West Indies would survive their current rocky period and emerge a better side, after watching them crash to a 72-run defeat in the second Test against Sri Lanka on Monday.

Several roads will soon be rehabilitated as the Ministry of Public Infrastructure received dozens of tenders for projects in Regions 3, 4 & 5.

Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Cor-poration (GuySuCo), Dr Clive Thomas says that the sugar industry is already benefitting from recommendations that were made prior to and during the Commis-sion of Inquiry (CoI) into the sector.

A pulsating Cross Fit competition brought the curtain down on the successful two-day GTM Fitness Expo which concluded Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC- West Indies Women head coach Vasbert Drakes has credited consistency and an all-round effort for his side’s triumph over Pakistan in the four-match One Day International series which ended here on Sunday.

A Kingston miner was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with using a gun to rob a woman of $700,000 in cash and gold.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC-West Indies captain Jason Holder has moved up three places to a career-best 49th in the latest ICC Test Player Rankings, released yesterday.

President David Granger on Sunday encouraged community partnership during the commissioning ceremony of the Fyrish, Corentyne basketball court and pavilion.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-Track and field officials here say plans are progressing well for the staging of the 2016 Carifta games in Grenada, the 45th edition of the annual regional championships.

Dear Editor, Several days have passed since a letter from Professor Samuel Braithwaite appeared in your columns (SN 21 Oct) but instead of reading and passing on to the next day’s news, my mind keeps going back to that letter.

Ten patients recently benefitted from follow-up eye surgeries, as a four-man team, two ophthalmologists, one nurse and one assistant, from “World Class Eye Surgeons” based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, carried out the operations at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), GINA said.

The Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School recently assisted in the complete rehabilitation of the Remote Area Medical (RAM) Volunteer Corps aircraft.

Dear Editor,   I wish to table a very noteworthy environmental hazard that the residents of the New Eccles Housing scheme (Block EE) are being plagued with recurrently.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC– President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron says he hopes West Indies Women’s sweeping victory over Pakistan would inspire more young women in the region to take-up the sport.

Dear Editor,   Some years ago, in his consultations with religious bodies in Guyana, when former President, Dr.

With the start of the Tour of Guyana Five-Stage road race just two days away, Team Coco’s decided to put on a dress rehearsal on Sunday during the course of Digicel’s two stage event.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) restored the internet connection service to its prepaid system on Monday, October 26, after a disruption was experienced on Saturday October 24.

LONDON, (Reuters) – It has long been seen as the lesser chamber, an anachronism from Britain’s past, but the country’s unelected upper house of parliament briefly reclaimed its long-lost pre-eminence this week when it rejected the government’s welfare reforms.

Yvonne Beckles, the mother of Deon Greenidge who is currently serving a life sentence at the Camp Street Prison claims that her son has been starved of food for about two weeks now after he complained about being served mouldy bread and sour food.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Basking in the glory of a landslide in Guatemala’s presidential election, a former comedian with no government experience has some unorthodox policy plans: he will tag teachers with GPS trackers to ensure attendance and give poor kids smartphones.

Banks DIH Limited, Digicel, Oasis Water and the Barbers Association were amongst the winners on the second night of group fixtures when the inaugural Inter-Ministry/Corporation Banks Beer Futsal Championship continued on Monday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor,   I had expected a more cohesive analysis from my colleague Christopher Ram’s submission in SN’s 26 October, 2015 on the Prime Minister’s salary ‘hike’ in particular.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of the men charged with the murder of British-born attorney Richard Wheeler and his wife Grace, accused police investigators of torture when he appeared in court yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC-Former Jamaica and West Indies opening batsman Basil Williams has died at the age of 65.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – An 85-year-old international jewelry thief was back behind bars yesterday, charged with stealing a pair of $690 earrings from an Atlanta store in the latest caper of her decades-long career as a jet-setting burglar with sparkling taste.

Dear Editor, This is a plea to GT&T to please do something, anything, to fix my home phone which has been out of order since Wednesday, October 21st.

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture celebrated 40 years of operations in Guyana on Monday with IICA’s Representative here Wilmot Garnett calling for more regional integration and treating of agriculture as a business and a science.

New Amsterdam Town Week:  President David Granger (on dais)  taking the salute from band members of the Cofona band at the opening ceremony for New Amsterdam Town Week 2015 on Sunday. 

Dear Editor, For over 20 years the spring tide has been besieging the residents of Cornelia Ida and Anna Catherina Sea-View on the West Coast of Demerara.

Essential Supplies Inc., a subsidiary of International Pharmaceutical Agency, through its Clear Waters brand, yesterday morning made a commitment to outfit the umpires for the games and to provide water for refreshment purposes free of cost for the players and officials participating in the fifth annual Guyana Softball Cup tournament which bowls off Friday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A French pilot who fled the Dominican Republic in what appeared to be a well-planned escape by speedboat after being convicted of drug trafficking said yesterday that he did so to get his story heard.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s opposition challenger in next month’s presidential run-off vote, said yesterday he wanted to find common ground with defeated candidate Sergio Massa and that the two camps were in touch with each other.

While on an outreach to the East Berbice/Corentyne region on Sunday President David Granger visited the Fyrish Health Centre where he met with a team of sixteen doctors from the United States of America who are part of a medical mission to Guyana.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Heard the one about the lord, the gangster and the prime minister’s wife?

LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian court sentenced a Catholic priest to 35 years in prison yesterday for repeatedly raping a boy in the school where he was chaplain – one of the few times Peru has jailed clergy accused of sex abuse.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly yesterday condemned a U.S.

Commentary in some of the international press indicates surprise at the apparent effusiveness with which President Xi Jinping of China was welcomed in Britain last week by the government of Prime Minister David Cameron, including the extensive participation of Queen Elizabeth in the proceedings.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Your editorial (Tuesday, October 2015) touched on an important issue, namely presidential leadership styles.

Friday Oct. 30th: Fixtures: Time: 9:30am Eve Leary Ground: Pitch (1): Brooklyn Queens Legends vs Albion.

When Cheddi Jagan came to office in October 1992 he did a most unusual thing for the working people in the public service.