Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Trevor Anthony Amsterdam, 31, is wanted by the police in relation to investigations into the murder of Jermaine Simon which occurred on November 10, 2015, at Bagotstown, EBD, the police said today.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has secured an agreement with the United States of America Transportation Security Administration (USA-TSA) to engage in cooperation on civil aviation issues, GINA said today.

Five new Surveyors were recognised for passing the the 2015 Sworn Land and Survey Examination in a simple graduation ceremony, earlier today, GINA said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Charlie Sheen, former star of the hit U.S.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – France invoked the European Union’s mutual assistance clause for the first time today, asking its partners for military help and other aid in missions in the Middle East and Africa after the Paris attacks.

Canadian mining company Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) yesterday announced that it has produced over 17,000 ounces of gold so far this year and expects to produce approximately 30,000 ounces for 2015.

A shopkeeper was shot dead on Sunday night at Bone Yard Backdam, Omai during an apparent robbery and the perpetrators are still on the run.

A six-year-old was struck and killed by a speeding car on the Westminster Road, at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, as he was making his way to school early yesterday morning.

A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA), which will see the provision of technical support and specialized equipment was signed yesterday between the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and the US Transpor-tation Security Administration (TSA).

Deneshwar Mahendranauth, the Assistant Superintendent who has been accused of sexually assaulting a female Constable, was yesterday charged and released on $100,000 bail by a city court.

Guyana has retained the coveted country award of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) for the third consecutive year by eight points.

Calvin Ramcharran will be spending the next 23 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping a 20-year-old girl, whom he also viciously beat during the act.

Public education remains crucial to tackling and controlling diabetes and needs to be disseminated across the nation.

A career-best haul of 11-105 from spinner Gudakesh Motie helped defending champs Guyana Jaguars roar to an innings and 35-run win over the Leewards Hurricanes cruising to their second straight victory at home in the 2015/16 WICB/PCL Regional Four-Day tournament which ended yesterday at the National Stadium, Providence.

Veteran marksman Ransford Goodluck snatched the National Senior Rifle Shooting championships from arch-rival and reigning regional champion Lennox Braithwaite when the curtains came down on the championships Sunday at the Timehri Rifle Ranges.

US diplomatic cables in 1973 on the launch of the Guyana National Service (GNS) expressed reservations about it being sustainable.

Dear Editor, Living on the Guyana borders with Brazil and Venezuela one is bombarded on the airwaves with songs and news from those countries on the radio.

Following a press briefing at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) Headquarters Saturday, it was disclosed that all systems are in place for the staging of the 55th National Schools’ Championships set to start on Monday.

Hikers, Georgetown Cric-ket Club (GCC) Panthers and Old Fort secured titles in the first, ladies and second divisions respectively when the Guyana Telep-hone & Telegraph (GT&T) company National Indoor Championships concluded on Sunday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – There is unlikely to be any urgent meeting between the West Indies Cricket Board and CARICOM to discuss the radical Governance Review Report which has called for the immediate dissolution of the WICB.

Assistant Commissioner Leslie James and his family were robbed during the wee hours of Sunday morning, when armed bandits broke into their Sophia home and the attack has prompted former president Donald Ramotar to call for the deployment of the army to support the police in the crime fight.

Former government minister Robert Persaud’s seat on the PPP Executive Committee is vacant, the party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee said yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is still incredible to me that I have to keep responding to letters from the PPP which are filled with every sort of distortion, half-truth, untruth and misrepresentation.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force escaped with a draw as little fireworks materialized on the final day of their second round game of the Regional First Class Championship against Barbados Pride here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s announcement that he will be donating the recent increases in his salary to various villages across the county to be used for installing street lights in the communities he has named is timely and politically important.

A request in 1978 by the Government of Guyana (GoG) to the US for the purchase of 14,500 tear gas grenades and projectiles raised concerns in Washington that this was not a routine transaction and reflected fears of unrest associated with the approaching referendum and declining economic conditions.

It will be the Mining Town versus the East Coast of Demerara when the inaugural Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company GTT Knockout football championships continue today with a doubleheader at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden.

The People’s Progressive Party is yet to come to a decision as to how the salary increases its parliamentarians will not accept, are to be used, though its General Secretary Clement Rohee stated that a percentage of his salary was already being taken out and placed in a longstanding account.

Ravens downed arch-rivals Pacesetters 81-77 when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) 2015 League Championships continued Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, So (in modern parlance) the “report on cricket governance penned by the distinguished Hon P J Patterson” (the former prime minister of the homeland of WI’s two best batsmen since Chanderpaul and Sarwan left or were removed from the scene, that is to say, Gayle and Samuels, (they of limited formal education), is finally acknowledged by the distinguished Sir Hillary, as are Dr Keith Mitchell’s “solid cricket credentials.”

Fresh off their Banks 7s Championship win, the rugged Guyana Defence Force outfit thrashed the up and coming Guyana Police Force riggers 48-7 in a one-sided encounter when the GTT/GRFU 10s tournament continued last Saturday at the National Park.

The police yesterday began a criminal investigation into the transferral of millions of dollars from the PetroCaribe Fund into the personal accounts of Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) Aeshwar Deonarine and Board Director Carvil Duncan, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.

Dear Editor, Junior Minister, Ministry of Social Protect-ion – Department of Labour, Simona Broomes’ firm and decisive action against Asian logging giant, Ban Shanlin, must be commended.

Plaisance Guardians, Republic Bank Nets and Ravens secured crushing victories when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League Championships continued on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, The long-awaited GFF elections have come and gone, and a winner has emerged in the form of Mr Wayne Forde and his team.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A name change is coming for the West Indies Cricket Board as the beleaguered organisation looks to restructure its operations and create a distinct commercial arm.

A Brazilian miner was on Sunday beaten by gunmen who invaded a mining camp at Puruni, Region Seven in what is believed to be an attempt to scare him and his brother off the land which has been the subject of a dispute for some time now.

Mark Major yesterday walked out of the High Court a free man after a 12-member jury found him not guilty of murdering his cousin.

Dear Editor, With reference to the responses offered by the many “champions of women” to my letter (‘East Canje Motorcade was politicized’ SN, Nov 10), many of those ‘champions’ have not read it.

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia yesterday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks across Paris, and announced a wave of measures to combat terrorism in France.

A man is now dead after he was hit off of his bicycle along the East Bank Demerara highway on Sunday night.

Dear Editor, In your letter column today (November 16), J Ramcharitar was making enquiries about some Indian classic comic books.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Two men said to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held in the United States on cocaine smuggling charges were “kidnapped,” a senior member of the ruling Socialist Party said yesterday.

Over six months after he accidentally shot a young woman during a visit to her home in Albouystown, Police Constable Dwayne Charles was charged yesterday.

Dear Editor Congratulations to Mr Seelall Persaud, Commis-sioner of Police for launching the Guyana Police Force Fallen Heroes Foundation Inc.

Festus Hohenkirk, the Wortmanville handyman who had denied a charge of drug trafficking by claiming that he only had a “blunt,” was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of the crime.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Steve Smith and Adam Voges scored the fifth and sixth centuries of the second test to give Australia a lead of 193 after Ross Taylor’s epic 290 brought New Zealand back into the contest on day four yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – A Brazilian congressional ethics committee decided yesterday to investigate whether lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha lied in a corruption hearing about Swiss bank accounts that prosecutors say he controls.

Dear Editor, The recent killings of 129 people in the French capital Paris has demonstrated once again that terrorism can strike at any time and at any place.

LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists seeking a cure for the AIDS virus have made an unexpected discovery with a drug designed to combat alcoholism which they say could be a critical part of a strategy to “wake up” and then kill dormant HIV hiding in the body.

Miss Guyana Universe 2015 Shauna Ramdyhan being crowned by Miss Guyana Universe 2014 Niketa Barker (partly hidden) at the Princess Ramada Hotel on Sunday night.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday delayed his return home from South Korea as tension comes to a head between his supporters and those of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Dear Editor, In a very simple way, I wish to congratulate the Guyana Defence Force on its 50th Anniversary.

Dear Editor,     Inhabitants of big cities in the throes of urban development are faced with the urgent need to reconcile with nature by replacing greenery in open spaces between edifices, thereby recomposing their landscape.

At long last, after a decade of timid leadership that condemned it to near irrelevance, the 34-country Organization of American States came back to life this week with a courageous letter by Secretary General Luis Almagro denouncing Venezuela’s efforts to rig its December 6 legislative elections.

Dear Editor, The fact that bandits could have attacked former Assistant Commissioner of Police Leslie James and his family in their home, months after a similar attack on retired Assistant Commissioner Clinton Conway is an indication that increasing incidents of crime as reported in the media are worrying and must be roundly condemned.

There has been a certain ripple effect arising out of the efforts of the Ministry of Social Protection to more directly engage employers and employees on matters pertaining to workers’ rights, including employer obligations in terms of emoluments, terminal benefits, leave entitlements, etc.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Former Trinidad and Tobago cricketer Zaheer Ali says he is in full support of the immediate dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) as well as the appointment of an interim board to run the game in the region.