Daily Archive: Thursday, January 14, 2016

Articles published on Thursday, January 14, 2016

President David Granger addressing Parliament today. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

Granger plugs economic development

President David Granger told Parliament today that 2016 presents a new opportunity for Guyana to “hasten economic development” by diversifying the traditional sectors and getting into more value-added enterprises, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Vendors packed the City Hall compound

No new vendors

Town Clerk Royston King yesterday announced that the city council would no longer allow new vendors to trade on Georgetown’s pavements and vendors who do not adhere to regulations would be permanently banned from selling on the city’s streets.

Hafeeza Rohoman

Helena woman’s death being treated as murder

The post-mortem examination on the body of the Helena, Mahaica woman that was found partly decomposed in a trench on Sunday, revealed that she died from drowning but she was also found with several hits on her head and the case is now being treated as one of murder.

Alvin Kallicharran

Providence Stadium to be renamed this year

Guyana’s lone Inter-national Stadium located at Providence, is expected to be officially renamed by May according to Director of Sports Christopher Jones who confirmed the move yesterday during talks with local media operatives at the National Sports Commission’s Home-stretch Avenue location.

 Jerome Valcke

Soccer’s scandal-plagued FIFA dumps its once-powerful secretary general

ZURICH, (Reuters) – World soccer body FIFA said yesterday it had fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke, a move that comes amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales and a number of swirling scandals at the sport’s governing authority “The FIFA Emergency Committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA Secretary General with immediate effect,” the Zurich-based organisation said in a statement.

Left-handed opener Evin Lewis top-scored with a brilliant knock of 102. (file photo)

Brilliant Lewis too much for Scorpions

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – Left-hander Evin Lewis struck his maiden regional one-day hundred as title Trinidad and Tobago Red Force put themselves on the verge of a semi-final spot with a dominant seven-wicket win over Jamaica Scorpions in the Regional Super50 here yesterday.

Sebastian Coe

Coe denies Russian doping was covered up

(Reuters) – IAAF president Sebastian Coe says there has been no cover up of Russian doping cases despite the latest leaked documents appearing to show that officials of athletics’ governing body were discussing how to suppress news of positive tests.

Republic Bank increases prime lending rate to 9.5%

(Trinidad Express) The cost of borrowing continues to climb. The country’s largest bank, Republic Bank Ltd (RBL) advised by newspaper advertisement yesterday that its TT dollar Prime lending rate has been increased to 9.5 per cent up from 9.25 per cent per annum, effective January 11, 2016.

Need to go higher?

Need to go higher? Even the extension that had been erected on top of the East Coast seawall was overtopped yesterday during the spring tide.

Connecting the dots

There could be no contradiction in stating that all policyholders in this country are aware that quality education has been proven to be the panacea for many of society’s ills.