Daily Archive: Sunday, March 6, 2016

Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 2340h.

Under swingeing pressure from CARICOM Heads, the WICB today said that key reports – stretching all the way back to 2005 – which had recommended extensive reforms will be reviewed to determine if anything else can be implemented.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Keith Rowley yesterday gave the assurance that T&T is not bankrupt, even as he acknowledged that the Government has a problem in paying its debts to public servants and contractors/suppliers on time.

The six political groupings vying for the 15 proportional representation (PR) seats on the Georgetown City Council last evening presented their plans for the management of the capital at the first ever Georgetown Debate.

Story and photos by Shabna Rahman   Residents of Maryville, Leguan Island are facing the effects of El Nino and were unable to cultivate rice for the current crop, though it is the main source of income for many farmers.

Director of Prisons Carl Graham said the Georgetown Prison was “calm” yesterday, while some of the damage caused during the previous three days of unrest has been rectified.

Six of the 17 prisoners who died on Thursday during the Georgetown Prison fire have so far been formally identified by relatives and the Guyana Police Force is seeking to have the others done in an effort of facilitate the autopsies.

A 76-year-old man died yesterday afternoon following an accident on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, George-town involving a car and a minibus; another man was injured.

Traffic Chief, Superintendent Dion Moore is currently admitted as a patient in a city hospital after he was involved in an accident early yesterday morning.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Andre Russell looks set to play in the World Twenty20 after the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission said on Friday the West Indies all-rounder would not be suspended pending a hearing into his “anti-doping whereabouts” rule violation.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Bowling consultant Sir Curtly Ambrose believes veteran all-rounder Dwayne Bravo will be key to any successful West Indies bid at the Twenty20 World Cup starting next week.

Jerry Baird is living a “ruined life” that he says is being made more complicated by the prison administration, which has failed to compensate him for serious injuries he sustained in December 2014.

Forest definition As pointed out last week, today’s column starts an assessment of Guyana’s non-mineral extractive sector.

The Guyana Police Force has spent over $1 million on the maintenance of the $20.8 million water cannon to date but has never been able to use it for the purpose for which it was purchased; it has been recommended that it be used as fire-fighting equipment.

Dangerous driving While restricting minibuses to what in effect are regional routes results in a differentiated market, it does not necessarily result in a differentiated service.

The governing APNU+AFC coalition is facing challenges from independents in two constituencies in the Mahaicony-Abary Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) in races that will be keenly watched on March 18.

While declaring the local media environment to be “chaotic,” human rights activist Karen de Souza says more needs to be done to tackle issues such as women and gender inequality and to examine policies and practices.

A friend of mine was away in the South Rupununi for a couple weeks, doing some work and checking on some family, and was telling me about his travels – he was all over the map.

There are four major issues relating directly and indirectly to corruption facing Guyana at the present time.

The Women in Business Expo gave over three dozen women entrepreneurs the opportunity to not only market their businesses but also a chance to network with others during the one-day event held at the Pegasus Hotel yesterday.

I was reading the magazine Planet the other day and came across an article in it by the Welsh poet and playwright Damian Gorman which made an impression on me.

Students of Region Four demonstrated their ingenuity as the Region Four Department of Education wrapped its biennial science fair yesterday at the Diamond Secondary School.

(Continued) Bad breath Let us turn today to a problem which I had promised to address some time ago – bad breath (halitosis) in dogs, and the supposed cures associated with this problem.

The newly elected executive of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary School Old Students Association (NRMSSOSA) has pledged to work on several areas that would see the school’s facilities upgraded.

There is good news and bad news for the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA).

If you read the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post or some of the world’s other heavyweight newspapers, you may have seen in recent months, articles discussing the abolition of currency.

A Guyanese national, identified as Neville Hillary Phagu, was one of two men charged yesterday over a multimillion dollar cocaine find at Carlisle Bay, in Barbados.

This week we begin a fortnightly series called ‘Urology and You’ by Satyendra Persaud MBBS DM (Urol) of the Department of Urology, San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago.

There is a private collective of workers known as the Main Street Art Group who held a ‘grand art exhibition’ at the Pegasus Hotel in mid-February titled ‘Jubilee Art’.

The star studded Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association’s Wolf’s Warriors softball team is looking to cover itself in glory this weekend when it competes in the 13th annual Florida Softball Cup tournament in the United States of America The tournament is being sponsored by the South Florida Softball Cricket League

Slingerz and Fruta Conquerors continued their unbeaten run in the League Finale of the GFF Stag Beer Elite League, downing Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Guyana Defence Force (GDF) respectively on Friday.

SIR Curtly Ambrose reflects general public confidence that the West Indies can repeat their 2012 triumph in the 2016 World T20 they officially commence against England in Mumbai on Wednesday week.

The Green-backed Trogon inhabits dry and humid forests and can often be found near forest edges where it eats fruit and sometimes insects.

Last year’s losing finalist Colts defeated Block 22 Flames 80-45 when the third annual GABF Road to Mecca National Club Championship commenced Friday.

As much as we may like certain ingredients, buy and cook them regularly, there are times when we seek to have them in different ways.

Having added to debunking the myth that strength training would suddenly morph women into bulky, manly beings, my thoughts naturally turned to the quality of training.

The 2016 World Chess Championship title match would be held in New York.

A few Sunday ago, workers from the M&CC trimmed the historical Silk Cotton Tree at the Archer’s Senior Citizens’ Home on D’Urban Street.

Former champions Lodge Secondary along with losing finalist Dolphin Secondary and Bishops’ High sealed their berths to the quarterfinal round when the 4th Annual Milo Schools u-20 Football Championship continued yesterday.

In their continuing series, Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Cyril Kanhai’s Green Land of Guyana. 

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Senior judges in Brazil voiced concern yesterday over the detention of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, even as they threw their support behind the sweeping corruption investigation that threatens to topple his embattled successor.

DIKILI, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish authorities yesterday detained at least two human traffickers after they shuttled some 120 Syrian refugees to the Aegean coast in a sign Turkey may be stepping up efforts to curb the flow of migrants to Europe.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Batsman Lendl Simmons has become the latest player to withdraw from the West Indies squad for next week’s Twenty20 World Cup in India.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Friday’s National Basketball Association games.

Passing the troolie: Umana Yana builders at the top of the structure receiving the troolie leaves to complete their work via a rope relay system.

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines said yesterday it had seized a North Korean freighter that was covered by harsher United Nations’ sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear programme.

Friendship United created the biggest upset on the opening day of the East Bank Football Association/Ralph Green U-11 League, downing holders Herstelling Raiders 2-0 yesterday.

The events of last Thursday which ended so tragically are more associated with the news emanating from Brazil, Venezuela or Mexico, than with Georgetown, Guyana.

Dear Editor, It took the death of seventeen persons at the Camp Street Gaol on the morning of Thursday 3rd of March, 2016, to remind Guyanese, long conditioned to the seething anger and discontent at that location in the heart of the city, of the dangerously deplorable conditions at Camp Street.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A total of 135 people were killed in the first week of a partial truce in Syria in areas covered by the deal, a monitoring group said yesterday, highlighting its fragile nature just days before the United Nations attempts to reconvene peace talks.