Daily Archive: Monday, March 14, 2016

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes drew with Guyana Jaguars on the final day of their ninth round game in the Regional four-day championship at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground here today.

Six thousand homes across 25 hinterland communities in Guyana will receive solar home systems following the inauguration today of the Sustainable Business Models for Rural Electrification and Energy Access in Guyana Project by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), a release from MPI said.

The police say they are investigating the murder of farmer Anthony Breedy, 60 years, of Hill Foot, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, whose body was found in the lower flat of his home about 1100h.

First Lady, Sandra Granger, today, agreed to partner with the Step by Step Foundation and Republic Bank (Guyana) Incorporated to increase awareness about autism in Guyana, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) today swore in its new board members, GINA said.

President David Granger, today, agreed to commission a team to travel to Masakenari and Parabara villages, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) to meet the people to examine how best to address the problems affecting their livelihoods, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

President David Granger has extended condolences to Leader of the Opposition, former President, Dr.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – CARICOM is actively pursuing legal advice in its ongoing battle with the West Indies Cricket Board, as it ups the ante in its quest to have the controversial recommendations of its Governance Review report implemented.

The Government of Guyana today expressed deep condolences to Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, his relatives and the People’s Progressive Party on the passing of his sister Oma ‘Shanta’ Jagdeo.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old woman from Santa Cruz was allegedly stabbed to death by her estranged lover before he unsuccessfully tried to take his own life on Saturday.

Persons living in the Church Street vicinity of the proposed 150-room Sleepin Hotel and Casino, say that not only is the current structure an environmental humbug but they were never consulted about its construction or its planned casino.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday urged voters at Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGE) to take along their national ID cards when they go to cast their ballots.

A seventy-one-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to importing cocaine into the US from Guyana has been jailed for 18 months by a New York Court.

A Director for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is being sought.

The body of Dovan Sheppard, a Constable attached to the New Amsterdam Municipality was pulled from the Republic Canal at about 1800 hrs yesterday, hours after she had left to attend a wake house .

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure yesterday advertised for major rehabilitation of interior airstrips including the Eteringbang Airstrip in Region Seven at an estimated cost of $79.8m.

As the end of the crop cycle for rice in Mahaica and Mahaicony approaches, farmers have given up the fight to save their dying and almost dead crops and are seeking assistance from the government to restart planting in the coming months.

The Ministry of Education has advertised repairs and maintenance for 13 schools including to St Joseph High School at an estimated cost of $16m.

Commuters are peeved at the deplorable condition of the Parika Stelling and have called for it to be modernised and extended with better systems so that it could generate more revenue.

An Avinash Stores clothing bond was gutted by fire early yesterday morning at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.

Private city hospitals have joined bidders to supply the health sector with drugs and Trinidadian conglomerate ANSA McAl says that it will continue to bid and wants eligible companies to join for a competitive process.

Construction company S.A. Nabi and Sons Limited is in receivership. A notice in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek said that a Receiver/Manager has been appointed by the High Court for the company.

At about 1350h yesterday, the police said that ranks of the Police Narcotics Unit on duty at the Ogle Airport arrested a Guyanese man who was an outgoing passenger, after 17 kilograms, 572 grams of cannabis sativa (marijuana) were found in his baggage.

A 67-year-old farmer of Canal No 2, West Bank Demerara suffered $8M in losses after his citrus farm accidentally went up in flames on Wednesday.

The two candidates for the Toevlugt-La Retraite, West Demerara constituency in Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGE) are looking past the planned closure of the Wales sugar estate even while they accept that the impact will be severe.

Rubis Guyana Inc. launched a new newspaper promotion from March 1, 2016.

  A fourth quarter assault propelled former champ Ravens to a 78-63 quarterfinal victory over Plaisance Guardians when the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation Road to Mecca National Club Champion-ship continued on Saturday.

A fifth form Mackenzie High School (MHS) student has won a youth business challenge organized by youth advocate Carwyn Holland.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians flooded the streets yesterday in the biggest ever protests calling for President Dilma Rousseff’s removal, reflecting rising popular anger that could encourage Congress to impeach the leftist leader.

Pele FC secured its second win of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League defeating Georgetown Football Club (GFC) 2-0 on Saturday at the No.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Captain Darren Sammy’s aggressive, unbeaten half-century led a determined lower order rally as West Indies beat Australia by three wickets with a ball spare, in their final official warm-up game of the Twenty20 World Cup here yesterday.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – A car bomb tore through a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital, Ankara, yesterday, killing at least 34 people and wounding 125 in the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in under a month.

John Pilbean, Australia High Commissioner designate recently paid courtesy calls to two sports organisations the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

WASHINGTON/BLOOMINGTON, Ill., (Reuters) – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump refused to take responsibility yesterday for clashes at his campaign events and criticized protesters who have dogged his rallies and forced him to cancel one in Chicago last week.

The Malteenoes Sports Club has roped in veteran coach Mark Harper to coordinate the club’s weekly coaching programme set to bowl off this afternoon.

Holders Chase Academy will oppose South Ruimveldt while Lodge Secondary will tackle Queen’s College in the semi-finals following quarterfinal wins in the 4th Annual Petra Organization/Milo Schools U20 Football Championship yesterday.

GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast, (Reuters) – Gunmen from al Qaeda’s North African branch killed 16 people, including four Europeans, at a beach resort town in Ivory Coast yesterday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks that have confirmed the Islamists’ growing reach in West Africa.

Dear Editor, On Monday, January 18, Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder announced the closure of the Wales Sugar Estate with effect from the end of the second crop of 2016.

Dear Editor, The construction of the new and bigger Aurora school building is welcome news, for which the Education Ministry and by extension the coalition government must be commended.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors late on Saturday accused executives from construction conglomerate Odebrecht and state-run oil company Petrobras of misconduct and demanded they pay 7.3 billion reais ($2 billion) in damages.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s central bank confirmed yesterday that cyber criminals tried to withdraw $951 million from its U.S.

Dear Editor, Having contributed to NIS for over 24 years, I decided to obtain a record of my contributions when I visited Guyana in 2011.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes produced a clinical bowling performance to put leaders and defending champions Guyana Jaguars under pressure on the penultimate day of their ninth round game yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama promised one of Cuba’s most prominent dissident groups he would raise the issues of freedom of speech and assembly with Cuban President Raul Castro during his March 20-22 visit to the Caribbean island.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A Palestinian school teacher won a $1 million education award yesterday to applause from world leaders for helping children to learn through play.

Dear Editor, I must commend the Granger administration for establishing a precise date for Local Government Elections (LGE) and equally congratulate GECOM for the organization and hosting of LGE on March 18.

Pouderoyen were crowned the West Demerara Football Association sanctioned Den Amstel Mash Cup Champs, downing Uitvlugt in the grand finale on Saturday at the Den Amstel ground.

Dear Editor, I just got back from a conference on the Grenadian Revolution sponsored by the University of the West Indies Open Campus in Grenada.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Steel Workers Union (SWUTT) is not accepting ArcelorMittal’s claims that it was incurring losses since 2009, which subsequently led to the company being forced to close its Point Lisas plant on Friday.

In the introduction to last week’s article, we made brief reference to the Court of Appeal’s decision to overturn the ruling of the former acting Chief Justice on the “2012 budget cuts” case.

Dear Editor, I have seen some pretty inept ‒ or to be kind to Henry Jeffrey ‒ naïve political analyses, one of which was too shocking for me, and I thought my objection should be published so when historians write they could make use of it; thus I replied.

(Reuters) – A gunman opened fire yesterday on a Prince George’s County police station in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, killing one officer in what authorities called an unprovoked attack, before the assailant and a second suspect were arrested.

Dear Editor, On March 3, 2016 I went to the Mackenzie hospital in Linden after returning to Guyana to have surgery done here on the recommendation of my sister.

With a few days remaining for the Local Government Elections, we asked members of the public if they would be voting and if they have seen the candidates that would be representing them in their communities.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – A small plane crashed into a market in rural Santa Ana del Yacuma in northeast Bolivia’s Beni region yesterday, killing seven people and injuring another 15, local police said.

Dear Editor, The travails and troubles which would face many of the ratepayers from LBI to Better Hope on the East Coast of Demerara at the upcoming local government elections cause one to ask whether they should bother to make the effort to go out and vote!

In its meteoric transformation after decades-long decrepitude, the Kitty Market can be seen as a metaphor for Friday’s historic local government elections (LGE) while at the same time raising troubling questions about the impositions of central government on the lower tiers of governance.