Daily Archive: Monday, April 4, 2016

President David Granger, today, paid his final respects to the late  Haslyn Parris, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana, at a funeral service held at the St.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the unprecedented accomplishments of West Indies cricket teams in capturing three separate titles this year should be used as a source of motivation for the region.

The cruise ship Noble Caledonia docked at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) wharf today with 88 passengers.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, has apologised for what WICB described as ‘inappropriate’ comments by captain Darren Sammy after West Indies conjured-up a miraculous four-wicket win over England to regain the T20 World Cup.

West Indies captains Stafanie Taylor and Darren Sammy pose with their T20 trophies won in yesterday’s finals in India.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Carlos Brathwaite’s four consecutive sixes that carried West Indies victory over England in the World Twenty20 final capped what former players and journalists described as one of the sport’s greatest matches today.

SYDNEY/PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm at the centre of a massive data leak for possible tax evasion.

The authorities need to do much more about corruption as the entire country is at risk of being marginalised by the international economic community for failure to uphold its own laws, Sunday Stabroek business columnist Rawle Lucas says.

A Linden woman and her boss are hospitalised after they were shot several times by a man with whom she ended a relationship.

The body of a 65-year-old pensioner was yesterday found on the Coldingen Embankment Road, East Coast Demerara with a chop wound to the back of his head.

A construction worker is now dead after he was struck down on Saturday night on the La Jalousie Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

A 10-year-old lad was last evening killed when a reversing vehicle  struck him down in front of his home.

Chairman of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Rawle Lucas says the system of granting tax concessions will be reviewed and he believes that granting incentives to large foreign companies as opposed to local firms, would be more beneficial to the country.

Nineteen Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Mahaica-Berbice and East Berbice-Corentyne, yesterday received letters of approval for small grants under the Government of Guyana’s community development project, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Guyana does not have the passenger numbers or infrastructure to develop into a regional hub for air traffic in the foreseeable future, according to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded report done for the Union of South American States (UNASUR).

Local testing for the mosquito-borne Zika virus is expected to begin soon upon the return of two technologists who would have undergone training at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad.

There must be a change in public attitudes towards children suffering from autism and while a number of those with the disorder are receiving held from the Step by Step Foundation there are many more on the waiting list.

Although all technical mechanisms are in place to facilitate transmission from the Region 10 Television Station, wrangling between the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and the Board of Trustees of Region 10 Broadcasting Inc.

Farms are recovering from the red palm mite infestation which wreaked havoc on coconut plants for months, the Ministry of Agriculture says.

Chairman of the Board of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) Hamilton Green on Thursday said that no official from the agency will be fired but that everyone had pledged to work in harmony for the betterment of the housing sector.

Swift work by the police have led to the arrest of a man who was allegedly involved in the robbery of goldsmith Bramdat Singh Sr at the Rosignol Market on Saturday.

PPP/C chief whip Gail Teixeira says that the present government is fast becoming the least transparent administration Guyana has ever had.

Narine Samsudeen, the welder who was shot twice on Thursday by a gunman during an attempted robbery on Regent Street, is in a stable condition in the hospital.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Carlos Brathwaite calmly belted four astonishing sixes off the first four deliveries of the final over to catapult West Indies to extraordinary four-wicket victory over England, as the Caribbean made history by sweeping both the men’s and women’s titles at the 2016 Twenty20 World Cup here yesterday.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Teenager Hayley Matthews and captain Stafanie Taylor fashioned half-centuries as West Indies Women produced a superb run chase to beat three-time defending champions Australia Women by eight wickets, and lift their first-ever Twenty20 World Cup title here yesterday.

Dear Editor, I have been playing and watching sport for over 70 years.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Captain Darren Sammy courted controversy here Sunday when he hit out at the West Indies Cricket Board for its lack of support following his side’s capture of the Twenty20 World Cup.

Dear Editor, It was lovely to see the smiles on the faces of the children in the picture in the papers as they received kites from government ministers.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ internal investigations office has uncovered serious lapses and due-diligence failures in the world body’s interaction with organizations tied to an alleged bribery scheme involving a former U.N.

After taking first and second spots in last weekend’s Star Party Rental criterium event in the National Park, the riders of Team Gillette Evolution (TGE) took their talents to the open roads of West Demerara yesterday and swept the podium spots.

Dear Editor, The Chinese company, Baishanlin has been in the news quite a lot.

Dear Editor, Eric Phillips continues the quest to trivialize Amerindian land rights by conflating that right rooted in ownership and patrimony and exercised by occupation and possession with land reparation for enslavement.

By Lear Matthews   Lear Matthews is professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

Demerara held their nerve yesterday as they pulled off a thrilling six-run win over Berbice to clinch the 2016 Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-17 inter-county  limited overs title.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s parliament will debate tomorrow a motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma, National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete said, after a top court ruled the president had violated the constitution.

There was a recent letter to the editor from a former Minister who felt that the forensic audit reports should be tabled in the National Assembly and examined by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). 

KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) – West Indies players will share the entire $1.6 million in prize money for winning the men’s World Twenty20 title as well as a portion of sponsorship revenue, the head of the region’s cricket board told Reuters yesterday.

Dear Editor, The economic tragedies that are currently unfolding in our two largest neighbours, Brazil and Venezuela are all too reminiscent of the ʼ70s and ʼ80s era in Guyana.

Dear Editor, In 2013 my son started a training course at a technical institute (name given) and for an entire week he was told how good his training would be and how valuable and powerful the certificate was in terms of his future, more especially because he was desirous of working in the Caribbean islands.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The Australian Tax Office (ATO) said yesterday it is investigating more than 800 wealthy clients of a Panama law firm for possible tax evasion.

CHESTER, Pa., (Reuters) – A locomotive on an Amtrak train carrying about 330 passengers derailed when it hit a backhoe south of Philadelphia yesterday, killing two people and injuring about 35 in what passengers described as a jolt followed by a fireball.

No matter what explanations are provided by the Minister of State Joseph Harmon over his farcical appointment of Mr Brian Tiwari as a Business Advisor to the government, the damage has already been done.

Town Clerk presides: Town Clerk, Royston King (seated) presiding at Friday’s swearing in of new councillors and the election of a Mayor and Deputy.

Dear Editor, West Indies, at the start of the games would not have expected to meet England in the final simply because it was not seen as a tournament favourite.

This week residents of Rupununi were asked about the issues affecting them the most.

This young miss entered to compete in the Inner Wheel Club’s Hat Show at the Promenade Gardens on Saturday with her hat that depicts Guyana at 50, and a basketful of politicians.