Daily Archive: Wednesday, April 6, 2016

(Reuters) – World Twenty20 winner Dwayne Bravo has accused the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) of being “the most unprofessional board in the world”.

The Enmore Polyclinic today emphasised the severity of diabetes through its grand World Health Day fair, GINA said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that approval was received from the United States for the appointment of Dr Riyad Insanally as Guyana’s new Ambassador.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Sir Viv Richards, one of cricket’s finest ever captains, has thrown his support behind Twenty20 skipper Darren Sammy in his decision to slam the West Indies Cricket Board for their lack of support for the squad during the recent Twenty20 World Cup in India.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has urged the West Indies Cricket Board to implement the most crucial reform aspect of the Patterson Report.

(Trinidad Guardian) ArcelorMittal Point Lisas Limited owes US$315 million to creditors, a figure that is four times its assets of US$70 million.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – World champions West Indies Women and a few players from the men’s champions side arrived here today to a heroes’ welcome, as the country celebrated their clean sweep of the titles at Twenty20 World Cup which ended Sunday in India.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday seized two vehicles belonging to the Chinese company, Baishanlin from its Providence, East Bank Demerara office.

A Providence man was yesterday charged with murdering a Cuban national who was killed a short while after disembarking a ship that docked in the country.

Goldsmith Richard Ramjit, who had over $4M in jewellery seized from him at the Cheddi Jagan airport, Timehri in January, was yesterday charged with exporting gold without a licence and falsifying a declaration form.

  Two more Camp Street prisoners yesterday pointed fingers at Deputy Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels as being culpable for the deaths of 17 inmates who perished after the fire at the prison last month.

A prisoner, who was hit with pellets in both eyes during unrest last month at the Camp Street Prison, is now blind and his mother is pleading for assistance to foot his medical bills.

Three men, who were charged last December with illegal possession of guns and ammunition, were freed of the charges yesterday by a city magistrate due to insufficient evidence.

There is at least one connection to Guyana in the leaked ‘Panama Papers’ which details the offshore holdings of world political leaders and elite businessmen and celebrities, among others.

Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes on Saturday witnessed disturbing damage to the environment by miners in Konawaruk (Potaro-Siparuni).

Delon Henry, called ‘Nasty Man’ was yesterday committed to stand trial for the murder of East Ruimveldt resident Dexter Griffith.

NGO, Red Thread yesterday maintained its protest for Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence to be removed over her attempts to shield an APNU+AFC candidate who was accused of child molestation and another counter-picket was held by her supporters.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC-The vice president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Emmanuel Nanthan, yesterday launched a major broadside against Darren Sammy, 48 hours after he led West Indies into the history books by becoming the first team to capture the T20 World Cup twice.

The police yesterday received legal advice to charge a suspect with the murder of bus driver Alvin Lorrimer, who was gunned down two weeks ago.

Vishnu Doerga of Doerga Business Enterprises has been elected as the new President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI).

Apart from the post-game fiasco, the seemingly new militant behavior of West Indies cricketers, the double Twenty20 (T20) World title wins by the men’s and women’s teams made every Caribbean person feel great again, even if it was for one solitary day.

Four persons, including a 12-year-old, are now in police custody in connection with the murder of Nonpareil pensioner Roger Manikam, who was found dead along the Coldingen Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

A Jamaican national, who police say was found with over a kilo of cocaine, was yesterday remanded to prison on a narcotics trafficking charge.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – West Indies T20 cricket captain Darren Sammy yesterday expressed his delight at the decision of the St.

The father of 10-year-old Ishmael Raghubir, who was driving the truck from which his son fell to his death on Sunday, has been released on station bail.

Canadian mining firm Guyana Goldfields Inc produced 41,281 ounces of gold at its Aurora mine in Region Seven during the first quarter of this year and its total gold production since September last year is now at 77,182 ounces.

New primary and nursery schools will be built in Number 36 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, as part of the region’s capital works programme, according to Region Six Chairman David Armogan.

A shift system is being instituted for some students attending the Goed Fortuin Primary after upset parents pulled their children from the school on Monday due to dangers posed by ongoing construction on the  building.

Guyana Jaguars Coach Esuan Crandon said he hopes training under more professional conditions this season will help his players to reach peak condition as they prepare for upcoming events as well as the 2016/17 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/ Professional Cricket League (PCL) four-day competition.

Senior Legal Adviser, Ministry of Legal Affairs and Office of the Attorney General’s Chambers, Judy Stuart and the President of the Guyana Press Association, Neil Marks recently participated in a US programme on combating corruption.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC-CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque has congratulated the West Indies women and men’s teams for winning the ICC T20 World Cup on Sunday.

The radio station once owed by former Minister of Natural Resources Robert Persaud has been rebranded to focus on music and celebrity gossip.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) recently weighed in with a monetary contribution to the Guyana Blind Cricket Association (GuyBCA) ahead of the West Indies Cricket Council for the Blind and Visually Impaired (WICCBVI) regional tournament commencing July 8 in Trinidad and Tobago.

Guyana has become the 57th member and the 2nd CARICOM member of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

Fyrish Black Sharks romped to the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) sanctioned Anamayah Memorial Basketball Championship title, dismantling Ithaca Hardliners 80-20 on Sunday at the Fyrish Court.

Permanent Secretary of the Department of Sport, Alfred King has encouraged Guyana’s representatives at the just-concluded CARIFTA Games to continue to strive for greatness when they paid him a courtesy call on Friday.

Dear Editor, It has come to my attention that the Ministry of Education intends to change the manner in which the National Grade Six Assessment, or a part thereof, is going to be written and marked.

Dear Editor, You headline titled, `APNU+AFC took all seats on city finance committee – despite nomination of Team Legacy member’ (SN April 05) sums up accurately another glaring deficiency of our local government system that renders it a joke that is not even funny anymore. 

National women’s table tennis champion Chelsea Edghill and Trenace Lowe former national champion were eliminated from the 2016 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Latin American Olympic Trials in Santiago, Chile by Angela Mori and Camille Arguelles respectively.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court yesterday threw out post-election violence charges against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, giving him a major boost as he prepares to make another run for office in elections next year.

Dear Editor, The fuel marking programme in Guyana using Authentix technology has been in operation since 2003.

Avril Merchant was elected president of the Transport and General Sports Club when that body held its annual general meeting recently at the Transport and General Sports Club, Thomas Lands.

Dear Editor, I was alarmed to read in your edition of March 24 last, that prospective homeowners of the distressed ‘turnkey homes’ scheme at Perseverance will now interface with contractors and “request modifications” as the Board of CH&PA has decided to terminate the previous government’s system, due to mismanagement. 

(Reuters) – Wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed has replaced Shahid Afridi as Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain, the Pakistan Cricket   Board (PCB) announced yesterday.

Dear Editor, If I were the Government of Guyana, I would do an amnesty and give the 25,000 waiting applicants their house lots with free and clear titles, with an agreement that there will be added to their yearly land taxes, a percentage of the cost for the land.

LONDON/REYKJAVIK,  (Reuters) – Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned yesterday, becoming the first casualty of leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm which have shone a spotlight on the offshore wealth of politicians and public figures worldwide.

Dear Editor, Farouk & B.A. Amin & Sons Ltd is a registered limited liability company engaged in the marine transportation of fuel for all the oil companies in Guyana for over 40 years.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma yesterday survived an impeachment vote in parliament launched after the constitutional court ruled he had ignored an order to repay state funds spent on his private home.

(The Sports Xchange) – Shaquille O’Neal, Allen Iverson, Tom Izzo and modern-day basketball pioneers Yao Ming and Sheryl Swoopes headline the 2016 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class announced Monday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian Federal Supreme Court justice yesterday ordered Congress to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Michel Temer, deepening a political crisis and uncertainty over leadership of Latin America’s largest country.

What a cost when, in a most gruesome manner, seventeen individuals lost their lives as a result of having been taken into custody by a society that promised to safeguard all their other freedoms apart from their right to liberty.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Barcelona’s Luis Suarez netted twice for a 2-1 win over 10-man Atletico Madrid in their Champions League quarter-final, first leg yesterday after the visitors’ Fernando Torres opened the scoring and was later sent off.

MILWAUKEE,  (Reuters) – Republican Ted Cruz won the Wisconsin presidential primary yesterday, dealing a blow to front-runner Donald Trump’s hopes of amassing the delegates needed for the party’s nomination ahead of the July convention and boosting the chances of a rare contested convention.

Dear Editor, The re-emergence of West Indies’ dominance as well as regional cricket’s rebirth lies intimately in their reconnection with grass-roots viability.

(Trinidad Express) PORT OF SPAIN – A national crisis. That is how Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has described the unacceptable level of criminal conduct in the country.

162 cases are expected to be heard at the High Court as the second Demerara Criminal Assizes opened yesterday.

The forensic audits to date, as reported in the media, have found little evidence of widespread government theft.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s electoral board said it was the only body allowed to reform referendum rules governing removal of the country’s president, throwing cold water on opposition plans to recall President Nicolas Maduro amid an economic crisis.

Dear Editor, The budget is now over. We are now faced with the harsh reality of several increases of licence fees.

(Reuters) – Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant yesterday signed a far-reaching law allowing people with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and protecting other actions considered discriminatory by gay rights activists.

Dear Editor, The tiny Guyanese diaspora in the UK has produced many famous sons and daughters.

It must, by now, be quite obvious to listeners last Sunday, that Darren Sammy, the West Indies T20 Cricket captain could not, with such a large population hearing him, and at a high point of personal and team success, contain himself from forthright public criticism of the West Indies Cricket Board.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Police are advising that they will be strictly enforcing the laws relating to how close to Gordon House persons can gather for next week’s State Opening of Parliament.