Daily Archive: Sunday, May 1, 2016

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Caribbean Premier League organisers say they are close to striking a deal with the Barbados government, for the support of the embattled franchise Barbados Tridents.

A businessman of Parika Outfall, East Bank Essequibo was gunned down around 9:45 pm on Saturday; the lone shooter escaped with four gold chains but relatives believe robbery was not the motive.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a dramatic turn of events, T&T may well get a chance to host the 2016 finals of the Hero Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament, as officials failed to announce Guyana as the hosts yesterday. 

A security guard attached to the Ramada Princess Hotel’s Casino is the second suspect to be arrested by the police in relation to Friday morning’s robbery and he has since admitted to being one of the two persons who plotted the crime.

Good Hope is a tiny village on the East Bank Essequibo pressed between Greenwich Park and Ruby.

Bugs were found in the mattresses that prisoners at the Camp Street jail slept on, according to a former member of that prison’s visiting committee who said that aside from this, the penitentiary appeared livable.

Three men armed with guns and knives pounced on a Rose Hall family early yesterday morning robbery yesterday and shot a worker, who unmasked one of them during a scuffle.

All transactions engaged in by Baishanlin should be reviewed before any takeover by a new firm and the investment agreement should not automatically be allocated to the successor company, attorney Christopher Ram says.

The Tocuma Indigenous Restaurant, a family owned and operated Amerindian cuisine eatery, was yesterday launched at the Amerindian Village of the Sophia Exhibition Centre.

Earth Day 2016 Signing ceremony As indicated last week, Guyana, together with 174 other nations, have all reportedly signed on to the Paris Agreement, finally negotiated last December (2015).

President David Granger says the “March disturbances” at the Camp Street Prison which led to the deaths of 17 prisoners was a result of the previous administration’s negligence.

President David Granger Friday night emphasized the important role that sport plays in any society and noted that creating a new model “could increase participation of citizens in sport and ensure everyone’s social and recreational development.”

A few days ago the US House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously agreed a draft bi-partisan bill that seeks to have the administration give greater priority to the US-Caribbean relationship.

The findings of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) set up to investigate claims by self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram about the alleged involvement of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in the drug trade and corruption could be publicly available as soon as this week.

Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) President Nigel Hinds and President of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Glyne Clarke yesterday penned the agreement confirming Guyana as hosts for the CBC u16 male and female championships from July 4th-16th.

It happens sometimes that a singular occurrence, or a passage in something one reads, can open your mind to something that passed unnoticed before and you suddenly recognize multiple examples replicating that first light coming on. 

The Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform (SCCR) yesterday handed over its final report to Prime Minister Moses Nagamotooo, who will spend the next few days perusing it before it is taken to Cabinet for review.

In a book written on Voltaire I learn of his beloved mistress Madame de Chatelet.

Controlled circumstances Guyana is one of 193 member states of the United Nations. 

Although there has been persistent rainfall over the past two weeks, the Rupununi is not out of the woods as yet, Regional Executive Officer Carl Parker said yesterday.

GRENADA prime minister Keith Mitchell’s passion for cricket long preceded his passion for politics.

A 39-year-old man died on Friday evening, hours after he was accidentally shot, reportedly by a friend during a playful scuffle.

The recent publication of the forensic audit into the Gold Board has raised concerns about its operations.

Bakewell Incorporated became the latest corporate entity to partner with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), purchasing 100 tickets for North Ruimveldt Multilateral School students for viewing of the international friendly between Guyana and the Canada u23 Olympic team.

Assistant Commissioner (Administration) David Ramnarine yesterday urged 63 new police officers to learn how to overcome challenges rather than being misled.

2016 is already a very important year for anniversaries. For the nation of the Republic of Guyana it is most significant because it is the country’s 50th year since Independence and Golden Jubilee celebrations dominate its cultural agenda.

Eating clean (most of the time) and working out are some of the key elements for fat loss or maintaining an athletic physique year round.

NEW DELHI, India, CMC – Twenty20 World Cup hero Carlos Brathwaite once again put his all-round qualities on display with a superb Man-of-the-Match effort as Delhi Daredevils trounced Kolkata Knight Riders by 27 runs in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

The multimillion-dollar Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration, which was built to house almost 200 persons, remains grossly underused while the homeless continue to roam the streets.

A man is now dead after he was brutally stabbed by another during an altercation over food which occurred in the wee hours of yesterday morning in John Street, Werk-en-Rust.

Wendell Meusa and Taffin Khan played unbeaten in the Guyana Chess Federation/Engineering and Construction Inc.

Last Thursday and Friday, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov opposed new US champion Fabiano Caruana, and the other two top finishers of the 2016 US championship, namely Wesley So and Hikaru Nakamura, in a sensational blitz contest.

After being on the run for a little over nine years, the police on Friday evening arrested the suspect in the murder of Mahdia gold miner Joseph Willy.

Dear Editor, The Police Association of the Guyana Police Force wishes to let the public know that it takes umbrage at aspects of a press release issued by the Central Corentyne and Berbice Chambers of Commerce on 28th April, 2016.

DES MOINES, Iowa, CMC – Grenada’s Olympic champion Kirani James produced a world-leading time to win the men’s 400 metres at the Drake Relays here Friday night, and continue his fine start to the new international season.

Well, dear readers, last week we concluded the huge topic associated with the ailments of the oral cavity.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Hundreds of supporters of Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed parliament inside Baghdad’s Green Zone yesterday and camped out nearby after Sadr denounced politicians’ failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, has hailed the resumption of bilateral ties with the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI), as the region prepares to host India in a four-Test series starting in July.

The driver who reportedly ran over the head of a still unidentified man on Tuesday afternoon resulting in the man’s death has been released on station bail.

Dear Editor, Labour Day 2016 is occurring 90 years after the Caribbean labour leaders met in Georgetown (March 1926), where they put in place a strategy which included, among other things, the struggle for an 8-hour work day, 40-hour work week, right to freedom of association and collective bargaining, internal self-government, and one-man one-vote.

Think of this dish of crusty potatoes as one giant roastie.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Nearly 30 air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo yesterday as a temporary “calm” declared by Syria’s military took effect around Damascus and in the northwest.

Stanley Greaves: Linking Stabroek Square (the former slave market) and Independence Square is Brickdam (built with bricks and named Longchamps during the French Occupation).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chief of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Thursday her agency released 19,723 undocumented immigrants last year who had been convicted of crimes, drawing a volley of criticism from Republican lawmakers.

Dear Editor, Guyana today marks the first May Day under the APNU+AFC Government.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, CMC – Jamaica upset the United States in the men’s main attraction while the women’s side was forced into second spot in the corresponding event on the final day of the Penn Relays here yesterday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s president set fire to thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns yesterday, destroying a stockpile that would have been worth a fortune to smugglers and sending a message that trade in the animal parts must be stopped.

The raid on the Ramada Princess in the early hours of Friday marked a new stage in our never-ending crime saga.

Taking an afternoon ride at Lethem. (Photo by Keno George)

Water cricket! These young men of Section ‘C’ Enterprise were not about to allow rain to stop play.

Due to persistent rainfall, the Mayor’s Cup football championships have been rescheduled for Thursday at the Den Amstel ground in West Demerara.

Haemanthus Katherinae commonly called Blood Lily originated in South Africa and is a member of the Amaryllis family.

Sunday Cartoons

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Defence Ministry said yesterday it had sent a fighter plane on Friday to intercept a US aircraft approaching its border over the Baltic Sea because the American plane had turned off its transponder, which is needed for identification.

Males of this species have a jumping routine with a persistent call, usually from a fence post or long grass stalk.

Dear Editor, On Saturday, April 16, I was fruit shopping on the vendors’ mall when I heard some cries from a basket.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s largest beer maker halted the last of its four production plants on Friday in a spat with the government over access to foreign currency, threatening a shortage in a nation already hit by severe scarcities of food and other products.

By Jorge Familiar World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Caribbean countries have quietly started a green revolution and are now leading the way for other small islands developing states in the global effort to limit the rise of global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius.