Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Stabroek Market was this evening lit up for the 50th Independence anniversary celebrations.

Minister within the ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings today paid a visit to Linden for ‘Linden Town Week’s’  Annual Health fair which was held at the MacKenzie car park.

In a matter of days, a Brazilian company, New Frontier Agriculture Guyana Incorporated will begin  cultivating its first crops of soya and corn on a model farm in the country’s intermediate savannahs, GINA said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I will not resign,” a defiant Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke said yesterday, moments after he was released on $250,000 bail following an appearance in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court on charges of rape and sexual assault of a union employee.

Guyana is currently experiencing a reduction in free spending due to a decrease in illegal activities, including narco trafficking, which had created a parallel economy here, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan said over the weekend.

A Port Mourant man is now in a critical condition at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was shot at his home on Sunday night and his wife believes the attack is linked to him being a witness a murder trial Shafraz Bacchus, also known as Andrew, 31, of Lot 21 Portuguese Quarters, Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice, was ironing his children’s school clothes when he saw a gun pointed at him through an opening in the floor. 

A 10-year-old boy lost his life on Sunday evening after he was hit from his bicycle by a car driven by a police constable who was allegedly speeding along the Public Road at Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD).

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday advised that five of the six suspects who were arrested in connection with the killing of Professor Perry Mars, be charged with murder.

A mother of five is currently hospitalised after she was struck down by a car yesterday morning while walking along the Public Road at Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, escaping death for the second time.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Guyana Jaguars left-hander, Leon Johnson, is among 14 players invited to a special camp designed to help batsmen improve their technique against spin, ahead of the upcoming Test series against India and Pakistan.

As part of the beautification and reorganizing of Bartica, the town council has decided to tackle illegal vending and congestion around the market and vendors arcade areas.

A Coroner’s Inquest into the fatal shooting of suspected robbers Paul Bascom and Alberto Grant yesterday found that police should not face charges for the men’s deaths.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Chris Gayle finally broke out of his wretched batting slump as Royal Challengers Bangalore won their second straight game in three days, with a near effortless nine-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

President David Granger says that government is awaiting a report from the tax reform committee before a decision is made on lowering the 16% Value-Added Tax (VAT).

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Regional nation grouping, CARICOM, has paid tribute to the late renowned cricket journalist, Tony Cozier, hailing the Barbadian as a regionalist and describing his illustrious career as “a running commentary and a history of the game in the region for more than 50 years.”

Sums earned from the rental of the National Stadium at Providence will finally be transferred to the Consolidated Funds, according to Permanent Secretary of the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport Alfred King.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Bowling legend Sir Curtly Ambrose says he is shocked by his sacking as West Indies bowling consultant, and also claimed he was blind sighted by the decision.

Two Jamaicans were allegedly found with 15.8 pounds of marijuana, concealed in the false bottom of a suitcase, at the Number 78 Village foreshore, Corentyne, where they were attempting to travel via the backtrack route to neighbouring Suriname.

Uitvlugt Warriors climbed atop the Stag Beer West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) (WDFA) League after downing Golden Warriors 2-0 on Saturday at the Den Amstel Community ground.

A Corentyne fisherman lost his life on Friday night after he was struck by a speeding car along the Kilcoy/Chesney Public Road.

Inshan Jameen, 21, of Tempe Village, West Coast Berbice, is now dead after he was struck by a speeding car along the Fort Wellington Public Road on Saturday evening.

Guyana is looking for opportunities to export rice to Latin American countries but efforts are also being made to rekindle relations with Venezuela and reclaim the market lost there, President David Granger said last Wednesday.

Dear Editor, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refers to the letters written by Mr Charles P Ceres which were published in the May 10, 2016, issue of the Stabroek News (‘The EPA is contravening the Environmental Protection Act…’) and Guyana Chronicle, and hereby issues responses as to the functions of the agency in executing its mandate under the Environmental Protection Act, No.

The 34th annual Independence Three-Stage road race which concluded on Sunday failed to live up to its billing.

Prosecutors in the case of disgraced former state Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, whose conviction was largely due to evidence provided by Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad, who is also awaiting sentence, are asking that he be sentenced to seven or more years on his felony convictions of making a false statement and obstruction of justice.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit this letter in relation to Eusi Kwayana’s in the Stabroek News (‘I received no money from the Rodney Commission for travel and housing’, May 11). 

LONDON, CMC – West Indies could play their Test and limited overs series against Pakistan later this year in Sri Lanka, after international media reports Monday said the Pakistan Cricket Board was mulling over moving the games from the United Arab Emirates.

Dear Editor, Lethem is on its way in becoming one huge run-down town.

Richard Stanton, the man who is accused of gunning down businesswoman Patricia Sanasie, will stand trial for her murder in the High Court.

After over a year on the run, Thurston Kenrick Williams was yesterday charged with the murder of miner Charles Major, who was fatally chopped at a camp at Mahdia.

Guyana Amazon Warriors all-rounder Steven Jacobs believes the team which makes the least mistakes this year will be crowned champions of the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (HCPL) T20 tournament which bowls off in a few weeks.

Dear Editor, I am somewhat disappointed by your sensational headline in your Sunday Stabroek, May 15 paper: ‘High hopes turn to disappointment -after a year of APNU+AFC in government’.

Although construction work at the D’Urban Park has left a section of the Hadfield Street roadway uneven and muddied, residents are understanding at the effects that have come with the works.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia captain Steven Smith and his team have been warned about risks associated with the Zika virus ahead of their tour of the West Indies next month.

Dear Editor, First of all I would like to sympathize with the families who lost their loved ones in an accident on the Richmond Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

Combatants in the fistic sport, both in the amateur and professional ranks have brought much glory to Guyana especially during the last five decades.

After one of the highest spring tides ever resulted in flooding in the Pomeroon and Mahaicony, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA) said the inclement weather was hindering them from venturing into the areas to address the issue.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to your attention the development of a terrible crater just obliquely behind my house, going west on what was the former railway embankment line. 

KINGSTON (Reuters) – Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt received treatment for “slight discomfort” in his hamstring following his 100 metres victory in Saturday’s Cayman Invitational, his coach Glen Mills said on Monday.

Guyana Energy Support Services, a subsidiary of John Fernandes Limited, is seeking to provide support services for the drilling of oil wells.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has reached a deal with its main financier China to improve the conditions of an oil-for-loans deal, giving the OPEC member’s crisis-hit economy “oxygen” ahead of heavy debt payments, its top economic official said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The roadways of Guyana have become ‘killing fields’. They have been killing fields for the last 20 years.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States aim to reach new agreements on cooperation in law enforcement, health and agriculture over the coming months, a senior Cuban official said yesterday, as part of the former Cold War foes’ drive to normalize ties.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian interim President Michel Temer agreed with union leaders yesterday to draft a blueprint for overhauling the creaking pension system within a month, as he seeks to restore confidence in Latin America’s largest economy.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A High Court judge will rule on June 17 whether to allow the United States government to be included as an interested party in the law suit filed by former FIFA vice president and CONCACAF strongman, Jack Warner, who is challenging his extradition to that country to face corruption charges.

Dear Editor, There are likely far more zika cases than those reported by the Ministry of Public Health.

A clash in Parliament on Thursday over the state of the rice industry saw Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder committing to a review of the imposition of VAT on imported machinery and spares.

VATICAN (Reuters) – Pope Francis criticized Western powers for trying to export their own brand of democracy to countries such as Iraq and Libya without respecting indigenous political cultures, according to an interview published yesterday.

Here’s some good news from Latin America: Much of the region’s economy may recover sooner than expected.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori said yesterday a report linking her and a senior aide to money laundering was “dirty” politics and an attempt to smear her three weeks before a closely-fought election.

More than three months after Assistant Commissioner of Police Balram Persaud died in a fatal accident an inquest will be held soon to determine the circumstances surrounding how he met his demise.

Dear Editor, Why doesn’t someone write a biography of Ramnaresh Sarwan, the best teenage batsman in the region in the nineties; the only batsman in the first decade of the 21st century to have scored 15 Test centuries before his 30th birthday; the only West Indian batsman in the 21st century other than Lara to have scored two double centuries, both over 250, and to have scored a century in the fourth innings of a winning Test.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a police headquarters in southern Haiti yesterday leaving at least six killed in a shootout and a related accident in an apparent uprising attempt days after the volatile country missed a deadline to sign in a new president.

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – Six people were shot dead at voting centres after polls closed in Dominican Republic’s presidential election, the electoral chief said yesterday, blaming the clashes on delays to results stemming from parties’ insistence on manual vote counting.

With berths to the quarter finals at stake, the round of 16 stage of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Linden edition will commence today at the Mackenzie Market Tarmac.

Given the wide-ranging nature of the brief handed the Commission of Inquiry into the Guyana Public Service by President David Granger last year it is a marvel that its work has been completed and its findings handed over in what, contextually, is a relatively short space of time. 

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, a year after his arrest in Haiti as part of a US Drug Enforcement Administration probe.

The National Gallery of Art in collaboration with the Guyana National Museum, University of Guyana and St Joseph Mercy Hospital launched “From Colony to Nation” on Wednesday last, an exhibition celebrating Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary.

Completed stands: There was not much activity at D’Urban Park yesterday as the stands and stage appeared to be completed.

From Ambassador of the European Union Jernej Videtič and British High Commissioner Greg QuinnToday, 17 May 2016, marks the celebration of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, and the European Union and British High Commission join Guyana and the rest of the world in commemorating this significant day.

Dear Editor, Over the past few months the reports of robberies and murders of hard-working, decent, law-abiding citizens of Guyana have left me very disturbed.

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