Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Today, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) honoured several of its outstanding employees for 2015 at their annual Honour Roll Function at the Albion Estate Staff Club in Berbice, GINA said.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that at approximately 23:09hrs last night, the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System experienced a shutdown as a result of a faulty connection or “Pot Head” that links the 69KV submarine cable to the overhead transmission lines at Kingston.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The teenage daughter of one of India’s best known movie directors has had her first chart hit – with a song she wrote when just 11 years old.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The crew of the USS Enterprise are back for more space adventures in “Star Trek Beyond”, the latest episode in the film reboot of the popular science fiction series that marks its 50th birthday this year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five managers of the Human Resources Department at State-owned Petrotrin were suspended yesterday, following the conclusion of a four-year audit into a recruitment exercise.

Two men were yesterday charged with the murder of Mohamed Abdool Shameer, who was killed in a boat collision and then buried in a shallow grave more than 60 miles away.

Uttanpad Sewnarine, 39, the man accused of stabbing the mother of his child upwards of ten times in front of her Kitty home, was yesterday charged with attempted murder.

Sophia residents yesterday decided that they had had enough and blocked sections of Dennis Street to protest dust pollution in the area caused by incomplete works on the road.

The Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers’ Union  (PTWU) laid out a litany of complaints about GTT to the Labour Department on July 1 but is still waiting for a meeting to discuss the matters.

The Mayor and City Council has given Edward B Beharry and Company Limited the go ahead to begin construction at sites intended to house its Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchises in Georgetown.

A woman was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with attempting to murder the father of her child.

The Ministry of Public Security is seeking technical advice on the removal of vagrants who continue to squat around Parliament building.

A gold miner was charged with exporting gold without a licence after being held while trying to leave the country with a gold chain that weighed over 15 ounces via the Ogle International Airport.

Former New York State Senator John Sampson, who was convicted last year for obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators due largely to the testimony of US-based Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad, is seeking to have his conviction overturned but federal prosecutors are vigorously fighting his bid.

The post-mortem examination on veteran Government engineer Walter Willis who died on Monday evening at the St.

An unbroken 82-run partnership between Chris Lynn and Jason Mohammed helped the Guyana Amazon Warriors gun down a target of 138 with eight wickets to spare in the final match played at Providence in the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) amidst a sellout Guyanese crowd last night.

Guyana started their Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Girls U16 Championships title hunt in the worst possible manner losing to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) 18-54 yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in Georgetown, Guyana.

Rayon Nurse, the former Marketing and Distribution Incorporated salesman who was charged in 2014 with embezzling over $8M from three of the company’s customers, was yesterday handed a suspended sentence for the crime.

The city police should desist from seizing vendors’ perishables and focus more on keeping the minibus operators at the Stabroek Market parks in line, according to Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.

Jonathan Sunich, Canada born son of the popular Ramesh Sunich, proprietor of the Trophy Stall, Bourda Market, yesterday handed over the champion trophies to a representative of the Guyana Association of Police Women for Sunday’s horse race meet at the Rising Sun Turf Club.

Five tenders including one from a Trinidadian company were opened yesterday for the drilling of wells in Sophia and at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

COUVA, Trinidad, CMC- Barbados, Guyana and host Trinidad and Tobago were winners in the first round of the WICB Regional Under-17 50-over tournament which began at three venues in Couva on Monday.

Holders Sparta Boss will face-off with North East La Penitence while Tucville will tackle Broad Street in the semi-final round following quarterfinal wins in the Ministry of Health/Petra Organization Soft Shoe championships Monday.

The inter-ministerial taskforce against human trafficking remained inactive up to eight months after the new government was voted into office last year, according to the US State Department’s 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report, which also said that while the government drafted an action plan to combat trafficking, it did not finalise it.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- St Lucia rebounded from a set-down and fended off a spirited-fight back from Antigua and Barbuda to be crowned champions of the U-23 Eastern Caribbean Volley Championships here on Sunday.

Poor drainage and non-functional pumps at Land of Plenty and Hampton Court, along the Essequibo Coast, have resulted in residents of the two villages enduring flooding woes.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Rio Games-bound athletes from Jamaica, a nation that is no stranger to doping scandals, went through a drug-testing program the head of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) calls a “model for many other countries.”

Local testing for the mosquito-borne chikungunya, dengue and zika in the public health sector is expected to begin shortly.

(Reuters) – World number two Andy Murray has set his sights on overtaking Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings after capturing his second Wimbledon crown on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Ongoing media coverage regarding all forms of compensation (salaries, benefits, stipends, perks, etc) payable to the top echelons of government and national, public and civil service organizations suggests that it might be useful to have some public ventilation on the underlying bases and justifications for the apparent dissonances, discrepancies and differentials within the body politic.

City councillors on Monday took a decision to review the implemented containers fee that businesses are now being charged.

(Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao is planning to fight again later this year, just three months after announcing his retirement from boxing, ESPN reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, Given the many complaints of exploitation by security guards employed in both the private and public sector, it is my view that the government should rethink its position in awarding contracts to private security services.

The hunt for the suspect in the fatal beating of mechanic Yugeshwar Shiwcharan ended yesterday after he turned himself over to the police.

Dear Editor, I learnt with great sadness of the passing of Engineer Walter Willis.

The four persons who were arrested during a raid by police last Thursday at Alpha International Hotel, Ogle, East Coast Demerara, during which one person died, have been released but investigations are continuing into the matter.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-  Three former West Indies wicketkeepers, Jackie Hendricks, Deryck Murray and Jeff Dujon, have questioned the decision by selectors not to include Denesh Ramdin for the upcoming Test series against India.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia paceman Mitchell Starc can take 300 test wickets and join the ranks of the nation’s great seamers if he can stay fit for long enough, coach Darren Lehmann said.

Prakash Seegobin, the businessman who was shot in his home by bandits on Monday night, remains hospitalised.

Dear Editor, I wish to extend my sympathy to the parents and other relatives of the two children who perished in the fire whilst in the custody of the Child Care and Protection Agency of the Ministry of Social Security.

(Reuters) – England should have gambled on seamer James Anderson’s fitness and included him in the squad for the first test against Pakistan at Lord’s, paceman Stuart Broad has said.

The western half of the Demerara Harbour Bridge is to undergo substantial maintenance work in the third quarter of 2016.

Dear Editor, Walter Willis was not just an engineer – he was a Nation builder.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – An international tribunal’s ruling denying China’s claims in the South China Sea will “intensify conflict and even confrontation,” Beijing’s ambassador to the United States said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Banned Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir would not have the chance to return to the sport on Thursday after serving a five-year ban for spot-fixing if former England batsman Kevin Pietersen had his way.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., (Reuters) – Democrat Bernie Sanders endorsed former rival Hillary Clinton for president in a display of party unity yesterday, describing her as the best candidate to fix the United States’ problems and beat Republican Donald Trump in the Nov.

The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) continues to work with farmers on the East Bank of Berbice to assess the situation in relation to the sudden deaths of their poultry and tests are to be done overseas.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter from Ali Majeed (‘Sase Singh’s information is inaccurate’ SN, July 12).

On Wednesday 6th July 2016 president of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), Mr.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Uncapped fast bowler Miguel Cummins has another shot at making his Test debut after he was called up as replacement for Jerome Taylor in the 13-member squad for the upcoming first Test match against India.

The date of completion of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) maternity ward has been postponed to later this year.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, July 3 and Sunday July 10, your readership was treated to two beautiful articles under the column, ‘Ian On Sunday’.

DALLAS,  (Reuters) – They stood in a line, clasping hands as a choir sang, Democrat and Republican, black and white, politician and cop.

Politikles

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities said yesterday Muslim clerics would be required to read out identical pre-written weekly sermons as part of the government’s campaign against extremism, drawing angry criticism from some preachers.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- Fast bowler Jerome Taylor has been added to the St.

Dear Editor, Over the years a number of contractors have been constructing substandard roads that only last for a few weeks or months, and in some cases a few years.

There can now be little doubt that following the referendum called by Prime Minister David Cameron, a series of unexpected political ructions have come to dominate the British political scene.

Anyone following my columns and letters in the last 10 years would know that I am strongly in favour of a middle group of voters who will swing their votes willingly as a disciplining mechanism of the entrenched political class.

The IV International Congress on Biodiversity of the Guiana Shield is to be held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre from August 8 to 12 this year.

BELIZE CITY, Belize,  (Reuters) – Burdened by chronic back pain, Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow avoids traveling abroad, his colleagues say.