Daily Archive: Friday, September 2, 2016

NEW DELHI, India,  CMC- Two of the world’s leading cricketers, Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo, have become the new faces of an Indian condom brand named Skore.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is to replace approximately 54,000 meters to reduce stealing of electricity and losses.

The Ministry of Natural Resources today said that the loss of jobs at forestry company Barama Company Limited (BCL) is not connected to ongoing discussions about the possible renewal of its contract.

TAMPA, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Hermine tore a path of destruction across Florida today, leaving more than 253,000 homes and businesses without power, flooding low-lying areas and raising concerns about the spread of the Zika virus due to the massive pools of standing water left behind.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC-Michael Muirhead is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), the board has confirmed today.

(Trinidad Guardian) With Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar set to meet on the rising crime scourge T&T is facing, some 308 people had been murdered as of yesterday, according to figures from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will replace all Galaxy Note 7 smartphones equipped with fire-prone batteries and halt sales of the flagship product in 10 markets, a devastating blow for what had been a revival in the firm’s mobile business.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says government needs to urgently address the issue of who recommended Larry Singh of Linden Holding Inc for rental of the controversial pharmaceutical bond in Sussex Street in the interest of transparency and accountability.

Shemroy Hackett, the man who was arrested after a shootout between bandits and police in the aftermath of a robbery at Enmore on Monday, was yesterday remanded to prison after being read 10 charges, including six counts of armed robbery and two counts of shooting at cops.

Dwayne King, who was accused by his United Kingdom-based Guyanese girlfriend of setting her up with cocaine found in rum bottles she was trying to take out of the country, was yesterday found guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced to 60 months in jail.

After the fire at the Drop-in Centre claimed the lives of two young brothers, the Ministry of Social Protection has decided to offer their parents a plot of land and a fully furnished two-bedroom house.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has objected to a decision by the city administration to allow the construction of a seventh floor at a building on the south eastern part of Camp and Robb streets.

Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine says Assistant Chief Education Officer (Primary), Marcel Raymond Hutson is most likely to become the new Chief Education Officer (CEO)  following the decision not to renew the contract of former CEO, Olato Sam.

The Ogle Airport Bar, along with several patrons, was robbed early yesterday morning after three gunmen stormed the bar.

A Venezuelan national was brought before a city court yesterday to answer to a charge that he stole $1,000,000 worth of raw gold in an armed robbery.

Three men pulled off a daring daylight robbery early yesterday when they held-up a supermarket and its customers at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara.

Armed bandits on Wednesday night stole almost a million dollars in cash and valuables in an attack on an East Bank Demerara supermarket.

President David Granger says that whether or not the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) agrees with the offer, his government will be paying public servants a differentiated wage hike ranging from 10% at the lowest scale to 1% at the highest Asked on this week’s Public Interest television programme if his government is prepared to make an arbitrary award if the GPSU General Council which meets today rejects the offer, the president said “the award we proposed is as much as we can do as of the first of September and we intend to proceed with that.” 

Ravens were crowned the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Hard-Court u23 champion, squeaking past Pacesetters by a 45-41 scoreline yesterday at the Plaisance Community Basketball Court.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – After 17 trips to Flushing Meadows and six U.S.

An Essequibo Coast father of four drowned while he was on a fishing trip.

President David Granger yesterday convened a meeting at the Ministry of the Presidency with representatives from Central Government, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council and the Private Sector during which it was agreed that a joint committee would be created.

Paradise overcame Litchfield United by a 5-2 score line when the Berbice Football Association (BFA) leg of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/Namilco Thunderbolt Flour u17 Championship continued yesterday.

(Reuters) – Quick-fire half centuries from opener Aaron Finch and George Bailey helped Australia to a six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the fourth one-day international in Dambulla, giving the visitors an unassailable 3-1 lead heading into the final ODI.

Saying that it appears that ministers of the government are not on the same page, former Attorney-General Anil Nandlall has voiced concern over the disclosure by the administration that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) may soon be separated from the Guyana Police Force.

PANAMA CITY, Panama,  CMC – Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz will be hoping to rescue their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign when they take on a plucky Panama in the fourth round of the CONCACAF competition which resumes here tonight.

Burglars on Wednesday broke and entered the home of an Eccles family and carted off over $300,000 in cash and other valuables.

Gomattie Ramrattan, the businesswoman who was shot during a robbery attempt at her Diamond New Scheme home on Wednesday, is expected to undergo surgery today as the police continue their search for the perpetrators.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – A decisive performance from Gabriel Jesus, who scored twice and made another goal, gave Brazil a deserved 3-0 win over Ecuador yesterday and helped get their qualifying campaign for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia back on track.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood will miss the tour of South Africa to rest ahead of a busy international programme at home, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

A man is now dead after a boat collision on the Pomeroon River on Wednesday night.

SAITAMA, Japan, (Reuters) – Ahmed Khalil scored twice as United Arab Emirates punished Japan for missing a host of chances by winning 2-1 at the Saitama Stadium in the third round of Asian qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup yesterday.

While garbage continues to build up at the Haags Bosch Landfill, the Bid Protest Committee (BPC) is still deliberating on the objection to an award of $221M for the maintenance of the East Bank Demerara facility.

Already existing tendencies towards an anti-worker posture in some sections of the extractive sector ought to send clear signals to government regarding its obligation to make new arrivals in the oil and gas and gold-mining sectors, particularly, aware of the laws of Guyana that protect workers from abuse and accord them the right to trade union representation.

With the initial twenty five-year contract between the Government of Guyana and Barama Company Limited due to expire on October 16, the absence of any clarity, up to this time, on the renewal or otherwise of the contract could send more than seven hundred  Guyanese employed with the company on the breadline in a matter of weeks, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.

By Gaulbert Sutherland in Hawaii   Ecosystems across the world are in peril as a result of global warming and the need for urgent action to safeguard biodiversity and protect against the impacts of climate change was emphasised as the largest conservation gathering in the world kicked off here yesterday.

The trial of the siblings charged over cocaine found in a frozen fish shipment that was destined for New York continued yesterday in a city court, where a police corporal recounted the moments before and after the drug find.

ZURICH (Reuters) – Jamaica’s sprint queen Elaine Thompson again edged her rivals as she set a Diamond League record in the women’s 200 metres yesterday to continue the form that brought her two gold medals at last month’s Rio Olympics.

A twenty-seven-year old was on Wednesday placed on $50,000 bail for allegedly causing injuries to a young woman’s face.

It would not have come as a surprise to those with a reasonable knowledge of the characteristics and behaviour of the oil industry that the commencement of offshore oil production will not coincide with the creation of a surfeit of jobs for Guyanese.

(Reuters) – England’s Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow struck half centuries to guide the hosts to a four-wicket victory over Pakistan in the fourth one-day international in Leeds yesterday as they went 4-0 ahead in the five-match series.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Andy Murray shut out the New York noise and the game of Marcel Granollers of Spain with a 6-4 6-1 6-4 win yesterday to reach the third round of the U.S.

President David Granger last evening extolled the virtues of a proposed administrative body in place year-round to ensure that the decisions of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) are properly implemented.

Business Cartoon

At a recent media briefing on the upcoming coconut festival, questions were asked on the current value of the coconut industry in Guyana and why is there no tangible evidence of revitalization in light of its importance. 

Frustrated hire car drivers from Region Six yesterday staged a protest against a change in the water taxi schedule.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Sixth-seeded Venus Williams stayed on track for a possible semi-finals clash with sister Serena by sprinting past German Julia Goerges to reach the third round of the U.S.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Swiss authorities have opened criminal proceedings against German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer and two former presidents of Germany’s football federation (DFB) in connection with its successful bid for the 2006 World Cup.

The international business community has expressed a degree of “elevated confidence in Barbados” as a destination for foreign direct investment (FDI), Barbados Finance Minister Chris Sinckler has said.

Dear Editor,   In light of the recent statement issued to the press by Mr.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to letter in your newspaper of August 31, 2016, ‘Child care would not remove child from home because of possible public outcry.’

While the local manufacturing sector continues to encounter a number of challenges in its quest to secure external markets, including regional ones for goods produced in Guyana, some companies continue to make incremental breakthroughs.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – The $385 million acquisition of TEN Sports is set to make Sony Pictures Networks a major cricket broadcaster in Asia as it seeks to expand its Twenty20-dominated portfolio.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Romanian fifth seed Simona Halep advanced to the third round of the U.S.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday September 1, 2016            Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Dear Editor,   A Kaieteur News article of September 1 quotes Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs,  Basil Williams as saying, “Nandlall will be placed before Privileges Committee”  for “lying” in the National Assembly.

With violent crime in Trinidad and Tobago fast inclining towards another of its periodic steep spirals, the Trinidad Express reported that the private sector in Port of Spain is advocating urgent external intervention to try to alleviate the situation.

Dear Editor, A recent headline in a newspaper: ‘Water from Trinidad; cane juice from Canada’ has stimulated quite a few lively and heated discussions here and there.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Cuba’s Yarelys Barrios has been stripped of the silver medal she won in the discus at the Beijing Olympics after failing a doping re-test, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said yesterday.

Stock market updates

Dear Editor, Much has been written on the pharmacy bondgate issue.

LIBREVILLE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Three people were killed and up to 1,100 were arrested in Gabon yesterday, the government said, in a second day of rioting over the announcement of President Ali Bongo’s re-election and his main rival’s accusation that the vote was rigged.

Table leaders Lower Corentyne will seek to maintain their scorching form when they lock horns with Georgetown in round two of the GCB/Jaguars Franchise League 3-Day competition which bowls off today.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s ousted President Dilma Rousseff appealed to the Supreme Court yesterday to overturn the Senate’s decision to remove her from office for breaking budgetary rules.

Dear Editor, I refer to the editorial captioned, ‘Sent home to die?’

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its cargo during preparations for a routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida yesterday, two days before it had been due to blast off and place a satellite in orbit.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia will pore over its high performance systems in a ‘meaty’ review following the 3-0 test series whitewash to Sri Lanka, chief executive James Sutherland has said.

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MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s pledge to make Mexico pay for a border wall is “outrageous,” its government said yesterday, one day after the Republican presidential candidate visited Mexico City for talks with President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Launched: President David Granger with ceremonial items and gifts at last evening’s launch of Amerindian Heritage Month at the Sophia Exhibition Centre.

The whole idea behind the unionization of vendors says Eon Andrews, the President of the Guyana Market Vendors Union (GMVU) is to seek to redress the “balance of respect” between the municipality and the people who ply their trade in and around the municipal markets.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Garbine Muguruza was once again left to sift through the remains of another failed U.S.

I suspect that it’s because “hope springs eternal (in the human breast/spirit”) that I return to the issue of the status, role and effectiveness of our Guyana Police Force or Service.

Dear Editor, As a young child growing up in urban Guyana, I frequently overheard my grandmother referring to some folks having a “constitution like a horse”, an attribute that I concluded was worth aspiring towards. 

Workplace safety incidents have been an issue in Guyana for a number of years, a consequence of employers and employees not following safety guidelines, but the burden of responsibility mostly rests on employers who, in the pursuit of profits, do so at the expense of the health and safety of their workers.

LA PAZ/SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Bolivia responded to last week’s murder of a government official by announcing a crackdown on mining cooperatives yesterday, saying it would return contracts signed between them and private companies to state control.

Politikles

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Melania Trump, the wife of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, sued the Maryland-based publisher of the Daily Mail Online and a blogger yesterday over stories about her past she believes were “tremendously damaging,” her attorney said in a statement.